#Because if there is I sure as hell haven't x'D

[amethystina]

@sofapup17 asked for the link to my Who Holds the Devil playlist and I figured more of you might be interested, so here it is.

As the description says, it's not exactly a soundtrack but rather a collection of songs with suitable vibes and lyrics. And by "suitable vibes" I mean pretty dramatic, often heartbreaking, occasionally sweet, kinda sexy, vaguely desperate, and, of course, just a tiny bit dangerous. And yes, some of the songs are connected to specific events that already have or will happen in the fic ;)

More songs might be added as I find them and they're in no particular order for the time being.

And, before anyone asks: No, there is not a single song by GOT7 on there at the time of writing, mainly because I haven't actually listened to them x'D (well, yet. I'll get to it eventually >_> )

SO YEAH. Enjoy?

[blackstarchanx3new]

Creations AU, But I obnoxiously over explain it PT 7

Pages 181-210

Some of these pages were lined by my friend AK

@akdrawsandwrites

They've helped me with this AU's art a lot when I got stuck quite a few times. XD

They're playing Minecraft, while Michael goes on an absolute rant about how much he dislikes the other owner's son "Sammy"

Sammy is apparently:

Smug Having relations with William Afton Has friends

All these things piss Michael off for one reason or another.

Presumably to calm the hell down Michael goes to take a bath while Mike hunts for diamonds.

Mike's death glare as Michael rambles as he slays the monsters so they can sleep is so hilarious to me. Just further proof he's good at video games.

Mike ventures out of Michael's room to use the toilet

And we get more context as to why William isn't comfortable around Mike:

Apparently he takes medication for something.

William's just a TAD condescending and rude about it. You know. Because we've seen how this man acts towards his own son lmfao this isn't a surprise he isn't too delicate with someone with mental health struggles. (Even if he kind of tries to be.)

Mike sits down to piss. Lol. Old habits must die hard.

Huh, Michael's got prosthetic robot legs.

Interesting...

Haha he doesn't answer that question.

Aaaaand his arms are robotic too...

HUH.

And I've been goofy about it but his eyes aren't exactly normal either...

And come to think of it...Michael your face is kinda weiiiird looking...

"Kinda scary just how much a man could be a machine"

Michael...

There something you wanna confess too-

LIKE THE FACT YOU'RE A CYBORG-

All of you are screaming at me aren't you? X'D

Oh so much here:

Five years is significant to both of them.

Michael picks up on the fact that it's significant and isn't too nice about that.

Michael's façade of being a bubbly happy guy has broke a few times but this was the most direct time it broke, outright glaring with anger at Mike's lack of response.

Masked with "HAHA Just kidding!~"

He was obviously NOT kidding.

Michael abruptly stops the conversation to go to bed.

Or so it seems as Mike reflects.

Jeremy's brought up again. So we can presume Jeremy disappeared five years ago.

Michael pipes up again to proclaim a few things.

He knows Mike's up to something and isn't hiding that.

Bonnie brought it up so Michael isn't fully in the dark. Also despite acting childish Michael isn't dumb.

I let ya read this segment uncut with my nonsense cause it shows a LOT:

First tho I'm gonna talk about stuff I like art wise:

Michael's design is just nice to my brain. He's just so damn cute in his body language. In terms of symbolism him pushing his hair out of his face could show he's trying to be open with Mike in this moment.

Anyways: Back to stuff.

We keep getting glimpses of SOMETHING going horribly wrong with an animatronic who appears to be in a similar state to Ennard. Only having a mask on an endoskeleton.

This is interspersed through Michael and Mike's conversation of Mike conceding to let Michael help him.

bringing up Bonnie again as a motivator to keep Michael out of this for his own saftey. Mike stays quiet when asked "You're concerned with how Bonnie feels?" Mike's not a "Talk about your feelings" kinda person as we've seen so far. He keeps things in.

Michael mentions a specific incident he THINKS brought Mike here one we haven't seen yet mentioned and I plan to be explored in the comic "Spring Bonnie's friends" because a lot of details in the main AU are expanded upon in smaller side comics: Some kids disappeared and an owner at another Fredbears nearby. And THIS caused Mike to come here to investigate.

