I changed my layout! It's so...bright...and happy now.
It also doesn't go so well with a few colors I used as story titles. I'm too lazy to change them, but I'll have to remember in the future to choose darker colors, not powder blue against yellow.

70 / 75 words. 93% done!

So um... I think I might be heading into sort of a problem.
Everything's been smoothly recently.....because it's all leading up to something I know how to master- them meeting in person. Chapter 13, which I'm working on right now, is going to be that meeting. You'd think it'd be thrilling, but I realized that my writing for it has been an unfeeling attempt at Lily's exhileration. I don't actually have it myself. Something that has helped me in the past has been trying to surround myself with my character's environement, and acting it out. If I could actually run away in order to feel that way... well, I would do it. But it's just hard to make the feeling come out in a certain combination of words when you're just not really there, ya know? I'm thinking of these things and still just be sitting here in my room with my laptop, ya know?

Anyway, that actually wasn't the problem. The problem is that after this happens, I'm not sure what kind of events will follow.

What I know so far are these things,
which might even be spoilers, but oh well:

1. The Phantom; his player, I mean, is not totally ok in the head. Nothing caused by a gary-stu past, just because...because that's how he is.

2. There are natural things about him, about how he thinks, what he writes, and what he does, caused by these thoughts, that Lily would be disturbed by. (For example; he was the one in the bathroom with the scissors, trying to cut up his face; he has very violent writing, which he's at first afraid to share; he tends to imagine himself assaulting people he doesn't like; he's too obsessive about Lily and her being better than everyone else.)

3. Despite having these traits, and KNOWING that they would bother Lily, he feels that she will just have to know them in order to be with him. Or else he feels falsely loved. (But not love, because neither are in love yet, but go with me here. Together; a roleplay couple; whatever.)

4. She'll have to find out these things one by one, and gradually. But after all the talking and becomming close, and because of how nice he is to her and her alone, she just can't let him go because sometimes he's...ya know, weird. Because he's still nice.

5. Of course, he slowly becomes more and more possessive of her. He's managed to get her in this roleplay, and is plenty aware of Meg and Madame Giry, and everyone who wants him to come out and talk to them...explain /why/ he's got such a thing for their friend. These two annoy him. Lily knows they do, and knows that it's kind of irrational, but doesn't know what to do, so she shrugs her shoulders.

I take it, now that I've listed those things, that I'll just have to establish them with conversations, and one event I DO know: him taking her to his "lair".

Kay, but what the fuck else are they supposed to do. I can't just have them chat it up, lounging in some seats on the balcony. They still need to be active in why they're together in the first place: the ROLEPLAYING GAME.

Suggestions welcome. If not...I guess either way, I need to ask around. My brain isn't smart enough to put this all together. I need a few more.