NOT EVEN JUST THE BALLS, PERONA!

mal / kirk / kk chain reaction is DONE and POSTED‼️

[zorosmalewife]

Hiiiiiiiii this is a sideblog I've made so people can contact me about stuff from my NSFW AO3 account! Feel free to DM or send asks to this acct if you have constructive criticism, suggestions about what you want to see me write, or just want to chat :-)

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[infinitebrians]

i wanted to draw the wonderful snoopy by the sea

[zorosmalewife]

idk if anyone will be interested, but in case you are...... i created an annotated version of chain reaction!

it has my thoughts and feelings about each chapter, some behind the scenes notes, general commentary, some extra details... all sorts of tidbits. if you're interested, you can check it out here! it's on google docs. comments are on, right now, though they might not always be.. feel free to share your thoughts!! i came back from the hiatus a little over a year ago, now, and i've been feeling pretty nostalgic about it lately. my life has changed a lot!

[zorosmalewife]

idk if anyone still follows this acct now that chain rxn is finished but i did recently post some bleach smut on ao3 and i may or may not be working on an elaborate yonji redemption fic

[zorosmalewife]

so chain reaction is done...! you can read the epilogue here

what's next? the short answer: i don't know! the long answer:

i have some stuff in the works, but honestly i'm not sure if any of it is going to get finished, let alone posted to this acct. i still have about a third of that franky/robin/zoro pwp for my Zoro Sex Anthology, and there is a chance i'll finish that eventually, but i won't make any promises. if i finish that, it'll go up on the zorosmalewife ao3 acct.

other stuff i'm working on: some kaiju no. 8 stuff, a persona 5 collab, a stardew valley collab, a bleach thingy, and a supernatural thing. don't judge me for writing about things that suck (bleach + spn) i just want to try and fix them god bless. anyway. i think the only one that has a real shot of going up on zorosmalewife is the sdv one bc that has smut (written by me, tho the piece on the whole is being co-written by a good friend of mine) but the bleach one miiiiight end up there too because of its themes. idk yet bc it's nowhere near done.

so what's next? nothing, for now. i have a full time job now and don't have a lot of time to spare, and most of that scant spare time has gone to playing metal gear lmfao. if you're interested in my back catalog on my sfw acct, you can find that here, tho i do think chain rxn is far superior to basically everything on that acct except for maybe one fic..... you can keep an eye on that acct too but like i said, don't expect anything new for a bit

all that said, i once again want to thank everyone for reading and caring about my piece. it means the world to me.

[zorosmalewife]

heyyyy everyone come get some chapter 14

[catneychu]

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[zorosmalewife]

chapter 13 is up you can read it here🫶

[zorosmalewife]

chapter 12 up!!! read it here💚

[zorosmalewife]

chapter dropping 12am EST btw. 28 mins

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come get your chapter 10

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chapter dropping 12am EST btw. 28 mins

[zorosmalewife]

Chain Reaction Notes Chapter 18

Please remember that this is an unposted chapter! The ninth and final one, in fact. Missed the other notes? Find them here: 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 14 - 15 - 16 - 17.

Welcome to the epilogue! This has a different structure than the rest of the piece, and therefore the note structure is different, too.

I won't bother to explain the structure, tho - it should be obvious!

Okay, so what happens? Kuraigana -> Sabaody -> Thousand Sunny

Start epilogue w/ arrival @ Sabaody

Maybe, in opposition to the timeskip era of the fic, it'll be a montage of mundane scenes. We'll work between the offscreen story beats

Offscreen story beats: arrival -> [secret ;)] -> saying goodbye to perona and mihawk -> reunion w/ rayleigh and shakky -> returning to the sunny -> reuniting w the strawhats -> leaving -> end

each -> given a number, 1 thru 7

arrival @ sabaody park, not the archipelago

comedy of errors trying to book a hotel room

somewhat subdued bar scene

grocery run for shakky's bar

buying ace supplies.

nami scene

hopeful wrap up kind of thing

OMG how about outsider povs. for all but 1 and 7

1 - Arrive @ Sabaody Park - Zoro POV - cover them hiding their identities

2 - booking hotel room - receptionist POV - "Name for the reservation?" "Zo--" Ace elbows him in the gut. "--cho." "...Zocho? Your name is Zocho?" "Yes. Zocho." Ace facepalm dot png - Do Not Notice the fake strawhats - green-hair and freckles

3 - bar scene - bartender POV - easy support - Zoro drinking wine and being a snob about it - they miss their fambly already - make plans to call regularly - the brunette and sunshine

4 - bar grocery run - deli guy POV - talk about how they plan to tell the crew about their relationship - the swordsman and braid guy

5 - shopping trip - fellow shopper POV - Perona made them clothes so they need other supplies like bedding. - "Isn't this a bit presumptuous?" "Luffy won't say no." - scar and cowboy hat

6 - nami scene - nami POV - I'm not going to ruin this scene for you. This is a scene I thought of before I even asked the original author if I could write a fic based on their idea - in point of fact, it's part of the reason chain reaction even exists.

