#sorry for the past month or so ive had a break from spars but never forget that im still that sparks nutcase. theyre so

[carcarrot]

listening to audio from that night's concert and that old man singing the way he always does is a temptress

[leviathiane]

SHOW US YOUR WROR RAW UNPROCESSED WHOLE GRAIN ORGANIC NOTES

this is going to be a long-ass post i am so sorry to Everyone! i take a lot of notes.

So, as You specifically know (as well as all of my lovely Soggers) I take a LOT of notes. Obsessively. I write fucking everything bc i have very little memory and very much paranoia. This results in literal Piles of notes. Raw planning, on paper, on my phone– doodles of scenes im brainstorming, bulletpoints, entire SCRIPTS– it’s all there but scattered (I’ve got scenes planned in the margins of my goddamn anthropology notes and deciphering it was a NIGHTMARE) 

I won’t even upload all the photos of my writing notebook, because itd be like 50 pages of illegible nonesense. but heres a couple of planning phase pages. (may be hard to read, I dropped this notebook both into some tidepools, into a creek on campus, and accidentally leaked my waterbottle onto it in my backpack :/) 

if you can’t tell already, yes they all look exactly like this. Some are even more illegible, because I wrote them with the notebook half under my actual class notes. Because i wrote most of them in class. During lectures. And pretending very badly that i was not doing exactly that. (pay attention in class please i got away with this bc i was filling up elective units) 

I’m also flat out MISSING a large portion of my notes bc some of it? isnt even in the damn notebook. its on a sheet of binder paper, or on the empty back of an assignment. I’ve now lost most of those notes, but the ones i do still have are just as (even more, actually) indecipherable chicken scratch: 

Wow, how clean and tidy and easy to follow! i am in hell. 

and this doesnt mention the PAGES and PAGES of outlines that are on my laptop, and the pages of outlined scenes that are on the notes app of my phone. if i put them all, you would have entire chapter spoilers up to the very end of the story so i cant post a lot of them– and also theres just a goddamn lot of them. currently i have 16 pages of outlining. There are no spacing breaks. It is a solid 16 page block of text. Looking at it gives me a migraine. 

some assorted notes which i have dredged up from the deleted parts of the main draft google doc go all the way back to when i started Wror in June and they are Barely more readable than my handwriting on sheer account of: articulation is not my strength. These include: 

“Ch 8 plan: sabo gets trained specially, awakens his armament haki, beats ace in a bunch of spars and proves himself to be anything but vulnerable. The boys are like “we fucking recognize that technique ryu taught you before us!!” and goad ryu into finally starting them both on basic haki training, just to awaken it, since sabo already has. Also this is the chapter that ace finally confronts ryu for his devil fruit after ryu confirms that some devil fruit users can’t be hurt without haki and ace immediately catches onto that and tries to slam his pipe through ryus head. It doesn’t work, ryu catches the weapon with a haki covered hand, to avoid turning to flame with hit and ace just gets frustrated and accuses ryu of hiding his devil fruit, because he remembers what he saw in grey terminal and that now that he has seen haki he can distinguish it from what he saw and he’s sure no one could do what ryu did. He calls ryu a hypocrite for coddling them even after telling them to stop coddling sabo and ryu has to sit them down and explain that yes he does have powers and he has been hdiing it and explains his reasoning. However instead of understanding th eboys just get fired up and say they don’t wnt to be scared of fire, especially not when it means ryu isn’t taking them seriously in a spar. Ryu finally agrees to start them on desensitization training for fire trauma. Fire desensitization training happens on the beach, so that they have water nearby in case things get out of hand. At some point ace gives ryu a considering look and is just like “if you have a devil fruit that means you can’t swim either right?” and ryu is basically just like “lmao yeah” and then ace immediately attempts to drown him. Lots of murder attempts in ace’s department toget his older brother to be less of an idiot with little success lol(extra: ace tried to attack ryu earlier both to confirm that ryu has a devil fruit that would force him to use haki to hide it, and because he now knows that he CAN’T hurt ryu without haki and as thus can’t beat him and make him admit he’s awake without being good at haki.)” [chapter 8] 

“Small sabo lost his hat and goggles in the incident and while he doesn’t remember having them future sabo notices he looks uncomfortable and keeps touching his hair and head. Ace yells at him for it thinking he bandaging are bothering him and that he can’t touch them but little sabo just comments that something about it feels wrong. Luffy blurts our that he had a hat, like luffy does, But he doesn’t now ace begrudgingly mentions that they can’t get a new one in town. Future sabo doesn’t even hesitate and just plops his own hat onto his younger selves head. It clearly too big for him, and almost falls over his eyes but he grins up at future sabo and is like “wow!! Thank you! I’ll take care of it till I have one of my own” and creates a paradox like Luffys own hat. The footsteps younger sabo has yet to fill. This HAS to happen AFTER the talk where they explain that future and past sabo are both the same person, to give little sabo that pressure.” [chapter 9]

