#its between seattle and Racter.

[subjectsix]

3, 6, 17, & 29 for the AO3 wrapped ask?

3. What work are you most proud of (regardless of kudos/hits)?

answered here as well! to pick another, probably Important or Hope, As Necessity. Important really tapped into a personal feeling for me, despite how short it was, and I liked the interpretation I had of Morgan Yu. Hope was a spur of the moment thing and my second time writing in second person, and I like how it came out for being something I spat out right then and there.

6. Favorite title you used

Oooogh hm. Maybe Three Strikes and You're Out, or Kon-Man-- I got Kon-Man's title because I finally got my hands on some Shadowrun source books and looked through all the slang. I like the pun of con man and kon (corpo) man. Titles are always really fun for me (I stress every time I have to pick one)

17. Your favorite character to write this year?

answered here-- to give another (or three), I think it's a tie between Dietrich and Blitz from Shadowrun and Vaclav Koller from Deus Ex. All three were really fun to try and figure out, and Dietrich and Blitz were challenging for me-- when I write dialogue I usually rely on whether or not I can hear what I wrote in the character's voice-- no voice for Dietrich and Blitz, so I gotta work harder.

29. Favorite line/passage you wrote this year?

see here-- and another, for good measure :] (as a side note i found a formatting error in a fic while searching for this and fixed it, thank u anon <3) (ALSO this one never got posted, it was very short-- I'll post it when I have a collection of shorties like this, maybe):

“Wouldn’t it come from her sword?” Is0bel asks, coiling up a length of wire into a neat pile on the ship’s floor. “Like its nose. She’s… the goblin shark. Like a title, I guess.” .Gobbet pushes one of the coils up against the wall with her foot “Remind me how we figured out what ‘mitsukurina’ meant again?” “Well, we don’t know what it means.” Is0bel huffs a loose curl out of her eyes. “I got curious and looked it up, then asked Duncan why she picked it. He just… smirked at me and told me to ask her.” “We still can just ask her,” Gaichu says, holding his arms out in front of him, cords of different colors and sizes laid across them. Racter is busy labeling one Generator: DO NOT UNPLUG. “There’s no fun in that, though!” Gobbet grins. “I like guessing. And being hilariously wrong. Also, Iz, she didn’t use a sword until she’d been here awhile. She was a gun girl before that. So we gotta nix the sword idea.” “It’s possible she used swords when she was in Seattle,” Racter notes. “It’s just as possible it was her nickname back home for some reason.” “Kinda boring. I think it’s to represent her dual nature,” Gobbet trips on a cord and catches herself on the edge of Is0bel’s computer, then kicks the cord further under the desk. “Like how goblin sharks have those freaky mouths that show up when you’re not expecting. It’s like how she’s so chill but decisive and strong. Stuff like that.” Her back hits the floor and she vanishes underneath the screens and into the nests of wire. “Alright Nibbles, your turn. Why’s she use mitsukurina as her runner name?” “My theory?” The ghoul smiles. “I think she really likes sharks.”

ask game

[violet-amet]

I now know the feeling of the quote in SRHK about feeling like an alien when talking.

[a-trying-writer]

cap stuff, because i want some happy juice that im happy to make for myself.

as i often wrote before, cap loves to pet kosch, but she also loves physical attention herself. no one knows why, not even herself, but she enjoys it. sometimes she purrs or sighs and/or sleeps on the person petting her. racter does this often to get her to stop having anxiety for a time, much to duncans chagrin.

cap is definitely a big eater, but she doesnt have an iron stomach like gobbet. still, the two do challenge each other over meals, and sometimes tries to pick each others meals, like uneaten fries or wings. more often than not, this leaves to a utensil fight, from chopsticks to forks and spoons. more often than not, no one wins, because they had spilled their meals.

cap enjoys challenging is0 in the matrix, even tho she knows that is0 is a master compared to her. she is kinda envious that is0 has huge servers in her room to do whatever she can, while cap has to rely on outdated software that she does try to tune up, despite the risks of it breaking. cap’s computer is also just a brick, but its still p useful. is0 doesnt mind helping her update it, tho some of the pieces dont fit the casing of the computer, so they have to do some further digging.

cap sucks at writing haikus, but she enjoys listening to gaichu recite them and japanese poems and books. tho she doesnt speak the language, she learns about some phrases and how they are valued in his culture. on a different note, being aware that he needs to eat people to sustain himself, she does feel very uncomfortable by it, due to her childhood trauma as the game states for seattle, which applies to her, but she does sometimes help hunt down the worst kind of people for him. otherwise, she minds her own business and stays away from that.

being siblings, cap and duncan are p cool with each other, sometimes getting into fist fights to practice, tho she is much smaller and lighter than him, ofc. he still helps her get better, even if she cant get the hang of it properly, buts its only for her to be safe than sorry. they also watch trideo programs together when they are bored, and joke around about it. esp around action flicks and dramas. (cap hates dramas funny enough, so she only watches them with duncan.)

cap enjoys hanging around heoi, to talk to some of the residents, or party in club 88. she is an awful dancer and singer, but its a blast. she also helps reliable matt with his drones by fixing them, thanks to racter teaching her. and while she doesnt approve of him using a chip to keep up a facade, she lets it be as long as it doesnt cause any harm. she also jokes around by calling him “beautiful” in return for all the times he said it to her.

since she is a decker much like is0, cap spends time around max law to scan through his wares, while bantering with him. she tends to forget he is a lot older than she thinks, so she tends to treat him like a younger brother or kid, before remembering that lil fact. they also talk about the journey to the west novels, and various adaptions, like video games, because of his boat that is referenced to the monkey king.