7 - wrap up - Ace POV - just like. general future shit. I don't know

[zorosmalewife]

HEY ALL - BETA READ IS DONE

There's some stuff I have to fix, and I have to get it all formatted for Ao3, but if all goes according to plan, I can start posting this week! Probably on Sunday, since that's when I was updating it before. Thanks for sticking with me!

[zorosmalewife]

Chain Reaction Notes Chapter 17

Please remember that this is an unposted chapter! The eighth and penultimate one, in fact. Missed the other notes? Find them here: 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 14 - 15 - 16.

Structure:

Yeah, um. This one is lazy too. The next one won't be, but this one is. Sorry! It will look like this:

Title of chapter

original outline: scene number from Tumblr outlines - what i'm changing about it

final outline: scene number, one line summary, and how long they have until they return to Sabaody and how long Ace and Zoro have been together

Title: hope beyond hope

21.5 - delete

22 - not a drunk convo anymore. they don't need to do that. move into 24

22.5 - I don't know if this needs to be a scene... might delete it and just mentioned it happened. I'll use this spot for Ace and Perona to talk about roger and parents. Bonding (tm)

23 - this can stay. might add a companion section where Zoro and Perona talk about the next steps... yeah let's do that actually. we set it up.

24 - now w/ 22. not even post-coital, they're just able to have conversations now

24.5 - announcement and back to Sabaody

final outline:

22.5 - parents - (7.5 months left) (together 1 year 3 months)

23 - legacy [what it was called in the outline from very early on. doesn't actually work as a summary of what happens tho lol] - (5 months left) (together 1 year 5.5 months)

NEW - Perona and Zoro have future talk - (3.5 months left) (together 1 year 7 months)

24 - okay stud. - (2 months left) (together 1 year 8.5 months)

24.5 - announcement etc. - (1 month left) (together 1 year 9.5 months)

[zorosmalewife]

Chain Reaction Notes Chapter 16

Please remember that this is an unposted chapter! The seventh one, in fact. Missed the other notes? Find them here: 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 14 - 15.

Structure:

So, um. Remember how I said I got a little lazy with the notes? This is the first chapter that suffers from that. It's partially because it was late enough into the piece that it kind of stopped mattering. It's also because working on chapter 15 made me rethink my outline AGAIN, so I ended up using the notes to rearrange scenes more than anything else. So there ended up being two pages of notes: one rearranging the scenes, and one with the final scene order. Therefore the structure of the notes is just:

Title of chapter

original outline: scene number from Tumblr outlines - what i'm changing about it

final outline: scene number, one line summary, and how long they have until they return to Sabaody and how long Ace and Zoro have been together

Title: full transparency

20 - Roger news coo. Changing it so Ace tells Zoro by choice after Mihawk shows him the newspaper in private. No more fight. Just a long ass talk

20.5 - move to chapter 15 between 18 and 19. continuous w/ 19

depending on length and other factors, might pull 19.5 down into this chapter, before 20

21 - delete. add resolution right into 20

final outline:

19.5 - their anniversary - (10.5 months left) (together 1 year obvs)

20 - it all comes spilling out. - (9 months left) (together 1 year 1.5 months)

[zorosmalewife]

Chain Reaction Notes Chapter 15

Please remember that this is an unposted chapter! The sixth one, in fact. Missed the other notes? Find them here: 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 14.

Structure:

Theme of the chapter

List of scenes, each of which contain:

scene number as depicted in the outlines from my update posts on this tumblr - POV character - one line summary of the concept - (time left until they return to Sabaody) (how long Ace and Zoro have been together) - list of relevant variables, details, etc

Title of chapter

Theme: mutual understanding. finally understanding how the dynamic works and how to operate inside it. things becoming whole.

