What are SRD's characters' backgrounds that affected you most as you read them?
My top 3 are easy to pick out:
3) Linden's father's suicide. The hopelessness of a child who is forced to watch their parent, someone they love more than anyone else in the world, destroy themselves... and the guilt that accompanied her after his stark accusation, "You never loved me anyway." It's no wonder that Linden was f***ed up after that one.
2) Terisa getting locked up by her parents. As a closeted claustrophobe, I can imagine the mental beating she must have taken. To be locked in such a small space, no light, no escape, no reaction from the world around you... To be left to rot, in the hopes that you would learn to impinge on their reality as little as possible; it is almost enough to make me think that mirrors do create the things they show, as Terisa seemed to lack a true existence of her own prior to entering Mordant.
This one is especially troubling for me, as one of my greatest fears is full body paralysis. The horror of being unable to act, while your mind wails and screams for release, eventually devouring itself in a phantasmagoric synthesis of numbness and despair...
1) Angus' mother shoving needles up his dick. Sheer f*cking terror right there, man.
Hauntings of a broken past
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Hauntings of a broken past
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"It's the other way around, but yes."
Obaki, Too Much Information
yeah i'd have to say that the gap does it best for me character background-wise.
hmmm. might be time for a gap re-read.
hmmm. might be time for a gap re-read.
you're more advanced than a cockroach,
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~
It rocked as usual.
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Re: Hauntings of a broken past
Never take meth then.Rigel wrote:one of my greatest fears is full body paralysis. The horror of being unable to act, while your mind wails and screams for release, eventually devouring itself in a phantasmagoric synthesis of numbness and despair...
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