#I think dungeon meshi as a whole is one of the best works ever written

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the winged lion is genuinely IMO one of, if not The most interesting creatures in all of fiction. Like literally everything about it is so fascinating and I think Ryoko Kui deserves serious kudos for it.

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Fanfic Writer Interview

How many works do you have on AO3?

I have 118!

Your top 5 stories by kudos/likes:

Last Call for Boarding - Jujutsu Kaisen, Geto/Gojo

Forever is a Week in November - Kagurabachi, Chihiro/Hakuri

Someone Worth Saving - Kagurabachi - Chihiro/Hakuri

Sick - Jujutsu Kaisen - Geto/Gojo

Cardinal Directions - Gojo/Geto

The black hair/white hair yaoi is really winning out here huh?

Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

Yes! I love getting comments and I love to talk about my fics! And I think it's nice to acknowledge the kindness of a person leaving a comment so I like to reply!

What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

You know what, this is kinda hard to pick because I write some MISERABLE stuff. Just check my 'Sad Ending' tagged works.

Maybe my latest fic, 'Reunion'. Most of my sad fics are sad because they end with one or both of the pairing dying, but in this one they're dead from the start and the fic's about their autopsy.

What’s the fic you’ve written with the happiest ending?

I have a lot of these too! I like writing established relationship fics, especially post-canon ones for Dorohedoro. I'll pick 'According to Plan', because Dokuga and Tetsujo not only get their happy ending, but this is the one where they have the easiest access to antidote for Dokuga's poison (for kissing).

Do you write crossovers?

No but I think a Dorohedoro x Dungeon Meshi crossover would be fun!

Have you ever received hate on a fic?

Never. Please don't leave me hate, I'll cry.

Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

Constantly. Of my 118 fics, 92 are explicit. I write M/M smut.

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not that I know of.

Have you ever had a fic translated?

Nope.

Have you ever co-written a fic before?

I have four!

'A Proposal' was a round-robin game with some other writers.

'GAMBIT' was written with Froggo.

'Come a Little Closer to the Other Side' was written with The4E.

'Even caged birds sing' was written with Froggo.

What’s your all-time favorite ship?

Tetsujo/Dokuga from Dorohedoro. I call them my forever OTP. I'm obsessed with them and I love them with my whole entire heart. Close second is Bandana/Uruha from Kagurabachi.

What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

My Dorohedoro longfic. I have an outline for it but haven't written it. I'd love to one day! But longfics are hard.

What are your writing strengths?

Dialogue and characterisation probably.

What are your writing weaknesses?

Prose. I really want to be one of those writers who can put together beautiful sentences that have people thinking, 'I wish I wrote that'.

What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

I can't do it as I don't speak any!

What’s a fandom/ship you haven’t written for yet but want to?

Dungeon Meshi! I'd love to write Kabru/Laios or Kabru/Mithrun.

What’s your favorite fic you’ve written?

'Heaven', my Kagurabachi longfic, because I put the most effort into it. 'Us' is probably objectively the best, and I have a soft spot for 'Peaches'.

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Ok I was tagged for this and it took a few days but i'm finally doing it!

How many works do you have on AO3? 46

What's your total AO3 word count? 508,068

What fandoms do you write for? Right now? Digimon, Persona, Fire Emblem, and Dungeon Meshi (technically only one fic for that but who's counting)

Top five fics by kudos:

Falling Through Life (Life is Strange)

At The End of The Day (Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury)

You Never Forget Your First Time (Life is Strange)

A Whole New World (Life is Strange)

A smut fic with a name I won't mention because even the name itself is NSFW lmao (Dungeon Meshi)

(For the record I find it very funny that three of these are for a fandom that, while I love the game, I haven't really kept up with the fandom in forever and the top one is an abandoned fic WOOPS. Pro-tip: writing about the hot new game about queer girls will really give you those kudos if you want them)

Do you respond to comments? I do my best to! If someone either doesn't have anything nice to say or doesn't, really, have anything substantial to say or they're just kind of Yapping then I avoid it, but otherwise I take the time to go through comments and thank people profusely for enjoying my stuff

What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? Oh god this is tough??? I generally write either lighthearted fics or smut and my main dramatic fics just, either aren't anywhere near done to have an angsty ending or were abandoned? If I had to pick probably the Dungeon Meshi fic listed in my top 5 by kudos-- I almost went for a comedic ending but wanted to go for something angsty-ish and unnerving and I thought it hit pretty well! Otherwise the one Fire Emblem 3 Houses fic I have (also a smut fic) has a pretty oof ending

What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? Man this is TOUGH. I have a lot of happy/nice/sweet endings just by virtue of writing a lot of smut and heartwarming stuff for the fandoms I love. Uh, maybe At The End of The Day??? It takes a nice ending and makes it cute? Otherwise maybe Especially For You which is a smut in my Persona 5 AU that has a really sweet ending for the main ship of the AU???

