#emotional fiction

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Connecting With Your Reader's Emotions

We’ve all read a book or story that captured our hearts and made us feel things very deeply. It’s a superpower writers have, but it isn’t something we’re born with.

Connecting with your reader’s emotion happens when you’ve practiced writing. It becomes easier after each rough draft, each great draft, and each terrible draft.

But—if you want to save yourself some time, these are a few perspectives you can use to sharpen your writing tools.

1. Display Your Protagonist’s Inner Emotions

Your readers want to experience a character’s journey by connecting with them emotionally. We pick up books to feel things while learning something or just taking a break from life.

Displaying your protagonist’s inner conflict could look something like: She saw the ghost in the hallway, which scared her.

Your reader will feel more engaged if you describe how fear makes your protagonist feel instead of them feeling fear generally: She saw the ghost in the hallway and fear shot through her body like lightning.

You don’t need tons of flowery language to make your reader feel the same things as your character. Sometimes a minor descriptor or simile can do the job.

2. Show Your Protagonist’s Feelings Through External Reactions

Emotions don’t solely exist inside our hearts and minds. We also have external reactions to them. That could be nodding in confusion, shifting uncomfortably in a chair, or bending over laughing.

Consider this example:

“I love your laugh,” Anita said to Alice. “It makes my heart skip a beat.”

Heat spread through Alice’s cheeks as she smiled.

“Oh, you don’t mean that.”

You don’t need to mention how it feels to receive a compliment from a crush or why flattery is nice to hear. The physical reaction of blushing is something the reader can relate to and understand.

3. Make Your Reader Feel Something Your Character Doesn’t

This is a fun one. Sometimes characters have to figure something out, but the reader already knows what’s going on.

This could happen when you’re writing a horror story that is supposed to teach the reader about the joy of recognizing your own strength. The protagonist has the skills in the beginning to defeat the evil antagonist, but must reach rock bottom before cheering himself on. The whole time, the reader knows they can beat the antagonist and survive because they have the brains/strength/creativity, etc.

You could also write an enemies-to-lovers arc where it’s obvious to the reader that both characters are in love with each other long before they realize it. The reader should want them to embrace the scary feeling of falling in love, because that’s what you’re trying to teach through your story.

Consider Your Story’s Purpose

Writers have a purpose behind every story. What do you want readers to learn, consider, or experience through your own? You can use these methods of connecting with your reader’s emotions to make your plot’s purpose that much more powerful and engaging.

#emotional fiction #writing tips #writing advice #writing emotions #plotting #plotting tips #character creation

[the960writers]

K.M. Weiland:

The Challenge of Learning How to Write Emotional Fiction

But first, why write emotional fiction?

The short answer is simply that fiction is inherently emotional. Even when that emotion is just a feeling of baseline satisfaction, audiences want to feel something. Indeed, back in the olden days, plays originated specifically as a way to create a remedial experience of catharsis in viewers. This means stories are designed to help us feel our feelings. For most of us, when we think of the stories that have most powerfully impacted our lives, it is the emotional experiences they gave us that make them so memorable and meaningful.

As writers, it behooves us to ask these questions about how we can create stories with the potential to emotionally impact our audiences. But, as the questions themselves indicate, this isn’t always an easy proposition.

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#writing advice #emotions #emotional fiction #creative writing #K.M. Weiland

[popcornforone]

Lemon Lullabies

A Soft Frankie Catfish Morales Fic

I have wanted to write for Frankie for a little while. & then inspiration struck & I have had a bit of an emotional time writing this. I don’t like hyping my own writing but I adore this & it almost broke me. Yea it’s been a hard tough week, & this is the outcome

Word Count 1.6k

Synopsis: Frankie volunteers to look after the baby one night for the feed when your in a mood with him. This night end up healing the gap between you.

Warnings: this is all fluff, but I do advise not to read if you are a minor. It’s Frankie so drugs & alcohol & ptsd are mentioned. It’s just generally soft & a little heart breaking. Pining arguments & upset, feeling alone & worried.

Thank you for the read. All feedback is welcome peoples.

