kateattheclose | State of the Pups

Carwood Lipton - He had a quiet month, but he's really focused on the new baby still, first and foremost. I'm going to try to get him out and about more in January, starting new friendships and maintaining old ones a bit better.
NDPD - A set of power tools to further develop his woodworking hobby and his ability to work on the Boarding House.

Betty Rizzo - Rizzo is one of those people who found a very specific way of facing life's challenges. On the Island, she went from relying only on herself to realizing in Paul the sort of family and confidant that she's always been missing, and now that he's gone, she can't cope as well the way she did before. She went through a particularly scandalous phase of one-night-stands, but now she's mellowed into a functioning alcoholic. I've thought a lot about how to get her on more of an even keel, but the most realistic character development is on a long-term basis rather than a quick fix. In the new year, the bookcase will inundate her with books about alcoholism, and her NDPD gift will give her a slow-moving project to focus on. I'm still unsure about how she will progress from there, but ultimately I think she can come back from it.
NDPD - A broken down hotrod.

The Artful Dodger - I've had a great time with him this month, because he wanted to tag into everything. I also used the December Plot shamelessly as a source of plot for Dodger in relation to coming to terms with his place on the Island. I want to work on getting him closer with some of the children on the Island, given that they're who he feels most comfortable with. Dodge disappeared recently, and that will be a blow to Dodger, since he was the only adult on the island that didn't treat him as a child, and who understood the criminal life. Danny is steadily becoming the father figure that Dodger's always needed, but he's been so harshly treated by men in the past that he's going to still be somewhat wary for a good long while.
NDPD - Gin and a pipe. Stay tuned for a gleefully drunken twelve year old.

State of the Pups

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