I can't speak for what anyone should do, but I know what I like to do and I like to portray real things, in real ways, through real people. I like to make my characters uncomfortable and embarrassed, through characters who like to be that awkward or really secure person. I mean, in the scene I mentioned above, the mercenary isn't apologizing for anything, but he's being rather blunt and finds it humorous. I mean, just the night before or whatever, this proper young woman practically threw herself on him and while he enjoyed their interlude, he also likes her. One of his favorite parts of her is that he suspects she's rather a fraud in her role as a rich charge. She showed him that when they were in the sack. So it's a bit of fun for him, pressing her snob buttons, and over the course of his short game, he's kinda discovering her real traits.
Now that is certainly a larger theme to this story. But the issue of lice wan't, you know, important. It was simply the vehicle I chose at that moment. I used a few more colorful and entertaining (to me) ones during their first intimate encounter, but for propriety's sake I felt mentioning them here might be a touch inappropriate. (I know, right? Look at the shit I talk about and then ask yourself what I could find inappropriate)
Anyways, This feels like a good place to talk about vehicles (If anyone cares to hear what I'm saying. I don't want to sound know-it-all-ish). In a particular scene, say the one given above, I need to have a goal. I can't merely have the mercenaries and MCs sitting around eating, shooting the breeze about nothing, right? You know what, I'll make this a new thread, because I feel bad enough I hijacked this honest question to talk about all my oddities. Tom, my apologies. I'll begin a new thread. Thanks for opening this very interesting (and strangely satisfying) can of worms.
*trucks down to the thread machine and pops in her quarters. "Let me see...."
Now that is certainly a larger theme to this story. But the issue of lice wan't, you know, important. It was simply the vehicle I chose at that moment. I used a few more colorful and entertaining (to me) ones during their first intimate encounter, but for propriety's sake I felt mentioning them here might be a touch inappropriate. (I know, right? Look at the shit I talk about and then ask yourself what I could find inappropriate)
Anyways, This feels like a good place to talk about vehicles (If anyone cares to hear what I'm saying. I don't want to sound know-it-all-ish). In a particular scene, say the one given above, I need to have a goal. I can't merely have the mercenaries and MCs sitting around eating, shooting the breeze about nothing, right? You know what, I'll make this a new thread, because I feel bad enough I hijacked this honest question to talk about all my oddities. Tom, my apologies. I'll begin a new thread. Thanks for opening this very interesting (and strangely satisfying) can of worms.
*trucks down to the thread machine and pops in her quarters. "Let me see...."