Radical redesign stuffs!

[shadesong]

mousegrrl is gonna hate me.

I've been thinking a lot about Kieran... and I'm going for a redesign on him. Or, rather, unredesigning him - going for something closer to the original character, the brittle glitter peacock who doesn't instinctively know the right thing to do....

The character, as he stands, is far too similar to Shawn - and I was already telling the strong-man-helps-troubled-woman-forgive-herself story with Shawn and Kat. The Kieran and Julia story was starting to tread familiar ground. The original Kieran - named Joshua - had as much to learn from Julia as she did from him. It was a more symbiotic relationship, and I think it's one that suited Julia - and the story - better. I'm also reinstating his bisexuality - we can play up the gender-role-reversal with Julia in her steel-toe Docs and Josh in velvet.

Josh/Kieran, as a character, has always had two defining moments - the one we *don't* see in the ashcan, and the one we don't see *yet*, wherein he saves Julia's life by declaring himself as her kiri'totharan - a move that would be obvious for Kieran, but would involve some internal struggle within Josh.

Plus, we can then do some hot yaoi action between Josh and Ryan (the Ken-lookin' boy). And it solves the de-aging issue, as I've always felt Josh to be a younger character, still learning who he is. Kieran's a bastard-sword of a character - Josh is a rapier. And I think that works better.

This, of course, changes the beginning of the story. I have to think about how much. Mousie and I will need an AIM conference on this.

In other news... I've also realized that Halloran and Bram have a deeper connection that Bram knows - Halloran saw Bram's girlfriend murdered on the night of the purges, but didn't stop to help her, as he was running like a bat outta hell to save himself and Capri. Which Halloran, being Halloran, would feel eternally guilty for. So that reinforces their connection, and creates another level of emotion between him and Julia when...

...okay, not gonna give away *everything*.

Comments

YEARGH!!!! =)

[m0usegrrl.livejournal.com]

see, i knew you were gonna do that... =)

Re: YEARGH!!!! =)

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

But you still love me, right?

...

...right?



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[(Anonymous)]

I do think it's interesting being party to the creative process like this . . . but my interest is partly based on the assumption that eventually, I will get to see the end product. Will I?

Randall

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Well, of course you will, silly!