#i REALLY REALLY REALLY want to start on that youngblood chronicles crossover

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OKAY. Suitehearts Thoughts time. For my magnus archives danger days au. The first brainstorming post is here

One of thems a vampire. The shark toothed physically unable to speak tma kind. I was thinking Sandman but actually. Maybe Crab?? Because i always headcanon him mute and hard of hearing and Benzedrine like semi verbal and they communicate a lot with sign but the vampire thing is like. They send mental vibes through eye contact. Feelings and thoughts in a mindmeld. And i just think that fits them. Maybe he turns benz at some point and he becomes a vamp too. Sure the vampires whole purposes are like to like hunt humans sure but like whatever its fiction he can have human friends. Mostly human friends. Because the thing is the suitehearts in this are all Fucked up. Like they're juvie halls, they're in the underground, in the city, where the fears are. And sure better living sends all their monsters beyond the walls for the killjoys but like the desert is the other powers domain, the Witch and Destroya and whatever else i come up with. The fears are festering within the city, and especially in like the slums and the underground? They kind of run rampant, bli doesnt care, the peple there are seen as expendable, all future dracs. So the suitehearts face monsters and fears and shit, but it also means that those who are avatars of the entities, they're powerful within the city, where the entities are. So Sandman and Donnie, who i might be making avatars, have more powers than like, Cherri with the vast or Ghoul with the rot or something like i mentioned, since theyre way out in the desert, and not as connected.

Benzedrine- well I'm still thinking about it- but either hes an avatar, or his flavor of fucked up is like, he used to be a avatar. My main plan is that he survived a ritual and had like. A youngblood chronicles experience. So this would be like. A ybc/suitehearts/dager days/tma crossover 💀. So he's like still dealing with the aftermath of that. And suprise! Hes immensely fucked up by it. Maybe theres still traces of that power in him too, and sometimes his eyes flicker yellow.. (im so normal about this).

Donnie I'm not very sure on anything yet, if he'll be an avatar or not. If he is, maybe for the spiral? He just has the vibes.

Mr Sandman.. I think he'd be a good avatar for the end. With some power over or knowledge on death. Like the tma guy that could see the vines and knew how and roughly when everyone would die, at first he just saw it in dreams but then he started seeing the vines in real life too. Sandman has that power or like, the power to give someone a heart attack or something. I just know i want it to be freaky, and him to be really, really creepy.

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1, 5 and 7!

i've answered 1 over here!

5) character you were most surprised to end up writing

HMM HMM HMM. i believe i've mentioned this before, but i'm surprised that newsagogo got as big a role as she did in mayhem and that her role was so essential to shaping ghoul as a person. i planned her inclusion to ghoul's story early on, about partway through crafting jet's narrative, but it was kind of a shock to see how massively important their role was.

in the less immediate sense, i'm surprised at how amped i am every time i get to write korse. he's come up in everyone's histories but this was something i planned to a degree (there are certain threads that connect each of the fabulous killjoys: they all had their lives saved by dr. death and/or show pony, they all have some very vivid memories of zone music and of mad gear in particular, and they all have some kind of connection to korse, no matter how vague). writing him is a lot of fun even if he's still in this borderline inscrutable state since we haven't gotten anything from his POV yet so we can't know anything about what's really motivating him you know. but that's also something i kind of planned so i'm not sure that really answers the question :/

i'm surprised at how many OCs i had to write into this universe to make it all make sense, does that count? or - oh actually you know what? i'm surprised that i've written gravel gertie of all characters multiple times now and how she's kind of acquiring a bigger role in things over time. she's one of those bit characters who gets literally one mention in dr. death's listening party and yet i've found she's kind of essential for certain goings-on in the zones.

7) when asked, are you embarrassed or enthusiastic to tell people that you write?

i'm probably somewhere in the middle. i'm anxious about it the way i'm anxious about most things in my life and have a general terror of being judged for literally anything, but i'm nervous about telling someone that i write the same way i might be nervous about ordering a coffee; in a generalized, blanket fashion, and not in a way that's particularly unique.

i'm generally more keen to get into the nitty gritty of what it is i write with people i like and generally trust though. and if people are willing to put up with my rambling and listen, they're well worth any of the nerves.