For the 40 questions ask!! 8,12, and 35
8. Share a snippet from one of your favorite dialogue scenes youâve written and explain why youâre proud of it.
Letâs see...ah! Hereâs this bit from my 7 Days to Fall For You Voltron oneshot!
[âI assume weâre going to go in eventually,â Pidge said dryly, âinstead of standing out here staring into the window like a couple of creepers.â
Keith glared at his shorter friend. âYouâre supposed to be my emotional support.â
âIâm more equipped to provide a mental kick in the pants.â]
I like this for a couple of reasons: One, the voice. I love Pidgeâs voice. I can see her in the scene, I could picture her expression as I wrote it. Dialogue requires a clear voice, for me, and I think I did pretty good here! Secondly, just the way it flows. Dialogue tags are annoying pretty much all of the time, but if you donât include enough context, you kind of lose whoâs talking. Granted, this is short, so itâs not that difficult to tell whoâs doing what, but I just...I donât know. It didnât feel heavy when I wrote it, so Iâm proud of it.
12. Is there an episode above all others that inspires you just a little bit more?
Right now, Iâm absolutely NUTS over Chat Blanc from Miraculous Ladybug. Iâve got at least three WIPs right now dedicated to that episode alone. I have so many thoughts about it, so many questions! What was Chat thinking when he was all alone, akumatized? Did he hear voices? How often did he talk to himself, or perhaps to his Lady? What if he HADNâT exploded the whole world; what would the consequences of THAT timeline be? The possibilities are endless.
35. Would you ever kill off a canon character?
I...am actually not sure? In something like Miraculous Ladybug, probably not, but maybe in something like Voltron (the main two things that still have my heart, lol) I would. For the most part, I like to kind of match the general tone presented by the source material. In something like Voltron, it can easily shift from something darker or a little more dramatic while also having its lighthearted moments, so I feel I can be more flexible there. Miraculous Ladybug tends to be lighter in general, so even its more emotional moments have less of a dark tinge to them. Which is why Chat Blanc (yes Iâm bringing it up again) threw me for such a loop and why itâs such a great episode to cover! It got DARK, but it didnât feel out of place. So I get excited about it and want to try and explore the way the different tones of the show meld in that episode.