Thanks for this, Noelle! I’m gonna have fun with this one:
“If you want, we could go together?”
Post graduation/Winter break after highschool
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Reki isn’t a wimp. He’s broken his arm more times than he or his mom would care to count, has busted a lip, takes shots at the doctors without blinking, and overall isn’t scared of much. He’s even grown past the nightmares of the dance of death at ‘S’ so long ago.
No, Reki wasn’t a wimp. But this was gonna take him a minute.
“If you want, we could go together?” Langa says, not a hint of mockery in his calm voice. He holds out a gloved hand, and the irony of the action is not lost on Reki. It wasn’t all that long ago that Langa was the one fumbling on a board with Reki offering his hand instead.
Reki stares at it, baffled.
“So, like, I get you are trying to be supportive here, but trying to slide down a mountain while holding hands is just going to make it worse, dude.”
Langa's mouth opens slightly at that and he recalls his hand only to place it on his chin in thought, as if the idea of the difficulty increasing when factoring in joined hands had never occurred to him. Of course, knowing Langa, Reki wouldn’t be surprised if it hadn’t. Then, as if coming to a decision, he looks up with a smile and Reki can swear he can see sparkles twinkling around him. “We can go at the same time. That way, if you start to lose balance, I’ll be there to catch you and keep you upright the whole way down. Like when you fell at the beach that one time, remember?”
Oh, Reki remembered that night, alright. A little too well if he was honest with himself, daydreaming about it once or twice the week they got back before he caught himself and pushed the memory to the far back of his mind to unpack at a later date (never).
He clears his throat. “Yeah. That, uh, that could work. You sure you don’t mind?”
Langa’s smile only widens and he shakes his head. “Not at all. Ready?” He angles his body in a tried and memorized position, the action most likely second nature to his friend after having done it his whole life.
Reki tries to follow suit, doing his best to mimic the stance but finding it’s not even remotely close. Oh well. If snowboarding was anything like skateboarding, he was only going to get the hang of it after screwing it up a few million times. He might as well just take the plunge.
And there was snow to cushion the blow here, unlike with skateboarding, so how bad could it be?
“Ready. One,” Reki started.
“Two...” Langa matched him.
“Three!”
Reki leaned forward, trusting gravity to do its job and carry him downwards, unlike the flat and level surfaces he was used to pushing off of to propel him forward like on his wheels. The difference was jarring, but Reki was adaptable if nothing else and he tried to will his body to stay focused on remaining upright and-
“Reki!”
He looked up to see a break in the pure white blanket, a decently sized rock poking up right ahead and Langa never explained how to turn or stop and yep, great, this was how he was going to die. He sent a thought up to the heavens, to beg that his mother wouldn’t cry for too long and that the twins should let their big sister have his headphones and that he never got a chance to kiss Langa before his untimely demise, before he felt a pair of grounding hands along the back of his waist and suddenly he was moving to the left, avoiding the obstacle with ease before he could even register it.
Langa’s clear green eyes twinkled at him. “I got you.”
Oh. Well, fuck. How was he supposed to not fall after that?
“Crap.”
Confusion crossed Langa’s face for a second but was quickly replaced with panic when he realized what was happening. “Rek-”
He fell backward, munching onto the snow and coming to an unceremonious stop. He groaned.
Langa stopped a lot more gracefully, he was sure, the sound of the snow crunching and parting with force as Langa’s snowboard twisted to a stop to slide up next to Reki’s unmoving form. “Are you okay?” If Reki didn’t know any better, he’d almost say he sounded amused.
Reki opened his eyes and met the blue sky above along with Langa’s pretty face looking down at him and yep, Langa was definitely holding back a laugh, look at his stupid wobbly mouth-
“I hate snowboarding.”
Langa covered his mouth but his crinkled eyes betrayed him. “Sorry. Want to try again?”
He closed his eyes and took a deep breath before sitting up. Then, despite his better judgment, held out a hand and looked up at his instructor. “Don’t let me fall next time, Langa-sensei.”
