#but all the necessary info to plot and write hehe

[wastelandians]

(  oscar isaac. cis-man.  he/him )  in  krovograd  ,  survival  is  a  test  of  both  skill  and  morality  —  will CASIMIR MAZARIEGOS  withstand  the  horrors  ,  or  will  the  city  break  them  ?  over  the  comms  ,  their  voice  cuts  through  the  static  :  “THE DOG THAT WEEPS AFTER IT KILLS IS NO BETTER THAN THE DOG THAT DOESN'T. MY GUILT WILL NOT PURIFY ME.”  our  records  confirm  they  are  a  FORTY-EIGHT  year  old  SENIOR SCIENTIST   ,  assigned  to  VESTIGE  for  TWENTY-TWO YEARS  field  reports  describe  them  as  DILIGENT & OBSERVANT  ,  though  firsthand  accounts  suggest  they  are  equally  DISCONTENTED  &   COMPLACENT under  pressure.  there’s  something  about  them  —  something  in  the  way  they  move  ,  speak  ,  or  fight  —  that  brings  to  mind  SON OF NYX  (  HOZIER  ).  maybe  it's  just  a  coincidence.  or  maybe  ,  it  says  everything.

>>  BACKGROUND

casimir is the only son of a prominent law professor and famed physicist. academia always existed as a potential in his peripheral— there’d been no need to urge him into it. he takes to it naturally. 

he’s recruited while still in grad school, participating in an internship funded by vestige, which segues into a scientist position upon the completion of his phd. back when he’s still young, bright eyed, and immensely hopeful about making a difference.

where did it all go wrong? [what was once a question for him to push aside grows into a demand he’s unable to ignore.] he becomes one with vestige, but the gravity of such takes several years to set in. for the sense of what’s been lost to settle in. 

the more he uncovers in his research, the farther he finds himself falling. he knows that the point of no return will soon arrive.

>>  FUN FACTS

brilliant 

disillusioned 

existential crisis 

obsequious 

caffeine dependency 

a team player!

[elodiah]

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Thanks @loki-is-my-kink-awakening and @distracteddream for the tags aaaaages ago! I wasn’t going to do this one, because my fics are nearly all basic-ass one shots that I almost always conceive of, write, and post all in the space of one day to two weeks. 🫣😆

BUT I’ve finally been bitten by a plot bunny that MIGHT end up being a bit more involved than my usual stuff, and a few chapters as well, hopefully…

rules: talk about something creative you're working on of any kind.🚦 green: what is it about, what excited you about it, what sparked the idea? orange: slow down and share something from it: a photo, a few words, some more background info etc. red: what is the roadblock currently? what is one thing that is a necessary evil in making it?

GREEN

So I’ve got one of the prompts for the upcoming Lokius Week event to thank for this. The prompt ‘memory loss’ immediately captured my interest, purely because for the longest time now I’ve had ‘temporary amnesia’ as a random idea in my fic ideas notes, and thought “oh good, I have a reason to finally knock something out for that one.”

Initially I anticipated my regular flavour of cake, i.e. a typical angsty h/c one shot. But after thinking about it for barely even a few minutes, my mind took me on a joyride well out of my comfort zone.

I don’t want to give too much about it away, just in case it doesn’t turn out the way I planned, and also because there’s not a lot of actual plot-plot to it. And I will shamelessly state that it is tropey and predictable AF, lmao! So, anything I try to describe would likely divulge more than I’d prefer.

Basically, though, it’s a lot more romance-focussed than anything I’ve ever done, and very character-centric as well, so I’m very keen to explore something new and see where it takes me.

ORANGE

I’m on a little bit of a Mobius-whump kick right now, uncharacteristically, and even though this isn’t exactly a whumpy fic, my first thought was “what if Mobius lost his memory?”

That of course immediately led to “what would Mobius say or think if he lost his memory, then saw Loki?”

I almost instantly raced over to my phone and tapped out this (very, very rough!) exchange:

“Were we… involved?”

“What makes you ask?”

