Go, go subconscious! Whoo! (marriage!verse musings)

I don't know exactly how other people go about building worlds and creating characters. I got my way that works for me so far and that's fine. But occasionally a character will develop a trait while I'm playing around with the story in my head and I won't know what's up for the longest while. I might like the trait and thus it sticks around but for the life of me I can't figure out how it came about or why, and the seeming development discontinuity will keep eating at me like a swarm of ants on a dead crow's carcass.

And then, out of nowhere, along comes the subconscious and flips the switch. The trait is explained. There is a reason, one that was likely there all along. The back of my mind put it together long before I did and tweaked the imaginings to suit. In the marriage!verse it happened with Ocean years ago in a round that left me reeling. This morning, after a long period of wondering what the hell was up with that personality, grown-up Ella began to make sense again.

That's one big happy jump for joy that those traits that are so finicky to nail just right didn't come out of nowhere. If they had it's that much more likely they'd look tacked on for Mary-Sue Sparkly-poo effect. That's also one sheepish grin in the mirror that I'm dim enough to be outsmarted by my own brain.

So, I owe you all a Tokyo Rundown, perhaps? It was awesome! I took pics like crazy. Real crazy. Full story at eleven. =3