Vwoop quick question but where can one find your fics? I'm curious.
I WOULD LOVE TO TELL YOU THAT IF I HAD ONE. i,, I haven't a lot to my name yet actually. Just. A lotta stuff that hasn't been posted. There are some fractions in my #vwoop.writing tag and I do have an ao3 but it does not see very much use and is empty. BUT SOON. ITLL BE HERE SOON. I PROMISE.
if one is familiar with 3h. Greater Dream SMP or whatever it's called is loosely the blue house (super loosely. it's really not, in the second half.), and the badlands faction is loosely the red house (once again. very loosely. the egg is the uh. anti religion group and more affiliated than the red house actually is in the plot. i think. I haven't actually gotten around to that route ;;). lmanburg's faction is even less like the yellow house. I also don't have a name for the School yet. or fancy names for the houses. it is The School.
lmanburg aligned house:
Wilbur is a thought to be lost prince, who resurfaced at The School after what was believed to be an assassination attempt when he was a child. He got along well with his classmates, though, at least most of them, and was accepted as loose Authority over his classmates. It's a very poorly kept secret that he was raised by Phil while he'd disappeared, but that would Not Look Good for anybody. He's technically a Lord class, but he has no weapon proficiency.
Tubbo is the son of the acting king, and was next in line for the throne before Wilbur showed up. He's very glad Wilbur showed up. Now, he's just Wilbur's tactician. As such, he's a Tactician class, proficient in tomes but eventually gets his sword, Checkmate.
Tommy arrived at the school with Wilbur. He's not of any noble status, or anything, but they were a package deal. In the fe games the royals usually have a retainer to protect them except Tommy is Incredibly Underqualified for this. I don't have a specific class for him yet but :)
Schlatt was Actually next in line for the throne, knowing that Tubbo, his cousin, didn't really want it. He is not pleased that Wilbur is back. He also has no particular weapon proficiency, having pretty much relied on Quackity to ensure he didn't Get Murdered.
.. ok I have more but I'm lazy. Fundy, Niki, n Quackity, which. most of the story takes place centered around Mister Soot, so like. a looser idea of the other houses. and then some Assorted Characters (ranboo) (I mean ranboo) (I have him set for post timeskip but. maybe if I move him up I'll actually write the beginning) and the Church House (Phil, techno, foolish, ?? i am not looking at my notes. this one is less based on a faction and more individuals. they have their reasons. insert emeraldduo prequel i have spoken about writing) nnnn yea :D
ooh you mentioned an aa au? 👀 that sounds so cool!! what’re all the characters and their roles in it?
Thank u anon!! And thank you for asking :DDD
The main investigative team is Tommy & Wilbur, to start out with, sort of season 1-y. Wilbur is the Good Hearted Defense Attorney tm tm, Tommy is studying law as well but he's definitely too young to be practicing in a courtroom (why do they let teenagers in here).
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Phil is The Fridged One (tm), sort of a mixture of literally all three of the canon fridged for motivation characers but. He originally owned the law firm with Techno as his partner, and they were Great Lawyers Who Always Found The Truth And Stopped Wrongful Convictions (or whatever, u know, ace attorney defense lawyers are never wrong). But one day, he seemed to have just got up and left. Techno took in his son, Wilbur, and knew that Phil wouldn't just leave them like that, but without any evidence otherwise, it seemed that nobody would help him figure out what happened. Continuing to take cases without him and seeing law enforcement as increasingly incompetent after failing to find anything related to Phil's disappearance, Techno grew frustrated and untrustworthy of the law and continued only to put Wilbur through the rest of his schooling. Wilbur wanted to become a lawyer like his role models, his father and uncle figure, and inherited their old law firm.
While Tommy is the nonmagical half of Maya's role, Ranboo is the magic half! He's a gifted follower of the equivalent of the Kurain school, and, well, ends up a murder suspect, because he has bad luck. He's more important but it's less backstory and more actual plot so I shall keep that bit for If I Ever Write :3c.
Tubbo is an Ema-type, he's a student studying to be an investigator, and I think he deserves to have gadgets. Though he's friends with Tommy, his career path leads him more towards the prosecution's side.