“Just a vibe. I’m having this weird, intense feeling of attachment, despite not actually knowing you before now. Well, that… and I’m insanely attracted to you.”

He would have said that Loki’s bright red blush was the most adorable thing he’d ever seen in his life, but of course he had no way of knowing whether that was actually true.

After I wrote that as a placeholder, I tried to get back to my chores… but five minutes later I’d dot-point-plotted the entire fic, lol.

So the above (if I use it), isn’t in fact taking place when he first sees Loki, but a bit later on. I don’t think even ‘single dad!Don’ would be that bold on a first encounter, lol. I actually imagine his initial thoughts being something like this other bunch of lines I got down:

Well hello, aren’t you a bit gorgeous?

Despite his head throbbing, and feeling excessively dizzy and nauseated, he couldn’t pass up an opportunity when it was staring him right in the face… with pretty blue eyes.

“Mobius? Are you okay?”

And apparently he knew this man too, even better.

You can kind-of see where this is going, hehe. However, the fic I’ve planned is actually going to switch POV, so it’s not all going to be a hopelessly oblivious Mobius desperately trying to shoot his shot with Loki, there’s gonna be a bit more to it than that. 🤣

I actually imagine it to be kind of slow and bittersweet in terms of vibes, set in a post-season 2, post-Loki-returning universe.

RED

My biggest red light is that I’m fkn terrified of writing this one, TBH. I’m so excited to try something new, but it’s sooooo far out of my comfort zone, I’m scared I won’t be able to do it the justice I think it deserves. I’m also not very good with character-driven interactions and plot, and that’s exactly what this is.

Also for someone who waffles as much as I do, I’m worried about committing to writing a multi-chapter fic. I’ve done so very few, and none of them were anything like this idea, they were generally still my usual whumpy, h/c, mission-gone-wrong type stuff.

So yeah. Scary, confronting… but exciting, so long as I can pull it off and not write the most boring, unsatisfying fic imaginable. Pfffff.

I’m so far behind with this game, since I didn’t even plan on doing it, so if you’ve read this far and would like to do one of your own, please consider yourself tagged, and make sure you tag me please, so I can check it out!

[14carrotghoul]

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thank you thank you thank you to @cha-melodius @caterpills @firenati0n @suseagull5914 @alasse9 and @zwiazdziarka for the tags!!!! <333333

rules: talk about something creative you're working on of any kind 🚦green: what is it about, what excited you about it, what sparked the idea? 🚦orange: slow down and share something from it: a photo, a few words, some more background info etc. 🚦red: what is the roadblock currently? what is one thing that is a necessary evil in making it?

green While I have a bunch of other fics I probably should be working on (namely the Christmas one that I left unfinished), I haven't been in a fluffy mood since the election. I watched Shiva Baby for the first time and loved the idea of such a tense situation with such a frustrated character so I plopped Alex into a similar plot but at Zahra's wedding instead! As I kept writing, I started running into walls and realized that for it to work the way I wanted, Henry needed to be even older than Alex so now it has a very fun age gap dynamic as well :) OH and the working title is "sugar/baby"

orange I have a full playlist, but as time has gone on and I lost some of that initial rage/revenge dynamic, a lot of those songs no longer apply to the plot. The two that currently sum it up pretty well are Baby by Charli xcx and All My Money by FLEECE. And because I'm impatient and wanna share such a pretty song, Zahra walks down the aisle to Lotus Blossom by Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington.

And here are some things I've googled/researched while writing: second line procession, New Orleans wedding venues/chapels, New York real estate, Gershwin, Christina Hendricks red carpet (this was highly indulgent fashion inspo hehe), 2000s crunk, NYU graduation honors :D

red I keep hitting plot roadblocks but the main issue is I haven't felt the drive to read or write fic - probably because of Everything going on. I've maybe written 10k in the last 6 months?? and a lot of it has been like pulling teeth and led to dead ends.