Do you get hate on fics? Thankfully no! I did have one person laugh at one of the connections a character made even though the character had no reason to believe otherwise? Another time I saw someone bookmarked my fic and mentioned "this character isn't at their best" when frankly I put my whole bussy into writing them incredibly well SO I was salty about that and they have bad taste on that in my imo BUT WHATEVER I KNOW THE TRUTH

Do you write smut? Dawg you have NO idea. I have so many wips that have just not been finished and probably never will be, so many documents with vague outlines that I have no clue will be finished. A small handful I haven't posted yet. Plenty I've written for friends for their birthdays or otherwise. I'm a smut maven and I love it. And I'm apparently pretty good at it, I've been told.

Craziest crossover: The closest thing to a crossover I've done is a crossover AU I did for one of the Jyoumi month challenges that was Joe and Mimi in The World Ends With You? It was... alright. I wrote it all in one day like I did the rest of the onesehots for those challenges and I had some neat ideas but man, I just don't think I'm all too great at crossovers, nor do they entirely interest me? More power to those who CAN do crossovers and do them well, y'all are more powerful than I can imagine

Have you ever had a fic stolen? No, but I DID have a character bio stolen in roleplay before. I know this because I had to make very specific changes/specifications to their power set for that site. Someone used it exactly as is but changed some of the history and I called them out and they insisted it was theirs, despite me having proof and having others verify for me. They kept saying "Oh I've had this forever" and when I asked for proof they turned it around on me being like "Well people have stolen my stuff so I don't want you to steal it" so. It was a great fun mess. Fics? I pray not because if I have to get into something like THAT but for fics I think I'll actually throw hands for real for real.

Have you ever had a fic translated? I have not, I'm not esports enough for that treatment.

Have you ever co-written a fic before? I haven't! It's definitely something that would interest me/would drive me to work harder and more consistent but as of right now, nope.

All time favorite ship? This is not fair this is not right you cannot ask me to do this. I'm gonna do a small handful and y'all will have to put up with it

Joe Kido and Mimi Tachikawa (Digimon)

Kari Kamiya and Yolei Inoue (Digimon)

Davis Motomiya and Yolei Inoue (Digimon)

Kumiko Oumae and Reina Kousaka (Sound! Euphonium)

Suletta Mercury and Miorine Rembran (Gundam: The Witch From Mercury)

Joker and Ryuji Sakamoto (Persona 5)

Yu Narukami and Ai Ebihara (Persona 4)

Yu Narukami and Rise Kujikawa (Persona 4)

Nico Minoru and Karolina Dean (Runaways)

Jemma Simmons and Leo Fitz (Agents of SHIELD)

I have so many fucking ships these are just the first ones I thought of this isn't even counting the rp/tabletop ships with original characters or otherwise we'd be here all day.

What's a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will? Probably my old main Life is Strange AU that I was writing as the game was coming out or an Agents of SHIELD AU I wrote when I got back into fic writing early into the pandemic. Neat stories I hold dear but I just don't have the time, energy, or motivation to work on them anymore.

What are your writing strengths? I think dialogue and conversations. I've also been told I'm pretty good at writing characters true to how they are in the source material which is great. I've also been told my writing is very snappy and sincere which makes me very very happy. I also like to think I'm alright at fight scenes!

What are your writing weaknesses? Probably good descriptions of places/people/things, especially in smut. I always feel like I can get better so I'm pretty hyper critical of my own stuff, so I think descriptions, as well as being too wordy sometimes. I use so many words to say a few things and it's frustrating.

Thoughts on dialogue in another language? Personally I'm iffy on it. I think it's something that needs to be worked on very well. I've recently seen stuff of people writing characters in English for like, fics in English or rp in English but they'll say stuff like "Naruhodo" and it just absolutely throws me off and I just think "You are not serious people" a la Logan Roy. When I write fics in Japan (besides Digimon because I generally go dub-focused but that's another matter) I'll do stuff like honorifics, but I generally won't try to use dialogue in another language. It trips up easier than it actually works well in my opinion, and I think I would need to be a lot better of a writer to do it-- there's a reason why so many Digidestined across the world speak in Japanese primarily in stuff like the sub of the World Tour after all, lmao

First fandom you wrote in? Tales of Symphonia! I love that game so much and I have to credit it with my love of fic writing. It was a horrible self-insert fic that I cringe whenever I think about it, but it's MY horrible self-insert fic that makes me cringe.

Favorite fic you’ve written? This is literally not fair lmao. I think Someone On Your Side for Persona 5 as part of my AU was a lot of fun, very affirming, but also took the issues of societal transphobia especially in the context of my AU seriously and with weight. Also, The Curse of The Beast was some fun unhinged smut I got to write and I adore it. But also something something all my fics are special except the ones that aren't.

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