guns guns guns guns aka the au where almost everyone is bi

damn, that's so cool to hear! i can't believe people are still finding/remembering this! :^D you can find all the things i get up to thru my website, for any actual tips you can use my kofi! - siins

still getting questions after all this time is a such real treat! please go support siins since i’m not as active on social media any more, given the mass migrations and current affairs. my time is split between a very demanding full time job in a whole different field, and entertaining myself in various ways so the world isn’t a darker and scarier place to currently live in.

several significant life changes have happened since i updated this blog: i have changed names (‘vu’) and pronouns (he/they) in the process of transitioning after a couple of rocky years being on the verge of realisation but never quite hitting it until…two and a half years ago. the irony of writing about arsenal’s struggles is very real. my creative energy is now invested in one off, original content; it’s all self indulgent, queer nonsense— but someday, i might decide to share it. when that day arrives, i’ll hopefully be more comfortable with exposing it to an online audience (again). thank you for your ask, it definitely made my day that you’d love to keep up with our creative works!

oh man, this is a hard question to answer, but ‘tlvh’ is the brainchild that really brought everything together and paid off after…months of planning and writing? that’s the crowning masterpiece.

vibe wise, i really liked ‘a bullet with your name on it’ because thematically, people don’t give enough credit for how online friendships be just as valuable and destructive like irl ones. imagine loving someone beyond ‘death’ to meticulously hunt their killer and ghost down, because you’ve been traveling on this road long enough that to do otherwise is literally unthinkable (and sneak in some fun while you’re at it).

there’s also different facets of characters being written throughout this fic; i remember that i wanted to give each of the characters who appeared to be more than just their stereotype, while being recognisable, distinct and complex. i wanted to give each of them a backstory, strengths, weaknesses, serious and not so serious moments, key relationships and flaws to round them out.

there are also what i like to call ‘load bearing’ characters. i.e., you take them out of the story at any given point and the entire thing simply collapses or folds over into a hot mess; rythian, ravs and teep’s friendship is one of those neat trios that if any one of them had died, the entire story would have ceased to exist or happened differently.

for a ‘faceless’ character, teep’s identity and core motivations are formed by their relationships to others even if they tried to cut said others out; it is hilarious that inevitably, they get dragged into this entire adventure by rythian and ravs by being present in the two’s proximity. that says a lot about teep’s character even if they don’t speak or try to minimise anything that could give them away by ‘talking,’ but that becomes their main tells and characteristics.

i could keep going but i nearly lost all of this via an app refresh so i’ll stop here for now; i’m also overdue for rereading just to see how different my current writing is, compared to the stuff on ao3.

every now and again, i get a kudos from ao3 randomly floating into my inbox; it makes me pause, if only to go ‘damn, somebody’s still reading this?’ thank you very much; it still remains my favourite work i’ve written to date!

hi, thanks for your patience with this ask! YES, DO IT! @siins and i would love to see pictures of the finished items, and you can def include pictures and echo icons!

i’m gonna insert here the standard, blanket disclaimer of ‘no profit is being made off this, no parts of it will be used for a.i. writing or duplication or publication’, etc. if you do print and bind anything! which is…sadly now a thing that’s happening.

hi! sometimes i shake my head and go ‘this is what we COULD have had’ whenever i see the direction the current games are headed but this au still wins because we’ve been around for longer! this blog still gets activity here and there which is astounding considering how old it is now.

Going insane

Your Nilesy lives in my brain with Ravs

hello! dusts off this blog. ssshhh, it’s been a Year. Two Years, actually. thank you very much for enjoying the works! i don’t know how far you’ve read so please mind spoilers for the epilogue!

yes, he did leave dionysus illiterate. i get the feeling that he kicked around a lot in his schooling years and didn’t take it seriously. a lot of the time, he didn’t have the motivation to really succeed in the academic sense; he was too busy probably finding ways to help out around the place (which is how he got arrested trying to sell bootleg moonshine and the rest is history). when he left dionysus, he knew just enough to get by but ask him to read an entire book and he’ll cheerfully tell you he’d rather go wrestle a bullymong instead.

if he did stay, he would have likely become an alcohol tycoon from experimenting with secret family recipes and ended up very wealthy and alone. or delegated his responsibilites to go kick around the galaxy as a wanderer or a wanted man, to eventually putting down roots somewhere to run his own pub. definitely not on pandora! so life would have been very different for everyone and him. he might have even discovered he likes wearing pants.

teep, zylus and rythian (plus daltos, minty and arsenal) taught him how to read on a more comprehensive level; he still wouldn’t read an entire book (voluntarily or without an incentive involved), but he’s not...outright balking at it? if that makes sense? he definitely has a lot more confidence and could probably bluff his way through! which makes book club nights on the blackrock...very interesting.

hello there! thank you very much for your ask! i’m still surprised people are reading this au even though things are quiet. been working on something completely different bc brain has been all over the place; hope y’all are staying safe and washing your hands real good!

anyway, it was left a secret on purpose.

the last of the echo icons by @siins! the cast page is now looking a lot different now since the coding broke who knows when but look at it! you can click on the text boxes to watch them all unfurl and furl!