#come hell

[ace-din-djarin]

Created a couple new covers for my fics! These are for my series entitled “ Come Hell. “

With Our Arms Unbound

Lay Your Arms Around Me

[this-iswhywefight]

I was just a kid by nothing but thieves gives me such a strong Come hell and Why We Lie Awake matt vibe

Okay but this is too perfect thank you so much, holy shit? 

[arrival-layne]

so i started reading come hell and all the other fics cause of you and your art and after getting inot the newest story i gotta ask, what do you think about all the ocs, and like, what do you think about them and what are your favs?? it's interesting to see a story use so many, and do it well haha. :D

I actually love the original characters Lo and Em have placed in their story. And it really surprised me. Cause i’m not the type to usually really love original characters in fanfiction. 

Don’t get me wrong. It’s fun to have original characters in fanfiction, i used to do it when i wrote it! Over time it just didn’t appeal to me. 

but I think the reason i like them so much is that they are really well written and played out. They feel like real characters you could visualize in the show. And i’m beginning to feel attatched to them. 

and omg, my fav. For certain it is Ortraz. I think? Cause zarra is rlly cool. and so is kartok! I think i love all of the commanders honestly, just cause i’m smitten with how they’re so trusting in front of matt and want to have him as part of their command. 

like ughh that just makes me so happy. and they just do this all so well. Like there’s so many and i’m slowly getting to know them all and it’s some good quality stuff. !!

I’m so ready for the next chapter !! I’m wondering what Matts full reaction is going to be now!!  :) 

[butteredonions]

oh! well it was just an ask thanking you for helping me find it and asking you a question about the newest ocs from chapter six! i usually hate seeing ocs in a fic in like, a prominent manner, but i really kind of fell in love with how the writers went about it. i was curious to know what you think about the 3 commanders, even though we only really got to kinda know one of them.

Yeah the writers did an excellent job with their OCs! I agree with you, it can be hard for me to get into a fic where OCs feature so heavily, but I think that’s currently inevitable in Matt-centric fic. They’ve done a super good job.

I like the physical diversity between these commanding OCs; they’re not all the same species, which is a smart detail. I like their syntaxes and how different they are from the way Matt speaks - more formal, seemingly more reserved. I really liked what Leilani did for Matt. Neat fix, and great conversation. It read so easily and naturally I could picture myself in the room with them. Leilani’s probably the Commander OC that’s easiest to get a handle on at the moment, since they’re the one we’ve seen the most of just yet, as you said. I’m curious to see more of Kartok and Zarra, though from personal writing experience it can be tricky to balance a large number of characters in a room, especially if they’re all making command decisions that further the plot...that can be tricky. I’m eager to see what happens and how the writers approach our new friends. Or what other new friends they’re going to give us in part two!

[this-iswhywefight]

If it's already up, how about karnok's pov? Maybe from the prison break or something idk

The morning alarm is going off.

Kranok huffs in exasperation and glares at the speaker, damn thing. He’s appealed to Therek to convince maintenance that alarms are unnecessary and harmful in an infirmary where peace and quiet ought to reign, but to no avail. And now look, the system is so run down on this backwater planet that it’s going off in the middle of the day!

He grumbles through the grating sound, but it keeps going on and on, loud enough to distract him from his work. It’s only as he’s shoving himself out of his chair to stalk over to Command if he must when the alarm goes silent.

It’s almost eerie, the lack of it. The air feels too heavy in the quiet.

But that’s not his concern. Kranok is here to keep his head down, collect information for the Blade, and do what little medical work he can manage among these savages. He spares one more disdainful look at the alarm before returning to his work.

When he settles at the desk again, though, a light catches his eye. A small communicator, tucked away from public view, accessible only to his co-operative and their Leader.

A furtive glance around the empty infirmary is all he allows before pulling the communicator out and hunching over to answer it in hushed tones.

“Therek,” he hisses. “This is not—”

“We need to get out.” Therek’s voice is just as quiet, but the statement is delivered with all the force of the Empire Commander his fellow has been playing for so long.

Kranok knows he has the right to question a call that someone of the same rank has made, but he doesn’t dare cross that tone. “When?”

“Now. Escape point three. Stay away from any officer.”

“I am on my way.” Kranok ends the call, tucks the communicator into a hidden pocket of his suit, and checks his Marmoran blade in its concealed sheath at his back. Everything in order, like he’s kept it since being stationed here. The only thing left is to grab the tiny drive that has been collecting data constantly during his tenure—all the data has already been transmitted to the Blade, but he can’t risk leaving any trace.

With that, Kranok is striding from the infirmary toward their designated escape point. He ignores everything around him until he notices the drones.

Or rather, he notices their stillness.

In his mind he lets out a nasty snarling swear, because clearly something has gone very wrong, something that could compromise their mission in unknown ways, and he needs to find Therek now. 

Damn conspicuity. Kranok breaks into a sprint, his long legs and years of Blade training carrying him in record time through the hovels the Empire calls a base. Fortunately, the escape point is tucked into a relatively hidden spot, so he only catches glimpses of slaves and guards and officers down malformed alleyways as he goes.

Therek is waiting just behind the pod they prepped long ago, his Marmoran blade drawn but not transformed.

“Kranok!” he barks. “Let’s go!”

Kranok doesn’t break stride as he leaps into the pod and straps in while Therek takes the controls. Within moments, they’re in the air, and they’ve broken atmosphere by the time he musters words.

“What happened?” he asks tersely.

“Some sort of revolt. One of the prisoners, I suppose. They got into the computer systems.” Therek’s jaw is clenched and his eyes flick between the pod screens and vast, open space before them.

It suddenly becomes all too obvious.

Groaning, Kranok thumps his head back against the seat. “Holt.”

[this-iswhywefight]

Fun fact: we had a minor crisis while writing Come Hell because we thought “Kranok” was too similar to “Kartok” and would cause problems in the future. (Clearly this is not the case, but we spent a lot of time on the phone in April agonizing about their similarities before we accepted that Kranok’s character was too tied up with his name already and a new one would feel weird.)

[this-iswhywefight]

How much of the story do u already have written? I'm curious about how you work so in schedule (also, theoretically, how much will I need to pay u guys to just send me the entire finished story so I can read it in one sitting instead of having to wait a week every time)

We try to write as much as possible in advance. Come Hell had five chapters of six finished when we started posting, and we’d started Why We Lie Awake before we even posted With Our Arms Unbound. Right now we have about four chapters written for the next fic, So Come to Me, and we have a plan for where it’s going, but we both just started up our semesters for grad school right now so our schedules are kind of… up in the air while we get settled and figure things out. Also… just to prepare you, there’s only one chapter of Why We Lie Awake left, and then we’re taking a week off before we post chapter 1 of So Come to Me. So you’re gonna be in for a little bit of a wait. Sorry! BUT!!!! We’re always happy to talk about the characters and we’re SO WILLING to write snippets and outtakes and things. Pretty much anything you want to see or know more about we’re THRILLED to indulge. Like, I can’t properly express how much. (Payment not necessary, though it makes me giddy that some people feel like that, that they like the story and world we’ve built this much! Em does have a ko-fi though, just throwing that out there)