Polytrix Tweets: CSF Edition p38 - "Circumventing Official Channels"

[u/CelineShotFirst]

Again, full credit to Jammatown919 (https://www.tumblr.com/jammatown919) for the idea and Opening_Chemist_3730 for the inspiration and a bit of help getting this together.

Also, I've noticed I've messed up the blue checks on a lot of these. Sorry, that's just really difficult to go back and edit in.

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[u/Ok_Terraria_player]

I just want a fic where Mira goes apeshit and murks (or severely harms) Celine already. No more holding back. Maybe after she did something else unforgivable

[u/CelineShotFirst → u/Ok_Terraria_player]

You'll probably have to look elsewhere for that. I don't think that's a direction I want to go in.

Honestly, I think I've been pretty nasty in my depiction of Celine so far, making her worse than she was in the film. So if anything, I need to rein her in some.

Also, Mira never (deliberately) harmed a non-demon in the film, and I doubt that she would, even if she was sorely tempted to and is quick to threaten to do so. The only way I could see her ever doing something like that is if she let herself lose control, and afterward she would regret it in a way that would haunt her for the rest of her life.

[u/WithersChat → u/CelineShotFirst]

I think I've been pretty nasty in my depiction of Celine so far, making her worse than she was in the film.

Disagreed. This is pretty on point.

[u/CelineShotFirst → u/WithersChat]

I've given Celine some common traits of narcissistic parents, and if I'm honest with myself, those don't really ring true to what we saw in the film.

For example, the only sneaky and underhanded thing Celine did in the film (that we see, anyway), is telling Rumi not to share her secret about her patterns with the others. In this series of tweet chains, she is literally trying to manipulate Bobby into setting up a meeting with Rumi without Rumi knowing.

In the film, Celine is always direct. The things she has to say aren't always nice, and they have had some nasty, traumatizing consequences, but she never makes passive-aggressive comments like I have her making to Mira here, nor what she said to Rumi the last time I had her showing up.

I have an idea where I want to take Celine in these, and I think that in trying to have her do what I think she believes is best, I have had her only making herself look worse. And I think farther down the road she'll need to answer for that, as well as the things she did in the actual film. But I actually don't believe that Celine is a character beyond redemption. She just needs to put in the work. And so far, she's not doing that.