Dramatic Inevitability

Joanna Mornim

I mentioned to Dawn tonight that while Angelique has been noisy in my head, Jake, oddly, has been quiet. Weird, because usually, once I start thinking Changeling, she NEVER shuts up.

Then while I was driving home from 7th Sea tonight, I was listening to the highlights from Rent in the car. The finale (a shortened version) came up, and it all came clear to me. That song is her right now. Lots of questioning and a little doubt, but ultimately, accepting. The fact that a finale is turning out to be her theme song is not lost on me. Jake has finally and for truly passed out of the realms of PC-dom. All the story she had left to work out has been resolved, and she's finally back in the background.

See, most of my really good NPCs have a certain element of PC-ness to them. (That, or the PCs fall in love with them--or like in Laren's case, they love to hate them.) Maybe it's just a case of them having their own agendas and feelings and whatever. I'm in touch with them in a way that some of my more "placeholder-ish" NPCs lack. Not so much with Jake now. I know what she's up to, I know what's going on, but I'm more removed from her than I ever have been.

Fortunately, her daughter's stepping up and taking her mother's place. Unfortunately, she's FIVE. *sigh*