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Thanks for this, Noelle! I’m gonna have fun with this one:

“If you want, we could go together?”

Post graduation/Winter break after highschool

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Reki isn’t a wimp. He’s broken his arm more times than he or his mom would care to count, has busted a lip, takes shots at the doctors without blinking, and overall isn’t scared of much. He’s even grown past the nightmares of the dance of death at ‘S’ so long ago.

No, Reki wasn’t a wimp. But this was gonna take him a minute.

“If you want, we could go together?”  Langa says, not a hint of mockery in his calm voice. He holds out a gloved hand, and the irony of the action is not lost on Reki. It wasn’t all that long ago that Langa was the one fumbling on a board with Reki offering his hand instead. 

Reki stares at it, baffled.

“So, like, I get you are trying to be supportive here, but trying to slide down a mountain while holding hands is just going to make it worse, dude.”

8. Favorite plot point/chapter/moment?

ooh boy idk….maybe chapter 14 of altea rising?? finding the red lion and all that Klance Content…*clenches fist* it was just so much fun to write and i have kind of a soft spot for it since it’s one of the first parts i came up with when i was plotting out the whole fic, and altea rising is my baby so *wipes away tears*

10. Favorite line or lines of dialogue that you’ve written

answered!

13. Are there any things that might have happened in any of your stories, but you changed them at the last minute? (So-and-so dies, they don’t actually kiss, main character has long extended ballet-based dream sequence, etc.)

sdlkfdj i’m not one for big last-minute changes and typically i don’t change very much from my original outline plot-wise but just some things i can think of off the top of my head:

i originally kinda wanted to write “if the silence was a song” as like a dual-pov thing from both keith and lance’s perspectives, but 1) i was writing it under kind of a tight deadline so i kept it to a single pov to make it shorter, 2) i thought it ultimately worked better to have lance’s identity be kind of a “”mystery”” at first and that keith meeting him at the end would feel more big and dramatic yknow…. but from time to time i do consider writing some kinda companion piece or sequel in lance’s pov since a bunch of people have asked me about that haha. 

ok like i said i usually don’t change a ton from my original outline but “red skies” is….another story hahaha. my initial concept of it was pretty different…

i sort of wanted it to be a star wars au at first but then it morphed into its own thing.

i also considered it being more of a steampunk/space pirates au but ultimately that’s just uhh not really what it turned into lol.

keith was originally going to be like purple-furry galra keith (i planned out the fic soon after s1 and that was the popular galra!keith hc at the time so…..) but then later came along the white haired!keith thing and i liked that better lol.

lance and hunk were going to be adopted brothers but idk i ended up scrapping that idea bc it just didn’t seem to work.

i wanted there to be other talismans besides the blue and red talismans, and tried to come up with a way to fit voltron into the au, etc. but ultimately decided against it bc it was too complicated along with everything else, plus it felt a bit too similar to what i was doing with altea rising. 

….i actually added the whole talismans idea in kinda last-minute. before that i’d had a very vague concept of the plot, but once i came up with that it was kinda the catalyst that got me thinking up the whole story.

i don’t want to spoil the ending but let’s just say i’ve changed my mind about how i want to end it about 5 times lmao.

not related to plot but i had the absolute Hardest Time coming up with a title….i had like 20 options i was considering and most of them were terrible, but anyway. i was super close to calling it “we own the sky” (after the m83 song of the same name) but decided on “red skies” cuz it’s a bit snappier and thought it fit the mood of the fic more. (fyi it was vaguely inspired by that old saying “red sky at night, sailors’ delight / red sky at morning, sailors take warning”)

i already did stars so i’ll do sky haha...anyhoo here’s a lil something from red skies:

He didn't take his eyes off the sky as he ran, fixated on that dark line scarring the horizon. The closer he got to it, the clearer he could see that it was, in fact, smoke. It looked like it hadn't been there for long, judging by how dark it still was, but it was rapidly dissipating. Lance pushed himself further, afraid that it would evaporate completely before he found its source.

