#but as a writer I've elected to ignore that fact lol

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43 and Lup!

#43. Your favorite song on repeat for the hundredth time

Still accepting prompts from this prompt list!

(Thank you, Reese for sending in the ask, and thank you, Griffin for making all of us aware that this beautiful song exists)

"Okay, we'll play through it one more time from the top before we end practice for the day," Lup and Barry's professor says. Lup holds her bow above her violin, and Barry turns back around with his hands over the keys of the grand piano. Their professor waves their hands in the air to count off the beats as they say, "One, two!"

Lup closes her eyes as she and Barry begin to play. They've been practicing this piece that they've written together with the help of their professor for a few months now, but this time when they play, it feels different. It feels finished. Complete. Right. Hearing Barry's piano accompanied with her violin makes her heart sing. She pours every single ounce of love that she has for him in her music, and she can feel Barry's love for her in his.

They don't make a single mistake by the time the song ends, and as their professor claps with happiness at their performance, Lup opens her eyes and looks at Barry who is giving her the softest expression she has ever seen him have. They both smile at each other, and Lup misses what their professor is saying to them because in that moment, the only thing that exists in the world is him.

They have one more week before their recital.

They're ready.

-

As Lup and Barry walk on stage and take their positions, Lup feels her nerves getting to her. It's odd because she's never felt this nervous about a performance before, but she knows it's not because of the performance itself. She's confident she and Barry will give a stunning show. She's not confident, however, in what this performance might mean. Writing and practicing this piece in the privacy of their classroom, where the only other person who could see them and guide them was their professor, provided a level of unspoken intimacy where they could be in love and acknowledge it quietly. They haven't spoken about it, but they know. It's safe knowing without getting into the messy details of saying it out loud even if they both yearn for something more.

Now they are about to put their intimacy on blast for everyone to know. And once everyone knows, they can't keep it quiet between themselves anymore. They'll have to acknowledge it out loud, and taking that step is scary. What would it mean for them and their relationship if they try to take the next step? What would it mean for the mission? What would it mean for their future?

Not only that, but the Light from the caves will be silently judging their love. Will it be good enough for everyone in the planarverse to hear? Is the Light going to make the world forget?

Lup searches the crowd as she taps her bow against her leg nervously, and her eyes meet Taako's. Her anchor. Her rock. Taako smiles and gives her a thumbs up, and the anxiety clenching her chest eases up a little. She does a little wave before looking around at Barry.

He looks more anxiety ridden than she feels, but he's always had a high base level of anxiety at the best of times. She smiles reassuringly at him, and he smiles back, releasing some of the tension in his shoulders.

The noise from the audience dies down a little as Lup brings her violin to her shoulder and Barry fixes the sheet music on the piano. When the crowd falls completely silent, she takes a deep breath, closes her eyes, and they begin to play.

Somehow, the music seems even more magical than before. She moves slightly to the music, pouring her soul into every measure. Giving all of her love to Barry through every note. And she feels all of his love for her as their music dances together in the air. Time seems to stand still around them as they get absorbed into this moment together. They've lost and given up so much in their journey to get to this moment, here and now, but they will never give up this. They will never lose their song. Their love. All of existence might beat down on them for all eternity, but nothing will take away this moment. Nothing will take them from each other.

When the song ends, Lup opens her eyes and ignores the tears gathering at the corners of her eyes. She transfers her violin to her other hand as Barry stands up and walks next to her. They hold hands and do an overdramatic bow as the crowd cheers, and they laugh out their nerves. When they come back up, they look into each others eyes and don't let each other's hands go.

Lup's heart feels tingly, and all she wants to do is hold him and be held by him. She can have that, she realizes. She just needs to break the silence.

"Barry? Do you want to go talk somewhere for a while?"

Barry gives her the most lovestruck smile as he says, "Yeah."

They leave their sheet music on the pedestal, and then they're running up the slope back to the conservatory as their song is blasted for the planarverse to know, hand in hand.

-

While on a date in cycle 51, Lup and Barry decide to walk through the cozy little town of Hampton. They're chatting idly as they hold hands and looking at the different shops on the sides of the street when Barry stops and points at a medium sized building with a sign hanging over it proclaiming the establishment to be called Hampton Strings. This piques Lup's curiosity, and they decide to head in.