As we know, Jeremy disappeared here and Mike's determined to stop it.

The constant cuts and the bloody machinery behind Michael builds up to what has happened If you know FNAF, you know EXACTLY what was behind Michael in that shot hehe.

Michael got a bit of an injury. Ow.

Impaled.

Damn okay call out to Cody I'm sure he'll help.

To be fair Cody's way more likely to hear him than Bonnie in this instance.

This isn't stated in the comic but since regular FNAF fans would know this:

They're in the previously established dangerous "Toy" department.

Bonnie is in a completely different part of the building. But Cody is a creepy stalker who has eyes everywhere in the building:

Cody can see you no matter WHERE you are so it does make more sense to ask him for help.

OH HELLO MR. NO NAME SECURITY GUARD HOW ARE YOU!?

Guess Cody is heading the call after all...In an indirect way...Lazy bear.

Right as the horrible robot catches up to Mike.

That thing is "The mangle"

It's saying it's dialogue from the AR game because I found it insanely fitting for this scene.

It's a busted up robot that wants to be whole and is looking for SOMETHING to do that. Something it ditched Michael for but ran after Mike for.

Mike comes to terms with the hand he's been dealt.

His true goals becoming a lot clearer:

He was looking for a way to die nobody would question while trying to find everyone.

Oh yeah, Michael's alive still.

Nom nom nom nom-

NOT TODAY BITCH. CODY SENT A BOY.

HERE COMES THE BOY

HELLO BOY

WELCOME

HERE COMES THE BOYYYYYYYY-

MR. ROBOT EYEBALLS IS HERE TO SAVE THE DAY! :D

That thing he had is a tazer lmfao.

I'd assume he's an angel too I mean just look at him. ❤️

Oh my god.

He's the might seduce your dad type, owners son himself:

Sammy Fritz Emily

He'd kiss anyone. You. Your dad-

Alright onto the outfit thing I mentioned earlier:

All the owners have black ties and black undershirts while people outside of the two families that own the place have white undershirts or in Jeremy Fitzgerald's case a blue undershirt.

Literally nobody ever noticed that detail so I point it out because CHARACTER DESIGN IS MY PAAAAASIONNNNNN~

Okay enough fucking around one of my absolute favorite characters Sammy Emily is finally fully introduced! :D

Golden Freddy manipulation aside, he came to our boy's aid against a hulking robot that could kill a normal person.

Sammy's a badass.

He seems nice. I mean he charged an animatronic no hesitation to save our boy's ass, so maaaaybe Michael's view on him is misguided and clouded by his daddy issues.

What the heck WERE Mike and Michael doing here exactly?

Mike just reflects on what the fuck just happened.

[mitamicah]

Hell yeah asking time and you are damn right you took some sweet time 😂😸

Get ready for my asks:

📷💌🐸🌿🌸🧸🐶🐰🍫🎵 (👀👀👀👀👀👀👀)

Well I was too busy excitingly drawing Vogue Jere 😂(and sleeping OVO)

I can already see this will be long so here's a line for those not interested in the replies x'D

📷 My phone lockscreen

Well I should probably think about changing it but...

Leaves x'D

💌Do I talk to myself: All the dang time OVO both in first, second and third person x'D

🐸My aesthetic: As mentioned a few times I feel like I'm multitudes but I guess what is true for pretty much all of them is that I'm kind of like the mixture of a peacock and a fairy that is stuck in the body of a oversized gremlin - I have this flamboyant, flowery, feminine-but-in a masc way side I love yet at the same time I am drawn to comfy oversized clothes that may or may not fit me well x'D I hope it makes sense :'D

🌿Describtion of my favourite outfit: This is hard because I have a few :'D So I'll take two you already know :3 (Hopefully you can guess from the description). One is this burgundy shortsleeved shirt that just screams flowerqueer often paired with a dark green shirt with a subtle leaf design on it. To finish up the outfit I have some puffy, green coloured jeans in a loose fit (they are now so big I need a belt for them) paired with my sunflower band that has pronouns patches and aro flag on it ^V^ The other one is this seethrough longsleeved crop top with stylized print of suns, moons and stars (give me shagadellic rock vibes aka Joker Out but in a goth way). Since I still haven't had top surgery I will often pair it with either a black binder or a black tanktop and then for the pants I can either go fullblack shorts, these black pants with thunder design running down the legs or these tube formed pink pants (because Barbie core). To hold up the pants and to amp up the aesthetic I have a twolined stud belt with chains falling down is upsidedown waves. The look wont be complete without some necklaces so I mostly go for a black choker, this fairy-on-a-moon necklace I own (and probably now also my Thor's hammer I inherited from my grandmother). Fishnet hands and black racoon makeup is optional :3

