Ever since I played SDV for the first time just a little over a year ago (why it took me that long, i do not know), I have been itching to write fanfic for farmer/Sebastian. All I have right now is a lot of scattered headcanon and maybe a few scenes here and there because I don't know what time is anymore. Where did 2024 go?
Sebastian finding comfort and quiet joy sitting by the window in the farmer's house is just <3 <3 <3. What are your thoughts on the whole mess in his family and the reasons why he feels ignored? (as for me, my mind tends to go for the darkest ideas b/c DRAMA)
The other thing I really like about Sebastian being very quietly happier is that he doesn't change either, like, he's still got insomnia, he still needs days away from people (even you), but he explicitly tells you when he's got days like that so you know that's why he's not there, or whatever.
IT'S JUST SO GOOD
But anyways. Rambling!
The first fic thing with Sebastian is obviously you're meeting him when he's feeling exactly like you did at your terrible corporate job (and he also hates terrible corporate jobs, go us) in that he doesn't know where he wants to go but he needs to not be here
so there's this connection in that you get it, but then also this immediate disconnection, because how can you get involved with someone and make it harder for him to get out when he so desperately needs it?
As to why he needs out?
There are a lot of possibles there. I find it interesting that it's pretty clear no one (even his friends) respect his boundaries: everyone feels free to just walk into his room, they interrupt him when he's actually working, which means it's gotta be even worse when he just needs solitude to help balance himself (no wonder he hides away so often, he's just trying to carve out any space at all)
There's a recurring theme with the LI characters who grew up in Pelican Town regarding still living at home with their parents, and respect that may or may not be owed in both directions in that situation, but it's also really clear that, in this specific time and place, none of them have anywhere else to go, and I'm not sure any of their parents take that at all seriously.
Sebastian is the only one of that group who seems to be trying to work and save up enough to change that! And yet his mother doesn't treat him any more like an adult than any of the rest of them get.
Also, for all that the game is very hand-wavey in regards time and ages and etc. it's clear he's not supposed to be all that much older than Maru, which means he and Demetrius have known each other for most of his life.
And yet, Demetrius never once mentions Sebastian in dialogue but talks about Maru quite a bit. (There's even a note on the wiki to that effect in his trivia section.) They clearly have no connection, which is unfortunate enough as adults and pretty close to tragic for whatever age Sebastian was when Robin and Demetrius got married.
As part and parcel of the same thing, he and Maru never hang out together in any of either of their schedules, and only stand near each other at holidays when it's clearly a family holiday, and they're with Robin & Demetrius too. They both have a line or two referencing each other, and they do specify half-sister/half-brother, which as someone with only half siblings that is uh, not how that normally works for most of us.
Maru's got a line about wishing they were closer and that she wanted to have a brother but Sebastian never acted like one.
If you get married, Sebastian's got a line where he assumes she's happy he's gone, and if you have kids he's got one hoping they get along better than he and Maru did.
They have very different views of their relationship, is what I'm saying here.
And for all Sebastian is willing to assume he was the difficult one, they were both children, it's not up to them to treat each other equally, it's up to their parents to treat them equally, and it seems really obvious they didn't.
(Was there something there with Sebastian's father, beyond just a simple previous relationship that didn't work out? Tragic or abusive or just low-grade general shittiness? Because it seems like everyone swung too hard in the other direction, avoiding thinking about or mentioning him For Reasons™️ that are now completely opaque and just help Sebastian clearly be othered.)
Which gets me to my next question, which is: how long has he lived in the basement without windows which he clearly hates? Why didn't his carpenter mother just build another room above ground? She expands your house in ludicrous directions, and even if we ignore that as video game mechanics, she's clearly capable of full sized construction not just furniture or repair or whatever.
And yet.
He's still in the basement without windows while Demetrius gets a lab (does a lab really need to be above ground with windows more than a bedroom? do you know legally most places you can't list a basement room as a spare bedroom unless it has windows?)
And Maru gets a room with its own little yard for her experiments so she's got both more fresh air and potential privacy than anyone else in the family.
And all I can really come to as a conclusion there is that Demetrius has never seen Sebastian as his step-son, and that influenced how he and Maru grew up, and Robin didn't do anything about it; whether she ever tried or not, she's not even trying anymore by the time we meet them.
So Sebastian legit needed to get out of there, and I feel bad when I'm playing different farmers that I don't get to help him do that, more so than I do with the rest of them when they're not romanced. (Probably why I keep coming back to his? Also the frogs and general fondness for odd little critters is SO ADORABLE I am eternally smitten.)
So a billionty years ago this was a prompt meme request (I got two separate narwhals, thus the number) for "keep coming back to the same place" (#1 turned into a 3k word pre-canon one-shot about Esther Sinclair again; she is my premiere blorbo atm, in case anyone hadn't noticed)
This one is however a Malec Epilogue Fic about Magnus dealing with the Institute and Alec's position and where he should maybe fit within that? Weirdly, so far, it's mostly Jace & Magnus talking while watching Alec sparring with a slew of random Shadowhunters (who are actually the OCs from my bb!bau agent fics, but that is entirely irrelevant beyond the fact that it amuses me).
