#⸻ ⨯ 𝐍𝐈𝐇𝐈𝐋 𝐑𝐀𝐌𝐁𝐋𝐄𝐒 // 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫'𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐞.

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Send me a Ship and a Number and I will Write a Kiss Game

S.T.A.R.S. Chrisker

22.

(All the kisses sounded sooo good 😩)

(P.S.: What other RE ships do you like? 😉)

I am way too chaotic please excuse - meant to reply to this separately, then decided to answer your questions in the post tags, then wondered if that is feasable so: REPLY TIME! :'D

First off, thanks again for sending the prompt in, it was a lot of fun to write. For thoroughness sake I am linking the response here as well.

As for what other ships I like (as mentioned in the post tags), I think I can find something interesting in pretty much all the dynamics the franchise offers, there is so much to explore and dig deeper into than the game lore lets us in on.

That being said, aside from the popular (and amazing) chrisker ship I am also a huge fan of rarepairs such as Wesker and Leon, or Chris and Forest. I also love Sherry and Jake (I HC them to be some flavour of demiromantic & asexual leaning, maybe over time demisexual, but definitely strongly attached to each other. I like to think Sherry brings out a soft side of Jake without changing him, while Jake learns to trust people again thanks to her (and probably piggybacks her constantly let's be real))

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.ೃ࿐ 𝐏𝐈𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐃 𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐓. .ೃ࿐ 𝐏𝐒𝐀. .ೃ࿐ 𝐀𝐒𝐊 𝐌𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐒. .ೃ࿐ 𝐍𝐈𝐇𝐈𝐋 𝐑𝐀𝐌𝐁𝐋𝐄𝐒 // 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫'𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐞. .ೃ࿐ 𝐑𝐄𝐏𝐋𝐈𝐄𝐃 ⇨ 𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫. .ೃ࿐ 𝐑𝐄𝐏𝐋𝐈𝐄𝐃 ⇨ 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫. .ೃ࿐ 𝐀𝐒𝐊 𝐌𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐒 ⇨ 𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝. .ೃ࿐ 𝐅𝐀𝐍𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐒𝐍𝐈𝐏𝐏𝐄𝐓. .ೃ࿐ 𝐒𝐏𝐎𝐈𝐋𝐄𝐑 𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆 ! .ೃ࿐ 𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐔𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍. .ೃ࿐ 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐊: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫, 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐧 .ೃ࿐ 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐊: 𝐌𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 .ೃ࿐ 𝐀𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐂. .ೃ࿐ 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐋𝐃𝐁𝐔𝐈𝐋𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐆. .ೃ࿐ 𝐒𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐊.

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Finally decided on a rl faceclaim for Chris (Jake Gyllenhaal) and now that I am seeing the gifsets from Southpaw I am... gnawing the table because...

Chris going to underground fight clubs post RE6? Just acting unwise and not knowing where to put all his frustration and anger and letting himself get beat up more than he usually would if he put in 100% bc he thinks he deserves it? OOF.

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Since I am already here posting - just a quick heads up that I had to divert from my writing routine which allowed me to post a new chapter approximately once a month / every six weeks due to IRL stuff happening.

Nothing bad, just me moving to a new place and therefore being very occupied with organizing and packing, while also ofc working.

So updates will be slower until at least august.

That being said, a sweet comment I got on AO3 recently spurred my creativity on again so I did continue writing on The Unquiet Grave after a month hiatus, meaning though progress will be significantly slower, I am back at it again :>

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@nshtn asked: 1. What's the weirdest, most obscure RE piece of info that encouraged one of your hcs for a character?

2. Have you ever researched something related to virology, epidemiology or genetics when writing something for RE?

3. What is the most emotion your Wesker has ever showed in his eyes that wasn't forced and wasn't negatively themed?

4. Does your Wesker ever get odd emotional or cognitive effects from Progenitor infection, or has it literally spared his brain entirely? are there any phenotypical mutations or changes associated with your version of his Progenitor infection, or any differences you decided to make to it, and what made you decide to?

(Also adding this question from the fandom ask game, as it doesn't affect any character:) 19. What's your favourite thing about the Resident Evil fandom (the people in it, not the media you're all enjoying together)?

Not neccessarily obscure or weird maybe (or maybe it is), but since I am a hyperfixating gremlin, I once noticed that Wesker was wearing the same old wrist watch (a S.T.A.R.S. branded custom watch) in RE5 that he also wore in RE1. Before someone comes at me for giving this more credit than it should have due to the fact Capcom was selling actual IRL watches of those models at the time - I know. But I still indulged the idea that Wesker kept things from before the Mansion Incident (not just the watch but also his gun), because it makes for interesting character analysis. I have a post on that too which I need to move over to this blog, so I won't go into much more here, but this is the first thing that came to mind.

Admittedly, no. I admire people who are able to dig into info for a character on this level, but I already have trouble keeping all my ingame lore notes in alignment so usually I just go with the general consensus and understanding of science the games give us, and roll with it. If I ever have the time and headspace, I would love to research some more of the basics - but at the same time, I don't think it's truly neccessary rather than something that can be done if the interests are there. Meaning, I would never say someone needs to have a firm grasp of IRL research topics before they can write for this fandom / characters with scientific background.

