User blog comment:Hiddenfolk/What is your favourite thing about your oc?/@comment-3991308-20180218030654/@comment-3991308-20180218033345

Hey, my name is Zena, can you tell that I'm procrastinating on a lab report as we speak?

Gabriel Fanfarinet: Look, I wish Gabriel Fanfarinet had more of a reputation that "replacement" and "stabbity stab stab, stabbity stab stab", because as a character, I think he's great. I think there's a lot to be said for a character who's just trying to get by, who is bored by existence that he's willing to go out in a dramatic and fairytalesque way (and die in his youth) simply because he wants to live not just stay alive. I think he's compelling. I also think he's witty and speaks beautifully and can be downright hilarious at times. He's a wonderful boy. He's an underappreciated boy. He's ruinous to himself and other people. He tries so hard to impress others. I think there's something to be admired in his determination - even if it's misplaced.

Bastion Fanfarinet: I think Bastion Fanfarinet is fundamentally important to me because I've invested so much in him. I've imprinted so much of late 2016 Zena into him that I can't help but want to cherish him. Look, I don't like him as a person. As a person, I dislike him. But as a character he's fun to explore and write because he's so self-conscious and worries and is an anxious mess and yet. He's brutal and harsh and can and will kill. He's scary because he's intelligent and a perfect actor, and if he ever found a meaning to his life, if the Storybook hadn't told him that he only served the purpose of a fairytale villain, dammit man, he could very well be a very real villain. (Good thing, then, that he found his path helping out a hero.)

Turnus Wyllt: Turnus means a lot to me. At least, he means a lot to me right now. He represents impostor effect, the realisation that you're not as clever as you think and that you're destroying yourself through procrastination and that you care about things that aren't mattering to your future and the escapism from life through fictional worlds. Turnus is me grappling with my reality now. Turnus is me being thrown into a land that I'm unfamiliar with, with people who are entirely out of my league talking about things I don't understand. Turnus is me realising that I'm in the wrong genre of my own story. I don't know. I'm rambling. My thoughts aren't coherent. That's Turnus. Turnus is incoherency. Turnus is confusion. Turnus is that teenage boy trying to find himself in a world that's not made for him. That aside, I love Turnus Wyllt. He's also blunt and funny and has a certain snark. He's fun to write. He throws no punches and says what he will.

Orleans le Nouveau: Orleans sees the world through a rose-coloured lens. Orleans is a diehard romantic - literally. I like Orleans because he's escapism too. Unlike Turnus and his literature, Orleans chooses to escape by altering his perspection of reality. He likes to think the fairytale world is better than it is, he likes to think that things like beauty and wealth matter more than they do. He believes in age old ideals of chivalry. His dream is an empty dream and his existence is an empty existence and I just want him to snap out and realise. Still, I guess it's that illusion, the thin translucent rose glass that serves as a forefront to reality, that makes him great. I wish I could live through him. I wish I could live like him.

Ramsey Baartholomew: Ramsey is on a similar wavelength, I would say. Ramsey is great because writing them already gives off a soft dreamy atmosphere. They're a king on a cobweb throne, they're a ghost walking among humans... I like Ramsey a lot for his energy and enthusiasm, but I also like him because he's so desperate to be loved. And respected. And appreciated. They get so often written off as a middle child and a dead love interest and they're so desperate to be appreciated as a person and. I get that, I guess? I know love (platonic, romantic, whatever) in general gets undermined a bit, because you're so much more than that, you're your own person, but at the same time - finding it can be be? really validating? a comfort? Idk, I want Ramsey to have that. I love them. I hope they realise that.