I'm making active efforts to find joy in other things though so I am being productive in other creative ways (mostly knitting and crocheting) and watching movies and shows that satisfy that storytelling part of me! I hope that with time I'll get my fic mojo back :) tbh I had been feeling a bit overwhelmed by my writing pace last year so I'm getting what I asked for I guess!

no pressure tagging @sherryvalli @read-and-write- @myheartalivewrites @bitbybitwrites @inexplicablymine @orchidscript @porcelainmortal <3

[katebeckets]

Oh I love that you have spreadsheets for your musicals and tv shows! There's something so satisfying about putting lists and info into a sheet. What are your favorite musicals and shows? (I'm guessing castle is on the shows list 😊)

hahah right?!

tv shows started for me because a bunch of my friends were going to watch Gilmore Girls, and I had many thoughts, so I wanted to make a list of episodes that are necessary for the plot and then also denote my personal favorites. It started as a word doc but I made it a spreadsheet because it just is so much better that way! I also have a note section, which helps me with gifs (e.g. if there's a moment i like but always forget which episode it is).

I want to eventually do it for all my favorite shows, but right now I have Body of Proof, Castle, Gilmore Girls, Hart of Dixie, How I Met Your Mother, The Mentalist, Rizzoli & Isles, and Timeless!

My musicals spreadsheet is for trading hehe so it's all the shows I have, dates, location, and cast info! I also write which specific ones are my favorites (e.g., Wicked on July 18, 2004, which was Kristin's last show, or December 12, 2009, when Julie Reiber went on for Elphie!). So far for my "get to know me" sets I've done 7 favorite musicals - Waitress, The Last Five Years, If/Then, Rent, Wicked, Six, and Next to Normal. Also Once! I had a big Hamilton phase (still love it), and Hadestown was beautiful! I could go on 😂 and am working on a musicals page hehe

thanks for letting me ramble! what do you like? <3

[angelicmichael]

Okay so I have a ton of inspo to write for Stan after last nights episode and I have a lot of fic ideas and concepts I can’t get out of my brain so.. here they are lmfao. The first concept is fluffy and wholesome but the other ones are pretty dark and most involve death and blood.. fair warning hehe. ALSO if any writers see this; feel free to write something based off one of these if you’d like !! 🥺💖 I don’t mind :)

Idk why but I rlly wanna write something domestic and fluffy.. maybe some fluff with no plot djdjd. But maybe reader and Stan are friends, and are hiding in his cabin from the cannibals after a close call (maybe they decided to go hiking earlier and ran into them) and get a bit.. distracted afterwards 👁. Maybe the scare of the cannibals make them have a heart to heart and then.. they decide to stay the night in the cabin bc they don’t wanna leave bc their still scared. And maybe it’s also stormy outside or somethin hehe. and they just 👁 make out 👁 and cuddle 👁 and fall asleep together 👉🏻👈🏻. And their just both rlly grateful that they’re both alive 🥺 and together 🥺🥺

Maybe reader comes to surprise Stan bc they’ve been dating for a while but.. he’s been distant lately. Not picking up calls, and just acting rlly unlike himself. Reader doesn’t exactly know that theirs cannibals in the forest but she knows that theirs something, or that Stan believes that there’s something so she gets concerned and goes to see him. She goes straight into his cabin (maybe she has a spare key.. and it’s night so he shouldn’t be busy) and she sees his jacket, his hat, his gun.. reader grabs a flashlight and starts to look outside for him and finds a trail of blood.. reader immeadietly starts to panic but before she can probably react she sees something running in her direction full force.. but she doesn’t know it’s Stan until he literally is in her arms hugging her. Stan runs into her practically and reader realizes he’s bleeding when she sees blood on her shirt when they pull away.. He has a huge stomach wound and he’s going into shock. Reader is in complete disbelief that this is actually happening and that he could actually die, but Stan is still talking to her.. he urges her to leave and to not wait around for him and to not bother getting help. He tells her about the cannibals and reader doesn’t believe him but.. as she goes to leave to get help anyway she sees a shadow out of the corner of her eye and realizes that he probably wasn’t bullshitting. Reader goes to be with Stan and comforts him in his final moments 🥺

