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wasn't there something about vere brushing his tail every single night? anyway genesis would absolutely love having him brush out his hair as a little night time addition...

YAY THANK U FOR ASKING APOLLO ILYSM

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2. What scene did you first put down?

this is a good question! it was intermission 1 actually, when jotaro finds kakyoin in the water tower and their ensuing conversation. i wrote it not intending for it to be anything other than some writing practice. at the time i didn't know i was gonna write out my part 4 au idea and in fact i wasn't even writing it from an angle of kakyoin living, but i was just trying my hand at writing the classic "what if jotaro found kakyoin's body and got a final word with him" thing. however later, when i had decided to write wwm/ta and got to intermission 1, i remembered that snippet and frnakly it was too good to just let rot so i ripped it and edited it a bit to paste for the intermission LOL

9. were there alternate versions of this fic?

YES. MANY. i've mentioned this before but wwm/ta lived in my head for over a year before i finally started writing it down so it evolved a LOT

to give an example of how different it used to be, in ~june 2020, i had it so that kakyoin was so mad at jotaro cause he was jolyne's godfather, meaning he saw up close how jotaro abandoning jolyne and her mom hurt them, and he was pissed as hell over it. later drafts changed this cause i realized jotaro "self isolation" kujo probably wouldnt have stayed in touch with kakyoin, either...

then of course the original version of what is now wwm/ta was intended to be from jotaro's pov, which i have also mentioned before. i love jotaro but im veyr glad i changed that, kakyoin is a lot of fun to write even if he is a brat <3

but yeah basically it's gone through a LOT of versions so to speak! it's part of why im glad i let it pressure cook for so long until it finally cemented an identity lol

11. what do you like best about this fic?

im gonna sound like an egomaniac but i think it's a pretty unique take on the part 4 kakyoin au and i really like the differences i've made from others i've seen, i think it makes for a more compelling narrative (even if it fucking sucks to write them being at each other's throats)(or more kakyoin at jotaro's throats). basically i think im #special and #unique and i think it makes my version stand out a lot <3

12. what do you like least about this fic?

HOW FUCKING LONG IT IS GOD i feel so fucking bad legitimately. i've always for as long as i've been writing, have had problems with length and even though i tried to mitigate that for this fic by keeping a goal of ~5k words a chapter, i routinely break that cap...esp for intermissions. it can be exhausting to write like this and i hae no doubts it's exhausting to read too but i hope the good outweighs the bad kjsn;s;js