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For my Princess 🌙👑 .🌙 My castle is already yellowish due to being exposed to heat??? I don't really know... But I guess it's bec it's already old (older than my Nieces and Nephews) .🌙 #mooncastle #gashapon https://www.instagram.com/p/CGZwGsEHASM/?igshid=1w3g63vak1giz
My Moon Castle. Already yellowish bec of the humidity and time heheheh. Had this since I was young... 🤭🤭🤭 .🌙 #mooncastle https://www.instagram.com/p/CF1uHFVn8UX/?igshid=z81txm0x8p6u
Brought home some of my Office stuff coz I'll be spending more time Working at Home than Working at the Office. Now my table is full 😂😂 .🌙 Pencil Cases from @sailormoonphshop .🌙 #mooncastle #pink https://www.instagram.com/p/CEtlrvvHMRv/?igshid=ilsel9e6sadh
My Work Station at Home. I do Work From Home on T-Th & S and this is my work area. It's fun to work when your work area is full of the things you like ❣️ .🌙 #mooncastle #work https://www.instagram.com/p/CEjSM_MHcfW/?igshid=14p7trhdo90r4
1 12 and 14 please!!
Thanks! 1. If you’re an author, how many WIPs do you currently have? (Be honest!)
Discussed here! Suffice it to say: “Too Many”
12. Friends with benefits or secret dating?
Hm, both of them have so much going for them. I love the denial of the Friends With Benefits, I love the tension, the mutual pining, the intimacy that accidentally builds up as both of them steadily refuse to admit that they’re falling in love.
But I also love secret dating, especially the conflict, the question of when to tell everyone, IF they can tell everyone, the adrenaline rush of almost getting caught, secret dates that have to be planned down to the finest details....yeah, I’m going with that one.
14. (For authors) Post a line of dialogue from one of your WIPs without context.
“Cruelty, cruelty, cruelty. ‘Tis all that ever occupies his mind, and now he has a keen audience I fear he will not give up his newfound dukedom of the kingdom of slumber so easily.”
003 | for peyrol please! (if someone asked already, then olympe)
Surprisingly enough, no one asked about The Boy.
How I feel about this character: Baby bird boy. Baby. Homicidal.
Real talk: I wish I could put it into words more precisely, but he really is the single character I’m most attached to, I’ve spent a lot of time working with him, I’ve probably poured more of myself into his backstory and quirks than into any other 1789 character, he has a lot of potential for complexities and comparing and contrasting the different productions and what they did with him only serves to heighten that potential. There comes a point where you’ve worked with a character long enough and through enough that really you don’t HAVE the words for how you feel about them because they’re THERE, and Laz is definitely at that level with me.
Any/all the people I ship romantically with this character: Ronan, Artois (for a certain definition of the term “ship”), Ramard (don’t ask me how I got here, but it’s...surprisingly...cute. I’ll never actually CREATE anything for it but like. It could be cute, since Ramard is at a much earlier stage of his corruption than Laz is and can in theory be pulled out easier provided he doesn’t get shanked.) And I still have a certain soft spot for Olympe/Lazare from the French take on it, though tbh I still tend to add in Ronan as an OT3 option. I’m sorry, the annoying shit of a peasant’s here to stay for me.
My favorite non-romantic relationship for this character: One of the things that’s really interesting to me about Laz is that, unlike so many other characters, he doesn’t really.....EXIST outside of the context of his job. He doesn’t have any personal relationships that we see.
I am really, really interested in Solène and Lazare’s relationship, because I feel like they actually have a bit more in common than either one of them’s willing to admit personality-wise, having very pragmatic, cynical personalities that contrast staunchly against Ronan’s (and, to a lesser extent that’s probably slightly more pronounced in the French version, Olympe’s) idealism. They have the same background that Ronan and Laz do, as far as Solène ALSO being there when he shot their father...but we really don’t get all that much on how SHE takes it. There’s this huge black hole when it comes to Solène and how she dealt with everything and how she really...PERCEIVES Peyrol. I think the Toho really implied that she has a lot of fear and trauma as far as guns going off (though tbh ANYONE would be scared in that kind of situation), she obviously is in terror when she sees Laz pop up, even BEFORE she realizes that Ronan’s gone down and she’s clinging to Olympe, but....there’s still not much THERE.
