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Published: 2018-05-06 16:06:32 +0000 UTC; Views: 176; Favourites: 11; Downloads: 0
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Idea: what if my dragon-girl character Zachary is a hallucination of Billy Owlett's?? :3I really like this idea. Maybe now Zachary will have a story she belongs in! Though it'd be kinda sad that she wouldn't have a life outside of somebody's mind. Lol, she lives inside of a character's mind inside of my mind. Double brain prison. And she was adopted from somebody else's mind. Poor brain prisoner dragon-girl. ;-;
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: "Mind Games"- Sickick (remix)
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I've already imagined some interactions between Zachary and Billy but only a few ideas from those imaginings feel worth keeping. Like that: although Billy tries his best to ignore his hallucinations, it's hard with Zachary since she's one of the only nice hallucinations he ever has. She's fun to talk to, and she looks cool and kickass with her wings and stuff. And i want to keep the idea that she only shows up outside, but she'll occasionally follow Billy inside. Oh and that Billy first sees her standing on his brother's tower, checking her phone's GPS cause she got lost (as shown in the drawing.) Tell me what you think if you like. ^^
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I always love re-imaginings of fantasy things, in a modern environment. It makes one wonder: how do demons and other flying creatures navigate? Is there guesswork involved, or do they have natural navigation like birds and insects? Do half-breeds retain such traits? Fun questions; and a fun scenario!
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Definitely!
But wondering these things first gets me wondering, how do most people navigate?? Because i am TERRIBLE at directions. xD Even when i try to concentrate, my brain gets so muddled and i just can't remember. So in my mind, any person going from point A to point B is a marvel.
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Haha! I'm a bad benchmark for "most people." XD I spent my childhood in a very rural area, so I travel by landmarks - to the point that I have trouble remembering the names of non-major streets.
I had an amusing incident a few weeks ago, when travelling with my wife to a part of town we had never visited. She was checking her phone for directions; I was checking the horizon. Before she could get the location info from her map, I was like "Oh, there's the Royal Bank building (a reasonably big building in our downtown area). If it's that far away, and we're seeing it at this angle, then home is this way." She looked at me like some alien heathen 
As for your difficulties: you strike me as a very spacially-oriented person. Maybe you should consider looking into orienteering (i.e. using a map and compass or other markers like the sun/moon, following bearings and so on). It's becoming something of a lost science - but one I find very helpful.
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Mm yeah that method of finding your way makes a lot more sense to me. There was one time i walked back from the courthouse to my sister's apartment using only memories of what i'd seen on the way there. It took me a while but i made it back. I can't do what you do though, with seeing the building far off and knowing where you are; sounds like too much math would have to be happening in my head. Visual math-- do you know what i mean? And my brain is terrible at that too. Using the sun/moon sounds simple enough though.
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Funny enough, I’m terrible at math. 
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Makes sense. But yeah i’m bad at that too— spacial triangulation. I’m not saying i CAN’T do it, i’m just saying it would take me forever to figure out and even then i would probably get it very wrong. X)
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It's interesting to think of some of the skills we develop without knowing it. I'm sure I learned to navigate by landmarks at some point in my life (i.e. when I was a small child), but it's not even something I think about unless someone else points it out. By the same token, coming from a small, rural area, I used to be hopeless with cities, and had to carry a map of the city I moved to in my 20's for several years before I was comfortable on my own. I used to joke that, if someone kidnapped me and parachuted me into the trackless wilderness, I'd find my way back as far as the first major city - whereupon I'd get hopelessly ruined.
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Lol! That's so crazy.
It goes the same to learning your first language i think. You feel like you've just always known how to speak it and it's not much of a trouble at all. But learning a new language takes some definite effort. Learning languages is fun though, unlike figuring out where the hell you are. xD At least for me.
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Haha! That's true - though sometimes learning a new language can feel like you don't know where the hell you are.
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