🌸Best compliment I ever received: It is an old and probably worn out story for me to tell but I think the best compliment I received was when I was told that I had been lying to myself when I said I couldn't sing. Hadn't I been told that I am not sure I'd pursued music as an active hobby through attending summer camp and had I not been there I am not sure I would be this open and confident like I am today :'D

🧸Favourite place to nap: I wish I could nap :'3 I am so bad at sleeping in the daytime :'D

🐰What do I think says most about a person?: Hmmm... If I should go with my gut feeling on this one I'd say it is how they view others. It sounds strange but what I mean is that if they scowl at others for being different (having tattoos, fun hair, bipoc, disabled etc.) and/or am being bigotted openly to your face I think it says a lot about them more than it does about the people they are judging. I hope it makes sense :'D That said the option of not saying these things but instead show disgust through actions (internalised bigotry? I am not sure that's a phrase) can be just as revealing

🍫Cheese of chokolade: I am NOT a cheese person like at all :'D Some cheese will do but only on pizza. Other than that give me chokolade every day :'3

Thank you for the questions, Jay ^V^

[skzoologist]

HFKSHAK IM THE SAME WAY 😭😭

I have so many screenshots in my camera roll of SKZ and ATZ members (my ult groups) whether they be official comeback pictures or fan taken ones from their concerts, meet and greets, or just screenshots of them in different shows during comeback season 😭 it got to the point where my Google photos got filled like 2 or 3 times 😭😭 out of the K-pop photos I have saved I think at least 60-80% of them are SKZ and ATZ and there's a solid portion of them that I saved for outfit styling and haircut/styling ideas 🧍

HONGJOONG BIASED? 👀👀 THIS IS A FIRST FOR ME?? All of my ATINY friends irl are San biased 😭 (which I can't blame them cuz he was the one that got me into ATZ ^^; and also like 👀👀) ALSO YEONJUN 💕💕💕

OKOK YEONJUN, BINNIE, AND WOOYOUNG'S FRIENDSHIP?? 😭😭😭

Getting bias wrecked by literally every one of them 🤝🤝

- 🐹

YOU TOO?? THESE FRIENDS ARE DANGEROUS, WHAT THE HELL-

Now that is an entire collection I would love to see one day, holy shit. I am sure one day I will reach your level, but I haven't yet, only beacuse I am veeery picky about my saved pics lmao. But my chat is filled with screenshots with every comeback, I might actually spam you guys with the better ones haha. Also the outfit thing is so valid of you, I actually need to search for pics for uh, definitely not Bae related reasons 👀

LOOK, MY FRIEND LOVES THEM SHORT WITH ANGER ISSUES, I BLAME HER x'd But yea, I cannot blame your friends tbh. San just cannot be my bias, because in EVERY video, his hips just don't goddamn calm down, as Yeosang said and I AM VERY SHY, HOLY SHIT- Also hell yea, Yeonjun and Beomgyu's friendship? How the younger annoys the older? Gets me everytime.

nO BECAUSE I LOVE THAT, IT'S SO WONDERFUL- Loud too though, imagine being in a room with just the three. My eardrums would die in the first 5 minutes lmao

Absolutely 🤝🤝

[seyaryminamoto]

I need to express how I love the fact that you never miss the opportunity of making Azula and Sokka very into extremely nerdy computer games in as many AUs as you can. It even made me interested in playing dragon age or hades (yes, because of that band au you wrote for sokkla saturdays and IHTBY. I also like the dragon age au you wrote, though in this one they were actual characters of that world instead of two nerds)

Hahaha, yeah... well, it's because they're nerds! It's canon! xDDDDDD At least, I can't help but see them that way. IHTBY is a hilarious AU where basically everyone's nerdy as hell, Azula had to be a nerd in secret, but now she no longer hides it. Ty Lee and Mai may be the only exceptions, but by now it's only a matter of time before they, too, are recruited into the nerd legions (?)

