#deep thomas lore™

[oddfamiliar]

..what's thomas?

Oh boy, I get to chaotically stumble in trying to explain PNG dragon game meme history, bear with me.

So back in 2021, Flight Rising had a site event called Dustcarve Dig which eventually led to the reveal of a new modern dragon breed, the Obelisk (modern dragon releases are bigger events than ancient dragon releases which drop every 6 months or so but we don't have time for that ‐). In the meantime, a joke started that we would instead find humans, which led to this historic post/image

One mockup of a stock model in a suit led to an icon

Anyways, the joke popped off and eventually led to the main site forums, and before the irony could turn into actual sincere desire for humans to be added to the site, the mods had to make it clear

Lore-wise and site-wise, humans will never exist in Sornieth (if you don't count the bipedal species that lived during the Second Age, but they all died when their magical nuclear reactor blew up and we don'thave time for this –), with the closest things we'll get being the beastclans that have human characteristics (centaurs, maren, harpies, etc).

But we still live in hope

So it's become tradition at this point to say that every anniversary or site event, they'll finally drop Thomas and make him canon

Pretty sure I mucked up some info, so other FR users feel free to correct me or mention stuff I forgot

Anyways, Thomas 💖

[unstoppable-ratlord]

Charles is talking about his acting career to Thomas <33333

Ur OC is so skrukly it took me away from my exam revision to draw this /pos anyway please infodump im so invested in his lore already.

Like how does the pining start?? Which characters is he closest to??? LITERALLY ANYTHING he’s so cool 🙏

OH MY GOODNESSSSS MY BABY BOYYYY <3333 LOOK AT HIMM HES BEAUTIFUL AHHHHHH *CRIES RLLY LOUDLY AND GROSSLY* 💕💕

Fr though it's so amazing to see that there's someone as invested in Charlie as I am. A sincere thank you for enabling me to keep yapping about my cringefail son I will use this for evil <3

the endless deranged ramblings of a madman below please beware 👇

I definitely think he has a pretty good reputation amongst the other ghosts, like I see it as being that they all like him as just being a sweet little guy, but he doesn't really have any close bonds to any of them in particular, except maybe Pat and/or Kitty, with them all being quite sweet and optimistic.

I feel like he'd definitely get along with the Captain, them having almost a sort of mentor/student dynamic, I feel like Charlie sees him as a sort of role model or maybe even a father figure, as Charlie was never old enough to fight in the war when he was alive, despite always wanting to

Thomas, I think would at the very least appreciate him, with Charlie being the only one who'd willingly listen to his poetry or occasional ramblings, but I don't think they'd really be considered friends. Hw might not entirely know why Charlie's always so willing to listen to him, but certainly doesn't argue against having a captive audience

On the other hand, Julian has definitely clocked Charlie's feelings for Thomas and would definitely make a joke or two about it, much to Charlie's shock and dismay that he'd even suggest such a thing (I love them having a little petty rivalry sm ♥️)

Now that you've made it this far, here have some slightly old doodles of him before we continue

Onto Charles himself, my guy seems to have no clue about his own feelings for Thomas, (though maybe he knows the truth deep down somewhere and doesn't want to admit it??) he truly believes it's just a simple admiration (it's not 💔) so it's kinda hard to pinpoint when his feelings started developing, though I personally quite like the idea of it being quite quick after they first meet, though that may be just because I find the idea of "Charlie dies and instantly has a bisexual awakening" quite amusing. Though is do understand that ninety years is quite a long time to be unknowingly pining after this one guy so idrk

If/when he does figure it out, however, he would most definitely have a small breakdown, not just because he definitely has some severe internalised homophobia, but he'd also still want to love his wife, despite the fact she killed him. Which I find to be quite a more sad part of his character, how he continues to want to love and forgive Penny despite the fact she literally murdered him (I do kind of like them as a couple though so I have been thinking over making his poisoning and accident or not because I really want them to be cute together without me feeling bad about what happens aggh)

Anyway I feel I should stop so there you have it, if you want to continue to feel completely normal™ about him, he does have an official theme song playlist if you wanna give it a listen heheheh

Also uuugh yeah even though him and Thomas may be canonically very much one-sided, I definitely do like to think of them being a couple sometimes, or at least Charles having his feelings returned. Charlie may not be able to handle all those sonnets and endless words of praise though

Also I've decided. their ship name is screenwriter

Do with that as you will

[kae-karo]

For the writer asks: 19 and 39, only if you feel comfortable!