“I know I am biased,” Magnus begins a few minutes later, pausing while Jace snorts at him in not unjustified derision. “But he’s very good at this, isn’t he?”
“Which this?” Jace glances at him sideways, just enough of a smile on his face to warn Magnus that he’s going to be difficult. “Getting sweaty so you can ogle him? He does seem to have prioritized that.”
I have no context for this fandom and yet I love because YOUR WORDS ARE ALWAYS SO PRETTY
on the one hand! Thank you! I am verklempt & blushing & I adore you!
on the other hand, the way in which this pairing smacking me upside the head is so Incredibly Predictable is kind of embarrassing
Like!
it's just
so incredibly (hilariously) me
for example
One of my favorite things, a frequently recommended old movie on which I imprinted as a bb!jilly, is Bringing Up Baby.
Upon watching it with the husband for the first time, he looked at the movie, looked at me, and went: they're kind of an extra goofy Lois & Clark aren't they?
And I went oh and shush you and we both laughed at my poor bared psyche 🤣
And then I watched Dimension 20's The Unsleeping City and went oh fuck
Ricky Matsui is literally described as Japanese Clark Kent in show! He is a gods-damned D&D Paladin! (He is a bit of a troll when people don't expect it of him because he is so sincerely nice! That he does by being completely honest about superhero shit when people don't expect it! That's a Clark Kent bit that most people miss!) He is a himbo which Clark Kent isn't but it's still such a good fit.
And then Esther Sinclair is brilliant and ruthless and cares so much and yells at people so they don't notice and she has no fucking clue what to do with the beautiful man making heart eyes at her and is the only person who overtly notices that Ricky is completely incapable of taking care of himself because he's too busy taking care of everyone else!
also I am a disaster about them thank you for giving me an excuse to !!! at my own obvious preferences and weaknesses.
@annakie replied to your post “Be a duster, don't even have a name really, not as...”:
LOVE IT, love her! I'm going to start my Pre-DA:V playthrough very soon, too!!
YAY! <3 (thank you)
@servantofclio replied to your post “Be a duster, don't even have a name really, not as...”:
I love her already, poor Brosca
people still keep calling her my lady when she goes places
she's not really complaining?
but wtf
every time it happens she kind of does this weird almost-jump and looks around, because either they have to be talking to someone else or she's about to get arrested for impersonating a non-duster
and then nope, they mean her, and everyone else thinks that's good?
again, this is not bad
but it is very very weird
and will continue to be weird
@genginger replied to your post “@chimericaloutlier replied to your post “Be a...”:
Finna: so relatable.
she is just.
so tired
why is everyone so melodramatic and complicated about everything? 😅
@chimericaloutlier replied to your post “Be a duster, don't even have a name really, not as...”:
Her whole life is the John Mulaney "This might as well happen" meme
EXACTLY
It's especially hilarious to me, because Ingva was all heart-eyes at Duncan and Alistair, like, you got me out of Dust Town, I'm helping save the world, this is AMAZING! (Also, yk, Alistair made her laugh, which isn't a thing that had happened much in her life, so. Heart-eyes.)
And Finna is just: What the Fuck Is Wrong with every single person on the Surface? Don't get her wrong, she's not actually complaining or anything, yay, she's still alive, she's all for fighting Darkspawn, every one she kills is one less that might go back to the Deep Roads and add to Orzammar's problems, which is good for Rica and all, but still. STILL. How do these people ever get anything done? (No wonder Orzammar's been besieged for a thousand years, Surfacers make everything so damn complicated and then act like it's normal. None of this is normal. WTF people.)
@lawsofchaos1 replied to your post “it can be a fic or meta, but if you're feeling...”:
I reblogged this hours ago and have yet to stop thinking about this universe. I. Am. Obsessed.
PLEASE SEND ME ALL YOUR THOUGHTS AND QUESTIONS I WILL ENJOY IT TREMENDOUSLY (and maybe it will help me write the next bit?) and also cackle a little because usually you do that to me 🤣🤣 🥰🥰
@alexanderlightweight reblogged your post “it can be a fic or meta, but if you're feeling...”:
😍😍😍😍 oh I loveeeeeeeeeeeeee how you incorporated the gifts into this. This is brilliant and I love it so much
YOU ARE VERY WELCOME
You are both: one of my favorite writers to read and one of my favorite people to write for, (add @saryn-prime to that as well I'm just bad at keeping in touch lately) SO FEEL FREE TO YELL AT ME ANYTIME <3
@scarlettandcream reblogged your post “it can be a fic or meta, but if you're feeling...”:
Well, well. Kinda a fan of Master Amira, I dare say. Fascinating world building.
Thank you! Amira has been added to my pile of OCs that are working their way into the background of a lot of fic, along with Fuller & Yoshino from the BAU fusion. My brain is a mess, but at least it makes me smile? :D
(Kind of unrelated, both @greentealycheejelly and @foodsies4me included 'so interesting' in their tags and when I am scrolling notifications their icons look kind of similar so I keep thinking just one of the reblogged twice for a split second before I figure it out and I laugh at my own stupid brain every time, so I had to share. And also say thank you for the nice tags 🤣😅😆💖)
