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[grasslandgirl]

what was the inspiration for noble pining? like, was there a moment on the show that made you go oh!!! for this idea?

aaauuug moss ilu <333 thank u thank u for the ask i will talk about noble pining forever <3 basically if i'm remembering correctly (bc i started working on noble pining over three years ago, back in 2020) I just hit a phase of being really into royal/guard dynamics (who are we kidding- i still am <3) and was talking to my dear darling casey @aberfaeth about it and was like. "okay okay. princess adaine. and then fabian is her loyal knight- or wait wait what if its GORGUG who's her loyal knight. ykw fuck it. why not both" etc jknfsbsf there wasn't a specific canon moment that really inspired it as a concept i don't think ??

that said, i have taken inspiration as i've worked on noble pining from the show- using imagery from Adaine's nightmare forest journey with Biz, and stealing Antiope and Yelle from t7 to additionally flesh out the world, and pulling from Adaine and Jawbone's fh2 finale beat as something to work towards etc !! it's also been ages (also since 2020 lmao) since i've watched either season of fantasy high, so the more i work on noble pining, the less it draws direct inspiration from the show... for better or for worse, whoops!!

more and more it's turned into more of a personal challenge to complete a long cohesive narrative- the longest thing i've ever written to date (over 100k atm) - and one of the projects i've spent the longest time working on (again! over three years! fucfking crazy!) so it's honestly just really fulfilling to work on, even if it's turning into one of those au fics that is really only loosely connected to canon skjffnbsjfb