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I like how I should be thinking about writing solutions when it comes to worldbuilding but instead I’ve been quietly thinking about Terra, a decent lot

For one her personality. Thanks to the MHW AU version of her (+ discussions with a friend when it comes to Terra/Kayla’s story arcs) I’ve thought more about Terra in actual canon-

I still believe she should have the air of a coolheaded lonewolf, but I do think that even if subtle that she should show much more emotions. When more intense emotions emerge they just BOOM out and she has to take her emotions by the reigns and regain composure, such as rambly excitement about weapons/magic where her face/voice hold a almost childlike glee, or maybe loud Aghast at something Riivar said or something. In more subtle cases being flustered/blushing for Kayla in certain moments (probably then looking away and ruffling her own hair or some other stim), actually showing disappointment and maybe irritation for when something she’s looking forward to isn’t there. The biggest challenge as both writer and artist will be more negative subtle emotions expressed, by that I’m thinking The Gravestone Scene (no details here cause SPOILERS NOT LEAKING); I imagine a slurry of emotions showing in her eyes and expression as she somehow calmly circles around it

(brain imagines something similar to her “default resting bitch face”, which is where the challenge lies; visually differentiating them), then seeing her trying to contain so much of those strong emotions as they try to leak out only for them for her to perhaps fall on her knees in distress. 

I also want her to show SOME form of emotions/nature towards old friends/family- she can hold some of her composure but you see some of it relax before those she’s familiar with; a teasing/haughty child towards Riivar, a more worried/vulnerable self toward her sister Abbey, etc.. Maybe even have her quietly cling to them in crowded/uncomfortable settings. Basically make her more human.

But lastly is a bigger thought for a change for Terra; a little bit of her plot/story/background (if spoilers somehow show I am sorry but it’s a key chunk of her arc to think about). A lot of her story/arc is about opening up more, and also coming to terms of her heritage; despite her hatred for her Biological Family (and by extension the heritage she knew till now), she comes to learn more, and reclaim part of her heritage/culture which she can be actually proud of, embrace and love (that does not mean coming to love her Bio. family, that’s different). Originally some of her own changes in her body would make it that she has to face and try to learn about about her

heritage

which at this point she still hates, and then learn in her own way how to control it despite its dangerous nature, but at this point I’m not sure that really balances well? Basically I feel that “what runs in her veins will kill her and who she loves” needs to be nerfed out, and instead make it that she just avoids her latent powers due to just the hate she developed through her bio. family. This may mean the amount of power/influence in her finale may drop tremendously but at the same time it may make it better (perhaps making what she does to turn the tables in the final battle have more meaning too? “the hungry fire consumes the venom” so, maybe).

Writing this down this probably is a wall of text that is senseless to others but I wanted to put down digitally anyways as I continue to mill about Terra.

I’m gonna level with you guys. Save for my own original posts, offtopic stuff, my ramblings, and some artpieces, I don’t think I’m gonna be tagging as much anymore if at all. The queue as is will have tags for a while (cause like hell I’m going back removing old tagging, no way!), and the autotag from xkit may still help with giving some exceptions, but otherwise tagging will probably stop from me. The more I look into my energy management the more I’m finding it’s more work than it’s paying off for me to tag every single post I reblog/post. Plus I do not see much benefit for it for such a blog as this. Before I did not go through as many posts per day relating to this blog so at the time it was less work/exhaution to tag, now there’s just too many posts to manage if I want to reblog etc.

If I want to keep running this blog I have to reduce the chore exhaustion, and for  the time being this may be the best way how. I’m not going anywhere, but I will say some small things will change to make sure that stays the case.

THE GREAT BOOK MIGRATION- *bricked*

It is SO DAMN NICE to have a tall enough wall to actually be able to put my books in a legitimate bookshelf against the wall.

I’ve shown you the plant/gardening book collection in the past, but here’s a revisit, with them moved into some “new” shelves (they were used for video cassettes in the living room before) along with all the other books that I have in my book-hoarding claws. With the house addition, I get to take over the new basement as my new bedroom to settle into eventually, so we got ahead of the game and got the books moved down there. I just realized there’s one plant book out of the shot; a tall book on roses that’s put on top of the shelves due to its dumbly huge size, but I think most of you can just use your imagination to put it in the archive of books.

The amount of unread novels/manga should make it apparent as to why I haven’t been buying or wishing for any books anymore (that is, unless they’re new plant reference books), cause my novel devouring is sadly not what it used to be, I do however plan to fix that once I move into the new bedroom as the new shelving makes it less messy/dangerous to un-shelve books for casual reading.

EDIT- also realized I got part of the plant section highlighting wrong but it’s a small bit of that so it can be overlooked *had already deleted the source file I was using for this*