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What is the crackiest* thing you’ve ever written? (*I mean this with great affection)

Probably a toss-up between Honey and Sweets (aka the 'Sheik saves the Gorons by manipulating Ganondorf with desserts' fic) or A New Face (aka the 'Phantom Ganon and Puppet Zelda hook up and Ganondorf is not happy about it' fic)

A lot of my fics are kind of silly in general but these two are really pushing it haha

2. Has writing a fic ever changed your opinion of a character?

I'd say writing Blinding Light and its sequels gave me a better appreciation of the wilds era Zelda. After totk and especially aoi she is probably one of my least favourite Zeldas but I tried to write her as more proactive and/or intense and/or actually effected by the events of botw (and then being thrown into the past on top of that) and I like her a decent bit more now.

The first loz game I played was Ocarina of Time and I thought Ganondorf was cool (mainly because I thought both the Gerudo and the organ are cool) but otherwise I didn't really think much about him. It wasn't until I played Wind Waker and Twilight Princess, seeing how he could turn out so differently in different circumstances that I really became interested in him. This retroactively made Beast Ganon more interesting too, I think, adding tragedy to him, at least in his more mindless incarnations.

5. How do you know when you’re finished writing a fic? At what point do you call it done?

Usually I have an idea of what the last scene of a fic will be already when I write it, often even to the extent that I already know what the last line is going to be. Otherwise, I just write until I reach a line that feels final, either in that it kind of sums up the chapter/fic, or feels like it might hint at what could happen next.

12. Do you write in order, jump around the draft, or a mix? Something else?

I almost always write in order. Not sure why, that's just what comes naturally to me.

17. When you get a new fic idea, what does that look like in your mind? Does it play out like a film? Do you imagine lines of dialogue or a certain moment? Does a character just sit there staring at you?

Usually I imagine a certain scene, including dialogue, that makes me really want to write the fic. For Identifier, for example, this was the 'Ganondorf gives the Triforce of Power to Zelda so that she can save him' scene. Then when I feel like I need to get that scene out of my head I start writing everything to get there.

18. If you have noticed themes emerging in your writing, what are they? What broad themes and topics do you enjoy exploring?

Hmm, that is a hard one... I have noticed a ton of my fics have to do with Ganondorf re-emerging after being sealed away or similar for a long time and having to reconcile with how the world has changed. Not sure what you would really call that as a theme though...

I got asked 18 in a different ask so I'll just do 3 here :)

3. Tell us about a headcanon you invented for a fic

Ever since I wrote An Unlikely Alliance it is canon to me that Ganon/dorf loves mango smoothies hehe