cap is p chill with ka fai family, and as i said before, enjoys partying in the club. tho, sometimes, if she becomes too rowdy, henry picks her up and drags her out where duncan waits for her to bring her back to the dowager empress. duncan is never surprised, but is often disappointed.

on a funny note, cap is frightened by both kindly and bao, so she never dares to enter the mahjong palor. the same could be said with crafty xu, but for a different reason. she adores xu, but the smell of sage gives her migraines and reminds her of her time in prison. otherwise, she does like to take a sneak peek at some of the books xu sends to her, and often talks about gobbet’s particular ways of cooking.

cap finds ambrose the most mysterious, given that what he says about himself, may or may not be entirely true. but at least he helps her and the crew a lot by supplying them with medicine. ofc, since she is sometimes up to shenanigans that leaves her with a few injuries, he is the one she always goes to, or has to go to, no matter how much she tries to assure the crew that she is all right. esp when she gets sick.

on a side note, tho it isnt canon to the game, but in my stories, cap often speaks to lucky strike, because of their relations to racter, and cap’s own past. there are some things lucky keeps secret, esp about bleak, caps old friend that went missing, if not had passed. its also hard for cap to hide that she finds lucky very attractive, but she believes its because some of her mannerisms reminds her of racter. thing is, she always has been attractive to the dangerous ones, much like how she was attracted to some of her exes in the past.

least to say, cap never really had a healthy relationship. but it is what it is, living the kind of life she has.

there are some things about lucky and cap that i might explore in the future, as i feel there is a lot of potential there, esp given her attitude in srd. but i need more dialogue refs of lucky to capture her character for them. im not too big of a fan to get back into srd, but ill be glad to do it for those refs, and other things, so i can get a better idea on how to write her. but this is a huge if.

[maybe ill write some rac/cap/lucky bits, because im starting to ship lucky and ract, but i deeply loathe the love triangle trope. and i never like the idea of cheating relationships, plus, ract did say that leaving their old crew made lucky hate his guts to the point that she was howling for blood. im not one to write unhealthy relationships unless there is a point to it. i also keep thinking its canon for some reason, but racter cant connect with someone like that, tho i do think its entirely possible for him to had slept with a few people, lucky included... hm. i guess it depends on how i feel about it... sometimes, tho, i feel like im obligated to write it too. like, is this what people want? i wont lie, i did touch up on this sort of thing before, but only between lucky and cap, but it was entirely consensual between cap and ract to allow her to spend time with lucky. and cap is something of a saucy individual. im okay with poly/open relationships, only because its the best alt than cheating couples and stupid love triangles... tho, in this case, i assume lucky nor racter connect with people like that. well, i appreciate any thoughts about this, tbh. i know i wrote about it before, this sort of thing, but what are others thoughts on this case? will it be okay for me to leave the relationship just between racter and cap, or put lucky into the picture as well, given their history? or maybe just keep lucky as a side character that is not afraid of speaking her mind to cap, about how things go in heoi and how racter may just leave her like he did before.

honestly speaking, id much rather let racter deal with cap only, instead of getting into something intense with lucky. ive read too many stories about unprompted hate kisses and rebounds, and i want to do something that isnt that. i just worry ill disappoint people... tho i have no reason as to why i do. i just feel that this is something i *have* to do, if that makes sense.

sigh i rambled on for too long. sorry. i just dont want to write any sort of hate s-x based things. it bothers me a lot. idk.]

[violet-amet]

even more silly ideas, this time with some fan fic and head-canons. hehe~.

my seattle, capricious, totally spends time drinking tea with racter and gaichu in the basement. its one of the few times she can get some piece and quiet before racter goes to work.

cap and duncan fight physically to train, tho it would leave cap injured in the end. but it never really stopped her.

cap and gob will often make bets on who can eat the most, or who can eat so and so the fastest, of if one of them can eat something horrible at all. izz is usually there to monitor them, and maybe take pictures so she could give them to duncan later as a reminder. he keeps them saved within a private folder under, “potential blackmail material”.

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there is more im sure, but i just like to share some fluffy thoughts. like for example, given the one foot height different between ract and cap, because to me, he is around 6ft, most likely a few inches shorter, while cap is between 4′11-5′1, his coat is very much too big for her, but she still holds onto it when ract needs to let his body breathe. while she hates the smell of cigarettes, she still holds the coat close to her, and flaps her arms to shake the sleeves around.

on extremely rare occasions, ract lifts the coat to pull cap in and out of everyone elses eyes, and gives her a kiss on the forehead, before saying, “no one will believe you,” to her, which makes her laugh, since its true. but she never really forgets it, no matter the intention behind said action.

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for a more found family way of approaching it, when someone gets sick, people tack turns to take care of them to help them get better soon. unfortunately, some people cant handle others, say like izz with her thoughts on ract and gaichu, but cap is more than okay with helping them when needed.

duncan has his own thoughts, but he does try to help cap help ract if he ever gets sick. he doesn’t like it one bit, but still, he helps.

cap is okay with helping everyone, regardless, but when she gets sick, everyone takes their turn to take care of her, in their own way. from mystery soup x, to ginger tea with honey and lemon, and bits of candy and medicine, it perks her up to know she is being helped. it makes her feel less alone to put it one way.

idk if ghouls get sick tho, so perhaps gaichu never does. but i wouldnt really know, given my ignorance on the sr universe. heh. still, these are just thoughts, nothing more. like my own personal headcanon on characters that are really not mine, but fun to explore. it helps me learn some new things that i hope to bring into my original stories one day. hah~.

but i also cant help but think about the possibility of raact being all cuddly with cap, by shielding her with his coat out in the rain.

but then, i think of this too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7bCImLvcVI

lmao.