#snapshot fic

[beananacake]

hi patch I kindly request for more dad!richard madden (richard dadden if you will!) content! have a great day you!❤️

Nonny! Are you psychic, sweet nonny? How did you know we're getting Richard Dadden today? ;) Ask and ye shall receive! It'll be up later today, just you wait.

You have a great day today, my luv!

[beananacake]

I'm feeling a little bit generous today. We might see a Snapshot headcanon for our birthday man Richard 😉

[beananacake]

Hi Patch! Could you perhaps add another small one shot part to Snapshot of y/n having a baby? That would be really cool :) btw love ur work sm <3

Hello luv! Here ya go! I hope you enjoy! 💙💙

[beananacake]

hey hey hey sorry if I am bothering you but I still have some other questions. I'm just really interested in your thoughts of the fics.

questions 9,21 for TAP and can you tell us 26 aka the funfact of savior, TAP, and snapshot please!

thank you so much for patiently asking the long questions that I have!

You are very welcome, anon! Thank you for sending me more asks. You are definitely not bothering me! I love getting asks like this!

9. Was there anything from canon that you pulled for this fic?

I used Cinderella 2015 for TAP so some stuff I got from canon were: most of the characters (Thibault is the Captain in the movie but he didn't have a name so I just named him that), Kit having been to war, the idea that Kit has to marry for the betterment of the kingdom, Y/N being a commoner, and the setting (although it's not really that obvious because I didn't go much into world building with this fic.) I did get some dialogue from the movie, although I mixed them up and put them in the context that fits TAP. I took the essence of it, of marrying outside of the rank, and played around that a bit. I'm not saying they couldn't but I can't think of how a peasant girl could rule a kingdom armed with only love from her husband, the prince/king. That's why I made her a diplomat's daughter. She's not necessarily exposed to the workings of how to run a kingdom but she's been through a lot of different ones where she can draw inspiration from. She's still knowledgeable of it, which makes her a better candidate than a maid or peasant (sorry, Ella :/ )

21. What is something you didn't expect people to notice or gravitate towards in this fic?

I think this was answered in the previous ask but to reiterate, it was Louis. I never thought Louis would be someone the readers would come to love! He was meant to be just a side character but he's suddenly become this larger person inside the fic and I just went along with it. I'm so glad he's well-received! But in general, I didn't think the readers would actually love the story lmao Most of the fics I see being requested and read and shared are dark fics and smutty fics. TAP couldn't be dark and couldn't be smutty, especially since it was important that their marriage wasn't consummated, so I was surprised at the love it was getting. I didn't think something like this would actually have an audience (and I am thankful for each and every one who has read it!). I thought it was a dead fandom but I guess there are still some of us who love Prince Kit from Cinderella 2015.

26. Wild card! I'll tell you a fun fact(S) about this fic!

Snapshot: So, I wrote Snapshot because I literally cannot contain my admiration for Richard Madden. I was like a bubble waiting to burst when I started to write it. I just happened to be bored during my chemo sessions and I had this handful of free time that I didn't want to spend scrolling through social media so I started writing. I actually have no plot in mind for that story; it was just a blurb in my head but people wanted a second part to it. I did finish writing the second part in one day because of sheer excitement. Snapshot is just supposed to be a bit like "slice-of-life" piece of fic, where some days you don't really have anything going on. It's very milestone-y so any updates for that fic would be far in between, like life. About Oscars: it had been my plan to actually upload Oscars on the day of the Academy Awards (which I did) because I love coincidences. The idea for that was already forming the moment I finished writing ch5 of Snapshot.

Savior: Like Snapshot, when I first wrote ch1, I have no plot in mind. I just decided to go along the movie because it's a beautiful movie with a lot of layers that people seemed to miss because what they wanted was action and it wasn't as action-packed as any other ordinary superhero movie. It's a love letter to humanity and what else would better fit the embodiment of love than an angel. Speaking of love, I knew I wanted them to end up together but I didn't know how to do/show it. I think I did Angel and Ikaris a disservice when I had them almost kiss in ch4, instead of an organic progression in their story. I actually watched Eternals via a grainy French subbed copy. I could barely understand what was going on but when he yeeted himself to the sun at the end, I was so pissed. That was what prompted me to write Savior. Ikaris had a lot of room for redemption but it's too bad they went for a poetic ending. I'd like to think I like my story's ending better lmao And speaking of ending, I don't think Angel and Ikaris's story is ending soon. There's one plot I want to explore and only shared it with one person in this platform. I just wish I get the energy to write it lmao

TAP: Pride and Prejudice 2005 is my favorite movie of all time so it was partially inspired by that movie (esp that line of dialogue in ch5). When I was considering a love triangle, the movie was one of my primary research materials with Kit obviously being Mr. Darcy but I couldn't see Louis as a Wickham so I scratched that idea. I went with the poisoning instead because I was watching Poirot and Agatha Christie (the author of Hercule Poirot's stories) loved using poison as a plot device. Medici is also an inspiration (ep1 intro where Giovanni de Medici was poisoned with hemlock and Marco Bello going into the apothecary to investigate were a few of the scenes that I took from the show). You'd actually be surprised at the amount of research I do for the etymology and history and origin just for a particular word. I never write without having a dictionary and a thesaurus beside me. The words I mostly use couldn't be later than 1850's, or else they wouldn't fit the era I set TAP in (and I unintentionally set it during the years the Brothers Grimm were alive [See ch1 for that mistake lmao]) And I have never pored over research as much as I did with TAP! There are still mistakes, especially with the poisons and the thing about royalty, but so far, I'm happy with the outcome. It's a fairy tale, it's not meant to be perfect (no matter how much I try to convince myself of that lol).

