Currently, I'm all about the undermining. Qhora's misogyny is very strong and applies even to herself. She even applies it to Hydaelyn when she's in the depths of... despair, her cups, whatever. She's become absolutely certain that women are toxic and bad for the universe. Obviously, this is far from fact.
She has a few stabilizing influences that prevent her from going completely off the rails because of this belief, which has grown over the course of a lifetime but only recently become solid and strong.
But ultimately, I want to see whether or not it's a belief that can change, if it will change, if she can change it herself based on her own merits, or if it will require outside help, or if it'll end up destroying her. There's a touch of the Catch-22 in it, in that if she does find her own value, which isn't a goal she even realizes she has, but is a part of her waking up each day, she'll have to lose her misogyny.
I like the friction, but I often apply it to the character's self-worth, rather than directly to the characters or the world around them, though that's where change, where the undermining tends to be found in the end.
She has a few stabilizing influences that prevent her from going completely off the rails because of this belief, which has grown over the course of a lifetime but only recently become solid and strong.
But ultimately, I want to see whether or not it's a belief that can change, if it will change, if she can change it herself based on her own merits, or if it will require outside help, or if it'll end up destroying her. There's a touch of the Catch-22 in it, in that if she does find her own value, which isn't a goal she even realizes she has, but is a part of her waking up each day, she'll have to lose her misogyny.
I like the friction, but I often apply it to the character's self-worth, rather than directly to the characters or the world around them, though that's where change, where the undermining tends to be found in the end.
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