#a false start

[lucy-the-wyrm]

I like all your words, Griffin. It's what you don't say that kills me.

A False Start - Elsie Silver

[isahorcrux]

swa prequel, please? 👀

SO ! This is now a false start which explores James and Lily getting together on the set of Perry Hewitt and then it all falling apart which leads to 10 years later in SWA. I've got a general idea of where it's going and also based on some stylistic choices I'm tinkering around with, the above may change, but I ended up writing this after all the don't worry darling drama was happening (and originally this was titled 'don't worry darling, we're worrying darling'). This obviously is happening after everything went down in SWA. (and please ignore the spelling/grammar, I've already noticed a few typos on this one).

ask me about my wips!

[rivalsforlife]

man, i'm rereading a false start and just wanted to say i can't get over the mia&bratworth dynamic, the way you write them begrudgingly working together is just excellent, i keep reading scenes multiple times shdgsdhb thank u for that!

oh honestly anon the mia&bratworth dynamic was one of my favourite things to write. I set out writing a feenie&bratworth fic and then Mia kicked down the door and suddenly I had so many mia&bratworth interactions I had to actively stop halfway through the first draft and go “WAIT I HAVEN’T HAD PHOENIX COME IN FOR THREE CHAPTERS” and rewrite most of it. So thank you so much, I’m glad you enjoy reading it as much as I did writing it!

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

A False Start

At the track meet, I watched in dismay as the front runner for our team lost his footing and fell. The cheers of the crowd quickly turned to groans.

A False Start | Scriptures: 1 Samuel 13:1-15 Devotional for September 13 In today’s reading, Saul’s future seemed promising. The handsome king would reign over Israel from age 30 to 72. But while Saul’s victory over the Ammonites at the beginning of his reign seemed like an omen of good things to come, it would turn out to be a false start...

[abgregations]

[lucy-the-wyrm]

Now he’s stuck under my skin, poisoning me. The good news is, I’ve pulled my fair share of ticks off animals in this line of work. So that’s what I’ll do. I’ll grab my imaginary tweezers and yank him out like a fucking bug. Shiny new future doesn’t include Lyme disease, thank you very much.

A False Start - Elsie Silver

[rivalsforlife]

I was rereading A False Start and started wondering... do you think “Feenie” got along better with Larry? I feel like their interactions would be pretty different from trilogy Phoenix and Larry

I absolutely think so... Feenie’s personality is a LOT like Larry’s. Easily emotional, lots more crying/yelling, complete and utter devotion to the object of their affections... I guess the difference is Feenie grew out of it when he thought his girlfriend tried to murder him whereas Larry very much did not.

I know people have talked before about the difference between their relationship in the first game versus any time later; the first game made a point of saying that they’re close friends with Phoenix referring to him as one of his best friends, whereas T&T had that line that’s like “not exactly a close friend, but yeah, we know each other.” I’ve seen the headcanon that it’s partially some of baby-Phoenix’s hero worship fading away after the truth of the class trial came out, which I agree with, but also probably that their personalities just diverged too much. (Also Phoenix had more friends by T&T when at the beginning of the first game his only friends were Larry and Mia.)

But yeah definitely, Feenie and Larry would have gotten along much better with each other... probably much more annoying to everyone around them, though...

[rivalsforlife]

btw, what kind of a person do you think diego would turn out to be after waking up form his coma if mia never died?

first I should state outright that I Do Not Like Diego, like at all, if you count him and “Godot” as separate people then I actually like Godot way more because at least he has a reason why he’s insufferable. so... that might be clouding my answer a bit.

Undoubtedly the whole process of being poisoned and in a coma for five years would be pretty traumatizing... but I think, at least, Mia would be able to help him adjust properly as opposed to in canon where he wakes up and no one’s there for him. And a lot of Godot’s problems in canon come from his misplaced guilt and this idea that he’s supposed to “save” Mia, like he had some sort of responsibility for protecting her at all times -- sorry this is quickly turning into a Godot rant, I’ll try to hold back -- so if Mia’s still alive, he might not have that complex, and might not have done the same actions as he did in Bridge to the Turnabout especially regarding Morgan’s plan. (because my interpretation of his actions is that it was some sort of... I don’t want to say hero complex, but hero complex, in that he felt responsible for not being there to save Mia and so wanted to have a situation where he could rush in and save Maya, to prove that he could have saved Mia if only he was awake, instead of doing something else like burning the letter and restricting Morgan’s visitation rights and informing Maya and Pearl that Morgan was planning something like this. He pretty much says it in canon, says his motivation was to try and “salvage the remains of his broken soul” ... okay I’ll stop now.)

Anyways yeah... there’s inherent trauma from being poisoned and in a coma. That would probably mess him up quite a bit. But I don’t think Mia would abandon him on his own, she’d definitely help him out because she’s a good person, and Godot would... probably not become “Godot”, he’d be much more well-adjusted because he isn’t dealing with the guilt from not “saving” Mia. (Which, as I said in the other ask, I don’t think he would have been able to do if he’d been awake anyways....... but I digress.)

I still think he wouldn’t like Phoenix though. Because Phoenix /did/ help Dahlia get away with his poisoning, albeit unintentionally, so I feel like he’d hold a grudge against that. I think Mia could persuade him to change his mind though, since Phoenix is very important to her. And he probably would feel a bit bitter that he didn’t get to put Dahlia away himself... but hopefully since he’s a bit better off in this AU he wouldn’t, say, stab Dahlia if she were being channeled instead of trying to restrain her, as a much taller and probably stronger person than Dahlia. WOW sorry Godot is a bit of a touchy topic for me haha.