#softergoth

oh look, it’s another fanfic writer ask game

12. what headcanon will you keep implementing in your fics, even if canon ends up contradicting it?

Let's see, another one. Hm. That Rodimus' variety of speech in English, as perceived by us, is more appropriately like a millennial from California and not one of the British varieties. I actively ignore the obvious British-leaning grammar and vocab choices throughout MTMTE/LL. I write his dialogue accordingly.

No shade to anybody else or to my across-the-pond buddies. I'm not from Cali, for the record.

14. what trope would you refuse to write even if you were paid to do it?

Send me an ask with the first sentence of a fanfic and I’ll write the next five.

“You’re from the Dead End,” Chromantic said.

Soundwave nodded, and a weight Chromantic hadn’t even noticed was immediately lifted. Soundwave was staring--he did that a lot, Chromantic had noticed, looking at and around Chromantic as though he could somehow see the quiet signals bouncing off inactive sensors.

fanfic asks!

1. answered

2. least favorite fic you wrote this year

There is a really, really short deadceptor fic that’s less than 500 words. That one. Just because it’s so short >:(

14. a fic you didn’t expect to write

Never in my life would I have expected to write Soundwave/Hot Rod (or Dead End/Perceptor)...Cyberverse is funny like that.

21. most memorable comment/review

Transformers Asks!

🍳- Character that you would go to Brunch with

Cosmos or Jazz! I think they'd be fun to hang out with.

🍻- Character that deserves a year of free drinks at Maccadams

^^ Not too spoilery, I don't think! This answer does go into things that haven't been addressed in fic, but since I'm not sure they're going to be anyway I don't consider them spoilers.

At this point in the fic, Drift still doesn't want Ratchet and Rodimus to be with him; he's accepted it, but begrudgingly. For one thing, they're a liability: if anything happens to them, the rogue Decepticons could gain control of the Enigma, spreading their conquest to other planets. It's something Drift takes personally; he was there for the decline of the Decepticons into imperialism, and fighting back against it now is his way of trying to make up for all that he allowed to happen before him.

2. Tell us about what you’re most looking forward to writing – in your current project, or a future project

It’s partly written but...the plot point where prowl rescues soundwave from the new institute? it’s going to be Good. (i hope)

18. Do any of your stories have alternative versions? (plotlines that you abandoned, AUs of your own work, different characterisations?) Tell us about them.

At this point I feel like a lot of my different IDW fics/series are just AUs of the same thing, probably because they deal with the same characters/themes. prowlcoswave is arguably a sequel to scorecards (which still isn’t finished!), scorecards is just prowlcoswave without prowl, the unwritten postcanon prowl/cosmos fic is a sequel to scorecards but soundwave died during the unicron event, etc etc

It definitely makes me appreciate writers who tackle the same characters in very distinctive ways haha

20. Tell us the meta about your writing that you really want to ramble to people about (symbolism you’ve included, character or relationship development that you love, hidden references, callbacks or clues for future scenes?)

Not so much meta as it is an observation about my own writing but......

6. What character do you have the most fun writing?

Writing Cosmos’s POV sparks joy! I’ve warmed up to Soundwave and Prowl over time, but Cosmos is still my favorite character to write. I love him. When I was writing more Cyberverse fic, I had a lot of fun writing both Hot Rod and Dead End.

7. What do you think are the characteristics of your personal writing style? Would others agree?

Run on sentences, abrupt endings/transitions, lots of dialogue, and minimal descriptions of the environment...I’ve never asked anyone what my writing style is, but I think they’d agree?

17. Do you think readers perceive your work - or you - differently to you? What do you think would surprise your readers about your writing or your motivations?

I’m sure they do...especially when it’s darkfic. Overall I find myself subconsciously projecting onto characters, lmao (usually in pretty mundane ways), but I will say that my railing against Soundwave canonically suddenly becoming Faithful/Religious and stanning the ~one true prime~ is most definitely me aggressively and deliberately working through some stuff :`D