find out things about himself" and was briefly "the boys discover subtext after realising they are in a television show" (an idea better left to frankly better writers) and so ended up somehow developing plot and somewhere along the line the arc changed to "RayK sees ghosts... and this lets him inside things and understand his feelings..." (Look Ma! No Spoilers!). My bad guy didn't come fully formed, it was very organic, but now I think he was not as scary as I wanted him to be...
Is it some function of the slash that villains become secondary characters enabling the slash plot? They become "obstacles to romance" rather than fully formed characters.
And yes, on Frankie, I'm going to be using him and the lack of solid characterisation is driving me buggy. I don't know how to handle him without going all pantomime.
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Re: Now with added Mounties!
Date: 2007-11-08 08:48 pm (UTC)Is it some function of the slash that villains become secondary characters enabling the slash plot? They become "obstacles to romance" rather than fully formed characters.
And yes, on Frankie, I'm going to be using him and the lack of solid characterisation is driving me buggy. I don't know how to handle him without going all pantomime.