Thoughts about Vivid Colour · 7:27pm Apr 11th, 2018
There are some characters that are formed when you start to write them. Luna, is well known to me, and I could recite her life in my world or in the show by memory, explaining motivations and desires along the way.
My last story, Prim Rose developed in reverse. I began with the ending, and showing everyone the meaning in her life. Because that is how she experienced her own life. Memory issues were implied far before she was old, and she remembered things in disorganized slices. Her life was, thus, disorganized into slices that mattered.
Vivid Colour is different.
She was formed as a character snapshot in a single scene. A scene that has not yet appeared in the story. She was formed as a single image, and from that image she has begun to grow. The pain that gets her through life, and the coping mechanisms that she uses to defend herself. Vivid is not pure or good, she is hurt and dangerous. When Luna decides to protect her, it starts a new chapter in her life.
But we don't know what Vivid knows. We know, for now, only what she would want us to know. Maybe some day we will learn what happened in those dark shadowed parts she is hiding.
