#wow hello 5:30 am! whoops! I should probably sleep before i become too incoherent

[trailshome]

Also taking this chance to say that while I love how you write all the MCs, I especially love how you write child MCs. You write their interactions SOOO well and they feel like living, breathing, children, instead of this?? Caricature that some stories often reduce children to. The interactions are so well done, I went so 🥺🥺🥺🥺 during the interaction where Yorick lifts up a giggling MC and pinches their foot. Like!! Your character interactions and personalities feel so dynamic, and they're written so so well!! They genuinely make me feel so fond of them, even when I've only met them for one chapter!

Also, the contrast between the other MCs' relationships vs child MC's relationships to their family makes me SO 💔💔💔💔💔💔💔 Like?? They could've been an actual family if only they could've seen past their prejudices or jealousy or whatever it is that was driving them to treat the older MCs that way. I don't know, sometimes I wonder what the older MCs would think if they could see child!MC's life at their old home. Would it be sad? Bittersweet? Maybe they wouldn't care. But the itch of what could have been is KILLING ME and I am aggressively shaking all your characters in a jar HJSDLGHSKLGSDKL 😭

CORE MEMORY UNLOCKED?! asdasd i used to chew on foam letter bath toys when I was five. Something about the texture??? I got a genuinely good laugh out of this. Ironically awakened a memory I had forgotten -- not related to eating/chewing on things we aren't supposed to -- kids are funny. Like, they are incredibly reasonable and can ask some very poignant questions. On the other hand, they eat glue and chew on things. Lol!!

Yeah, the tragedy of the MC and their family is that it could have easily ended up differently had their cousins not been susceptible to their father's (mc's uncle) opinions. It's a shame because I think Yorick would have gotten along pretty well with most other MCs -- it just wasn't meant to be in their case. I think older Mcs would feel conflicted. On one hand; I'd like to think they'd be happy that child!mc was being treated well and properly. On the other... well, it stings a bit. Especially knowing how close they were to things being perfect (give or take Mom disappearing and Uncle being a jerk).

On the upside! non-child!mc's get a do-over of sorts! Obv it isn't perfect or completely ideal but like. MCs can end up with quite a large family if they so choose to allow/pursue it.

BUT! That's really open to yall's headcanons on how they'd feel about all that. Definitely a right mess and good for angst, haha!

PS. -- I am also aggressively shaking the characters in a jar. <3

#asks #answered #snowthornes #child!mc definitely gets better cousins compared to other mcs #on the other hand -- they lose their cousins while other mcs have nothing to lose #the duality of the cousins is fun to write. Especially the flashbacks that are coming up #not to toot my own horn but I got some real banger memories coming up haha! #I also like hearing about yall's misadventures as kids #wow hello 5:30 am! whoops! I should probably sleep before i become too incoherent