A quick Slamjam postmortem note · 11:56pm Sep 7th, 2015
So, the creator of one of the OCs I wrote about just about flipped his lid at me because I gave his character a gay shipping story, ruining his message of platonic bromance and emotionally vulnerable heterosexual dudes.
I didn't even work any gay jokes into the story despite meaning to, whereas Summer Heat's first round actually ends in a gay joke, but nobody called me out for it because my opponent was a no show and nobody read the story. Nobody except PresentPerfect, whom I would like to explain myself to.
The character I was given was a weak-ass self insert noncharacter, so I eventually started seeing that weak-assedness as his neain character trait. A friend of mine suggested that I write a sexual awakening story, since Summer Heat is very sexual and I was stereotyping Spring Blaze as a rather young person's roleplaying avatar.
The original idea was to be sweet and genuine; it is for this reason that Spring Blaze has a very familiar (to many of us, I think) point of view regarding sex and clubbing and all that popular kid nonsense. There was a deleted scene where he meets a weather team squadmate happily grinding against some dude and thinking nothing of it. Seeing for the first time that his friends and neighbors are sexual beings blows Spring's mind a little.
In hindsight I should have gone right ahead and made Summer Heat turn him to the dark side; I didn't realize that it would be a perfectly good and meaningful ending. Instead, I aborted his coming-of-age because it felt more natural at the time. The ending, aside from being a jab, explains that Spring actually is awakening--just not quite the same way.
Perhaps I'll write a more detailed postmortem. After part 2 of my little lesson series.
Huh. Okay, I buy it. :B
Hey, I read it. Well, I read it after the round was over and I was going through re-reading everything, but I still read it. And I liked it. Some of the best scene-writing of the contest.
wait did he actually
lmaoooooo
why enter a contest with the premise 'let other writers fuck with your OC' if you dont want people fucking with your OCs
then again I guess im a little biased since my characters aren't actually character-y enough for me to feel the same way; harder to get attached to a setting mouthpiece