18, and 16 for garden for the ruined :)
18) Do you have any abandoned WIP’s? What made you abandon them?
boy do i.......... the reason for abandoning them usually ranges from feeling like i’m not in a place to really see the story through, enjoying the idea stage more than the execution stage, or just plain losing interest! a lot of times i’ll abandon a fic if i just can’t seem to get into the right tone for it.
16) How did you come up with the idea for garden for the ruined?
i wanna say that it was last october or so that a few people in the fic server started talking about a yakuza au, and there was the idea that we would each take on the storylines of one or two characters and have a loosely-related collection of fics. i was brought into the conversation to possibly do yuki’s story, and i went “sure okay but i have no knowledge whatsoever abt. organized crime.”
so i got into it, and then i started outlining and writing what was going to be a oneshot back in november. but then i got so into planning the world for it that i decided to make it a multichapter story to really allow myself to explore it more! i really wanted to focus on the themes of found family and growing away from toxic and abusive situations that yuki, machi, and kakeru already go through in fruits basket, but put it through a wildly different lens to experiment and challenge myself a little :’)
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