Talk To Glowfic Characters

[alicornucopia]

So we've started answering comments in "How To Read Effulgence" in character, and that's not really the ideal platform for those conversations. This is! You may address characters here and we may opt to answer in character. You will get a kind of loosely "backstage" out-of-continuity version of the character (in continuity proper, you cannot talk to them, since you aren't there) and if you want them at a specific (past relative to where we're writing) point in time, feel free to specify (e.g. "Addy in 1932", "Shell in her box", "the Joker while committed", "Minus right after he woke up from turning", "the alethiometer on the subject of 1207").

Any glowfic author may use this thread to receive questions.

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Comments

[pina_colada]

Most Bells, no, I don't get colorshapes. Even the ones who are only wish-warded I just get flickers from the ingot half, nothing from the witch side - it's technically two powers but they don't really work very well when one of them is blocked.

I can tell if people intend to keep things secret, and I have plenty of reaction time to, you know, not read those things - reading colorshapes is more voluntary than, say, reading text within my field of vision in a language I know. I also get much less detail for colorshapes that don't have to do with me or my immediate family. Mum is not really an "intending to keep things secret" kind of person, and is a member of my immediate family. I get stuff I'd probably sooner not know from her; that doesn't mean I learn the same things about anyone else. In most situations it's limited to - I can tell if somebody wants a hug, or wants me to proposition them, or for that matter wants to be left alone, and I don't think I'm bothering anybody obeying those colorshapes.