#Anuli even uses the word 'sparkle' to define faer feelings sometimes

[anulithots]

Happy Sunday!! A few questions about The Land of The Fallen Fairies to start off your week!! 💚

What's your favorite part about writing Anuli's story? What's your least favorite part (if there is one)?

How does Kamari's life change after all that occurs with Anuli? It seems fae is affected most directly by faer choices. It's very interesting!

Lastly... please tell me more about Ankh. So mysterious. So intriguing. I must know everything. 👀

HAPPY SUNDAY!! Thank you for the questions. (I love them)

Question 1) Favorite and least favorite part about writing this one:

My favorite part about writing Anuli is faer ridiculous prose. Fae will talk to faerself, go off on tangents, spent an obscene amount of time describing the stories of dust and spiders and fae will have morbid descriptions of feelings. (Bad feelings get metaphorical body horror, whereas good feelings get nature surrealism.)

I basically get to take a feeling or a random thought and explore it as Anuli, and I can pretty much do this whenever I want.

(I also like Anuli and Kamari scenes because they are so so silly... before they get tragic... which is also fun!)

My least favorite part about writing Anuli is something I hope to stop doing, because it isn't really part of writing Anuli inherently, but more so because of the storytelling method I was following before.

Basically: I hate writing long scenes/like a normal novel.

I prefer episodic snippets.

For Kamari, this isn't an issue, faer prose is direct and concise, so I can get through scenes within a day.

I spend months writing one Anuli scene because of how much fae thinks/how different faer prose style is.

The workaround I'm trying to employ is writing small snippets. So any one of Anuli's tangents counts as one 'scene' (similar to how I write Kamari's snippets, except for Anuli it would be a lot of these snippets in one larger 'scene')

(I'm not going to rewrite my long scene to be snippets unless it works out that way tho... this could be one of those 'multi-part episodes'. )

The funny thing is that I was doing this (a bunch of Kamari and Anuli fluff) before I got to a 'pivotal scene' (everything changed when the fire nation attacked)... and I wrote a long scene. Granted, I was writing multiple sections of it at once (Anuli's prose is soo weird, I'm basically doing multiple drafts on different pages at once and I'll have to puzzle piece them together later)

TL;DR - the plan for Anuli is to get faer storyline to a place where I can write one 'scene' in a longer arc. (Again, similar to Kamari, but Anuli takes a LOT longer to have any plot development because of Anuli's thinking.)

2) How did Anuli's decisions affect Kamari?

Anuli pretty much ruined Kamari's life.

Because of this one decision (hence my long scene because this one moment literally changes everything) Kamari's entire life went downhill, and Anuli never stopped regretting it.

(And Anuli didn't even know what fae did was wrong until Kamari got upset... and ANULI HAS HIGH EMPATHY SO IT FEELS LIKE FAE IS DYING WHEN KAMARI IS UPSET WHOOPDEDOO <3)

Kamari's life as the High Protector? Gone. All for nothing.

Kamari's life with Ankh? Gone. Now Kamari would have to kill Ankh. Wonderous!

And the thing that does it for Anuli is that (once Anuli realizes that it's faer fault) Kamari did everything for Anuli, and fae ruined everything.

Yet Kamari still cared afterwards.

Fae shouldn't. It would've turned out better for faer if fae didn't.

And Anuli will never be able to fix it. No matter how hard fae tries.

3) the mysterious Ankh

(When I wrote that 'Ankh's smile did not match faer face', I did not think that it would actually be hard to draw. I was a fool.)

And I think part of the reason that Ankh is so ~mysterious~ is because

I

don't

have

much

for

faer

so I hide that <3

But anywhosies! Here's what I have for faer so far, I'm still figuring faer out though, so some things are subject to change!

(Also I'm almost to the point where both Kamari and Ankh get to Ankh's tree and that should have some more information about faer.)

Ankh doesn't show much emotion. Fae doesn't feel anything that strongly for it to show upon faer face. Rather, fae is practical and observant, and fae cares so so much.

Ankh shows that fae cares with advice and suggestions. Fae also trained to be a healer.... and a comforter apparently... so both! Fae can do both!

(Healers and comforters are two different roles. Healers will heal wounds and more short-term ailments. Comforters help with long term issues and general health. Ankh wanted to be a healer, but the others pushed faer to be a comforter, because it didn't match faer personality. It made faer look cold and heartless compared to other comforters.)

Ankh doesn't realize that fae comes across as cold and heartless to others, nor does fae particularly understand why others get so hung up about their emotions. ("Why would you feel sad about that? It's only [logical explanation])

A lot of younglings love Ankh though. Particularly the ones that are more fallen fairy-esque than the rest. Ankh does like being around them, and faer tree. Fae doesn't understand how someone would fret over such small, small issues: like the way Ankh phrases things Everything is fine. Why ruin that?

Ankh comes from the Receiver territory. And in the Receiver territory, they value independence and a lack of influence from outside forces.

And Ankh doesn't seem like the best influence to some of the guardians. (Why is fae so harsh!? Why would we let faer be around our younglings!?

Meanwhile the younglings: you are our favorite fairy ever.

Ankh: None of you make any sense.

The younglings: *laughter*)

And this is the RECIEVER TERRITORY. It's so so rare for them to out a fallen fairy because they value independence so much.

But if someone makes them uncomfortable....

Yea so they collectively gave Ankh up to the ambassadors.

Ankh, being practical, decided to make them regret that. Fae would chew faer claws to sharp points if it meant fae would survive. Fae would kidnap/convince the High Protector to stand down because this entire system is so ridiculously dumb. Fae would....

Well, fae can't exactly distance faerself from the Receiver Territory. Faer tree is there. And Ankh needs to regulate the ~weird feelings~ when fae is away from faer tree. Fae hates that.

... so perhaps not a revenge plot. Maybe a 'forget you all I'm doing what is right and fixing your mess... your welcome' plot.

(I'm still working on Ankh, but I think faer thing is supposed to be about society, that you can't really be satisfied without society accepting you. That Ankh has to fix it first... but by the stars that is difficult.)

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I JUST REALIZED THAT IF KAMARI'S RESPONSE TO SOCIETY IS THAT FAE NEEDS TO COMFOM, AND ANKH'S RESPONSE IS TO FIX IT...

then they juxtapose each other!! YAY!!

(And Anuli doesn't really care about anyone other than Kamari, so faer response to that is to ruminate and regret and punish faerself)