Ciel is already suffering emotionally, but sometimes his suffering can just be genuine cringe, as a treat.

I'm not even a third through the chapter's first draft yet... and I'm at 6k words.

Mind you, the starting chapter's first draft? That was only 7.5k, which I turned to 14k.

Whoops.

(sb/cl and the like pls DNI)

I absolutely did not expect this much support, I cannot thank each and every single one of you enough!

Paved with Malicious Intent has reached over 230 hits, over 30 kudos, 12 bookmarks, and—not counting my replies—9 comments!

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And the original post, which you can find here? Also over 230 notes!

I have never gotten such support or feedback on anything I've created before, I'm genuinely blown away. Everyone has been so kind in both comments, notes, and tags ;A;

I was so worried about it but it seems a decent amount of people are excited to see where Paved with Malicious Intent will go; and I have some news!

So the goal will to be, hopefully, posting a chapter a month. I already know what I am writing for Chapter Two (so this month's) through Chapter Six (so December's)! I'm drafting Chapt.2 now, I'm outlining Chapt.3, and I've spent a good few hours making a graph to connect all the characters together.

I'm so excited to show everyone what I have in store, so please stay patient for the next chapters! Again, thank you so, so much, I've had a really rough past two weeks and this has really made me feel better.

GREAT GOOGLY MOOGLEY!

(sb/cl and the like please DNI)

The draft of the first chapter of Paved with Malicious Intent has been finished! I just need my beta to go over it, do whatever changes must be done, and should be posting it by Sunday!

My original goal was 13k words. I beat that by over a thousand.

Chapter 2 of Paved With Malicious Intent will end up being well over 25,000 words.

(THIS IS PLATONIC / FAMILIAL DON'T BE CREEPY)

LOOK WHAT I COMMISSIONED FROM @v3rmin-l0rd

I am having lunch with my son / nephew! He understands nothing I am talking about but that's a-okay!

I'm gonna use my game-summoning powers later to give Ciel an Arceus or ten so they can use JUDGEMENT on Sebastian whenever the demon is bad.

💥 What is one canon thing that you wish you could change?

Aleister Chamber would be dead already. I hate that man with a burning passion. I still don't understand Undertaker's reasoning to keep the man alive. I feel like a new character would have worked better than to keep dragging his ass around.

✨️ Out of the comments you’ve received on your fics, what are two or three of your favorites?

The top one has to be the one left by the Coattails author, party because of how detailed her comment was! There's something really special about someone going through and pointing out different parts of the chapter you've written, especially ones that might not often get comments on.

One of the newer comments I got was from someone saying they never paid much attention to Dadbastian before until they found Paved With Malicious Intent. That surprised me a lot, as I had figured the main people who would look into it would be established Dadbastian fans. It's hard to choose a third because they've all just been so sweet ;A; and the many compliments on my dialogue and descriptions have really made me feel better about my writing as a whole, as I used to believe I was really bad at it.

👻 What is your wildest headcanon?

Sebastian is a bottom and I WILL die on this hill.

⏰️ Do you like to post fics on a schedule or at random?

I like picking days but never exact times. I'm hoping to post on the 28th of each month, but as far as I'm concerned, as long as a new chapter is posted by the last day of a month, I'm happy.

🚦What sort of endings do you prefer to write: ambiguous, bad, happily ever after, etc.?

Oooh that's a hard one. I think I'd go with bittersweet. I don't tend to come up with ideas that don't hurt and stay hurting in one way or another, but leave you with hope.

When it comes to my own story ideas, I don't like happily ever afters.

Paved With Malicious Intent won't have a sad ending, so no one needs to worry there at least.

🎨 If someone were to make fanart of your work, what fic or scene would you hope to see?

Any scene with Sebastian acting fatherly. The scene that comes to mind right now is in the 2nd chapter, when Sebastian is wiping Ciel's arms clean of trash. There's something just really tender there.

Ciel playing with Bigwig is another. That rabbit is his best friend.

Most other ideas that come to mind are scenes that will be later in the story, and they're all sweet moments in which Sebastian takes care of his foster son. I'm a sucker for soft sad moments.