#'quiv wouldn't have happened if he wasn't forever in search of him

[drippingmoon]

Valentine's Writing Tag

A new one! Thanks a lot for the tag, @talesofsorrowandofruin<3 romance may be way out of my comfort zone, but turns out I had some material

The questions you need to answer to are under the cut hahaha, but tagging: @sleepy-night-child, @thegreatobsesso, @starry-sky-stuff, @asomeoneperson and anyone else who feels like it<3

1. Which of your characters have some romantic chemistry?

Malchior and Abel surprised me from the first time around. But in draft 2 the pining was so intense I had to take my sunglasses out 🤣 Imera and Late also have a great dynamic<3 full of teasing there and theirs is the trope of doomed lovers

2. Which of your characters do you think readers will ship?

Anne/the Mother - this would have some textual support ahem ahem, but rather than romance they have a very disfunctional thing going on. The Mother is in many ways more lonely than Tyrone and doesn't mind acting on impulse, while Anne... also doesn't think much of it

Imera/Late

Yres/Mezusa - any iteration of this, platonic or romantic, would make me extremely happy to see. Just more of these two in general, and tho I haven't included them in the question above, their bond is one of the strongest. They teach each other many, many things

Anne/Malchior - as much as it hurts me to write this... I also know how the human brain works sadly. But no. We need more platonic relationships y'all

Color/Belief - okay I'll probably be a one person fandom for this 🤣 given that they have no scenes together. But I see what I see 🤷‍♀️

* I'll need bucketloads of holy water if I ever see an Anne/Tyrone omg. I really hope it never happens. Even if he grows up and 'quiv takes place over many years, they'll never be romantic even if they're soulmates

3. Which of your characters are slated to be an endgame relationship?

*jumps in a bush*

...none of them 😇 'quiv isn't a lovers' paradise whoops

4. Are there any established relationships in your WIPs? If so, how did they meet?

Yesss! Imera and Late, who are also the only official couple in the story. At the time Late had forgotten he was an angel, and Imera was working his way through a disease-related calamity. He was Imera's pillar of support as the situation degenerated, always helping him to stay strong. He was this strange dude collecting puppies and sheltering them in Imera's chapels, until, one day, he makes the mistake of praying to him.

When the prayer burns Imera, it turns out, he's an angel. They didn't start on the right foot, as Imera felt deeply betrayed by this.

(He'd managed to save no one, after all.)

5. What’s your dream love confession scene between your characters?

Something soft. Something very casual. Usually when I write about love, both characters know it way before it's first said out loud. There isn't a need for it. They know each other too well for that.

(Also if I do write a confession scene, my mind takes me back to Sophie confessing with killer weed solution 🤣 something that casual, something that fun.)

So if it doesn't involve the Mother throwing something after Anne, then they're sitting under the rooftop, watching Tyrone unleash his chaos in the fields. And it slips out from Anne, I love you.

To which the Mother snorts and tells her to keep it to herself, Tyrone's brain is already pudding after all.

And Anne tips her head the Mother's way. Shrugs a shoulder lazily. No, the both of them.

And it's guilt, and it's butterflies in her stomach, because, like her child, she's always craved connection, and goddammit the angel is breathtaking. But at the end of the day... she spends the night in the graveyard to cool off 🤣🤣