#i saw ur other one i will answer it shortly 🫶

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Hi! I love your Fine/Quick Clockwork au and i was too shy to ask about it before but i saw your post talking about people asking questions, and it felt like a sign asdfsdf

ok first though i found the fic from your drawing of fein/fine and couri/icarus and it's literally??? been living in my head rent free i was making silly little doodles of fine and couri during class today like???? the story is so interesting and cool (im a BIG sucker for hero-villain stuff) and the characterizations are so good, especially loving the dialogue and fein's narration, it matches his voice really well

i think i've reread chapter 3 at least six?? times?? probably more. every scene is so good because they're all tense but in different ways, which makes each part suspenseful while still being unique. there's a feeling of dread throughout the whole chapter, and it's awesome. also villain fruit is everything to me...he's so slay (literally. maybe too literally actually)

So I have two questions! One, aside from obviously having different characters, did anything change between the chapter three that we got and the original idea/vision for the chapter (that you can say w/o spoilers) given that there was a 2 year gap between it and 2? And two, how common is having a power in the au's world, and how did you decide what power to give each person? of the people we know i feel like people wouldn't usually correlate fein and being a healer so it's soo interesting seeing that kind of dynamic here

this got really long so just wanted to say your writing is amazing and im always excited to read your works, thanks for taking the time to read this ok bye-

thank you SO much for this. you are so kind and i’m absolutely overjoyed that you enjoy my work. i’ve said this many times before, but it bears repeating that people like you are the reason i’m still sharing my work. knowing that people other than me derive joy from what i make is everything.

anyway, to answer your questions: no, not much changed between the original concept for the story three years ago and the current outline i have. one thing that changed, though, was that i never planned on Fine himself being targeted by villains, but i since changed my mind (obviously) because the events of chapter three force Icarus to think about being a hero from a different perspective. it starts a domino effect that leads to some rather groundbreaking discoveries on Icarus’s part.

i’d say about 30-40 percent of the population has some sort of power, but very few of them are “powerful,” like Icarus’s wings. Lots of them go undetected for a long time, like Fine’s healing.

Icarus’s power was pretty straightforward. A long, long, time ago in the year of our lord 2021 (and parts of 2020 if i recall correctly), couri ran a category of 1.16 RSG called icarus, where the player would start with an elytra and a stack of rockets. that’s where his sona’s wings came from. artists started drawing him with wings and the rest is history.

about Fine’s power: Iterum readers would know that it’s quite similar to Switch’s power, but Fine’s power predates Iterum, so it came first. if you read the tags on Fine, you may notice one that reads “superpowers as a metaphor for love languages,” and, uh, weeelllll, if you read into Fine’s monologue in chapter three, think about giving vs taking, uh, you can come to your own conclusions about all that. A lot of HBG’s powers are based on their Dolorem/Iterum counterparts, if that provides some insight.