In Pour la Peine, the answer that I came up with is “Basically this shadowy, inhuman figure that she can’t take her revenge out on because unlike Ronan she wants to LIVE,” but...there’s so little there. Some of the lines of the French (”You play the soldier”) could work easily for both Ronan AND Lazare, which would be a really interesting counterpoint to Nous ne Sommes, which of course comes later. I know, canon forgetting about Solène Mazurier’s trauma? Who would have thought?
And, of course, on a fanfic level, I’m always here for Sister-in-Law Solène who honestly has no idea WHAT to think of Ronan’s new boyfriend but...well...he makes her brother happy and he’s not the ABSOLUTE worst choice.
My unpopular opinion about this character: I don’t really think that I....have any unpopular opinions for him? The fandom’s so small that I think when we all talk it just...kind of merges together at some point. Like, I’m going through all my Major Laz Thoughts and I’m coming up blank on anything that’s TOO wildly away from the popular interpretation.
One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: On one hand, I would love a consensual Peyronan kiss after Maniaque where they both realize that they’re undeniably attracted to one another and then embark on an epic, forbidden romance that climaxes with them leaving France together and living in a German castle as an Old Married Couple™ with Olympe, Solène, and the dozens of animals that Ronan drags home for them to keep while the rest of the world goes down in flames (though in a few years, Artois’ going to be in Koblenz so...Awkward Reunion Time), but BARRING THAT, I’ll take an added scene of Laz finding out that Ronan escaped during the Maniaque reprise and losing his shit on the ones responsible. Because Laz being frustrated/worried/pissed is a strangely favorite combo of mine.
Favorite friendship for this character: Does Laz have....any friends? Uh, in canon, the one guard who nods his head enthusiastically when Laz gives The Infamous Line about “Open your mouth and I will give you release.” He ships it. Outside of canon, I will forever Brotp Olympe/Laz. They have a LOT they could bond over.
My crossover ship: I don’t want to say it’s a SHIP per se because I don’t REALLY crossover ship that often and I’m more interested in just seeing the DYNAMIC at all regardless of romance, but I would be very, very interested in his relationship with the Duc d’Orléans in Marie Antoinette das Musical. (And the Duc d’Orléans...in general.) Because yes, I’m still On My Bullshit. It would be a complete trash fire, but...well...there are three things that Laz seems to love: The Royal Family, revolutionaries, and people with only one brain cell. Orléans is both of the former AND, while he does have a brain cell...he also gives lets Margrid take The Very Incriminating Receipts on him because he’s so over-confident. That, and Orléans was once bros with Artois, so there’s a common link. And on at least one occasion he and Artois shared a lover in Rosalie Duthe so like...obviously Orléans wouldn’t have any problems with it.
3 4 6 and 22 please!
thank youuuu!!! 3. Favorite showah this is difficult bc i'm very bad at choosing favorites ;;; all for one should be up there since i write a lot of stuff for it and yet i love it for its fanon possibility and not the show itself ... 1789 also should be there for being so nostalgic to me ... but i think i choose company/baddy !! those two shows are just gold! one is the most heartwarming shows zuka's ever done and baddy is just ... brilliant. 4. (already answered!)6. A character you want to befriendthat's hard bc i want to be friends w so many characters ... but since company has such a great cast of characters, i think i'll choose ariake sara as a character i want to befriend. she's such a personality! experienced, refined and yet she's also someone you can have playful banter with. 22. Favorite clothing typedresses, definitely. if i want to go out and i don't want to wear pants bc of my country's scorching weather, i'd go out in a dress, put on some shoes and just go.
I think I never got a notification about Nous Devons au Pouvoir so i only noticed now (THANK YOU by the way, it's amazing, I really appreciate it!!) but 4, 13, and 14 for the meme, please! And also, I'm sorry that I ended up reading it so late, it wasn't my intention to ignore it at all.
