Talk:Became/@comment-4849011-20160113202859/@comment-26326346-20160114211157

Thanks again for all the help (you're probably getting sick of reading that XD)! I'm glad that you found the story satisfying. It was completely new territory for me to try and make an emotional piece. I have also never written anything that shifted dates as much as this did, so I was nervous about that breaking up the pacing as well.

I tried to be scientifically accurate and did some research on emotions, but from my understanding there is much debate about where emotions actually originate from. Hopefully my pasta is scientifically accurate until the end of time XD

I wanted to make Clyde a sympathetic character and I felt that would be hard to do with a murderer. Originally, Clyde was going to kill around seven people (for really minor things) before he spotted the engagement ring, but I figured that would make the reader(s) lose all sympathy that they might have felt for him. I ended up deciding to not only take out four of the murders, but to make two of them be accidental in a sense, because that'd be kind of tragic. It's not like he wanted to kill them, but if he didn't then he'd go to prison.

Oh, Batman! The killing with the pry bar was actually inspired by the scene in 'A Death in the Family' where the Joker beats Jason Todd (the second Robin) with a crowbar. Originally, I was going to have it be the knife, but then I thought about how overused knives were and started to consider what else Clyde had in his backpack that could be a weapon. I took things a step further and made it to where his knife never killed anyone.

Thanks again, Raidra :D