#sdv hector

[bunniemothwrites]

I actually don't like having to do this, but I'm going to keep at it because there will be a day in the not-so-distant future when some person is going to see a 250,000 word fanfic with 10k chapters being posted every week, and they're going to go, "You used AI to write this, didn't you?"

So you get my monthly word count data instead, on a tag specifically to validate that this is a human process if I ever need to post a link to my work "proof". Some months are much worse than others. May sucked. May was a struggle. I wrote half as much as April, but I kept writing.

Hector experiencing a bad transformation sequence under the cut. CW: for light body horror.

Wasn't my intention to go this route, but real life circumstances feed the story, sometimes, and there's no sense pulling a punch when looking at the stats for fics with these characters on Ao3 and you realize that you're the only person who's going to read the thing from cover to cover once its done.

I'm going to give it exactly what it demands, and I'm going to give myself exactly what I need. (And I love Hector, believe me: but you only hurt the ones you love, or something.)

(Somewhere in Ch. 7ish)

Val caught her elbow as the shape undulated, the shiver of fur uncertain as the darkness seized around Hector’s figure, and with a shudder of greenery, the animal staggered into the unpruned bushes near the clinic. Thorns scraped runnels through the sound of her cry as she vanished.

The sound the body made as it lunged from the dirt, transformed from animal to human, was an agony in confused layers, torn from a throat that couldn’t hold its shape, because as a wolf entered, a woman emerged — haggard and pink beneath the moon’s gleam, her hair sticking to her forehead in sweaty, serpentine tendrils.

“There’s something wrong with her,” Val said.

Hector raised her head, and then an arm in their direction as if in warning to keep their distance, her teeth bared.

“I am standing… right here,” she said. “At least insult me when I’m out of earshot.”