#WritingWonders 8/17
MC POV: What's a deal-breaker in a friendship and/or relationship?
According to Morgan Cooper:
I'm not sure I actually have dealbreakers, and that's probably not healthy. My therapist has warned me that my reluctance to discard friends could cost me dearly.For example, Eddie Cohen has a tendency toward casual misogyny. He generally knows better than to air such opinions around me, however, because I won't tolerate it. I keep him around because he's always had my back, and if you need a good sharpshooter he's your man. Just don't ask him what he thinks of monotheists after his third drink. He's got some truly vile opinions formed by wartime experience.
Then there's my girlfriend Christabel. She offers no pretense that her love is anything but conditional, and makes it clear that she only keeps me around because Crowley's Thoth wouldn't be the same without me on guitar, bass, and backing vocals. Then again, she only keeps Naomi around because the band wouldn't be the same without her on lead vocals and keyboards. She doesn't particularly like either of us, and has even gone so far as to tell me that I was nothing but a machine pretending to be a man.
I should have dumped her for that, but she was drunk when she said it, dumping her would have broken up the band, and -- worst of all -- she's right. I just don't see why she has a problem with that, because being human seems to me an exercise in pretending to be more or better than what you really are. I pretend I'm not merely a weapon. You pretend you're not merely a chimpanzee's mostly hairless distant cousin.
Some of this might find its way into my #WIP, Spiral Architect
#amwriting #amwritingscifi #scifi #fantasy #WritingCommunity
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