it really is next to impossible to write realistic sibling dialogue, I just passed my brother on the stairs and instead of greeting each other like human beings I said ‘born survivor’ and he said ‘youtube rewind. let’s set it to rewind.’ like you ain’t gonna find that shit in a novel
Listen, if a white man can find some way to spawn himself in fantasy feudal Japan and then proceed to make the whole plot of the movie revolve around him, there is absolutely no reason nor shame in you writing your POC and/or lgbt+ protagonist in fantasy feudal Europe.
People travel, and they fuck. Mixed blood kids are a thing. Trade routes, foreigners washing ashore from shipwrecks. Realizing that the width and breadth of fantasy is what the author wants to exclude from it, not how closely it reflects the far more complicated “real life”.
Just do it.
Not to mention history is a lot more diverse than racist old white men who wrote down “western civ” textbooks want you to think.
Early video game designer: Okay, we’re just about done with this level
Video game designer’s manager: Great! Did you figure out what to put at the end?
designer: Yeah, we put this tough, nasty, mean, ugly monster that the player has to beat. We made sure killing the monster feels as rewarding as possible.
Orly telling Fjord that the Balleater will “always belong to Captin Tusktooth” and saying that he’d put the crew to work while they wait for the m9’s return suggests that this ragtag bunch of sailors that were essentially kidnapped and drafted into brief piracy has become so fucking ride or die for the Mighty Nein that even when given the option of freedom, they’d rather hang around and wait for these absolute assholes to come back and drag them on towards another adventure