18 - ACE - charades w/ humandrills - (about 10.5 months left) (1 day before their 1 year anniversary) [all scenes in this chapter happen on the same day, so I won't repeat the counts!] - Ace 'loves Perona', 'she's basically his best friend' - he doesn't let her talk to him about it tho - Ace doomspiral about Zoro's eye - it's still Zoro's room despite them sharing it for months now - Ace's thoughts all over the place. overwhelmed + lost. swinging mostly b/t feeling bereft and fucking Angry

20.5 [scene was moved to here, hence nonconsecutive numbers] - ZORO - Zoro Autism Meltdown (tm) + Mihawk talking sense into him - first time Mihawk calls him 'Zoro' - Zoro's internal monologue calling Mihawk 'his father' w/o commentary - Mihawk: "I will not allow you to keep hurting one another. It's killing Perona."

19 - ACE - ostensibly a spar but they're just wrasslin' in earnest - Ace lashing out while lamenting the fact that he is the type to lash out - but Ace loves Zoro. despite everything, he doesn't want to give up - Ace finally gets thru to Zoro. Zoro tells him everything. <- Ace calls him 'baby' - Ace feels like he Gets Zoro now. FR this time. But... Ace still hasn't told him... - "Zoro deserves better, that much is obvious, but he's already chosen to be with Ace, and thus his mind won't be changed. All Ace can do is become a man worthy of this." - Zoro and Perona hug when they get back to the castle. He whispers to her. Perona says she loves him. Tells him to tap out next time - Zoro calls Ace 'babe' but it's mostly joking. Calls Perona 'P'. She shoots negative ghosts at them - Zoro's - their - room - Ace feels small and needy and cracked open. Needs to feel held and covered and safe - epic Zoro topping dot png - the ^ exemplifies the change in their relationship. the easy understanding, the reciprocity, the boundless + overt love. it's about trust w/o being shy abt it. - "Ace has never cried during sex before, but he's not humiliated, nor does he try to hide it." - Zoro calls him 'baby' in the heat of the moment - Ace says he loves Zoro + Zoro says "I know" and Ace is 100% okay with that

Title: reciprocity

[zorosmalewife]

Chain Reaction Notes - Chapter 14

Please remember that this is an unposted chapter! The fifth one, in fact. Missed the other notes? Find them here: 10 - 11 - 12 - 13.

Structure:

Theme of the chapter

List of scenes, each of which contain:

scene number as depicted in the outlines from my update posts on this tumblr - POV character - one line summary of the concept - (time left until they return to Sabaody) (how long Ace and Zoro have been together) - list of relevant variables, details, etc

Title of chapter

Theme: despite appearances, there is no full transparency. Zoro has his eye opened and is still blindsided. Miscommunication.

17 - ZORO - Zoro doing Perona's hair - (11 months left) (together 11.5 months) - Zoro being like hmmm have I told them anything about my relationships with my crew...? Oops! :p I'll fix it - Zoro talking about Nami. Perona gets jealous. Ace gets weird, convincing himself that Zoro's crew is the the most important, not equal to him and Perona - Zoro wonders what their plans after the 2 yrs are, but still doesn't ask - Ace hearing 'neechan' for the first time - Zoro says he loves Perona and Ace and is ok w/that - shows that Zoro is willing to share parts of himself. also lulls him into a false sense of security

17.33 - ZORO - spar w/ Mihawk. Mihawk asks if Zoro has told Ace about what happened with his eye - (11 months left) (together 11.5 months) - Mihawk cares about their relationship - Zoro still not close to Mihawk's level, but is def improving - fully adjusted to losing his eye - Zoro surprised pikachu. Understands that Ace will freak out + why - Zoro accepts Mihawk's help - sets up that telling Ace about his eye hadn't even occurred to Zoro and that it will take time, but he'll try to figure out a way to tell him

17.66 - ACE - He sacrificed his eye for you dot png - (about 10.5 months left) (2 days before their 1 year anniversary) - establish that they banter a lot - Perona, who does not know better, flippantly drops the fact that Zoro sacrificed his eye for Ace - Ace loses control of his fruit. He feels cold - Perona curls up on Mihawk's lap and he lets her - Zoro Autism Meltdown (tm). Out the window - Mihawk + Ace see eye to eye for but a moment - shows that Zoro is still Zoro. He will still shut down under pressure he can't fix w/ his swords or his tenacity.

incident @ dinner -> Zoro doesn't come back that night -> Ace goes after him after dinner the next day

Title: blindsided