Langa tugged him to his feet with a laugh. “No promises.”
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If anyone would like to send me some writing prompts, they are still open!
ooh boy idk….maybe chapter 14 of altea rising?? finding the red lion and all that Klance Content…*clenches fist* it was just so much fun to write and i have kind of a soft spot for it since it’s one of the first parts i came up with when i was plotting out the whole fic, and altea rising is my baby so *wipes away tears*
10. Favorite line or lines of dialogue that you’ve written
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13. Are there any things that might have happened in any of your stories, but you changed them at the last minute? (So-and-so dies, they don’t actually kiss, main character has long extended ballet-based dream sequence, etc.)
sdlkfdj i’m not one for big last-minute changes and typically i don’t change very much from my original outline plot-wise but just some things i can think of off the top of my head:
i originally kinda wanted to write “if the silence was a song” as like a dual-pov thing from both keith and lance’s perspectives, but 1) i was writing it under kind of a tight deadline so i kept it to a single pov to make it shorter, 2) i thought it ultimately worked better to have lance’s identity be kind of a “”mystery”” at first and that keith meeting him at the end would feel more big and dramatic yknow…. but from time to time i do consider writing some kinda companion piece or sequel in lance’s pov since a bunch of people have asked me about that haha.
ok like i said i usually don’t change a ton from my original outline but “red skies” is….another story hahaha. my initial concept of it was pretty different…
i sort of wanted it to be a star wars au at first but then it morphed into its own thing.
i also considered it being more of a steampunk/space pirates au but ultimately that’s just uhh not really what it turned into lol.
keith was originally going to be like purple-furry galra keith (i planned out the fic soon after s1 and that was the popular galra!keith hc at the time so…..) but then later came along the white haired!keith thing and i liked that better lol.
lance and hunk were going to be adopted brothers but idk i ended up scrapping that idea bc it just didn’t seem to work.
i wanted there to be other talismans besides the blue and red talismans, and tried to come up with a way to fit voltron into the au, etc. but ultimately decided against it bc it was too complicated along with everything else, plus it felt a bit too similar to what i was doing with altea rising.
….i actually added the whole talismans idea in kinda last-minute. before that i’d had a very vague concept of the plot, but once i came up with that it was kinda the catalyst that got me thinking up the whole story.
i don’t want to spoil the ending but let’s just say i’ve changed my mind about how i want to end it about 5 times lmao.
not related to plot but i had the absolute Hardest Time coming up with a title….i had like 20 options i was considering and most of them were terrible, but anyway. i was super close to calling it “we own the sky” (after the m83 song of the same name) but decided on “red skies” cuz it’s a bit snappier and thought it fit the mood of the fic more. (fyi it was vaguely inspired by that old saying “red sky at night, sailors’ delight / red sky at morning, sailors take warning”)
i already did stars so i’ll do sky haha...anyhoo here’s a lil something from red skies:
He didn't take his eyes off the sky as he ran, fixated on that dark line scarring the horizon. The closer he got to it, the clearer he could see that it was, in fact, smoke. It looked like it hadn't been there for long, judging by how dark it still was, but it was rapidly dissipating. Lance pushed himself further, afraid that it would evaporate completely before he found its source.
It wasn't an easy trek, thanks to the debris scattered everywhere. Lance scrambled over one mound of trash after another, and he could hear Hunk and Pidge crashing through the garbage after him.
But at last, Lance came to a skidding stop, eyes following the smoke to where it stopped. His breath caught in his throat.
A small, dark red ship––what looked like some kind of fighter jet––was buried halfway in a pile of waste. One of its wings was bent at a strange angle and burned black, and a smoking hole had been blown into its side.