The online gaming angle really fit with IHTBY because of the original prompts were "meeting online" and "high school AU", both of which I had no idea how to combine organically until that whole idea came to mind. Sometimes the least likely prompts are the ones that do the trick xD but yeah, since it was a "meeting online" situation, I couldn't help but think about how that meeting would come about, and my occasional dabbling in suuuuper old and defunct MMORPGs supplied the answer. The game they play in IHTBY, Dannan, is actually based on the setting of an original story of mine that I haven't really found a way to fully articulate and that I'd probably need to massively rework... but the worldbuilding and concepts I had for it were a decent concept for the MMORPG I needed so, since I very much knew nothing about active MMORPGs at the time I was writing IHTBY, I just made up my own game and that's why they're not playing WoW or Genshin Impact or FFXIV (okay the last two would have been impossible considering how new they are x'D).

As for Hades... I'm still having Hades brainrot to this day x'D finished what may have been my most perfect run in it only yesterday, WITH ROCKET BOMB! (Eris Rail cluster rockets+Zeus legendary+Scintillating Ice Wine cast+Artemis legendary, the RNG gods smiled upon me with that build x'D). If I ever continue the band AU in a distant future, I hope that Melinoe's new adventures in Hades II will serve them as inspiration for making more music...

And in DA... I guess I just made them nerds in-story anyway x'D even if they're IN the game, so to speak, they're still nerdy in some ways. It's a constant, really. These two strategy-driven dorks can't help but thrive in learning new things, acquiring new talents, seeing more of whatever world they're in... I just love them and their inherent nerdiness. It's just one more level in which I'm sure they'd understand each other perfectly <3

[fizzingwizard]

my cousin who I havent talked to in years randomly messaged me to ask if I play/know people in Japan who play Pokemon Go

I assume it's something to do with exclusive regional pokemon? I think I remember that was a thing way back in 2016

I played Pokemon Go when it first came out, but I had an old iPhone 5C because it's all I could afford, and they stopped supporting older iPhones. Because of how expensive they are I never bothered getting a new one. I have Android now. It's an old Android too now because I've had it for six years x'D but both it and the iPhone 5C still work decently (although the latter has charging issues which I'm not sure if it's due to the cable or the phone itself, I haven't bothered to look into it bc android and all). like why do I have to shell out the pennies I earn teaching pre-K for the newest and expensivest just because it's the bestest (for one year until the next newest expensivest and bestest comes out)?

*ahem* anywaaay... I stopped playing Pokemon Go because it wasn't supported on my phone. By the time I got the Android phone, I had completely forgotten about the game, and never even checked to see if it's supported on Android. It looks like it is, so now that my cousin's reminded me it exists, I'm kinda tempted to get it...

But I have a 2 gb plan because I'm cheap as hell and I don't want to pay more x'D my data is always used up by the end of the month anyway and I don't even know what is eating up all of my storage. So to get Pokemon Go I'd definitely need a better plan or a new provider (which I kind of do want, a coworker told me of a provider recently which sounds like it has better plans than mine. it's just that canceling phone contracts is such a bitch and I don't want to pay cancellation fee)

Normally I wouldn't pay more just to play a game on my phone which I recall only mildly liking anyway (it was so tough to find Pokemon that weren't Rattata. The only interesting catches I made happened when I went to the airport). But lately every single company is (in my opinion) wasting its money and time making its own tailored app and demanding we all download it to our phones. Bank and gas and stuff I don't mind, but restaurants - stores - etc etc. It is honestly so annoying. Even work tried to make me download an app to do my taxes, even though the tax program was already installed on the computers and we only need it once a year...

I really hate the app craze but it seems impossible to avoid. Sooo. Maybe time for a new plan with more data and storage. Ahh if only salaries ever went up like the prices of everything else. Guess I shoud apply for a job at Uniqlo buhahaha.

[dungeons-and-dragon-age]

maybe Leliana for the character analysis thing?

