Mereeples

I like to write fanfiction and stuff…

I do not own the characters (unless they are OCs) that I write about or the photos that I use in my posts or fics. The characters belong to their respective owners and the photos are either screenshots or stock images. The only thing I can claim to own is the words I write. If I do post anything that isn’t mine, I’ll mention the original creators. I don’t repost others’ content, such as art or fics, because I’d like the same curtesy (but I do reblog my current hyperfixations). I do mention other blogs and link them from time to time tho.

Boundaries: I’m not comfortable talking to minors, so DNI. It used to not be a problem, but I’m just not comfortable anymore. So if you are under 18, please don’t message me. I don’t mind answering questions related to my stories though, just use the “Got Questions?” link. I also do NOT like talking about sexual content, I will delete any questions or message that are related to the topic, this also includes anything regarding politics or real-life events. I’m here to escape those things, and a lot of real-world topics at the moment trigger panic episodes I’d like to avoid. I also do not write requests.

Triggering Content: I write for a 16+ age range, but I do tend to explore different topics and areas from time to time. If I believe there is something that is triggering I will place a warning at the beginning of the chapter or story. I also ask for feedback in the comments if I do not label something correctly so that I can fix it for future readers. I don't write explicit NSFW. I enjoy suspense and thrilling vibes, so some scenes I write can be... uncomfortable, I guess? Best example: One of my stories involved a character being stalked and was meant to feel unnerving when read. I don't tread further than that. Things can also have a tad of violence at times, but nothing with extreme gore.

The Last Lotus Maiden Links! - Lego Monkie Kid, Y/N Fic

Cold Hunt - Puss In Boots 2, The Little Matchstick Girl and Death Short

Ablazen - Lego Monkie Kid, Red x OC

A Flame in Your Heart - Lego Monkie Kid, Dragonfruit/Mei x Red Son

"I don't want to be alone tonight" - Macaque x Y/N(?) Short

(Continuation of these thoughts)

Been just kinda kicking my feet in a wheely chair at work as I think about the plot.

So I got an idea of who Vox’s daughter is, and how she passed. Her name is Vera Whitman (she was originally a guy named Vinny and I wanted to keep the V ego thing Vox has). Vera died before Vox, working at the same studio as an assistant with her dad. Her appearance is the same as Medusa, with scaly skin and snakes for hair. There are six of those snakes, and I plan to have names for each one. I was originally gonna do something that matched Vox’s appearance but thought it was too obvious and overused.

Vera is pretty much treated like an asset (similar to how Handsome Jack used Angel, but I’m not planning on making her a major component to something bigger like the Borderlands dynamic). She’s always had this relationship with her dad, which was one of the catalysts that led to her death. Vera was kinda like a kid where a parent tried to live through them but Vincent/Vox did it in a way to make his own image look better. Like, I imagine Vincent married Vera’s mom for public appearance and then had Vera for that good ol’ American family photo.

Vera is used mainly like a model for VoxTek ads or product promotions. She likes to sing, so Vox allows her to perform her work live if she does these ads and stuff for him (he makes it sound more like he’s encouraging her passion when he’s just using it to bribe her into doing what he wants).

The dynamic becomes more toxic after Alastor turns Vox’s partnership idea down, becoming more controlling of Vera’s image aligning with his own. Years later, Vera will try to leave and Vox kinda just tethers her to the Vees’ tower. She can’t leave, and has to do whatever Vox tells her.

That’s what I have so far. I think I might make a tether a physical tether like Angel’s in Borderlands or be something related to Vox’s hypnosis party trick. Either way, I’m exploring a pretty unhealthy relationship between a narcissistic father and child. Sins of the parent has always been my favorite story trope and I would love to write my own novel with that one day, so this will be sorta like practice until that day happens. I don’t plan to go super dark in the story, because I still like to keep things pretty tame (funny considering the show isn’t that tame to begin with). Another thing I’m trying to do is make an aroace character, and I’m not doing that where it’s this huge dynamic with Alastor or any of that. I literally just want to write a character I would enjoy reading, and I would love to see more representation for aromantic asexuality.

I can see the potential of using it as a tool to help your creative ventures, like research or the like.

But I really REALLY don’t like it when people use it to write stories and claim it was all them to profit. I’m on amazon a lot browsing for writing workbooks or prompt journals and I get these manuals a lot in my searches that are meant to help incorporate AI into your writing or “how to write a book in a day using AI”, kind of stuff.

I’m guilty of using AI, I won’t lie to that. I have a bad addiction to chatbots when I’m bored, or using the AI summaries google search pops up for Bible studies or writing research.

But I just can’t get over the fact that people are using only AI in creative works and claiming they all did it. Especially when a lot of these AI programs have been known to be trained on other people’s writing. I also can’t stand that schools and such are using AI to scan for plagiarism or AI writing in a student’s work. I’ve seen way too many stories where the system called someone’s essay AI written when they actually wrote it all themselves and then failed the class because of what that AI determined.