“(Right after this older sabo takes them down to the ocean so that they can play a little and desensitize themselves and immediately fucks himself over when he goes weak in the water bc he somehow fucking forgot his own devil fruit again and now even younger sabo is on his case about not letting him near the fucking ocean that little goddamn HYPOCRITE—) )” [for chapter 9]

“Ch 9 plan: they finally leave dawn island. Starts with the boys getting a haircut after training and luffy mentions how long it’s been since they’ve last needed a haircut, giving sabo and ace time to point out that it’s been 2 months now since ryu joined them, and that sabo was completely healed by now. The boys are now aware of the basics of haki, and while luffy hasnt awakened either yet ace and sabo both have a little bit of weak armament haki. (sabo won’t awaken observational haki until he gets his memories back) ryu tries to sneak off into the city to steal a boat but his brothers refuse to leave him behind and keep sneaking out after him, not wanting him to go alone and saying that since he’s been training them they’re clearly stronger and he needs to let them do this. Ryu eventually just lets it go because why the fuck not it’s a dream and they make him feel better. They get the boat out on open ocean and finally fucking sail out, cheering loudly, ryu struggling to make them all calm down but also not really trying. He’s happy as shit, and they’re all so excited and happy and sabo dips a hand into the waves and then smiles so fucking wide and tackles ryu so violently they both nearly tip into the water and it’s just very very good. “ [also for ch 9] 

** I flat out dont Have any outlining from before chapter 6, because i only started actually outling chapters after that. i tend to just sit down and Write up until i hit a plot point or writers block and then am forced to actually think it through and plan rather than letting it come naturally. thats also why the quality and editing is better in later chapters despite everything being written within the same time frame. 

besides entire chapter outlines, there are the scene specific phone notes like:

“(ADDED) Right after they leave dawn, when sabo is sure they’ve gotten enough of a head start, he calls Garp. He doesn’t say who he is, but that all of the boys are safe and happy with him and has them all talk into the phone to assure him that they’re fine. Garp is honestly just pissed off he doesn’t know who’s calling and when he asks sabo just laughs and says a disobedient brat before hanging up. “

“(ADDED) TO EXPAND ON CH 3: sabo gets offered the chance to go with dragon, and he hesitates on the offer to go through with his previous life with the family he’s made in the revolutionary again. He almost agrees, because the bought of losing them in this lifetime is near excruciating but reminds himself swiftly that it’s no place for his brothers and not what they’d really want, and he wants selfishly to be with them as long as he Can until he “inevitably” wakes up. The boys are visibly relieved by this, especially ace. (Sabo gets asked who he is by dragon, who wants to know more about the stranger with his son, but dragon has always been quicker to make connections no one guessed and he just smiled knowingly at sabo and tells him he’s sure the other will have no trouble finding them if he’s in need. Sabo in turn warns him to keep Kuma close, and to look for a slave girl named koala.)”

I have…. many of these. I have Many of Everything. 

finally, i have scene doodles. if i hit a bad writers block it usually helps me to sketch scenes or the character designs to regain my grip on what the hell is happening in the plot– Breach of Intention has character design sketches, pakcbond has MANY scene sketches, even some of my nsfw has some sketches. my wror skecthes arent Good of course, I am an art teacher for children and that means i am more often explaining the color wheel and brush techniques over drawing perfect human replicas– and i just dont really make a lot of fanart? ive never drawn sabo before but i sure have a bunch now. i wont include close ups because they genuinely suck but heres an example pic 

So… yeah thats about everything. this is a VERY long post and yet i only included like maybe ¼ or 1/5 of all the notes i have dbskhjgfkjadns lmk if anyone wants more (or notes for my Other stories, which contain NO WHERE the same absurd amount of shit that wror does.)

[aeon-wolf]

Ascension - Chapter 7

Demos Educational Organization was like no other college Lena could have imagined. Instead of reading, math, and science, they were taught Ancient Greek, War Strategy, and Swordsmanship. Lena, shocked to find out her true parentage strikes friendships left and right at her new school. Her most treasured friendship of all, her friendship with one Daughter of Zeus, Kara Danvers. Follow Lena on a journey of self-discovery in an attempt to foil the plot of the Titans, and maybe learn a few things about herself along the way.

