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Hm... Let's see, I have no idea how questions work on Tumbler X'D

I am working on a lot of projects so I guess I will talk about the one I am translating in English rn because it seems I am most active on that.

1. Kira, a normal girl dreaming to became a professor at university, wokes up one day to her father's gruesome death, realising that's just the beginning of her nightmare.

2. Day by day she realizes that she can't just deny the truth that slowly evolves her reality and have to fight with the fact that she might lose her control entirely.

3. There is an albino demon that loves tea. He is an asshole, I don't like him.

The story is about the control in us all, how we fight our own demons within us and how sometimes they win anyway, no matter what we are doing. Also, about demons and ghosts but they are just there to assist lol.

I added one paragraph to my work in progress.

It is a story about a little girl who's biological father Is a criminal consultant at a detective agency in a world where some people have superpowers. The little girl has recently been removed from her foster family and placed in the care of her father's boss.

After that, a lot of situations happen.

You can pick any of your Incomplete works in progress And add 3 sentences to them. You can add as many sentences as you want. But there has to be a minimum of 3 in order for it to count for the game.

Some stand-out moments from the book so far:

Grace falls off his medical bed while he's still partially hooked up. Tube up his ass comes off no problem. Still-inflated catheter not so much.

"Holy moly...! ...'Holy moly'? That's my go-to expression? I mean it's okay, but I couldn't have picked something less 1950s? What kinda weirdo am I?"

"What the fudge is going o-- 'fudge'. Seriously? Maybe I have young kids. Or I'm...deeply religious?"

"Okay. I'm in my mid-thirties, I live alone in a small apartment. I don't have any kids but I like kids a lot, I do NOT like where this is going-- A TEACHER. I'M A TEACHER. OHH THANK GOD"

I mean, Silver is a human(!!!), but he's also adopted by Lilia (someone Baur respects a lot) and Sebek's only friend

If I'm not mistaken, Baur knows how Knight of Dawn looked like, so what did he think when realized Silver looks suspiciously KoD-shaped?

granted, things got pretty wacky when they were escaping the castle, he might not have actually processed what Dawnathon's face looked like! although I guess it is the kind of thing that sticks with you through the centuries, and if anyone was gonna notice...

(continuing my "old Bauru looks exactly the same but with a BIG mustache" agenda)

alternatively, he's gotten a lot better, but his daughter is still working with him on...certain things involving humans.

thanks (and also congrats again to Eng on 7.5 🎉)!! I do think the question of what their dreams would be is pretty interesting; Swing's in particular because it's extremely textual (as in, the characters literally say it while essentially staring down the camera) that he doesn't actually care about Halloween, he's just obsessed with Skully, and also neither of them have figured this out. Swing is too emotionally out-of-touch to understand that he's projecting and Skully simply cannot fathom that someone would not be thinking about Halloween 24/7. now how does this translate to magic dreamtimes...

so it gets a bit more headcanon-y here, but I got the impression Swing really just...had a lot of fun chasing Skully around and messing with him, and that's what he actually wants back. Halloween(/Day of Desire) has always just been an excuse. so I feel like his dream is to go back to having their back-and-forth, except this time Skully is 1) still alive and 2) y'know, into it and willing to play along with the whole ~*~epic eternal anime rivalz~*~ thing instead of constantly running away and/or insisting that "holidays are abstract concepts that belong to everyone" and "this doesn't even make sense". maybe they trade off or do, like, a yearly thing where they decide who gets Halloween this time? the important thing is that it's about Skully paying attention to him instead of talking about a stupid holiday or some dumb skeleton man who nobody cares about. >:(

meanwhile Skully's dream is easier because you just gotta remember that he is, after all, still a Night Raven. which is to say, extremely petty.

Imagine Yuu explaining the concept of tooth fairies and someone is like “oh like Sebek’s mom”. And Sebek is like, “My mom doesn’t break into people’s houses to steal teeth!”

"...anymore!"

thank you! :> I love the Zigvolts a ridiculous amount for characters who have never actually shown up (...yet). I do think Sebek's siblings got a lot more of their dad's personality than he did; everything we hear about them makes them sound waaaay more chill, plus I think they say at some point that Sebek was the only one who had any interest in soldier training. so presumably they've got their own things they're off doing!

anyway, my 100% headcanon bits for them are that 1) they're a lot closer in age to each other than to Sebek (and it's kind of a big gap between them and him), and 2) they both inherited the scales and/or pointy ears. so Sebek is both the baby and also the most human-looking, and he is VERY prickly about both those things. 😔

oh no, I don't think I got it, thank you for resending!! 💚 it is always kinda hard to talk about where ideas come from so I'm not sure how helpful this'll be, but one of my favorite things to do -- and bonus, is always a good fallback for when you're feeling the urge to do something but can't think of what -- is to start out with like...adapting a particular scene or moment or whatever that sticks out to me. just thinking about how I would draw the characters and what they'd be doing, and any extra little jokes or acting I can add, that kinda stuff! I'm not an especially original person so having a kind of jumping-off point actually works a lot better for my brain. :B and half the time it spirals into being something totally removed from the original point anyway (and also twice as long and with more characters and, well, I can't complain when I do this to myself I guess).

although it also helps to just be. incapable of not constantly thinking about The Characters and connecting them to literally everything. so when someone says 'driving' while I'm busy thinking about Diasomnia (which is any given moment) and my brain goes 'ha ha diasomnia. driving. what if' and the next thing I know I've done this (sorry)

bear with me here, because this actually ties into something else I've been thinking about: between the Knight, Leia, and Henrik, Silver is basically the last remaining heir to all the land the Silver Owls stole, yes? but what with all the global territory disputes and treaties and general drama, it'd probably just be a huge mess that would get tied up in red tape for centuries if he, you know, tried to just give it back. however, for times like this, there is the traditional solution...

what I'm saying is, 99% of Briar Valley's political issues could be instantly solved if Silver marries Maleficia.

happy pride!! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 the Twst Yuri niche may be small, but we are determined (and also kind of lowkey thinking about Georgina and Dylla 24/7 anyway) (...or that might just be me) (regardless!)

Alexandria's gotta be in full Tournament Mode by now, so I like to imagine her juuuuust offscreen in every scene, shouting furiously at the RSA boys to Chin Up and Gird Those Loins and Stiffen Those Upper Lips! if you don't know her then she probably sounds like a weirdly Enid Blyton-esque drill instructor, but they all know that actually she's being very supportive and encouraging (and of course Dorothy is there to encourage her :)

the squeakquel

Finished the book and felt the sudden urge to make this

also yes, he is wearing Ilyukhina's skirt

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