#a lot of these weapons have specific normal word sounding names but lmao my memory for that kinda thing

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WIP and Writing Tag Game

I was tagged by @musi-creatively 

putting this under a readmore because dear fuck did this get long

1. Is there any scene from any piece you’ve written that actually scared you? If so, describe the scene.

Okay so for a random test I decided to write from the perspective of an OC of mine, a sadistic goddess of darkness who’s obsessed with the Blue Paladin in DOTS, making him suffer.

So I... wrote from her perspective the memory of her both hacking off and ripping off the arm of the Blue Paladin from different “paladin eras”. Considering most people in-universe see her as a savage... yeah it gets dark and gorey.

2. What genre do you feel most awkward writing?

Fight scenes! Visually I think they work perfectly, but when it comes to writing it’s just “uhhh she punched him and he dodged and he swing the sword and she get cut kinda”

3. How many different types of writing do you write? Types of writing include novels, short stories, poetry, song lyrics, etc.

I do a lot of short stories, lil stories bout my OCs that I doubt will be in its actual run but are just fun to think about, occasionally writing drafts for certain scenes. I do kinda try poetry or song lyrics, though my song lyrics are probably the most unfinished of my google docs,

4. How old were you when you first started writing?

Proobably around 12? I used to write for other stories, which were pretty shit. Though I’ve been in a sort of “golden age” where whatever idea I have that will be more than 100 words will most likely be written, so technically 15.

5. How confident are you in your writing?

Probably neutral. I’m definitely not the best, but I don’t really see all my works as “shitty” or so. 

6. Have you ever written and posted anything that was very personal to you?

I have written a few vent stories, though only one person knows about them. I don’t think more than 1% will see the light of the true public, though.

7. What inspired you to start writing?

two words

chris niosi

8. Which of your OCs do you relate to the most?

my ocs relate to me

ANYWAY I really do feel a lot like Tigerlily and Cobalt from DOTS: DD? Tigerlily is def short, gay, angry, and envious about a lot of things. She’s got a lot of problems, but she still has a few friends that she finds herself intensely close to. 

Cobalt does have a sort of melancholic and angry personality, while Tigerlily is just generally a “grumpy cat” sorta anger, Cobalt gets absolutely furious. But he still has some sorts of chillness to him that I can relate to.

Both of them also have issues gained over DOTS: DD that they want and need to recover from.

I am still writing the both of them, so if I write them happy maybe I can be happy too? I’m very biased when it comes to those two, so I can’t really say it’s “relate” and more “connected”.

9. Have you ever written self-insert fanfiction?

Honestly the closest thing I’ve ever done was vent writings from Tigerlily’s perspective. Not comfortable with saying what happens in those, though.

10. What is your favorite piece you’ve ever written about?

I wrote a lil thing about Cobalt waking up in the hospital with Ruby, but Cobalt’s too high from painkillers and sedatives that Ruby decides to mess with him lmao.

11. How frequently do you actually sit down and write?

Proobably once or twice every two weeks? I have a lot of ideas, but maybe only one “good” writing a month.

12. How many hours at a time do you do research on your writing?

Lmao I research during writing or on my own time. I do spend a fair 30 minutes over the span of a period of time, trying to memorize information when I write about said topics again.

13. Do you like to branch out in your writing or do you tend to stick to what you know?

I have no fucking idea dude.

14. What would your antagonist of your current WIP say to you if they saw you in person?

“why are you hurting my dad” - the two WIP stories I have of Cobalt’s canon yet uncanon daughter,

15. Do you consider yourself your OCs’ god or just kind of a guiding hand (or other? If other, please list)?

I guess I feel like both? I created so many worlds, stories, characters, people, how can I not feel like a god? But despite that, I never want said OCs to sort of “worship” me as such (as if they could but shh). I just want to be their creator who makes them who they are, and have them never know me as such. (this sounds confusing but. chrisis in general makes it a lot less confusing)

16. What do you think you’d be doing with your time if you’d never gotten into writing?

drawing

dying

sobbing

17. Have you ever written a smut piece?

Okay so most of my OCs (most prominently the DOTS: DD ones) legit have no sort of... “organs” like that. 

I have written their equivalent to a “smut” piece, but it was more of a mild making out session.

18. What was the first thing you ever wrote about?

According to Google Docs, a venty Tig thing with Ruri.

19. What is the most creative creature you’ve ever created for world-building?

welp. Paladin. 

For the DOTS: 5x5 crew, Paladins are human-like demigods made entirely of light, resembling only one specific hue of the light spectrum (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Cyan, Blue, Violet, and Magenta). They eat nothing but flowers that match the hue they are. They do not have bones due to their light bodies, and therefore have the illusion of having bones. They bleed blood colored similar to their hue color, meaning the Red Paladin bleeds red blood and the Cyan paladin bleeds cyan blood, etc etc.

They have a sort of heart shaped core called their “soul”, which holds all their magic ability, including their ability to summon weapons and elemental attacks, and their ability to maintain a physical form. This soul matches the paladin’s hue color.  The unlike future Junoan souls, the paladins only have the inner magic of the soul and its shell, whereas future Junoan souls contain the inner magic, the shell, and the hue color. Without the inner magic of the paladin soul, the paladin cannot maintain a physical form and will therefore disappear, leaving its shell. Paladin souls are the only souls that cannot be destroyed, as future Junoan souls will shatter once they die while Paladin souls will always persist even after death. Without a soul, a paladin cannot survive and will cease to exist.

They each have a special elemental ability and the ability to summon a weapon of light, one that matches their personality. When they are angry, their eyes glow brighter, though I imagine they emit a small glow, sort of like a firefly does, proportionate to the paladin’s size. Although all the paladins were made over the course of eight days, they age at different rates, with Magenta being the youngest and Orange and Violet being the oldest (this has no relation to their position of the light spectrum).

As babies, the paladins are much smaller than a normal baby/child but are able to walk and move around, as well as take in details of their surroundings properly. They cannot talk, and instead act more like kittens or baby chicks, surrounding their “mama hen” Iris, the goddess of rainbows that created them. They occasionally make peeping noises like this. 

They sleep in the night because the sunlight helps charge their light bodies better, making them better for fighting in the daytime than in the night. They love eating flowers because they are colorful and contain light energy, and they occasionally drink flower teas as healing medicine.

In all honesty they sound absolutely fucking ridiculous when you consider the fact that these fucks protect Juno.

Only eight of these types of paladins were made though, and the future use for the term “paladin” in the DOTSverse would refer to one’s title of holding the exact same soul as the paladin they represent, but future paladins act like normal Junoans, eating normal food, turning into stardust when they die (their soul will not shatter due to its sharing with future paladins), and acting like normal babies and typically having normal Junoan abilities. Future paladins still are able to surpass Junoan strength, though I won’t spoil how.

20. Tell me one random fact about your WIP that you have yet to tell your followers.

Cobalt’s canon-but-uncanon daughter is named Turquoise, and her mom is Ruri :>

uh. i dunno who to tag