#followerofmercy

6. What's your hair routine like? Anything special?

The amount I take care of my hair should probably be a crime lol - pretty much I just brush it in the morning and That's It. I do wash it with shampoo and stuff too but like, nothing else XD

What common trope(s) do you feel are used in this chapter/fic?

[WIP #2, KazuScara prince/knight]

3. Who's your favorite character for this chapter/fic?

OH man. uhhh, it's kazuha POV so i'm inclined to ... say kazuha? its hard to say because its slight unreliable narrator (spoilers for answer two) but i'll stick with that. kazu <3

13. What common trope(s) do you feel are used in this chapter/fic?

well unreliable narrator. is one. i never thought id explicitly write that because it makes me itchy when people talk about it because theyre usually wrong. but ive been playing a VN with some friends with an unreliable narrator so.

other tropes.... well boy king/knight is kind of a favorite of mine. i try to avoid thinking about tropes because then i fall into patterns. a better question is "what are your questions for these tropes?" and my answer would be "who is on the top of this power dynamic? when does status equal power, and when does it not? who is using who and how?"

Aww yiss, join ussss!

It's a serialized story, but the publication order doesn't line up with chronological order for all of them, which is a pain in the ass. Also they'd really benefit from being numbered. Here's the chronological order to go in for the main books:

1. All Systems Red

2. Artificial Condition

3. Rogue Protocol

4. Exit Strategy

5. Fugitive Telemetry (side story set between Exit Strategy and Network Effect, but published after Network Effect)

6. Network Effect

7. System Collapse

Star was surprisingly strong, once Peridot’s technology stabilized his shape. He wasn’t magically strong for a human, but he was a bit above average and he took pride in that. When he worked out, those benefits carried over to Steven. His posture improved. He got sore less often. He stayed fat, but the muscle beneath did grow and firm up a bit more.

And the knowledge Star gained carried over as well. So every yoga pose, every breathing technique, that Star learned from his online classes carried over to Steven and Diamond each time they became whole again. It was nice to feel useful, even in that small way, and the yoga helped his own strong emotions settle into something a little more reasonable.

He was warming up, standing in tree pose, when Diamond came to stand beside him. After a moment, wordlessly, he raised his foot to his inner thigh, and stretched his arms above his head in a mimicry of Star’s pose. He didn’t wobble magical and hardlight too stable to budge, and Star quirked an eyebrow.

“This isn’t going to do anything for your body, you know. Or our body.”

He breathed out, setting his foot down and sliding into downward facing dog.

Diamond followed. “it could do something for my mind. Peace, maybe. It helped you, right?”

“It’s about focusing on your body. Being calm and mindful,” Star retorted. “You don’t really have a body and I don’t think focusing on your gem is going to make you feel good.”

“Maybe not.”

Star shifted again, stretching his back into cat pose, and again Diamond followed his lead. He scowled. “So why are you still doing it?”

Diamond’s voice was quiet, barely loud enough to catch, as he said, “Because I’m angry.” He breathed out, loud and slow. “And maybe, if I follow you, I won’t be.”

GIVE ME A CHARACTER;

How I feel about this character

Little chaotic gremlin child who deserves much more than they were given

All the people I ship romantically with this character

Uhhhhh nada.

My non-romantic OTP for this character

Them and quirrel, obvs, or my icon wouldn’t be what it currently is. Alternatively, them and thk. 

My unpopular opinion about this character

I??? Don’t really think I have one???

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.

ADELARD ADELARD ADELARD