#lordviridis

What is your total word count on AO3?

109 062 words (75 fics). I started writing them around the end of last year’s October, so not bad at all if I do say so myself lmao (especially since this is missing all the domestic fluff prompts that would add like 10k).

How often do you write?

Is just “often” an acceptable answer? I don’t really have a schedule but if I don’t do any writing for a week, something is seriously wrong lol. If I really get the writing juices going on, I can easily clock a few thousand words a day, though it usually tends to fluctuate a lot depending on what I’m working on.

Do you have a routine for writing?

I have water and music (usually variations of rock) ready and then I just start writing (if I’m editing, there’s no music since it tends to distract me). With fics I usually just write them on one sitting since they’re so short but with anything longer, I tend to write for 25 minutes non-stop and then do a 5-10 min break. Very effective, especially if I’m aiming to write 6-10k in a single day.

What are your favourite kinks/tropes/pairing?

Kinks:

dom/sub & femdom: I practically live and breathe this stuff lmao. The dynamics of having someone be in control and someone else submitting is absolutely thrilling.

Tropes:

alpha/omega: I think this could be compared to junk food. It’s absolutely sinful and so good but having too much of it becomes overwhelming which is why I haven’t written it that much. I absolutely love its dynamics though (that are, surprise surprise, similar to the above).

Pairing:

Natjana/Quinn: Femdom for the win lmao. But more seriously, even though I love the dynamics, I also love the chemistry so much. They’re the couple who will always love and cherish each other, no matter what happens.

Inibri/Harkun: This has some similarities with above (like the dom/sub aspect duh) but it’s definitely darker. Neither of these characters could really be considered nice or even likable but here they are, together and completely wrecking me.

Do you have a favourite fic of yours?

Nothing specific pops into mind at the moment, though I have a special soft spot for all the smut I have written ;).

Your fic with the most kudos?

The Hux/Reader smut, To Have A Little Fun, though considering that fandom is quite a bit larger than swtor, it’s not a surprise lol. If I leave that out, then it’s Showing His Desire For You (smutty Marr/Reader).

…I’m not sure if the universe is trying to tell me that I’m good with smut or if people are just thirsty as fuck for it lmao.

Anything you don’t like about your writing?

Eeeh, I’m mostly happy with my writing. Sometimes I wished I had the patience to edit some pieces more but at the end of the day, I’m just happy to move onto the next one. Oh, I also sometimes hope that I would write longer fics but then I remember that’s not worth the effort lol (kudos to those who write longer fics though, I respect the shit out of you).

Now something you do like?

I enjoy my smut a lot, even though I never imagined I would consider myself a smut writer some day when I started writing. But here I am now, so goddamn proud to make yall hot and bothered lmao.

I also like the style I’m writing in and how much I have improved. English is not my first language and I used to be not comfortable in writing anything longer with it, but now my opinion has changed. Yeah, I still make mistakes, especially since my editing is usually quick when it comes to fics, but I’m glad to say that I’m actually confident in my writing now.

Saying that makes me strangely emotional because fucking hell. I have loved writing all my life but now I have actual, proper confidence in it with knowledge to back me up too. I fucking love my writing. I love the fact that I can form words into interesting sentences and make scenes and characters feel alive.

…I also love myself for having the patience to stick with writing through all these years. I’m so grateful to writing too because it has kept me alive and always made me feel better no matter how horrible I have felt. I love that it has allowed me to meet and get to know utterly wonderful and absolutely amazing people.

Any questions about his psych profile when he was scouted in the orphanage were chalked up to his downplaying a desire for revenge and to take on the Republic. That he might be trying to seem more willing to do what's necessary never occurred to them, particularly when he otherwise seemed like such an ideal candidate.

His unapproved creativity in training was interpreted as showing off, and his instructors' efforts to correct that were mainly focused on addressing arrogance, not squeamishness.

Keeper recognized from his training record that Kyrian was a little naïve and a little...soft. And if things had played out differently, perhaps Keeper would have been right in thinking that the job itself would give him the hardness and cool pragmatism he needed to be a good agent. After all, there was nothing to suggest that Kyrian wasn't loyal to the Empire or to Intelligence, just that he hadn't quite come to terms with what was necessary to get the job done.

And Kyrian succeeded at all of his early assignments. Sure, he might have disregarded minor parts of his orders here and there, but nothing truly important to the missions.

Though, if Darth Jadus hadn't insisted on Kyrian's promotion to cipher agent (knowing that timing would mean that he'd be the one to investigate Jadus's "death"), coincidentally sending him on missions away from Keeper's watchful eye, Kyrian's career would likely have been much shorter.

On the smaller, more limited missions he should have had early in his career, more carefully overseen by Keeper and HQ, Kyrian wouldn't have been able to hide his decided lack of ruthless efficiency. At some point, Keeper would have sent him on a mission that required something he couldn't bring himself to do, and that would've been that. (Though, depending on exactly what happened, "that" might have been a transfer out of field work as opposed to an arrest for treason.)

As it was, the complaints that did drift back to HQ and Keeper were balanced out by Kyrian's success on Eagle related missions (far more important), and came from sources Keeper was somewhat skeptical of. (Of course Sith or overly ruthless Intelligence operatives would find fault with an agent who tended to use more subtle methods. The mismatch of styles alone could result in missions failing - a more systemic problem to address than one agent who was perhaps still a smidge too squeamish.)

But those complaints were there, and Kyrian was stacking up enough people who viewed him as questionable in some fashion (incompetent? treasonous?) that whatever mix of truth and fiction Dralick sent to Intelligence was only a matter of speeding up the inevitable.