This is so random and not in depth/plot heavy at all but I’m just thinking about Stan confiding in reader about the cannibals.. and then she decides to playfully bite him. At first it’s a joke.. and their dating so it’s not really that weird but then she hears him moan and she completely stops.. purely laughing at the fact that he has a fucking biting kink and how ironic it is (ig this is just me saying that I think Stan has a biting kink LMAO)

Okay so I kinda hate the ending of the episode tbh so.. here’s a fix it fic idea hehe. Major spoiler warning but instead of Stan dying.. maybe he sort of is a ally to the cannibals?? Not necessarily becomes one but more so protects them and in return they protect him u know?? But to make this a fic.. maybe reader and Stan have been dating for a while and she doesn’t realize his ‘alliance’ until she goes to the forest w him.. She sees how the cannibals won’t touch him and she’s beyond fucking bewildered. However the cannibals want reader, but Stan is v protective 😌 and maybe he shoots a cannibal or two and ofc it ends in fluff.. Stan starts fussing over reader and her (little to nonexsisting) wounds and even threatens to quit his job for her but reader tells him to stop bc she’s okay 🥺 but maybe the fic ends w him quitting his job and them both leaving the national park <3

Y’all knew this was coming but a fic where Stan is a cannibal (but not full on feral tho) is necessary LOL. I’m kinda thinking about fairytale or little red hiding hood au for this one?? Maybe reader goes into the forest bc she knows that women have been going missing as of late and she’s curious 👁 and wants to investigate. She goes into the forest and finds Stan, who automatically seems sus bc of how out of it he seems.. his clothes are stained red in a couple places.. he barely makes eye contact and reader can’t help but to marvel at how sharp his teeth seem to be.. the more they talk the closer he gets.. to the point where it would almost be uncomfortable if he wasn’t so attractive and charming.. even with the scent of iron heavy on his breath, reader can’t help but to want to kiss him, to feel his mouth on hers but she also starts to feel like it’s not necessarily a choice. He seems like the primary suspect so reader feels if she wants to survive she’s going to have to seduce him… and not to mention if she truly wants to get info out of him about the missing women.

Okay so after seeing @stanvogel ’s post, I’m just thinking about Michael x Stan so.. here’s a Michael x Stan one 👉🏻👈🏻 hehe. It’s another normal day for Stan.. doing quick checks and patrols throughout the forest. Stan loved his job, he really did but this was the part he always dreaded the most. He gives the forest half a glance as he walks through - hoping that something wouldn’t happen to catch his eye or pop out at him. Hoping he could just go back to his cabin and have a easy shift but of course, he just had to see someone. Seeing people isolated in the forest wasn’t something that Stan was unaccustomed with, but the fact the individual he saw was currently drenched in blood and was still alive was something to marvel at. Stan quickly introduced himself and asked what the fuck he was doing.. after babbling some shit about satan and saying his name was ‘Michael’.. Stan had heard enough. He didn’t exactly want to take care of this lunatic but he wasn’t going to leave him out to be eaten and have his intestines ripped out either.. not on his shift if he could help it. Stan brought Michael back to his cabin, carefully cleaning up his wounds and trying not to stare at his crystal blue eyes for too long.. or his lips. Harshly reminding himself this was a guest, not someone he should even think about asking out but Michael surprisingly took the leap first. Asking if Stan was single and that’s all it took. Stan wasn’t sure if he agreed to start seeing him because he was genuinely interested or because he didn’t want him going back out to the forest and gaining the attention of the cannibals.. either way, Stan couldn’t really argue. He was simply happy that he could finally capture someone’s attention and keep it for once. Someone who would stay with him and make this job a little less lonely.. Antichrist or not.