The actual prosecutors I'm ?? unsure. Dream is one, and he rest of the DT are either part of the investigation team or a Franziska type where they're a tag-team to fight for their friends' honour. (I'm also not entirely sure what Evil Acts will take place, but like, Dream would be the one committing them LOL). Later, Schlatt and Quackity who is learning under him, and then Quackity probably as the only one left. (They each have their own loyal investigator, Sam is Quackity's, though Charlie probably replaces him at some point, and Schlatt's is. pending. maybe tubbo)
More characters get to be support. Niki is the tutorial level client. Honestly, I spent more time working on where Ranboo and Techno's roles connect then....... the crimeboys' overarching plot. But I can't not have them as generic protagonists.
thank u for giving me a chance to Yell :DDDD!!!! thank u anon. beloved
hi !! thank u anon for the asks !!! I like talking about writing heh
15. Something you learned this year
I have never properly outlined until this year. I still don’t properly outline, but if you keep everything in your head you will forget it!! And not all at once! Just enough to only lose fragments and be eternally annoyed because you know you had Something! And if you try to write it all at once you will run out of steam to finish it if it’s more than a oneshot! Very very important. Still, learning How to do it is probably even more important… and i am not entirely sure of that just yet. But I have learned to try!
I’ve also like, on the internal side, learned a bit more to need a little less validation from others and be a bit more confident in my work, but, you know. It helps!!
25 was answered :D!
13. Favourite writing song/artist/album of the year
Usually I listen to video game soundtracks, but I put on a lot of youtube vocaloid playlists (for like, absolutely no good reason). Shoutout to Hatsune Miku. Always has my back.
My favourite idle background musics are usually the OneShot soundtrack, an Ace Attorney playlist I’ve made, and some assorted Zeldas and Toby Fox.
This feels like a copout somehow! I don't really listen to themed playlists while I write anymore, though I have made a couple... they are not very good.
Technoblade was a slightly more convoluted story. He had made one knife for Niki. It was smaller than half the size of a sword, and casting it barely took up half of one netherite ingot — he’d have to make another. Phil knew how to cook — he had picked up a few recipes and techniques in his years, he said — so he could also make use of a knife. Then, Ranboo couldn’t give only half of the group a gift, so naturally Technoblade would be next. But Technoblade hadn’t expressed a particular liking for cooking. He spent a lot of his time fighting, and a weapon would probably be more appreciated — for the same materials, Ranboo could make him a nice dagger. Even still, more problems arised. Even though he thought he may use it more, giving Technoblade a weapon instead of a luxury sent a message.
So Ranboo tried his very best, pouring energy into something that even if it didn’t find use, was still Technoblade. At least he’d appreciate the thought, Ranboo hoped. If he really, really didn’t like it, he could probably melt off the netherite.
And here it was. Discarded onto the blanket, its golden detailing caught the light against its deep purple body. In Technoblade’s extended hand, he offered what looked to be a pastry, red jam oozing from where it had been cut in half.
“If you wanted,” he offered.
I know I’ve posted a piece of this before but I've unfortunately peaked early. I get to insert my weird food headcanons. I get soft peerpress. I think this sort of section covers it well. What more can a I, personally, want.
12. Favourite character to write about?
Ranboo! I love him! He's very, like, malleable as a character. He's very attentive, because anxiety, but also misses things, because anxiety, which is a valueable like. POV character because that's the sort of exposition I like to write. Smart Absolute Fools. Also I Just Think He's Neat. Ranboo occupies all of the thoughts.
17. Fics you’ll continue next year?
HOPEFULLY ALL OF THEM. Definitely the FE AU, definitely the aforementioned peerpress fic. I have a couple others that I'm still ironing out to sort of start fleshing them out but I'm not entirely sure yet.
25. A fic you read this year that you recommend everyone read?
Admittedly I don’t read a lot of DSMP fic! I have a bunch on my to-read but I am abstaining until I can confidently say I have my own characterization Down and won’t like. Accidentally plagiarize.
The Scientific Method is one that I've read, though, a pretty neat fic about Tommy’s mod videos!
