Gone2Ground
Gone2Ground officially joined Fanfiction.net a little over a year ago; since then, he has posted fourteen stories, spanning various genres, and earning respect in the form of hundreds of favorites, followers, and glowing reviews.
Writing:
1. Is writing a passion or a hobby for you?
I definitely enjoy it, but writing - prose writing, at least - is more of a hobby. I hope to eventually become a screenwriter, which is a very different style and needs different skills, so prose is just a hobby for now.
2. If the former, when and why did you decide to become an author?
Since I answered ‘maybe’ I guess I’ll answer here. Someone bet me in elementary school that nobody could make a good Aquaman film. I produced the script - which was awful, but I was seven - three weeks later. It sort of snowballed from there.
3. How often do you write? What time during the day do you make the most progress in terms of writing? What time would you prefer?
I try to write once every day for at least an hour, but I get most of my progress done on the bus to my college - which, thankfully, is an hour. I’m pretty happy with that, but sometimes I wish said bus wasn’t at six am for some classes.
4. What inspires your writing?
Good stuff. Music, video games, movies, tv shows, comics - if I see something good, my mind immediately goes “how would I change this/implement this” and it gives me something to work off of.
5. When did you write your first story (not specifically a fanfiction)?
Aforementioned Aquaman script when I was seven, I think.
6. How many fanfictions have you written? How many have you posted?
I must have written like, 30, but only 14 of them have been posted. Mostly because the other ones are either really bad (I was younger, etc) or really, really dumb crossovers. Like, phenomenally dumb. Cosmic Marvel meets Mass Effect dumb. Which at first doesn’t seem that bad, then halfway through the second chapter I realized that putting the Nova Corps in the ME universe kind of made the whole reaper thing not a problem anymore.
7. Which of your fanfictions seems to be your readers’ favorite?
Asleep, for sure. Time Matters Not is certainly up there, though.
8. Which of your fanfictions do you believe most deserves praise?
I’m super proud of Fool of Fools. I should probably update that again when I’m, well, not mentally unstable.
9. Which of your fanfictions is YOUR favorite?
This is going to sound stupid, but Robin’s Bulletin Board. It just lets me put all of these dumb, stupid jokes out there, it’s such a good place to just channel all the idiocy out of my head before working on something else.
10. Do you have a steady fanbase?
Pretty sure I do, yeah.
11. Up to date, you have participated in only three fandoms. Which is your favorite? Why?
Well, my favorite’s Fire Emblem, since that’s my main one - but the other two are decent enough, even if I’ve only vaguely scratched at M:tG.
12. Do you have plans to join other fandoms in the future?
I hope so. Maybe when Asleep’s finished I’ll migrate over to somewhere else for a while.
Fire Emblem.
1. Which games have you played in this franchise? Which was your favorite? Did you have one you didn’t like?
All of them except Gaiden (I couldn’t get past the NES control scheme). I think Genealogy was probably my favorite, and as for not liking…it’s not so much dislike, but I really never want to replay Thracia 776. It gives me ‘Nam flashbacks.
2. Why is this game your favorite?
The villain. To me, a story is only as good as its villain, and Arvis - despite his sort-of-but-not-really redemption arc - was astounding. The characters, while flat in some cases, were for the most part entertaining and the Battle of Barhara made me cry, ****.
3. While Marth is Fire Emblem’s Icon - him and Falchion, of course - he is not necessarily the “best” prince in everyone’s opinion. What do you think about him?
He has the problem of having practically no personality due to being an NES character. Still, FE12 fixed that, but he’s just a bit too…upright for my tastes. Team Sigurd for life yo.
4. Time to put your heart on the table - who is better, Chrom or Lucina?
Lucina is the main character of Fire Emblem: Awakening and I will fight anyone who says otherwise. She has a better connection to the main plot, is a more interesting and dynamic character, and - even if you don’t support her at all - has an equally strong connection to the view point character through the whole Grima thing. I just find Chrom sort of…one-note a lot of the time.
5. Who better deserves your disgust: Gangrel, Walhart, or Validar?
None of the above? The weakest part of Awakening was that the villains were kind of ****. None of them had much backstory, and they weren’t threatening enough to use the Joker excuse of “not knowing where they came from makes them scary”. ****, we know NOTHING about Walhart, the entirety of the Valm arc was completely pointless to the metaplot of the game. So, obviously, I’m fixing that.