Thank you so much! (I was more than slightly terrified, even though I also understood your schedule, but I was also going “Oh my God what if I gave her the equivalent of a dead rat for her birthday?” I’m really, really glad that you liked it!)
4: What’s your favorite line of dialogue?
The boy straightened up, even as he averted his eyes downward in deference, and the growl was gone in his voice. “There are many common soldiers. There is but one king of France.”
This fic and the fic that precedes it, Le Cri de ma Naissance (WHICH I HAVE NOT GIVEN UP ON), both really explore…HOW Lazare becomes the Comte de Peyrol. From that scared little kid clutching his book in the Beauce, who still has SOME hope of escaping (even if it’s dying a little bit every day) to the figure who stalks the halls of the Bastille. And this line is one of them where Adult!Laz starts to really show himself with that kind of blunt, yet diplomatic speech that kind of becomes a trademark of his.
And it’s not what Artois is EXPECTING. He was expecting Laz to either explode in rage or run crying out of the hall, but instead he gathers himself up together, gives an explanation that is perfectly flattering to Louis, and stands up to Artois in the politest possible way (and in a way that he’s probably not going to be able to do for some time afterwards.) It’s very much a rare Olympe Moment for Laz, even if unfortunately he’s going to end up over his head in a way that Olympe was able to avert. It’s just a pity that this line also had to earn him Artois’ interest, because he suddenly realized that he could have a new plaything.
13: What music did you listen to, if any, to get in the mood for writing this story?
A lot of the time, I can’t really listen to music WHILE writing because I can either focus on one or the other, and if I put on the music while I’m trying to get an idea out, it’s going to lead me pacing the halls for an unspecified period of time tossing ideas around. Some of the songs that I listened to while pacing around, but that I don’t NECESSARILY recommend for the overall mood (though I’m not going to say that you SHOULDN’T listen to Barbie songs while reading it):
(1) Become the Beast - Karliene
(2) Lunacy of Duke Venomania, Servant of Evil, and Seven Crimes and Punishments - Mothy
(3) Applause - Lady Gaga
(4) Animals - Maroon 5
(5) Weil Ich Besser Bin - Marie Antoinette das Musical
(6) Bubblegum Bitch and Primadonna Girl- Marina and the Diamonds
(7) Gasoline - Halsey
(8) Candy Store - Heathers: The Musical
(9) How Can I Refuse - Barbie: The Princess and the Pauper
In general, I was really trying to get into that mood of sheer ENTITLEMENT, ego, and overall idea of the monstrous lurking in a court setting with no one really there to halt his progress.
14: Is there anything you wanted readers to learn from reading this fic?
I mean, my file name for this one while I was writing it WAS “Artois You Piece of Shit,” but that doesn’t really say anything NEW.
In all seriousness, as I mentioned in my response to Forgiveness, I don’t think that I GENERALLY go in with an idea of pounding out some sort of moral message, even though I can’t REALLY divorce myself from my own cultural context/personal background. And personally, I’m too much into ideas of interpretation and being able to analyze a story to really have One True Lesson.
I GUESS that if I was going to actually apply a lesson to it, from Laz’s point of view, it would be that it’s really, really common for people who have survived abuse at the hands of one person to end up in a situation where they’re being abused by someone else, sometimes in a different way, sometimes not. I personally thought while writing it that the villain of the piece wasn’t even really ARTOIS (though of course Artois sets everything into play and still has AGENCY), it was more the society and the overall system that CREATED him and that turned a blind eye to what Lazare’s grandfather was more or less openly doing to him while happily laughing along whenever Artois chose a new victim. (That, and Lazare’s grandfather, whose treatment of Laz before this began basically set him up for everything even if that wasn’t necessarily his end goal. Like, of COURSE Lazare is going to go to an authority figure, a member of the Royal Family that he was taught to serve unquestioningly, who gives him a scrap of interest and affection, even if it’s completely insincere.)
Also: Court presentations? Very, very important in the 18th century. Very important. Especially in military service since that was the main distinction between officers who could move up in the ranks and the lower, more provincial nobles who were stuck in the lower ranks.
