#Baby ̦ you don't have to use ' OR '1'='1' -- to inject your code into me

[221berkeleysquare]

sorry I just gotta let y'all see the previous tags

Do you have improper cooling?

Are your fans not spinning fast enough?

Was your heatsink not installed right?

Did you forget thermal paste?

Cuz baby, you are HOT!

[shsl-box-worshipper]

fic ask, TALW

Question 1 and 4

1: What inspired you to write the fic this way? Well, uhhhh...I honestly don't know how to answer that. But I can give my best answer. TALW is essentially my natural writing style with some experimentation added for stylistic flair. I feel like my writing style compliments a superhero story quite well since I like writing with a lot of onomatopoeia and single punctuation to emphasize surprise or confusion. Plus, when I write from third person-limited, I essentially turn it into 'First person but you feel like you're basically examining the character's thoughts instead of experiencing them first hand', which actually fits quite well, if you know anything about how comic books are usually structured. However, for conscious changes, I guess there's probably the most obvious one: THE CENSORSHIP :D

This is actually a fun stylistic choice I came up with much earlier in TALW's development. Since I tend to curse a lot in my writing, I wanted to significantly decrease the cursing in TALW to make it a bit more palatable and force me to be creative. So, I completely cut out cursing from the actual prose and narration of the fic. However, I couldn't exactly cut out cursing from dialogue because I feel like cursing and teenagers go hand in hand and it would hard to depict the scum in TALW's world without at least a few f-bombs. So, I decided to take inspiration from how old Comic Code comics handled swearing...and decided to censor it with *! Probably my favorite stylistic choice in this AU/fic because I think it adds a lot of charm to the fic and is also the source of some AMAZING memes. Second was legally distinct product placement, which hasn't been showcased much yet, but I still want to talk about because I put equally as much work into this one as I did with the censorship. To further invoke that this is a comic book, I decided to make legally distinct versions of various brands, IP, and characters to, again, try and inject some more charm into TALW's world. Some of it is pretty obvious(Like Yahoo! being Yippee!), some of it is references to other pieces of media that I like (For example, Disney in TALW is essentially a non-horror 'No Weird Shit Happened' version of Broadside Animation from the analog mascot horror game Shipwrecked 64) and others are incredibly deep cuts that require either out-of-the-box levels of thinking or some knowledge about the property/brand's history (the game Half Life is Exponential Decay, which is essentially a term used to describe the type of equation that the actual process of radioactive half-life uses). The only exception to this rule are superheroes, who remain completely unaltered and are exactly like how they are in our world, purely to emphasize the fact that this is a superhero AU. Again, all of these are stylistic choices made to bring some charm and distinctiveness to TALW's world, even before the superheroes and all of the CL lore changes i've made get introduced. 4: What’s your favorite line of dialogue? ...Jesus christ, you're making me choose? I have so many, I can't even list them all. I'll give a short list of some of my favorites and some reasons why. “…Doctor, is that really my son?” (From Ulrich's chapter in Origins. I love it so much because it's essentially the moment Walter Stern snaps and it's basically an 'Oh Shit' moment for the reader since they know about Walter's abusive tendencies. It's also essentially the first sign of Walter's growing madness that is only gonna get amplified as I continue on with TALW...) “Isn’t that the miracle kid?” “Yeah. I heard it from EMT Jones back in the ER. Apparently, he was one of the few survivors of that horrible tragedy at CorTech Industries.” “What the hell was a kid like him doing at CorTech?” “The man they had to drag out was apparently the director of a bigwig project and this kid’s dad.” “Jesus christ, he attacked his own son?!”

(Poor baby Ulrich crying) “Goddammit, Eveline! The kid heard you!” (I'm sorry for putting an entire sequence but this is easily one of my favorite exchanges in all of Ulrich's chapter in Origins. It's essentially a bunch of random doctors and nurses gossiping and then immediately realizing that the patient they're talking about can hear them and is crying and immediately feeling bad about it. Also, fun fact: This was written while I was taking a Intro to Health Occ. class, so I wrote this with the devious intent that these nurses were violating essentially the french version of HIPAA.)

“BLACK IS MY COLOR! BLACK, LIKE YOUR EYE WILL BE IF YOU DON’T F*** OFF!” (From Birth of the Team Issue 1. No comment on why this is one of my favorites, I literally think Mirabelle Kirkland probably accidentally said this during a take of Cold Sweat XD)

“Do you know Jeremie Belpois?”

“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!”(Creepy Test Tube Baby Aelita is hilarious and terrifying)

That whole exchange in Birth Of The Team Issue 3, where Ulrich and Odd are essentially engaging in a bar brawl while hurling insults at each other, complete with Jeremie snapping. I...don't need to say why I love this one, it's both an excellent mix of comedy, tension, and hidden horror.

And that's just only a small collection of my favorite dialogues. Like, one of my main writing things is that I write dialogue that I want to read. Either to make me laugh, cry, get important information, and everything in between.

Thanks for asking! (I basically provided essays for both questions XD)