Monday POVS
Inspired by the exercises here, your writing challenge for today is to describe how one of your character's supporting cast views your character. Is this in agreement with how your character views him/herself? Radically different?For bonus points, write a short scene in the POV of the supporting cast member detailing an interaction with your main character.
I'm sure I've tackled this before in RPs, but let me just go back again to how Ida views Marce (I've already detailed the POVs of Emil and Darren elsewhere).
Ida views Marce as an idealistic firebrand who is horribly naive about relationships. Ida cannot deny that in many ways, her best friend Marce is the strongest woman she knows; Marce is a fighter who has been through a lot, but has managed to keep her convictions throughout. However Ida is also keenly aware that Marce is, for much of the story, unready and unwilling to be in intimate relationships. She knows all the baggage her friend lugs around.
Marce would object to this. She'd insist that she's in close enough relationships; her friends are all she needs, and that romance is not necessary in her life. Marce maintains this view, until she is confronted about her relationship with another character....which has her wondering about her own psychological state.
Ida views Marce as an idealistic firebrand who is horribly naive about relationships. Ida cannot deny that in many ways, her best friend Marce is the strongest woman she knows; Marce is a fighter who has been through a lot, but has managed to keep her convictions throughout. However Ida is also keenly aware that Marce is, for much of the story, unready and unwilling to be in intimate relationships. She knows all the baggage her friend lugs around.
Marce would object to this. She'd insist that she's in close enough relationships; her friends are all she needs, and that romance is not necessary in her life. Marce maintains this view, until she is confronted about her relationship with another character....which has her wondering about her own psychological state.