Ottermadness' Fic Updates (and more sometimes)

I'm not revealing whether any more particular characters will be appearing in Bloodlines. 😶 I will say that not every character from FT appears in it, otherwise the story will really drag on much longer than it needs to!

Unemployment, several chapters written in advance, dual monitors set up on my PC, being very fast at typing, hyperfixation, and a complete plot planned out so you know exactly what you're writing next. That's it 😅

I tried 😂 Scales are hard to make look good at such a small resolution!

I know he wears a lot of black - he needs to keep his identity a secret after all. But he does get a couple of different outfits to wear later in the story, including a 'formal' one... (Around chapter 60ish for anyone curious) 🤭

I am now so infatuated with the story that it makes me wish to illustrate it , so may I ask in my most formal princess like writing (because it's fitting of such fanfiction) if you have a time period you based your story or references you based the clothing so I may use it as reference for my art??

I'm a fashion history nerd that's why I ask lol, anyway thank you so much for the story I love it (⁠｡⁠･⁠ω⁠･⁠｡⁠)⁠ﾉ⁠♡

I'm glad you are enjoying Bloodlines!! It was a nice surprise to read this! Thank you so much ‪‪❤︎‬ To answer your question, and in all honesty, I did not pick an exact period of time based on our world's history for this story. I was influenced a lot by both Western RPG and JRPG video games when I started writing it, and there's some Dungeons and Dragons influences in there, too, so in my mind, the setting is simply medieval fantasy. Some of the clothing (in my mind at least) is similar to some of the designs already in Fairy Tail, or to some of Mashima's drawings/manga covers. For example, some of Lucy's princess clothing is based on just what she wore at the Heartfilia estate, but more extravagant, given she's royalty and not an heiress. It would also cover her up way more than she would normally want because I don't think her dad would tolerate her looking too scandalous, haha. There's also an episode where she wears a wedding dress to battle a toad, which I sort of referenced in my mind when writing the wedding chapter... and her newest outfit in the fanfic is based on an outfit she wears during the Tartaros arc. Natsu has mostly been wearing black to keep himself hidden better, alongside covering up his scales when he has to, and he wears boots instead of sandals. Erza is wearing a complete set of armour instead of a skirt/breastplate combo, but I keep imagining her in her usual fairy tail wear half the time despite writing her this way >.< The main difference in clothing compared to the anime/manga in the fanfic is the use of hooded cloaks, which they use to hide their faces as well as shield them from the elements... aside from Gray. He's too cool to use a cloak.

I don't go into huge flowery descriptions of the clothing because readers are going to use their imagination most of the time anyway ;)