5. What is the next moment you need to write that’s interesting to you?
I’m answering this for ROTD as a whole- I am incredibly excited to get to what I’ve dubbed The Childhood Fic. It’s split into three chapters, one for Gabriel, one for Grim, and one for Jim! It focuses on their childhoods and early adulthood- including when Grim and Jim first meet, in my current draft. I’ve got a few more things I need to finish up, but it’s the meta conclusion of something I’ve been planting the seeds of for quite some time. This is not to say that the in-between stuff isn’t interesting, but I’ve been brewing this particular extra up for years. I might do a similar piece for Brian and Daithi, but once it's finished, the central theme that made me limit it to just those three will be pretty apparent.
9. What do each of the relevant characters currently want?
I had a hard time figuring out which fic to do this for, but I settled on the early stages of the SPLAU!
Kevin: He wants to figure out a way to convince Spiff and Seán to leave them alone, and he wants Daithi to stop being such an asshole-
Dan: He wants to see if there’s an easier way out of this situation than committing treason, oh my god, maybe they should really just turn themselves over, guys-
Brian: He wants to find out who he used to be.
Daithi: He wants to get the fuck out of dodge, because Seán and Spiff are coming for them oh my GOD can you PAUSE YOUR TREASON TIRADE FOR TWO MINUTES? GET ON THE TRAIN!
Seán: He wants to not fail. He wants a promotion, and he wants to ensure his place in the world, and so he wants Kevin, Dan, Daithi, and Brian to surrender.
Spiff (yeah, he’s here too, I wanted even “teams”): He wants revenge.
Queen Erin Corcráin, of the Republic of Foltnia: She wants those metal miracle workers under her thumb.