[hongism]

back by popular demand: sunflower anon with their signature, unnecessarily long, essays! today’s topic: wooyoung!!! more specifically ahhh my boy is back and he’s reunited with his sweet angel yeosang (don’t tell him i called him that). i adored seeing wooyoung reunite with yeosang, i’m so glad they can be back in each other’s arms. and, not to push my own shipping agenda, i think this will open up a lot of opportunities for y/n and woosang to interact because i don’t think wooyoung will ever escape yeosang’s sight again after this and i love that for them. i also love the way wooyoung and y/n interact now that they’re aware of their bond and such. there’s so much to explore and i’m so excited to see more of them. i’ve said this before but i think this bond will really help them both overcome their demons together and i think y/n will definitely uncover more of her siren abilities with woo’s help ... (1/?)-🌻

SUNFLOWER ANON it’s me im single-handedly driving up demand :D NECESSARY long essays for a ridiculously long chapter that’s what’s up!! hehe i’ll answer under a cut bc i’m so long-winded :D

starting strong with wooyoung i see i SEE hehe im so glad you guys are excited and happy about his recovery and the reunion makes me do tiny little golf claps of excitement iNDEED aND u are absolutely right, there will be many an opportunity from here on out to see more interactions between woosang and y/n throw a lil hwa in there too for the siren goods and you’d best believe yeosang is gonna be glued to wooyoung’s back at all times without a DOUBT. im so excited to get into how wooyoung and y/n’s dynamic is gonna blossom and flourish bc i’ve been waiting for this for ! five ! acts ! i am READY ! there is so much to explore and i can’t say much but i can say that act six is focus on the main plot of sirens so we will see a lot of exploration in there and see how they can help each other bc we’re also quickly seeing that wooyoung is very! very ! damaged !

something soojin said that really stuck out to me is how the serum blocks memories instead of wiping them. that makes a lot of sense given how pieces of the past have been coming back to y/n. my biggest theory (theories?) is that y/n and wooyoung were slaves together before woo was saved by yeosang and y/n joined the military. her dream that she brought up of her and wooyoung together could be a memory they share but neither of them remember. plus daichi said they would always come back to each other, implying they had been together before. also, i think it’s safe to say jisung messed with her memories somehow and fabricated the way she remembers things now. i kind of think that maybe y/n killed hyunwoo herself or jisung did it in front of her and somehow manipulated the situation like a snake. this just adds to my hating moc jisung agenda. (2/?) -🌻

im glad that stuck out to u bc that is super important! up until now we have only really seen y/n’s understanding and perspective on what the serum did to her and not necessarily the TRUTH and ACCURATE explanation of what it does, so that’s a crucial piece of info and im glad that’s making other things make sense too! i can’t say much about any theories hehe you know me bUT i can confirm that that dream keeps coming up and y/n keeps mentioning it bc it is very important and crucial !! as is what daichi said about them always coming BACK to each other !! it is 100% safe to say jisung messed with her memories and we’ll a confirmation of that very soon and more of an explanation to that as well as some insight on what happened after soojin, juyeon, and ash all left the team and planet!!! that do be a very fascinating take and theory we’ll have to see how much accuracy it holds 🧐🧐🧐

i’m ready to see san back with y/n,, i have been seeing quite a few crumbs and i think their reunion will be so so sweet and probably pretty heartbreaking too. another thing i’m interested in seeing is san and wooyoung’s reactions to her deal with jisung. i don’t think they’ll be all that thrilled about it. and my sweet boy mingi, get him back with his captain and jongho asap. jongho is so sweet and selfless in moc i love how he acts as a little brother with most of the crew but then turns all brother bear with y/n. we don’t deserve him 😔. as always chapter 37 was amazing and i’m very excited for 38 but of course take all the time you need. (3/3) -🌻

believe you me i am SO beyond ready to see san back with y/n too we have been getting more and more crumbs and it is building up to something and while i haven’t written their reunion yet i can say that it will be very hard for me to right that scene without crying and i’ll probably cry while writing so yay us tears. for sure for sure we’re gonna get more reactions out of people and see that and im glad you’re interested in seeing both those esp wooyoung bc that one is gonna be fun to get into :D sweet sweet mingi sweet ANGEL mingi pls god he does need to be back with his captain and jongho as soon as humanly possible T-T i get so unnaturally happy when i hear that you guys love jongho god he’s my lil baby in this fic and god it’s really fun to write him as a character too and how he interacts with others ahhh so much good stuff there!!! im so glad u enjoyed 37 hehe i cannot WAIT for 38 we’ll have to see what all happens i can’t say i’ve started working on it yet but soon soon we’ll see hehe i have some other stuff in the works now that im done with 37 first :D

p.s. i haven’t forgotten the thing you said about, i assume hwa and joong, and how it’s the worst thing you’ve done yet. i’m still 👀 about that but in a mildly fearful way.

