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Random Thought Tracings on Demosen and Tasiha, Light and Dark. So hmm… maybe people believe in the black and white, in the good and evil…b ut what it really comes down to is that there is the grey space in between. What do I want to do? I want Tasiha and Demosen to meet, to interact And to not hate each other. I want them to meet and not hate. I want them to realize how close they are Tied to each other and tied to their deities. And I was thinking Do I want Tasiha to not feel complete until she meets him? Do I want them to… touch hands once, at the end, and see into each other and share existence and become one? Do I want that sort’ve idealized sense of shades of grey Of everything blurring together? Do I want them to blur together? Do I want the idea of the extremes to be WRONG? So Tasiha will feel full… feel falsely full because she cannot have darkness too. She cannot have balance. So she will think that she is full. She will think that she is complete. And sometimes she will weep at her weakness, at her longing for darkness… at her desire to rest, to give in. And the light inside her will rebel. So Light and Dark contradict each other, oppose each other… like the same poles of a magnet xD. But Tasiha and Demosen cannot keep fully to one side or the other… Oh this should be fun :o I can make Demosen big/tough guy who ends up with a lil kidling he cares about or something silly like that. Is Tasiha optimism? Is Demosen pessimism? Is that their only difference? Tasiha sees the world ‘idealistically’ and Demosen sees the world as the worst that it can be. And both are tied to/driven by gods that are all at once part of them and not part of them, that oppose each other, but they are surprised (?) to find deep down that they are more similar than they would have thought. And neither is complete without the other. Do they ‘join’ in the end, like the cataclysmic joining I had imagined for Chaos and Ceolene in BoW? Do they meld, and the world melds with them; a jolt, a sharp marking of their unity? Do they both die, taking their demanding gods down into death with them? Is it only in Death’s Realms can they achieve this unity? Or perhaps it ends ambiguously when they finally meet; each one changed by the story and by chance encounters with each other before they really open their minds and learn what the world is, what they are, what each other is? I sort've like this idea. It makes it... possibly literature. Not just an adventure story? Why am I obsessed with having it be literature? hmph. I feel like Louise challenged me :P As for those who don't like the idea of Light=good and Dark=bad, this would be a DEFINITE improvement. Now Light and Dark could be either good or bad, but both of them influence their respective representatives. Demosen is more capable of viewing the shadows of the world... maybe more capable of enjoying them. And Tasiha is more capable of seeing everything as a clear-cut outline against a bright spotlight... also maybe more able to enjoy those things. But neither can see truthfully or fully without the other, and not until the END of the novel do they find each other? In this case, my wonderful 'death of Tasiha' scene (where she accidentally becomes entangled in darkness and has to 'die' or purge herself to be pure of it) would be useful, even vital--it would raise curiosity in her, a wonder at why the darkness fit so naturally as a part of her, and a wondering why she had to leave it, why she weeps for it. It's an interesting idea. |
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4 Comments:
*evil laughter*
Yep, everything is so much more interesting when it's not so clearly defined isn't it?
I like the way this sounds much better than when you first told me about the story.
So nice to be evil *and* helpful! :)
Oh yeah, and for the sake of being constructive rather than just having fun with the evil laughter...
If you want to make it more of the balanced look rather than the straight up good and evil adventure thing then you might want to consider your metaphores. Dark/Light and White/Black are kind of strongly defined as Good/Evil so even if you write it in a way that attempts to avoid the dichotomy and leave the metaphore readers will probably make assumptions that end up more along the lines of the straight good/evil lines you were trying to avoid.
Hmm... dichotomy is a fun word, I haven't gotten to use that since debate... Yay!
*sigh* why is it that I think of stuff to say *after* I hit the 'login and publish' button?
An example that you might find helpful would be concept of the other as proposed by Nietzsche or Hegel's thesis/antithesis. Or theres some others like Schmitt's friend/foe and things like that. Ok I'm done, hopefully unless I think of something else after I click the stupid button. Blogger needs an "edit" feature or something!
I like the sound of that much more. Dichotomies are interesting and are often intrinsically false.
As far as literature vs. straight-up adventure... well... you seem to love to write. People who love to write want to find something fulfilling in their work, and their passion for the craft bleeds through their ideas and onto the page and through to the hearts of their readers. If you bring meaningful questions to the page and avoid the easy answers, you are asking your reader to engage with you in seeking the answers, and that's far more interesting than cranking out adventure stories, which can be enjoyable in the way that candy is enjoyable: they're what you want to consume but you feel full of empty calories if you gorge yourself on them.
Louise is right in that your readers will automatically assume light/dark = good/evil. If you use that metaphor anyhow, just be conscious of that fact and try to undermine it as you write.
Ciao
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