At this point of my fic, we are slowly getting to the timeline where we will experience Wesker displaying emotions more clearly (at least for Chris to notice, as they still are hard to recognize), so as of now, there is no real positive / soft / not volatile themed situation I can think of. Where we are now, there is a clearly budding curiosity taking over as in the next chapter, Chris will accidentally see Wesker's eyes for the first time directly, which does something to Wesker he can't pinpoint himself.

Excellent question! I'd say I mostly tried to stick to what canon lore has given us in terms of how the Progenitor Virus affects Wesker. Since we don't see a whole lot from him in the games during this time though, I took the liberty of expanding on it. What we know is that eventually at some point, Wesker needed to stabilize his infection because contrary to what was expected, his body was not able to completely adapt to it. Which has to mean whatever the infection started to do to Wesker was not helping him further his plans, but effectively hindering him, causing him to search for a way to stabilize it without considerung a cure. We also see what happens when his serum injection is due, and what happens when he is overdosed on it (he effectively loses all self control, Chris even comments that Wesker has become senile). So what I decided for my portrayal was that the Progenitor Virus, similar to the T-Virus, started to affect Wesker's brain, causing his mind to destabilize. The main side effects would have been exactly what you asked - emotional effects - which mainly would cause him to become more erratic, irrational, with difficulties to keep his temper in control as he usually does. It would have slowly started creeping in to the point where, around the time of the Las Plagas incident, he would have noticed it affecting him to a degree that endangered his work and his plans. What we see in the final fight in RE5, I interpreted as a direct result of the unchecked Progenitor Virus melding with Uroboros - and we saw how that ended. After the Reborn Protocol of my fic was activated, the situation is changed completely - but I'm going to keep that bit to myself to avoid spoilers for now ;)

19. What's your favourite thing about the Resident Evil fandom (the people in it, not the media you're all enjoying together)?

I think the one thing that always springs out to me is how crazy talented the people in this fandom are. Not just in terms of art, but we have all walks of life where some focus on creating amazing edits, gifsets, art or writing, some saintly people go to the deep mines of Capcom's original (japanese) texts and translate them for us (kudos to Project Umbrella), cosplayers, game streamers, and of course the people over at Residence of Evil who managed to find the original cast of the first RE game, letting them know how loved they are and even creating new media with them. It's a huge fandom where everyone can find their respective niche and tribe, and I think that's amazing.

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Just a heads up that I'll be active on this blog for a while tonight as I plan to bring my old headcanons over and post them so the tagging system will attach them to the respective character sheets!

I'm finally feeling inspired again and want to make use of that.

Needless to say, if you see a headcanon and want me to elaborate on it, feel free to let me know.

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Filling up the queue again now, as I finally have time to do that. Writing is also happening regularly again (slowly but surely getting back into the headspace), so I hope to be able to post the new chapter soon!

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Hi!

I absolutely adore your writing style it's so alive somehow. It would be cool if you could make 9. In public for chrisker for the ask! It seems kind of unlike them so may be fun to do :3

Thank you for your work 😘

thank you so much for your sweet words and compliments, it really means a lot to hear that! I'm trying very hard to create texts that you can "see", if that makes sense :'D

This one was a challenge, but I enjoyed it a lot - thanks for sending this in! I hope it's okay that it's not "public public", anything else I tried to think of felt a bit out of character so I settled with something a bit more antagonistic.

As always, link to the post for thoroughness sake :>

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Was inspired to write a oneshot about Wesker. Thought I'd make it a quick thing to crank out some ideas and brush on headcanons I have with it.

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me on page 5 of my doc: OH FFS

...guess the muse is awake and in need to be heard....

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half wanna post a snippet from the next chapter because I am taking long (again) to update, and wanting to sit it out and post when it's finished D;

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As I am conituing to write this next chapter, I am finding my voice for Chris at last (I have never written for him / from his perspective before so the chapters so far have felt a bit clunky compared to writing Wes).

One thing I noticed just now is his (very understandable) aversion to certain smells; namely spoiled food / meat.

It's such a small thing but when he comes back home after a mission and the first thing he does is smell the stale air and be relieved nothing smells like rotting meat, it's ... telling.

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I am still busy with work and will only get to writing this evening but I am already loving these and having ideas!!

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This next chapter is turning out lengthier than the ones before, which means it will also take me a while to get to updating the fic on AO3 again x_x

Lots of ground to cover but I am excited! Depending on how it turns out I might post a drabble of the upcoming chapter just to sweeten the wait.

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Looking through the RE2R & R3make Artworks made me once again realize what a gorgeous city with rich history and beautiful nature surrounding it Raccoon City must have been pre-outbreak.

I think we will be spending some time in that era during certain throwback chapters, exploring RC as it was before, letting the S.T.A.R.S. members visit cafés, restaurants, the cinema and maybe even visit each other.

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istf at the end of this chapter I will be an expert on everything Louisiana just bc this asshole decided he had to stay and observe for almost two months...

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As I am outlining the upcoming chapters I am rubbing my tiny raccoon hands in anticipation to bring certain characters into the light..... >:3c