A quick explanation and a call for help. · 4:36am Oct 30th, 2015
Sorry for this wait, but as the title says I think I know whats happend, and its not just procrastination.
I Try writing Zero's section and it just ends in me making a excuse and reading other peoples work while imagining my self insert interacting in the story, and it was during one of these roleplays that I realized something.
Gavros (the self insert roleplay, not the atrocious half character from my first fic) is a character I've built and changed as I needed, but despite being a scientist and a magic user, I can never consider him a mary sue since he has flaws and things he fears.
Gavros is not his name, no one knows his name, that name is his griffon name, he likes to go by The Observer.
A young traveler who practices witchcraft and helps when he can, but never interfering in the overarching narrative unless it specifically involves him, thief of Celestia's cake, friend of Discord, has a long backstory that explains how he got where he is ect. ect.
The point is that The Observer is a character that I can do anything with, Zero has her limits and I just don't feel motivated to write her when I don't know where the line is let alone who Zero is.
Zero has few defining characteristics that make her unique from me, literally, besides the mental changes she's an exact copy of myself.
Observer started that way too, but he's grown so much I can sorta differentiate between me and him when I put myself in his shoes.
I can have fun writing The Observer, writing Zero feels like a chore.
So I've decided to get a co-writer, who will flesh out the oc's so they can be more then just me acting as all the characters in a play.
They will also help in other way's, if this happens again then they will tighten the slack that I let go of it.
But mainly I feel that since H1P1 has been on Hiatus for a while, and Observers adventures have continued forming in my head, that when I start again Observers personality will seep into the bare bones Zero, that's why I need her to be a fleshed out character and not just a cardboard cutout.