I’m fleshing out my female protagonist now, giving her some additional wants and desires, hobbies and activities, etc.
She’s a bit sentimental. Her mother and father are both gone (mother more recently and inexplicably vanished, but she was closer to her father who died several years prior)… Events are taking place that cause her to reflect on them more, and that’s going to be a constant clip in her thoughts.
Being a dude, I have the emotional range of thimble comparatively, and even when I have those rare moments of heartache, I can’t recall them… So I turn to you all.
What would a princess in a (more or less) medieval setting be sentimental about? What would remind her of her parents and make her miss them?
I know a lot of answers are dependent on so many things, but since this stage will mostly pass after the first 25% of the book, I’m pretty flexible on what I write in there. I have included a quilt that her father got her when she was a small girl, childish in the patterns, but she has resisted every attempt to take it away as she’s gotten older.
Any other ideas?
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