and it’s GOOD that you haven’t forgotten about that :D bc it may or may not be :D vital to the next chapter :D we have four more parts in this act and i can guarantee that the next three are going to be Tough and a Lot and i’m working out how to not make it overwhelming but a lot needs to happen and will happen and we still have to remember that dear seonghwa is the main character of this arc :D

[floweringeclipse]

FFXIII AU

Galahd Amicitia-Iris is a Retinue-in-training to the current monarch of the Pulsian city of Insomnia, Noctis. When an army from the Viper’s Nest raids and ruins their home city, Iris escapes along with her brother Gladiolus, the young prince, and the rest of his Retinues-- Ignis and Prompto-- and now traverses around Pulse with them to avoid being captured by Cocoon’s soldiers

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Can be set in the canon FFXV main timeline (Iris at 15 years of age or pre-Altissia Boyband Adventures) and World of Ruin timeline (Post-Altissia Tragedy/Noct Trapped In Crystal or Just Popped Out of It eras asofjisoiedfj).  The plan is to have it all be a similar enough plot to canon FFXV, except it’s all set in the XIII world and follows their lore and mythos. And also a bit of a role upgrade with Iris being an active party member hehe. Her main goal in this verse is to train and become strong enough to become a great shield to Noctis and her friends.

More info under the cut.

Verse HCs:

✽ The Retinues are servants branded by their tribe’s fal’Cies in order to better protect and serve the royal Lucian family. Although they possess powerful abilities, the Lucian Retinues are still very human l’Cies, and are still at the mercy of fulfilling a Focus. Noctis and his Retinues seem to have a shared Focus, yet Iris’ is still rather unclear and her brand has not yet shown any progress. For now she casts aside any attempts to figure out her personal mission in order to aid her friends fulfill theirs.

✽ The Insomnian Hexatheon are Pulse Fal’Cies consisting of Bahamut, Ifrit, Shiva, Ramuh, Leviathan, and Titan; it is the latter who has granted power to every member of the Amicitia bloodline. Iris had already sought out the Archaean for his blessing at the age of twelve, training alongside her brother Gladiolus in hopes of spending more time with him and their late father. So in spite of only being an apprentice Retinue at this moment, she is already a capable warrior and magic-user who isn’t afraid to risk her life to protect what’s left of her dear family.

✽ In battle, Iris is a strong offensive warrior but acts as a support-oriented ally with Sentinel being her primary paradigm role and Commando her secondary. When fighting alongside Noctis and the Retinues, she will prioritize her team’s safety and health, taking on the role of Medic when necessary.

She favours delivering strong, physical attacks despite being proficient with Thunder and Aero magics; she will only switch into the Ravager role if it will help keep the paradigm balance (//but I imagine it being infrequent since most, if not all, of the bros have abilities that already make them Ravagers).

Iris’ weapons are strength-enhancing Gloves, and her main fighting styles involve using her fists and legs to deliver powerful blows and sometimes incapacitate enemies. Though like her brother, her main objective is to act as a shield to allies by using her body and enhanced defense against enemies.

✽ Iris’ eidolon is the Garuda, the emissary of the winds and skies; her eidolith is in the shape of an iris flower (just like Gladiolus’ crystal takes the form of his floral namesake).

In Gestalt Mode, Garuda turns into a sleek motorcycle-like vehicle capable of flight which resembles Fang’s Bahamut’s form.

✽ The l’Cie brand adorns Iris’ back, right between her shoulder blades. Even though she doesn’t think the brand is active, her Focus does involve Noctis’ and the Retinues’ fates– her mission only becomes clearer to her once Noctis enters crystal stasis and they ‘lose’ him for a decade.

