3, 14 for How to Make Friends and Not Murder People
3. What’s the part of the fic I’m most proud of? -Probably L’da’s slightly agro farmer sister, I think? She’s sort of a jerk, one of those devil’s advocate types who make thanksgiving dinner with the family such a chore, but she’s a good boss and she will fuCKING KiLL yOU if you touch her baby. I had fun brainstorming what aggressive body language would be like with Eutermesans, having her really loudly settle her scales (defensive) instead of cracking her knuckles or anything (preparing for an offensive)
14. If I were going to write a sequel-I would want to do more of L’da and C’rizz’s courtship, how she talked her family into paying his dowry, how she discovered how deep the obedient blank face went and started to help him assert his own personality (which was based on hers definitely at first but she was so careful to let him disagree with her) . The problem is whenever I daydream about it it always builds up to this terrible ‘and then randomly Kromon the day of their wedding’ and snaps me out of it. It sucks that all their trials are for nothing.
So I might have to write it from the perspective of a Magically Reincarnated L’da living in our universe because I don’t tragic-ending very well.