Hi, I just wanted to drop you a line and tell you how much I'm enjoying Melusine and Virtu. My love for Felix and Mildmay knows no bounds, I swear. It's so great to have main characters in a book that are neither flawless , nor even really great people. I love Felix's hatefulness and sharp tongue. I love how he came out of his ordeals damaged. Yet manages to muddle through in his awkward, stilted way.
I Love Mildmay, from his name, to his voice which rings so clear in my head that I can almost see him in my mind's eye. He's slouching on a filthy barstool, telling the story himself with wild hand gestures and and his face shifts from emotion to emotion like ripples in a pond. In my head his voice is thick and whiskey sweet amd his accent is at once comforting and jarring. I love his shamelessness in contrast with Felix's shame and pretension. Mildmay is what he is, and you can like it or no, it's generally all the same to him. He makes no appologies for what and who he is. He is not sorry.
It's familiar, to me. Being looked at as common, I'm from a rural area, a poor area, myself. My voice is low and my tongue is lazy around my words. To hear me speak you wouldn't suspect I had a brain between my ears. I'm uneducated, I never graduated highschool, but I'm neither ignorent nor stupid. Your writing facinates me, and your characters make me love them. It makes me sad that they are not real, that I will never get to listen to Mildmay speak, or see Felix bluster and snarl. In my secret heart, (I've only read Melusine thus far, and your previews of Virtu) I hope that Mildmay and Felix end up with one another. Really, I think they're the only ones that they could possibly tolerate.
Anyway, I'll try not to pester you too much, I just wanted to tell you how much I enjoy your writing, and tell you how much the characters you write for mean to me.
LOl. Meaningful replies are not necessary. I'll settle for any replay at all. I did ant to ask you something...and it's sortof a dumb question, but I'm wondering if what my braid says is right. Did you base Mildmay's accent on lowr class britich, or something else? I jjust finnished Virtu and the Y'all threw me. That's southern, Heck, *I* say that...so I started to wonder.
As it happens, Mildmay's accent and speech patterns are based on those of the kids I went to school with in Oak Ridge. (Eastern Tennessee.) Stylized, of course, but, yes, you should be hearing him as mid-South lower-class white, although I am reliably informed that lower-class Dublin also works nicely.
Ironically, he actually did start out with a Cockney accent, dropped h's and all, because it's secondary world fantasy. Of COURSE everybody is Sekritly British. But I discovered that I can't "hear" Cockney dialect well enough to write it for page after page after page, whereas the kids I went to high school with . . . yeah.
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I Love Mildmay, from his name, to his voice which rings so clear in my head that I can almost see him in my mind's eye. He's slouching on a filthy barstool, telling the story himself with wild hand gestures and and his face shifts from emotion to emotion like ripples in a pond. In my head his voice is thick and whiskey sweet amd his accent is at once comforting and jarring. I love his shamelessness in contrast with Felix's shame and pretension. Mildmay is what he is, and you can like it or no, it's generally all the same to him. He makes no appologies for what and who he is. He is not sorry.
It's familiar, to me. Being looked at as common, I'm from a rural area, a poor area, myself. My voice is low and my tongue is lazy around my words. To hear me speak you wouldn't suspect I had a brain between my ears. I'm uneducated, I never graduated highschool, but I'm neither ignorent nor stupid. Your writing facinates me, and your characters make me love them. It makes me sad that they are not real, that I will never get to listen to Mildmay speak, or see Felix bluster and snarl. In my secret heart, (I've only read Melusine thus far, and your previews of Virtu) I hope that Mildmay and Felix end up with one another. Really, I think they're the only ones that they could possibly tolerate.
Anyway, I'll try not to pester you too much, I just wanted to tell you how much I enjoy your writing, and tell you how much the characters you write for mean to me.
Much love,
Latisha.
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(I kept hoping I'd think of some really meaningful reply, but I'm admitting that's not going to happen.)
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Ironically, he actually did start out with a Cockney accent, dropped h's and all, because it's secondary world fantasy. Of COURSE everybody is Sekritly British. But I discovered that I can't "hear" Cockney dialect well enough to write it for page after page after page, whereas the kids I went to high school with . . . yeah.