Munday - LEWIS & Alice
Pick two of your characters who have met or interacted in a more than superficial manner. Best friends, enemies, lovers, rivals, relatives... Something with some meat to it.
Then tell us how they feel about each other in as great a blithering detail as you can manage to do. What do they view as each others' flaws? Each others' virtues? Do they get along with each other, or are things tense? Do they respect each other? Despise each other? Find each other amusing?
Have their opinions of each other been the same throughout their relationship? If not, how have they evolved? What factors of each characters' personality influences how they relate to the other character?
GO.
Rather than force you all to suffer through me going on and on about my OTP again, I figured I'd do something a bit different and talk about Alice's relationship with another character -- Lewis Carroll.
Alice and Lewis had been friends ever since she was a little girl -- Alice's parents, Henry and Lorina, were friendly with Lewis, and Alice fell in love with Wonderland Park on her very first visit. She even helped inspire parts of it -- when Alice meets up with Victor on his first visit to Wonderland Park, she mentions that the crying statue in the Vale of Tears is based on her. Alice's imaginative nature meshed well with Lewis's particular brand of Touched-dom, and she was always willing to help him with experiments. They spent a lot of happy hours together trading stories and being silly.
After the fire, Lewis visited her in Rutledge, helping out her aunt and uncle where he could. When she got out, he happily resumed his friendship with her. He was a little troubled by how cynical and sarcastic she'd become at first, but soon grew to like the new Alice as much as the old. In fact, as we discover during "Secundus," he grew to like her perhaps a bit too much -- somewhere along the line, his view of her shifted from "happy little girl I'd be happy to be a honorary uncle to" to "amazing young woman I wouldn't mind being a husband to." He himself wasn't sure when the shift started or why -- perhaps it had something to do with seeing her acting more adult, or working to protect others. All he knew was that he'd gradually started to fall in love with her.
The trouble was, Alice's view of him hadn't changed much. To Alice, Lewis always represented the happiest parts of her childhood. She always saw him as family, never a potential suitor. Lewis knew this, and that kept him from saying anything about his own shift in feelings for a long time. However, he eventually made the decision that he had to speak up, just to get it off his chest --
Only to discover he's made this decision around the same time Alice and Victor had finally admitted their mutual attraction.
Now, Lewis was genuinely happy for the pair -- he loves Alice, and he truly likes Victor. But that didn't make his love for Alice go away. After a brief bout of jealousy, he decides it wouldn't be right to say anything to the happy couple. Unfortunately, his plan for getting over Alice is to clone her, and -- well, if you've read "Secundus," you know how that ends for him. Poor Lewis -- I did not like killing him off. :(
As for flaws and virtues. . . Alice would say Lewis's greatest flaw is that he doesn't always think the consequences of his actions through. Lewis is something of a scatterbrain, and he'll often make something just because it sounds cool or because he wants to "improve" on something. This has led to such disasters as the Jabberspawn, the Snarks, and of course the Queen of Hearts. (Though, really, Lewis had no idea she'd have meglomania -- still, cloning your unavailable love interest is probably not the best plan to begin with.) Fortunately, Lewis always owns up to his failures and makes sure to keep other people safe from them, which tempers her annoyance with him a bit at these times. She'd say his greatest virtue is his warm and welcoming nature -- Lewis tends to put everyone in the "friend" category when he first meets them. Yes, he can hate people, but you've kind of got to earn it. He genuinely likes seeing people smile -- that's part of the reason he worked so hard on Wonderland Park. He wanted to dazzle everyone with the beauty of nature, improved with SCIENCE! Being his friend sometimes means being roped into weird experiments, but it also means you've got a loyal pal for life. (And hey, it just occurs to me that Allison Laidlaw, Chester's future wife, kind of shares this attitude -- maybe that's part of the reason she and Alice get along so well!)
On Lewis's side, he'd say her greatest flaw is her aloofness. After the fire, Alice has a little trouble getting close to anyone new. Even her friends noticed a definite coolness at first. Alice, of course, is just afraid that she's going to lose more people she loves if she gets too close, so she tries to keep herself separate from others to avoid this. Lewis personally thinks this is no way to go through life and occasionally tries to encourage her to be more friendly. She does warm up to some people eventually, but she still remains a bit cool toward strangers. (And then Victor comes along and manages to melt her ice queen persona. . .) As for her greatest virtue, he'd say it's her willingness to help others. He is quite impressed with her stance that NO child go through what she did, and her decision to become Secundus's premiere monster hunter. She's the bravest woman he knows, and that probably feeds into his eventual romantic love for her.
