Static | Sequel to Fine Line Dan x Reader

Hewwo.

Enjoy~

(Y/n)'s POV

I ran my finger in slow circles around the rim of my coffee, staring at the wall behind AJ. Meg's feet rested in my lap while she wrote. AJ was busy drawing and I had nothing to do. Inspiration was at a low, and Adam had gotten called into work again. My eyelids rested heavily as I rested my chin in the sweaty palm of my hand.

I let out a solitary breath through my nose but neither of them looked up. I picked up my pencil again and set it on the paper, waiting for my hand to move. I started writing about Pathos, appeal to emotion. This was one of the key 3 elements of persuasion, but I use Pathos quite a lot for story lines. You have to make people fall for the character or plot.

Besides. The movie had to have a love interest didn't it?

Generally people tend to think that they take their time and skilled minds to make decisions in the moment and that it was fully correct and the right decision for that situation. Of course that's what people think. It's definitely not what actually happens. Most of the time people make snap decisions based off the emotion within in the moment and when they have the chance to reflect later, you'd think they'd realize flaws in what they've done and if they ever ran into the problem again they could use those flaws to make the experience better.

Wrong.

Most of us reflect and try to justify why we acted that way. Give reason why to make it the right decision because we can't change the past. Humans just love to bargain with other people and especially ourselves. In order to make the content to audience connection strong, I had to make my character play off their emotions, just like everyone else.

Of course I wouldn't have to make them impulsive, but just connected to themselves. People always tend to focus on connections between people, whether it be bad or good, but a lot of the time we don't see the connection within a person.

So what kind of person is she?

Is she truly connected with herself and the way she uses her emotions are beneficial? Her fight or flight response is strong.

Is she disconnected and she runs into trouble physically and mentally? She doesn't know when to run.

I scribbled along my paper, writing each little thought down messily so that my train of thought wouldn't be interrupted. I paused when I looked at the half page I had just managed to produce.

So if I wanted a character to relate to, she needed to be disconnected. That was her relation to the horror aspect would he strong as well. She'd act and not think, only relying on her emotions and gut feelings which she hasn't done before.

She's always been too careful so now she had to throw all that away when the problem arises. She meets a young man, with all the new found emotions and lifestyle changes. Of course she'll get in the habit of acting according to her feelings and this will be hard with the handsome guy near. And later on once she realizes what she has done, she'll convince herself that what she did was fine, that it didn't mean anything.

That's just what humans do.

I placed the period down on the page and set my pencil down. I glanced over and Meg was staring at me. I assume it was from the drastic change from inspiration block to furiously scribbling down my thoughts.

"What the fuck?" She asked, picking up the notebook and reading over the messy notes. She read through and glanced back up at me. "Do you just pull this stuff out of your head just on a whim?"