I'm so sorry if this counts as a request, please delete it if it does, but do you have any tips for accurately characterizing Shedletsky and/or Telamon?
✦Fret not, it does not count as a request, I am not the best at giving writing advice as I am by no means a professional nor am I all that much confident on my own skills, however I shall try:
When writing for both, Telamon and Shedletsky, it is important to highlight that while technically they are one in the same, they are both different enough, I mostly convey this through Telamon's habit of speaking in 3rd person, his instense and unsettling stare and his everpresent unnerving smile in contrast to Shedletsky's regular 1st person speech pattern, his avoidance of looking people in the eyes and his warm, inviting and friendly smile.
Telamon's presence overall is scorching hot, commanding and imposing, pressuring even, even when on friendly terms with him, does the fear he command not dissapear. You cannot help but feel as if he is this larger than life being you cannot begin to comprehend.
In contrast Shedletsky's presence is comfortably warm, disarming with safety and friendlyness, relaxing and protecting, even when one has just met him, he makes you feel like a lifetime friend, someone to trust and go to whenever you may need a shoulder to lean on.
Telamon is fight happy, his thirst and hunger aimed at bloodshed.
Shedletsky is content with simple spars, finding far more joy in teaching you the basics of swordfight and later quenching his hunger with a bucket of fried chicken.
Telamon is a God, he knows so and will not falter or hesitate using his power.
Shedletsky, while still capable of most if not all the same as Telamon, almost fears using the full extent of his power, as if doing so would turn him back to who he once was, something he dreads more than he fears 1x1x1x1.
Telamon holds no secrets to himself, he is upfront and shameless for he knows noone would dare oppose him.
Shedletsky hides his past as Telamon and the truth of 1x1x1x1 being his creation, the only ones with knowledge of this being the other Admins. He keeps such secrets both due to fear or judgement and shame, this fear and shame are so paralyzing for him that even though realistically he has nothing against 007n7 and moreover he would be the Survivor he relates to the most, he does not allow himself to be vulnerable amd open up.
Telamon needs not to be comforted.
Shedletsky does not allow himself to be comforted.
✦Hopefully these helped in any way shape or form, at some point it bordered the limits of becoming more of a character analysis, but alas that seems to be the best way I've to explain my thought process when writing for both.
