EEP! My story queen wants to yap? Then yap we shall baby girl!
1, 7, 8, 10, 13 (or ya know, maybe a selection of these since ya girl went a lil wild and chose a whole bunch 😌)
1. Do you hide any secrets in your stories that only a few people will find?
Scully you're not gonna believe this
7. Do you have any characters you believe might be misunderstood by your readers?
CLAP - CLAP CLAP CLAP
Say it with me now -
OUR PHANTOM IS A NEW CHARACTER WE HAVEN'T FULLY MET YET 👏👏👏
8. Are there any plots or characters that have changed dramatically since you initially began writing them?
(Proto-Poppy's Cult Fit circa late 2023, Root test shots from May)
For this arc everything has been pretty steady. I knew what information I wanted to get across, what points I needed to hit as set up for the Finale of Gen 6 and Gen 7. The biggest change has probably been the Bar scene.
Originally I had it planned as a little dance hall scene. The girls diffuse tension by getting the town to do a little choreographed line dance to Beyoncé's Texas Hold Em. But I didn't want to pose out a line dance, it felt like too much work.
So I said hey- what if i made myself do three times that work instead?
And it turned into a flashback clip show that took me three weeks to complete, but I think in the end it was way better cause I got to hop back and forth and show little scenes from the past. Revisiting the High School Prom post explosion was probably my favorite.
One Other Change: I originally planned the Christmas Ranch to roughly mirror the layout of Magic Town, with the Stables as the Big Top and the Gazebo as the Carousel.
The original plan was to have Poppy chasing the Phantom as the ridiculous environment of the Christmas Ranch slowly morphed and twisted into the Carnival. This got scrapped because I lowkey forgot I wanted to do that, and yeeting her into a canyon felt more realistic than following a ghost for 10 miles back to the Ranch.
Eventually she was supposed to catch up to our Masked Man, turn him around, and snap herself back to reality seeing she had turned around Alejandro in the real world.
( horse portkey! horsekey! )
This was scrapped because 1. It's a little confusing since the Phantom is NOT Ale. (see Question number 7 again) and 2. It morphed into more of a "I need to find something to get out of here before I'm corrupted" situation, so there was no reason for her to chase the Phantom any more.
Shoutout to @doctorsimcraft for suggesting Ale dropping his glasses and turning it into a little inter-dimensional meet cute instead.
And if you wanna be a freak about it like I am, technically he touched her hand before she could touch the glasses. :')))
10. If you could choose to be one of your characters for a day, which one would it be?
SUNNY. I wanna explore underwater caverns with my shitty lil mermaid bestie.
13. What characters do you feel most connected to? Why do you feel connected to that character?
I'd say Poppy. Not like on a personal - IM JUST LIKE YOU / YOU'RE JUST LIKE ME - level, but on a - "I really like this character and oh baby girl you are just getting started I'm so sorry" way.
Also she's fucking on to me man.
