Raoul and Lancard

I had a lot of fun writing my Raoul/Lancard/boatbuilding scene yesterday (it's so much easier writing character interactions and dialogue than it is writing action actually happening in the plot...) I'm getting very fond of sardonic, meticulous Lancard, and it's odd to think that he was only introduced as a throwaway character to make Raoul's life even more annoying, and that we are rapidly approaching the sole scene for which I decided to allow him to stay alive... the one in which he falls into the water and has to be rescued, thus allowing Raoul to get injured and invalided home ;-p

Ironically, however, I'm starting to wonder how I'm going to get *rid* of him; he has no part in the end of the story and in fact more or less vanishes from the plot from the moment that Christine re-enters it (since he didn't originally exist at all at that point!) ( Read more... )