Hampton Strings is a cozy music store that sells mostly stringed instruments. There's guitars and ukuleles hanging on the walls and harps and basses and lutes among a variety of other instruments, some of which Lup has never seen before, strewed around the shop. They walk around a bit, and Lup finds the violin section. She looks through the different brands of violins left on display and loses track of Barry. When she finds one that looks particularly pretty, she turns to show it to Barry, but he's already gone.

Lup takes the instrument with her and the bow that comes with it as she tries to find her boyfriend. It doesn't take long for her to spot him toward the back of the store, sitting on a bench in front of a piano. It's not as big as a grand piano by any means, but it's big enough to play some interesting melodies. More specifically...

"We haven't been able to play our song in a few years," Barry says, smiling up at her. "Want to see if we still remember how it goes?"

Lup smiles at him brightly. "Absolutely."

And they begin to play.

They have no problem remembering all of the notes, the melody, and the harmony. It's every bit as magical an experience as the first time they played it all the way through. The violin is a little out of tune, but it doesn't stop the couple from getting totally immersed in the music and in their love.

When they finish the song, they kiss, and they decide to make the purchase. The piano is small enough to keep on the Starblaster, but they're thankful for having two rooms to keep all of their stuff in because it's still going to take up a bit of space.

It's completely worth it to be able to play their song whenever they want.

-

Everyone is at least a little tipsy by the time the dance floor opens at Lup and Barry's reception after their first wedding ceremony. Taako and Magnus laugh as Merle takes to the dance floor, swaying a little more than strictly necessary after one too many shots of tequila. Davenport and Lucretia chat idly off to the side as they watch everyone on the dance floor. Barry spins Lup one more time as the song the musician is playing ends, and they hold onto each other and laugh.

Lup looks at Barry with the biggest smile and says, "I brought my violin, and they actually have a grand piano. Want to play our song?"

Barry kisses her on the forehead. "Thought you'd never ask."

Lup goes to grab her violin and Barry excuses the pianist for a moment and settles in, getting ready to play. Lup walks back up to him with her violin under her chin.

Magnus grabs his cool guy shades and puts them on as Lup and Barry play, but everyone knows he's crying anyway. Taako looks at the two of them with a happiness he hasn't felt in a long while, and Merle sways to the music with his eyes closed. Lucretia puts a hand on Davenport's shoulder with a soft smile on her face as Davenport watches his family be truly happy, safe, alive, and together for the first time in a while.

Lup and Barry's love is their love, and their love is Lup and Barry's. Nothing can take this moment away.

-

This is definitely one of the most interesting places Lup and Barry have ever had a picnic. They sit at the top of a cliff looking over the ocean, and the light of the setting sun is cut through the horizon by the purple energy of the Plane of Magic. It's eerily silent, but they've grown used to it in the months they've been here.

Barry grabs the picnic basket he brought and takes out the sandwiches Lup made before handing her one. They eat in silence, basking in the lowering rays of sunlight and each other's company. When they've finished eating, Barry grabs Lup's hand, and Lup lays her head on his shoulder. When the sun finally sets below the horizon, Barry speaks softly.

"I have one last surprise for you that I've been keeping secret until the right moment, and I think this is it."

Lup sits up to look at him. "What is it, Care Bar?"

Barry smiles softly as he digs around the picnic basket. Then he pulls out a small ornate box, big enough to fit in two hands. He hands it to her, and Lup flips open the lid and gasps.

A little holographic display of her and Barry performing at the Legato Conservatory appears above the box, and their song plays loud and clear. Lup smiles and holds it to her chest as Barry explains, "I love playing the song with you, but I thought it would be nice if we could dance to it too. And that's kind of hard to do if we're the only two people who know how to play it, so I thought I'd record it."

"I love it," Lup whispers above the song.

Barry stands up and offers Lup his hand. "Will you dance with me?"

"Of course."

She sets the box down before taking his hand, and they dance well into the night.

