Oi, punks. The word is pirates, the word is little boys playing pirates in the story. I need to write the scene and think about who Alexei is as a character - child of Russian immigrant parents, fluent in English but some sort of Old World Charisma might be appropriate. How he feels about June. It can be a lot of fun to work through characters and scenes, and I think the thing with Tedford is that I need another character to bounce him off of, other than June and his mother. Or June's mother. Another male character. His father's gone off for some reason, he's not in the picture, and I think I know why but I want to keep that subtext because otherwise it'll get too much into the male/female dynamic of his parents affecting how he views June; I want it to be an independent issue.
June develops as a character. I find her fascinating because she strikes me a bit as this eight-year-old Shakespearean heroine, tragically in love. But this is a comedy, so it won't end with her death. I don't know. Maybe she and Tedford are forced into some kind of a nine-year-old pseudo-marriage, him trapped with her forever. Which makes me sad. I seem to be relating to my characters more this year and want them to achieve some kind of happiness, even as the more vicious and destructive side of my personality drives me to destroy all their peace and hope. Must my every narrative be an unstoppable engine of destruction? Don't these people have emotions I should be aware of?