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Teen witch character help
DragonFire:
--- Quote from: Morraeon on January 07, 2009, 10:20:13 PM ---Heh... I'm actually thinking of having a love potion involved somehow. I've flipped through Silver RavenWolf's "Teen Witch" (eurgh... I want that ten minutes of my life back. While she does a good job describing things in terms teens can understand, every level-headed Wiccan friend of mine has called it "how *NOT* to teach Wicca to young people") and while the love spells aren't right on page one, she certainly doesn't keep them on the lowdown, either. I'm seeing the girl -- let's call her Sarah SilverRaven for obvious reasons -- consider the skeptic who confronts her, to be a jerk all along, even at the end when she starts to grasp what he's trying to tell her, but that she finally does start to realize grudgingly that he's got a point.
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The best love potion backfire is in 'The Craft', where the guy not only loves her, he becomes OBSESSED with her, to the point I think he tries to assult her.
I suppose the other point is how you have your mentor and character interact...you don't want them to come off 2-D.
Matrix Refugee (formerly Morraeon):
--- Quote from: Lightsabre on January 07, 2009, 10:22:36 PM ---I suppose the other point is how you have your mentor and character interact...you don't want them to come off 2-D.
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Mm, especially since I'm trying to keep this story from turning into a novel. :: Laughs, gently::
ballplayer72:
--- Quote from: Lightsabre on January 07, 2009, 10:10:50 PM ---Do a Molly.
Have her screw up in such a way that the mentor HAS to bail her out.
Then....have the screw up be because of her worldview, or rather, her inability to process anything OUTSIDE of her worldview.
Then have the mentor tell her some home truths, possibly over a cup of tea....
My suggestion is to avoid having her come out with the mentor's exact opinion though, otherwise it looks like brainwashing.
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I agree with Sabre, she has to royally screw up with magic for the best possible reason. Maybe point out that she doesn't know anything much.
DragonFire:
--- Quote from: ballplayer72 on January 08, 2009, 08:36:33 PM ---I agree with Sabre, she has to royally screw up with magic for the best possible reason. Maybe point out that she doesn't know anything much.
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There was a Merceded Lackey story, and it had a minor character who was a very powerful pyschic. She also believed that everything just needed a big hug to be ok....ie evil creatures weren't really evil, just misunderstood.
The character talking to her was reflecting it was only this woman's very large amount of power that had prevented her from a rude awakening.
I believe the character is later eaten by an evil spiritual entity.
My point is, her worldview sounds very similar to the one you want your teen witch to have, so maybe you could do something like that?
Have her summon something she can't control...and have it nearly eat her...all because she THOUGHT it wasn't really 'bad', just 'mizunderstoods'.
Matrix Refugee (formerly Morraeon):
--- Quote from: Lightsabre on January 08, 2009, 09:20:57 PM ---There was a Merceded Lackey story, and it had a minor character who was a very powerful pyschic. She also believed that everything just needed a big hug to be ok....ie evil creatures weren't really evil, just misunderstood.
The character talking to her was reflecting it was only this woman's very large amount of power that had prevented her from a rude awakening.
I believe the character is later eaten by an evil spiritual entity.
My point is, her worldview sounds very similar to the one you want your teen witch to have, so maybe you could do something like that?
Have her summon something she can't control...and have it nearly eat her...all because she THOUGHT it wasn't really 'bad', just 'mizunderstoods'.
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:: Snerks:: Bolding mind, and that's pretty much the worldview of the fluffy-bunnies. I've actually got another story on the back-burner with a similar plot line, but I might use this. Wonder if there's some way that she summons some kind of love god/dess or something like it and the critter gets out of hand, as I'm still working from the love spell-gone-awry angle.
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