Hi more brainrot lots of words feel free to read or nah. You can do whatever I just wanted somewhere to dump my thoughts and, perhaps, someone else wanted to ask and give me their two cents. Cuz I kinda throw shade at my beloved D&D podcast, but not with the intention of actual criticism, just of what occurred during arc 9.
I had this idea of writing this fanfic one shot of (Arc 9 of UC incoming) Juniper Erydis and Julian Crimeboy meeting but now I’m faced with this problem.
As mentioned in the verbal component, Gus mentioned that when he played Julian and Grace played Juniper they ran up against this issue that ultimately the two characters just were NOT compatible with each other.
Essentially: Julian wants autonomy, to be seen as someone who is capable, NOT a babied 11 year old child. Juniper wants to have a child that she can act as a protector, even as she recognizes that she’s not a good mother, she desperately wants to be a mother for Julian. That means she enjoys Julian for his cute 11 year old appearance and his child-like attitude. Well, Julian hated that.
During the arc, there were a couple of clashes between the two characters due to the reasons I typed up.
Now how does that relate to my brainrot?
I literally don’t know how to write these characters pre-arc. I don’t know their dynamic, and even as I listens to the pre- arc 9 one shot, it was still hard to piece together this happy Julian and Juniper dynamic.
Right now my way of dealing with this is to write an extremely traumatized Julian and a less confident (in regards to dealing with Julian) Juniper. But dang, that’s not the dynamic that these two characters should have held for like 5 years. I wanted to go explore something that occurred on the side like a little one shot, but I never can find a way to resolve it well enough so that it fits into that episode 1 interaction between the two characters.
Anyways yeah after I’m done with my like 4k long fic of arc 6 I’ll get to something else eventually! Highlight on eventually!
