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[calling4glaives]

Kingsglaive Legends - Day 6

I mean...who else could @starjunco do for today? Axis is the perfect fit for the prompt and the palettes!

Thanks to everyone making wonderful content -- lovely art and fun fics! For people who have fallen behind their goals, no fear! Please post whenever you can; we don't have time limits here.

And good luck to everyone working on Kingsglaive content of any kind! Thanks for all the love for our wonderful glaives.

[garbria]

For the Fic Writer's Ask Game! 8, 26, and 43 please!

8. What song would make a great fic (to either write or read)?

A lot of my fics were written to or inspired by songs, so I use music a lot. It’s hard to choose just one song. Anything by Hozier would make a great fic, his lyrics are amazing. I could definitely see a cute CorNyx fic to Like Real People Do, or something angsty for Swan Upon Leda.

26. Would you rather write a fic that had no dialogue or one that was only dialogue?

Dialogue, 100%. I’ve written some fics that are almost all dialogue and then had to go back and add some description to set the scene. I enjoy dialogue, and I feel like it’s one of my strengths, so I definitely would prefer a fic with that than without.

43. If you take/write prompts: what’s your favorite prompt fic that you’ve written?

I love prompts, they’re great for helping with writer’s block or when I need a break from long fic. I enjoy all my prompt fics, but if I had to choose, I would probably say If I Be Wrong, which ironically grew into a long fic from a prompt. 

Thanks for the ask!

[garbria]

For the Apophasis Character Ask Game! Your choice whether you do one, some or all:

Nyx -- 1, 21, 35 Cor -- 4, 19, 33

Nyx

1. Name or Nickname they hate or don’t use

Nyx hates the “hero” nickname. He’s stopped trying to get people to stop using it, but it irritates him anytime someone does. He doesn’t think of himself as a hero, and it just reminds him of all the ones he couldn’t save.

21. How was their childhood abnormal?

Nyx was the youngest person in a long time to successfully pass his first hunt. Most people undertake the first hunt at 13, but Nyx passed his at 11. His mother was proud, but exasperated at his determination to risk it. He sat in a lot of official meetings as his mother’s aide growing up, learning the politics of the islands.

35. What do they most fear becoming?

He most fears growing useless. He needs to be able to protect others, and he fears the day he no longer can, either through injury or age.

Cor

4. Aspect commonly associated with their gender they reject

Cor doesn’t understand the concept of “women’s work”, and thinks it’s stupid that certain chores got gendered. He’s been taking care of himself for years, and he doesn’t understand why someone would refuse to learn basic skill sets. Wesk taught him to cook, which he enjoys when he has time. If he hadn’t learned to sew when he was younger, he wouldn’t have been able to keep his uniforms together. He has no patience for people expecting others to do their work for them.

19. What did they not do that they wish they had?

He sometimes wishes he had actually gone to high school. Regis and Clarus made sure he had the tutoring he needed, so he’s educated, but he never had the actual high school experience. Whenever he picks up Noctis from school, he wonders what it would have been like to be a regular high school student, instead of serving in the Crownsguard.

33. What kind of media do they just not understand?

Cor doesn’t get online memes from whatever the Eos equivalent of twitter or reddit is. He can use email and text just fine, but he has neither the patience nor the time to puzzle out whatever obscure meme Noctis, or occasionally Nyx, has sent him this time.

[meissashush]

For the Apophasis Ask Game for Rosea! #6, 13, 32!

From the Apophasis ask game, for KGLore! Rosea Leonis is my OC. If you don't want to hear me go on about her forever and ever, please blacklist #Rosea Leonis.

Six was already asked, so I just rolled down to the next question, hope that's okay!

7. What family members don’t they have (via death or just never had)

Rosea does not have a mother, any siblings, or any other family than Cor. A single father from an estranged family situation does not a broad familial tree make.

