#its not like im running around going 'EVERYONE ELSE WRITING TARNMA KIDFICS ARE TERRIBLE AND IM THE ONLY GOOD ONE'

[bitegore]

1 9 and 14 for dedication? @megatronismegagone

Fic link: Dedication

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

>.> ... okay so i read about half of a fic where Tarn and Pharma had a kid, because I thought that sounded like a goddamn train wreck. But unfortunately Tarn and Pharma are both characters I am deeply attached to and have a lot of opinions about, and no one (in my opinion) understands EITHER of them [hissing and biting etc] and I had to quit out of the fic after a near-fatal dose of "he would not fucking say/do that" poisoning. And unfortunately for all of us this got FULLY stuck in my head. I don't like to be the Fun Police and I don't want to be a person who is like "if you write a fic I don't like I'll steal your ideas and do it better" (especially because my version is, aside from a few superficial similarities, VERY DIFFERENT and a hell of a lot darker) but something something two cakes, right? I don't wish anything ill on the other author and I'm not gonna tell you who they were.

besides, frankly, their writing for both characters was very much in the like "fanon vein" and mine is outside it. if you think pharma is a coward and tarn is an incel then, like, more power to you but mine aren't. and i like my takes better and will refuse to read ones that are too far from them, which is my prerogative and you cannot stop me.

9: Were there any alternate versions of this fic?

Not unless you're counting the one that spawned this, which I'm not.

14: Is there anything you wanted readers to learn from reading this fic?

write pharma and tarn better or die by my sword /j

Uh, but, like, no. I wanted to get the idea out of my head. All else, here, at least, is pretty much secondary.

...maybe "don't neglect your kids"? or "don't take your kids to help murder people with you after killing their primary caretaker in front of them"? But if my audience needs to learn these things I don't know why they're here, these are kind of basic obvious things. Tarn and Pharma are both pretty far to the ends of what is "bad things to do to children", this is not a normal "my parents were just kind of shitty" situation lmfao.

possibly 'if you treat your kids bad enough and also give them guns eventually they will kill you' but that's also not a lesson, it's a power fantasy.

No idea, really. Probably not.

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