Hi! I know you’re taking a break from LP, but I keep seeing mentions of an in the works story about Ned falling out of a tree. I was wondering if you had any of that written and if you would be willing to share what you have? If you’d rather keep it to yourself, I totally understand. I’m just really curious. Thanks and you’re a great person!
Hi there, love.
First, I want to apologize. I know you sent this last week and it took me forever to answer and this is mainly due to the fact I pushed everything off because I was taking the MPRE (Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam) on Friday, which is the first step to taking the Bar Exam. I was focused on prepping for that and while prepping for that, I pushed everything to the aside and therefore was playing catchup all of this week with both my work and my schoolwork, so I’m just starting to actually come back to Tumblr more seriously today aside from the occasional shitpost. So, thank you for being so patient.
I’m such an asshole and I’ve already shared the majority of what I’ve written on that story and you can find it here: [LINK]
I don’t know when I’m going to get back to writing that story or when I’m going to go back to writing Little Pirates. I’ve admittedly been more focused on a new project, which is called Earth-6828 and it’s a Next Gen Marvel Universe shindig that @justanotherwannabeclassic and I have been cooking up. It’s a lot of fun and I think people who like the LP universe would love it, particularly our LeBeaus because they’re just as dumpster fire-y as the Jones, possibly more so. I only make one type of female character and those are loose canon brunettes with green eyes and a penchant for taking things that don’t belong to them. Except Bekka is an amazing baker and make things explode just by touching them, which might give her an edge over Beth.
However, I can tell you more about the incident and even give you a more behind the scenes inspiration for it and why it’s a part of the Little Pirates canon. Little Pirates is essentially a series of snapshots of the Jones Family as they face…rather mundane problems in a world that’s fantastical and kinda bring human moments to series that predominately focuses on the supernatural. Emma and Killian’s lives focus mainly on magical problems. Most of their issues deal with fairytales and legends and myths, but they’re prepared for that. I think they might be shortsighted to more mundane hazards and issues, such as falling off swing sets and trees and car accidents and normal accidents that happen to normal people. So, this story was basically formulated on the idea that they’re so prepared for the supernatural to happen that such a normal accident throws them off guard.
This story is actually inspired by my mom. Most things in Little Pirates are reflective pieces of my own childhood and admittedly each child is a facet of my own personality, though Wes is probably the closest to baby Ro. Baby Ro was a feral bastard child and she grew into a feral bastard person. However, when I was very, very, very little, my mother was in a car accident and broke her neck. I don’t remember this incident but there’s plenty of photographic evidence of my mother wearing a halo. However, what I do remember is going to an amusement park and wanting my mother to go one of the roller coasters with me and her telling me she couldn’t and Baby Ro was VERY distressed by this.
Which is what I think a small child would focus on. Not on the fact that he nearly lost his life falling out of a tree, but rather, he’s no longer able to do normal things kids his age do like go on rollercoasters. I actually planned on Ned waking up and the doctor telling him that he’s lucky to alive and that he wasn’t paralyzed and that he’ll be able to do normal kids things, except roller coasters. And that’s what he latches onto, the fact he can’t go on roller coasters with his older siblings and he has a meltdown about it. Which would, of course, piss his parents off because “kid, you nearly died! Who cares about roller coasters when you almost died!”
Anyway, I’m so sorry I haven’t done much with that story and I haven’t done a lot with Little Pirates in awhile. There’s so much going on behind the scenes and I need you to just be patient with me as I navigate the minefield that is my life.
Thank you for understanding.