#asks wooo!!!

[iwanttobepersephone]

Your pregnant halt au is so embedded in my brain that every story or au I make with RA contains trans halt even if its not relevant for the plot

Most also have will being his actual son

Its awesome

HELL YEAH!!!!!!!!!

I am genuinely so happy about thisss <3<3<3<3<3

Here's some Halt + Will art for ya =]

[iwanttobepersephone]

I just finished rereading battle of hackham heath and the whole scene when Crowley pushes through the crowd to hug Halt and then they walk away with his arm around his shoulder is quite possibly my favorite cralt scene and I just thought you should know

OMG I FORGOT ABOUT THAT

RUNNING TO MY BOOK RN

You mean this scene?

[iwanttobepersephone]

Can ya do one of Will riding Tug? or Horace as a ranger?

Oh, my, lord. Somehow, somehow! I NEVER saw this ask! Oh lord, how long has this been sitting in my inbox? I am so sorry!!! Here, Will on Tug for you <3<3<3

[iwanttobepersephone]

What is "pregnant Halt girl" a reference to?

You want to be Persephone/Kore. So how does one do that? Or if it's an individual's process, how do you do that?

Do you feel spring inside you each day?

Lmao, so, Pregnant Halt Girl is a reference to a Rangers Apprentice AU of mine. A semi popular headcanon is that Halt, the mentor character, is a trans man. At some point, for some reason, my brain decided that I would take the kid he adopted, and the trans halt headcanon, and simply make the kid his biological son. Of course, I did this through pregnancy. I take the topic as seriously as I would a woman getting pregnant and do as much as I can to present him as manly without mocking him. It's actually a very sad au. Anyways, lots of people got very interested in that au, so I changed my header to that as somewhat of a joke.

Now to talk about my url...

So, like most gay kids on the internet, I had a massive Greek mythology phase. It was during this phase that I found out my birth name, Kore, was actually a pseudonym for Persephone. This sparked a small bit of a deep dive into her history and mythology. One thing that stood out to me was how, despite being kidnapped and more or less sold into a marriage by her father, she ended up perfectly happy in the underworld with a healthy marriage. She's seen in a couple myths as very much so using her powers as Queen of Hades to her fullest extant. This ability to make the best out of what should have been a bad situation is something I have always looked up to.

Also, I've always seen her cycle between Spring and Death as very interesting. I always imagined the way her personality may have changed between the two, going from being a fair and kind flower maiden, to a woman referred to as a maiden purely because speaking her name was seen as a curse. And I could sort of see a similar split within myself, y'know, switching between being deeply kind and in love with all of nature and humanity, to being very very angry and vengeful and, reportedly, scary. So, Persephone seemed a perfect embodiment of what was already there

Now, I am not a hellenist by any means. I tried, for a while, but I just couldn't make myself believe it. I am, however, an Irish pagan! And by quite fun coincidence, the Goddess I felt the most connection to shares a couple of the same associations! How funny

[iwanttobepersephone]

im considering also starting to open commissions but I'm not sure if there's a way to do it without putting my legal name online... do you know of a way to do this or is it just part of commission culture. you're one of the only people I know of online who does commissions so I figured I'd ask because I was told it was a part of the culture but I have bad paranoia issues so I'm in denial lol

Oh, hii!!!! I actually need to take that post down, my commissions account is broken 😅😅

So, if you go through a third party website, you don't need to. Artistree, where I was registered, works fairly well actually! It's just that when I was signing up for a connected Stripe account (because I didn't have paypal or cashapp) I accidentally clicked Azerbaijan instead of USA and they just... Didn’t let me change it.

I also know VGEN is pretty good, but in order to sell anything you have to know someone with an invite or participate on a contest on Instagram or tik tok, so if you're like me and don't have any of those you're kinda just screwed

It is definitely reasonable to not wanna share your legal name! That person really shouldn't have dismissed you. Look into some third-party sites is my advice. I think Kofi or other places like that could also work

[iwanttobepersephone]

For the fic titles: Where There's a Will...

Okay I've been thinking about Will getting a cane super often lately (headcanon courtesy of @ranger-newt ) and specifically how I think he would have hated it at first. Like, refused to use it even though that made him get worse. Hate it. So I think I would write a fic about Will talking to Berrigan at a gathering, and Berrigan talks about how when he lost his foot, he just automatically assumed he couldn't be a ranger anymore, and he wishes he had tried a little harder to stay in active service. And he tells Will to try and keep going with his cane, don't just give up on being a ranger or anything drastic like that, because where there's a will there's a way. Similar style to my Cold Water fic, I think. Yeah that's what I'd do

[iwanttobepersephone]

I know I'm like what, two weeks late, BUUTT I've finally beaten my social anxiety to ask you, are you or anyone else ever planning on writing your pregnant Halt AU (or shall I >:D)? It's maybe a liiittle cursed and I LOVE it :3

Oooooohhhhg, will I write it?????? I'm really not sure!! I'm honestly kinda bad at writing haha, and I have another fic I'm working on rn..... I think, you can write it if you want to! Just make sure to send it to me =]

[iwanttobepersephone]

Yoo pregnant Halt girl!!

I have got another question for ya... how did Crowley react when he heard Halt was gonna train Will? Like, on one hand, he'd reunite with his son, yet Will was also the drama itself. And when did he first meet Will?

YES okay good questions!

I think Halt would have decided long enough before the choosing day to be able to tell Crowley in person, which of course was the right choice. Crowley's immediate reactions were a bit of a... mess.... He went from concerned and hesitant to very happy to crying about how they lost Will at all to the most negative, "he won't even like me" view possible and then other variations in a circle for like 30 or 50 minutes.

When Crowley FINALLY is, like, a normal amount of happy, he talks about how he's so glad he'll get his son back, he'll try to take it slow once he meets him again, blah blah blah. Halt admits he was gonna wait until he developed a relationship with Will to tell him, and Crowley plans to pay extra attention to Will his first gathering in order to also develop a relationship with him.

Of course, this doesn't happen, (<- summary of like the whole au lmao)

Crowley only meets Will during his third year of his apprenticeship. Now, I do like to headcanon that Will took an extra year of his apprenticeship because of everything that happened to him, so Crowley does get to know Will for 3 more gatherings before he graduates. At this point, though, they don't know that, and Halt and Crowley have another Talk. This time, Halt agrees to only tell Will about his parentage once Crowley has at least some kind of a relationship with him.

I think Halt finally tells Will when they're coming back from Arridia in book 7, I have this scene in my head of Halt waking Will up in the middle of the night (neither of them can sleep well on ships, so it didn't take much effort), taking him to the most secluded spot he could find, and telling him everything. Very similar style to Death of a Hero, just much earlier. Note- this is DIFFERENT to what I had said in the past, because in the past was a much more "for fun" version. I think this is how it would have ACTUALLY happened

Btw, Will gets super excited that Crowley is his dad. Halt decides to do something fun, and tells Will how the plan was originally to have him call Crowley 'Papa' and Halt 'Daidí' (Irish for dad). Will, catching on to what Halt was saying, call Crowley "Papa" the very next time he sees him