So I say, well, the tone is going to be this way. Lord knows what's going to happen with it when you develop the characters. I've never believed that. They do influence you in the sense that you suspect, and then you learn more about them. So, that's how they change.
Some writers like to pose, though.
It's very natural. Picking cotton's hard. Surprised, I laugh, but he continues. You're laughing because you've not thought about it that way. But here I'm citing a hell of an authority, one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century.