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9. What are your file name conventions? Honestly, my filenames are super straightforward. If it's a commission for someone, it'll be [name]comm.psd, if it's not a commission it'll usually be named after whatever i'm drawing (kibbyashe.psd, outfitconcept.psd, lionstudies01.psd, etc).

20. Something everyone else finds hard to draw but you enjoy? Hands!! I love drawing hands. Here's a page of them from a couple years ago:

YOUR WISH IS MY COMMAND......i went a little hogwild making braindump notes with this one because the more i dug into the lore of each game the more insane i went. but first here's the first line, because i forgot i wrote even that much:

Sometimes, she still can’t believe she got away with it.

and since all this will NOT be covered onscreen for the most part seeing as the fic i intend to write is going to be about Cornelia and Valter as like Already Married, here's the lore behind how that happened straight from my notes:

before the War of the Stones, Valter attacks civilians with Duessel’s cursed lance and gets exiled. this is around the time when Cornelia gets teleported to Magvel in an attempt to escape the conflict in Fódlan once and for all (after the events of 3H); she is Done with that nonsense and, after all she’s done As Cornelia on the surface, she refuses to return to the underground. she was probably assisted by Count Bergliez in this effort per that dialogue lore drop in Verdant Wind, but he didn’t go with her to Magvel—as far as i know i’m pretty sure Cornelia is the only one from Fódlan now in this crazzy fucked up world. anyway. because Cornelia shows up while Valter is stewing and formulating revenge plots, he now has something other than revenge and hatred to think about. and because Cornelia is Also fucked up and evil, she eventually becomes something More to him than something to kill. she eventually gets through to him, even, more than his bloodthirsty instincts, though he continues to have the call for endless strife pulling at the edges of his mind. it is all very lovely and it takes time, but they get married before the War of the Stones even starts and so all of that romantic buildup is NOT my business.

the fic itself runs more or less alongside the events of Sacred Stones, as Valter gets called back to serve Grado again, but this time Cornelia is there and this complicates things, both because he Cares about her and because she's decided she wants to try to un-curse him via crest experiment-adjacent procedures.

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💗Is there a scene you can’t wait to write for a WIP?

oh gosh, so many. i guess in my current nano project i'm really excited to write the initial cannibalism scene, which i'm actually getting close to, and the ending which mirrors the prologue really nicely.

📄What’s a WIP you never finished that you would like to go back and revisit?

ummmmmm....all of them? :') Thread the Needle (our nano project from 2020) comes to mind, though; it needs some major reworking, but the bones are good, and i think i can turn it into a better story if i ever get around to it. it's about mad scientists and wizard apprentices and knitting.

🗣️Talk about your favourite WIP

@recurringwriter Hello! Wow, I've been thinking about this on and off and tend to keep going back and forth. While some I'm certain she'd have supports with, others I'm not so sure about.

Part of the problem is I keep flipping back and forth in my brain because I've had the idea of her being recruitable on a Blue Lions playthrough (but not Crimson Flower or Silver Snow), but I've been toying with the idea recently of her being locked to Golden Deer in the same Manner as Dedue and Hubert are to Blue Lions and Black Eagles (with the exception that unlike those two, she does have supports aside from her own house + some Church of Seiros affiliates).

Longish Post Below the cut

K: What's the angstiest idea you've ever come up with?

F) this is kind of cheating cause it’s not from a fic, but i don’t have any bits of dialogue from fics that i’m particularly proud of at the moment so take this conversation from my original story:

“Brielle gently whacked Kians shoulder, sparking a laughing fit from both of them. “But seriously, it’ll all work out in the end. Either he’ll work with us, or we’ll kill him.”

    “When did we turn into this, Brielle?” Kian asked. “We used to be so carefree; now we’re genuinely talking about killing someone as a viable option if things don’t work out.”

    “We stopped being carefree when it became obvious the world wasn’t going to help us along,” Brielle said. “We stepped into the roles that were laid out for us, whether by Terr or Telos. We didn’t have much of a choice; it was step up and be the bad guys in Babon’s eyes, or let Babon continue to take advantage of us for the rest of our lives.”

    “Will we really succeed?” Kian asked. “Will we really be able to change Babon for the better?”

    “Maybe,” Brielle said. “But we’ll either change Babon or die trying. That’s what we said when we started this, isn’t it?”

    “Yeah, it is,” Kian said. 

    “Well, we can’t disappoint our younger selves now, can we?” Brielle said. “We’re too deep into it to stop.”

    “Too late to restart it all now,” Kian agreed. He leaned back in his chair, staring at the ceiling for a moment, staying quiet. “Do you think Telos and Terr are disappointed in us for what we’ve done?”

    “I like to think that they’re more disappointed with the way Babon has devolved from the Babon in the stories to be focused on our sins,” Brielle said. “Maybe that’s the desperate girl's way of thinking, but it’s what I’ve turned to.”

    “Maybe you’re right,” Kian said. “I suppose Xhepion and Torpi were the same way.”

    “Terr and Telos’s right hands in the Frihetskrig, fighting against the tyranny of the Svensker and creating a home of their own,” Brielle said. “Creating a better life for themselves and generations to come. Maybe we’ll be revered in the same way.”

i just think it flows well and establishes the characters relationship in a satisfying way :>

@recurringwriter Hello! Alright let's see. For Euphemia:

Monastery Dogs or Cats- She likes both of them, but she somewhat prefers cats because she kind of relates to them. (Quiet, generally in their own space unless they want to share space with you.) They make for great companions to sit with while reading over study material while spending time out of doors. Although she's been known to sneak a cat or two into her dorm room.

Favorite Place in the Monastery- Oof this is a tough one. I'd say it would have to be a toss up between the Stables (because that's where the horses, pegasi, and wyverns are!), the Greenhouse/Fishing Pond (because they have various creatures from across Fodlan), and the Sauna (because she finds the steam calming, and it can help her refocus).

Minor Trauma Mention Warning for Below!

When Euphemia Gets Up and Goes to Bed - Euphemia doesn't like sleeping, and tends to try and get away with staying up as much as possible (this is because she has frequent nightmares due to childhood trauma, although occasionally it may sometimes instead be about her anxieties). Typically, she manages to make it to midnight and awakens between 6:30 and 7:00 am. (This times slightly varies with the seasons, but it averages out to be about this much.) While 6 1/2 to 7 hours of sleep is typical for her, ideally her body prefers 8 1/2 hours of sleep. A few of her supports either touch on or focus on her lack of sleep and/or nightmares (her supports with Yuri focus on it the most, and it's heavily touched upon in her supports with Claude and Raphael, and would most likely also be mentioned in her supports with Lysithea and Dimitri).

I think among the professors at the Officer's Academy, I think Byleth would probably end up being the member of the faculty that Euphemia is most comfortable with. Like her, Byleth doesn't talk a lot (although they're a lot more talkative than her and can most easily converse with people in general), and Byleth isn't from a noble upbringing, so I think she would be more willing to come out of her shell more quickly than with some others at the Academy. I think upon their initial meeting Euphemia would probably be both physically and metaphorically hanging back behind Khalid while observing/getting a feel for them until Khalid coaxes her out to introduce herself. I think their supports would be about feelings out of place among the group of people they're with, albeit for different reasons, and I think it could be a cool opportunity to have insight about Byleth's days growing with with Jeralt as a mercenary. And I think in the end, Byleth would be someone Euphemia very much looks up to and sees as a mentor. Her mind maybe even subtly comparing them to her older sister (one of the two siblings she lost to TWSITD).