Then tell us how they feel about each other in as great a blithering detail as you can manage to do. What do they view as each others' flaws? Each others' virtues? Do they get along with each other, or are things tense? Do they respect each other? Despise each other? Find each other amusing?
Have their opinions of each other been the same throughout their relationship? If not, how have they evolved? What factors of each characters' personality influences how they relate to the other character?
GO.
Rather than force you all to suffer through me going on and on about my OTP again, I figured I'd do something a bit different and talk about Alice's relationship with another character -- Lewis Carroll.
Alice and Lewis had been friends ever since she was a little girl -- Alice's parents, Henry and Lorina, were friendly with Lewis, and Alice fell in love with Wonderland Park on her very first visit. She even helped inspire parts of it -- when Alice meets up with Victor on his first visit to Wonderland Park, she mentions that the crying statue in the Vale of Tears is based on her. Alice's imaginative nature meshed well with Lewis's particular brand of Touched-dom, and she was always willing to help him with experiments. They spent a lot of happy hours together trading stories and being silly.
After the fire, Lewis visited her in Rutledge, helping out her aunt and uncle where he could. When she got out, he happily resumed his friendship with her. He was a little troubled by how cynical and sarcastic she'd become at first, but soon grew to like the new Alice as much as the old. In fact, as we discover during "Secundus," he grew to like her perhaps a bit too much -- somewhere along the line, his view of her shifted from "happy little girl I'd be happy to be a honorary uncle to" to "amazing young woman I wouldn't mind being a husband to." He himself wasn't sure when the shift started or why -- perhaps it had something to do with seeing her acting more adult, or working to protect others. All he knew was that he'd gradually started to fall in love with her.
The trouble was, Alice's view of him hadn't changed much. To Alice, Lewis always represented the happiest parts of her childhood. She always saw him as family, never a potential suitor. Lewis knew this, and that kept him from saying anything about his own shift in feelings for a long time. However, he eventually made the decision that he had to speak up, just to get it off his chest --
Only to discover he's made this decision around the same time Alice and Victor had finally admitted their mutual attraction.
Now, Lewis was genuinely happy for the pair -- he loves Alice, and he truly likes Victor. But that didn't make his love for Alice go away. After a brief bout of jealousy, he decides it wouldn't be right to say anything to the happy couple. Unfortunately, his plan for getting over Alice is to clone her, and -- well, if you've read "Secundus," you know how that ends for him. Poor Lewis -- I did not like killing him off. :(
As for flaws and virtues. . . Alice would say Lewis's greatest flaw is that he doesn't always think the consequences of his actions through. Lewis is something of a scatterbrain, and he'll often make something just because it sounds cool or because he wants to "improve" on something. This has led to such disasters as the Jabberspawn, the Snarks, and of course the Queen of Hearts. (Though, really, Lewis had no idea she'd have meglomania -- still, cloning your unavailable love interest is probably not the best plan to begin with.) Fortunately, Lewis always owns up to his failures and makes sure to keep other people safe from them, which tempers her annoyance with him a bit at these times. She'd say his greatest virtue is his warm and welcoming nature -- Lewis tends to put everyone in the "friend" category when he first meets them. Yes, he can hate people, but you've kind of got to earn it. He genuinely likes seeing people smile -- that's part of the reason he worked so hard on Wonderland Park. He wanted to dazzle everyone with the beauty of nature, improved with SCIENCE! Being his friend sometimes means being roped into weird experiments, but it also means you've got a loyal pal for life. (And hey, it just occurs to me that Allison Laidlaw, Chester's future wife, kind of shares this attitude -- maybe that's part of the reason she and Alice get along so well!)
On Lewis's side, he'd say her greatest flaw is her aloofness. After the fire, Alice has a little trouble getting close to anyone new. Even her friends noticed a definite coolness at first. Alice, of course, is just afraid that she's going to lose more people she loves if she gets too close, so she tries to keep herself separate from others to avoid this. Lewis personally thinks this is no way to go through life and occasionally tries to encourage her to be more friendly. She does warm up to some people eventually, but she still remains a bit cool toward strangers. (And then Victor comes along and manages to melt her ice queen persona. . .) As for her greatest virtue, he'd say it's her willingness to help others. He is quite impressed with her stance that NO child go through what she did, and her decision to become Secundus's premiere monster hunter. She's the bravest woman he knows, and that probably feeds into his eventual romantic love for her.