[beananacake]

I JUST READ "OSCARS" SHDKSJDKSHSKSJ LET ME TELL YOU I CRIED-

SKDHSKHCKSSJSJ WORDS CAN NOT DESCRIBE HOW MUCH SEROTONIN YOU JUST GAVE ME. EVERYONE 👏 SAYS👏 THANK 👏YOU👏 PRAT 👏

MAY BOTH SIDES OF YOUR PILLOW BE ALWAYS COLD

YOU ARE VERY WELCOME ANON!!

(Me testing to see if my pillow is cold)

[beananacake]

oh i have so many questions! okay how about question number 11,12,13 for snapshot, saviour, and the accidental princess, please!

Anon, I'd be happy to answer any of your questions! I'm sorry this took a while lol Brace yourself for reaaaaaally long answers!

11. Was there a scene that you didn't originally plan to include? Why did you decide to fit it in?

Snapshot: It had been a while since I had written for Snapshot so I don't really remember which ones were last minute additions. I know that when writing it, I feel it should be authentic to real life as much as possible...? So even the nitty-gritty of every day life had to be added in.

Savior: Believe it or not, I didn't really plan on including the Epilogue for Savior. I wanted an ambiguous ending for everyone but I felt it was lacking in that family dynamic so I had to add it in.

The Accidental Princess: The end of Chapter 5 and the kiss in Chapter 8! It felt too early for me to write down Kit's confession but it just felt right that I did. The secret garden brought it out, tbh. And, I sht u not, I actually forgot to put the romance in Chapter 8 lmao I was ready to upload it then I thought Patch, aren't you writing a romance? Where's the luuuurve in this chapter? You're nearing the end! So yeah. That's how we got the kiss.

Also, Louis was supposed to propose a marriage pact on Ch4 but it felt too early and I haven't really established how close they were at that point. (There are literal lots I could talk about with TAP because I kept every scene I removed from the uploaded version.)

12. Was there a scene you wished you could have included? Why didn't it fit in?

Snapshot: I wish I could have added more to Y/N and Richard's date in ch3 but I don't know what else they could do in a theme park. I've never been on any dates so I am absolutely clueless on what goes on during those lmao

Savior: I wanted to add more of Angel's origin. There's a lot of mystery about who and what she is so I wish I could have written more about that. I guess I'll do that when I get to editing Savior.

TAP: Oh, lots. Literally a lot. This is the fic where I have a "dump" for every chapter. The one thing I had been adamant on adding but didn't was Kit teaching Y/N how to ride a horse. It looked cute in my head but when I wrote it down, it was too technical and I wasn't able to capture the feelings I wanted to convey. Plus, having not put it somehow made sense in ch9 when she disappeared and Kit had the stables checked for horses. So, it all came together, in an unexpected way.

13. My favorite line of dialogue from this fic was [xyz]. What inspired it?

I think you were supposed to say what yours were, nonny, but I'll put mine instead lol

Snapshot: "Because I love him and I miss him and not talking to him hurts but talking to him hurts." You know I love angst and pining. This line did it for me because it's true. There's something human about admitting that you want to talk and not talk to someone you love. It's raw human emotion and honesty for me.

Follow ups to this one are Gina's lines in ch5: "Hey, zip it. I'm having a best-friend-giving-advice-in-a-rom-com moment." and "Y/N i'm literally so close to smacking you with a spatula." because in those two lines, you could tell they're best friends.

Savior: Again, the angst of: "So, I left him. I left him even if I didn't want to because I was so afraid of losing him that I made him lose me first." I needed a way for Ikaris to connect with Angel and is there anything else stronger than a shared life experience? Both of their fears were valid and they did it both out of love. It's the sacrifice for me.

TAP: I love that scene where Y/N stood up for herself against the Grand Duke. "But may I also remind you, sir, that I am not just any person in this household. I am the prince's wife. I have let all of you tread on me as though I am merely the ground you walk on. I believe I am entitled to a modicum of respect, if not for being Kit's wife, then at least for being human... Forgive me for not submitting to your will, Your Grace, but I implore you to see that you have not afforded me the same treatment I had been giving you... That is not a suggestion for you to act towards me with disrespect." For me, it just goes to show that she is kind-hearted but takes no shit from anybody.

Thank you for the questions, anon! I hope you leave more!

[beananacake]

hey! if you post TAP part 10 first, will you still post the snapshot one-shot on the 27th or?

Oh, yeah. They're both one click away. I just can't decide which one to post first.

[beananacake]

Okay, so, I have something to ask you, guys. Would you rather I:

post the Snapshot one-shot? (I was going to post it on the 27th but I could move it closer.)

OR

post The Accidental Princess Part 10? (I'm still working on Part 11 so there might be a bit of a wait for that next one.)

Looking forward to your response!