I’ve also been reading a completely healthy amount of last life fic, and I’d been eagerly awaiting Broadripple is Burning’s updates (until its last one like this week lol)! It’s an au about ghosts and murders and being roommates. Another last life fic I liked a lot was Things Bdubs Knows, which is a very short fic about session 7.
I am not actually very good at fic recs I can never remember things.
probably poor timing but please take the first 400 or so words from my prison stream fix-it bc I struggled hard with it
Technoblade was a weapon, once. He didn’t like to list his regrets -- if you spent all of your time beating yourself up over your past mistakes, well, you’d never move forward. It was a year ago. But he’d be lying to say that the guilt had never weighed on him, even now. Not anymore, he told himself. Whatever he did would be by his own admission. He was not a loaded gun, he was the gunman.
In truth, he was neither. He’d graduated to the bystander.
He was right, once. It was all pointless. He learned, and he grew, and it didn’t matter. Whatever he did -- whatever anyone did -- all roads lead back to the same place. It was a lesson he could learn again, and again, and again, until he’d finally grow calloused to it all. The only universal language is violence. And no matter how many times they could have the same conversation, over and over, it would rear its ugly head once again.
He’d been the bystander before. They were lucky, then, that it worked out as smoothly as it had. Even still, Techno remembered how Ranboo froze, looking up from the hole that he was dropped in. There was nothing that could be done except give Ranboo the tools to get himself out, and hope that he could manage. Had Badboyhalo really been out for blood that day, they would have been in a very different situation.
In a horrible echo of their past misadventure, Ranboo was stuck. Something invisible tethered him to the spot. He looked to Techno with helpless acceptance. He spoke simply and solemnly: Sam had Michael. It was reason enough for Ranboo to remove his armour, deliberately and carefully, perhaps in a feeble attempt to not startle the warden who hovered an axe dangerously close to his neck. He didn’t dare move another inch.
Technoblade was powerless. He stood at the front of the crowd, pleading -- what was Sam even doing? There was no reason to hurt him, he hadn’t done anything, he wasn’t even a good bargaining chip, not with Dream. Dream tried to nudge him along. His stomach turned. There was nothing he could do. The rest of the crowd stood motionless, watching the spectacle. It would be a tragedy, later, but for now no one cared to act.
What is your favorite like. Theme ig of the fix like In Broad Terms what it's Abt :
this is a neat question !!!! thank u !!
ok so I have. 3. one is split into 2 and 1 is the funny answer
one, of which's working title has been Ranboo and Technoblade Talk About Their Feelings, is about talking about your feelings. please talk about your feelings. pspspspsp. come closer. I will Not Make You Be Emotionally Vulnerable it's safe I promise. (it's actually, like, acceptance and forgiving yourself from both sides!! cause. and that. even if you're not great at like. talking it out or helping people it's still Valuable to do so. y'know. but that's not the funny answer.)
and the less funny ones of the fe crossover it's like. it has the fe backstory imposed on it which is Sketchy Religion (with a lot of heavy editing -- the original presentation of sketchy religion is like Really Bad, and. the further you go into the lore the worse it gets, actually! what's wrong with you intsys! again!), Fate, and Political Conflict but. the particular one is just. found family and trust. u know. the good stuff. An emeraldduo backstory.
And also that Technoblade is Just A Guy in far over his head. emduo are very much not the focus of the second, just sort of supporting characters to A Good Old Classic Fire Emblem Lord, but I am going to make my emduo propaganda in it anyways. he starts just. village boy haha potato farming and then he meets Phil and It Gets Worse.
also magic backstory. I spent enough time rewriting it to make it decent so I'm going to show it off.
You’ve been vague abt it so idk what to ask but tell me abt a character you’ve got? Like their favorite things to do or smth they just rlly rlly like
I have :P. the one is a mcyt au so!! it's Them. (the dreaded mcyt/FE au I have a love hate relationship with fe3h)
philza minecraft spends his time manic-pixie-dreamgirl-ing. he's just a wayfaring traveller off to See The World !
technoblade is a village boy travelling to do something good with his life, originally with the cause of liberating his village from Generic Oppressive Overlord but that's pretty much entirely offscreen, he's just vibing as a Bit of a folk hero.
and wilbur soot got Anastasia Romanov'd. (without the amnesia). L
