#author ask

Go to your hearts content 🤭

For this last chapter, if I add up the time on CSP, it took about 13 hours. I would say on average it fluctuates between 10-20 hours depending on if I need to redraw a background mostly.

Honestly, I don't really have anything interesting to say about my MC since they're usually just versions of me that just change little things to fit with whichever story I'm reading, but if I had to summarise him from this IF? He's just perpetually confused and overwhelmed, but trying his best haha, he's also head over heels for Fenrir and Aster because they're so adorable and they mean the world to me ❤️

From what I've seen from some other IF authors, they tend to have a character that they enjoy writing the most. Not necessarily the favourite, but sometimes just more fun or interesting than the other characters! So I'm curious if you have a favourite, or if there are particular aspects of the sins that make each of them stand out from each other while you're writing them?

As always, I absolutely love this story and I'm looking forward to reading more when it's ready!

I have to say probably Aria. She is just my favorite character by far so I genuinely do enjoy writing her so much. And Morrigan is very fun to. You can do a lot with a trickster character so that’s always fun to play around with!

Honestly, I don’t think so.

The last of us is what pushed me to write - no other fandom has ever driven me to the brink of insanity like that and I’ve been in a several over the years.

Shit, I’ve been reading fic for eighteen years now (fuck, I’m old) and while the maladaptive daydreaming has been rampant, nothing else has given me the bravery.

When I lose the inspiration or the drive to write for this fandom, I will probably stop writing altogether tbh.

What if: the beasts didn't fall from glory and remain as heroes?

Thank you for the ask @abbyzwrites!

3. What are some tropes or details that you think are very characteristic of your fics?

I answered this one, but since I remember the conversation we had earlier today, I'll add on what I said there. This is more broadly than just my fic writing, but I so really like the three man band. And I end up with similar cores for the members: a sassy femme, a grumpy masc, and someone whose gender is a little weird.

10. How do you decide what to write?

Man, I dunno. Apollo comes and hits me with his dodgeball or something.

No, but more seriously. Back in 2017, I was writing all five of the works in Calamity Quintet at the same time + my original works and it was not a good idea! That lasted about six months and then I burned out hard on writing at all and I didn't come back to writing fic for 7 years (we call it my Temple of Time nap). Only managed to get through my original work at the time cause it was a novella and I found a good self publishing group that helped me maintain momentum to see it through to publication.

Now, since I really only write long fic, I'm writing one at a time. I have my dedicated editing days to get my other ones over from Wattpad to AO3, but I'm writing MoaH. From there, it is pantsing. I follow the vibes. I know the end destinations, so it gives the characters time to just. Wander through and find stuff. And that's most of it.

11. Are you partial to a certain character/pairing or are you more equal-opportunity? If you are partial to any character/pairing, why do you think that is?

Ship and let ship. I'll be honest, I'm probably a little boring on romance for my reasons behind it. It doesn't super interest me to write, so I do tend to default to canon ships or highly likely ships (see Zelink) so I can focus on other stuff, like worldbuilding and setting exploration. Now, I still try to write good romance when it comes up, and I hope folks are enjoying MoaH's Zelink, I think it's pretty good, but it's not really a point I find super interesting to theorize about when I'm planning works to write. I'm more interested at poking at the world, so I kinda just pick the easy answer and then toodle around somewhere else in the story.

To be more fun, I have one ship that I'm particular about and it has to do with MoaH. I had someone ship Link and Marela together and I hated it. And it was the reason they gave me that pissed me off. Look, if people ship the MoaH characters differently than how they're written, I probably get it. But their reasoning was twofold: 1) they didn't like that Marela was a lesbian and 2) they thought Zelda was a bitch and didn't deserve Link. And it's just the combo of queer erasure and then quantifying worth in women based on how nice they are to men (like he wasn't an arrested criminal at that point in the story) that really teed me off about it. Not even a character exploration between the two, just not liking lady characters have depth.