It honestly does not really bother her, in part due to the way she's saw situations like hers growing up. Television shows and books rarely ever portrayed orphans as anything more than a sympathetic side-kick to the main hero (who's narrative purpose was to be rescued by the hero) or the tragic victim. Add to that her Dad being the spitting image (and sometimes the literal reference) for the standard Lucian Hero, with the perpetual unavailability to complete the look, and Rosea just sort of accepted that this is what a family looks like if you're not good enough to have one in the first place.

Has she ever sat down and unpacked any of this? No. Therapy, anyone?

13. What practical skills are they bad at? (Cooking, plumbing, etc)

Navigation! For a girl who grew up in Insomnia, the city of never ending confusing fucking streets, she cannot navigate for the life of her. She can read a map, she can remember a path she has walked before, and she can follow directions. But explain to someone else how to get from Point A to Point B? Absolutely not. Ask someone else.

32. Where is some place you would never find them?

Anywhere with dancing. Club, ballroom, street mob, whatever? Not happening. No.

[garbria]

Would you ever write...an AU where through some stroke of fate, one of the characters is fighting on the Niflheim side of things? (Openly, not double agent/traitor stuff.)

What an interesting idea! That sounds fascinating. Yes, I could see writing something like that. I wonder what character would openly fight for Niflheim? Prompto, maybe, if he was never rescued? One of the glaives, maybe as a mercenary like Aranea? Instead razing Galahd, they force the Galahdans to fight for Niflheim as guarantee for the safety of Galahd? I think there's a lot of possibility for the Galahdans as a ambiguous force in the vein of Aranea. Especially if they end up switching sides at some point. Lots to think about.

Thanks for the ask!

[awlwren-writes]

Fanfic Writer Asks! 17 & 18

17) Do you have any wips that you can tell us about? What are you most excited for in you wip?

Most of my WIPs are public now, and you know about the Daemon AU that I just mentioned. Ah, maybe I should mention an older WIP I'm still working on: the continuing saga of Cor and the not-Prompto clone baby that started with Pelna's POV. Next chapter should be Nyx's reaction to the baby and Cor's injuries, and where they go from there. And then that one should be done. Yay for completion!

As for most excited, I'm also very excited to try to apply some fix-its to canon in some of the others. We'll see how well it works.

I'm honestly most excited about what I'm hearing about your WIPs, and Garbria's and WWFL.

18) What's the most obscure thing you've researched for a fic?

Again, I get on some weird tangents, so that's hard to say, but maybe the entire pamphlet I read on advice for start-up fisheries in Alaska? How to design them, what equipment you will need, how to fit them to the local community, and frank advice about the low likelihood of long-term success, with four case-studies as examples. It was actually quite fascinating and very helpful. Which also explains why "Turn To" took me so very long to write.

But those examples were both fairly old… Something newer might be how plants utilize light outside the visible spectrum (trying to explain the Long Night, of course, which is…probably slightly masochistic to try to do). Turns out some of them can do it better than others, but of course all green plants are specialized for two bands in the visible spectrum. So maybe we’ll have oddly colored plants on the other side of things!

Thanks for the questions and your patience! Hope you enjoyed the answers.

[garbria]

Fanfic Writer Asks: 4, 6, 15

4 What fic of yours were you surprised by how popular it was?

Something Lonesome About You, it’s been consistently one of my fics with most hits and kudos. It surprises me because it’s just the sixth fic I ever posted, and my first time writing Cor. It’s mostly Cor being socially awkward and touch starved. It’s good fic, and I’m glad people enjoy it, I’m just surprised it’s so popular.

6 Do you outline your fics? If so, how?

Sometimes, not usually with my one-shots, though I usually go in with some points in my head I want to hit, but nothing actually outlined. For my longer fics/aus, I do minimal outlining, just keep everything straight and figure out where I’m going. Even that doesn’t tend to be too detailed, though, I mostly wing things.

15 If you could only write one type of fic (angst, fluff, etc.) for the rest of your life what would it be?

Oh, this is a tough one! I love both angst and fluff so much, I don’t know if I could choose. I’m going to cheat and say hurt/comfort so I can do both. XD

[awlwren-writes]

For the word WIP ask! "Kukri."

I... somehow do not have that word in any WIPs for this week, actually. I'm not quite sure how that happened.