-

Lup walks back to her room after Taako's Thong Song performance feeling a little better but still ultimately depressed. She finds Barry already asleep on his side of the bed, so she closes the door quietly as to not disturb him. She stands there for a few seconds, watching him sleep. He seems so at peace without the weight of what they had done to the world berating his consciousness. She craves that peace too for whatever few hours of meditation or sleep that she can get, but she's not in the mood to try. Instead, she quietly walks over to her nightstand, grabs her music box, and walks back out to their storage room, closing the door quietly behind her.

Lup takes a look around the dark room at the all of the stuff they've accumulated over the century piled in different parts of the room. She passes stacks of books and boxes of different trinkets before she makes it to the piano in the back corner of the room. She sits down on the bench, facing away from the piano, and she holds the music box in her lap. She runs her thumbs over the engraved designs absentmindedly before she opens the box and lets it sing.

Lup watches as the miniature holographic versions of her and Barry move as they play the violin and piano. Tears quietly slip down her cheeks as she watches the two figures play their hearts out. That had been a strong and unforgettable moment, free of the weight of existence for just a few minutes.

Even the times after that performance, when they were actively researching ways to stop the Hunger, somehow, those times seemed to be less complicated and weighted than what she was feeling now which should have been impossible. They had stopped the Hunger from growing stronger. They were going to starve it out.

They were destroying the world like the Hunger destroys everything else. They needed a new plan that fixes both.

Lup knows Lucretia's plan wouldn't work, but she can't help thinking... was she right?

She spends the next thirty minutes listening to her and Barry's song loop over and over again before she closes the music box and retires for the night.

-

Lup musters up all of the emotional and arcane energy that she has as she taps into her love for her family, her extreme loneliness, and her wrath for getting herself trapped here in the fucking first place and she screams in protest as she blasts the black curtains surrounding the chamber inside of her umbrastaff yet again. She feels the umbrastaff rattle and shake violently around her, but ultimately, it still holds. Damn her and her expert craftsmanship. She's sure if it had been anyone else's umbrastaff, she would be able to break free.

Lup floats down to the floor of the chamber and curls in on herself the best that she can. She wishes she was back in her body if only to be able to break down into tears at just how shitty this situation is. She has no idea of knowing how long she's been in here because she has only just been able to keep a steady consciousness going. It could be a few weeks to maybe even months. Or years? Surely Taako and Barry would have found her by now if it has been years since Cyrus killed her.

Lup extends her senses past the umbrella, a feat she has been slowly getting better at doing, and she sees that she's still in Wave Echo Cave and in the hands of her rotting corpse. She retracts her senses back to herself and is suddenly glad that her form can't feel or do physical things because seeing her own corpse in the decayed state that it's in would have definitely made her vomit.

Lup leans against the wall and thinks of her family. She thinks about her best day ever with Taako and becoming a lich with Barry. She thinks about girls' night with Lucretia, stargazing with Davenport and Merle, and training with Magnus. She thinks about her and Barry's weddings in various worlds and how happy she and her family were that they were celebrating and together.

Then she thinks about her and Barry's song.

Her form shudders slightly in lieu of tears as she hums her part of the song, hearing Barry's piano in the back of her mind. She becomes more and more aware of the fact that she can't breathe and how it's not because of her emotional state. She's dead and gone from the world and what if Taako and Barry and the rest of her family don't find her? What if after all of these long hard years, after growing up with Taako as her constant companion since birth, what if she's destined to be forever alone, trapped in this magical umbrella prison?

Lup's form crackles and she almost loses it. The song playing in her mind gets louder, and she holds onto it desperately, focusing on the notes, the melody, the harmony. She calms down and her form recollects itself. They'll find her. She just has to be patient.

They'll find her.

-

It's a couple of weeks after they've defeated the Hunger, and she and Barry are alone in Taako, Merle, and Magnus' living room on the moon base. The boys were going house hunting with Davenport, and Barry elected to stay behind and asked that Lup did as well because he had a surprise for her. It took a lot of convincing for Taako to leave her side for a few hours, but she promised that she wasn't going anywhere and if he really wanted to come back early, he could summon a ball and come back.

