Tentative plans for Ovenfire Heart
Honestly, at the moment I'm mainly just winging it and going with the flow of whatever I've got written, but I do have some things in mind!
(Do note that the fanfic is most likely gonna be somewhat of a slow burn except for specific action-focused chapters, so everything I'll be talking about in this post will take a whileeee to develop ehehe~)
First, the fanfic will be a mix of angst, drama, fluff and humor altogether, with most of the angst and drama coming from Gingerbrave focused chapters like chapter 1, 2 and the upcoming chapter 4.
The angst and drama aspects will focus on Gingerbrave's complicated feelings revolving around his lacking self-esteem, self-sacrificial nature and conflicted emotions regarding all the things he went through. He's basically like a child soldier after all, and the traumas that come with that will rear their ugly heads soon enough...
The humor aspect on the other hand will usually come from two things: Ultimate Cookie gradually discovering what it's like to be a cookie and the hijinks that'll come from it, and their wacky interactions with Gingerbrave (and other cookies) as a result of their... unusual upbringing, like in chapter 3.
Of course, I'll try my best to make use of their inherent creepiness, unsettling appearance and manipulative nature to create tense situations from time to time, but for a good chunk of the fanfic Ulti will be more or less a silly goober just discovering what it's like to live!
Which is in contrast to Gingerbrave, who'll eventually snap and become "evil"... whatever that entails, I've yet to decide for certain, but he WILL crash out on everyone at some point and it won't be pretty ^^;
It's kinda poetic really- as the story develops, Gingerbrave slowly goes down a darker path while Ulti walks a lighter one, with them both influencing each other on their respective paths for better or worse
The fluff aspect will mainly come from wholesome moments between Gingerbrave and his siblings (Strawberry and Wizard) or close friends, and between him and Ulti- being who he is, Gingerbrave's kindness will rub off on Ulti eventually, and the latter will eventually learn what it's like to have a conscience and moral compass, though let's hope Gingerbrave's self-sacrificial nature won't rub off on them too...
Finally, the end goal is for the two's relationship to be something like platonic soulmates, but it'll be a longggg time before we get to that point (and even longer for those two to realize that, much less accept it), and until then I'll be having fun making everyone in-universe thinks Ulti is trying to date Gingerbrave while the latter keeps accidentally making it look like he's reciprocating :P
With all that being said, looks like I'll have to change the story's summary at one point to be more ftting, likely once chapter 4 is out since that's when the story's main arc truly begins