#i answered for sena bc hes my main

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If terror is the feeling of dread and apprehension at the possibility of something frightening and horror is the shock and repulsion of seeing the frightening thing, name a time your character has been terrified and a time they were horrified. How did they deal with these emotions? Was the terror, for example, unfounded, or the horror too much?

A time your character was terrified

I make a lot of "Sena's dead boyfriend" jokes, but the moments leading up to that were pretty much exclusively this. He doesn't know where his friend went, anticipates the worst, and then something he's been scared of up to that point actually happens.

For things that happen in-story, he has a few of these, but being left alone in Ultima Thule really freaks him out.

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A time they were horrified

THIS ONE WAS ACTUALLY SUPER HARD TO ANSWER.

I want to say the massacre early in ARR, which got to him pretty bad; he starts to come out of being an "I only care about this one person" type edgelord, he starts getting along more with people, and then those people die and he goes right back to that.

Also slightly unusual one, but the combination of dragoon and having issues with his scales makes the conversation with Vrtra deeply unpleasant for him in a way that isn't quite horror, but comes close.

How did they deal with these emotions? Was the terror, for example, unfounded, or the horror too much?

Sena tends to deal with his negative emotions in general by covering them with anger and then not actually dealing with them, but even moreso when he's scared. Him wanting to be strong is an extension of this; he wants to protect his friends, but also, if he can fight it, he has agency in the situation.

Complete silence stops him in his tracks, though.

[toranekooo]

hello it is i i come to clog ur inbox again hope its no issue... THANK U FOR TELLIN ME ABOUT HANIWA IT WASN'T LENGHTY AT ALL it actually left me wanting to know more !!! could u tell me about the idol series......

HIII WELCOME BACK !! im always happy to talk abt haniwa i vibrate ever time i talk abt it yahay!! LETS GET DOWN TO IT THEN !!

the idol series is a branch of honeyworks' confession executive committee, which as opposed to the large majority of their songs that centered on familiar shoujo manga struggles such as love, crushes, terminal illness, talking flowers, and of course, what happens when your crush moves to USA bc he was too stupid to confess — ANYWAY. idol series deals with the struggles and sufferings of idols in the entertainment industry, as well as the relationships they form in and out of their jobs !

idol series primarily centers on lipxlip ! which if you have ever seen me or spoke to me you must be fully aware im not very normal about them and just Talking abt them is one whole post itself so lets just jump over that. pyon~~!

lipxlip are the introductory characters into idol series, with one of its members, aizo, having a branch in the love series through his brother, ken. this shows that both serie are inherently connected and are simply separated by heteronormativity super silly things!

idol series also includes hiyori, lipxlip's manager and classmate who has since earned her own spot as a main character in love series with her own love story with shiranami nagisa — as well as other idols !!

mona is an angel-themed idol who is also the sister of sena narumi, a love series character and partner of midori takamine AND an in-universe media personality !

minami started as a collaboration character with y!mobile where he was introduced as the love interest of nakuru in bae love, and they have since canonized their relationship in ren'ai thru kareshi no shikaku !

another pair of idols are asuka kaido and kanata ichigoya, otherwise known as ASCANA! theyre part of the virtual johnny's project and asuka was a temporary potential love interest for hiyori up until his rejection of her in heroine ikusei keikaku (heroine development plan) . unfortunately, ascana has probably been discontinued bc their seiyuus are part of a much bigger musical group !

last and very expansive idol group (ish) in idol series is full throttle4 ! sometimes abbreviated as ft4, their members go by stage names in english characters. unlike the others, theyre not actually idols ! theyre a music and dance group with their manager as their DJ and leader, IV! rio and yui serve as the vocals while megu and dai are dancers!

note abt ft4 is that their songs tend to deal with heavy subject matter and their theme in itself is much darker than mona's angels or lipxlip's princes, but they have some incredibly interesting stories ^_^

idol series has various other characters from different media and stories: an example is chizuru nakamura or chuutan, the infamous main character of kawaikute gomen and a diehard lipxlip fan ! there's also asuna, mona's rival idol who has done some... cruel things to mona in the watashi idol sengen manga. additionally, various characters voiced by amatsuki often play the role of mona fans, like kobayashi from getsuyoubi no yuutsu! there are more and more but at this point this ask is. Too long already. IM SORRY

i hope this helps!! its 2 am and i needed this out of my system so im answering a bit fast i hope u dont mind 😭

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How do you constantly keep coming up with material to write? It's pretty amazing. Also wouldn't say 3x22 ruined Serena-Nate agreed lol. However Serena chasing after Dan in the later season had to have hurt for Nathaniel :(. I wish Nate ended up happy but we'll never know lol. Writers did him pretty dirty imo. Just in a different way from Evil Dan. Chuck looked the absolute best. It's as if he was the main character. Why did girls care about his stupid company anyways? Never made sense to me

Aw thank you! For the compliment and the vindication. <3333

First, I have to say, the 4a love triangle makes me Tired. What should have happened was either a) she date both of them and they form a glorious ot3 or b) serena date no one and focus on herself and dan and nate date each other.

Nate is a very dear character to me, and you��re right, he was done dirty as well - and I think in a way more similar to Blair & Serena rather than Dan. Like, he stated flat out in the pilot that he didn’t want to become like his parents, and then...he did. And Blair & Serena did, too. Blair, stuck at the helm of a company she flat out said she didn’t want in s4. Serena, pigeon-holed into the box of what people expected her to be: golden girl, untouchable, infallible, not-human, a muse not a person.

As for the chip whiskers of it all...it really all comes back to the Constance Grady article. They made him the main character. And every other narrative suffered for it.

I saved your writing question for the end because I have the feeling I’m about to go on for a while. I mean, I’m kinda a constant daydreamer? I’ve always been that way, with any form of fiction I absorb, but with GG a few things came together with that daydreaming for me to actually start writing honest to god fic. I’d say it was the spite at how the story ended, and thinking that I could do better, meeting having an abundance of time on my hands by living alone midpandemic, meeting community. And community I think is the real answer, because in this corner of the gg fandom sandbox, I have had the privilege of getting to share ideas and creativity with some fabulous people. My long-ass post s5 fixit was born out of all the s5 fixits I had read and wanting to come at it from my own angle. The Little Women au was born out of meta Ivy wrote about Dan & Vanessa being better off as a platonic pairing rather than a romantic one (Jo/Laurie anybody?). Speaking of my dear friend Ivy, Sunday in the Park with Nate came from a conversation in his dms about zookeeper!Nate, and it spiralled from there. Sena’s screencapping project has fueled a lot of writing, especially about Milo, and my Dan/Nate s4 au. The orchestra au literally happened bc an anon submitted a question like: what kinds of musicians would the gg mains be? And the idea popped into my brain and wouldn’t let go. My current Milofic (posting in progress) actually started as like, the inverse of what it is now: established relationship married Dair get Life-as-we-know-it-ed guardianship of Milo after a car accident, when it’s revealed that Georgina named Dan Milo’s guardian bc even in death she loves fucking with people (now that I’m laying it out again this is actually intriguing...fuck.) Then I read a ficlet by Nads and thought “that’s a fun premise! I wonder if I might come at it a different way” and here we are, 20k-ish words later. And of course, S bullied me into writing a Pride & Prejudice AU and I love her for it. (also about 20k into that one…)

This is all just to say: creativity, even with a supposedly solitary activity like writing, is dependent on collaboration and community, yk?