Heyy, i got a lot of letters for u. C, E for If I Told You, F, K, P. Rant as much as you like!
C: What character do you identify with most?
So, I’m gonna be awful and actually say Hermione Granger. I know, I’m (mostly) a Batfam blog. But to be honest, it’s definitely Hermione for me. I was always the outcast, the perfectionist, the reader etc. I even had the hair. I just didn’t have the two best friends. I didn’t grow out of the know-it-all thing until I was an adult… Or did? -looks around at her desk in the law school library- Maybe I just learned to hide it better.
E: If you wrote a sequel to If I Told You, what would it be about?
While not a direct sequel, there is actually a companion work coming out for this called Ils M’ont Dit that’s going to showcase a few conversations that happened before and during If I Told You. This story is going to expand on Jason’s background with the League, specifically Talia, and what Bond Broken is.
If I were to write an actual sequel, though, it would probably be some family feels and fluff. Maybe a dash of pregnant Jason because Damian needs a baby sister. Talia would probably make an appearance because in IITY she’s a bit of a possessive jealous bitch.
F: Care to share a favorite hurt/comfort fic?
I have to pick just one?!
In all honesty, I know this is a little odd, but it’s probably Take Your Finger Off the Trigger by Skalidra.
Not your traditional H/C fic by any means but I just really fucking love how Bruce and Dick are completely willing to listen to Jason once they have him back and the work they do to make him comfortable. It’s just - idk. I love it.
I’m not just saying this because she tagged me earlier but I fucking LOVE
You’re Alone ‘til You’re Not Alone and We’ve Got These Chains by WorkingChemistry (and pretty much everything she writes)
K: What’s the angstiest idea you’ve ever come up with?
I’m not going to answer this… Mainly because it’s actually in the works right now and being co-written with another lovely author. We’re not anywhere near the point I feel like we can tease or let anything slip but let me tell you, it is some serious Dead Dove. It scares Garpie64.
P: Are you what George R. R. Martin would call an “architect” or a “gardener”? (How much do you plan in advance, versus letting the story unfold as you go?)
I’ve never heard those terms before this. Bit of both? The way my ideas come to me is in scenes. You know what, I explained this to someone like yesterday. I’m gonna some copying real quick.
I get a scene in my head and world build around it. For example:
I got the scene from Vertigo first with Dick grabbing a Jason who was still male at this point and doing the whole “why do you smell like —-?!” bit etc and then some of the stuff that followed with the “how dare you act like we’re pack” stuff
and needed a mate that I knew would send Dick and Bruce into a tizzy but could and would go toe-to-toe with Bruce without batting an eye
I think I’d just read a couple of Scandal’s stories, too, so Slade popped into my head and then I’m like “what would up the angst factor?” “OH! Let’s make Jay female!”
then I’m like, “well, how did that happen in the first place?!” and that’s how Suspending Gravity happened
But for longer stories, like To Shatter Olympus and Carry Me Home that are still in the works, I get tend to get several scenes. For Olympus, it actually started with a scene near the end and I was like… well how did we get there? So I had to figure that out.
But in general terms, its a series of scenes that I tend to know how they’re going to go, some more fluid than others, and then I weave it all together. The weaving though? Man who the fuck knows how that’s gonna turn out. I have ideas; ways I want things to go. Sometimes they happen. Sometimes I send my drafts to all my friends and go I THINK I FUCKED UP!
(-coughCarryMeHomecough-)
CMH almost went accidentally cracky.