#nate answers

[living-shifting-oil]

Observe you from across the lake

Approach rapidly

[sudokufag]

I don't mean this with ill intent and you obviously don't have to answer if you don't want to.. but why xe xym pronouns

They're fun :)

[yaolmao]

girlies I would smooch

[koiyoiki]

hehe L(f) on a shelf

got the little hat and scarf and knew what had to be done

[harmonia-university]

Which students would unironically use Zoomer/Gen Alpha lingo like "skibidi", "poggers" or "rizz"?

Absolute pain

[ @sevkast ]

[aardvaark]

im so glad that we never get a clear picture of sophie’s background in leverage & i hope we never do. however i also really like making up various, often conflicting backstories for her in my head. perhaps they’re all backstories for an alias of hers, ones she laid to rest back in season two.

[lindseymcdonaldseyelashes]

I bet the Leverage crew makes for an unbeatable bar trivia team

[captain-astors]

Successors. 

[not-poignant]

Have you been surprised by the popularity of any of your characters? Characters you weren’t sure would catch on but became loved?

Anon, I've been surprised by the popularity of nearly all of my characters.

Augus and Gwyn started out as side "throwaway" OCs in a fanfic because I needed an Unseelie and Seelie representative.

And like, *gestures to all of Fae Tales* - That wasn't a plan! That wasn't meant to be a thing!!

And then, Ash was meant to be a throwaway foil to his brother and *gestures wildly at Ash*

And then like, Efnisien literally gets killed before we even meet him in Game Theory and *gestures to all of everything re: Falling Falling Stars and Underline the Rainbow*

And then also Dr Gary wasn't even supposed to have proper chapters in Falling Falling Stars and *gestures so wildly at that story and Underline and then screeches like a dinosaur*

Seriously none of my original writing on AO3 would exist if it wasn't for two throwaway OCs in a fanfic gaining popularity and getting so many questions about them from the most wonderful anons and readers that eventually I had to take them more seriously to the point that I finally had enough to write a story.

And even THEN it was only supposed to be 3 chapters of hatefucking.

My original writing career can be defined by just saying 'OH OOPS' in more extreme ways each time.

It's gotten to the point where I'm truly tempted to introduce characters from new worlds upcoming as side characters in current worlds lmao, because I feel this is a bizarre skill I have and didn't know I had until one day I was like 'wait.'

[zonerobotnik]

One of the mysteries of Death Note that will forever plague me is how much L and Near resemble each other. I personally hc he's Near's blood-related uncle, but we will never have an explanation for this:

It truly, truly plagues me. Ohba-san, Obata-san, did L actually have a blood-related family member that whole time? Did Near actually avenge his own family member?

[system-reset]

in 2999 will ppl have to turn their computers off again?

[living-shifting-oil]

your blog description says that you wield a knife. can i see it? i love knives and i'm totally not planning on stealing it so i can give it to my batshit crazy girlfriend

Ah, sorry mate, the Knife Knome borrowed it. Yer gonna have to wait.

[trashyshrew]

I love your take on Mello! I would love to see the other wammy boys in your style as well.

thanks for the ask!

sorry this took so long - maybe in 2025 i'll finally get around to Matt 😅

[celestialseamysteries]

did some JLI headshots to try and get a feel for them

[reestallized]

any thoughts on ingo?

I like to think that his eeby deeby happened between BW and B2W2…

so in Hisui. Rei and Barry probably go to the training grounds for his battle services regularly and also to chat about the eeby deeby experience… also before he returns to Unova he hands his warden title to Rei….

and in Gear Station, I like to think that most services were closed or something (just the ones where you’re supposed to battle Ingo) and only the ones where you can only battle Emmet/ regular train transportation services are still running,,,,

and the mandatory B2W2 battle subway part happens shortly after Ingo returns to Unova,,, Emmet and Nate were just so excited

I didn’t think I’d go on for this long on a guy I almost don’t care about but. Here you go. Train man

[midnightsnyx]

This is from the sweet early morning things prompt the sleepy, playful smiles as they both take in each others messy morning appearance with Nate please

a/n: can u imagine it… me writing fluff??

It wasn’t often that you got these kinds of mornings. Lazy, sleepy, mornings when neither of you had anywhere to be so you did your best to cherish them.

You wake first, the sounds of Colorado coming to life. There’s light shining in through the windows, having forgotten to close the blinds before bed.

Nate’s still sleeping, face soft and relaxed. He always looks younger when he’s sleeping, less stressed and you wish he always looked like that. It’s part of the job though, and you both know that. Sometimes it’s hard, and although you know he know, you try to hide it and enjoy the good things.

“I can hear you thinking,” he mumbles, rubbing the sleep out of his eyes.

He smiles when he looks at you and you’ll never not get that warm feeling inside, like it’s the first time he’s ever looked at you the way he does. Even when your hair is a mess, and you know that there’s mascara smudged on your eyes because you were too lazy to wipe it off the night before.

But the way he looks at you every single morning, no matter if you’re laying in bed together with all the time in the world or if he’s rushing to get to the rink, it’s always the same.

He looks at you like you’re the most beautiful person he’s ever seen and you feel the exact same way about him.

You hope it never changes.