#rotg ask

[skygemspeaks]

Have you ever watched Rise of the Guardians? (y'know with Jack Frost) because I saw you were on a kids' book kick and for all I haven't had a chance to read the books yet, the film based off of them is amazing so I thought you might like it

Heck yeah! I absolutely loved that movie to death, it was so amazing!!!! Definitely one of my all-time favs <3

I haven’t read any of the books for the series yet, but it’s such an interesting concept and I’d really like to get into them some day!

[atimesfeeler]

I was so entranced by the lore that I forgot Bunny and Jack are gonna kiss at some point. How did you come up with all the lore it's incredible!!

I really loved Warrior Cats as a kid 😭

(Rambles ahead)

No but really I found the wiki page after I re-watched the movie, read a ton of fanfiction and then read the books. When I read the books there were so many hidden little gems of lore that Bill Joyce just casually threw in there and then moved on— like what do you mean bunny reshaped the earth Bill. What do you mean— and I wanted to expand more on it!

I read one fic that went through Bunny’s past, mostly during the war and on Earth after, and it was unfinished and it left me like with this hole in my chest I needed to fill.

So I thought about what his world might be like and annotated Bunny’s book and found my favorite parts and pieces. I changed a bit (like the fact Pookas aren’t affectionate and have short childhoods- booooo) but I really loved the shapeshifting bit, the chocolate and spring and time focus. I read so many fics where he went by Aster and kinda ran wild with the idea that their culture was surrounded with flowers.

I also was obsessed with space. I learned about Kepler 16B the planet with two suns and I went through a ton of YouTube videos seeing how life would survive there and that there would be TWO shadows. (In the world of pitch black I mean COME ON its perfect) and I developed the years based on that (shorter years, a solar exclipse every five days and thought about how that would shape the culture (and a little bit the environment but mostly went full Warrior Cats on the biomes.

But I also looked up the different kinds of rabbits in different biomes mapped out which looks like a good mix of book and movie bunny. His book self looked very hare grasslands dry heat climate but his movie self is verrrry fluffy and gray and looks more cold climate so I made him a hybrid and thought about pooka racism he might encounter pfftttt.

I was reading Mother Natures story and that honestly was my favorite part out of the whole series because of the space stuff. And when they talked about walking talking constellations I looked up whether there was a rabbit constellation (Lepus) and what the myth was. Then in the books Typhan has weather powers so I thought it’d be cool if each constellation had their own magic and I debated giving Lepus spring adjacent powers but learning her myth was tied to running from Orions Dogs and remembering that Bunny was a Gaurdian of time in the books led me to making her a constellation of time and had her run through time to safety. And then I thought that would make sense for her people to age so very slowly like Bunny does in the books. So then I thought it would be super fun to make every alien species have a constellation they are tied to and also how angsty would be be for Bunny to be able to see his god on earth bc time travel and light travel? too good to pass up.

As for Jack and the Fundamental’s, I don’t want to spoil anything but essentially I was thinking up how I’d change Jacks origin form the books and how on earth they’d even be remotely similar (besides the fact they are both boys with staffs that laugh) I went down another science rabbit hole and found a really cool video showing a chemical reaction of fire (plus some chemicals) FREEZING something forming ice instead of fire. And that led me to making stars that could embody things like COLD. And there were seven or eight (can’t remember) other nightlights in the books so I tried to break down fundamental aspects of what made up space. Cold, dark, a vaccum, but also light, heat matter. I bounced around the idea of friction but what’s friction if not beginning and what makes up matter and I thought about gravity and zero gravity and also the great attractor we’re all being drawn toward and the fact that the universe is expanding forever. Eventually I narrowed it down to a couple pairs: light, dark, cold, heat, contracting, expanding, weight, weightlessness, beginning and ending.

I also read a great book at the time that essentially said creation stories tell you everything you need to know about a culture so I HAD to make a creation story for the universe.

And then it only made sense for darkness to create dream pirates whose sole existence in the books is to feast of dreams and light and I wondered what that would be like to actually never be full to always hunger for something you can’t product on your own and could they ever have enough light? What would happen if they had enough of it? What would happen if they were given dreams? And then I exploded when I thought about Lunars being the product of creators of darkness getting enough dreams and light to sustain themselves. It was the final puzzle piece really to everything- and I still have lots more lore upcoming in new chapters I can’t wait to share!!

Sorry I kinda got carried away but thanks for the ask!!! it was a fun trip down memory lane.

[atimesfeeler]

massive fan of prelude to time feelers cant WAIT for the pooka to get homo

Haha thank you!!! I can’t wait either lol the slow burn is so slow ppl forget it’s a ship fic lmaoo but!👆 no matter what time line it is - that pooka is always gay I made sure of it

[atimesfeeler]

If at some point Aster broke one of his teeth, would Tooth be able to see some parts of his memories from that piece?

Yes! And she would be able to see his adult memories but not his childhood, unless she had his baby teeth.

But there are ways to see someone’s memories (more metaphysical magic) without physical parts of them- it’s just the easiest way since teeth are primarily connected to memories and they literally fall out of children’s mouths. Bones hold memories because they last the longest, but teeth are like a hot spot I would say (and they are the easiest bones to retrieve). Tooth is a bit more skilled than your average magic holder so she can look into people’s memories without extracting teeth, (a habit of witches and more evil spirits or sorcerers) she probably would just need to touch him and concentrate. But most people have mental blocks preventing that so she has to work extra hard to bypass those blocks.

Thanks for the ask! I love talking about it :)

[itsaskjack]

Well gee anon, I don't know...is this too cute? I'm sorry, should I tone it down? :P

[itsaskjack]

Hmmm....no -_-

[itsaskjack]

When has he ever done that? And yes, I have. It's...uh...well, just don't eat it

[itsaskjack]

Summer colds, always suck. Guess who's back guys!!!