Oct 7, 2023
"Sometimes, if you're already far away from reality, you don't hear it when it shatters."
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"Sometimes, if you're already far away from reality, you don't hear it when it shatters."
Hi! I’m new here and was wondering if you can give me a quick introduction to who Ellis is and if there’s any of your pieces about him that would be good to start with to learn more about his story? He seems very baby!
Hi anon! I spent 3 hours making a masterlist of Ellis fics and tumblr decided it hated the post so you can now find it as a blog page.
There is a lot of content - approaching 120,000 words across four years! - so here is a trimmed-down version:
Homecoming: One | Two | Three
Scars: One | Two | Three | Four
Lies: One | Two | Three
Games | Alterations
Who Do You Love? | Loyalty
The Party | After the Party | The Morning After
Witness
Rozen: One Two Three Four Five Six Seven
Abandoned: One Two Three Four Five
Catch | Release | Catch | Release
Felicity | Iz
Witnessed
Guilty | Marks | Not Guilty
Crumbling | Rule Twelve
Sunset | Dusk | Awakening
Denial
Midnight | Equinox | Glimmer
He is very baby indeed, and he is also wicked smart, and heart-bleedingly compassionate, and surprisingly stubborn for better or for worse 💕 Hope you enjoy.
31 for Jhazel, Ellis, Northlight, Ty, and/or anyone else you want to share
31. What inspired the creation of your oc? Any specific things, a general aesthetic or idea, or something completely random?
I'm not very good at remembering what inspired me. I think the most solid answers I have are for Ellis and Northlight. I can't remember coming up with Jhazel or Ty, I think they were more spur-of-the-moment.
Ellis was heavily inspired by @friendlylocalwhumper's Marlow because I hadn't read any whump with this intimate, one-on-one, conditioned-to-love dynamic before. Granted I was very new to the whump community at the time, but I loved how captivity-Marlow and freedom-Chris had similarities and differences, and how there was strength in both of them in different ways. I loved the process from one to the other and back again, and you can see that influence in my early Ellis stuff. It's easy to forget that we had a whole arc of Ellis basically telling Alistair to fuck off and die.
(Defiance: One | Two | Three | Four | Five)
Northight was, in the very earliest incarnation, a trickster time traveller called Spark who was created solely to teleport @crash-bump-bring-the-whump's bastard Asao into the jurrassic era, so that he could think about what he's done for a really, really long time. Spark was developed into Northlight - I wanted a name that would easily be translatable and timeless through centuries. Verbatim quote from the chat:
Their name is Spark and they can sidestep through time but it's very easy to do by accident so they're always losing their way they're going to accidentally take him with them and then leave him in a prehistoric era where the air was not very breathable they didn't mean to but they will fail to find him again
Do you have faceclaims for your characters?
I try! I'm not good at exact faceclaims but I have some people who give vibes. Ty and Jim, for example, are here.
This is Tijn Elbers and he has an Ellis vibe despite it being impossible to find claimable masc faces that aren't muscular. He lacks the freckles and long hair but the soft face is good.
@ashintheairlikesnow put me onto Lizzy Yusuff who has the Sinclair look. Again, missing details like the glasses and the dyed hair but writers make do.
I also have faces for the Birdhouse rescues because when your characters have model good looks it's easier to find claims...
L-R Tenten (Xavier Roger), Florence (Shaula Vogue), Kamala (Arinna Erin Wira), Roman (Dylan Fosket). I have failed to find a Boo.
If anyone has suggestions for any of my OCs I would love them 😭
Ellis. Buddy. Pal. You are a noodle. You are a man made entirely of noodles. How could you possibly believe you were capable of the things Alistair claims you did?
Ellis hunches up, blushing furiousy with humiliation. He takes a long moment to reply. "I'm not... S'not my body. In the nightmares."
Ellis is the best of all noodles. That is all.
He just keeps going and going and going like someone forgot to cap his legs.
I will post more Ellis soon for you Ash
3) what order do you write in? front of book to back? chronological? favorite scenes first? something else?
I tend to have multiple arcs going at once, and write those chronologically.
E.g. for Ellis, I’d already started writing the Abandoned arc by the time I published the first party drabble, and both Iz and Felicity were created before the Visit arc. I’ve already written some of their later pieces and I also know how the story is going to end, broadly. Ellis’s story has three phases: the intial capture and conditioning is the first, the second is the one that Abandoned kicked off, and the third is after...something...happens.
Ellis Masterpost
Blanket warning on this ‘verse for pet whump and occasional cigarette mentions. If you want to read about one sad soft nerdy boy being turned empty and dependent for a man in a big empty house, with some strong mindfuckery vibes, I suggest you take a look.
Start Here: Homecoming Series
Homecoming One | Two | Three
Scars One [trypophobia] | Two | Three | Four
Lies One | Two | Three
More under the cut.