#quilna's asks

[quilna]

hello i just wanted to say that i love lying is a love language!!!!! absolutely peak

:D Thank you!!!! Glad you're enjoying it!!!!!

[quilna]

Sorry if this is a silly question but do you plan to stay active writing fics for the fandom even once the comic is done?

No worries! I do plan to continue writing fics for TGS!

At the very least, I've got LLL to finish because I have too many evil plans for what I'm going to do to the characters to just leave it incomplete~

Future fics will depend on what inspiration and ideas I've got at the time

[quilna]

If you think about it, the songs Faulty Feline Philosophy by Ferry and Alive from the Jekyll&Hyde musical are very similar. They're both sung from the perspective of a character feeling well and truly 'alive' at the prospect of being free from the consequences of their actions

I hadn't heard of this song before! Cool beat and fun lore!

Hyde would absolutely be the type of person to quickly waste nine lives if he was given them. Like the protagonist of the song, he's just way too reckless

[quilna]

*squints at TGS and Umineko* if i had a nickel for everytime a character developed blonde alter to unleash all of their violent and hedonistic desires after a major life altering heartbreak I'd get two nickels, which isn't much, but it's odd that it happened twice

I have to admit that I haven't seen Umineko so unfortunately I only know one of the characters involved but Damn that is odd that is happened twice

We need to stop major life altering heartbreaks, it seems to create hedonistic violent blonde people

For all we know, maybe all blonde people might secretly be the result of major life altering heartbreaks

[quilna]

BEAUTIFUL PERSON AWARD! Once you are given this award you're supposed to paste it in the asks of 8 people who deserve it. If you break the chain nothing happens, but it's sweet to know someone thinks you're beautiful inside and out <333

Oh! Thank you!!! :D You're a very beautiful person too!

I'll try to remember to look into people to send this to later!

[quilna]

worldbeyondtheworld

Thinking about the mastermind kidnapping Jekyll gave me an idea, leading back to the idea of ‘investigating a mysterious death in a mansion’.

What if Lanyon’s investigations into the physical London side of the Instability leads and Holmes to researching a suspicious mansion? A mansion which Lanyon knows, to his surprise. He’s been regularly invited for boring parties to here before.

The owner, an old friend of Lanyon’s mother’s family, has been renting it out to other aristocrats after his move to France. The mansion*s high hedges block outside eyes. It’s a bit further away from the other houses. Some say it’s become haunted: Visitors hears noises with no source, and see monsters where there are none.

Before Holmes and Lanyon can investigate during a ‘social’ visit, a fire destroys part of the mansion and claims some victims. I have some ideas what it reveals, but they got convoluted fast.

Most straightword plot point: The mansion is the place the mastermind tricked / forced Jekyll going to. It's on top of an Instability they've been using. (The voices and sights were people sensing their Shadows.) It's the trap Palace's real world counterpart.

They had Jekyll dragged there to show him the Cognitive London and use it to spirit him away. Jekyll as the Instability's origin (which they don't necessarily know) unconsciously used this spot to escape, which also disrupted his memories. (Maybe had a semi-Awakening from the stress?)

Ooooo very interesting! I wonder what the fire reveals

I also wonder, if people's shadows were there, whether any of the shadows attempted to attack their counterparts given their nature. Whether or not the shadows can actually harm their counterparts is another question but it certainly adds to the haunting if someone gets clawed or otherwise injured by a monster from the cognitive world.

Man, it would also be really creepy if some of the residents thought they saw one of their friends wandering about only to lose sight. Then, later, when they finally found their friend again, said friend hadn't been anywhere near where 'they' had been seen. Not to mention if they even had a conversation with the doppelganger and thought their friend was acting weirdly only for the friend to have no knowledge of it later.

Lots of potential haunted house tropes here

Not to mention the fact that Sherlock would be present with all the cognitive dangers about. If it's half in the real world, half out, they might have to protect Sherlock from the various roaming monsters while he does his investigation. After all, Sherlock might be able to help them figure out who the mastermind is if they keep him with them but he also doesn't have his own persona to protect himself

[quilna]

worldbeyondtheworld.

Shadow AU. I'm still thinking about potential forms Lanyon's Palace could take from his issues. I still like the Crime Novel setting, but I'm coming to like the concept of Sinking Ship in a Dangerous Sea under constant attack more and more. And the first can be folded into the second.

(Not to mention that my alternative idea for Robert's persona - the Count of Monte Christo - used to be a sailor.)

So much symbolism can fit into the metaphor. Drifting through life = staying in his cabin while his father used to steer. Or having his own, smaller vessel that Robert let drift in safe waters but always in the safety of a larger ship. Then he took over.

The ship's lifelike, based on the model his father showed him as a child. He also knows the entire lingo. It has an entire section that's basically a very comfortable prison in a cabin. Ships in bottles.

The sea itself is a metaphor on several levels. From Robert's feelings: On the surface everything seems calm; underneath is a maelstrom that can rise to the surface with storms. The sea is dangerous and treacherous because the weather and thus the waves can change any time (public society). Monsters lurk, both real ones as well as the metaphorical ones (prejudice, persecution, etc.) And then there's the power using the Instability => poisoning the sea / tearing it apart.

I'm still thinking about how the crew works. They'd might represent a bunch of different feelings. One of them gets murdered, as an echo to the danger of the Palaces.

Ooooh! A ship would be a great palace for Robert! Given his father's history and how much it links to Robert, a ship would be very fitting!!! I also love how it fits the Count of Monte Cristo too, I love it when multiple threads just connect together perfectly like that

The metaphors with it are great and really fit Robert's character! Robert's shadow being a captain but not wanting to be and is always struggling with the responsibility of it, unable to keep the ship afloat and all his crew members safe and everything running properly simultaneously, something is always wrong or imperfect and maybe his cognition of his father is always there to berate him for even the smallest slip up, representing how his constant criticism as a child always haunts Robert in whatever he tries to do

It would be interesting if the crew did represent his different feelings! Always trying to keep them completely under control and in line, doing his best to never let them step even a foot out of his control, maybe even keeping the emotions he doesn't want anyone to see working below deck where they hopefully won't be found. It also makes the idea of one of them being murdered interesting because there are symbolic Options for that. Like it could be his childhood innocence or his passion or any other number of positive emotions that he believes he doesn't have anymore, leaving behind just the colder, more ruthless emotions that will help their survival. Or maybe the reason he hides some of his emotions below deck is because they're more positive emotions like that and he's desperately trying to protect them at the cost of repressing and hiding them.

[quilna]

worldbeyondtheworld.

I've had a thought when thinking about whether Jekyll and Hyde count as one member on the team in the Shadow AU as soon as they're aware of each other:

It's Schroedinger's Ego / Shadow = Schroedinger's Shadow / Ego.

They change states whenever you observe them. Which states? That also changes!

Sounds fitting! If you stick Jekyll and Hyde in a box, they can be either one party member or two and they can be shadow or ego