#hehe elric rewriting >:]]]]]

[ungodlysaltyinfrastructure]

What up gang 😎

Nothing heartbreaking here. Nuh uh. No sir-ey! Just a nice happy family 👍

(Yall getting a double whammy of an alt version of the first one)

Ok, time for incoherent ramblings.

Since AR 14 I've been thinking alot about Alux's parents. More in the sense of, what the fuck is going on with Alux's mom

The circumstances of Alux's mother's death are extremely suspicious.

She was

Murdered

It was IN FRONT OF ALUX

It seemed like it was an ambush of some kind.

There seems to be no clear reason

Why she died is ambiguous. Was it a planned attack? Or did Alux and his mother get tangled in the crossfire of a battle that didn't originally involve them?

If it was planned, why only go for Alux's mom????? Did they kill his mom, and then not realize he was just standing there??????

Or maybe during the attack Alux hid? And the following shots of his dead mom we see from his perspective is the aftermath of everything, and it had died down?

If this attack was purely meant for his mom, why?

If the QUEEN OF COZEN had DIED, what would the other kingdoms say?

What the hell did Hamatria say??????

Could the queen's death be, if not THE, then one of the inciting incidents that lead to the rising tensions between Hamatria and Cozen?

Mind you, all of this shit would have been like, 15 years ago. Maybe 20 if Alux is a bit older. So like. Wtf was going in back then.

Now, there is one thing. And it's that, how do magic users come to be? Is it genetic? Or can it be manually learned? With Alux, it may be genetic. (Mother fucker took one sip of pink and then BUSTed green crystals all over the place, he did NOT learn that manually) And if so, it would be from his mom. (Elric fucking died by a stab wound and Alux seems to have super healing abilities. Either Elric is not a magic user, or he is not the father.)

Either way, it seemed like Alux's mom had the Magic Gene™️

in a kingdom that's racist to Magic users.

…

Maybe Elric didn't hate magic users as much as Alux would put it.

Maybe he was just weary of Alux discovering his magic abilities in a kingdom that would probably lynch you if you were a magic user.

Maybe Elric didn't really like Petro, not because he was gay- *cough* sorry, a magic user, but that he was teaching his son about magic when his son has magical powers.

Not gonna lie, if I had lost my wife for being a magic user, and now my son was most likely one, and he was set to become king of a kingdom that *has the reputation of not liking magic users* when I died, I would be scared shitless for him.

That actually brings me to a question, did Elric start this whole “Magic user bad” thing in Cozen, or was it already within its culture and he just had to abide by it so he wouldn't get overthrown? Eh. Either way,

Whether or not it was a consequence of Elrics actions, Alux would definitely not have been prepared for being king, (That's kind why he's going on this self discovery adventure) so like…

Maybe… At least we have a motive for Elric's action of keeping Alux sheltered and inside the Castel? Granted, if Elric started the whole Magic racism thing then it's his own fault his son is not ready, but 🤷

That actually brings me to this.

Did Elric ever feel guilt for not being there for his family when they were in danger? Did he ever feel empathy for Alux or regret in his decision to keep him inside? Did he feel shame for not taking better care of his son? Did he sometimes feel like he did everything wrong but can't go back?

Did he ever feel alone after his wife died?

I'm actually kind of sad that Elric died so early on. A Lot could have been done with him. But maybe we'll see that in flashbacks. But that does leave room for speculation that could *in canon* be left up to the viewer to interpret so :DDDDDDDDDDDD I'm gonna rewrite Elric!1!!1!! Or maybe, add onto his character that wouldn't be shown within the series. Yippee🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[exilethegame]

This probably sits in headcanon territory but can the MC burn all their old belongings (armor, weapon, stuff in their room) before they leave for the mission? Or even burn down their whole room a la the Elric brothers? I feel like one of my MCs (the pheonix if you couldnt guess hehe) would want to leave with a totally clean slate, get some closure, end the old relationships, THEN start to move on

I plan to add an option to destroy the room in the rewrite, and I imagine there will be some fire involved for phoenix commanders. However, MC won't be able to completely burn down the entirety of their room-- that would be quite the fire hazard for the rest of the palace.

As for MC's main belongings (armor + weaponry) you'll just have to wait and see what happens to it in future chapters!

[that-crazy-five-foot-two-chick]

Sometimes writing is hard, but other times the process of letting words flow from your fingers, living vicariously through the characters and experiencing their experiences, is so incredibly enjoyable.

So my Fanfic Writer Friday question this week is:

If you could go back in time and rewrite a fic simply to relive the experience of writing it, what fic would it be?

As much as I loved writing Blind Trust and was hehe-ing at everything I wrote, I would not want to relive writing that because I was crunched for school and I was trying to cram write it for an event deadline. If not for the surrounding circumstances, then yeah, totally!

Writing: would recommend. Writing till 5-6am on three separate nights, possibly in a row: would not recommend.

Honestly, my attention/stamina span is pretty low, hence why I steer towards oneshots around 1k words. That's typically about as much as I can handle in one go. All that to say, I love the writing process, but I also wrote just to get the dang idea out so I don't have it nagging at me in the back of my head. So idk that I would relive writing a lot of them, but some honorable mentions that I really loved writing were Waste It on Me, Golden Eyes and Golden Drinks, You're Gonna Pay, and a bunch of chapters of Elric Escorts!