#LGBTQWriteAThon All the MCs in Fealty Among Bastards wear metaphorical masks.
King Sebastian tries to hide his anxiety (AND he's also hiding his identity as the literal King of Ailovell)
Darin has a mask of stoicism. No one's allowed to see him at his most vulnerable, not even Sebastian. 1/2

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King Sebastian's biggest sources of fear and anxiety are trying desperately to be a good king, fearing his own mortality, and being so isolated that he truly feels all alone.
Darin's anxious about Sebastian's safety and how people see him bc of the scar on his face

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A novel I rarely talk about, Starfire, has some pretty significant skeletons in its closets.

Adesina spends most of her early life hiding something even from herself: the "overactive imagination" she experiences around people is actually her seeing possible futures. In a...

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In BLUDEYE BEACH, secrets tend to be more universal than individual; plenty of characters are hiding significant parts of themselves.

In EYES SHINE SILVER IN MOONLIGHT, the character with the biggest secret is the main villain, Lionel Price...but it's not what you think 😉

Catching up #LGBTQWriteAThon 8 how about a little spin on favorite outfits? Here’s Nykky describing an outfit she likes Danny in, and vice versa:

Hi #LGBTQWriteAThon 9 Skeletons in the Closet? Well, among other things, some of the members of my fictional one-hit-wonder band The Green Which are hiding what happened on their ill-stared 1987 tour... even from each other!

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The only one with secrets of the 2 stories is Xenon! The others are just people like us, trying to pay bills & stay afloat.

Xenon's fight for stability is physical, & a losing one. His violent streak & the severity of the threats he faces are his secret from Krainos.

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In #TFTNG , Acanthus is hiding who their Sire is. Cypress is hiding his past.

In #S3, Rebecca hides her negative emotions and dysfunctional family from most others until she can't.

In #YP, Phoebe hides her true feelings for Aurelia through most of the story.

My mains are generally lovely paragons of high moral standing. Just kidding. There are murders committed by my MMC that the FMC writes off with a shrug. They don't ever talk about it. No one else knows.

A later MC used to be part of the assassin's guild. He has LOTS of secrets
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In #S3, Rebecca's favorite outfit is black jeans, a black tshirt/long sleeve shirt, sometimes a scarf, and then if she's outside/going somewhere, more often than not she'll have her wool trenchcoat. She gets cold easily and it's an instant fashion add.

#LGBTQWriteAThon Oct 9: Rhiann has no skeletons because while she's done some awful things, she's not ashamed of them, so she doesn't bother hiding them. She's much more private about the things in her past that normal people are open about (family, childhood, etc.).

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what happened in the woods when Noah was 13 years old that involved the death of his brother

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When she was seven years old, Khamsin killed her only friend, an enslaved boy, in a fit of anger upon losing a footrace.

This made made her realize her achievements and victories all were lies--others were letting her win out of fear--which made her even furious in the moment.

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Nate is always just pulling whatever he can find on, jeans and a T-shirt, and his jacket. He doesn't really have a favorite.
Eric loves his silk pajamas and his silk robes, but he's most comfortable wearing only his skin.

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Hailey ... is trans! :0

I suppose her biggest secret unfolds as we're reading. That for the rest of her life she has to decide who to tell about Lin J'Roe or not. Also, any magic or power she miiiight have down the line. All while she tries to lead an ordinary life.

BYMMS:
Bell: That would be a spoiler. (: Gotta read to find out.

Key: He's a serial killer. A guy's gotta eat.

Tae: He blames himself for this father's death and fears the judgment of others regarding it. He never speaks of it.

No one in PTS really has any dark secrets.

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My characters never seem to be able to fully lock down their secrets, just not openly talk about them.

Jack- Was groomed and exploited by an older woman as a teen, an issue he has complicated feelings about.
But he does have one episode he refuses to tell even me about...

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I've been writing this book for a decade-and-a-half & it's never occurred to me what this historical person might have *worn.*

I'm not fashion-oriented, to say the least.

I *did* ask: *Might've worn ugly sweaters? Beats me.*

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I hope I'm ready to publish this book.

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Zen: How much it hurts that his parents are absent and that they refuse to let him leave home

Rune: the pain of losing both their parents at a young age

Azraa: the hurt she feels that, over time, she's forgotten the faces of the people she loved and her own name

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