what character do you find the hardest to write? is there a character you love but you don't think you do justice to in your writing? which dynamic/friendship do you find the most interesting to write about?
These questions are going right for the jugular, huh? Hm. The characters I find the hardest to write usually are ones I haven't written much of, like Quackity and Fundy, but that's more for getting their tone of voice right, not their character motivations. I think I write Tubbo relatively well, but writing him always keeps me on my toes. Dude has got Layers.
Most interesting dynamic? Oooh.
Okay. Despite the 140k fic I've been writing which some folks call a c!discduo fic (which. I guess that is the main relationship explored, but I tend to think of tddd as crimeboys at its core) I kinda treat discduo's dynamic as a plot device to get to the dynamics I more seriously care about lol. Crimeboys <3. Clingyduo <3 And ofc bench trio and bee duo. And I haven't explored allium duo too much but what I have done I've loved. Dream and Tommy's dynamic is interesting for sure and I could over analyze it for hours, but the way I write them, sometimes Dream is just there to give Tommy something to recover from. Actually. You know what it is? Dream and Tommy are plot devices for each other. It's not that one is a character and the other is a prop, they're just that for each other. Dream's corruption needed a stage, and that stage just happened to be breaking Tommy. And while this doesn't hold true to me in canon, in tddd, Dream is there to be Tommy's struggle. He's there to make every step of the way harder, so when Tommy keeps fighting, it feels like something important.
Now. Outside of my man Tommyinnit.
Awesamponk. Oh my GOD Awesamponk. So much. They love each other. They hate each other. They need to stay away from each other. They cannot bear to be apart. They've both hurt each other but not equally and that changes things and it's fucked up enough as is but like. okay. The power dynamic as we see it as viewersā Sam abused his power over Ponk and hurt them really badly. And even now, it's hard not to look from The Warden to Ponk, who isn't bad at pvp or anything, but the way they live is not dedicated to being wrapped in a sword and shield. Sam is the threat, Ponk is threatened. That's how we see it, (or at least it feels like something worth fearing) that imbalance of power, but in canon, Ponk knows that they are better than Sam. They're in the right, and they're too merciful. That's not physical power, but for Ponk that's power enough. And Sam keeps trying to get underneath their boot. He wants them to hurt him. He thinks by playing that role, he can get them back on even ground, like by laying his life before Ponk somehow counts as giving them their power back, when that doesn't change that Sam could still hurt them as well as he did before. It's the strangest dance they have, Sam trailing after them like he's just in the dog house and not the man responsible for mutilating them, and Ponk treating him like someone who can be scolded into redemption. And still flirting and being close to one another in between all that. It feels like a dance, okay? But one they never planned together, and somehow they keep on stepping in time, even if they're both treading lightly because they don't know what move they're supposed to make, but neither of them stop, because they both still remember a time where they knew where each step would lead.
