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Ch01-008

🕑 Added 2026-01-26 04:57:11 +0000 UTC

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Ashley

It's true! Once you understand your characters well enough, they write themselves! You just sit back and make sure they get somewhere worth the trip. Congrats on your story! :D

Spider

Ashley! I just finished my first short story, and I finally understand what you mean when you talk about the characters being fully formed in your head, and you just Put Them In Situations and let them act naturally. It really leads to charming writing like Sette insisting Duane has been whittled down to only 35% dangerous here! By the way, Sette's own estimate of her danger level would be well above 50%. Perhaps even 1000% or 2000%!

Ashley

Yeah, they took his eyes out, took all his clothes and braces off. He's a frog pinned to a board for study.

JarJar

Woaaah took me a sec to even clock that was Duane in the 2nd panel. He rlly doesn't look good, kinda reminds me of Anadyne near the end-- are his freakin eyes missing now too?!

Ashley

I'm sure his sainted mother has never tormented him about it :)

Mister Scarecrow

I love those little, proper superstitious world building touches. Is a child born at sea an ill omened Stormbringer child? Or is the type of person who'd be born at sea in this world more likely to be a hellraiser on land because dealing with the sea at all is already dicey socially and so on? How much of the superstition is observable fact? How much will the superstition around their birth play into their upbringing? Great bit.

Rainwalker

Duane's not looking too hot; least they could've done woulda been to put him through the power washer, get some of that old dead skin off. On an unrelated note, I want that teapot~