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girderednerve replied to your post “ayy 1k words”
this is so fun and i love them both and also i yelled about the money taboo
Have I brought that up to you before? It first revealed itself to me in an extended-remix meander when I’d long ago lost the plot on the original book during a rewrite in probably oh like 2007 or something, but it has stuck with me through a bunch of revisions. a whole caste of warriors who aren’t allowed to handle or even look at or discuss money! seemed reasonable, in a culture somewhat prickly about people trying to hire them as mercenaries. Of course it suggested itself to me for maximum angst when Our Hero is semi cast-out and waging solo guerrilla warfare on the frontier and is entirely incapable of feeding himself because he can’t accept money rewards and then can’t trade them for food, so he has all these miraculous feats of martial prowess interspersed with bouts of almost dying of malnutrition.
Fascinatingly opposed to the Witcher, where money (I don’t know much canon but this seems to pop up) is expressly used to avoid there being any politics at all. He *only* works for money (ostensibly…), and it props up his facade of emotionlessness so he doesn’t have to acknowledge how very strongly he is driven by morals and empathy even though within the first three episodes (all I’ve seen) we see him really not care at all about money; it’s clearly a pretense. I wasn’t aware of it but that might actually be what pulled this WIP back into my mind as a thing to work on again.
msilverstar replied to your post “ayy 1k words”
This is fun, I would read lots more about these two.
Well, good, because I think writing about them is going to be how I overcome my horrible inability to write any kind of plot or pacing. :) I’m at 4k words already! Not too shabby.
girderednerve replied to your post “ayy 1k words”
this is so fun and i love them both and also i yelled about the money taboo
Have I brought that up to you before? It first revealed itself to me in an extended-remix meander when I’d long ago lost the plot on the original book during a rewrite in probably oh like 2007 or something, but it has stuck with me through a bunch of revisions. a whole caste of warriors who aren’t allowed to handle or even look at or discuss money! seemed reasonable, in a culture somewhat prickly about people trying to hire them as mercenaries. Of course it suggested itself to me for maximum angst when Our Hero is semi cast-out and waging solo guerrilla warfare on the frontier and is entirely incapable of feeding himself because he can’t accept money rewards and then can’t trade them for food, so he has all these miraculous feats of martial prowess interspersed with bouts of almost dying of malnutrition.
Fascinatingly opposed to the Witcher, where money (I don’t know much canon but this seems to pop up) is expressly used to avoid there being any politics at all. He *only* works for money (ostensibly…), and it props up his facade of emotionlessness so he doesn’t have to acknowledge how very strongly he is driven by morals and empathy even though within the first three episodes (all I’ve seen) we see him really not care at all about money; it’s clearly a pretense. I wasn’t aware of it but that might actually be what pulled this WIP back into my mind as a thing to work on again.
msilverstar replied to your post “ayy 1k words”
This is fun, I would read lots more about these two.
Well, good, because I think writing about them is going to be how I overcome my horrible inability to write any kind of plot or pacing. :) I’m at 4k words already! Not too shabby.