#ironized

https://archiveofourown.org/works/65075035

I did have a couple questions, if you had answers you're at all willing to share. Hawthorn stan that I am, I'm also fascinated by the drama that is Edwin/Hawthorn lmao, I think that sort of doomed relationship is so delicious. Have you written or would you ever write anything prequel-y about them? A short story or the like? If not, is there anything you brainstormed up about them that didn't make it into the books?

Secondly, do Edwin and Robin ever find out that Ross wrote the Roman books? Because that would be such a funny scene.

Thank you again, and thank you for answering the asks about this series you've gotten here, I love reading your responses and learning more about the books/your writing process :D

hello! thank you so much!

I'm skipping a few asks ahead in the queue to answer this one, because I think my answer will apply to (and hopefully anticipate) some other asks: if it's not in the books or any other Official Published Content, then I'm mostly not going to comment on events that happened offpage or may happen offpage in the future*.

as a fanwriter myself, and as an author who's made the decision to engage with readers on a predominantly fannish platform... I prefer not to come down all Word Of God and deny readers or fans the pleasure of coming up with their own answers. whether you intend to write fanfic about it or just happily develop your own headcanons: the text is out there, so it's yours now!

so the answers to 'what was edwin and jack's relationship like' and 'do edwin and robin ever find out about alan's books' are both: whatever you want it to be. whatever the next fanwriter wants it to be.

hi!! I'm glad you like the stuff I make, and I'm more than happy to share my resources too!

Double Helix

An official guidebook that has character info, concept art, the game's timeline and official promotional art too

Secret Files

Came with the pre-order of the game's special edition in Japan, has some bonus art not featured in Double Helix

Bonus Digital Content

This is a playlist of all of the bonus content that came with the special edition of the game in Japan, has everything from character animations to unused sentinel animations too

Ripped Game Files

A fan from China was able to get assers straight from the game, and after someone shared the link with me I downloaded them myself and uploaded them onto google drive! Has so many things such as high quality versions of the character portraits and even the little videos that play behind characters in the selection screen

Bonus Paper Craft Kit

Like the previous link, a fan in China scanned and uploaded the paper craft kit that came as a preorder bonus, the quality is a bit crunchy but it features a lot of cute doodles of the characters

Comic Anthologies

There have been two comic anthologies released so far, @0ssianic has been translating the first anthology too if you want to give then a proper read!

I know the answer to this one!

This is from Matt Fraction's Iron Man run; specifically, this is Invincible Iron Man #20, the first issue of the arc Stark Disassembled, which is the arc right after World's Most Wanted. WMW ends with Tony deleting his brain to prevent Norman Osborn from being able to access the SHRA database of superhero identities.

Stark Disassembled is about Tony's remaining friends all coming together to try to bring Tony back, and toward the beginning of the first issue here, there's about four pages of this, which is a message that Tony has recorded prior to deleting his brain containing instructions for how his friends can bring him back to life if they decide he deserves to be alive, which says a lot about Tony's opinion of himself. (I sometimes class this as one of his suicide attempts although admittedly it's more ambiguous than the other two.)

The really weird thing about it is that even though he refers to Bucky earlier in the message, at this point in the message the Captain America he's talking about is obviously meant to be Steve. But Steve is dead at the time Tony records this message, so as far as Tony should know, the Captain America he's addressing wouldn't be Steve. (Steve is alive by the time everyone watches the message but Bucky is the Cap in the room of people who are actually watching the message.) IDK, maybe he's just speaking generally about Steve. Towards the end of WMW he definitely no longer remembers that Steve is dead, but that's way after he must have left this message, because at that point the brain deletion has clearly taken hold:

(That's from IIM #17.)

Steve does show up again in the issue after this, IIM #21, as one of the people who are helping bring Tony back to life.

IIM #20 here is actually the only issue of Fraction's run I own in comic-book form, and I bought it because of the Patrick Zircher variant cover, for obvious reasons:

Anon, I really, really want to tell you that there is a ton of amazing fic.

Sadly this is all the soulmark fic filtered to Tony/Pepper/Rhodey and it is all of six stories and three of them are not Tony/Pepper/Rhodey-centric.

The other three are:

What Good is the Moonlight by @sconesforjustice

A Pressing Matter by @taupefox59

filling in the pieces by @ironized

I cannot objectively tell you if these are good.

I can, however, tell you that all three of them delighted me beyond all measure, scratching exactly the itch I had for them, so I endose them wholeheartedly and you should definitely go read them and then come back here and headcanon-jam with me about soulmark stuff because despite myself I am super into it right now.

ironized:

superheroes in hanukkah sweaters!! my vote's on kitty pryde or some of the maximoffs but you can pick