If youre still doing the wip folder ask game 👀 au of the timeloop au? Or all the best lack conviction? :3
realized I never answered this one from the last time I did this wip meme probably because I got embarrassed. problems!! i've got em.
anyway this is basically all @orodrethsgeek's fault spinning out of the timelooping essek into a new moral alignment fic, taking one of the scenarios in that and going "okay but what if I continued this one past the point it cuts off in the main fic" and now I'm 111k deep with no end in sight.
the basic branching point from the originating time loop fic was "the iteration where essek tries avoiding the nein entirely, it doesn't work, he ends up basically going 'fuck it' and eventually spirals into suicide because it doesn't matter! nothing matters! nothing is real and everything is pointless :)" but in the au a nearby jester appears and does a revivify and honestly things just go downhill from there for a while.
like, the whole thing is kind of a sprawling mess but I'm having a lot of fun. it's multi-pov. verin shows up. nobody's happy for pretty much all 111k so far. there are moral dilemmas. it's a good time. I have no idea if it will ever go anywhere because it's a longass au of an au that requires a lot of the context of the originating au (which is also long) to make any sense at all but I'm having fun and @orodrethsgeek keeps enabling me and isn't that what matters, really
was going to share an excerpt but honestly I don't even know what to pull. there's 272 pages of this thing. feels a little like I should apologize













