•The horses running until they forget that they are horses•

i won't lie my process is weird and lowk hell on earth. i like to script the entire chap/almost the entire chap in advance before i start writing (i.e. i write ALL the dialogue first, then when it's time to write i'm only filling in prose, descriptions, etc) i usually script on either 1. notes on my phone, i brainstorm a lot while driving so i do talk to text (and have all the bnha characters as contacts on my phone so it doesn't get their names wrong LMFAO) and i also like to hand-write dialogue on my ipad, idk for some reason that just gets the brain juices flowing (pictured: some scripting from shouto's song!) i SWEAR i have good handwriting haha but when i'm scripting i just want to get ideas flowing so it's true chicken scratch lmao. i usually spend about 1-2 weeks doing this depending on how much time i have. then when it's time to fully write, i write best in the mornings, so i'll usually get up anywhere between 4-6am and write until i need to go do smth else (work, going to the barn, etc) which is anywhere from 4-8 hours. so. weird and hellish and awful and miserable but it WORKS so i'm not gonna change it until i need to for some reason haha. i use music to brainstorm a lot -- usually the music will have nothing to do with the scene itself, my brain chemicals are weird man. been listening to a lot of vocaloid lately so miku will be singing about being cheerful and having fun meanwhile shouto is talking about how he wanted to khs to be with his dead brother touya. i tend to think of BIG big ideas on long trips, such as flights, long drives, and long train rides. can't remember the last time i took a 5+ hour trip and tbtd didn't have some crazy new development added lol. hope this helps!!

hilarious contacts pic & chicken scratch scripting notes:

yeah this question's fine! i dont rlly consider it much of a spoiler since tbtd isn't tagged as MCD on ao3 -- no, none of the league members die in tbtd. some other characters do die, but no one i'd consider a protagonist (which includes the league, since they're major characters actively being saved/helped!) the only deaths are characters i'd consider actual antagonists, i.e. characters who are actively working against the goals of dawn trio + the themes of the fic. hope this helps ease ur soul!! lol

yo!! honestly, solo shouto was my plan all along. i never considered the idea of tokoyami working alongside them in this fic. as much as i like him, i LOVE shouto, and i really wanted to focus on the dynamic and development of just shouto and hawks without splitting the focus between hawks and another student, especially since shouto and hawks had SO much potential in canon but it never got explored. thanks for the question!!

SDFGHJK this is so fucking funny. it wasn't something i'd thought about before but i'd consider adding it just for you, anon. it's very them lol

oooh this is a fun one!! i LOVEEE aizawa to bits and he definitely has a key supporting role in the fic. shouto at this point suspects aizawa Knows about his past, so i'll confirm here that he does in fact Know. not the details ofc since no one has ever explicitly told him, but he's VERY observant and has worked with kids for many years so he's got an eye for these sorts of things. i think he'd empathize with hawks too, but since hawks has done some....unsavory things, there would for sure be more complexity in that relationship. i will say that the scene in ch9 between shouto and aizawa where shouto asks aizawa to stop him at all costs if things get BAD bad was definitely there for a reason. aizawa is shouto's emergency contact, after all. <3 

ooh this is another good one!! i do have a lot of it planned chapter-by-chapter, but for things in the distant future (like symbol of fear arc and beyond) it's more rough bullet points of things that will happen without being neatly sorted into chapter numbers. regarding my writing schedule, i try to post a chapter every 2-4 weeks! i think the most common time frame has been every ~3 weeks for now, which is like....half a week break, 1.5weeks scripting, then 1 week writing, though there has been some wiggle room for when life gets really busy, and some 2-week turnarounds have been for when smth POSSESSED me and i couldn't stop myself lmao. as for my writing process, this question got asked already and the answer is the first one under the cut! hope it helps :))