#terrence the earthworm spiral hill's mud farmer

[lea-andres]

Who would you say is your favorite minor character in your work (i.e. a Red Shirt or background character with less than 10 lines of dialogue)?

Terrence the Earthworm, Spiral Hill's Mud Farmer technically counts, because I'm pretty certain he's either had 3 or 4 lines of dialogue, but you could make the argument he doesn't count because he's A: my fiancé's character, and B: my fiancé wants him to do more things.

I think she had more than 10 lines of dialogue, so she probably doesn't count either, but little Pixie the Butterfly was fucking adorable. She pretty much exists purely because with my time gap between canon and my fics (6 years) none of the Sonic Fan Club kids were young enough for what I wanted in that scene. So I gave the butterfly that looks like Dot from Animaniacs a baby sister.

I'd also have to count how many lines of dialogue he had, but one of my idiot archaeology puppies Brutus the Bulldog appeared way back at the very beginning. My archaeology puppies were banished from my lore for being cringe, but @bitter-sweet-coffee has been encouraging me to bring them back. He might appear again (with his siblings!) At the very end... So he probably doesn't qualify too.

Here's one that probably qualifies: that poor bluebird or blue jay or whatever I said she was working in the coffee shop in the... Second chapter??? The one who watched Fang pour booze into his coffee right there at the counter after she handed it off to him and said nothing because she's probably not paid enough to deal with Fang's bullshit. If she had more than 10 lines to just serve as a means for the Hooligans to find out the Mineral Museum existed I'll be shocked. 😂

[seagull-scribbles]

Oh worm?

Spent this summer talking with @authorleaandres about designing this Worm OC, with cursed prompts such as “perpetually expressionless” and “stapled on limbs”

[lea-andres]

Guys, @notquitejosh and I just had the most amazing argument about whether or not you could substitute a Wisp in for Chao Kickball.

Pray that I remember how it went later, it was MAJOR Fang energy coming out of Josh. 😂😂😂

Although he's insisting it's more accurate for Terrence to say. You guys will have to ask Josh, but according to him Terrence was horribly out of character in the last chapter. 😔

[lea-andres]

7, 16, 17, 18 :)

7. If you use song lyrics, which artist’s songs did you pull from the most?

Hmmm... I'm not using every single song in the BugBear playlist in WtDMtN (some will spill over into MLY, which is gonna be WtDMtN's direct sequel), and with the exception of Hozier (who has 2 songs) every artist is on here once.

BUT, Girl in the Tower gets referenced four fucking times (once as a chapter title, and it appears three in the fic itself), so I'm gonna give it to... *Googles it* Mark Seibert. (He worked for Sierra, this song was in the game King's Quest 6.)

16. What’s your most common “Additional Tags” tag?

I only have the one fic, so it's hard to gauge, but I have a feeling "Espio is my favorite Sonic character therefore he deserves to suffer" is going to stick around. Poor guy can't cut a break ever.

17. Your favorite character to write this year?

Bean or Fang, holy shit, they're both so funny.

18. The character that gave you the most trouble writing this year?

My lovely fiancé Josh is very picky about what can be done with his OC Terrence the Earthworm Spiral Hill's Mud Farmer, so I'm going to jokingly give it to him. The guy's on par with Shadow when it comes to guidelines on how to use him. /JK 🤪

[lea-andres]

Genuine question regarding a certain earthworm oc

Does he have an actual design? I want to draw him and I don't remember if he's ever been described somewhere

I could just draw an unhinged Creature but I wanted to check before I went ham

No one tell Josh... But I'm commissioning art of the wormy boi from @seagull-scribbles as a gag gift for my fiancé's birthday! He won't see this (or the art itself, if Seagull decides to post it!) unless he gets tagged, so no one tag him!!! 😂

So, uh, design in progress? I'm not sure if Seagull wants first dibs at drawing Terrence or not. I'm giving my fiancé their art no matter what, so I don't care either way, but if they care I'd like to honor that!

[lea-andres]

Guys, we need to bully @notquitejosh into writing companion fics about what his OC, Terrence the Earthworm Spiral Hill's Mud Farmer, is up to in the background of my fics.

We were pitching ideas back and forth last night, and I fucking died then, and I'm dying again now thinking about them. 😂😂😂

I'll give you guys a hint. Do you watch the TV show Fargo? Lorne Malvo. That's your hint. 😂

[lea-andres]

Is Terrance named that bc Terra/Earth and he's a worm or did Mr Josh just want a name that most ppl don't use

Either way if my bf and I aren't like you and your fiance in the future what's even the point

Terrence the Earthworm Spiral Hill's Mud Farmer (and yes that is his full name! 😂) wasn't named by any intelligent thought process. At least not from what @notquitejosh and I can recall. We just came up with him while laughing like idiots. He started out as just this one note joke character that just wanted the Sonic characters to wrestle in his mud pits like an absolute creep, but he's veered off into a "sinisterly sows the seeds of chaos and commits heinous crimes in the background" direction, which makes him even fucking funnier to us. 😂

Also, awww. 🥺 I wish you and your bf the best.

[lea-andres]

So... While my lovely fiancé was helping me brainstorm for my fics, he proposed a (definitely a joke) OC to have appear in WtDMtN, and I'm making it happen. 😂

Keep an eye out for Terrence the Earthworm guys, when that chapter eventually crawls out of writer's block hell and onto AO3, he's a mud farmer that lives in Spiral Hill and is my fiancé's first ever Sonic OC! 🥰🥰🥰

(*we were laughing for ages about Terrence the Earthworm, the mud farmer*

Me: Hey, hon, guess what?

My fiancé: What?

Me: You have a Sonic OC now! 😂😂😂

My fiancé: *look of horror* OH NOOOOO-)