DbtSS Extras: Inspirations
Again, block these or look at them all in one go by using the tag #dbtss lore
@oneiricjourney and a few others have asked me to talk about my inspirations in writing the long long longity long fic, and that’s tough to put my finger on.
I hadn’t really read any fics when I started writing The Difference between the Sea and the Sky, so while a lot of great fic writers would really inspire some of my other fics, not so much for DbtSS... Okay, maybe I’ll do it like this:
Character Inspirations
Col Vedirus, one of two minor OCs in this fic, is supposed to be like Mordin if Mordin tried really hard to blend in
Kaidan writes very differently than how he speaks, I guess everyone does, but the degree of difference is inspired vaguely by my dad
I spontaneously fall asleep when I’m with people I love and am comfortable, so does Ben.
Writing Tics Inspirations
I use the terms ‘comms’, plural, because I’m a fan of Farscape
Star Trek is all over this thing:
The duty-shifts are very Star Trek
Leviathan refers to Shepard as ‘The Shepard’, based not off the star child, but off the Prophets in Star Trek DS:9 referring to Captain Sisko as ‘The Sisko’ while constantly changing form to represent threatening or welcoming people he knows, based on their attitude towards him.
Other:
I was watching Hannibal and Person of Interest at roughly the time of writing, not sure how much they contributed?
Hannibal certainly taught me that people could go in for lots of talking and idea-ish stuff in what otherwise is an ‘action-packed romance’
Lots of music influenced whether certain chapters are melancholic and shoe-gazey or abrupt and efficient. I promise I’m working on a playlist, as was requested.
I’m not very good at this! Please, uh, feel free to ask specific questions I guess? PM me or post a comment or whatever? I wanna answer this question, but feel like I’m not doing the best job!