#sgefanfic

[crysieofwoodsbeyond]

Realized I never posted the link for The Young Wizard (the second part of my Nicola fanfic series.) So have fun and enjoy if you'd like to see how the story goes:

The Young Wizard (second part):

The Princess Knight (first part):

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I called your name 'til the fever broke

A tagatha fanfic

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“It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.”-Sylvia Plath

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Everything is fine. Everyone is safe. The world is not ending. There is nothing to worry about. That's what Agatha tells herself every night, holding onto the hand of her husband as if her life depended on it, softening her sobs with a pillow so he doesn't hear her cries.

She can't close her eyes, she can't fall asleep, because if she did, what's there to stop her entire world from shattering into pieces and fading away?

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hurt/comfort, some angst, post-otk setting

tw- mentions of death and violence

Avaible on (click for links):

Wattpad

AO3

[caitlin666]

Modern “Surviving A Fairytale” Characters  (At High School)

Catrina: Loves reading and YouTube (especially random creepypasta horror stories and cat videos!). Is a huge introvert but can speak her mind when need be, is nice most of the time but WILL smart-mouth you if you cross her. She’s a part of debate group and student council at school. Listens to mostly rock or chill indie with the occasional pop song. Typically seen wearing a leather or denim jacket, combat boots, and ripped jeans. Can sometimes be seen wearing a hoodie, leggings, and sneakers when she can’t be bothered.

Rose: Really chill and sweet, total band geek, definitely wins tons of awards at school, smiles a lot. She’s the head of pride group and constantly advocates for LGBT rights. LIstens to a mix of bubblegum pop and chill indie. Typically seen wearing flannels, overalls, denim jackets, and sneakers. Similar to Catrina, can also sometimes be seen wearing a hoodie, leggings, and sneakers when she can’t be bothered.

Yena: Really sassy, plays tons of sports, walks around school playing kpop or rap music on her speaker. Seems rude but is nice to her friends and/or when you get to know her. She’s captain of the fencing team (just like in my fanfic!). She’s typically seen wearing a graphic tee, leggings, sneakers, and a couple of tattoos. Will also wear a leather jacket and combat boots (similar to Catrina!) if she’s feeling extra badass that day. 

Emmalyn- The queen bee at school with perfect hair, makeup, and nails. She’s head of student council and is seen wearing tons of pink and carrying a dog in her handbag. She constantly flirts with Alexander and is almost always mean to people. She typically wears a pink tee, designer jeans, and super expensive designer ballet flats. Think Regina George and Sharpay Evans combined into one big monster. That’s Emmalyn.

Alexander- Popular jock at school. Most of the girls at school have a crush on him (aside from Catrina who thinks he’s gross and Harriet who couldn’t care less!) He’s part of the fencing team and basketball and football captain. He typically wears his letterman jacket, a polo, jeans, and sneakers.

Keira- Emmalyn’s second in command. Dresses like a clone of Emmalyn but definitely doesn’t act like it. Head of Fashion Club and also part of debate group like Catrina. Pretty much a wolf in sheep’s clothing as everyone thinks she’s super nice but as soon as she opens her mouth you know she’s mean. Was a Trump supporter for a bit until Milla convinced her not to be.

Milla- Emmalyn’s third in command. She styles student’s hair at lunchtime. She’s the captain of the soccer team and loves playing soccer in her spare time. She’s the founder and leader of the “hair and makeup club” at school. Seems like the follower type but can stand up for people when need be. She sometimes wears fashionable clothing like Emmalyn and Keira but can wear casual clothing when she’s either practicing sports or when she simply can’t be bothered that day. 

Scarlet- Take Modern Emmalyn but make her the head of the drama club instead of the student council, and a complete “popular wannabe” instead of actually popular. That’s pretty much Scarlet.

Harriet- She’s the head of punk rock band group (and Catrina loves watching her and her band perform, obviously!). She despises Valentine’s Day and sticks skull stickers on students lockers on that day (Catrina sometimes helps with that- lol). She’s that one badass who all the students all collectively love and yet are afraid of at the same time. In terms of her outfit? Think what Catrina wears (leather jacket, ripped jeans, and combat boots) but WAY more studs and actual band tees and instead of just casual t shirts. Her and Catrina LOVE pranking other students (Catrina is just slightly more subtle at it!)

Taylor- The sweetest girl at school (generally- she can be badass when she really wants to be!). She’s the head of baking group and constantly hands out chocolate and cupcakes to various students. She’s super extroverted and loves trying out for the annual school musical and talent show. Sometimes her, Catrina, and Rose like to bake together after school. She typically wears overalls and sneakers or cute preppy style clothes.

