Don’t worry about answering my asks late! The fact that you answered them, is it all matters to me, i’ll wait months such for one response 😁😅. I lowkey have a attachment to you, I’m always so happy when you post something or send me a response. Also happy 1000 followers!!! You deserve it, I honestly can’t see why you wouldn’t gain such a huge following :). I thought about going in depth with reader’s past, most specifically her experiences at the research facility. Now I thought making a new character and making a introduction to the boys father was needed. Not only to Flesh out reader’s backstory but to make more depth to readers character and goals. Also give a bit of explanation to many people’s question, “why didn’t she leave her children behind?”. So here’s Rodney. I felt like there had to be some outside force to push her to survival beyond a retaliation to her pack’s abandonment. He’s not the typically dead beat father. Being paired with him for breading and insemination. After everything, abandonment, stripes of rights and freedoms and force to breed and birth,all traumatic experiences. She’s still traumatized but with Rodney. Who not only took cared of her, like helping her through her heat, when she was pregnant, very attentive to her when she was giving birth and even after. He became her family. And she became his.His pack got killed,they took him in because unfortunately (his words not mine) he managed to survived, they liked that and took him in.They loved each other but in a more of a family way.he was able to keep her from shutting Heart completely.And together they planned an escaped with the other test subjects.But from the very beginning he knew it won’t be possible for all them to escape alive, so with a heartily exchanged “i know the boys will be in good hands, with a mother as stubborn and loving as you” “live for yourself” “I love you”,he sacrificed himself before they could get to her.Now with this heavy burden and guilt that he sacrificed himself in order for her to live fully but their children too.And wanting to respect his last dying wish, which became her wish as well.This couple (or more years) she’s been pushing.And after being their sole caregiver,she never expected herself to rely on others.Roy really had to conditioned her to (with lots of love and attention). When Roy asks about their father ( she nearly about to last out of being able to satisfy her urges and sedate her heat), he found her docile and out of mind attitude to be cute and rewarding.Learning things about her he knows he wouldn’t normally get out of her. Was just curious (figured Rodney to be a deadbeat), but instead “Rodney was a good man, I loved him” and then she rolls over and pasts out. But Roy is like wtf. “That’s not what I wanted to hear”.And starts skating her to explain, but she’s out. So he starts interrogating the boys, but of course his luck they don’t have any detailed memories beyond that seem more fever dreams than memories.But they do tell him what they mother tells them . Like for starters it’s a “big no no” to ask reader about. About the rare times she mentions him,she says stuff like “you know? You have your father’s eyes. Never seen any eyes that can hold that much kindness” after receiving a gift,maybe she’s receiving a foot rub and she goes “do you have any idea how much I had to carry when I was pregnant? I glad your father was there, he did always give the best foot rubs”, “oh this? Nooo I learned this from your father and now you’re learning it me”. Now Roy is basically panicking because he didn’t think a cold and ruthless (not really but if you’re not her kid basically yeah) woman could hold any love or have a soft spot. This man that he can’t find himself to take another breathe of air,can beat him from the grave.Won the heart of the woman that he’s still trying to win over.He’s having every yandere’s worse nightmare. How can he complete against a dead man?He has questions he wants answered, but after that fuck fest she been out for a couple of days……. There’s more but yeah:)what did you think?
Oh I'm glad! I'm very spotty when it comes to answering asks 😭. Awe thank you!! That makes me so happy :'00!!! and I never thought I'd reach a thousand, so this is really cool :')) thanks so much for looking at my stuff in the first place and conversing w me though, for real <33 !
And I agree; giving the reader a prominent reason as to why shes so caged off and her demeanor makes her a lot more relatable and depthy ~~ rodney seems like a perfect man: caring, doting, in tune with her needs. It makes sense as to why shed become stuck in her ways and incredibly independent after his sacrifice :(. I like how the reader kind of releases information about him bit by bit though;; it really stays in line with her personality, rarely mentioning him because of her hurt surrounding him and how she loved him.
I LOVE that roy feels this, almost invisible competition with him though. I mean you're right, how DO you compete with a dead man? Will he always be compared to rodney in the readers mind, or does he not even cut close to this seemingly amazing man? I could see him either getting more upset, or trying to step up his game after learning about rodney. People always tend to remember the better parts of their loved ones once they've passed, too, so all he can really compete with are the best memories she had with rodney. So while he may have won over the boys, the reader has shown to be much more difficult than he thought. Even with progress, there are so many more layers to peel back.
I think having her be in heat and completely wiped out is a good time to bring up rodney, since it shows that it's a moment of weakness for her and that she used to be supported by rodney during that time. I'd like to think that maybe this is the first time shes been supported by someone else while in heat since rodney👀. I wonder, I dont know how roy is going to be consoled or how his "rivalry" with rodney is going to end, unless the reader says something to him.
But I just really like this angsty dynamic between them!!