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

Re: Some random questions

[daniel_h]

Ah, I guess that makes sense about your power. I was thinking it might be along the lines of you trying a whole bunch of new powers when you turned, and you not getting around to trying to extend your own until it had already started to set. What sort of variance is there in extensibily of powers when they’re new, and in how much they settle over time?

Re: Some random questions

[taste_tester]

Lots. Some people have almost no wiggle room, from day one. (I sometimes turn potential witches whose talents as humans are non-magical myself, so I know this.) Some people like Elspeth are extensibility prodigies. How fast they settle also vary - it seems to matter how often you use it (more is better), and how you feel about its associated personality trait (the broader the principle and the more central to the personality, the better), but obviously that isn't the only factor.