[crysieofwoodsbeyond]

TPK Q&A: Author and Editor Edition with @pumpkinpaperweight

Questions for Kate from Crystal

1.) What were your first thoughts of the first few chapters?

Was nice to see some of Nicola in Gavaldon bc that’s something we never saw for ourselves in the series, anything about Nicola’s past was either mentioned in passing or through another character, so good to see it directly! Also appreciate that we get right back into School stuff, I appreciate it not messing around too much lol.

2.) What drew you to the story?

I always like fics where people pick a side character and give them their dues, and Nicola was so damn hard done by in the series that I really think she deserves a fic or several with her as the main focus! Also I like seeing people play around in the sandbox of the school, there’s a lot of potential there with talents and so on.

3.) Do you have a favorite character in TPK so far?

Very fond of Lakim! Also not exactly a new character but I like Professor Espada’s increasein prominence, that’s fun since he’s not around much in the books.

4.) Do you have a favorite chapter in TPK?

Chapter 7 was nice; I really like extra worldbuilding and trivia about SGE stuff so all the historical bits you made up about other kingdoms were super interesting. Also the Circus of Talents was interesting to see what everyone was competing with, I find talents really hard to come up with but there was a massive variety which was really fun.

5.) If you had to choose one of the special talents shown in TPK, which would you choose and why?

Etain’s talent to manipulate shadows of others to attack them was super cool, really liked that one! Spooky. Realistically I think I would probably actually manage to blow myself up somehow but it sounds cool in theory lol.

6.) What else would you like to see explored in the TPK series?

Anything further than first year is of interest to me, since no one often gets past that! The internships and stuff could be really good to play around with.

7.) Any final thoughts for Crystal or the audience?

Enjoyed editing this, thank you!! Really enjoyed the creativity w the talents and backstories and worldbuilding, the type of thing I always go in for, so great to see!

Questions for Crystal:

Have you been planning on writing this for a long time, or was it a more spontaneous thing?

 TPK was the combination of my desire for Nicola to have a story of her own and a dream that introduced me to Lakim and his backstory.

How did you come up with the OCs for this fic? Or are they previous characters you already had?

 If you would believe it most of the Odd Evers came from dreams I had around the time I contemplated writing TPK

How have you found writing a multi-chapter fic, since they’re notorious for being a bit difficult? 

I would say it was of medium difficulty. I find writing papers much harder and they have outlines!

Who’s your favourite of your OCs? (if you can pick!)

 Lakim and Natasha would be tied for me. Lakim because he is everything I wanted to be represented as a black boy in this world. He is caring, loyal, expressive and fully enjoys his interests even if some would say it’s “girly” he would say “and what’s wrong with that?” Natasha is a lot like me in many ways. She’s reserved and knowledgeable but when she’s excited she’ll be so loud most people would be surprised how high her voice can be.

What’s something in the future you’d like to explore in the SGE world / the Woods? Could be a place or a concept or another character, anything. 

I’m setting up to thoroughly explore the politics of the Woods because I feel it wasn’t well utilized in the series. This question has a lot of room for me to give spoilers but what I can say is TPK holds quite a few secrets to Lakim’s past.

Are there other fandoms you’d like to write fic for in the future? If not, are there other SGE fics you’d wanna do?

I’m actually planning to post original works through ao3 just to get practice. When the PJO series comes out I’ll probably write short stories for it. I would love to write some Tagatha stories, especially ones that tie into TPK.

What were the most difficult (and easiest!) bits of writing TPK?

The most difficult bits would have to be the descriptions and dialogue. The descriptions were very hard for me to put in words though I knew exactly what I wanted to describe. A lot of times, Kate would edit chapters I wrote at night and I would be so embarrassed by it. The dialogue was hard because I really wanted to make sure it was understandable and sounded like something each character would say.

Any other comments or things you wanna say that you’ve not had a chance to?

There is far more TPK in store as the story continues the Odd Evers will enter their second year at the School for Good and Evil. If you have The Ever Never Handbook that will give you some ideas of what to expect but don’t get too comfortable as a story comes with quite a few twists.

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Another chapter of dsdf is out!!

Here's some art I did for it:

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New chapter of Dead squirrels and dysfunctional families is published!!

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After a long and stressful fight with Wattpad, the final chapter of dsdf is published!!

Thank you all for the support and nice comments I've been getting, it really means a lot to me!

The story was really fun to write, so you should expect more fanfics from me :D

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Dead squirrels and dysfunctional families

I Highschool AU Hestadil I

Hester moved to another country to escape her past. Her plan to avoid trouble and other people went terribly wrong after she got onto the bad side of Arbed boys, self proclaimed kings of her new school, and they've decided to make her life hell.

