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You Must Live (For Me) my first Saverb fic ^_^
🏴☠️ Were there any points in which your characters tried (or succeeded) to commit mutiny against your planned plot? Where did they most want to rebel?
So originally I really wanted to kind of... have my cake and eat it too I suppose. I wanted to have Savitar get his happily ever after with Reverb but also not have Iris die. There's still hints of that in the fic I think, with Savitar's first conversation with Reverb where he talks about wanting to give them both new choices.
But I also knew that if I couldn't figure out a good alternate choice for Savitar, that Iris was gonna have to die and I proceeded writing on the assumption that I'd be killing her. So this wasn't really a mutiny exactly, just the characters kind of making it clear that I needed to stop with the wishful thinking about finding a compromise that would save Iris too.
Reverb was the one who pretty much laid down the line. He wanted Savitar to live at whatever cost. Iris wasn't really anyone to him except the person he feared Savitar might still be in love with - he wasn't going to accept Iris surviving or Savitar's hesitance. I think even if I had figured out a good way to save Iris, he would have refused for sure - there'd have been a mutiny then.
🥇 What scene were you most excited to write? Did it end up being the one you enjoyed writing the most?
Once I had the idea for Reverb designing Savitar's suit I got really excited to write it and it was definitely a favorite. But I think at the outset I was most excited to write Reverb learning to use his powers against speedsters. I'd initially wanted to have him use them on Barry at some point, but it didn't work out, which was a shame but definitely didn't fit by the time the fic was starting to wrap up.
🔮Have you imagined what happens to [character(s)] in the future? Or does the story only exist to you as a moment in time?
I do think Reverb will get that fight with Barry at some point, though if Eobard gets involved then Savitar will have to speed Reverb out of there. Given the best place for that fight to happen is either during or just before the Red Skies Crisis and this was a timeline where Eobard was still involved, I do think Eobard would run in to save Barry because no one gets to kill him except Eobard, lol.
But I think overall Savitar and Reverb are enjoying exploring their powers, expanding their now-shared worshiper base, and being super in love. They do go save Killer Frost from imprisonment (probably when the fight with Barry happens) and she spends time on and off with them but isn't really interested in leaving E1 when they go off gallivanting through other realities.
As far as they're concerned, they're growing closer and closer to being gods and take what they want. Jay does not like them on his Earth but by the time he runs into them they're powerful enough that there's not much he - or most anyone else - can really do about them.
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Thank you for asking ^_^