3am is when he is startled, the monitor echoing a small cry’s coming from the nursery. His little girl, all in lemon tonight, obviously needs feeding or changing or both. He is a light sleeper if he ever sleep. PTSD & all the years of drug abuse to try & cope are what means he doesn’t sleep well at all.

He’s just broken his promise to you, one more mission, for Pope & the boys. It’s the last one & you screamed at him when he told you. It’s been 3 days since he told you. You want to get over it, but you know this just means he will be flying without a licences & could lose his wings forever, it’s bad enough he’s just being investigated at the moment. His charm can only get him so far even with you. You’ve been civil to him but he can still tell your upset at him. Despite dreading him leaving, you actually want him to go, so then you can forgive him when he comes triumphantly home & help make a sibling with you for your little girl.

Frankie sees you move as the noises reaches your ear. He shhhhs you & whispers “I’m already awake baby I’ll do it, go back to your pleasant dreams•” a small kiss he plants on your shoulder & he gets up & tentatively leaves the room & heads to the nursery. There she is whining, you little lemon angle in her yellow baby grow. He turns on the light & picks her up rocking her gently. “Shhhh my love, daddy is here, I’m here” he sniffs his daughter & she’s not used her nappy, nothing is wet or heavy so she’s hungry. He warms the milk for her while he rocks her but he turns off the baby monitor, you hear the click in your room so you completely fall back into your slumber.

He tests the warmth of the milk & sits in the rocker watching his princess suck on the bottle, eyes now wide & huge much like Frankie’s looking back at him. He knew the second he held her he would do anything in the world to provide for her, this job should set you all up for life. He hummus to her & keeps his eyes on his most precious cargo he will ever have to look after. He rubs her back as he rocks once she’s drank the bottle dry, her little burps & gargles are music to his ear. Such beautiful noises. They warm his heart. He’s going to miss these noises in the few days he’s away but it will be worth it.

“There you go my beautiful” he says as he wraps her up back in the crib, “I love you my little lady more than you will ever know” he coos & she nuzzles into sleep. Frankie watches her & then slides in the little catfish toy he got her so she would always have something like daddy, the whiskers are made for teething eventually. He waits a few more minutes before leaving while turning the baby monitor back on. Slowly dimming the lights & creeping back out of her room into your bedroom. You’re completely asleep with no idea Frankie is back in bed, but he watches how you hold the pillow, it’s the exact same way your daughter gripped onto the toy. She’s gets that from her mummy. He’s always been in love with you & looking at you being peaceful in a world of dreams just confirms it.

He said he’d be 5 days on this trip, it’s now day 7. No text or email or call since he said he’s arrived, what had gone wrong, what was happening. You’re in the kitchen when your iPad pings. You leave your baby in her bouncer & lean over it. It’s a voice note from Frankie which is a delayed delivery from 10 days ago. Your heart stops. What has he sent you. You click play & hear his voice which says the following very calmly.

Hey ladybug (his pet name for you as he first saw you in a red & black spotty dress). I know you are upset with me for leaving in a few days time & I would be lying to say I’m petrified, but it’s not of the job, it’s because you & our little lemon here (clearly recorded on the night he went to feed her & let you sleep) won’t be within touching distance. You’re both the reason I’m sober, & happy, & feeling mentally good. Isn’t that right my Princess? (you can here her sucking on the bottle in the back ground) so I’m recording this now to send you when I’m on my way home, but I also want to send you something else. I love you both so much, ooh hang on I need to… & the voice note ends.

Frankie is on his way home. You sigh & look at your girl who’s oblivious to the world. “Daddys coming home, he will be here soon ekk” but then your iPad pings again. Another voice note message, delayed delivery again, titled things haven’t works out. You almost drop your iPad in panic. You click on the icon & it has a written message before it.

*Lady Bug if you get this I’ve not had signal in days & it’s likely something’s gone wrong, I hope it hasn’t but this is something for our little princess to hear as she gets older if I can’t look after her anymore*

Tears fill your eyes, there’s a huge possibility that Frankie is captured, hurt or… but no you dare not think about the worse option. You open the attachment called Lemons Lullaby by Daddy Catfish. You take a deep breath & hit play. It’s Frankie singing as he rocks & burps your little girl.

