#comments:oby

I love this question!

Fun fact, the initial idea for Oh Baby, You came to me while I was in Taiwan in May/June 2022, about 11 months before the masterlist was finally posted! At the time, I was stuck in a govt mandated covid hotel with my mom for 10 days and unemployed (the best combination for fic ideas to brew). I made all the fake twt profiles in that hotel room, drafted a basic plot summary (like the one on the masterlist), and then let the wip sit for many months.

I was actually pretty scared to try and tackle something like oby-- it's got relatively heavy themes for something like an smau, and I don't exactly have a great record with completing series, but the level of support and love oby has received really helped!! I feel so lucky to have you awesome readers 💕

As for my planning process, it's actually quite simple! I basically start out with keystone moments-- sometimes I write them down, but sometimes I just keep them in mind. For instance, the oby list (in my mind, not in writing) looked a little something like this:

That's totally fair! I'm definitely in the same boat lol

like he could be getting ready to sleep when all of a sudden he feels stressed and have the need to make an nda

also the way i assumed the google search has to be from ww, wz or chan BUT THEN I SAW THE ACC PIC AKDHDKDVEUB I FORGOT HE EXISTED

Yes Soonyoung really stepped up to the plate!! Ik he wasn't too glaringly prominent in the first leg of it all, but Soonyoung genuinely is a good friend to mt :] what a loyal cutie

And yes we're seeing the return of Seungcheol into the narrative 👀 what chaos will happen next I wonder

Who's the most fun to write ?

Who's the most challenging ?

Who's the most rewarding ? Not necessarily the hardest to write who makes you go 🥵 at the end of each of their scenes (lol) but like the one(s) whose arc you're most excited to develop and/or to see completed

BONUS question : your fav oby dynamic?

(If you cant tell i'm having a lot of fun reading oby 😅 ik it deals with mature and grownup themes but they're all so silly, you cant help laugh/facepalm/root for them/with them! Thanks for sharing your work with us 💕)

Omg my favourite character is Orion!! The series ended up being an smau for multiple reasons, but if it wasn't one, his presence would be much much more prominent! The title is Oh Baby You after all :) his opinion of Wonwoo and other characters is really important, but unfortunately he doesn't even know what twitter is so he isn't saying much in the smau 😅

As for the most fun character to write, I have to give that and your bonus question to Joshua and Seungcheol! I think their dynamic is so funny and stupid lol

The most challenging are definitely Jihoon and Chan. I wanted characters who did bad things (for plot, y'know?) but I didn't want them to necessarily be bad people. These two and Seungcheol are the characters that are least like their irl inspirations, in my opinion

For the character whose arc I'm most excited to develop, that's gonna have to go to the main man Wonwoo!!! He's finally got his drive back-- it was kinda tedious just writing him moping tbvh

(I also love the prettyboy(gn) posse dynamic! just a bunch of besties <3)

I've never answered this straight on before (idk why I just love a silly little secret I guess lol) but I'll put it under the readmore!