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half-deadfic · 1 year ago

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Q&A with Darth Frodo

Hey, everyone! Two years ago, this project started as a way to reach out to authors who had left some beloved projects unfinished, mostly to reach out to them and see how they were doing, show them appreciation, and see if they needed any support in case they wanted to finish their projects or just wanted to have fun sharing behind the scenes information and tips through a Q&A.

As a part of bringing this project half-back to life, I would like to present the first Q&A of this project, in this case with the one and only @darthfrodophantom, who returned after almost 10 years to the phandom to share the ending for "A Secret Uncovered".

Special thanks to @dp-marvel94 for the questions submitted!

If you want to find out other amazing authors participating, make sure to check out this recommendation list for the project!

❇️ About Darth Frodo ❇️

[AO3] [FFN] A multi-fandom writer who has also written for Danny Phantom since the show was still on air, Darth Frodo joined the phandom classics early in the Fanfiction.Net era with beloved works such as "Tortured Truth" (2006) and "A Secret Uncovered" (First published on 2006). The latter was left on standby as life happened, but Darth's desire to finish the story was always close to her heart.

Her love for identity shenanigans and the philosophical analysis behind characters also took her to explore other ideas and stories back in the day, but also recently as she returned to the phandom for events such as Ectoberhaunt or the DP Reality Trip AU Zine, for which she published delightful new adventures.

Now that she has rewritten all of her first vision for "A Secret Uncovered" and added an incredible ending and epilogue, we reached out to Darth with a few questions...

❇️ Q&A ❇️

Q: What inspired you to write your story ("A Secret Uncovered")?

Darth: Not sure if you’ve caught on to this based on pretty much everything I write, but I love identity reveal fics. I love the awkward tension that happens right before, during, and after the reveal. I love the moment where you just don’t know how it’s going to turn out. And I love watching the aftermath of the characters struggling to adjust. I really wanted to write an identity reveal fic on a huge level that involved everyone finding out, and it kinda went from there.

Q: Who is your favorite character to write and why?

Darth: I feel like I have to say Danny because he’s pretty much my POV of choice. His internal monologues are so fun to dive into because he’s witty and snarky, but he can also be so clueless sometimes. I love putting him into different scenarios and watching him struggle through them. But if I had to pick a character outside of Danny, I’d have to go with Jazz. I just feel like I get her. She’s the mom friend and the big sister who ‘s an overachiever, and I love that. Jazz can connect pretty obscure dots, be the emotional comfort, and a voice of reason, which are so helpful.

Q. Are there any characters or types of scenes (action, dialogue, ect) that you struggle to write?

Darth: I feel like I struggle the most with transitions. How do we move from one scene to the next and conveying what happened in the downtime we don’t cover? How do we give the readers a sense of the emotional or logistical events that happened without actually having to spell it all out, but also not make it too exposition heavy? I want to include the details, but I don’t want to bog people down with exposition and passive tenses. It’s contrary to that “show don’t tell” tenet of writing, but it’s also acknowledging that from an editing perspective, you can’t show every minute. (Of course this is now all you're going to pay attention to when reading my writing lol)

Q. This one is based on a screenshot I saw on tumblr of a tweet saying "writing a fic consists of having one scene you want to write and scrambling to come up with an entire plot just so you can write one scene." If this applies to your story, what is THAT SCENE for your fic?

Darth: I actually did! I literally pictured the scene where Danny walks into school that first day after his secret has been revealed and everyone stares at him and whispers about him and crowds around him. When I first thought of doing an “everyone finds out” identity reveal, this was the first scene that popped into my head, and everything else spun from that concept.

Thank you so much Darth for the time to reply to these questions.

To anyone reading, we'll bring back the Q&A part of this project before we reach the 20th Danny Phantom Anniversary, as a way to hear from beloved writers and celebrate our phandom.

Stay tuned!

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gingerbreton · 3 years ago

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♡♡ If you're still taking asks for Lila, 🙉 📣✂️ and ❇️?

Thank you for asking 💜

🙉 HEAR-NO-EVIL - what is the worse thing your oc could hear from someone?

If Danny found out she was Psyche and told her he’d never forgive her. She’s made so many mistakes when she was still driven by resentment and assumptions. And she’s constantly terrified that she’s ruined everything between them before it even began. He’s finally giving her some hope back in what feels like a very cruel world, and she’s starting to want a future after years of assuming it’s her Fate (yes, that’s her motivation) to die taking down the Farm. If he said “I’ll never forgive you” that would destroy that hope, it would destroy her.

📣 MEGAPHONE - how loud are they? what do they speak like? got a voice claim?

Here you are asking me about Lila’s voice, and am I going to ramble about Lila and her relationship with silence? maybe just a little, since regene life is kind of don’t speak unless you’re spoken to by a handler, it kind of lives in my head. I headcanon Lila worked alone and was alone for most of her time at the Farm, and she’s well accustomed to silence. It’s how she spent most of her time (Silence by Boston the Girl is one of her songs). She only really talks when she has something to add, after all, why speak when the world around you is already having two conversations at once. This rule gets broken if she’s really caught off balance by somebody.

So, no, she’s not loud at all. Ortega is officially the only person to ever get her annoyed enough to shout, to be fair to him, she felt safe enough to do so. Back to the actual question, I don’t have a voice claim for Lila, but I do headcanon she’s picked up a hint of an accent from her first handler...I just haven’t decided what yet 😂. As for her voice, Lila is softly spoken. There’s a velvety quality to it, a little husky probably from being quiet most of the time.

✂️ SCISSORS - what is the "last straw" for them to cut someone out of their life? how easily do they let go of people?

She would claim that not letting anyone close to you makes it a lot easier to cut them out of your life, but we can see how well that’s going with the Rangers. Hmm as for what would do it…I don’t think she fully knows her capacity for forgiveness until something happens. But. But. Something like contacting the Farm/Special Directive about her after finding out she’s a regene. Or having someone try to hurt her after she’s actually extended trust. She doesn’t trust easily.

❇️ SPARKLE - what is their most prized possession? what do they value?

Her photographs. She loves her camera, likes to capture moments - tangible memories that can’t be messed with 😔. She has one old polaroid of her and Ortega that she rescued from her old apartment, and a group photo from Sidestep days. She keeps them stowed away, they’re painful and complicated memories, but still precious. These days she takes lots of pictures around the city, and has a soft spot for landscapes. Danny takes her places with good views especially. She has photos of him now too, obviously.

#thank you for enabling my rambling!#lila and silence is such a big thing in my head #oc: lila becker #danny x lila #x. a little sunshine to melt the ice

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