6. Did you like Cervantes?
Yes. Yes I do. That beard is magnificent.
7. For Male and Female Robin, who is your favorite spouse option?
Male Robin should be fairly obvious at this point - Lucina. As for a Female one, I’ve not done many run throughs as her - and one was a thought experiment to see if M!Morgan could be as broken as Oliva!Lucina!F!Morgan (the answer is “nothing can stop the OLMorgan Wrecking Ball”) - and of them I only really enjoyed her S support with Libra.
8. Which Shepherd generation do you prefer: First or Second?
Second gen just has consistently more interesting characters to me, and not because “oooh trauma ptsd”, they’re honestly just more flexible than the first gen characters. I feel like you can do a lot more with them.
9. Which three Shepherds of the parent generation (excluding Chrom or Robin) are your favorites?
Libra, Cherche and Virion are my favorites from the parent generation, mostly because they’re a lot more flexible than they first appear, which was a nice surprise.
10. Now the kids (including Lucina and Morgan)?
Lucina (no duh), Cynthia and Severa. Lucina because she’s the main character (FIGHT ME), Cynthia’s just a breath of fresh air from the rest of the second generation most of the time, and Severa’s actually fairly complex in my opinion, rather than just a straight-up yandere.
Other Fandoms:
1.Now let’s talk about your other fandoms. Forgive my ignorance, but I don’t know anything about Warhammer nor Magic; is there anything specific you would like to say for either or both of these subjects?
Magic’s not really that important, I did that one story on a bet, and as for Warhammer… it coined the phrase ‘grimdark’ and is known for being so over-the-top dark it loops back around to hilarious.
Personal Questions:
1. What is your favorite food?
Pasta alfredo with chicken
2. Music genre?
The esteemed genre known as “MulletRock”, with additional Queen on the side.
3. Clothes?
I honestly don’t care that much, but I guess I’m sort of attached to my polo shirt.
4. How about color?
Eh, blue.
5. Do you have any pets?
Yes, one dog who is the biggest coward on four legs despite being the same size as me, and a cat that the street only knows as “The Murder Hobo” since he has no collar. I have to pick up atleast four dead things a week, it’s horrible.
6. Do any of the above inspire your writing?
Can’t say they overly do, no.
7. What is/was your favorite subject in school?
Film Theory, we got to watch movies.
8. This question is essential for all aspiring writers: Who is your favorite author, and did they pen your favorite book? What is your favorite book?
My favorite author… well, going through sheer VOLUME of his work that I have, Dan Abnett. My favorite book, though is probably the Night Angel Trilogy by Brent Weeks.
9. Do you have a LEAST favorite book?
The entirety of the Inheritance cycle, which started promising and then kept falling into cliche after cliche. The series actually upsets me at this point - it had so much potential, and it wasted it flip-flopping from surprisingly dark to disney bright. Not to mention the way they finally killed Galbatorix was so dumb it hurt.
10. Do you enjoy watching TV?
Why yes, yes I do.
11. Movies? Older or new?
Eh, I don’t discriminate. I like a lot of the older movies, but stuff like Snowpiercer is very recent and also amazing.
12. What kind of games do you play (video game, board game, card game, or otherwise)?
All of them. Video games, board games, ccgs, and like four different war games. I have no money anymore.
13. Do you have a favorite sport, either one you watch on TV or play personally?
I’m not much of a sport person, so no. For playing, I guess badminton?
14. If there is one thing you can not stand in your writing or anyone else’s, what is it?
Inconsistent villains. Unless it’s a mainselling point of the villain (Joker, for example), keep your villain consistently competent. Don’t make them capture James Bond and then only post one guard outside his cell, that just makes him look retarded. Evil Over lord List is required reading.
15. One more, now: in Malcom and Fire’s future, when Anna was alive and you were happy, what were you like?
Well, paraplegic, so that’s not that great a start. It was mostly happy, but a lot of that time was spent researching and preparing for when his kids would travel back in time to stop this from happening. Also, he was made the Shepherd’s babysitter because he couldn’t otherwise walk. He ran out of traditional stories and ended up translating old JLU episodes he remembered into a Ylissean context. He’s kind of to blame for Cynthia and Owain’s obsession, at least in Asleep.
Will you accept follow-up questions from readers?
OH absolutely, yes.