Bronte-Marie Wesson

And then they don't see each other for most of the book.

I'm sorry.

I think that kind of strengthens how it's not going to be like a romance fantasy in the long run, though I will say that they remain each other's driving motivation at multiple points.

It's kind of important that they spend time away from each other because they're also not developed enough as people to have like a common sense conversation half the time.

They're idiots.

I love them to bits, but they're babies in book one and they're thrown in the deep end with essentially no life support.

Yeah, and they've got to go out and learn the hard graft way who they are and what their purpose is.

And Luminara was cool.

So you take that really close mother-daughter relationship and then you take the mother away.

Yeah.

She's grieving.

Yeah.

She's just kind of adrift, like even then.

And she's selfish and vain.

Like she thinks she's beautiful, profoundly beautiful, because I got really sick of humble female characters.

Bless their hearts.

I just wanted one to be like, yes, I am the hottest thing in this room.

And then you have Rian Thrawn who has not had a proper parental figure whatsoever except for a gay man who he had a crush on who then realized he had a crush on him and was kind of horrified because, wow, that's a child.

I knew where they had to end up being and I knew fundamental points in this.

Like I've had it all planned out pretty well for a very long time.