#but when stretch joins- even tho they don't really talk about /that/- edge has another person he can talk to without it being Complicated | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

bonestrouslingbones · 1 month ago

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i think the hardest part of this oneshot & trying to decide all the posting logistics of it is trying to figure out where it fits in the timeline. because like i'm technically imagining it as taking place in the short little stint between edge & stretch's universes for that good good "stuck alone together for better or worse" feel BUT i've already written a few oneshots for that time period and i am, to be perfectly honest, starting to get very very sick of not being able to use proper nicknames

#the only fics in the ao3 series that refer to edge as EDGE are the bad things happen bingo & hospital scene that i'll take down later #(not permanently it'll just be fused with a bigger multichapter fic for the rewrite)#meaning that the majority of the series has characters with the super creative names such as: russ. papyrus. red-papyrus.#maybe i can just make stretch sleep like a rock and only be acknowledged in one single sentence idk #just so i can avoid having to write a key in the opening notes for the twenty-third time #sigh. but the character dynamics after stretch joins are truly so different i dont actually know how well it would fit :(#when it's just the two of them it makes a lot more sense for edge to constantly be doing this weird shit bc he has nothing to distract him #he sees russ as a questionable figure who could hurt him at any point and vice versa and he wants that and fears it at the same time #he won't offload any of that to russ & he's still not comfortable talking to strangers in any AUs so he has to suppress and internalize it #but when stretch joins- even tho they don't really talk about /that/- edge has another person he can talk to without it being Complicated #so he's able to stop obsessing over it at the very least. his life doesn't revolve around just russ anymore #there's still Something there obviously but now it can finally fade into the background instead of being in his face All The Time #got distracted by the psychoanalysis oops ANYWAY. this is why deciding where to put it is hurting me #with all of this explanation it WOULD objectively fit the best as a pre-stretch story. but the goddamn NICKNAMES......................

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