Been doing a lot of TPN stuff recently, so might as well do a sideblog dedicated to it–
Sup! I’m Sal (they/he), a writer and drawer. My main artblog is @sallertiafabrica (mostly post Ladybug PV there), but I’ll be posting my TPN-related stuff here to keep things organized.
The plotbunny that pushed me over the edge of hyperfixation is a slightly different take on the Wish (it still involves erasing Emma’s memories, I just went about it in a different way) and a rework on how the human world works to make it more like our own world, since I think that offers more interesting narrative opportunities for the kinda challenges the kids went through.
Fics on this AU (the underlined words are links):
Missing Connection - My version of Emma’s first few days in the human world + how I recontextualized the Wish
The hippocampus is where events in your life are stored. All the previous experiences that shape you. When you need something recalled, it is set into action, and the memory travels to your frontal cortex.
But what happens when that connection is severed?
Dear Old Me - Emma’s two years with Alex, told through diary entries addressed to different versions of herself (either her “Future Me” that might lost her memories again, or her “Old Me” as she wonders who that was)
A girl without memories writes to her other selves about her life.
And of course, the multi-chapter I’ve been wanting to write since this idea first popped into my head:
Echoes - Kind of a fix-it post-canon fic (since I Didn’t Like how it was executed at all lol). I’m just taking the basic concept of “Emma lost her memories and it took two years for the others to find her”, injecting in lots of identity issues, trauma, and grief, and running with it. Also, this’ll go rayemma cuz I’m very biased, but I also plan on focusing on others’ relationships and how everyone’ll cope with the situation.
After two years of tireless searching, Emma is found in the middle of a marketplace of a nowhere town. Except, she isn’t quite the same Emma anymore.
Like– trauma doesn’t just go away with your memory, in fact, very often, your brain will lock away traumatic memories to protect itself, but that doesn’t stop them from affecting you and your behavior.
And I just can’t stop thinkin’ about Emma in the real world– having extreme reactions to piercing and sudden sounds, feeling exposed and defenseless when outside (especially if there’s an owl nearby), being suspicious of unknown adults– all of that, plus the added frustration of having no idea WHY she’s reacting that way. What is wrong with her that makes her act like this?? Why can’t she remember???
Going hunting with the old man for the first time must have been interesting. When the rabbit was bled, ready to be skinned and cleaned, does she subconsciously remember the lessons of mujika and sonju? Does she feel that it could have been her in the hanging hook? That others like her have been in it, actually. Does the rabbit strike any familiarity within her heart, of someone taken too young, too innocent? Treated like a piece of meat with no other purpose than to be meat. Or maybe she doesn't, too happy that shes useful to the old man that has quietly taken her in, and they they'll finally have some meat for today's meager meal.
Still, today she eats something that once was alive mere hours ago, a prayer leaving her lips that she doesn't fully understand anymore.
The body memory is there, but with no context for them. Emotions with no memories to attach to them, like flowers you can smell but is always just out of sight. This ritual (the hunt) feels important, so she gives it its due respect and importance, but always, in the back of her mind, is the nagging and utterly frustrating feeling that something’s missing.
my part of a collab on insta!! had so much doing this and it's the second time i've been able to snag rayemma and draw em for a collab
i am SUPER proud with how Emma and Ray came out looking,,, if you recognize her from the wip NO YOU DONT I just scrapped that but didn't want to scrap the emma