To be honest, it was really hard for her to separate herself from him too, but she also really wanted to spend time with Barry and was curious as to what surprise he might have.

Barry sits down on the couch next to his small pile of stuff and rummages through one of his bags. "I kept this with me when I was trying to find you before Lucretia... well..." Barry pauses for a moment and sighs. "Anyway, that's how I still have this instead of it being hidden somewhere in Lucretia's storage." He pulls out a small ornate box that's big enough to fit in two hands, and Lup's light flickers excitedly when she sees it.

"I thought I'd never see that again!" She floats over next to Barry and tries to hug him the best that she can. "Does it still play?"

Barry smirks. "One way to find out." He places it on the coffee table before standing up and holding out his hand to Lup. "May I have this dance?"

Lup's form crackles a little as she nods her hood, too taken by emotion to speak properly.

Barry flips the lid of the box, and their song starts to play as Lup takes his hand. They dance around the coffee table the best that they can, and Lup and Barry laugh as Barry tries to dip her and almost loses his balance. She had missed this while she was in the umbrella. So much. She missed him and his sweet smile and his adorable laugh. She missed listening to their song outside of her head. She misses playing the song herself.

Now that she has almost everything back, the thing she misses most is life.

But they're going to fix that too.

-

One of the great things about being rich and famous, Lup has recently learned, is that you can buy your husband a grand piano to go inside your big family house, and the great thing about magic is that you can transport said piano to and from a fancy open air amphitheater to put on a recital for your family and friends. And that's where Lup and Barry are now, a few months after Killian and Carey's wedding, on stage in front of Taako, Kravitz, Magnus, Merle, Mavis, Mookie, Davenport, Lucretia, and Angus along with their other friends from the Bureau of Benevolence and others they've met in their time in Faerun.

Since they've rented out the amphitheater for the whole night, they play other songs they've learned in their spare time since their time in the Legato Conservatory. Taako comes up at one point to drop one liner quotes from back home, and even though they're different ones than the ones everyone would have heard on the Day of Story and Song, everyone recognizes those are not his quotes. Magnus leads the crowd in booing him off the stage as Taako cackles and protests he definitely didn't steal them and that they were 100% Taako Originals^TM. Davenport sings some beautiful opera songs, and Merle dances to the delight of many, but none are more delighted than Mavis and Mookie. Carey and Killian perform some fantastic acrobatic stunts, and Lucretia and Magnus come up to show off their artwork and woodwork respectively. Many more people show off their talents, and everyone has a spectacularly fun time hanging out together.

At the end of the night, Lup and Barry come back on stage for one more song. Their song. The crowd goes quiet as Barry raises his hands back over the keys of his piano, and Lup holds the violin under her chin.

Their duet echoes across the amphitheater and down the valley, and it seems to make the night a little bit warmer.

-

On Lup and Barry's 66th anniversary, Taako, Kravitz, and Angus leave the house to them as they go find some adventure elsewhere. The couple spends a quiet day in talking magical theories they still want to explore together, reminiscing about some of their wilder adventures, experimenting with food in the kitchen (which turns into a food fight they regret having to clean up afterwards), and cuddling on the couch.

Lup lays against Barry and curls her legs up on the couch, and Barry plays with her hair absentmindedly. She feels safe and totally at peace in his arms, listening to his heart beat in his chest. The journey that brought them together was a wild and hard one, but she wouldn't have it any other way because it meant that she got her happy ending with him. It meant she finally got stability in her life a place to call home.

Lup smiles as she gets a bright idea for one of the last things she wants to do before they turn in for the night. She turns slightly to poke Barry's side.

Barry hums questioningly.

"My fingers are getting itchy. Do you want to go to the music room and play our song?" Lup says.

Barry smiles softly. "Yeah."

They get up and stretch before heading into the room. Lup tunes her violin as Barry gets settled onto the piano bench and pops his fingers.

When Lup is finished tuning, she looks up at him with a soft smile. "Ready, babe?"

Barry nods. "I'm ready."

Their song is an old one, but every time they play it, it feels as fresh and new as the first. It's stood up to the test of time and hardship and separation and turmoil, and it always brings them back together. Back to the time when their love was new, exciting, electrifying, and hidden in an intimate classroom with only a professor to bear witness.

