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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sialia" data-source="post: 1328455" data-attributes="member: 1025">Um. Welll . . . the dragon came first. She was a lot different in the early drafts. And she probably came out of reading too much Kage Baker.  I didn't plan her "transcendance"--that wasn't supposed to happen. The piece was all about time and ephemera, but I got frustated with it and started to hate the whole story. When I was about to hit the delete key and start the whole piece over, I wrote her temper tantrum instead, and that seemed a better place to take the story. I knew I needed a bard who's name meant "Fox," as a salute to my first round opponent. So Volpe came first. I don't actually know BardStephenFox all that well, so when I needed to imagine him doing something, I imagined my husband Bandeeto playing him.  I didn't realize who Volpe really was in Round One, but by the time Round Two rolled around, I figured out that he was an opportunity to use a character dressing I had always wanted to develop and never had the chance to use before: The Travelling Patent Medicine Salesman. Lillabo just happened, and I think she's probably mostly a rework of a character I ran in college. Although at a distance of  over ten years, I understand some things about that character now that I didn't understand then. Which is where Mirabelle really started to develop. Mirabelle was the last character to develop any voice. She fought me like anything, and I could not get any life in to her at first. I kept forgetting to write her in to the scenes at all. Finally, as Lillabo started to grate on me as being just a bit too adorable and precious, I decided to give the one of the other characters a chance to voice my frustrations with her. So, she's me, but she's  . . um . . heavily influenced, shall we say, by  . . other . . uh, players of RPGS that I sometimes might have played with. None of whom happen to be judging this contest, right? Because I wouldn't presume pander to a judge with a cheap shtick like that. Anyway, by Round Two, she was a fully developed personality of her own, and I just let her be without trying to picture who was playing her. Tarnby was supposed to be a complete jerk. I wanted him to be a greedy, selfish user. But it just didn't work. He slid from jerk to safe date in a few paragraphs, and wound up being a little bit of a Dylrath rework, I'm afraid. I did picture one of my friends playing him in Round 1, but I switched him to a different player for Round 2. Syyalea just happened. I have no idea where he came from. Honest.</blockquote>

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