your characters have the ability to shift from consistently smile-worthy humor to punch-in-the-heart pain with as little as a line of dialogue or a shift of expression between panels:
You're sweet, thank you. Humour's a tricky business, as I have to trust myself that I can count on its effects as I move forward, yet humour can be so subjective. But I find pain and humour flow pretty naturally together--most people I know, myself included, when they talk about something painful tend to interject humour in order to ease self-examinations. I've used humour as a defence mechanism when I was kid, and I apply it sometimes as an anaesthetic when I need to have a discussion with someone about something sensitive.
4. You set me up with a prince.
What could I do? He threatened to quit if he couldn't have you.
5. Tadhg Conneelly, from The Secret of Roan Inish (1994).
And now I need to see that.
6. Where does your name come from?
It used to be the name of a character in Boschen and Nesuko's universe, but I liked it so I stole it, and now his name's Seluchen, which may actually be a slightly less silly name than Setsuled, but I chose Setsuled because it's slightly silly. I came up with the character in high school, freshman or sophomore year. Like many of my alien names, I started by spelling an English word backwards, in this case "delete", and then adding whatever letters I felt like.
7. I'm inexplicably fond of the one with Donald Duck about to be grabbed around the throat by a book.
Heh. Since you're a writer, I'm not sure it's so inexplicable. It comes from the 1945 short "Duck Pimples".
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And now I need to hear that song . . .
your characters have the ability to shift from consistently smile-worthy humor to punch-in-the-heart pain with as little as a line of dialogue or a shift of expression between panels:
You're sweet, thank you. Humour's a tricky business, as I have to trust myself that I can count on its effects as I move forward, yet humour can be so subjective. But I find pain and humour flow pretty naturally together--most people I know, myself included, when they talk about something painful tend to interject humour in order to ease self-examinations. I've used humour as a defence mechanism when I was kid, and I apply it sometimes as an anaesthetic when I need to have a discussion with someone about something sensitive.
4. You set me up with a prince.
What could I do? He threatened to quit if he couldn't have you.
5. Tadhg Conneelly, from The Secret of Roan Inish (1994).
And now I need to see that.
6. Where does your name come from?
It used to be the name of a character in Boschen and Nesuko's universe, but I liked it so I stole it, and now his name's Seluchen, which may actually be a slightly less silly name than Setsuled, but I chose Setsuled because it's slightly silly. I came up with the character in high school, freshman or sophomore year. Like many of my alien names, I started by spelling an English word backwards, in this case "delete", and then adding whatever letters I felt like.
7. I'm inexplicably fond of the one with Donald Duck about to be grabbed around the throat by a book.
Heh. Since you're a writer, I'm not sure it's so inexplicable. It comes from the 1945 short "Duck Pimples".