It wasn't an easy trek, thanks to the debris scattered everywhere. Lance scrambled over one mound of trash after another, and he could hear Hunk and Pidge crashing through the garbage after him.

But at last, Lance came to a skidding stop, eyes following the smoke to where it stopped. His breath caught in his throat.

A small, dark red ship––what looked like some kind of fighter jet––was buried halfway in a pile of waste. One of its wings was bent at a strange angle and burned black, and a smoking hole had been blown into its side.

omg noelle

5) If you had to choose a favourite out of all of your multi chaptered stories, which would it be and why?

oooo i mean i only have a couple multi chaps but i think altea rising is my fave. i have a real soft spot for it cuz it’s my first fic, but also just the world-building in it is so much fun. i also just really love the Team Dynamic in it and writing all the ensemble scenes!! 

8) Where do you take your inspiration from?

from the Idea Store. jk i...i don’t really know?? i tend to get inspiration kinda randomly? usually stuff will just like occur to me when i’m on a walk or at work or smth and it just snowballs from there. but i also draw a lot of inspo from media i like... when i sit down to write something i usually have kind of a concept of what vibe i’m going for based on other things i like. i’m not sure how to explain it except it’s sorta like “ok i want it to kinda have the same mood as this tv show and that book, also i want it to evoke the same emotion as this song” sdlkfd so it’s kind of a huge mix of things.

12) Who is your favourite character to write for? Why?

oof it’s a tough choice but i think it’s keith?? i feel like i often default to writing in his pov. i just find something very comforting in writing about him? i relate to all the characters in some way but i think it’s just smth about keith being kinda quiet/introspective that i relate to, and he’s also just a v dynamic character where he can be super badass but other times Soft and also really awkward/funny and it’s fun to explore all those different sides of him. 

13) Who is your least favourite character to write for? Why?

ha i don’t know.... probably....zarkon? i’ve had to write in his pov a few times in red skies and every time i’m like “how do i do this.” i feel like i make him act like more of a “bwahaha” sinister kinda villain than he is in canon but i mean he’s p boring in canon anyway so

18) Do you have any abandoned WIP’s? What made you abandon them?

i don’t have any like truly abandoned wips although i do have a horse riding au that i haven’t worked on in like five months and i feel terrible about it. but i just have so many other things on my plate rn i haven’t been able to give it attention. that and i ran into the issue of not knowing anything about horses lmao although i’m still trying to do research for it because i DO really want to finish it, i just haven’t had the time/energy. 

i also have some ideas on the backburner that i’ll probably never get around to actually writing if that counts haha. but yeah with those i feel like they’re just way too complicated and/or i can’t figure out a way to make them work so....maybe i’ll still write those someday but it’d be a While from now.

23) Do you prefer listening to music when you’re writing or do you need silence?

kinda depends on my mood but generally i prefer to write in silence. sometimes music is good background noise and sometimes i just get way too distracted by the lyrics and/or singing along and my attention span is terrible lol so usually it’s easier for me to concentrate if i’m not listening to anything.

48) What’s your favourite trope to write?

mutual pining binch!!!!!

49) Can you remember the first fic you read? What was it about?

oh man.....ok i gotta admit i like never read fic before voltron lol, i think maybe i read like a couple drabbles here and there when i was in the httyd fandom but not v much and i don’t really remember them lol. anyway the first voltron fic i remember reading was like WAAYyy back at the beginning of the fandom and it was some cute lil klance fic that i barely remember anything about... except i remember there being some scene where they went to some kinda festival thing on an alien planet and keith & lance had some kinda competition about who was better at flirting and keith was like actually really good at it and flirting w all these aliens and lance was like WHAT. also they kissed on a beach at the end??? i can’t remember what it was called and i think it might’ve gotten deleted rip. but it was real cute.