They've played and listened to this song a hundred times over, and Lup and Barry will play it a hundred times more because their love is everlasting and beautiful and treasured for all time.

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I've come to terms with bb but I still want to know when it was decided to be endgame. I don't buy the "planned from the start" thing since everything in show points to the exact opposite. Maybe the volume commentary after the fact will finally put the matter to rest...or muddle things up further lol. given the likely possibility of them lying ) if it was planned from the start there should have been hints from the start they shouldnt have began hinting at bb halfway into the series ( and attempting to use bb being a same sex ship as a shield and claiming anyone who didnt see evidence just didnt see it because it was a w/w ship makes me roll my eyes "I recognize that BB is likely to become a canon ship. But given that it's a stupid-ass canon ship, I've elected to ignore it."

Have you ever gotten around to reading from start to finish the one giant post dedicated to you that goes into length about your harassment and it is now linked to in all my rwby post in the wordpress blogs, @megashadowdragon (yes, I am almost certain that is your actual real account even if my evidence is circumstancial)? Should I put a link to your tumblr profile too?

You've claimed to be in your late 20s, how the fuck can you be that old and still think it's acceptable to harass someone over a ship? and for months, no less. The only time you left me alone is when I had cut all means to do so. I shouldn’t have to do that. Have you been checking on my account every week for the last month to see when you could strike again? Get the fuck over it. BS sunk for good in early V6 (yes, the Renora/BB parallels are very clearly intentional and no, they didn’t change their minds mid-volume – that would have been likely impossible). V9 is starting in a couple of months.

If the writers told you every single hint they had to reveal BB, you would not believe them, so don’t bother feigning curiosity and pretending you’re open-minded. A person who thinks Adam attacked Yang and associated the word love without any planning on the writers' part is someone who could not care less about what the writers were trying to convey. A person who sees Yang getting associated with the ex and Sun getting associated with the unrequited love doesn’t think it says anything about story is naïve at best. And a person who keeps sending me to a goddamn post (that I’ve even quoted verbatim in one of my posts) that says “Like seriously if I was writing two characters that were only meant to be platonic, I would never write a scene like that. The implication of those words are too strong.” but tries to pretend this only applies to Renora and not BB is a deeply homophobic one. I have yet to understand how the hell you fail to see that that post makes actually a massive amazing argument for BB being planned from very early on. 

Nothing can be applied to Renora without applying to BB too. 

It wasn’t just the Renora scenes that were written by writers, the BB scenes also were, including the flirting and wink, the ship named Pride, the ex attacking and using the word love, yet classmate for Sun, Yang paralleling Pyrrha when they both helped the object of their affection in the dance arc, the Arkos/BB parallels in V3, etc. The writers decide everything. If they wanted Sun to fight the ex and not be associated with unrequited love, that would have happened. Don’t bother pointing Adam didn’t fight Sun when they were alone, that’s why he used the word classmate because the fight could have happened any way the writers wanted it to happen. If they wanted those 2 to fight (or with Blake) and use the word love, they would have.

The writers decide everything. If they wanted to associate Sun with the ex instead of the unrequited love or if they wanted to associate him with the word love instead of classmate, they would have. 

Instead of writing a post responding to all your nonsense for the 124539th time, 

let’s decide what to do with you. 

I’m guessing reporting you to tumblr is worthless because you harassed me using several accounts that no longer exist (mysteriouslypaleenthusiast, reallydelicateturtle, red2sposts, ravenstarsblog, violetcloudsworld, pleasantbarbarianfire, makofan and now lightningemperorsworld). Let’s not forget the multiple anons and the b@gmail.com and the m@gmail.com. Still, reporting to tumblr and see if they have ways to check it’s you and see what they can do about it, not off the table.  

Here’s my suggestion: you stop harassing the BB community (the entire community, not just me) and I let bygones be bygones. 

Or maybe, I inform your community (yes, I have also saved the usernames of the people you are constantly asking to bring down our posts because you can’t do it yourself – to be fair, neither can they) and let them know what you’ve been up to and how you’ve been using them to harass us. Unless of course, they already know, but they’re garbage so they don’t care. I may be willing to take a shot and find out.

