NEED ADVICE, DOESN'T MATTER WHO YOU ARE
Oct. 16th, 2009 05:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
foolish_m0rtalMeh, I was all, "YEsss, got my differential equations and digital logic design post-lab done! Now I can work on Whittling Wood- oh hey, it's 5:30AM. Stay up all the way or try and sleep?....MEH."
So I'll work on it tomorrow. But I need advice!
PLEASE START READING HERE FOR ADVICE REQUEST:
So the part in my story I'm getting stuck on is the part where my main character figures out there's magic involved. Basically he awakens this guide that's been asleep for many many years. (He finds this guy in a historic ruin. The guide is the one that helps the 'knights' along on their quest to free the rest of the castle. (Yeah, my main character is a book-ish geek who doesn't like/is afraid of people)
//HUGE SPOILER FOR PEOPLE WHO WILL ACTUALLY BE READING THIS// After his last town found out he was half-dryad by his mother's side, they kind of picked on him a lot and ended up throwing him down a well. He...had to move away...//END SPOILER//
My main character's world seems more supernatural than normal. The fact that magic is real is a commonly known. Though a lot of the old ways still exist, you get the feeling that technology is doing away with a lot of the magic and superstition. The REALLY cool powerful magics haven't been around for a while, but they were REALLY commonplace in the past. Being magical is somewhat accepted, with wizards almost non-existent (non-gender specific: they controlled the higher magics, which are gone) while the witches (smaller magics) are consulted less and less. (Think Enlightenment Period taking over?) Being a supernatural creature has various degrees of acceptance. Mostly, they just keep it to themselves, like Kaname Kusakabe, the fire-demon that runs the ovens in his wife's sandwich shop.
So my question to you is this: Knowing now the background that my main character comes from, how do you suppose he would initially react to awakening the old guide he finds in the ruins? "Don't be silly, magic doesn't exist," or "Is this some kind of joke," or "Oh man, I totally read about this," or "this guy's gone senile," or something else? I REALLY don't know how to write this, ergo, why I haven't posted anything since last year. T_T My poor reviewers.
So I'll work on it tomorrow. But I need advice!
PLEASE START READING HERE FOR ADVICE REQUEST:
So the part in my story I'm getting stuck on is the part where my main character figures out there's magic involved. Basically he awakens this guide that's been asleep for many many years. (He finds this guy in a historic ruin. The guide is the one that helps the 'knights' along on their quest to free the rest of the castle. (Yeah, my main character is a book-ish geek who doesn't like/is afraid of people)
//HUGE SPOILER FOR PEOPLE WHO WILL ACTUALLY BE READING THIS// After his last town found out he was half-dryad by his mother's side, they kind of picked on him a lot and ended up throwing him down a well. He...had to move away...//END SPOILER//
My main character's world seems more supernatural than normal. The fact that magic is real is a commonly known. Though a lot of the old ways still exist, you get the feeling that technology is doing away with a lot of the magic and superstition. The REALLY cool powerful magics haven't been around for a while, but they were REALLY commonplace in the past. Being magical is somewhat accepted, with wizards almost non-existent (non-gender specific: they controlled the higher magics, which are gone) while the witches (smaller magics) are consulted less and less. (Think Enlightenment Period taking over?) Being a supernatural creature has various degrees of acceptance. Mostly, they just keep it to themselves, like Kaname Kusakabe, the fire-demon that runs the ovens in his wife's sandwich shop.
So my question to you is this: Knowing now the background that my main character comes from, how do you suppose he would initially react to awakening the old guide he finds in the ruins? "Don't be silly, magic doesn't exist," or "Is this some kind of joke," or "Oh man, I totally read about this," or "this guy's gone senile," or something else? I REALLY don't know how to write this, ergo, why I haven't posted anything since last year. T_T My poor reviewers.
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Date: 2009-10-20 01:00 am (UTC)I remember you coming to me with this problem, and I must've never answered because I'm totally senile. AAGH!Considering Gabriel's a bookworm...
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Date: 2009-10-20 01:47 am (UTC)But this Gabriel is also deeply paranoid, for justified reasons.
I would totally go for the whole "oh man, I READ about this!!" except for the paranoia hangup.
Hence, my quandary and subsequent lack of fanfic for you.
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Date: 2009-10-20 01:48 am (UTC)XDD Problem? What problem? it makes perfect, lovely sense.
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Date: 2009-10-20 01:51 am (UTC)Just fighting over what Gabriel would say when he randomly finds an old man in the ruins.
Old Man: You're a knight! It's been too long!
Gabriel: O_O
I have a few bits and pieces. I have a feeling when I finally get this all sorted out, I'll be sending you this scene to make sure it's logical.