#north-peach

Hi! That’s The Art of Losing and right now it lives on a google doc! Right here! Some day I’ll move it to AO3. 

What's cold steel?

@north-peach

Video game! The full name is Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel I

It’s a game set in the Legend of Heroes world (meaning I should really be playing Legend of Heroes: Trails of the Sky trilogy first because there’s lots of backstory on some of these characters that i’m missing out on) where the main cast are all students in Thors Military Academy (basically an Officer’s School for people approximately high school age)

As much as I gush over Machias and flail about him, I actually like ALL the characters? And I’m having a Big Problem figuring out who the actual Big Bad is, because a lot of the adults are shown to be... well... adults? They all have motivations and plans that aren’t very black or white? And I legitimately dislike several of them on moral grounds but like... I understand their position and their reasoning?

And Rean, the main character, has the traditional Self-Sacrifice protag flaw and like... he’s been legit called out on it by at least two of his classmates? It’s not being treated as a Good Thing.

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“Dilemma”

How strongly is it "alluding" to it? Cause just mentioning it doesn't seem to require upping the current rating.

....I’m describing filleting a person’s flesh while barbecuing it. Then letting them eat it.

Reborn is very angry.

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“Dilemma”

Well, I guess that depends on the level of description of torture? Like, if it's very vivid, lots of gore and such, you should probably raise the rating. If it's like a milder level, where yes, they're being torture but it's like what you would watch in a PG-13 movie, you can probably add a warning or two at the beginning and be fine. My opinion anyway.

Why not both?

Uuhhh... oh boy. Okay, so if we’re only counting the AUs that I’ve published, it’s probably a toss-up between the DE/DW crack crossover and just the World-hopper Kaito concept in general?

If we’re including AUs that I HAVEN’T posted yet... I’ve got a DE/Lilacs cross where Erich follows the teens back from the invasion that I’m really looking forward to playing in as soon as I reach that point in mainline DE. Having Erich interacting with early Kaito plus all the other teens being protective of Kaito is going to be so much fun.

@akaluan​ Have you seen my fics? I haven’t touched some since 2013. I despair because when I have free time, sometimes I can’t even bring myself to write. I respect the hell out of writers who manage fics that surpass the 100,000 mark. So, you go! I’m cheering for you!

Yeah, but you’re still trying, and still writing when you can, and that’s damn impressive on its own. I mean, right now I’m struggling to get, like... anything written at all, even self-indulgent AUs. But I think I’ve figured it out, given that the temps have been plummeting, on top of work stress, so I’m entering hibernation mode in preparation for NaNo.

Death's Soul Surgeon. This one I started and last updated in - oh god 2019.

Law's personality swap ability was always intriguing to me, since I couldn't quite work out how it fit with the rest of his abilities. Swapping souls made more sense than just somehow swapping intangible personalities. So I combined it kind of with Bleach in how souls pop out of the bodies with the chains, and a little based off Greek mythology. I was also inordinately pleased with myself for wordplay in the title.

I've got a couple of ideas for future parts written down, including a follow up to after the Dressrosa scene, and another scene to follow the panic attack. And then there's lines that I wrote with no context and it's been so long that I have no clue what they were for. Whoops!