Episode #208: How We Got Here From There {3rd}

Sadly, the Michelin Man's younger brother Frosty disappeared before the Christmas season ended. No puddles to be found, but perhaps he was taken away by the wind, for he was lighter than air.

Part the 1st can be found here, while part the 2nd can be not lost here.

And I apologize for the length of this upcoming post, as I got a little carried away with this particular part of my creative process.

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I have a lot of different relationships at play in my current project and each has their own separate complexities that are involved.

Let's start with siblings. I did start out with three sets of siblings, but somehow along the way, one set of siblings, sisters, got changed to cousins. Of the two remaining, one pair are sisters, with the other being brother and sister, and each has their own unique set of characteristics.

The brother and sister pair are sentient beings with a host (as I mentioned in the story, this is what happens when you make decisions while being highly intoxicated). They have that special connection that siblings often have, and they are analytical as well. And like their host, are one hundred percent hetero.

For the other set of siblings, while on the surface it seems to be very straight forward as it applies to that special sibling connection, everything else is heavily implied. While one of the sisters is hetero, she is very understanding and accepting of her sister, who is not. This is very heavily implied early on, based on the emotions and physicality that the sister shows to her artist friend until at one point it comes plainly stated by virtue of the actions performed by her sister.

As for the cousins, I haven't written them in a way that implies one way or the other. This is directly due to them not really becoming a force of any kind until very late in book #3 of the series. Presently I have them acting like bff's who have to depend on each other in order to live their lives to the best of their ability.

Moving on to three of the six remaining female MCs. These three have hair spirit/sentient beings, which each having a specially unique relationship with their host. Let's start with the character with the least amount of baggage with her hair spirit: she goes by the name Melissa, while her hair spirit goes by the name Emilia.

Emilia came to Melissa via judicial decree and has a week in which to convince Melissa to accept her wholeheartedly. Emilia is very much a newbie with her interactions with Melissa and is also very much an orphan, as per her background. So subsequent interactions with Melissa are more on the level of mentor to student than anything else.

Macha the Pod Queen is a complex case. Even though she's the actual catalyst for this entire series, she is quite the multi-faceted individual, with conflicting morals based on her job duties and privileged upbringing.

Exit ramp #3: Even though it has been determined from the very beginning that she is hetero, her relationship with hair spirit was one that I was able to explore more in depth with some degree of intimacy.

Muscling my way back onto the highway.

Like I stated in an earlier blog post, Macha is the latest in a long line of rulers in a strictly matriarchal hierarchy, albeit one that still has men calling some of the shots as members of the ruling class. As I also stated earlier, Macha often has to weaponize her natural attributes to the best of her ability (which is required by law) in order to get what she wants and needs for herself and her people.

Now her hair spirit is a sentient being that goes by the name of Eleanor, and she has quite the special relationship with their host. This is because Eleanor is actually the half-sister to Macha, and she became her hair spirit in a most peculiar and heartbreaking way. 

Early on Eleanor knew that Macha was destined for a life of privilege and power, even if Macha herself did realize it. So in their late teens an incident occurred in which Eleanor was forced to throw herself the proverbial bus in order to protect her half-sister. Eternally grateful, she made her half-sister a permanent part of her life.

So they remained sisters in all aspects of her life, which allowed them a deeper familial intimacy and tolerance that is rarely shown to the outside world. Comforting words and phrases that one would use with a partner. Very intimate gestures with intense displays of affection and tenderness. All of which are hallmarks of a warm sibling relationship, but in her case goes both ways, in that Eleanor has unfettered access to her sister's most personal memories, thus allowing her to return the gesture with a deeper level of familiarity and affection.

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Again, barring any pleasant surprises that might nudge this train to a temporary detour, tune in next week on this same day for part the 4th. Have a Fantastick Monday, a Tony! Toni! Tone'! Tuesday, with an R.J. Reynolds Wednesday, Thundercat Thursday and Felix the Cat Friday following close behind.*

*For those of you who are too young to remember, in successive order we have: a musical play/movie, a music group, a tobacco company, a mid 80's cartoon and a classic cartoon strip/cartoon short.

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