^^ Massive planning. I'm glad it paid off. The endings of the story were worked out in advance, so the setup is written afterward, in a way. For all icemew babbled and pretended to ask for advice, it was pretty much a complete story that happened to be posted serially. (Although there were problems I'm cleaning up on the repost.) Which is weirdly fitting, considering regular OT fic is about as far from planned as possible.
Hm. Perhaps the best word is "antagonist", for all that's impossible. She's the technical main character, yet in terms of both the overarching plot and the individual characters, she's the negative force. And since she is her own destruction, protagonist-antagonist isn't such a contradiction. Really a new word needs to be created, though.
In a way, she's frighteningly effective the entire time. She doesn't care, even when she does realize. Early on she seems like she's just unaware, but by the end of the story when she knows, her behavior hasn't changed at all. She's pretty sociopathic - the kind of person who's clueless about hurting others, then you tell her and she says, "So what?"
Really, maybe a new word shouldn't be created. I don't think this is a character type that should be popular enough to be a fiction mainstay.
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Date: 2007-05-07 10:50 pm (UTC)Hm. Perhaps the best word is "antagonist", for all that's impossible. She's the technical main character, yet in terms of both the overarching plot and the individual characters, she's the negative force. And since she is her own destruction, protagonist-antagonist isn't such a contradiction. Really a new word needs to be created, though.
In a way, she's frighteningly effective the entire time. She doesn't care, even when she does realize. Early on she seems like she's just unaware, but by the end of the story when she knows, her behavior hasn't changed at all. She's pretty sociopathic - the kind of person who's clueless about hurting others, then you tell her and she says, "So what?"
Really, maybe a new word shouldn't be created. I don't think this is a character type that should be popular enough to be a fiction mainstay.