Or

A PJO inspired Supercorp series. Part One: Ascension.

Read it here on AO3

I.

Lena approached the group the next morning, gathering up her nerve to tell them all about the quest. Kara, as usual, spotted Lena first, waving brightly. Lena suspected that Kara actually waited and searched for her to arrive. It did warm Lena’s heart to know that Kara cared that much about her. Lena smiled at everyone, sitting down in her usual place. “Morning Lena,” Kara said brightly. Lena smiled at Kara.

“Morning.” She said. “I’m sorry about last night.” She started. “I didn’t mean to snap at you. I’ve just had a lot on my mind.” Just like Mon-El the night before, Kara waved her off.

“Don’t worry about it, Lena. It’s alright.” Kara said. She wasn’t going to say it didn’t hurt at the time, but today was a new day. But Lena shook her head.

“It’s not. And I can’t say anything else except sorry. And that I have something to tell everybody.” She said softly, though apparently everyone heard her because they all quieted down and turned to Lena. The raven haired girl felt a little self-conscious, but Mon-El gave her an encouraging nod of his head and Kara wrapped an arm around her shoulder, a jolt of heat coursing through her body at the contact.

“So I saw J’onn yesterday and he said I had been selected to lead a quest.” Kara was slightly taken aback while Alex and Maggie looked visibly surprised. Winn, Mon-El, and James didn’t react one way or the other, rather waited for her to continue. But Alex jumped in.

“You? No offense Lena, but you’re really…. New.” Alex said. Maggie elbowed her girlfriend in the ribs. But Lena nodded.

“I had the same concerns, but J’onn said it wasn’t a mistake. My father said the same.” This time everyone looked surprised.

“You got a visit from Apollo?” Winn asked excitedly. Lena nodded.

“Why? Is that weird?” She asked, unsure how many times everyone else had met with their godly parent.

“It’s not unheard of, but it’s certainly not too common either.” James supplied. “I’ve never met Athena and Alex has only met her once.” He said, pointing to Alex who nodded.

“Meeting your godly parent is kind of a big deal.” Alex agreed. “It’s a pretty big deal for you to get a visit from Apollo.” Lena awkwardly rubbed the back of her neck.

“Oh, I didn’t realize…” She trailed off. Kara jumped in, saving her friend from the situation.

“What is the quest about?” Kara asked. Lena shot her a grateful look.

“I’m supposed to go to Mount Othrys to spy on the Titans?” She said, almost questioningly. The entire table was a mix of different reactions. Winn’s jaw dropped, as did Kara’s. Alex, James, and Maggie all frowned at the admission and Mon-El looked somewhat excited.

“That sounds like fun!” He said happily before Kara shot him a critical look and he backed off, transitioning into a more sympathetic look. “I mean… Man, that sounds tough.”

“How many people are you allowed to bring with you?” Maggie asked her friend, smiling at her encouragingly.

“Five others,” Lena replied simply. Everyone at the table looked at each other.

“Well… there’s seven of us; you, Kara, Alex, Maggie, James, Winn, and Mon-El. And there are six people allowed to go. Unless you were planning on bringing some of your other friends.” Kara said a little sadly. Lena shook her head, though neglected to say that she didn’t really have any other friends than the people sitting at the table. Lena had given a bit of thought to the exact problem that Kara had just brought up. She knew that one of the group would have to be left behind. And while she was loathed to do so, she knew it was necessary.

“I know.” Lena turned to James, giving him an apologetic look. He nodded in understanding. “I’m sorry. I really wish I could bring you.” Lena said, making a mental note to talk to him privately later.

“It’s okay Lena, don’t worry. I understand. Someone had to be left out.” He smiled at her reassuringly. Lena sighed.

“Can we talk later?” She asked him. He nodded.

“Sure, just come find me later.”

II.

The rest of the day went fairly smoothly. Lena was relieved to get that off her chest and out of the way. And during her free period, she went to go find James. She found him on the quad, throwing a football around with Clark Kent, a friend of his that was a Son of Poseidon. She approached him. “James, can we talk?” She asked. James nodded, throwing the football to Clark.

“I’ll be back man.” He said, his friend nodding. The two went over to an empty spot on the quad.

“I really am sorry.” Lena apologized again. James placed a hand on her shoulder.

“It’s okay Lena. Don’t beat yourself up. You and I aren’t as close as the rest. I’ll be fine. I’ve got other friends here. Yeah, I wish I could go to help you, but I know the rest of the group will do that for me. But you’ve got my phone number if you need it. And of course, you can just throw a coin in a rainbow.” He laughed. “But really, don’t feel bad.” Lena threw him a grateful look.

