I got pretty far writing this character as what I thought of as vague and ambiguous, before I realized the arc is pretty obviously between symbolic and brutally-literal self-destruction. Hmm.
I guess that obsessively stalking the woods at night to stop your own problems by killing a malevolent faerie that you perceive as an external threat, while someone who wants to be intimate with you perceives it as a weird idealization, isn't very oblique.
mental health, writing Afficher plus
@kel It's partially based on my high school years, so not fantastically.