13, 16, 17
13: Do you prefer reading/writing multi-chapter fics or single-part fics?
Both, honestly. The length of the fic isn't one of the deciding factors so much as the content for me.
16: Do you stick to canon when you write characters and fics?
If there's any solid canon to go off of. For example, Lasky is largely a blank slate between the end of FUD and when he's assigned to Infinity in Initiation, so there isn't really anything I can do except make shit up.
It also depends on if canon matches reality in at least a super basic way. My favorite example of this is the snooty-shooties on Infinity. Her specs list them as spine-mounted MAC cannons. But when you see them fired at the Mantle's Approach, they are clearly lasers. Two beams with a visible amplitude that makes laser noise. I'm sorry but that isn't even remotely what a traditional slug-thrower would look like in the vacuum of space, so that bit of canon goes in the trash. Now, the MAC cannons on the orbital platforms in Halo 2? Yeah...they have a reload mechanism reminiscent of a traditional gun, and a muzzle flash. Neither of which any railgun tech currently has/would have in space. But, it's clearly a weapon that launches a projectile, so at the VERY least the basic concept of 'throw shit at the enemy really goddamn hard' is there. I can forgive that.
And lastly, it depends on your definition of 'canon'. Personally, if it's appeared in any official media at any point? I consider that canon, retconned or not. I feel like that gives me wiggle room in some areas, but I also wish that Halo lore had a comprehensive timeline of events, and better dates for important events as well.
So in short, it depends heavily. But generally I try to fit my ideas into any gaps canon has.
17: What has been your proudest moment so far since you've started writing?
That's...something of a tricky question. Pride is a weird thing for me, and there's a lot of pretty bad shit to unpack regarding the reasons why.
Honestly, nothing comes to mind straight away, but after pausing to think about it, probably the fact that I almost completed the Infinity Week challenge. I lost out by ONE submission that I just couldn't get done by the deadline, and that's as close as I've ever come to actually finishing something when it was supposed to be finished in my life.
