Alicornutopia

Meta!Adarin consents to any and all shenanigans that end with 'And then the Adarin and the Bell lived happily ever after' because um. They like Bells, I don't know if you know this. I have standing permission from Yvette to do a number of really really terrible things to her on the understanding that she is in fact a fictional character and is aware of this and is fine with me having fun and not paying attention to morals for her while she consistently doesn't exist. The minute she starts existing is the minute I start paying attention to morals, and she is aware of this.

More generally, most of the terrible things I do to my characters doesn't permanently screw them up. Sure I might traumatize them a little, or turn them into a horrible monster thing, or torture them psychologically, or kill their children, or make their parents terrible, or make their governments terrible, or inflict horribly nonconsensual permanent mental effects upon them, or - anyway, I am terrible, but I consistently respect them as people (albeit imaginary ones) and don't do any of it because I feel that I need to fill a quota of terrible. They can voice preferences to me and get them, if I don't see a good reason why not. This preference in particular is more Yvette than Revan; Revan doesn't actually mind the incest thing except for the problem of having an awkward time introducing his significant other at parties, but Yvette is just going, "Author? No." Because of this Revan would be offended if I don't listen to her, because like, there are reasons she is saying no and they are valid and if I ignore her reasons I have earned his wrath, too, because I would be gleefully ignoring a stated preference for no other reason than because I can. So uh. I am not doing that.

Also I just don't find it very interesting, it would be the type of drama that would not be entertaining and just kind of a pain to write, and then on top of that I have characters in my head being upset with me for very good reasons, which is even more unpleasant. Basically it would just suck. A lot.

I am curious about the surprise, I try to write Yvette and Revan as both of them finding it very easy to get along with one another, but this is not the same as wanting to hook up. Can you explain your thoughts there, if you don't mind?

It wasn’t a huge shock or anything, just not what I would have predicted. They both have romantic inclinations in general, they get along with each other even without being siblings. Absent any strong opposing reasons like incest, I didn’t see why the liking each other couldn’t come in a romantic shape.

If I understand you correctly, the reason it wouldn’t happen is partially because meta-Yvette still objects to it on incest grounds even when the particular instances in question aren’t siblings? I certainly would not have predicted that. I would have thought that if the relevant pair were not siblings then they still might not become romantically involved but there would not be any incest considerations for that even on a meta level unless they met alts. Even when they are both the same author, that feels like Eve not becoming attracted to James because Katie is Lisbet’s sister. I just would not have thought the siblings attractor would do anything if they were not in fact siblings.

It's less on incest grounds and more on the grounds that it would cause her unwanted unpleasantness with a subject she's already a bit, uh, let's go with particular about. She does not think there is anything to be gained from this potentially unpleasant thing existing, and requests that it instead not.

Could you have a big sister Yvette for a Revan?

Both Yvette and Revan seem to prefer Revan being the eldest.

Aestrix wrote:Both Yvette and Revan seem to prefer Revan being the eldest.

Ok. Would Revan think it is okay to be a younger sibling to a non-yvette? Similar question to Yvette.

Both are fine with having other older or younger siblings, they just like the order they come in.

Okay. I don't suppose we could get what they would be like to their older/younger siblings as relevant?

It works very well for their dynamic, they think. Revan likes having a little sister to read to, Yvette likes having a big sibling that doesn't condescend and reports back on how scary life is and how it can be un-scaried. Yvette also just thinks that of the two of them, Revan just unquestionably makes the better big sibling. Revan thinks Yvette wouldn't be as bad as that sentence implies, and would in fact make a pretty good big sister, but if she wants to be the little sister Revan's fine with that.

Now imagining some peculiar monster that shows up and randomly reorders siblings. What a weird monster.