Valentine's Special Two for One Challenge! You can do both challenges if you wish to do so. 1. A character of your choosing, from any team incarnation (Gatchaman, BoTP,ER,etc) gets stood up on Valentine's Day. How did the night unfold? How did the night end? As the old saying goes, it's not who you go to the party with, but who takes you home! 2. Cupid comes to Utoland! Let's hear his thoughts while observing your favorite character(s) on Valentine's Day. Tells us everything! Enquiring minds want to know!

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GGO: LOL, so much good foreshadowing for the show in here along with the romantic gesture gone awry.

Certainly a day of "Why-ne" and Roses!

Originally posted by ElectricWhite Certainly a day of "Why-ne" and Roses!

Why? Why? Why? Whyne indeed! LOL

Originally posted by Redbird

Originally posted by ElectricWhite Certainly a day of "Why-ne" and Roses!

Why? Why? Why? Whyne indeed! LOL

Toddler!Mark is a lot of fun. He just writes himself. He's a precocious little shit with endless curiosity but is pretty well-behaved as a general rule, so he gets away with the occasional bout of mischief. His parents adore him but like most children with above-average intelligence, he's a handful. The story should probably have been written from proto-Cronus' point of view, but I can't find a way into his head. I might get there one day. It took me years to find an angle into Tiny's head. I can deal with Mark's dad as "Mister-Regular-Super-Spy-trying-to-have-a-normal-life" but until I finish figuring out exactly what bad shit went down to turn him into Cronus and map the sequence of events in my own mind, I can't get my head around him. Fleshing him out is a very slow and organic kind of a process. Original characters are easy: you build 'em from the ground up so you kind of know most stuff about them. Canon characters are harder. You have to walk them around the paddock, check their teeth, poke them with a stick a few times to see how they react, that sort of thing. And of course all characters will occasionally throw up the odd surprise during the writing process when they suddenly tap you on the shoulder and say, "Pardon me, but..."

It took me a long time before I attempted writing from Jun's POV. We all have characters that speak to us easier than others!