“You know, it was a really hard choice between Alex and you. But…” Lena started but James cut her off.

“You didn’t want to separate her and Maggie.” Lena nodded.

“I’m not that cruel. I also thought that if I wanted to bring Kara, Alex was part of the package.” Lena said with a small laugh. James also chuckled.

“You’re right. Alex loves her sister, but she can be a little overprotective at times. I don’t think Alex would have accepted you bringing both Maggie and Kara without including her.” James said, patting Lena’s arm. “Seriously, though, make sure you come back safe. It’s dangerous where you’re going. You’re kind of like the little sister of the group now, we’d all be sad if something were to happen to you.” Lena’s heart warmed. She was getting more used to having friends that really cared for her, but being validated like that still made her heart skip a beat.

“I’ll make sure we all come back safe. I promise.” Lena said with confidence that she wasn’t really feeling. James pulled the shorter girl in for a hug.

“I’ll miss you guys.” He said. Lena hesitantly wrapped her own arms around James. She still wasn’t used to physical contact, unless it was Kara, but she was getting better.

“We’ll all miss you too.”

III.

While Lena was talking to James, Kara and Mon-El were taking a break from sparring, instead, hanging out in the lobby of the Zeus dorm. Since Zeus didn’t have that many kids, it was almost always empty. “So, this quest…” Mon-El said to his friend. Kara nodded.

“I kind of can’t believe the gods decided that Lena was supposed to lead the quest. Not that I doubt her abilities, because she’s super powerful, maybe even more than me, but she’s also so young.” Kara said, concerned. Even though Kara herself was only 20, she had a long time to come to terms with her powers and grow into them. As had the rest of the group. But Lena was new to this life. She knew nothing of it before she started at Demos a few months ago.

“Yeah, she is but that’s why she has us,” Mon-El said confidently. “We’re all going to help her!” Kara nodded absentmindedly. “Not to mention it gives you time to get closer to her,” Mon-El said in a suggestive tone. Kara frowned.

“I have no idea what you’re talking about.” She tried to deflect, but he just shook his head.

“Don’t think that you can hide your feelings about her from me, Kara. Or anyone in the group for that matter. We all know you have a thing for her. Except for Lena herself apparently.” Kara sighed.

“Am I that obvious?” She relented and he nodded sympathetically.

“Kind of. You’re affectionate with all of us Kara, but there’s something else in the way your face lights up when Lena walks into the cafeteria or when she gives you a hug. Which by the way, you know she doesn’t really hug anyone besides you.” Kara blinked, she hadn’t noticed that she was too busy just being wrapped up in paying attention to Lena.

Over the past few months, Lena had opened up to Kara a little bit about her life before Demos. She knew that Lena came from an extremely wealthy and influential family though she said she never felt like she fit in there. She had even brushed over her unstable relationship with her adoptive mother, but never lingered long on it, rather talking about her brother, Lex.

Kara knew that Lena looked up to Lex, adored him. He was her hero when they were younger, but when Lex went off to college and got involved in his own life, he kind of left Lena behind. She was bitter about it for a while but eventually learned to harden her heart and get over the pain. Kara always felt her own heart tug at Lena’s stories. All she wanted to do was grab Lena’s hand, hug her and never let her go. And in a different part of her mind, she wanted to be the one to show Lena that love didn’t have to end in heartbreak.

“Earth to Kara!” The blonde was jolted out of her thoughts.

“I’m sorry, what?” Kara said, a little startled. Mon-El just laughed.

“You were thinking about Lena, weren’t you?” He asked and she just smiled sheepishly.

“You’re already in deep and you don’t even know it.”

IV.

At dinner that evening, the group were just enjoying the evening together, knowing that they would probably be leaving campus that weekend. Winn and James were caught up in a conversation about a new gadget that Winn was trying to develop. Maggie and Alex were also listening in, inputting their own contribution where they could. And Kara, Mon-El, and Lena were wrapped up in their own conversation.

“I’m telling you, Lena could totally spank you in a powers battle, Kara!” Mon-El insisted. “You powers of air manipulation wouldn’t even penetrate her light shields.” Lena was just watching Kara and Mon-El trade strategies. She could even really control her photokinesis yet. The manifestation of her powers seemed to be linked to her emotional state so far. And since no one else had these powers, she was kind of on her own in that regard. She assumed that she’d be able to control them as she got older and more experienced, but she didn’t know.

“No way! Besides, Lena doesn’t even have control over her powers yet.” Kara insisted. Mon-El shrugged.

