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I'll keep that in mind. I might alter a few, but for the most part, I do not intend to remove anything from any bios, only to add, because working around things that other people put there is actually where over half my inspiration as a writer comes from. So actually, the more characters you build the more I have to work with. BTW, that also goes for half-finished posts. If you ever feel like partially writing up a segment of the story and then throwing it to me unfinished, that actually would help me to work quite a bit as well. So, feel free to pull something like that if you have a part of the story you really want to start up but don't know exactly where to go or how it will finish. (As I said, I actually rarely have a plan for a finish in mind when I write something, which has actually been proving to be a bit of a challenge as I am now attempting to converge some story segments and still hit all the key points that will be brought up again for the revisiting event.) [[User:Jemini|Jemini]] ([[User talk:Jemini|talk]]) 02:16, 1 October 2017 (CEST) | I'll keep that in mind. I might alter a few, but for the most part, I do not intend to remove anything from any bios, only to add, because working around things that other people put there is actually where over half my inspiration as a writer comes from. So actually, the more characters you build the more I have to work with. BTW, that also goes for half-finished posts. If you ever feel like partially writing up a segment of the story and then throwing it to me unfinished, that actually would help me to work quite a bit as well. So, feel free to pull something like that if you have a part of the story you really want to start up but don't know exactly where to go or how it will finish. (As I said, I actually rarely have a plan for a finish in mind when I write something, which has actually been proving to be a bit of a challenge as I am now attempting to converge some story segments and still hit all the key points that will be brought up again for the revisiting event.) [[User:Jemini|Jemini]] ([[User talk:Jemini|talk]]) 02:16, 1 October 2017 (CEST) | ||
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You know? Something occurred to me today. It talks about in the introduction how it is this town's custom to deal with rape by having the victim marry the rapist, and there are also several refferences to this dynamic occurring between much older males and young girls, the 7th grade teacher's bio even indicating it has happened with girls around age 11 or 12. However, there do not seem to be any families here with that dynamic going on. The closest thing to it is the case of the Lefort family, or the newly fleshed-out Loso family if you want to go the consensual route on it. Both of those have the girl being 15 or older at the time though, not as young as 11 like Tamaya Walton's husband Alwyn when she first got together with him. [[User:Jemini|Jemini]] ([[User talk:Jemini|talk]]) 04:43, 7 October 2017 (CEST) | |||
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It occurs to me that if a town of this sort has a brothel, and the way the prostitutes wind up working at the brothel is getting pregnant before they are married, there has GOT to be at least a few children in the school who are the children of prostitutes. Jemini (talk) 10:33, 19 September 2017 (CEST)
Fewer than you would imagine. The brothel exists and has working women there, those prostitutes know their job and take contraception. Threatening girls with a life in the brothel is just another way the town has to scare and control children. In reality most girls that turn up pregnant before marriage are either forced to get married or shipped out of town to avoid losing face. I'm sure there are some children of prostitutes in school, but probably only in very low grades, as their mothers wouldn't want them to suffer bullying over their jobs, and they actually have enough money to take them elsewhere.
An exception to this could be the Style family. I put in "Single Mother" just because I was too tired to look up a good name for a husband, but it could be that Janne is a prostitute that decided to keep her children in town. It would also tie nicely with why Beatriz hired her oldest daughter as a babysitter.
On a related note, I was discussing with Notsooldpervert the size of the school, since he was looking for images for the rest of the characters and noted that the high school classrooms had a single teacher for all subjects. I explained that indeed the school is quite small, and getting smaller. That's why they had to mix kindergarten and first grade, as well as high school juniors and seniors. For years the town has been suffering from brain drain, as there are not many opportunities for young people to work. --Tod Naturlich (talk) 17:40, 19 September 2017 (CEST)
Especially since young couples who get pregnant wind up dropping out of school. It makes sense for such a repressive society to crack down on sex ed, make it more simplified so "not to give children ideas" as opposed to actually educating them. It could also be that the children of prostitutes are shunned and not allowed in the school. --Notsooldpervert (talk) 20:01, 19 September 2017 (CEST)
Ok, I've created characters for all the images I had. I'll ask Notsooldpervert if he can find any more images for the already done characters. For now I don't think I can create any more on my own. --Tod Naturlich (talk) 19:02, 26 September 2017 (CEST)
My computer broke. For the time being i only have a phone. --Notsooldpervert (talk) 03:27, 30 September 2017 (CEST)
Sorry to hear that, I hope you manage to get it working again soon. I've been trying to find images for some of the characters, but I'm pretty bad at it, it takes me too long to find an adequate image. --Tod Naturlich (talk) 03:54, 30 September 2017 (CEST)
On that note, the images Tod pulled up for Tihana's parents are not exactly what I was envisioning when I wrote them up. I had wanted the dad to basically be athletic, not ripped, and the mother somethg of a farm-girl build. Muscular, exept with a bit of flab on her rounding her off. The current images work as place-holders though, and I'm probably even worse at image search than he is. I'm just putting this here for whenever Notsooldpervert gets his computer fixed. Jemini (talk) 23:51, 30 September 2017 (CEST)
I'm trying to fill in on the character we already have, to flesh them out a little so they can be easier to use in the story. Most of the things I write are just the first thing that comes to my mind and not set in stone, so if anyone wants to change the personality or backstory of any characters, feel free to do so, as long as it's consistent with any use that character has in the story. This also applies to any and all images. If you find any image that fits a character better than the ones I put, feel free to replace them (I'm very bad at finding images, so I will appreciate that, really). --Tod Naturlich (talk) 01:42, 1 October 2017 (CEST)
I'll keep that in mind. I might alter a few, but for the most part, I do not intend to remove anything from any bios, only to add, because working around things that other people put there is actually where over half my inspiration as a writer comes from. So actually, the more characters you build the more I have to work with. BTW, that also goes for half-finished posts. If you ever feel like partially writing up a segment of the story and then throwing it to me unfinished, that actually would help me to work quite a bit as well. So, feel free to pull something like that if you have a part of the story you really want to start up but don't know exactly where to go or how it will finish. (As I said, I actually rarely have a plan for a finish in mind when I write something, which has actually been proving to be a bit of a challenge as I am now attempting to converge some story segments and still hit all the key points that will be brought up again for the revisiting event.) Jemini (talk) 02:16, 1 October 2017 (CEST)
You know? Something occurred to me today. It talks about in the introduction how it is this town's custom to deal with rape by having the victim marry the rapist, and there are also several refferences to this dynamic occurring between much older males and young girls, the 7th grade teacher's bio even indicating it has happened with girls around age 11 or 12. However, there do not seem to be any families here with that dynamic going on. The closest thing to it is the case of the Lefort family, or the newly fleshed-out Loso family if you want to go the consensual route on it. Both of those have the girl being 15 or older at the time though, not as young as 11 like Tamaya Walton's husband Alwyn when she first got together with him. Jemini (talk) 04:43, 7 October 2017 (CEST)