#(There's a good portion of time I'm ignoring drafts just for HC research)

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When I started writing this blog a little over a year ago, I really just wanted to write. Write a lot of IC interactions and just see where Sonia and other muses took various threads and prompts. And while that was a challenge at first (being new with little history in the indie community, finding partners was hard!), I ended up noticing that in contrast to a lot of the blogs I was following and starting to interact with, there was a glaring difference between mine and theirs.

Headcanons. Everybody had headcanons! From personal histories to why a muse only ate a certain food, they were everywhere! And I was overwhelmed. Being new to writing Sonia and the indie RP community here, I hadn't given much thought to the 'why' of her background, but instead slowly building off the little information that the video game and anime canon gives about her (particularly in regards to Novoselic). From headcanons on Mundays to headcanon memes, I felt very self-conscious about it all. I didn't know every minute detail about my muse! Would others still want to write with me?

What helped, eventually, were threads where Sonia's background, her home, and her family weren't just obscure people and places she spoke about. In most of my canon school life threads, Sonia attends Hope's Peak Academy in Japan's fictional Towa City, where she's one of the few foreigners who proudly speaks of strange (to the other Danganronpa muses and the muns as well) traditions, primarily focused the country's wildlife. But actually placing threads in Novoselic (modern/contemporary threads, mostly) where I'd have to introduce some NPCs that play a significant role in her life, the differences in her activities and attitude at home in comparison with when she travels, and just how 'abnormal' it all is compared to her friends...that was what helped me write headcanons.

That said, I don't really publish a lot of them? At least not as headcanons. I usually put details here and there in threads when I think it makes sense, whether for Sonia to reveal it herself or it's information I think the other mun should know. For topics that come up a lot, particularly in the sense of 'Where the heck is Novoselic located in Europe anyway/why are their 'hidden' exports so popular/why do they all like anime and Japanese culture?,' I found that writing OOC headcanons for those and posting them helped. But otherwise, I just keep a running list of facts and faces in a google document and pull from things/edit things as needed. And as I get other crossovers and verses, particularly historical AUs and talentswap!AUs, I keep a separate list of HCs.

I guess there's a small part of me that assumes most followers don't mind/enjoy reading IC content, but the moment there's too much OOC (whether that's memes or HCs or something else) content, it's less likely to be read? HC ask memes help with that, though there's plenty of times I get asked about an HC that I don't have a firm answer for (yet!).