I would say this is pretty much the Sean I kind of settled, the Sean that I actually started feeling comfortable writing about instead of feeling guilty like I was stealing someone else's character
I love how you phrased that! I absolutely know that feeling, I still regularly have it when writing Harry (who to me basically always feels like I try to carbon copy him from Brenda's fics...) and strangely enough, Dave (though strangely, because I have NO CLUE whose Dave it is I am writing, but he isn't mine :)). In fact, after I was done with writing Paint, I felt like I was stealing from MYSELF for a really, really (dreadfully long) time, because I just couldn't bring myself to come up with a properly different characterisation of Orlando and Sean...
Anyway, back to this Sean: I love him, absolutely, but I find it absolutely FASCINATING that you went from this character to the so much more broken ones, like the one in Half-Life (that was the title, right? I have a shit memory and am too lazy to look it up :D). I usually go the other way round - start with fragmented characters and end up with these slightly too polished versions (that end up boring me more often than not). I totally envy you that :).
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I love how you phrased that! I absolutely know that feeling, I still regularly have it when writing Harry (who to me basically always feels like I try to carbon copy him from Brenda's fics...) and strangely enough, Dave (though strangely, because I have NO CLUE whose Dave it is I am writing, but he isn't mine :)). In fact, after I was done with writing Paint, I felt like I was stealing from MYSELF for a really, really (dreadfully long) time, because I just couldn't bring myself to come up with a properly different characterisation of Orlando and Sean...
Anyway, back to this Sean: I love him, absolutely, but I find it absolutely FASCINATING that you went from this character to the so much more broken ones, like the one in Half-Life (that was the title, right? I have a shit memory and am too lazy to look it up :D). I usually go the other way round - start with fragmented characters and end up with these slightly too polished versions (that end up boring me more often than not). I totally envy you that :).