🎶Sweet baby Lemon don’t you cry

Catfishes fly high up in the sky

Sprinkling star dusts for you to keep

I’m going to sooth you right to sleep

You’re loved you’re adored & so much more

Even if mummy hates to hear you snore

My lady bug my dream

& every bit of a mummy she could be

I love her so I will not lie

I always hate having to say goodbye

So she will look after you & keep you close

You’re my clan my family who I truly love the most🎶

Frankie then sighs

I’m sorry I broke my promise, you’re the best wife, I don’t deserve you & I love you.

& the recording ends

You’re crying in the kitchen. You hit repeat & repeat & repeat. Hearing Frankie sing a made up lullaby for his little girl & you, has broken your heart. Your daughter even can recognise daddy tone & starts to babble. You save & email it to multiple email addresses & links & download it. You don’t ever not want to hear that lullaby, the idea of losing it hurts. Then it hits you that Frankie has only sent delayed messages that he recorded that night. He may not be coming home at all. It could be you & your lemon without a Frankie to help you. As much as he breaks his promises & drives you insane, he’s still your husband & you adore him. You stand there leaning on the kitchen counter crying for the rest of the afternoon not moving at all.

3am the baby monitor goes off & you in an exhausted emotional state go to your little girl. You’ve put her back in the lemon tonight, as your own comfort. You breast feed her & then start to rock her in the chair. You start to hum the rhythm of Frankie’s lullaby to her, soothing her. As she burps & your whisper good girl good girl to her, the words “Youre my clan my family, who I truly love the most” are said out loud. You turn your head & see Frankie standing in the door way.

A single tear falls down your face & a soft smile crosses your lips. His eyes are huge, his hair a mess from being under that hat, he’s even had a shave. But he’s still your Frankie. You wrap your daughter up in bed & Frankie leans in to stroke her face & hands her the catfish. Your hands brush against each other as they leave the crib & your eyes meet “I’m sorry” Frankie says & he pulls you close into him. “I’m never leaving you again, you are my home” you snuggle into his chest as you cry into him, feeling safe in his large arms. “I’m sorry to Frankie, I shouldn’t have let you leave when I was angry at you, I’m never going to be angry at you again my Catfish” Frankie lifts your chin “my lady bug you are my world” & he lowers his head to yours & kisses you delicately. Sweet & soft most unlike Frankie usually. You both look at your little lemon once more & head to your bedroom. Frankie gets in wearing his boxers & just keeps you close in an embrace. “I will explain everything in the morning properly, I’m sure you will understand baby” “you are here Frankie, that’s all that matters, promise me you’re here & we’re safe, that’s all I ever want my love” you yawn & fall asleep in his arms. “I’m never going anywhere” & then he sings “I always hate having to say goodbye” & he falls into blissful sleep, safe at home with his family.

#my fics #fanfic #minifics #no minors #pedro pascal #fluff #frankie morales #frankie morales fic #soft #soft fic #emotional fiction #triple frontier #pedro pascal cinematic universe #pedro pascal fanfiction #frankie catfish morales

[nakakabaliw]

trying to get through the day.

#artists on tumblr #baliwart #dungeon meshi senshi #senshi of izganda #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #disco elysium kim #disco elysium #lieutenant kim kitsuragi #kim kitsuragi #emotional support fictional men

[deepdarkspaceblog]

Speculative Fiction Is Emotional Fiction

Reading speculative fiction can be a deeply emotional one. #scifi #reading #books

To a great many people speculative fiction is just a lot of action and fun. This can be true. Speculative fiction usually does involve action and fun. However, speculative fiction is emotional fiction too. It brings up just as many feelings as any mainstream literature. The idea that SF doesn’t offer an emotional journey is a fallacy. Great SF can bring readers to the heights of joy or the…

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#Emotional Fiction #Reading

[lunarlivs]

here is harry as fun kids i found on pinterest :)

#he’s so #i literally have no words on how much i love this little fictional nugget #i feel so emotional over him #like #he #ah #MY BABY #MY CHILD #okay that’s enough #my fav one is the spidey glasses one #i’m also probs gonna do a marauders version of this bc this was just way too funnnnnnn #marauders #marauders era #fanart #marauders fanart #james potter #james potter fanart #harry potter #harry potter fanart #harry james potter #harry james potter fanart #my art

[horsechestnut]

I just think it's really neat how much fans have latched onto the fact that Stephanie Brown was Robin.

