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roomba-mangga · 4 months ago

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thinking of using this quote from The Little Prince as an opener to a yaad&thistle au one-shot

it's quiet fantasy and inspired by children's lit - mostly the little prince and howl's moving castle. sort of a warmup and cool-down exercise in between my darker fics, a character study for yaad and exploration of what their interactions might look like under slightly more positive circumstances (outside the context of a forced familial relationship). first draft snippet below:

#i'll probably scrap this bit depending on how i change the lore - like whether delgal is still alive #or whether yaad is even aware of the curse. in general how bleak the atmosphere is surrounding the curse (probs not as much as canon)#when thistle talks about delgal he's thinking of Baby Delgal because he was sent away while young #so most of his efforts here are dedicated towards getting accepted back #i think in this verse thistle is viewed like a faerie - maybe like maleficent with the whole curse thing in mind #so there's a lot of posturing on his part in order to prove himself Good And Wise And Mature #but as yaad gets to know him he realizes he's just a vulnerable person forced into awful circumstances (similar to his own in fact)#and i think their friendship would be pretty different from thistle and delgal. considering yaad has common sense #one thing i'm iffy on is their speech pattern because archaic english makes sense but also i like to mimic how they speak in canon #(consulting several eng TLs of the manga and the eng dub that is)#but i think i've hit something that i like #i'll be honest it's both really hard and really easy to flesh out the way yaad speaks because he just talks like an npc in canon #dungeon meshi fic #melinis #roomba writes #yaad #thistle #thistle & yaad

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