 She needs allies, and as much as she hates to admit it, she's grown to like Anadil and Dot, the two girls that always try to help her, no matter how hard she tries to push them away.

 Wattpad

 AO3

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TW: PHYSICAL AND EMOTIONAL ABUSE, UNDERAGE SMOKING AND DRINKING

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Contains mild OTK spoilers

[im-gay-and-mentally-unstable]

Another dsdf chapter is published!!

(I'm tempted to publish everything at once but I'm trying to keep up my publishing schedule, somebody stop me lmao)

[crysieofwoodsbeyond]

The Young Wizard has so many heartfelt moments. I'm having a blast writing it 😁. I'm including Agatha's and Nicola's friendship which is feeling the void in my heart that I had from TCY. TYW is definitely going to be something special for me.

[crysieofwoodsbeyond]

Posting this to Tumblr: We're back at it with The Young Wizard. First, I must thank @pumpkinpaperweight for always being the first to root for my babies. I cannot put into words how much you mean to the continuation of this story. Now I'm going to tell y'all now The Young Wizard will be VERY cheesy but I promise it's worth it for what the future holds. If you haven't read The Princess Knight now is the time to do so because The Young Wizard will make you feel like you jumped off a cliff without it.

[crysieofwoodsbeyond]

The Princess Knight Chapter 6 Commentary

Boys Bomding in a Pool came from wanting Lakim and Willam to connect after their uneasy introduction. I really loved Willam being overprotective of Nicola because I felt like after being in the Tale of Sophie and Agatha together they would develop a close friendship. This was a really hard chapter for me to write because I wanted it to be believable that two guys were having this conversation but I've heard guys don't usually have open conversations like this. I worried a lot before deciding on writing a conversation these two characters would have and that made it easier. I really wanted to highlight Lakim being caught of guard by Willam thinking he was hitting on Nicola. I always felt somewhat disappointed in the original series for not building up the romantic interests for the students in a way that felt reasonable or giving enough clues that the audience can pick up. One of my favorite mediums to enjoy fairytales as a child was the HBO show "Happily Ever After: Fairytales for Every Child" and many of the fairytales were interpreted to include diverse characters who would often find true love through forming a relationship which blew my mind as a kid.

[crysieofwoodsbeyond]

The Princess Knight Chapter 5 Commentary

An Eventful Afternoon lived up to it's title in my opinion. I really enjoyed writing the Odd Evers friendship dynamic. I always liked playful teasing my own friends so I wrote that in between Nicola and Willam. After rereading this chapter I realized this was the chapter I forgot to correct Willam's name 😅. I hope I accomplished showing that Marianna is the extrovert in the group because she gets straight to the point in this chapter. Having Lakim stand up for himself and his new friends in the middle of the Clearing was inspired from a thought I had when I was thinking about my school years. I had never really seen a guy admit what type of people he wanted to be around in school most of them just went with the flew but it never ended up good.

Aside from the characters, I loved writing about the food. The food in SGE was always so creative to me so I had a doozy creating different ideas for the menu.

[crysieofwoodsbeyond]

The Princess Knight Chapter 4 Commentary

With Damage Control I really wanted to start to build a relationship between Professor Espada, Lakim and Nicola. I thought of all the teachers he had the most potential to be a silly father figure. I also wanted to show Anemone being a capable dean because I always felt she was just used as the butt of a joke instead of someone who worked their butt of to get to their position. Maybe I took it too seriously but hey what can I say I'm writing fanfiction for Nicola so of course I take certain things seriously. Also writing Lakim admitting that he was the reason Nathaniel went flying was just my way of planting seeds that Lakim is a really Good guy. A cut above the rest if you will.

[crysieofwoodsbeyond]

The Princess Knight Chapter 3 Commentary

Chapter 3: Sword Fight with a Wizard

Lakim has finally been properly introduced!

I knew there would be an explosion in this chapter but I couldn't figure out how to bring everything I wanted to add together until I remembered Lakim is a wizard. So I had to figure out how Lakim would cause the explosion so why not have him duel with Nicola.

Also I just want to rant about how much I love Lakim. I honestly can not wait to write more of his character so more people can be on the Lakim train.

I'm glad I was able to write Nicola being confident in Swordplay because I really wanted to utilize her being good in sports plus she was a knight.

[crysieofwoodsbeyond]

The Princess Knight Chapter 2 Commentary

Chapter 2: Who Am I? I wanted to explore how the Tale of Sophie and Agatha would affect Nicola's self-esteem and school life. The characters that I was really concerned about were Marianna and Natasha. I already had their characters mapped out in my head but I was worried that they would come of as just Nicola clones. So I did my best to write them as genuine friends of Nicola's that share similar interests. Nathaniel my favorite jerk I have a lot more that I want to share about him but that will come later.