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Au where mk and swk are born twins
#art-zu#lego monkie kid#lmk sun wukong#lmk qi xiaotian#Them being same age and siblings kinda changes their dynamic i realize that now#Thats gonna be fun to play with for a while#I think swk would be less arrogant with mk around#Like how u could get one mischievous cat to calm down by giving it another cat companion#But then later on they both act out and be lil shits#Swk's lil shitness is evened out cuz he shares that with mk is what im saying#Just now realizing mk didnt grow up to be like swk and have shitty relationships is because he grows up in a diff environment in canon#Wonder how thats gonna go in this au#Huh#This'll be fun#Smth fun abt making aus is that u can switch up relationship dynamics between characters#This is gonna be either bad or good for them#Twin stones au
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ramblin abt my ocs (a lot)
i think im starting to care abt my ocs again, which is good bc it seems like every time i go hard in a fandom for a while i get extremely apathetic abt my own characters (bc the ones im obsessed w/ at the time seem to outshine them in every conceivable way and make them look painfully boring in comparison), so im glad the current wave of those feelings is finally starting to wear off bc god
anyway iāve been thinking about some old ocs lately (like from when i was 13/14) and i wanted to look into them some more so i pulled out the notebook that had their story, which was coincidentally the one that silan & sythra are originally fromĀ and wow it turns out there was actually a legit explanation for their alternate eye colors??Ā
i know iāve gone back to find this story before too (quite recently actually) so idk why i didnāt already know this, i think i literally just keep forgetting every time fkdfksjd
tbh itās probably because it doesnāt apply anymore because ok their original story had a whole cast of characters with super powers (iāve talked abt it a little before), and originally their Thing was that they could read each otherās minds, which is kind of still how they work now but the otherĀ thing they could do was share their literal sight? hereās the actual description from the story
If they are apart, they can do something called sight division, where they can choose to see what the other is seeing. Itās like because their eyes are opposite colors, they can match their missing eye with the otherās and share the sight.
like it makes senseĀ and itās a pretty cool idea tbh? and idk how i forgot about it but somewhere down the line their psychic relationship developed past the point of something like sight division even being necessary, like
in may 16th, the story i transferred them to after this, the linkās concept changed from simply being able to read each otherās minds to being a constant connection between them- itās not a conscious decision they make to ļæ½ļæ½readā what the other is thinking, theyāre just always there in each otherās heads, aware of what is happening with the other person at all timesĀ
but even then the story would often have them mentally speaking full sentences to each other as a means of communication, whereas now itās evolved even further past that; the current idea is that they are two separate entities that share the same mind space, constantly influencing and being influenced by each otherās thoughts, feelings, natures and personalities to the point that the line between the two of them distinguishing whoās who would be more accurately described as a gradient
so the concept of āsight divisionā has been rendered completely obsolete at this point because why would they need to share their sight when they literally know exactly what is happening with the other person at every waking moment of their connected lives
the reason for their eye colors became merely symbolic at some point between the original story and may 16th (i probably just forgot about the sight division & didnāt ever go back to check tbh) and the idea iāve had ever since was that it was just a physical manifestation of their mental link; sythraās eyes are originally blue and silanās are originally brown, but because of the connection itās like they have a little piece of each other within them, ergo the switching of their left eyes
thatās the explanation iāve been using this whole time & i thought thatās how it always was, so reading the original concept kind of blew my mind & made me a little sad that i canāt use it anymore bc honestly??? good post op
anyway i rly want to do more with silan & sythra bc i feel like they have a lot of potential and iāve had some cool ideas for them in the past, so maybe iāll develop those more hmmm
i think iād have to migrate them into anotherĀ story separate from may 16th to really explore them, though. which is kind of a scary thought because may 16th is my baby, but. i think that time in my life has passed and itās time to do something Bigger with these characters, because at this point they deserve so much more than Shitty High School Romance In Which Sythra Is Pretty Much Shoved To The Side To Make Room For The Main Relationship Plotline Where The Most Mediocre Dude Ever Shows Up & Steals Silanās Heart By Being A Complete Dick To Him Wow (But Like, A HandsomeĀ Dick)
and ok thatās being a little harsh because thatās only the original draft- iāve been salvaging it & rearranging it to make it leagues better, but the thing is, in the process iāve only come to realize that it needsĀ to become something bigger; my ideas are evolving it past that original high school romance setting, and while that setting will always hold a special place in my heart, i want to let this story and these characters breathe and grow to their full potential instead of caging them with nostalgia, you know? i think iāll remember may 16th as the high school romance au, that is how it will live on in my heart
god i dont even know what i would do with chris in a new story though?? he is Truly the most mediocre and the only reason he was a prominent character in may 16th was because of his relationship with silan; if weāre gonna take that relationship away though then what is he even here for. his motivations include 1. Playing Sport and 2. Ignoring Every Emotion Especially The Gay Ones like god what an uninspired character what am i supposed to do with him. i mean i have been working on him lately but deep down i really do think heās a boring character and i probably care about him the least out of all my main ocs hgjdgkdjksdg I FEEL BAD BUT
literally the only thing that has ever made him interesting to me is his relationship with silan like he has a fun dynamic with him and pretty decent development as a result of his interaction with him but as soon as heās on his own heās just sUch a boring character im snoring i need to fix chris somebody save him (read: me)
thatās the big problem here, i think. if im going to transfer these characters into a new story thatāll focus primarily on silan and sythra (or at least a lot more than may 16th did), chris would just be a huge distraction like he was in may 16th; if silan is what makes him interesting then heāll just end up immediately latching onto silan and stealing the focus away from sythra bc chris only exists to be with silan, right. so the options im looking at here areĀ
omit chris completely because heād just be an unnecessary dead weight on the story or
find another purpose for him, give him new depth that doesnāt conform to a romance, reinvent him as a compelling standalone character who could fit right into any given setting- discover what defines him and build on it until he feels like he could be his own protagonist
....obviously one of these requires a lot more energy & dedication but. i cant just abandon my boy. my dumbass mediocre af shit boy
aaaaaanyway iāve definitely gone on for way too long Oops i didnt mean to shit on chris for so many paragraphs hghdghsdgdj but im kinda glad i did bc that was smth i really needed to admit & come to that conclusion so Thatās Cool. if anything u at least got to see a bit of what my brainstorming documents usually look like (theyre a mess)
but uhh ya Cool Glad We Could Have This Talk
#this got way too long looks like i never shut up abt my ocs what a surprise#(it's good tho im glad)#retag later#talkin bout stuff#rieley has oc's
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SUPER NEAT
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Au where mk and swk are born twins
#art-zu#lego monkie kid#lmk sun wukong#lmk qi xiaotian#Them being same age and siblings kinda changes their dynamic i realize that now#Thats gonna be fun to play with for a while#I think swk would be less arrogant with mk around#Like how u could get one mischievous cat to calm down by giving it another cat companion#But then later on they both act out and be lil shits#Swk's lil shitness is evened out cuz he shares that with mk is what im saying#Just now realizing mk didnt grow up to be like swk and have shitty relationships is because he grows up in a diff environment in canon#Wonder how thats gonna go in this au#Huh#This'll be fun#Smth fun abt making aus is that u can switch up relationship dynamics between characters#This is gonna be either bad or good for them#Twin stones au#addition#comic
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