#wywwm

ldskfhasldkhj sorry it took me a while to reply to this! I melted into a puddle and ran down the drain into the sea, and I still feel like I don't have words for an adequate response 🥺🧡 Several people—especially @lizardberries—have contributed to the big AU that WYWWM is a part of, so I really can't take full credit, but aahh thank you so much!!! T^T

Open Skies is my ultimate comfort sandbox to play in, so it's really lovely to know you enjoy it, too! I'll be honest, I've been feeling very discouraged by the toxicity of fandom in general these days, and outside of the W*B server, I haven't been sharing much of what I make lately. So your kind words were much-needed, and easily the highlight of my week! 🥹

Also eorighjtilsgeihtgr I would be honored by a stick figure doodle tbh! Like. I literally still have a stick figure doodle based on one of my images—it's saved on my desktop and I know right where it is, haha. But also NO pressure! Your ask alone really made my day! ; ‿ ;

UPDATED - CHAPTER 5

Title: Will You Waltz with Me?

Rating: Mature, will go up to Explicit eventually

Chapters: 5/?

Tags: romance, slow burn, mutual pining, depression, social anxiety, performance anxiety, depressed Viktor, Viktor’s past, anxious Yuuri, emotional baggages, Viktor’s POV, unreliable narrator, contradicting characters, homophobia, abusive parenting

I mean. Same. ;___; <333

First, congrats on the new tattoo! :D But also boooo for twelve hours of work. T_T

Ahhh thank you so much! hf;dahf;dfhd I know I say this a lot, but I seriously thought like, three people might read WYWWM. Every time someone says they enjoy it I almost look over my shoulder like, "Are—are you talking to me...?" XD;

So glad you enjoy the images to go along with it! they were just my excuse to not be done with the story yet after I finished writing, haha.

No, that totally makes sense about Cody and Obi-Wan seeming far away! I very deliberately made Waxer and Boil (and their squad mates) regular old, run of the mill troopers in the beginning of the war because all the little, everyday things are a lot more interesting for me than Big Important Events™ :)

aaljshgfhg so glad you like all the feels, and that you could identify with how Waxer is a bit too energetic for his own good! (Boil says, "Why did I get stuck with the hyperactive one? [affectionate]" XD)

Hi! <3

11: What do you like best about this fic? -- The gorgeous smut that is mostly @sophronist's doing 🥰 Haha but if we're talking about parts I wrote, then the confession scene :' )

12: What do you like least about this fic? -- I think the only thing that really bugs me isn't even related to the fic itself. I kind of wish I'd set it up better in Will You Walk With Me?, but that fic had very particular themes that I wanted to tackle and I didn't want the 'distraction' of overt romantic elements (not to mention the fact that I didn't even ship Waxer and Boil until I was already writing it XD). There's also a big time gap in the last chapter of WYWWM: scene two, when they're on Kamino and Boil tells Waxer about their decanting dates, takes place six months before scene three, when they get their ID cards and stuff. And the last scene is like two months after that, so there's lots of wiggle room for Waxer to start easing down from the stress levels of the war and start seeing certain things in a new light. There was already so much to cover with that chapter, though, and I didn't necessarily anticipate writing more about them after that. 🥺 Haha, sorry for the long ramble XD;

Aw, thank you so much! They are definitely fine, and canon is a horrible fever dream.

Hm, I'm not sure they have any specific plans in mind? For so long they didn't even think they'd survive the war, and they just held onto this little hope of maybe going to see Numa again someday. So truly planning for the future is, I think, not something most clones would have a good handle on right after the war, you know? Their lives have always been day-to-day survival, so I feel like it would be strange, at first, to make concrete plans for next month, or next year.

That being said, I started writing all these little post-war stories because I was so sad about finishing WYWWM and just wanted to hang out with my faves some more, haha. :) So I have a lot of ideas for specific fics, and some overall themes, but I don't think Waxer and Boil (or Numa) have really thought too far ahead yet.

All of the post-war bits to the series (excluding the very old image with all the pets [ugh, I should really redo all their faces at some point, since I draw them less like they look in the show and more like they are in my head now] and the adorable associated fic that @crystalshard wrote) take place within the first 5-6 months after WB move to Ryloth, so it's still early days for them. <3

Hhhhhhhhhh I've been trying to reply to this for hours, but every time I do my brain just shuts off and I have to like, stare blankly at my screen for a while. T_____T

aj;js;gjgsfgljasflgskjg I,,, thank you!!! T_T (and thank you for all the comments on AO3; they absolutely made my morning! <333) I honestly don't know if I've ever enjoyed anything as much as I enjoyed writing that fic, so it means a lot to me when others like it, too!

And I hope there was a big pile of mattresses and a table of desserts waiting for you at the end of that fall!