I think a lot about my characters and their stories. I often analyze my way of creating them and stuff. But I never really find opportunities to talk about those thoughts though, lol. So I thought I might as well right them down so I can remember, and then I thought as long as I'm writing them down I might as well post just in case someone would like reading it.






What I was thinking about this time was seasons, and I noticed I tend to use very specific seasons in my stories. For instance, in Daichi and Suzu's story (which is actually called "Autumn/Winter") the first half is Daichi's, and it takes place in the autumn, while suzu's half takes place after that in winter. Trish and Jason's story takes place in winter, as does Yui and Sean's. I was wondering why I set those stories in those particular seasons, what implications they have.
Here's what I thought:

Daichi's half of his story takes place in autumn because my feelings on the season of autumn mirror Daichi a lot. I feel like autumn is a temporary state, transitory, very beautiful but short. Daichi feels this way about everything in the beginning of the story. It starts out where his only two friends have just moved away, and he is not confident that they will even remember him. To him, everything good never lasts, but he has made himself okay with this.
That sounds a lot sadder than it actually is. XD; Daichi isn't really sad, he has just chosen passivity.

Suzu's half is in the winter, after he and daichi have already gotten together. My feeling on winter is more romantic, like people keeping eachother warm (emotionally?) and growing closer. Suzu's half is about how he deals with his negative traits, and how being with daichi helps him. His "negative traits" are like a completely different side of him, a cold, aloof, and vindictive personality that is really just as much "himself" as his happy silly side is. Basically if it weren't for Daichi in his life, he would grow into a completely unpleasant person. So this makes him appreciate being around Daichi all the more, because it makes him feel a lot better about himself and everything.
I dunno. I didn't explain it too well, but it seems wintery to me. >m>

Most of my relationship-centered stories take place in Winter, actually. It seems to me like the cold exterior compliments a hotly emotional interior very well. Emotions seem to run higher in winter, to me. That's the case with Trish and Jason. They both, for various reasons, keep these emotions bottled, and they end up "burning" so to say. There's a lot of tension between them.

Yui and Sean's story (I guess it's called Alone Boy) is sort of a different case, but it's also an instance of setting a relationship story in winter. The difference is that the story happens in one room cut off from everything outside. Actually, the story covers a year of time. Sean starts out living alone and going to school, though he often ditches in favor of wandering around in the snow. In this case, the winter is more akin to Sean's isolation of himself from other people and normal life. A year passes while he is with Yui, and when the story ends it is the beginning of winter again.

I've always been fond of using the story's environment as a storytelling mechanism (like using the division between autumn and winter to divide Daichi and Suzu's story) ever since something in the third Harry Potter movie (lolll) where the Whomping Willow is used at various times in the movie to indicate the time of year, because of course the movie spans a whole year. I dunno, I just really liked that. It makes the environment and the events of the story feel a lot more tied-in with eachother.

Anyway, there's my blah blah for the day. :B Now have some doodles.


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Some matching Jason and Trish drawings ohoho
I could see Trish doing something like recording a happy birthday message and sneaking it onto Jason's ipod or something.



This angle is hard to do when you can't rotate the canvas. XD;



I havne't drawn Kaimei in a while, so I think I forgot how to. Xd;;



And some line things just cause.



Ok that's it. Bye. :>