who will know her?
Mar. 21st, 2020 11:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marycatelliSetting up the climatic scene and realizing. . .
How many of the heroic company would recognize the villainess? Not the current point of view character, I realized, or this one, or that one -- and then I wondered if anyone except the heroine herself would. It's a large group, almost unwieldy, but the villainess has been operating off-stage during the novel.
Except, I realized, the heroine's half-sister. Yes, the villainess is the heroine's mother, but she's also the half-sister's stepmother.
Hmmm -- not that it's difficult to have the heroine be the one looking in the right direction. Her sister can gasp when she points the other woman out.
How many of the heroic company would recognize the villainess? Not the current point of view character, I realized, or this one, or that one -- and then I wondered if anyone except the heroine herself would. It's a large group, almost unwieldy, but the villainess has been operating off-stage during the novel.
Except, I realized, the heroine's half-sister. Yes, the villainess is the heroine's mother, but she's also the half-sister's stepmother.
Hmmm -- not that it's difficult to have the heroine be the one looking in the right direction. Her sister can gasp when she points the other woman out.