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cos they r good examples andd i love them. also this was written like. so long ago. by which i mean earlier this yr. but i've been wanting to put this up for a while nd now i can finally tick it off the post-it note list on my wall. ENJOYYYY 
One of my favorite character tropes is when a character hides aspects of themselves, or pretend to be people they’re not. This can range in severity, but no matter how trivial the thing they conceal, it's always peak fiction. Or non-fiction. God that shit hits in real life. If you pretend to be a different person in real life and have distinct layers to yourself which are widely different get in touch. I am an empath and a good listener also 6’ and like really hot. Anyway. Whether a character simply hides that they like certain genres of things that might be completely unexpected, like a serious guy liking really cute things, or they completely remake themselves and are constantly playing a character that is Just Not Them but hey, they have to keep appearances, they need to be liked, they need to be palatable or whatever other excuse or reason for doing this, its always fucking great. I don't know why I like this so much but I do. The scene when a character reveals a certain part of themselves, whether it's the only thing they’re hiding or one of the many aspects of themselves they conceal, is always very potent. To me at least. The idea of letting someone know you. Or them finding out who you are. Its unbelievably intimate, to let someone know what your voice really sounds like, or what you really act like when you’re all alone, or what stuff you really enjoy or whatever. Two of my lovely characters are very clear and obvious examples of this. I think most of my characters are but, The Red Rose and The White Knight are striking. Also I have currently been obsessed with them and how they interact with each other and others and what they think of themselves and what they think of each other and their masks and how they are perfect opposites and how in being perfect opposites they are inextricably intertwined. Also by currently I mean the past year. Or two or three idk i've lost track. But mostly the past year. I'm going to rant about Red and White now. also before you start thinking, no, they are not into eachother. but 600 years in the future... nahhh nevermind
The Red Rose is chivalrous, dramatic and dangerously appealing. The White Knight is like a myth, a whisper of a man that people mutter about, reserved and mildly ignorant. But that is what they seem. They are perfectly aware that this is how people view them. They are so self aware because these are characters they have constructed and that they play, so there are constant thoughts in their minds about how people perceive certain aspects and if they fit with the character or not. This is mostly a trait of Red to be fair, and is less present in White. He does however still present himself as something different than how he really is, just to a less dramatic or constructed degree. But it is still constructed.
But see, really, Amaris is an angry man, dramatic sure but also a huge dick who loathes himself and is very easily irritated. Lazarus is annoyingly exaggerative, remembers every detail of anything anyone says to him and is a lot less serious than he seems. to me they are everything.
Red saw White as a freaky little cunt thats way too reserved and has got to be hiding shit, with his occasional snarky remarks and hidden eyerolls that you can hear behind the helmet. White saw Red as an obnoxious criminal with no care for others. But by god do these perceptions get shattered. I would love to keep going on about this but it involves plot for HOMESICK and i am not doing that. Also it would take away from the devastation one might feel after knowing these characters since they were freaks on some random website up to when the book came out (which it will!! Eventually. Long wait. i might blog like an idiot but i am a #intellectual. its gonna b good promise) from some very devastating thing that happens and many shattering things ensue. (red n white DONT die dont get ideas) I need people to feel that devastation properly not from some freaky weird blog thing that i write before you can even taste the intricacies of the plot. But just know… Nothing nevermind im leaving you on the longest not-cliffhanger crumb thing ever. I dont think anyone really cares about this story anyway yet so whatevr. But i do. Ok thats it im leavinhgt it at that. Hehe smile
alright Maybe at some point i’ll write more in depth n specific stuff about them. By maybe i mean i definitely will. Or will i? By some point i mean keep ur eyes peeled but maybe have eyedrops nearby cos it might be a while. Or maybe never i dont really know hehe :-))))
