#3 for fanfic end of the year asks
for fic end of year asks!
3- favorite line/scene I wrote hmmm. ooooo so manyyyy. typically they're the lines I use in the chapter summary because I find them the most striking. cuz sometimes you write a line and you're like,"wow, this line FUCKS." then you reread it a few months later, and you still think it fucks. from steel your heart, steal my heart:
Her longing to right how she's been wronged has been confined to her dreams and fond musings to her wizard, except now her dreams mock her, push forward a truth she's not ready to accept: Minthara has done nothing of value to prove she's worthy of one day donning the matron crown, to feel the unnerving yet beautiful weight of hizagkuur metal upon her head. Her idleness could not warrant the luxury of a meticulously shaped headdress of spindly arachnid legs, one that would delicately curl along her temples like a laurel.
I love it visually, and love Minthy musings & her having moments where she questions her self worth because despite her confidence I think she still occasionally doubts herself (cuz everyone does!!), and also i put way too much head canon thought behind this that I don't really get to share!!
I was (still am) really fond of the idea of a drow matriarch wearing crowns with spider imagery. And I was thinking that that maybe each house has its own special crown that visually draws from cultures. Because Gale's god form is very Roman/Greek inspired, love the idea that Minthara's perspective of being a matron with Gale alongside her would draw on that so her crown might be a Roman laureate, but with spider legs hehe.
(Idk if drow culture has something like that to indicate matriarch already - need to read up on drow stuff more but honestly, sometimes I don't know where to start.)