I think what you're describing is a process that is bound to happen with any set of characters where not all the variables are known at the first instance.
Naomi and I did not plan for Seamus and Padma to be besties, but it happened and it worked and we kept building on the groundwork that had been established to deepen and strengthen their relationship.
Deb mentioned that beautiful night when she and I stayed up til 3 (well, it was 3 for me; it was 1 for her) allowing Regulus and Sirius to finally talk to one another and hear each other, possibly for the first time in their lives. (At the time it was the latest night I had had playing Alternity. I look at this last weekend and think, "oh, how little you knew from late nights....")
But as I said, that conversation was a touchstone I used over and over in my understanding of Sirius's psychology, and Deb, in her play of Barty, particularly, used her understanding of Regulus to shade and inform what additional ammunition Barty could fire at Sirius. Because the same post featured a Reg-Pansy conversation, it also allowed me and Linny later to circle back to Pansy's relationships with both of them - Sirius's jealousy (and yes, he was!) that she started getting her advice from Reg instead of him, their bonding over how awful Walburga was and what it was like for her to be in Grimmauld Place, her love of music and how she used it to inform and broaden her horizons, etc.
Granted, I think the phenomenon you're discussing is much more obvious and varied when it's an open post like you're using to illustrate, and we had fewer and fewer of those as the plot and the necessities of character-cliques dictated smaller and smaller circles of trusted confidantes, but yeah, you're totally right.
It shows that we were careful and conscientious authors, yes, but also readers of each other's work, picking up cues that we left without even necessarily knowing we were laying the pipe.
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Date: 2015-09-02 07:35 pm (UTC)Naomi and I did not plan for Seamus and Padma to be besties, but it happened and it worked and we kept building on the groundwork that had been established to deepen and strengthen their relationship.
Deb mentioned that beautiful night when she and I stayed up til 3 (well, it was 3 for me; it was 1 for her) allowing Regulus and Sirius to finally talk to one another and hear each other, possibly for the first time in their lives. (At the time it was the latest night I had had playing Alternity. I look at this last weekend and think, "oh, how little you knew from late nights....")
But as I said, that conversation was a touchstone I used over and over in my understanding of Sirius's psychology, and Deb, in her play of Barty, particularly, used her understanding of Regulus to shade and inform what additional ammunition Barty could fire at Sirius. Because the same post featured a Reg-Pansy conversation, it also allowed me and Linny later to circle back to Pansy's relationships with both of them - Sirius's jealousy (and yes, he was!) that she started getting her advice from Reg instead of him, their bonding over how awful Walburga was and what it was like for her to be in Grimmauld Place, her love of music and how she used it to inform and broaden her horizons, etc.
Granted, I think the phenomenon you're discussing is much more obvious and varied when it's an open post like you're using to illustrate, and we had fewer and fewer of those as the plot and the necessities of character-cliques dictated smaller and smaller circles of trusted confidantes, but yeah, you're totally right.
It shows that we were careful and conscientious authors, yes, but also readers of each other's work, picking up cues that we left without even necessarily knowing we were laying the pipe.