Oh, and you can stop with the nonsense of being offended because I called you out on your homophobia. You don’t want to be called out on it, then stop being homophobic. For starters, stop harassing real LGBTQ+ people because your fictional straight ship didn’t become canon. 

If most saw it coming and you didn’t, then the writers didn’t fail, you did. Also, the hints didn’t begin mid-series, they have been there since the red fucking trailer. By the end of V3, a good chunk of the audience had called it. By the end of V6, almost no one thought BB wasn’t going to be endgame. 

You are one of the few exceptions. If that doesn’t scream volumes to you about your lack of understanding of storytelling/how much you live in denial, then nothing will. Live in “I’m right and everyone else is wrong” for as long as you want, but don’t ever bother me or anyone else ever again.

For the sake of honesty, I will say that I do not know if @megashadowdragon​ is the one behind the harassment of several BBers. I know with almost certainty they are behind mine, but I cannot be sure they have other victims since the patterns aren’t the same (at least, not the victims I know of). This been said, add them to the list of suspects.

I suppose I thank you for not being a complete asshole to me for the last 2,5 years, when I actually wrote the post that has you screeching for months. And now I say fuck you for being a complete asshole to me for the last 4 months because of a goddamn ship. Yet you have the fucking gall to pretend we are the toxic ones.  

TLDR: act your age (which you claimed is late 20s), and stop harassing people over a ship. No one owes it to you to pretend they did not see BB coming just because you didn’t. No one gives a shit about what you ship. Ship whatever you want as much as you want. Want to have an entire tumblr page just for BS? Go right ahead. What you cannot do is force your garbage ship down someone else’s throat. 

[schnees-and-schnugs]

is it okay to ask to know who else do you not like in rwby and why?

you can ignore this if not haha

that's fine ~

Disclaimer: this is all just my opinion and I'm in no way trying to claim moral or intellectual superiority over any of this lol. You do you babes.

Nora Valkyrie: *gestures at my posts*

Harriet Bree: *gestures again at my past posts*

All the other ace ops too with a tentative exception for marrow but he was annoying af in v8 also so he's on thin ice

Cinder Fall: she is such a crappy villain to me lmao. Like I can get if you like her, I really do. She's definitely the character archetype that I would also like (and she even reminds me of a character from a comic that I love). But her character journey is just so repetitive and meandering + the fact that her backstory was kind of... Disappointing? It just felt like a retelling of Cinderella and honestly the fandom came up with better theories for Cinder that better connected to what we already knew about the world of remnant than the writers did. Regardless, it probably should have been spread out in little flashbacks over the course of 8 volumes culminating to her last battle with Rhodes in v8, but that's just my opinion. Villain backstories are definitely not the writers forte given that supposedly important antags like ironwood and adam barely even have coherent ones, and it's definitely due to a lack of trying but that's a post for another day.

All in all, I wish they would just redeem her or kill her off already bc I'm really sick of her doing the same 3 things every time she shows up on screen. I just have a lot to say bc I want to like her so bad but the way she's written just confuses me.

Jaune Arc: I hate loser male self inserts and the loser male writers who write them.

Post v4 Jacques Schnee: self explanatory but also I still resent the fact that there was no meaningful interaction between him and Whitley before they had Ironwood blast him and that fuels 99% of the dislike I have for him. Also they made him so fucking stupid, I have a hard time believing this dude graduated college much less run a multi billion lien corporation.

Robyn Hill: I get why she's here but she's just annoying. Also her comparing qrows semblance to her own in a totally natural sounding monologue and calling marrow "wags" were uh .Moments. May Marigold is better and I would have 100% preferred her to be the one running in the election if she wasn't atlesian.

Clover Ebi: why does he even exist. I feel like this man is directly tied to everything I hated about v8.

Post v3 Adam Taurus: I don't rlly need to explain myself here.

Post v7 ironwood: I couldn't feel anything for him even if I tried. Also I resent the fact that mettle even exists, like I've never felt so disrespected as an audience member than when Kerry or whichever dummy brought that up as a legitimate semblance that isn't even given the time of day in the actual show.

