#same with emma

I just really love writing that acknowledges the complexity of not only the protagonist but the ppl around them too. idk how to word this but like.. i think its very easy to write ppl off as cartoon villains but 90% of the time the reality of the world and the people around you is not that. it would be so easy to paint morgans classmates as stereotypical bullies or whatever. but like instead the scene is written so believably. the girl morgan was negging isnt pushing her away, the others there arent cruel, simply making tone deaf comments in front of her and the adult in the situation is a bit cold but is obviously more concerned about the bleeding out student than anything else at the moment. I like it because we know morgan and we know how she is and we know what this meant to her so its easy to see how from her perspective this is one of the most humiliating and traumatic moments in her life but for a lot of the other ppl in this scene (minus obviously who me and my friend affectionately call "the hamster") its like. a weird day at school at most.

idk. people are clumsy. i dont think anyone there was trying to antagonize morgan but in the end it doesnt matter. i find it so easy to put myself in morgans shoes and think "if this happened to me i would be on the news THAT NIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" and i love that. also easy to put myslef in anyone elses shoes in that scene and think. i mean yea. idk what i would have done differently. we've all said the wrong thing, or something impolite. we've all misread the feelings of someone else. it just happens.

It can be hard to feel deeply hurt and wounded by a social interaction and walk away knowing that the other people in it... didnt really do anything wrong. there is no one to blame (so often the blame ends up going inwards). sometimes the ppl around u are not monsters or villains but you are still left isolated and lonely. How do you reconcile that? <--- when writers ask and answer this question i eat it up!!!!!!!!!!!!