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Exit ramp #4: I really decided to up the ante and complexity with my other queen, Myla, by applying everything that I was able to wring from my observations of the real world and other various audio and verbal actions.Thugging my way back to the highway.
So with another one of MCs, Myla Ventura (strangely enough she and her husband are the only ones with last names), we decided to infuse her with all kinds of personality traits and character flaws. The main reason she was made a "Queen" is a bit convoluted, but the T.L.;D.R. version is that she's a sister to the Pod Queen. Now while I did create her to be a smokin' hot beauty, she is very much the physically flawed smokin' hot beauty, with serious physical and psychological wounds.
Even though she is married, it's very much a complicated marriage, but while she does her husband wholeheartedly, there's quite the volatility to their marriage (think Walter Mitty except that his daydreams comes to life), as she found out that's not his first wife but his second. Obviously she was angry at first, but after hearing the (almost) complete story as to why, she became more accepting.
As time marches on, to use ye olden cliche, her friendship with wife #1 Adeola, deepens and gradually moves beyond the realm of besties into something possibly more fulfilling on a personal and spiritual level. there's now a higher level of intimacy with her words, her gestures and her feelings. While it's not quite reciprocated by Adeola, due to some legitimate concerns about family, it has moved on to that level of a pseudo-sibling relationship.
Myla does have an inkling that Adeola might care about her in the same way, but is very careful and very discreet about moving their relationship into a deeper co-existence, because she too is very concerned about familial ramifications.
Things do come to a head for her during one of her dream adventures, where she wakes up to find herself au natural, with two others "keeping her company", so to speak. After a bit of discussion with her minders, she surprisingly finds herself on trial for being a bisexual woman. She defends herself very well about the various accusations made, handles the delicate subject about coming out with aplomb, and has the charges ultimately dismissed. She then gradually comes back to the present, none the worse for wear, and continues on her incrementally slow process of exploring the other side of her life with her bestie Adeola and others.
Exit ramp #5: I decided early on to bring in some real world realities while exploring this sensitive topic. Things like one country's laws are not applicable in another country's, or in this case, planet's realm. For example, for the sake of open-mindedness, I made being homosexual completely legal and acceptable on Earth, while on another planet or even within a small private entity on Earth, may state otherwise (I'll elaborate on this point later).Tip-toeing my way back onto the highway.
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Tune in next Monday for part the 5th of our series. I do hope you like Happy Mondays, listened to 'til Tuesday, rocked to Wednesday 13, slammed to Thursday and grooved to Fridayy.*
*every single day of the week is an actual music artist
There's obviously a lot of thought and imagination gone into your plot!
ReplyDeleteThanks! This series by far has been the most complex that I've written and it's been a 100% complete blast to write.
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