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Freeze to the Stone Updates

I keep forgetting to update here, whoops

FttS got two updates last week

Chapter 23 - Draw 23

Chapter 24 - Draw 24

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Would you be open in going into the difference between your Kids and BlackStars a la that post you made about jumping from fic and wondering if this is what X would do or Y ?

I think this is in reference to this post.

So this happens a lot between The Things We See and the Things We Don’t, Bet on Me, and Freeze to the Stone

in The Things We See Blackstar is more mature, he’s worked hard in therapy for a number of years to work through his trauma and be better at communicating and less reactive. Occasionally if I’ve just been writing this fic, I end up inadvertently giving these attributes to Bet on Me Blackstar who - while mature in some ways - is still working through understanding others, communicating, and especially being less reactive. So I accidentally give BoM Blackstar skills that he hasn’t learned yet, but TTWS Blackstar has. 

in both Freeze to the Stone and Bet on Me Kidd is still working through trauma in relation to his brother, among other things. However, in FttS the way he deals with that trauma, as well as the current trauma he’s experiencing, and his overall litany of issues, is reserved on the outside but incredibly frantic on the inside. He’s incredibly sensitive, and doesn’t actually know how to regulate his emotions in an effective way, which really has him ripping at the seams. While BoM Kidd, in contrast, does still have a lot of issues he’s dealing with, he takes more time and effort to examine his problems and identify them. He’s still sensitive, but not to the same extent that FttS Kidd is because he is more aware of himself. But if I’ve just been writing FttS Kid for a while and I switch to BoM I’ll occasionally have BoM Kidd have an extreme or knee jerk emotional reaction to something he probably wouldn’t have. 

In TTWS Kid is older (not by much, he’s 20 compared to BoM at 18 and FttS at 19), but he’s somewhat more curt, blunt and mean, and has a far more negative attitude towards the idea of therapy and mental health treatment, and has done a good job (with Kilik’s support) working through his issues and dealing with them. We’ll see later that his attitude towards Asura and the abuse he suffered is leagues different than the attitudes of BoM and FttS, and while he has spats of extreme emotion, he’s better at stepping away or not engaging, and dealing with things in a slightly more mature manner in part because of how his upbringing went down in his teens. However, I sometimes find myself giving these more blunt, curt, mean, borderline indifferent attitudes to the Kids in other stories where this would not be the way they’re reacting to something at this point in their story. 

Frankly, a lot of the way I mix up Kids is how sensitive they’re going to be to a subject or situation, and the way I mix up Blackstars is now mature they’re going to be in a subject or situation. FttS is especially tricky for Blackstar because he shares a lot of the attributes and flaws of the other Blackstars, but is somewhere between them, which makes balancing his character occasionally hard when I’m also working with him at two opposite ends of the spectrum at the same time. So remembering and feeling who would do what when just gets mixed up occasionally. 

Hope that answered your question!

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

We're still on hiatus, but have a double update for holiday season.

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Forgot to post this chapter update. Start of the best arch

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

I think compared to come of my other fics FttS consistently has some of the longest chapters

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Cards from Frerard: The True Story 3 - June 4th 2009 - Elexis Foster

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Mikey in Frerard: The True Story 3 - June 4th 2009 - Elexis Foster

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Frank in Frerard: The True Story 3 - June 4th 2009 - Elexis Foster