It would kinda suck to stop aging before you hit puberty. Even if you did get effective immortality. I imagine that Samantha’s situation is a product of unavoidable circumstance (disease or fatal injury forcing her family to perform an act that gives her life, but freezes her development). She should take a note from Azgrut and try to find something palatable about her existence; hopeless pessimism doesn’t help ANYTHING.
I’m going to guess that this is a relatively new development for her, as usually a person stuck in a situation they can’t cope with for too long, won’t. She would have suffered a psychotic break or found a way to off herself. Unless she really IS immortal, so that she can’t be killed by ANYTHING. In which case, ouch, that sucks.
Man, I was originally going to say something about Azgrut, but now I can’t even remember what it was. I hope you don’t mind this type of comment, degulus. One that speculates randomly about one of the characters and then makes comments on the assumptions. I’m just trying to figure things out, and no harm or annoyance is intended, but I could see how things like this could create a false impression for readers who see it and assume I’m right.
I love seeing people dig deep into exactly the chain of things I was hoping to imply. You’re on the right track with alot of this. Some parts closer than others, but I won’t let you know where the divergence is, that’s where the fun is. What’s speculation if I came in and said what’s what?
What I will stop to remind is of Samantha’s scene where she is impaled by Bael. She doesn’t feel pain, and without fighting back she was pretty confident that he couldn’t kill her. She’s very very very resilient. I’m not saying she’s had a suicidal phase, but if that were a thing, it wouldn’t have ended well.
It would kinda suck to stop aging before you hit puberty. Even if you did get effective immortality. I imagine that Samantha’s situation is a product of unavoidable circumstance (disease or fatal injury forcing her family to perform an act that gives her life, but freezes her development). She should take a note from Azgrut and try to find something palatable about her existence; hopeless pessimism doesn’t help ANYTHING.
I’m going to guess that this is a relatively new development for her, as usually a person stuck in a situation they can’t cope with for too long, won’t. She would have suffered a psychotic break or found a way to off herself. Unless she really IS immortal, so that she can’t be killed by ANYTHING. In which case, ouch, that sucks.
Man, I was originally going to say something about Azgrut, but now I can’t even remember what it was. I hope you don’t mind this type of comment, degulus. One that speculates randomly about one of the characters and then makes comments on the assumptions. I’m just trying to figure things out, and no harm or annoyance is intended, but I could see how things like this could create a false impression for readers who see it and assume I’m right.
I love seeing people dig deep into exactly the chain of things I was hoping to imply. You’re on the right track with alot of this. Some parts closer than others, but I won’t let you know where the divergence is, that’s where the fun is. What’s speculation if I came in and said what’s what?
What I will stop to remind is of Samantha’s scene where she is impaled by Bael. She doesn’t feel pain, and without fighting back she was pretty confident that he couldn’t kill her. She’s very very very resilient. I’m not saying she’s had a suicidal phase, but if that were a thing, it wouldn’t have ended well.
I like your characters.