#if you haven't heard aby of these songs pls give them a listen!!

[vulcan-highblood]

1 and 13 for Not According to Plan?

1: What inspired you to write the fic this way?

I've written first person POV Brainy a LOT in the past, but these days I'm trying to improve my third person limited POV so you can clearly hear the voice of the character even in a third person narrative. Hopefully Ive accomplished that in this fic, but that's really up to the readers to decide. As for chosing to go the "trauma" route, well, the whole fact that "AIs in the future are in peril to the extent that Querl can't even stay there" was very SUSPICIOUS to me and the first thing I thought was "oh damn they replaced a biological plague with a technical one, Colu is dead, probably" And once you've had the idea "Colu is dead, probably" rattling around in your brain for a few days, you just gotta write it down and see what shakes out. So here we are!

13: What music did you listen to, if any, to get in the mood for writing this story? Or if you didn’t listen to anything, what do you think readers should listen to to accompany us while reading?

Sometimes I have specific sings that I listen to, and as I've been finding some fun songs lately, for this fic I actually took the time to throw together a new playlist! Technically I wouldn't say the playlist is especially relevant to the story so much as it's a result of me wanting a stockpile of angsty songs. I've got lots of typical emo (Linkin Park, MCR, Evanescence, etc) on it. But! There are a few songs/artists in there you might not expect. For songs more thematically appropriate to the fic, I'd go with:

Shinedown - Trade Yourself In, Styx - Man In The Wilderness, Memphis May Fire - Legacy, The Cranberries - Zombie

(Also! Bonus song that isn't relevant to the fic but I have been listening to on repeat these days: One Ok Rock - 20/20)