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19. Tell me a story about your writing journey. When did you start? Why did you start? Were there bumps along the way? Where are you now and where are you going?

ngl i think i started (conceptually) where a lot of people start in terms of writing fanfic, where i was searching for a Concept that i couldn't find but wanted to read about, then had the realization that like...these are just people!! i could do this, i'm a person!!! also wow this got really long i'm so sorry i'm gonna put a 'keep reading' in here cause this is deep kae lore lmao

but i'll back up a tiny bit as well lmao and give u some kae lore - when i was younger, my sister was the 'creative writing' person in the family, i was the math nerd who definitely didn't have the creative chops to write (and hey, my sis was better at it than me, right? so why even try lmao) and to be totally fair, i was really not very skilled at the essay-type writing i was expected to do for english classes/college essays/etc, which i assumed implied that i'd be pretty bad at creative writing as well

fast forward a couple years, i have an Idea™ for a story (like an original story). but obviously, i can't write! so i hit up my sister during a family trip over the holidays and i'm like LOOK bestie i can't write but i CAN get a plot going here, can you write it for me? and she got all excited and we worked together to hash out a plot and stuff, it was good bonding time lmao. ultimately, it never ended up getting written bc she was still in high school and drowning with academics and i was in college and then trying to find a job, etc etc

but like i think that did it for me, that was the thing that really got my head spinning around the idea of engaging with creative writing as like...a thing i might actually be good at. not doing the writing ofc, because i was Bad At Writing™ per my previous experiences, but i wanted to get into the publishing industry cause i figured i could edit manuscripts or something and be Close to the creative writing process (don't @ me i really didn't understand much abt the industry lmao)

so, okay, cool, how to do that? well i was getting burned out on my job at the time and found one at a publishing company, but it was technically under a non-publishing-related sub-company. but hey, that's closer to a publishing company and might open some doors for me, right? so i went for it, and ultimately, that was a good thing, cause it was boring as shit

like the sheer amount of lack of work for this job was extremely mind-numbing, to the point that i spent a good 75% of my time watching youtube vids cause i was just looking for ANY mental stimulation lmao. i'd seen vines (i was late to the vine craze okay) of thomas sanders before, and i saw that he was on youtube, so i crashed through a bunch of his vids. i was also on tumblr but very much lurking, not very participatory, and i stumbled upon a post from a friend i'd followed in college who was a fan of dan and phil (hi if ur reading this hope ur good !! i still think abt that time i wore a lazy cat costume with cat whiskers drawn on my face and u asked me if i was a fan of them and i just had no clue what u were talking abt but thanks for setting off the next several years of me getting into dnp and, subsequently, writing)

ANYWAY so fast forward 4-5mo or so, i finally learn what fanfiction is (yes, this took me til 2017 okay) and i read a bunch to fill all this massively boring spare time i have sitting around at work. and then i have an idea, but the fanfic doesn't exist, and i'm like....lightbulb, i know i can't really write, but what if maybe i give it a try and see? i've read some stuff that isn't like...jaw-dropping top-tier incredible (and i mean this in the most genuine way, i am SO grateful for amateur quality writing bc i think that really shattered my internal narrative about 'only Good Writers should write and post', whatever the hell a 'good writer' is)

and thus, i wrote my first fic. which i then posted on wattpad (lmao) before learning that ao3 was a thing, and was purportedly Much Better, so i crossposted it there. after the first...2 or 3 fics? i posted exclusively there. they were all one-shots, which was about the extent of my confidence and ability at the time like...just getting started writing. and like i just went back and reread the first like...plot-based oneshot (the prior was more poetic and less of a Story) and...i mean i have some commentary for past-me about switching tenses mid-sentence and stuff but i think i did pretty alright for having no creative writing experience lmao