Aa thank you for the ask! <3

First impression

Tbh I cannot remember my first impression x'D I just know that when she said the Maker told her to accompany us my (mine, not neira's lol) reactions was "yeah sure why not" haha

Impression now

Gotta admit i haven't paid enough attention to her past Neira's playthrough to have a really strong opinion of her, but she's cool, I like her. She's got some religious dilemma and a nug obsession and likes stabbing people, so that's p neat~

Favorite moment

When she breaks that dudes neck with her thighs. Girl literally got tortured and is at the end of her strength and still terrifying as all hell

Idea for a story

Hmm not sure? Maybe how she fares as Divine (from her perspective)/ how she deals with whatever tf happens with the Inquisition after Trespasser

Unpopular opinion

Not sure if it's unpopular, I'm just going by what I've seen around my dash and discord, but I don't think Leliana necessarily makes for a better Divine than either of the other options

Favorite relationship

I love Leliana's and Shales relationship actually, it's so fun and wholesome. Also her and Josie, and because I'm biased her and Ari :)

Favorite headcanon

She knows exactly where HoF is during/before Inquisition but keeps it quiet on purpose

[amethystina]

I was tagged by @a-very-fond-farewell! Thank you so much darling 💜

1. Last song: Shishen Take On the Challenge from The Yin-Yang Master: Dream of Eternity soundtrack (which I paid a small fortune to get my hands on so you bet I've been listening to it almost non-stop ever since. The music is SO FUCKING GOOD OKAY)

2. Favorite color: Purple — which I feel should come as a surprise to no one xD

3. Currently watching: The Killing Vote, because I apparently need more dramas where the Korean public is allowed to vote on whether or not to execute people. Quite enjoying it so far! The characters are a hoot xD And I'm curious to see what they do with the Kwon Seok Joo dude.

I also just started The Guest because I want to watch it before they remove it from Netflix but BOI. That's not one I'll be able to binge, that's for sure. Horror is great but also, well, terrifying x'D

Though, I must say, I might have to take a detour and rewatch the Along With the Gods movies. I've been meaning to do so for ages and seeing Kim Dong Wook in The Guest makes the urge even stronger. Because, let me tell you, I'm SO EAGER to rewatch the movies and observe the characters now that I've seen the twist at the end of the second movie. A twist I figured out before I actually reached the reveal, sure, but I don't think that's a bad thing? Like, for real, guys. The AUDIBLE GASP I let out when I realised what the twist was going to be and then got to sit there and see it slowly dawn on the other characters? BEAUTIFUL. And it CHANGES SO MUCH. Like, I need to rewatch them because so much of what I thought I knew is now a lie! Circumstances have changed! My initial analysis might be wrong! Characters I thought I knew are now completely different! I need to do more research! I NEED TO KNOW.

(This is what happens when your brain works like mine. And one day I might tell you all about why Kang Yo Han is such a fascinating character to me, because, let me tell you, I've rarely seen a character remain so solid in his characterisation even through the kind of reveals we're given in the drama. It's fucking SPECTACULAR)

4. Currently reading: Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (I do it in bursts because it's not the kind of book I can just binge, okay? x'D), We Have Always Lived In the Castle by Shirley Jackson (I would have finished this LONG ago if it didn't give me so much anxiety (but in a good way?)) and Eld by Mats Strandberg and Sara Bergman Elfgren (though I should probably start over on this one since I was very distracted when I read the first chapter)

5. Last movie: No Regret, because why not dabble in older Korean LGBTQ+ content? It was a ride, that's for sure xD And the next movie will be The World to Come (also one I want to watch before it's removed from Netflix)

6. Sweet/spicy/savory: Either sweet or savoury — it depends on my mood, really.

7. Relationship status: Married! :D

8. Current obsession: I'm not sure if I have one right now? Though I am hoping to get back on track with that diorama thing soon. I've almost collected all the materials I need! I just need fake foliage (preferably red) and I'm going to try and buy that either tomorrow or on Saturday.