“She will eventually. And then you two have to duke it out.” Lena was about to jump in, but Kara didn’t give her the chance.

“Hey! I’m not going to fight my best friend just because you think she could kick my ass.” Kara said without a second thought. But Lena’s heart skipped another beat. Kara thought of her, Lena Luthor, as her best friend. Even though she hadn’t known her nearly as long as everyone else. Kara and Mon-El seemed to be oblivious to Lena’s inner turmoil, though, so she didn’t say anything. “Right Lena?” Kara said.

“I’m sorry, what?” She asked, a little flustered.

“I said if anything, you’d team up with me and kick Mon-El’s butt.” Lena blinked, having completely missed that part, but nodded.

“Sorry, Mon-El.” She said with a shrug. “What the lady wants, the lady gets you know,” Lena said absentmindedly. Kara’s eyes lit up and Mon-El gave Lena a knowing look that she missed as she went back to her food. Mon-El wanted to roll his eyes. Lena was even more oblivious than Kara was sometimes.

V.

That night after everyone had gone to bed, Lena laid in her bed, staring up at the ceiling. She was going to go talk to J’onn during her free period the next day and they would probably be sent off on their quest that weekend. Lena couldn’t help her stomach tying in knots at the thought. She knew she had her friends, that she was strong enough to do this, but she couldn’t shake the strange feeling that something was going to go wrong.

With her thoughts buzzing in her head, she started to drift off to sleep.

In her dreams, she was brought back to the stone wasteland that she had dreamt of before. This time, she had use of her limbs and wandered the area, examining the stone ruins. And again, like that first night, the same man appeared before her again, in a brilliant flash of light. Lena shielded her eyes before looking at him. His eyes were still as captivating as they were the first time she saw them, this time his cape red in color, sword still at his hip. “I know you’re coming.” He said, his smooth voice causing the hairs on Lena’s arms to stand up.

“Be careful how you proceed. One wrong move will doom you and all your friends.” He said, staring at her. Lena took a step back, but this time, unlike the first, found use of her voice.

“Who are you? What did you do to me?” Lena questioned, thinking back to the mark he branded on her wrist. He chuckled, taking a step towards her.

“Think of it as a gift.” He said cryptically. “A mark.” Lena frowned, rubbing her wrist where the mark had once been. “Before the end, you’ll be thanking me for it, Lena Luthor.”

“How do you know my name?” She asked again. The man shook his head.

“Answers you are not yet ready for. You’ll know in due time. But not today. I have left you a gift in the real world, though. Use it well.” He said, giving her an intense stare before disappearing again in a flash of light. Lena jolted away, the sun just barely starting to peek over the horizon. Lena sat up in her bed, looking out the window when a glow caught her attention elsewhere.

On one of the weapon hooks on her wall, hung a golden sword, glowing a pale yellow color. Lena cautiously got out of her bed, padding over to the hook on the wall. She picked up the sword and examined it. It was about the same length as the sword she used to spar against Kara, except the metal was made of what looked like a golden material, though she knew it couldn’t have been. Gold was an extremely soft metal and an effective sword wouldn’t be made of the metal without some other mineral to strengthen it.

She looked at the hilt of the sword. There were carved symbols on the hilt, with the crossguard bearing the same mark that she had burned onto her wrist. Lena frowned as she gave the sword a small swing. It was perfectly balanced and it seemed like it was made for her. The sword began to glow a brighter yellow color. Lena hissed as she felt a pain in her wrist, the symbol on her wrist manifesting itself again, glowing the same yellow color. Just as quickly as it came, it faded the sword also fading from existence, like it had never been there.

Lena frowned, examining her hand, turning it over so she could inspect it. Nothing out of the ordinary. There was no evidence that the weapon had ever been there, nor the mark. Lena felt herself growing concerned at what this all meant. But she just shook her head. She had bigger things to deal with than her strange dreams.

Yup, so James is the odd one out. I really had a hard time trying to pick who I had to leave honestly. I think I could have either left out Winn or James honestly, but basically, with Alex going, there's already going to be a child of Athena. And I think Winn's abilities of a Son of Hephestus are going to be important on the journey. But I did want to establish that Lena really hated to leave James behind. Because while they don't interact as much as the others, he's still her friend. And they still do have a relationship that isn't written about as much here since I always knew that once this beginning part was over, he wasn't going to have a prominent role until later in the series.

So yeah, Kara, Alex, Winn, Mon-El, and Maggie are the ones going with Lena. And Lena is still having dreams... Significant or not? Who knows. I do, but that's besides the point. I'm enjoying this story a lot. It's fun to write.