#damas

Finding Family - Chapter 11

Does he die like a bitch to Kor like in the games? Or do Damas or Lyra get to do the honors themselves? Do I commit to it? I mean, he's not really had a large presence in the story, due to the fact a large part of the story has taken place in Spargus. Does it really matter how he dies? What purpose to the plot, to the characters, to any of it do each option hold? Do I spin the random wheel of chance? Or do I write it as it has played out in my mind time and time again?

Except, there's two ways it has played out in my head. One way where he's killed by Kor. And another way where he's killed by Lyra and Damas working together. Part of me really wants to use the second, because the scene it takes place in is kind of more epic. The first is gruesome and kinda solidly secures how dangerous and scary Kor is in Lyra's mind, which does matter for her, but she already acknowledges that Kor is a scary motherfucker, she just doesn't fully grasp it, if that makes sense?

She's encountered metalheads she knows are weaker that scare the shit out of her, but it's hard for her to separate the Kor of reality from the Kor of the game she's fought and beaten a hundred times. I dunno, necessarily, that she needs to witness him killing Praxis to get that, though, because she knows it's different in real life than the game. Especially since she is working with her own skillset, not Jak's with her ability to work a controller.

Also, should I have done similar things to what was done in Nothing More, Nothing Less and had a bunch of flashbacks to the past so he was present in the story so maybe we'd care more about his death without having to have the knowledge of the games? I mean, there are mentions of what he's done to the characters, of course. Various things. Like, of course, what we know of what he did to Jak and Damas with the coup, along with some details sprinkled here and there. But I never played around with flashbacks the way sonicringnoise did in their story outside of random dreams Lyra has. I never did flashbacks for Damas or Jak or Daxter.

Finding Family - Chapter 10

And then at the light there was a lady that walked with me part of the way home and it almost seemed like she made a point to clasp my shoulder when we parted. Like, why besides just being friendly, I don't know, but people just don't usually do that with me. It was weird for me, ok? I don’t get many random positive interactions. So excuse me if that coming off of seeing someone that made me think of Damas makes me go "are you a Spargan?" In my head. 😆

Not that I don't get positive interactions. I do. But the random kinds usually don't leave feeling actually positive and not actually low key creeped out, because by the end they said something really concerning about having some kind of diabolical plan(no, really, happened once and I was paranoid for weeks after and had a sharp eye on the news) or they turned out to be a creep out for, well...I'm a woman, so give you two guesses. This being a real, genuine, positive interaction really stands out to me, ok? In a good way.

Obviously neither of them are probably from Spargus, given the whole...reality barrier they’d have to cross in order to be so and that doesn't happen in real life, probably. But it was still a positive interaction I can feel good about.

And it feeds me plot bunnies.

Or.

As I saw on day scrolling the tag for Jak and Daxter.

Plottsels.

Can't believe I never thought of that, but I wasn’t writing Jak and Daxter fic at the time I would’ve. It was Star Wars back then. Plottsels is great.

I will be thinking of that dude who somehow looked like Damas for days, I am sure. If not longer.

If it did happen to be him...damn, I missed the opportunity to be helpful because I don’t react like many "fangirls". Not that I have anything besides theories. And a busy life. And an adventurous spirit that would be like "fuck yeah, let's go figure this shit out" 😆

And sonic' responded positively, reblogging with tags telling my write my indulgent scenes. 😆 Awww. I'm internally screaming with delight. They are so sweet! All the love their way.

Also, motivates me to keep posting my chapters even though I have no idea if either of them have even noticed my actual story at all. 😆 Just, you know. Small things can motivate me. I was already gonna keep posting, but I was trying to figure out when to go to once a week or if I should keep doing twice a week like last week and I think I'll stick to twice a week for now. So I’m gonna start today by making sure chapter 4 is in order to post tonight when I get home after dusting(allergies kicked my butt this morning so it needs done). If I don't get it posted tonight I will post it before work tomorrow. I would’ve this morning but, ah, yeah...I haven't gone back through it again yet to catch any mistakes. I already missed an important one once!l I had to fix when I posted chapter 3.