ysabetwordsmith was talking about character motivations, and it occurs to me that I could use some work on that topic.
Err, my writing that is, although I couldn’t exactly tell you what my motivations are, either…<.<
This is placeholder post until I get some more time to think about this.
So! Either:
* Name a character of mine, any character of mine, and I will come up with a piece of their motivation.
* Say “random,” and I will use a random date generator to pick a day & a piece from that day, and tell you something about /their/ motivation.
* Tell ME something about a character’s motivation (mine or someone else’s), and we can discuss.
Posted:
* Rozen
* Maureen, Lady Foxglove
* Rin
* Caitrin
*Morrigan
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Rosen.
Oooh, good one! In school, Rozen understands fast that you’re either on top or on bottom, and he wants to be on top. That gives him a taste for it, and he carries that mentality through to his post-Addergoole life. Wanting Kailani starts as the job – be the Big Bad Wolf – evolves into a want of the unattainable, and evolves again into an interest in someone so very different from him.
And much later things get complicated. 🙂
Yes. Once he’s captured, his motivations go from “escape” to “might as well enjoy it while I’m here” to “please the mistress I mean um what?”
I still think “Kai and Rozen babies!”
A lovely thought, but I doubt it was his motivation!
Who said it was his motivation. 🙂
*grin* is it yours?
I’d like to see it happen, eventually. 🙂
Radar. 🙂
Good question! Hrrrm. Radar, radar, radar. The kitty has an agenda, and I’m not sure what it is. I believe it has a lot to do with being happier attached to a strong witch. It’s NOT the well-being of the family as a whole, but I don’t think it’s as selfish as just-his-own-happiness, either, as much as he likes to pretend.
He tells the lavender kitten at some point that they were (well, that he was — she says she wasn’t) made to be their (the family’s, but I don’t remember if it was explicitly stated) friend(s). I’m not sure if that’s his motivation, or something layered on top, or whether he accepted or argued with it, or … yeah, lots and lots of open questions about Radar. 🙂 Fish, cream, and knowing more than the humans? Safety from something, on any of various scales? A secure home? He doesn’t seem much concerned about his non-talking kittens. Bypassing Eva (and a few other generations?) is interesting.
Hrrm, well, pleasure and warmth are definitely in his list of motivations – I just don’t think they’re his primary interest. /ponder/
So not just a hedonist who enjoys hanging out with witches and manipulating humans? 🙂
Correct! He has other motives – whether they were given to him or he developed them, I’m not sure.
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