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hm idk if i’d call that a theme so much as a narrative tic.

Probably it’s my kink for unreliable narrators coming out. I want it to be obvious to the reader, but not to the other characters, how stoic my various POV characters are.

It’s not something I’m doing on purpose and I’m not sure it adds anything to the story that I do it so much. I do like characters that try very hard, in general. The tension throughout much of Trust with Keira and Lambert both wanting the same things, and yet each convinced the other doesn’t want the same thing– that’s what I’m after, and it requires the characters to be in control of themselves so they can keep that facade up at all.

In real life I’m very poor at controlling my emotions and not speaking impulsively, so it’s probably some very poorly-disguised projection on my part, really. (Your picture was not posted)