V8 Weiss: they actually phoned in her character so hard last volume. I hope they let you emote like a normal human being again soon 🥺 baby I miss you.

Neo: Ice cream waifu with ironically as much personality as an ice cream waffle cone. No, I did not read her book and I dont really want to cuz I like to get important character background from the actual show <3

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Fic writer ask meme -- Numbers 2, 3, 5, 15, 17, 18, 20, 23. I know I'm being greedy with the # of questions - feel free to ignore any of them if too much. TY!

Ooh shoot - for the greedy questions, I forgot the fic -- Cyrano (Antony/Jensen and J2)

ohh my goodness bud, it's -- thrilling that you want to know about that fic! little side-pairing fic! okay let's do it omg --

cyrano

2. Favorite line of dialogue?

"Jared wants it that way. Sore. Help me out, man." / How do you want it?" / I want it sore."

I just love how... much that speaks to Jensen's 'job' here, so to speak. Whatever D/s relationship he and Jared have, Jared's obviously directing Jensen to do things that Jensen's okay with, but it's played in such a way that it doesn't matter what Jensen wants. He's meant to be used in such a way that Jared will be pleased when Jensen calls him. Like. Sploosh, haha, if I do say so myself.

3. Any deleted scenes that didn't make it into the fic?

Hmm, not really! I mean I don't really write fics that way most of the time. I did think of full-on sex but decided that the one-sidedness of a face-fucking was more interesting for the D/s scenario that developed. Sore throat and all. :)

5. If you wrote a sequel for the fic, what would it be?

Well, it'd have to be in Toronto, wouldn't it. Maybe Jared comes to visit, they all go for dinner, friendly friendly -- oh, Kripke's first babies together again! -- and then when Eric leaves, Jared suggests that Antony come over to his hotel for another drink and it's a weird echo of that first night, which is of course on purpose. Would Jared give instructions? Maybe yes. Not joining in but watching, entertained. The point is that the other guy has free rein but that it's all by Jared's say-so -- it'd be fun to explore Antony's tension there -- seeing what he could get away with -- realizing how much he can get away with -- but knowing that when he's done, he's leaving, and Jensen will be in Jared's bed no matter what. Mm.

15. Where did you get your inspiration for the fic?

Well, it was a charity fill. The prompt was "getting to know you sex" between Antony and Jensen, and I think it was the first fic in the pairing tag on AO3, lol. Tbh I don't remember where the specific D/s-ness of the vibe came from, but when I write "non-AU" I always do my best to make it as AU as I can to avoid personal squicks -- this just... added another layer of unreality.

17. How long did it take you to write the fic?

Probably about 4 or 5 hours, knowing my normal writing speed. Though I don't remember if that was all in one afternoon or over several days. It came out right around the time of the US presidential election so I was, uh, distracted.

18. Was there anything that surprised you while writing the fic?

Sort of: how much I enjoyed Antony's vaguely amoral POV. I have zero sense of him as a person -- not even sure I've even heard him speak in his own accent, lol -- so he was basically an OC there to fuck Jensen's throat up, but it was kinda... nice, you know? No real second-guessing, no love business to get in the way. Just a straightforward-ish bang. I don't actually write those that often! Felt fresh.

20. Did you include any of your favorite tropes in the fic?

ahem, yes? One of my most favorite tropes of all time, to wit: the relatively unruffled sub who gives no fucks. This is the character who is a sub, but you have to be exactly the right person with exactly the right scenario to trigger sub behavior; with everyone else, they're cool and remote and you can use their body any way you like and they're fine, because someone else is holding the real reins. Fun to apply to fic Jensen, who I really do like writing as vaguely dominant most of the time. Until he's not. :)

23. What would be the highest form of praise you could receive for the fic?

Well, this? I mean, this one really is a lot of porn qua porn, and the fact that anyone's interested in it beyond that at all is super rad. But I do think the relationship set up is pretty fun, and so people engaging with that and being interested in it beyond just the splooshiness is really neat and makes me happy. So thanks for that. <3