Like, both in and out of universe Stephanie was never meant to be taken seriously as Robin. The writers only made her Robin so that her death in War Games would be shocking and Bruce only made her Robin because he thought it would make Tim jealous enough to come back. She only had the mantle for 71 days before being fired (for doing something that literally every other Robin has also done and not been fired over), and she was only active during 50 of them. There are only six issues where Steph is Robin in the canon timeline.

Her final words before her death are asking Batman (Batman, because even on her death bed he doesn't trust her enough to take off his mask) if any of it was real. Was she really Robin? And Batman assures her that of course she was, that she was part of the legend and no one can take it away from her. Except it's a lie, because despite his reassurances, Batman never puts up a memorial or does anything to preserve her memory. He never really thinks of her as Robin, and even her friends will always think of her as Spoiler before ever remembering Robin.

Meanwhile DC spent years ignoring her time as Robin, to the point where it was completely erased from existence for awhile. It's technically back now, because timelines are weird, but unlike the others it's never been altered. She's never been given a second chance at it, no one's ever gone back and added more issues or details about those 71 days, or even seems to want to acknowledge them most of the time.

But fans have clung on to it anyway. Sure, there are lots of people who make Robin posts that are just about the boys, but there are just as many people who are ready to fight anyone who doesn't include her. Maybe it was only for a little while, but she was Robin, and we're sure as hell not going to forget it. If DC isn't going to bother to remember, than we will.

Stephanie Brown was Robin. She was part of the legend. It was real. No matter what, no one can take that away from her.

#i know she's a fictional character and her dying words don't actually matter #but also I just think it's really fascinating to look at the similarities between how Steph was treated in and out of canon #and it does kinda make me emotional thinking about how #her dying wish was to always be part of the legend and to this day #20 years later #we still insist on including her in Robin fan works #stephanie brown #robin iv #robin stephanie brown #batman #the spoiler #batgirl iii #batfam #batfamily #listen man #war games bad #but also steph's last words always make me so emotional #war games #batman: war games #batman 633

[coffeebanana]

Sorry if some of these overlap a little/if I left out something obvious kajbdsjkd I tried my best haha. And that's why there's an "other" option!

#coffeebanana polls #personally i think i'm good at writing emotions! #and that's funny to me because growing up i was very much not an emotional person #i had to sort of learn to value emotional intelligence as opposed to pure logic. and i probably repressed some things kjabdfskj #so i'm proud that emotions come through in my writing! #fiction has always been something i can use to connect emotionally even when i struggled doing that irl #and i think that's really cool #anyways i'm looking forwards to seeing what you all love about your writing!!!

[torpublishinggroup]

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[vaguely-concerned]

*in the tones of a man revealing the secret name of god to you* "beets... are a very misunderstood vegetable"

god I'm fucking crying... there's no one in this shot I wouldn't kill or die for in a heartbeat. sisko I love you so much I can barely speak

tfw BEETS??? this is the most scared bashir has looked in the whole show (julian baby boy it's a buffet you don't have to eat beets if you don't want to)

odo… no notes you are doing amazing sweetie keep up the good work

#the emotions within me right now defy description but I'm so full of them fdsjkahhfskjdfhkja #star trek #star trek ds9 #ds9 #benjamin sisko #julian bashir #odo #you see. this is what fiction is for. if this episode was nothing but sisko cooking and everyone chatting I would watch it on repeat #there's nothing that elicits the same 'fhdskjfhsakjfhsad????' in me as sisko's sudden quiet intensity it hits me like a brick every time

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What Is Emotional Suspense?

We know what it feels like when a story holds us in suspense. It’s the moment you realize you can’t put your book down and you’re holding your breath as characters take risks.

What happens when you use emotions to orchestrate those feelings? You create emotional suspense, which is helpful in more than a few ways.

Definition of Emotional Suspense

Readers experience emotional suspense when they continue reading for an emotional payoff. 

Picture your protagonist learning that their best friend betrayed them. The protagonist doesn’t tell their best friend right away, so there’s suspense as you wait for the answer and heartbreak, anger, and sadness waiting to crash into your heart when the confrontation finally happens.