✽ The Amicitia siblings in this verse still bear the eagle theme through Gladio’s tattoo, and Iris’ eidolon: In Hinduism, the constellation Aquila (the eagle) is identified with the half-eagle half-human deity Garuda.

✽ My personal HC of the siblings’ mother hailing from Galahd is also present in this verse. Iris insists on using Galahd instead of Insomnia in her name title to honour her late mother. Galahd, in this verse, is likely just a smaller village found just outside of the city of Insomnia.

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Plot kept vague-ish for this verse in case other FFXV muses have their own HCs and plot for FFXIII. I’d love to hear about your preferences for this verse, and won’t mind going along with/adding your personal takes on certain info in this AU, too, so let me know if you’d like to try out this verse with me! I’ll jump in your IMs to plot uvu/  

Also been mullin’ over this AU for YEARS now bc Im still Absolute FFXIII Trash. Still really fond of these AU doodles i made a long while back, and I’ll try and draw and write more for this verse aaaaaaa And many thanks to @pxlsian​ for loving kicking my ass and inspiring me to finally finish this verse!!! <3

[1358456]

Review Response, July 28 - Aug 3, 2019

Not a lot happened, but hey. Another week.

Destiny #015

1) Hold the fuck up. Wait wait, just for a minute. There was a lot of shit that just happened and I'm precessing it. But lemme get this one thing straight. Sapphire is NOT dead. Obviously Peter would want her alive for Kyogre, but before that little but of info. I was CONVINCED that she was dead. I mean, I was just sitting there in shock and like telling myself "Yep, this is the point where I cry." but I didn't. And she's not dead. So I am assuming that the actual deaths in this fic are going to very... well I dunno how to say it. But it's going to be sad. But still on the topic of Sapphire, I am so happy she managed to (somewhat) get over her fear of salamence! This is a huge step for her! And it's really symbolic in the way that she was the one who defended Ruby from that claw, and just hmm so happy for her. Well, my happiness is taken with a bucket of salt as to how badly injured she is, but i'm happy nonetheless.

Oh! And something I forgot to mention in my last review was about the gym leaders, if the dexholders are going to win against Peter. They'll need the help of the gym leaders. And isn't it just funny that right as I was going to say that Sabrina saved them. Oooof if she hadn't saved them, then Blue would have been completely right. There would be mope than just a couple (if not many) deaths at that battle. They fought bravely, but dam are they underprepared.

Speaking of Blue, I found it sweet, but irritating for sure, that Blue was worried over Silver and (to some extent) Red. These were the things I was thinking before. What did they do to you? And here she was betraying them. And although she should have thought of the other dexholders and told them to flee, at least she told those two. I understand her reasoning-I need not to repeat it as Blue has said it multiple times, not to mention the whole controlling watchamacallit-but grrr. These were younguns that had no part in this battle and you didn't even wish them good luck. Well, she sort of did at the end. With the whole wishing for Sabrina to rescue them. Which I actually found interesting that she recognized as Sabrina's doing. It's no brainer, but stilll... interesting.

And the highly anticipated moment for me has arrived. The confrontation between Blue and Green! It was marred by the fact that I had to stop halfway through for something, but the moment was great for me nonetheless. And I thought you put up a great point during this! With Green saying why Blue was going to such lengths for revenge, I thought was a great way of explaining things to the reader. That may or not have been your intention I'm not sure, but I still thought that was nice. Because sometimes authors find lazy ways to justify a character's actions-or lack thereof-and it leaves the reader confused. Or if not confused, it sort of ruins the story for them as they realize that if it were not for that single action, half the drama in the story would not have occurred. But it was nice to see her response to it, and have her realize sort of what she was doing, and that she didn't really mean for it, but that she was just hurt. Perhaps there was no need tho as it was obvious that she was just hurt from the start. Well, I just wasted an entire paragraph on that, but I'll keep it here anyways as it's something that happens quite often in stories. And that pisses me off.

Oof, now tbh. i have nothing more to say on your writing. I've already touched on it a lot on my past reviews, and i feel I have not much more to say about it. I mean it's so hard to find good writing about pokemon, on , and you're one of the few I know. Anyways, thank you again.