9. Last thing you googled? Why my phone kept taking only green photos. And everyone kept telling me I shouldn't have unlocked the bootloader (which I don't think can be done by accident and I sure as hell haven't done it intentionally) so in the end I just restarted it and now it works just fine xD

10. Selfie: I don't really take selfies but here's a cropped version of a drawing WIP of mine.

If you know, you know ;)

(... LOOK, the suspender-pulling had to happen eventually, okay?)

11. Currently working on: Chapter 5 of A New Dawn (Begins With Us) and, after that, it'll be either chapter 37 of Who Holds the Devil or maybe the sequel to Gravitational Pull which I'm STILL struggling to find the time to work on. I'm also working on, like, six different drawings simultaneously. Because why make things easy for myself?

Tagging: Whoever wants to do it! Tell me about yourself! :D

[amethystina]

Fanfic Stats Tag

Rules: Give us the links to your fic with the most hits, second most kudos, third most comments, fourth most bookmarks, fifth most words, and fic with the least words.

I choose to be tagged by @imafriendlydalek!

Most Hits: Who Holds the Devil (The Devil Judge) To no one's surprise. The number of hits on that fic is insane x'D Like, I literally can't wrap my brain around that number. It's just too high. Though, obviously, it's a lot of chapters, is being posted as I write it, and I've been working on it for almost two years now. So it has a lot of opportunities to accumulate a lot of hits. But, uh, still. This fic is... yeah. It's HUGE — in more ways than one. Though I wonder how many of those hits are just people refreshing it to check if I've updated it recently x'D

Second Most Kudos: Autonomy (Marvel) This one was number one for YEARS but was recently surpassed by another Marvel fic (which is also on this list!). And I'm honestly a little bummed about that because I'm very, very proud of this fic and I liked that I could say that it was also my most popular one. Though, tbh, if the trend continues, Who Holds the Devil might just breeze past both this and the number one fic eventually. Whoops x'D

Third Most Comments: Tech Support (Marvel) And this completes the trifecta of "the three big fics fighting for all the cool stats." I.e. this is the one that currently has the most kudos. Which kind of surprises me, to be honest. I love this fic, make no mistake, but I'm also not sure why it has become so popular? But I'm also not complaining, obviously ;)

Fourth Most Bookmarks: Tech Support (Marvel) It's a close race, though. One of my Teen Wolf fics is pretty close to overtaking it (especially if I check the bookmark stats on the Statistics page as opposed to the ones publically available). Again, this fic is just generally popular, I guess?

Fifth Most Words: ... fucked if I know x'D So here's the thing. I have Taming of the Wolf (Teen Wolf) which is at 105 369 words, which right now lands it in fourth place. BUT, I'm currently posting Until Death Do Us Unite (Strangers From Hell) which is fifth at the time of writing. Except I have actually finished writing this fic already, I just haven't edited and posted the last three chapters. And it currently has 105 367 words (in my document, that is, not on AO3), but more might be added in the editing process. So odds are it'll pass Taming of the Wolf but I honestly can't say for sure. Like, the margin is RIDICULOUS at this point and it's definitely going to be interesting to see where we end up xD

Least Words: Amor gignit amorem (Raven Cycle) I kind of always forget that this fic is only 3 584 words xD Though I will admit I'm being lazy here. I have shorter fics that are parts of fic collections but I REALLY don't feel like trying to compare all those. So yeah. You're getting this soft and fluffy oneshot instead.

I tag whoever wants to do it! :D

[amethystina]

your brain has the opportunity to write domestic fluff, but crave for angst it seems

I know it might seem that way, but it's really not, I promise xD I honestly really dislike angst, especially angst for the sake of angst. I have stories WITH angst in them, sure, but that's usually because I'm busy telling a story and angst is often a natural part of many conflicts.

Anyway, what I'm craving is possibilities and, to some degree, being able to explore something new that I haven't already laid the basic storyline for.

While I love Who Holds the Devil, I know EXACTLY what's going to happen in the next chapter — I just need to write it down. I even know what's going to happen in the chapter after that, and the one after that (though it gets looser and looser the further I go). And that's not very exciting, is it? I definitely wouldn't call it a chore since I love the story way too much, but it doesn't really surprise me at this point. I know exactly what I'm doing, why I doing it, and where I'm going.