Why Emotional Suspense Is Important for Stories

It Intensifies the Reader’s Emotions

Anyone can be happy for two characters who realize they’re best friends. We know what it’s like to have someone who understands us, so it engages our emotions easily.

That happiness becomes intensified if those two characters realize they’re best friends right when an unknown force is about to tear them apart. The reader knows it’s coming and doesn’t want the happiness to end or for either character to get hurt. The emotional suspense makes every moment more visceral.

It Makes Readers More Engaged

When a reader feels engaged with your story, it checks off a few boxes for them:

It keeps their attention with literary devices and/or plot development

It makes them feel seen in some way

It awakens emotions in them that create a human connection between them and a character (or more!) in your story

Emotional suspense can check all of those boxes:

Waiting for the emotional payoff or crumbling of any scene keeps their attention.

The emotions they share with the character create that essential readership connection

The emotions also make the reader feel seen because your character is going through something they can relate to

It Makes Endings More Satisfactory

The end of a traditional hero’s journey story is nearly always satisfactory because the plot events make them earn their ending.

Emotional suspense makes that satisfaction something you can feel in your bones because the plot makes sense logically and whatever emotional weights you’ve been waiting to drop have landed.

Examples of Emotional Suspense

Twilight

Readers spend the entire book watching Edward and Bella fall in love, despite them being a vampire and a human. Their bond is believable by the end, but when he has to suck the vampire bite from Bella’s blood, emotional suspense makes the reader hold their breath.

There’s the practical question—will he save her life?

There’s the emotional question—will his love be strong enough to override his vampire instincts?

Dune

Duke Leto has to save spice miners at the beginning of Dune. It’s his first test of leadership for the reader, all within the timed scenario of saving the miners from the coming worm. The people surrounding him tell him to save the spice and leave the miners because there’s no time.

There’s the practical question—will he save the lives on his ship and the valuable spice?

There’s the emotional question—will he choose to do the right thing (saving the miners’ lives) and prove his character as a leader (so the reader can cheer for him), instead of being the money-hungry capitalist like some of the people around him?

A Court of Thorns and Roses

Feyre goes to Under the Mountain to save Tamlin, even though it means a guaranteed death (she’s a human and everyone down there is a faerie). Her trials commence, all to potentially save the faeries she loves.

There’s the practical question—will she figure out how to beat the trials and survive?

There’s the emotional question—in potentially sacrificing herself to prove her love for Tamlin, will he love her back when it’s all over?

How to Build Emotional Suspense

Build Strong Characters

Readers won’t care about or connect with characters that are too flat. Build your protagonist and supporting characters with helpful worksheets, outlines, pictures, or any other resource that makes them feel real.

A few things to consider when creating characters:

What’s their primary goal?

What’s their biggest fear?

What do they love?

Who do they want to be?

Do they like who they are now?

Does their past follow them around?

Add Danger or a Threat

Suspense requires at least some threat or a minimal sense of danger. The more danger there is, the more suspense your reader will feel if they are already connected with your characters.

Potential forms of danger or threats:

Physical dangers

Societal dangers

Interpersonal threats

External threats

Emotional threats or danger

Spiritual threat or danger

Keep the Risk Going

After identifying the danger they’re facing, your characters will eventually make a choice to take a risk. When that happens, know if it’ll turn into short-term or long-term suspense.

Short-term risk might mean answering a few questions on a test that gets immediately graded. Long-term risk could mean giving up a full-ride college scholarship to follow their gut.

Either way, the risk must follow with some emotional payoff. That’s when the emotional suspense will wash over your reader and make them amazed at your storytelling skills.

Layer In Practicality 

Most of the time, people don’t take a risk for no reason. Make sure there’s a practical reason for your character to take a risk and face whatever danger lies ahead. Otherwise, the reader will write them off as a stupid character living in an unrelatable and unreal story.

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Emotional suspense is a powerful tool that creates unforgettable stories. You’ll keep your readers on the edge of their seats by breaking this literary device apart before putting it back together in the form of a plotline.

