Lacuna Rambles/Thoughts/Gif Reacts #2: 🔪💛 (Patreon)

This is how I feel while writing some of A. Corvin's more contentious remarks for the MC:

[Alternate Text: A GIF of a woman in a soccer (football, this sport:⚽🥅) jersey covering her face with her hands due to mild nerves, except she then peeks, possibly too intrigued by what's going on.]

Because some of their banter gets intense, but it's also interesting to write that friction!

It can create a whiplash effect in me when going between the differing relationship dynamics the MC has with this character. We'll have A being excited and so eager to talk and then them dragging their feet and making snippy remarks. (To be fair, the MC tends to match that energy. 😏) There is one zinger, an absolute menace of a comment, during the Corvin dinner section that I'm keen on you discovering. I'll only tease it by saying A didn't need to go so low, but they're feeling things from having the MC back in their home after this long absence. 📭 (They aren't the only one.) It's a line that I hope makes you as the reader go: ow.

(It also shows what's fueling some of that tension in the negative dynamic: A's care for J.)

I can tease a line a few of you may trigger in this month's upcoming alpha drop:

"I might actually be better off if you shoot the messenger," A darkly observes, pausing with the front tire of their bicycle ready to meet the pavement.