#// I also can't recall off the top of my head where Ancient Egypt ended their year -- if it was during the summer or winter; etc.

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F, U, P, I and E for the fandom ask game? I would love to know!

Hello, succulent-mud! Always a treat to see you an ask from you grace my inbox! (Also, I had to do a double-take when I saw the F and U; I'm sure you know why. Nothing against you, promise; just a mistake from the late hour messing with me.)

F - What’s the longest you’ve ever been in a fandom

10 years. One of my very first fandoms: Yu-Gi-Oh. I was hooked on Yami Bakura, especially when the show was nearing its end and they were showing his king of thieves persona during the Ancient Egypt arc.

I can't recall off the top of my head when I first began losing interest in it; I still have the manga books I bought years ago, too. Not all of them, though.

But yeah, the spark just wasn't as vibrant for me one day and I just moved on from it, never looking back.

U - 5 favorite characters from 5 different fandoms

Ken Kaneki|Haise Sasaki, Kishou Arima (of course they take first place like the kings they are!)

Akira Kurusu/Ren Amamiya (Persona 5)

Leon S. Kennedy, Claire Redfield (Resident Evil 2 original and 2019 remake)

Laurie Strode (Halloween - 1978 and Halloween II - 1981)

Kaede|Lucy (Elfen Lied)

P - Invent a random AU for any fandom (we always need more ideas)

Oh gosh, where do I even begin with this one? I have so many and not enough time in this life to share them all!

Hmm.

Well. Spoilers, kind of, but I technically have three (yes, you read that right, three) separate ideas in the works for a Persona 5/Tokyo Ghoul AU, where Haise|Kaneki experience an awakening and join up with the Phantom Thieves of Hearts.

I - Has tumblr caused you to stop liking any fandoms, if so, which and why

Well, Tumblr hasn't gone so far as to outright kill any fandoms I'm still a part of nowadays. Not yet, and I hope it never gets to that point. Now, having said that, has my interest in some fandoms dwindled a bit because of it? Absolutely.

It's 40% because I'm steadily losing interest in them (looking at you, Hazbin Hotel), but another, bigger reason is because the fans of a lot of fandoms can be both toxic and cruel. Not all of them are like this and there are fans I talk to who are quite pleasant, engaging and enthusiastic, thankfully, but you know what they say about a few bad apples spoiling a good bunch.

E - Have you added anything cracky/hilarious to your fandom, if so, what

Not officially? I mean, I've had the odd crack/funny thought hit me for the fandoms I still (for now) hold dear to my heart, sure, but I haven't gone on and actually done anything with these thoughts.

[deitiesofduat]

Might be a dumb question or one you don’t have an answer for, but do you have birthdays for the main cast/made up birthdays (besides the quad). My friend and I wanted to know for Zodiac sign purposes lol. If not, which character did you not expect to have such a central role in the series but they ended up weaseling their way in?

Not dumb at all, I can answer them both -- or I'll try, anyway!

“[...] do you have birthdays for the main cast/made up birthdays (besides the quad). My friend and I wanted to know for Zodiac sign purposes lol"

I admit that I had once thought about this, but only briefly. I already have trouble choosing birthdays for my personal OCs (with or without zodiacs in mind), I have no idea what I would choose for the DEITIES Cast. 

I also realized that I kinda misread your first question and missed the “besides the quad” part haha -- so the rest of this may be moot, but I’ll leave it in anyway rather than remove it before moving on to the next one [...]

The only tidbit I had considered is that technically, the Royal Children of Nut and Geb may have had birthdays at the end of the year -- but only if we take the myth about their birth literally, which is being born one after each other on the last five days of the year. The Kane Chronicles series actually did this already, and my version of the royal children do not include Horus as a brother. But if we entertained this purely as a what-if...

Osiris -- December 27 (First born, 5th to last day)

Horus would be December 28 if he was a sibling. In lieu of that, I imagine this could be the day where Nut experienced more complications + difficult labor with delivering Set -- long enough to span past another day...

Set -- December 29 (Second born)

Isis -- December 30 (Third born)

Nephthys -- December 31 (Fouth born, last day of the year)

I really wouldn't take this as canon for DEITIES though -- it's not original, and it's probably not correct or widely accepted, but it's what makes technical sense when considering that one myth.

((If I'm not mistaken, there are some birthdays established for some of the gods in the kemetic community, but I can't recall if it's actually an exact date or more like a seasonal thing -- anyone can feel free to chime in about this if they'd like!))

For what it's worth, this would also make them all the exact same Zodiac sign, Capricorn. I don't know enough about the Zodiac to say if this sign fits any of them, let alone all 4-5 of them -- so that's kinda where it falls apart, and why I don't give their birth dates much thought. Anyone's welcome to try matching zodiacs to the cast for fun though, but I won't plan to give anyone birth dates for now.

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“[...] which character did you not expect to have such a central role in the series but they ended up weaseling their way in?"

Hmmmmmmm... I think I would have to say Sobek, for this one. For anyone who may not recall, Sobek was not part of the original cast when I started this project blog years ago, he was part of the secondary cast instead.

But as I was drafting the main story for DEITIES, I got stumped on a plot point midway where introducing Sobek actually fixed the problem, and gave me more room to work with its progression. So practically speaking, he earned his way into the cast by serving a functional role to the story.

It also helped that I genuinely liked developing Sobek's character; he was very fun to research, and I already had a soft spot for crocodilians (growing up with The Crocodile Hunter can do that to a person). It's why his character and design is very -- aha -- indulgent to my own tastes, and apparently my friends' as well 💦 All the more reason to bring Sobek into the main cast without much hesitation.