#emotional suspense #writing emotions #writeblr #writing advice #writing tips #creative writing #writing #writers of tumblr #writing inspiration #writing community #writing help #writing resources #emotions in writing #emotions in fiction #emotional fiction #emotions

[spirk-trek]

S3E19: Requiem for Methuselah ⋆.˚ ✧ · ˚⊹ ·

#SCREECHING IN THE TAGS #first of all: spock playing the piano #second of all: spock playing an undiscovered waltz so jim can fall in love with a non human woman who doesnt understand emotions #OKAY SURE #like how much more tragic does it get #this is peak repression #the ultimate “gay in love with their best friend” moment #and jim is so charming jusy look at him smiling #he wants to love someone so badly #HE 👊🏼 IS 👊🏼 PLAYING 👊🏼 THE 👊🏼 PIANO 👊🏼 #spock #spirk #star trek #star trek the original series #star trek tos #requiem for methuselah #scifi #science fiction #leonard ninoy #william shatner #captain kirk #jim kirk #james t kirk

[charlesien]

trying to get through the day.

#artists on tumblr #baliwart #dungeon meshi senshi #senshi of izganda #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #disco elysium kim #disco elysium #lieutenant kim kitsuragi #kim kitsuragi #emotional support fictional men

[purestxblood]

𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬, 𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐞 –

𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬 –

amazed, attractive, bold, brave, bubbly, cheerful, comfortable, delightful, excited, festive, free, jolly, optimistic, proud, wonderful.

𝐍𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬 –

aggravated, awful, chilly, dejected, dirty, dreadful, heavy, irritated, pessimistic, tearful, tense, terrible, tired, ugly, weak.

𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭-𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬 –

anxious, awestruck, bashful, cautious, composed, easygoing, horrified, intelligent,quizzical, ravenous, reluctant, settled, shy.

𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬 –

appreciative, blissful, contented, ecstatic, elated, glad, happy, joyful, jubilant, merry, respectful, sweet, serene, upbeat, vivacious.

𝐍𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬 –

angry, disenchanted, distressed, glum, gloomy, grumpy, grouchy, miserable, mad, moody, nervous, sad, sadistic, selfish, sour.

𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭-𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜 𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬 –

accepting, calm, confident, cool, earnest, easy, evenhanded, indifferent, neutral, nostalgic, passive, reserved, satisfied, sentimental, surprised.

𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬 –

agreeable, animated, bright, clever, encouraging, fresh, gentle, hopeful, kind, loving, open, pleased, supportive, sympathetic, warm.

𝐍𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬 –

annoyed, bitter, disgruntled, disgusted, evil, guilty, hostile, hurtful, nasty, obnoxious, oppressive, overbearing, resentful, sarcastic, sardonic. 

𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭-𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜 𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬 –

acerbic, ambivalent, ardent, candid, cautionary, conciliatory, knowledgeable, mysterious, pragmatic, regretful, resigned, satirical, secretive, solemn, strong.

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[sarielsnowings]

Where are my fellow Gothic Fiction fans? Surely some of you ended up in here somewhere. Come out I need you.

I want to draw them more, please feel free to suggest scenarios. I feel like they need to interact. Let the fanfiction begin!

I even made a reference sheet for them and everything. I just need to practise some more. Let’s just pretend they’re my OCs.

Edit: there are now more doodles. Find them under the #Sariel's Victorian disaster men tag

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[seraphinitegames]

For pure angst purposes hehe: how is Unit Bravo with crying? Does it take a lot for them to cry? What are some things that would make them cry?

Ohh, I do love me some angsty angst, hehe! :D

Hmm...

It takes quite a bit for A to cry. As we're all aware by now, they don't like to show their emotions if they can avoid it! But also they don't want to break down crying in situations where they feel they need to be strong for others.

N will cry easy-ish. It's not their first response, but they aren't worried about showing the emotion if it's really necessary. But they have lived a loooong time, so they have...I wouldn't say hardened themselves to things, but it's sort of like that, so not as easy for them to cry.

F is all about showing emotions, so if they feel like they could cry then they will. Why hold back? But I think the things that make them cry are quite different to what people might expect, though also the obvious too at times!

M...not really a crier. So if and when they cry, you know it's some extreme feelings happening for M *cough* Book Five, possibly because of the MC's choices too make it extra painful *cough*

... ;D

Thank you so much for the ask! :)

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