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mikansei · 16 days ago

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and some days i come up with a whole ass plot, an entire OC family for a character complete with personalities, motivations & conflicts, how they navigate said conflicts now that they're ostensibly adults (but they never really talked through it in the first place so it's still looming) and how to make such mundane drama compelling & believable when this character's partner is mr. my-entire-family-was-horribly-murdered and like excuse me but what the fuck. where did this come from. where was this energy during yesterday's Em Dash Incident

some days i write 1k words in a sitting. some days i open the document, move the em dash in 1 (one) sentence and close the document

#adventures in fic writing #idk what happened but it fucking HAPPENED #i'm having so much fun coming up with all their idiosyncrasies... creating their lives just to ruin them... i'm mad with power #deciding ratio has such only-child energy b/c he didn't have a “brother” so much as a “teenager who happened to live in the same house”#their parents were the kind of ppl who thought naming their kid after the planet they lived on was a cool hip thing to do #his middle name is secundus b/c he's their second son. mfs literally named him “two”#also: veritas prime and veritas secundus. get it? get it? ha ha? wdym u don't like ur entire identity being a pun. smh ur so picky #but their dad is a gaius who named his first son gaius too so that's the level of naming genius they're working with #parents thought giving their moody teenager a younger sibling would help him feel less lonely. and then that sibling was a prodigy #to the surprise of literally no one but them: it did not help.#spent his late teens feeling abandoned for the new bb; spent his adulthood overshadowed by 15yo bb bro earning degree after degree #the fact that he wound up being a flop girlfailure of a 45yo man was kind of inevitable in retrospect #it's not that they were mean or uncaring to either of their sons; it's not that there wasn't effort made; it's not that there wasn't love #it just wasn't enough. it's like they don't speak the same language. veritas feels like an alien when he's with them and always has #their relationship is the best it's ever been now that he's 3 star systems away and talks to them maybe twice a year #and they all try to convince themselves it's better this way and doesn't hurt b/c the alternative is proven to hurt worse #meanwhile aven is white-knuckling it thru this family dinner like 👁️👄👁️

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