Errant thought
Sunday, 16 December 2018 00:29![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yvannairieI have a tendency to make every story I interact with slowly take on lighter shades of grey and go soft around the edges.
It's not something I set out to consciously do, really? It's just that to me, the natural procession of characters coming to terms with the bad things they've done will at first lead into despair and then slowly roll around back to wanting to do better. It's a series of small steps as characters first make things worse by trying to come to terms with the mental dissonance of "but I am right/I am a good person, why do my actions have bad consequences" and then actually dealing with those consequences.
Heavy conflict makes people want to make things easier, and mutual kindness is the best way to make that happen.
It's not something I set out to consciously do, really? It's just that to me, the natural procession of characters coming to terms with the bad things they've done will at first lead into despair and then slowly roll around back to wanting to do better. It's a series of small steps as characters first make things worse by trying to come to terms with the mental dissonance of "but I am right/I am a good person, why do my actions have bad consequences" and then actually dealing with those consequences.
Heavy conflict makes people want to make things easier, and mutual kindness is the best way to make that happen.
