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[sunset-skater]

so one thing we love doing sometimes is just seeing the kinds of non sequitur ideas we can start building together and seeing if anything comes of it - cause sometimes it DOES

a few months back we became briefly fascinated with the game voiced of the void, yearned to do something with that kind of setting. astrology-coded research center in the middle of nowhere, spooky going-ons amidst the daily life of maintaining yourself and all the equipment around you? we wanted very badly to write about this kind of stuff

naturally we started with sambastian, because we fucking love those dorks. but we didn't really see anything to do with them there. like yeah they're sun and moon coded but we didn't have any inspiration laying there by itself

so of all things we thought of scott, from monster prom! he's this random fixation character we have where we aren't really invested in the series on such a serious level, but we ADORE this goofy werewolf boy and specifically one ending you can get in the first game - where you get lost on your way to prom with scott, and you instead spend the night stargazing and you realize that scott would probably love to be an astronomer

and with that, we have the perfect chance to write polycule sambastian!

we love making these guys poly (see: latest chapter of Tell Me I'm Alive) but we don't tend to ship them with anyone in-source. abby's awesome but we love characterizing her as their mutual best friend who pretends to be sick of the lovebirds she's always hanging out with. we're also just too gay for our own good so we default to shipping them with a crossover werewolf instead

anyways! an afternoon of brainstorming led us to a surprisingly scary setting, in which these three boys are effectively lost out here in the middle of nowhere without any chance to go back home. scott's the one who actually works at this place - doing god knows what during work hours, and then conducting his own research in most of his spare time - while sam and seb are here only because a lucky visit to their long distance boyfriend turned into "sorry, no one's allowed to go home until further notice" and suddenly they're just... abandoned here. weird shit happens every day, the boys are so worried that they sleep in shifts and make sure they only ever leave the base in pairs or all together. it's increasingly clear that There's Something Going On Here but throughout it all they find comfort in quiet domesticity, as sam and seb explore this surprise vacation home and scott shares in the discoveries he makes about this greater universe

it all exists floating around in our head rn as this kind of coherent idea of a story, but we've yet to give a solid shot at writing it. mostly because we've never seriously attempted horror before, and we should probably do some reading on that to find inspo before we trust ourselves to tackle a project we're so passionate about

already TMIA is a huge lesson in how we even write fanfic, finding our voice and figuring out what we wanna do with a story - but this exists in tandem with it and our other big sambastian project, as we fumble through different fics and figure out what we wanna do with each story

also this setting's working title is cryptid fic but that quickly grew outdated so we desperately need something more thematic to call it

any horror reccs by chance??? we need to dissect a few pieces of media to help figure out what we're aiming for, and while I love TMA to death I don't think it's equipped us for this project