bumps along the way...i'll be honest, the dnp fandom at the time i was writing for it was extremely wholesome and supportive, like i couldn't have asked for a better place to grow my confidence in writing. it was much smaller than the other fandoms i've since written for, and that made it very intimate and easy to gain an audience by word of mouth. during that time, i really don't think i hit any bumps in the road? creatively-speaking, i was kind of brimming with years upon years of unused creative energy that needed a place to go and finally had some sort of outlet, plus the extensive time to devote to cultivating it as a passion

it was really only as dnp slowed down on their own content creation that my interest ended up waning, and as i've said many times, i tend to follow the trail of inspiration - no inspiration = no writing, for the most part. there was a stretch of time between my last dnp fic and my first bnha fic where i really was just sort of floating, which sucked at the time but i now understand how that manifested and was able to recognize it when it rolled around again with my transition from writing for bnha to writing for genshin

i've definitely had patches of time since then where it feels like i'm creatively exhausted, but i've learned how to recognize that as my brain's need to pause and recharge (i wrote a poem abt it actually - x) and along with that comes a bit of self-reflection and acknowledgment that i am not an infinite creative well, and that spawning tons of ideas in my earlier writing career was more a product of having years of pent-up creative energy that needed a release lmao

i've also definitely had ideas that fought me a little bit, which is never fun lmao especially if i'm super committed to them, or excited abt them. i think that's just a product of like. being a creative person and Having Ideas lmao they're not all gonna work out perfectly every time sldkjfklsjfdl

i think that's a pretty decent assessment of where i am now as well? i take ideas as they come as much as i'm able, try to rest when i know i need it (even when i don't wANNA), and follow my inspiration wherever it leads!

as for where i'm going? sldkflksf your guess is as good as mine lmaooo at the moment, i know i have a LOT of genshin ideas that i'm either in the middle of or want to work on, so i suspect fandom-wise i'll be here for a while lmao. from a like...writing writing standpoint, i'm just gonna keep following my inspiration and see where it takes me lmao. i try not to treat writing as like a "how do i get Better" sort of thing? it's my passion, it's my hobby, i'm enjoying it and i enjoy the way i do it, and so far i've been able to create the things i want to create. if i ever run into a roadblock where i can't do what i want to do, then perhaps i'll seek out ways to grow in the direction that'll help me accomplish what i want to accomplish, but until then, i'll keep doing what i'm doing lmao

39. What keeps you writing when you feel like giving up?

well tbh i feel like 'giving up' can be interpreted in a few different ways - i'll be totally honest, i've never wanted to give up writing. like. this is it for me lmao at least for the foreseeable future. it brings me a lot of joy, even on the rough days

as i've mentioned, i've had stories that fight with me, and sometimes it's a lack of inspiration (in which case, i set it aside and move on and hope there's a day where i'll be inspired to work on it again), sometimes it's an aspect of the story that i feel is important but can't make it work (in which case i usually spend an hour talking about it aloud until i've worked my way out of the issue)

and sometimes i just get burnt out, which happens every now and then, and i detest it bc i love writing but sometimes i just have to step back and stop for a little bit. but by no means does it equate to giving up entirely - usually it's just a feeling like everything is Bad and Wrong and i can't get myself to do words or when i do they're all Wrong

when that's specific to the story (which i have had happen before too lmao) usually that's a sign that i just need to leave it alone for a little and return to it with a fresh mind - it's never as bad as i think it is while i'm in the middle of it lmao

but none of that means that i don't still feel motivated, or have things that motivate me. a lot of it is that this is my only creative hobby that i do consistently, but i have a LOT of creative energy. so it all tends to funnel into this, and it's emotionally satisfying to manifest something that lives in my head. also i won't lie i write for myself, ultimately, but sharing with other people and getting positive feedback is really encouraging, like knowing that other ppl had fun with the same little brainrot that i did is a really fun feeling

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