Send me a word, if it’s in my wip document I’ll answer your ask with the sentence that it appears in
For the writer's ask meme, 5, 8, 12, 13, 18, 23, 48, and 49 uwu
omg noelle
5) If you had to choose a favourite out of all of your multi chaptered stories, which would it be and why?
oooo i mean i only have a couple multi chaps but i think altea rising is my fave. i have a real soft spot for it cuz it’s my first fic, but also just the world-building in it is so much fun. i also just really love the Team Dynamic in it and writing all the ensemble scenes!!
8) Where do you take your inspiration from?
from the Idea Store. jk i...i don’t really know?? i tend to get inspiration kinda randomly? usually stuff will just like occur to me when i’m on a walk or at work or smth and it just snowballs from there. but i also draw a lot of inspo from media i like... when i sit down to write something i usually have kind of a concept of what vibe i’m going for based on other things i like. i’m not sure how to explain it except it’s sorta like “ok i want it to kinda have the same mood as this tv show and that book, also i want it to evoke the same emotion as this song” sdlkfd so it’s kind of a huge mix of things.
12) Who is your favourite character to write for? Why?
oof it’s a tough choice but i think it’s keith?? i feel like i often default to writing in his pov. i just find something very comforting in writing about him? i relate to all the characters in some way but i think it’s just smth about keith being kinda quiet/introspective that i relate to, and he’s also just a v dynamic character where he can be super badass but other times Soft and also really awkward/funny and it’s fun to explore all those different sides of him.
13) Who is your least favourite character to write for? Why?
ha i don’t know.... probably....zarkon? i’ve had to write in his pov a few times in red skies and every time i’m like “how do i do this.” i feel like i make him act like more of a “bwahaha” sinister kinda villain than he is in canon but i mean he’s p boring in canon anyway so
18) Do you have any abandoned WIP’s? What made you abandon them?
i don’t have any like truly abandoned wips although i do have a horse riding au that i haven’t worked on in like five months and i feel terrible about it. but i just have so many other things on my plate rn i haven’t been able to give it attention. that and i ran into the issue of not knowing anything about horses lmao although i’m still trying to do research for it because i DO really want to finish it, i just haven’t had the time/energy.
i also have some ideas on the backburner that i’ll probably never get around to actually writing if that counts haha. but yeah with those i feel like they’re just way too complicated and/or i can’t figure out a way to make them work so....maybe i’ll still write those someday but it’d be a While from now.
23) Do you prefer listening to music when you’re writing or do you need silence?
kinda depends on my mood but generally i prefer to write in silence. sometimes music is good background noise and sometimes i just get way too distracted by the lyrics and/or singing along and my attention span is terrible lol so usually it’s easier for me to concentrate if i’m not listening to anything.
48) What’s your favourite trope to write?
mutual pining binch!!!!!
49) Can you remember the first fic you read? What was it about?
oh man.....ok i gotta admit i like never read fic before voltron lol, i think maybe i read like a couple drabbles here and there when i was in the httyd fandom but not v much and i don’t really remember them lol. anyway the first voltron fic i remember reading was like WAAYyy back at the beginning of the fandom and it was some cute lil klance fic that i barely remember anything about... except i remember there being some scene where they went to some kinda festival thing on an alien planet and keith & lance had some kinda competition about who was better at flirting and keith was like actually really good at it and flirting w all these aliens and lance was like WHAT. also they kissed on a beach at the end??? i can’t remember what it was called and i think it might’ve gotten deleted rip. but it was real cute.
Awww I just saw the tags you put on the post you reblogged about hating your and you should keep drawing dude!! Your art is super cute I love it!!! I totally understand feeling discouraged and I feel that way a lot too but you gotta keep practicing!! I BELIEVE IN YOU!!!!!
thank you noelle, you’re always so sweet and supportive. ;;;; yeah idk i’ve just felt rlly down about my art recently and every time i want to draw smth that lil demon voice in my head is like “nah it’s just gonna suck” so i just don’t do it lmao. i know i just need to suck it up and practice but it can be really tiring as i’m sure you know. i do wanna get back into it soon though. thanks for the encouragement i really appreciate it, and it means a lot to me that you like my art cuz you’re such an amazing artist. 💙
