Polarisgreenley - Solution: More Tea

Exploring Character Backstory

1. Start with the essentials: Begin by outlining the basic information about your character's past, such as their family background, upbringing, education, and early experiences. Consider their cultural, social, and economic background, as these factors can shape their worldview and values.

2. Identify key events and milestones: Determine significant events or milestones in your character's life that have had a profound impact on them. These could include positive or negative experiences, such as the loss of a loved one, a major achievement, a traumatic incident, or a life-changing decision. These events help shape your character's personality, fears, and aspirations.

3. Examine formative relationships: Explore the relationships your character has had with their family, friends, mentors, or romantic partners. How have these relationships influenced them? What role models or influences have shaped their values, beliefs, and behavior? Relationships can provide insight into your character's vulnerabilities, strengths, and emotional attachments.

4. Dig into their beliefs and values: Understand what your character believes in and values. Examine their moral compass, political views, religious beliefs, or philosophical outlook. Consider how their beliefs might clash or align with the conflicts they encounter in the story. This will create depth and authenticity in their character development.

5. Uncover secrets and hidden aspects: Delve into your character's secrets, hidden desires, or aspects of their past that they prefer to keep hidden. Secrets can create internal conflicts, fuel character growth, and add intrigue to the story. They can also reveal vulnerabilities or flaws that make your character more relatable and complex.

6. Consider the impact of societal factors: Explore how societal factors such as gender, race, class, or historical context have influenced your character's experiences and identity. These factors can shape their struggles, opportunities, and perspectives. Understanding the societal context in which your character exists adds layers of depth to their backstory.

7. Connect the backstory to the main story: Once you have explored the character's backstory, identify how it relates to the main story. Determine how their past experiences, relationships, or traumas influence their present motivations, conflicts, and goals. This connection will ensure that the backstory serves a purpose in the narrative and contributes to the character's growth.

8. Use backstory selectively: While backstory is essential for understanding your character, avoid excessive exposition or information dumping. Introduce elements of the backstory gradually, through dialogue, memories, or subtle hints. This helps maintain reader interest and allows the character's past to unfold organically throughout the story.

Remember, not all aspects of the character's backstory need to be explicitly mentioned in the narrative. It's important to choose and reveal elements that have the most significant impact on the character's present circumstances and development.

I didn't know I needed to laugh this hard and it's glorious.

Garreth and Leander both used to take Divination until Professor Onai made a genuine prophecy.

PROFESSOR ONAI: A Weasley and a Prewett shall copulate-a family of seven they shall make- Weasley will lay his seed deep and shall work hard to make ends meet, 6 boys and a girl Prewett shall produce but one of two boys shall meet the noose… oh my what happened-Mr Weasley are you alright?-where are you going?! Mr Prewett why are you crying?!

GARRETH-Barging into the staff room: AUNT MATILDAAAAAA! Professor Onai said I’m going to make babies with LEANDER! Breaks down in tears.

PROFESSOR WEASLEY-in the middle of a staff meeting: 😳

PROFESSOR SHARP: 😬

PROFESSOR HECAT: 🤨

MADAM SCRIBNER: 🤫

PROFESSOR BINNS: 😴

PROFESSOR GARLIC: 🤭

PROFESSOR SHAH: 🤣

BONUS:

PROFESSOR BLACK: Excellent! Keeping the blood pure! 10 points to Gryffindor!-when’s the wedding?

GARRETH: Cries harder

rereading my own writing is just a constant fluctuation between "damn, girl, you wrote this? (affectionate)" and "damn, girl, you wrote this? (derogatory)"

One of my favorite things about Sirona and Victor’s confrontation is that Sirona and Victor themselves are the only people in the room who don’t have their wands drawn.

Victor’s wand isn’t drawn because, frankly, it’s a bad idea for him. His whole goal here is to kidnap this child without everyone knowing that he kidnapped this child; that’s why he wants to pull them aside for a “private chat.”

Sirona’s wand isn’t out because it doesn’t need to be. The source of her strength isn’t that she’s the best duelist; it’s loyal friends and a community that she knows has her back. Pulling her own wand on Victor would likely have escalated the situation; instead, she’s able to tell him calmly and authoritatively to fuck off, while her community makes it clear that if Victor chooses violence, it won’t end well for him.

Those romances where the person feels like a dead land and then the blessed rain storm comes in and breathes in life?

Take my money and heart.

"i would die for you" this, "i'd walk through fire for you that"

what about "i'd live for you" romances? what about "i never thought i'd be worth the work it would take to piece myself together"?

what about "i don't believe i'm worth it, but for you i'll try"