But a sequel to Gravitational Pull? Why, the possibilities are endless! I have no idea what might happen! Imagine all the things I would get to write! Maybe I would be taken by surprise by something? Maybe I get to explore something new?

To quote Kang Yo Han: Possibility is like a drug.

And, right now, the thought of exploring something new gives a more exciting high than continuing down a path I can already see where it leads.

That said, I don't have any plans to write that sequel right now, though I might let the idea percolate a bit at the back of my mind. Maybe I'll find the time for it at some point.

Right now, I'm actually reading through the start of Who Holds the Devil just to get a feel for it again. Which is how I noticed that, apparently, I was sloppy when I wrote chapter 2 and for MONTHS it's said "negligent" when I intended to write "negligible." How embarrassing x'D

Also, it was a while since I last read the first couple of chapters so I'm spending half of my time going:

Like, I remember the plot and what the characters said and did just fine, but sometimes I stumble over lines and I'm genuinely surprised to find that, apparently, I wrote that. Hell, some of them are actually really good! Yay me!

Also, DANG Ga On was depressed. I get what you all mean now.

Anyhow. Yes, I admit that these new, shiny possibilities are incredibly tempting, but I've decided to double down and focus on the next chapter of Who Holds the Devil so that, hopefully, it won't take too long before I can post it. Time to get stubborn.

[amethystina]

OMG I have just finished your TDJ fic and it was truly amazing. I really love how you managed to create a convincing sequel to the canon. It's quite stellar.

But I do have a question. I hope you don't mind and please ignore me if it's spoiler, but how does the public intend what they saw of Yohan and Gaon in the last Live show? Like, does he get questions around it..? The interview I understand tried to push that button a bit, but I wonder if that effects Gaon life more than we can see

Thank you! I'm so glad you like it! <3

I try my best to make it as close to canon as possible, both in characterisation and tone. Though you haven't seen much of the actual plot yet x'D I won't be able to make it quite as dramatic as the drama, but things are going to get a little more exciting soon.

As for your question, the answer isn't a spoiler exactly, but it won't really be addressed for another couple of chapters, either. The simple answer is that, yes, it affects Ga On's life more than we can see, but he chooses to ignore it. Which, since this is Ga On's POV, is why we don't see much of it.

While watching the drama, I got the feeling that one of the parts Ga On disliked the most was lying to the public and trying to influence their emotions. He also wasn't all that interested in finding out what they actually felt at any given time. He HAD to in order to help Yo Han, but he rarely looked for it outside of that.

There have been hints here and there explaining what the public thinks — Jin Joo pointing out that Ga On underestimates how interested the public is in him, Ga On being so adamant on everyone only wanting gossip about him and Yo Han (in a non-romantic sense) — but nothing in depth. And that's because Ga On has avoided it to the best of his ability. Partly because he, himself, isn't sure what he feels about Yo Han, so how the hell is he supposed to answer questions about it? To some degree, his isolation at the start of the fic comes from the fact that he's been pulling further and further away from EVERYTHING, since he doesn't like being recognised and talked to on the street.

Because there are people who try to do that, yes. And there are several theories floating around in the media, on message boards etc. Some believe he was Yo Han's fully aware co-conspirator and it was all an act, others believe he's the shining hero the government try to paint him as, meaning that the last live stream was Ga On heroically trying to prevent a disaster. And then, of course, there are ones who speculate in-depth about the TRUE extent of their relationship because, Ga On, honey, you really went all out when offering to die with Yo Han x'D

But there isn't one single answer to what the public thinks of him and Yo Han. The majority are willing to put the blame mostly on Yo Han, however, since he was clearly the driving force behind it all, while Ga On becomes the younger, more idealistic associate judge who accidentally got pulled into the chaos. Which, as a result, means that, for the most part, people assume the two of them had a deep, platonic relationship (initiated and maybe even orchestrated by Yo Han), but it ended badly what with Yo Han's actions. But there's also some juicy, scandalous gossip about forbidden love going around, depending on where you look. But, on the whole, Ga On's public image is positive despite his association with Yo Han. Just like Yo Han intended, basically.

This will be addressed fairly soon, anyway, when Ga On has to face the fact that he has to actively work on his image too, not just the Justice Project's.

And Ga On will hate every second of it x'D