#i enjoy rambling about dmc and kat and vergil and i am so lucky there's a handful of us who still do in 2023 i love it

[fabdante]

For the Fic Writer's Ask meme: 4, 5, 8, 16, 50! Pinkie Promise for the 'insert fic' questions (or answer for any fic you want). ;D Have fun! Take care!

Thank you for the ask!! 💖 (the ask meme in question can be found here!!)

4. What detail in [Pinky Promise] are you really proud of?

This is so hard because there's so many little things I love in there. Since at the time I wasn't sure how many other DmC fics I would ever post, I kinda packed it with all my favorite little things sdfghj.

Off the top of my head, I loved the comparisons between Vergil and lighthouses. And I loved describing Vergil's penthouse and the Order compound in general. I'm really happy with those things.

(I also now would like to get more DmC/DMC fic out, so fingers crossed!)

5. What do you wish someone would ask you about [Pinky Promise]? Answer it now!

Oh this is difficult because the answer is 'anything' sdfghj I want to talk about Vergil's adoptive parents though, so I will. In my read of Vergil and how he is written in the universe of Pinky Promise/Drafting of a Swan (what I dubbed the series), he actually has very good and loving adoptive parents and he does really care about them. Their names are Rosa and Hugo and they're quite well off. Hugo also loves little robots that do little tasks. I love that about him and I think its important for everyone to know.

I do not think Rosa and Hugo would respond bad to their son being like...you know a non human, divine entity. That'd probably be a bit of a shock they would not know what to do with. However that is their boy and they love him so they would be as supportive as possible sadfghj.

8. What song would make a great fic (to either write or read)?

Oooh this is a really good question. Fair warning my answers are going to be strange, I'm going for a vibe rather then the literal.

I think obligatory mention of Heart-Shaped Box. There's just something about it I both want to figure out and also capture.

Some more answers because I cannot help myself: Smokey Taboo (peak Zelgan vibes I would like to capture), King (also peak Zelgan vibes?), Eclipse (underutilized for TF2 stuff I feel), Space Oddity (I have a TF2 project I've been dying to do something with, fic or comic), All Alone (always wanted to do a reboot thing with this one)

16. What’s an AU you would love to read (or have read and loved)?

DMC BAND AUS! Look I saw a thing that said band au's are like one of the least favorite kinds of AUs, but look there's something about DMC and band AUs I think is just really good and why don't we have more of these? Like just a couple of fun little oneshots or something.

Especially the preboot with a grunge AU specifically. I have a lot of thoughts on that, and I am trying to remedy the situation with a very 'catered to Fabdante only' one shot about it that hopefully someone else also likes asdfghj.

50. Answer any question of your choice, or talk about anything you want to talk about!

I really like the shoe question (If [insert fic] was a pair of shoes, what kind would it be? Describe the shoes.) and want to answer it about Pinky Promise asdfghjk.

Pinky Promise is not a pair of shoes, it is bare feet. Pink Promise is stopping after you've ran in dark through brush and rain with little rocks jabbing into your skin. Your feet hurt a little and they're cold, but you stopped because you found shelter with someone else who's just taken off their shoes to. And maybe you don't quite know each other, but you feel safe enough to not have your shoes. So it's the two of you, on opposite sides of this place, studying one another and you get a little closer, little by little, until you are side by side but your feet are cold.

thank you again for the asks!!