Yep. Sapphire is NOT dead! Dex Holder blood has been shed, but no one died yet! And yes, Sapphire stands up to Salamence, which is a development that ORAS lacked (among many, many things), and also unlike ORAS, the claw actually hit her instead of pretending like it did for about a minute.

It’s the kind of underlying theme in Destiny. A casual player can never be prepared against someone who utilizes the full game mechanics. And every single Dex Holder is a casual. And so... they are not prepared. And yes, Gym Leaders can help, but... not by THAT much in terms of direct force.

Blue being hostile to the juniors is... well, another misunderstanding that could be cleared if she just got to talk to Red or Green. She was isolated from them for so long, and then finds out that Mega Evolution existed during the whole Mega Hunter event, and also finds out that there were far more junior Dex Holders after the Hoenn cast, and that said juniors were fighting alongside the others. It’s not much of a leap that the first thing she’ll think is “I have a lot more juniors and no one ever told me”. Ouch, huh?

Poor Blue, huh? She’s just so... hurt, with no one to really rely on. And... well, I do try to explain in-story why everything is happening. If I forget, I try to have it explained in the next chapter or something. ... And I better keep doing that, then!

Hehe. Thank you!

2) Lmao I'm so sorry, I don't edit reviews and going back and looking at all the typing mistakes is yikes.

Haha. I noticed. But it’s fine. As long as a sentence isn’t so riddled with typos that it just leaves me scratching my head, it’s fine.

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Destiny #016

1) Well. Shit. I always suspected that fighting Peter upfront would do them no good. It's obvious. I've said it before there's no way. But that brings me to the huge thing that's happening in Kalos. I have no fucking idea what this one's gonna be. Nada. Pretty much anything about Peter you write so well the the reader cannot guess jack shit about his past, and what he's going to do. Much less his MOTIVE. Basically get the legendaries blah blah we've seen it a million times before, but for WHAT. This time's it's different. It's not some stupid ass reason that the writers put in as a shitty reason, this time it's obviously more sinister and he might actually accomplish it before the dexholders can stop him. That's what I imagine, that he actually does whatever he's going to do, and it's all chaos for a bit. But then the dexholders pull their shit together and manage to ruin that. Now this is one of my less convincing theories, because as I said. I have no idea what's gonna happen. But the way this is going, thats how I feel it will be.

Also like, I am so excited for the part where Blue and Green make up. I'm sure it'll happen. That's inevitable. I'm just not sure how, and I'm a sucker for oldrival so that'll be a treat,,,, (tho I know they're not a pairing in this fic, just let a girl dream)

One last thing before I end this, I just keep thinking that, I'm not even halfway through and so much has already happened. What the fuck is gonna happen next. Obviously a lot and it worriesssss meeeee. These are the things that keep me up at night, that's a lot of time for injuries and death and whatnot. (Obviously I'm exaggerating my sleep is unharmed by this fic lmao). But that's also a lot of time for plot and explanations. Oh boi am I excited for the explanations. Like actually, I wanna know why.

Anyways, thank you as always.

I try to write stuff like this partly as if this was an RTS game. SA did this, Destiny did it, and Legacy does and will do it. The story is mostly focused on the Dex Holders, with occasional tidbits from the bad guys. So the story is told from the Dex Holder perspective, so if they don’t know something, the readers won’t either. Mostly. It’s like the fog of war in RTS. You don’t know what the opponent is doing, and vice-versa. ... Or so you’d hope, anyways. You don’t know what’s going on in Kalos? That’s because the Dex Holders don’t. As the Dex Holders uncover “the plot”, so do the readers!

I* won’t burst your bubble, so don’t worry. I will make it grow bigger instead. They DO get to reconcile** soon***.

Indeed it’s a LOT of time for injuries and/or death and/or fates worse than death. And I try to avoid having a death occur “too soon” unless it’s absolutely necessary for the rest of the plot. So... there is still time~!

I look forward to seeing more reviews from you! You’re starting to get into the “good stuff”! ... I think.

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