About

Hi there, I’m Pat, an undergraduate student with what you might call an obsession with stories and the characters that inhabit them. The weirder the better. This obsession began when I realized all the silly ideas for video games and books and movies that I’d come up with as a kid were probably never going to be realized in the forms I imagined them. I couldn’t program games or film real movies when I was eleven or twelve, but I could write. So, I started with journals, none of which ever breached more than twenty or so irregularly dated, borderline stream-of-consciousness entries. Once I reached my sophomore year of high school, I fell off that train, and migrated into digital writing via the Google Docs app on my phone, which allowed me to vent some of my old ideas along with a few, more targeted new ones about people and the world via semi-original stories of varying length.

Around the end of my freshman year, an issue plaguing my writing process became apparent to me: as my stories had begun to focus on singular, more in-depth issues, I felt less satisfied with my brainstorming during the writing process because I could not draw from the wealth of ideas I previously had. Due to my innate fascination with characters in stories, I starting focusing on them more as I continued consuming new media, and in my rewatching and rereading of old favorites (notably, I was chewing through Twin Peaks at the time, and revisited Crime and Punishment later). It was this practice of laser-focusing on characters in order to give myself new ideas to incorporate into my own stories that I ended up with a large backlog of ideas about said characters, the seeds of deeper analyses, which are what prompted me to start this blog.

With all these fledgling ideas and nowhere to properly put them (I have an odd problem with consistency if I work on more than one or two stories at once), many of them began incubating, becoming more articulate and I believe, more relatable. I knew I wanted to get them out of mind and into some form, but unlike my earlier ideas, I knew they would not work purely as stories, and at the same time, I thought that if these ideas could be beneficial to even a few people, I should share them in a way that allows me to best articulate them, and because I have no audio-video editing experience, I decided on a blog. I put character analyses here so you and I may be able to get something real out of them, and given the large swathe of media I’ve consumed (from the MCU and Star Wars movies, to novels ranging from The Revenant and Slaughterhouse-Five to No Longer Human and The Stand, to anime of many genres, like Gurren Lagann, Durarara!!, and PSYCHO-PASS), I hope you’ll find my ideas worthwhile. As for what a Truthspeaker or Doomsayer is, check the featured post, “What I do here.” That should give you a primer for what those made-up words are, and why I created them. I hope that we can learn something together here.