Thank you so much for the ask! I just wanna talk writing with people sometimes ;-;
10. Has a piece of writing ever “haunted” you? Has your own writing haunted you? What does that mean to you?
Even worse, Katsuki was slowly getting used to waking up in the middle of the night, panting, pulse drumming as if sleep itself had been chasing him to consciousness; then tentatively feeling for his eyes, nose, mouth in the dark and discovering that he had none.
This right here continues to haunt me. It’s from a bnha fanfic called “exit, pursued by a bear (Katsuki and Izuku are dead)”. I read it, uh, four years ago? The whole fic is good, but it’s this specific line that haunts me. The beautiful existential crises a medium-aware character would have to deal with when out of focus.
Of my own writing, um, I guess I have an idea I’ve been dragging around with me from fandom to fandom because I never end up writing it, so that kinda haunts me, I guess. It’s a soulmate au where the first words your soulmate says to you get printed on your arm as they say them. The caveat being character a is a “glitch in the system”, so if they ever talk to someone before they got their soulmate’s words, they’re words instead get imprinted, and of course, character b trying to convince character a to accept that they don’t care if they have a “real” soulmate out there that they ruined because they love them now and they couldn’t be happier to have them as a significant other even if it was just an “accident”. Oh, and explore some less savoury sides of that potential <3
EDIT: I just remembered one other that haunts me, a line and a prospect.
Encountering [him] represented the acme of his existence and, like everything at its peak. the beginning of his downfall.
It's from what I call "fateweaver au". Wherein people are born with fates that are impossible to escape, and "fateweavers" are characters who are able to read a person's fate. The narrator is a fateweaver who's fate it is to die saving someone who has no fate of their own, but is present in others, so the narrator knows this character intimately from reading about them in the fates of the world around them. The Fateless, however, is like a loose thread on a tapestry, and by interacting with the world around them he pulls on that thread until eventually it all comes undone. Fateweavers are a concept I really enjoy and will often use them in my more fantastical stories.
17. Talk to me about the minutiae of your current WIP. Tell me about the lore, the history, the detail, the things that won’t make it in the text.
I have a few WIPs, but the one I’m most focused on (and coincidentally the one with the most worldbuilding to it) would be Breaking Bounds (the dnd inspired/cleradin au), so I’ll do that one. There’s so much, in fact, I think I’ll just elaborate on a few things relevant to the story: namely the pantheon and some world views.
The main faith is a pantheon of seven gods. Phedes, the Sower, god of fertility; Ithamus, the Riddler, god of time; Æyzar, the Warden, god of the heavens; Usaris, the Conqueror, goddess of war; Amaryllis, the Lover, goddess of pleasure; Enlisen, the Wanderer, god of gales; and Amayadair, the Stranger, goddess of the seas. I could go into more detail about them, but I’ll be here all day because I did, in fact, create a mythos for them, so forgive me. What you need to know is Æyzar is the god Mike serves (and Will used to), and Amaryllis is the goddess Robin is invoking on her quest. Most temples are dedicated to the entire pantheon, but there are some monasteries dedicated to specific members of the pantheon, though these are more for training paladins and clerics. Mike and Will are from one such monastery.
A few world views that won’t really be talked about in detail because it’s in Mike’s POV and these are all just expected and I’m not going to be actively challenging some of them include:
Same-sex attraction is no more or less discouraged than opposite-sex attraction. Homophobia just isn’t a thing in this world (I like exploring Mike’s internal homophobia, but this is a fantasy world, and why add homophobia when I can just not? Also, somehow it felt out of place even if I wanted to ¯\_(ツ)_/¯) Same with misogyny. It just doesn’t exist. Their warrior god is a woman. To say a woman can’t do things as well as men might just get them smited after all lol.
Humans are the only speaking race on this plane, but there is a belief that the other dnd races (elves, dwarves, halflings, gnomes, etc) are on other planes. They believe that once, before the gods, they all walked amongst humanity, and so some people, even centuries later, would make claim to an ancestry of these other races. The Wheelers, for example, are believed to have “elven ancestry”. Whether it’s true or not doesn’t matter; they get no benefits from it because they’ve been just human for so long ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Sorcerers, for the most part, don’t exist. The only known sorcerer (and by known, I mean known by Mike, not by the general public) is El. El has a similar backstory, having escaped Dr. Brenner and his experimentations.
Warlocks exist and aren’t objectively seen as evil. The thing with warlocks is they typically come in two flavours: those who could not form a connection with the divine (not enough magic potential on their own), so they make a pact with a lesser being and are therefore much weaker, or they’re those who reject a connection with the divine for a patron instead. The first is seen as harmless because even if three agreed to do horrific things in return, they just aren’t much of a threat, and most are just people who want to be able to use magic in their day-to-day life and, therefore, won’t agree to those terms. The second is sketchier because if you can receive your magic from the gods, why wouldn’t you? What could you want so desperately you would shun the gods who refused to give it to you or were incapable to give it to you therefore, what did you have to agree to in order to enter your pact? Will, having grown up as a cleric in training who could and did hear Æyzar’s voice and was able to channel his divinity, makes him one of the second kind. Hence why Mike is harsher towards Will than he would be a random warlock, he comes across in his travels.
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