Yes, I've read the sequel already and it's really good as well, though a little bit more... dark? I recognized your writing style and it seems that I've read some of your works earlier, I think it's your specific way of describing Obi's POV, that it always seems so pesimistic and sad to me. Don't get me wrong, it's interesting to read it and I'm not trying to tell you how to write your own story. I'm just curious if it's really how you decided to always show world through Obi's eyes or maybe that's just my luck with choosing those particular fics?
Yes! I do typically make Obi's darker, or have a little bit more of an edge, but it also sometimes depends on at what point in the story I'm at. I write early Obi, like pre-second Lyrias arc Obi, as having a lot of worthiness issues. He sees what he thinks of as the "pragmatist's view," where he's constantly waiting for the other shoe to drop, seeing shadows in the sunshine. He's waiting to be asked to leave, and falling stupidly in love with a girl he's absolutely sure he'll never get. And when it's VERY early Obi, like just joined up with the team, sort of pre-Kihal Obi...his POV is even sharper because, well, he WAS an assassin like...yesterday. You got a lot of trust issues when you live like that XD
But LATER Obi I tend to write differently, especially since Shirayuki's "welcome back" and also their "i'm home/welcome back", because he's more confident in himself. If you notice, in Wistal he has all these nicknames (Miss, Master, Miss Kiki, Sir, etc) and honorifics to separate himself from people, to hold them back, but in Lyrias he calls pretty much everyone by their name. He has a deeper sense of belonging, and though he still keeps some of that sharp humor, his POVs are lighter overall from that point forward, and even moreso from the tadaima/okaeri moment, since he now knows that like...even if his romantic love isn't returned, he is HOME to Shirayuki. He is IMPORTANT. She doesn't think of him as a servant or even a casual friend, he's where she BELONGS. And in a lot of the more long-form fics I like to play with that in his POV, where he goes from someone with a chip on his shoulder, always ready to flinch back from a hit and always ready to hit the road to being like...the sort of person who is confident in his place.
So basically: yes, I write Obi's POV as much sharper and darker than Shirayuki's, because I think that's who HE is as a person, but there's also like...a big spectrum in there of how dark it is based on chronology!
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