writing like this just boils my shit, man. Why use a flashback? Why not just tell the story normally and keep the beginning, middle, and end in order? Flashbacks are to provide key information that led to the current situation; it’s something that answers the question of “how did we get here” when the story is written in such a way that omits key information to build suspense. It’s an excellent writing technique, but the problem here is that we, the readers, already have enough information to fill in how we got here. He touched the relic so he could talk to the constellation. No flashback necessary to fill in the non-existent blanks. Now we’ve effectively been baited with an exciting plot development for an entire chapter only to have it torn away for some cheap character development bullshit that I’m sure would be interesting on its own, but right now all I wanna see is MC throw down with a catboy and I didn’t get to see that so now I’m mad. Congrats author, you pissed off your audience trying to be suspenseful but you showed your hand too soon.
Anyways, thanks for coming to my TEDrant.