#nohoper

[ruindunburnit]

Today's HON fanfic research mission:

Find out where the Casts placed the "Prohibition Tunnels" that all the public information says were abandoned and summarily lost to time, because I have no doubt those red fledgling kids would stand out like a sore thumb running around South Boston Avenue and jumping in and out of Waite Phillips's fancy underground interoffice tunnels at night.

[ruindunburnit]

Sorry to disappoint, but over 250pgs into my timeline plan for NoHoper Part II and we *finally* have a meeting of Light and L. Lol.

[ruindunburnit]

Latest accomplishment in my Return to Drawing After a 12-Year Hiatus Saga:

A sketch of Zoey Redbird, outfit inspired by this passage from LightBringer Ch. 28

[ruindunburnit]

In today's episode of Working on NoHoper Part II, I am getting so close to solving the mystery behind the Tulsa Professors Murders from the original series.

You know, because the Casts completely neglected that part.

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Reimagining these House of Night vampyres with vertical pupil cat eyes was very much a treat for me, because now whenever I think of, say, Neferet going about her business, I think of her with this no-thoughts expression

Truly a sight to behold

[ruindunburnit]

Happy to take more House of Night headcanon requests, but small reminder that you can find many of them in my (completed!) House of Night fanfic, NoHoper Part I: 'LightBringer'. (Which I hear is very good).

[ruindunburnit]

Okay, confession time:

I have no idea what I'm going to do with the Red Fledglings in the NoHoper series. I'm sure the Casts wrote them in as a way to bring back Stevie Rae and it snowballed from there, but the whole fact that they exist breaks the world they built and cheapens their own rules and sense of threat in the plot. Why does it matter if a fledgling rejects the Change, even if they're going to come back different, because they're coming back anyway?

That's one thing, but I'm so sure the Casts don't really know why Neferet would conceivably make a standing army of undead that she cannot actually control; the stated reason seems to be having a standing army, when it seems the more likely reason, from the brain of the mastermind who would kill professors to radicalise her school and the vampyre world at large against humans, would be manufacturing anti-vampyre sentiment when they inevitably went rogue in their pursuit of blood.

Like, I get why they made sense for the Casts' plot in the short-term, but in the long term, they simply break it, and they don't do us the decency of really making sense -- especially because their "undead" qualities were *so fucking easy* to neutralise with the elements! Call me crazy, but I don't think there's anything wrong with having the walking undead in a story - only in making it so easy to make them "living" again, and in a way that undermines your story.

Give me a break.

@cuttoncandyhair

[ruindunburnit]

I have written some horrible scenes for the NoHoper series so far, but somehow, having a villain refer to vampyre fledglings as "vamplets" just knocks it out of the park for creep factor. 😭