Talking to Characters
Jan. 16th, 2011 02:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brosedshield Sometimes I get excited about things, and my characters think I'm a bloody idiot.
Had a moment with Haylan (Sucasanna) today, because he got a fic posted, and my music is on random, more or less (I'm playing according to playcount, but I keep changing the keyword, so I gradually hear more and more obscure music from the depths of iTunes).
So, I was listening to the random, and thinking about Haylan, and "The Girls of the Night" came up, from the Jekyll and Hyde soundtrack (on of only 13 songs I saved from the two disk set). The songs about prostitutes talking about how days are pointless to them, because the night is when they do their serious business. And also, talking about how their lives are miserable and hopeless (but in a very mild and unconvincing, but pretty way),
And I checked the lyrics (because a line confused me) and came across this stanza:
Ask me to share your fantasies, dear
but don't ask me where tomorrow is.
Don't ask me where to find happiness,
though I know for sure where sorrow is.
So I turned to Haylan, who is, among other things, a prostitute, and was like, "That's kind of you, right?"
And he glared. Venomously.
I have a feeling he disliked the tone, more than the message. Yeah, he doesn't have any answers, and he's got a lot of buried history that could qualify as "sorrow" but he's more a "I want a lover I don't have to love; I want a boy so drunk he doesn't talk..." ("Lover I Don't Have to Love"—Bright Eyes) sort of fellow. Always odd when a character decides I really have no idea what I'm talking about.
Hmm, hopefully this post doesn't make me sound too nuts. Ah, well.
Had a moment with Haylan (Sucasanna) today, because he got a fic posted, and my music is on random, more or less (I'm playing according to playcount, but I keep changing the keyword, so I gradually hear more and more obscure music from the depths of iTunes).
So, I was listening to the random, and thinking about Haylan, and "The Girls of the Night" came up, from the Jekyll and Hyde soundtrack (on of only 13 songs I saved from the two disk set). The songs about prostitutes talking about how days are pointless to them, because the night is when they do their serious business. And also, talking about how their lives are miserable and hopeless (but in a very mild and unconvincing, but pretty way),
And I checked the lyrics (because a line confused me) and came across this stanza:
Ask me to share your fantasies, dear
but don't ask me where tomorrow is.
Don't ask me where to find happiness,
though I know for sure where sorrow is.
So I turned to Haylan, who is, among other things, a prostitute, and was like, "That's kind of you, right?"
And he glared. Venomously.
I have a feeling he disliked the tone, more than the message. Yeah, he doesn't have any answers, and he's got a lot of buried history that could qualify as "sorrow" but he's more a "I want a lover I don't have to love; I want a boy so drunk he doesn't talk..." ("Lover I Don't Have to Love"—Bright Eyes) sort of fellow. Always odd when a character decides I really have no idea what I'm talking about.
Hmm, hopefully this post doesn't make me sound too nuts. Ah, well.
