#this is getting super long so i'm not gonna get into the scene w adora leaving asjdghasl

[sevens-evan]

How about the bathroom scene/high school flashbacks in general for roots? I loved the pining

BRO those were so fucking fun to write. every single one of them. the bathroom scene was partially inspired by an ask prompt i got, but i took it and just. went absolutely feral. the homecoming scenes were Very inspired by my relationship with this girl who i went to a dance with my junior year of high school. she did not like me but really, really acted like she did. so i took that weird, uncertain vibe and twisted it around into a much angstier and much more obvious and reciprocal tension. adora wearing a hawaiian shirt to the dance was another self indulgent choice, i did that shit multiple times. the homecoming scenes are probably my favorite high school flashbacks, just because they get so close to kissing and so close to confessing to each other and simply don’t do it. that kind of intense, unresolved tension is so much fun to write, i can’t even explain it.

the rest of the happy high school flashbacks are inspired by a different person i had a thing for in high school ashgdlsa. i was very in love with someone who i didn’t think Could love me back, and i have all of these crystal clear memories of sitting in cars with them or walking around the park together and just. feeling a Lot. that was what fed the ‘perfect day’ flashbacks, where they skip school to goof off downtown. it’s not directly pulled from my life, but that thought adora has of ‘i don’t ever have to talk about it, i’ll be happy enough just to love her’ is definitely derivative, and i think it’s very in character for adora, too.

their first kiss scene was one of my favorites to write from the whole fic. i feel like it recontextualizes the whole rest of the story. like, the reason they’re so willing to do a friends with benefits thing—because they’ve kissed without it being a big deal (or so they think) before; the reason they’re so intense about each other; the reason they’re both so willing to admit that they loved the other person back then; the reason they both know that something was going on between them in high school. i had a lot of fun revealing it at the last minute and explaining so much of the tension throughout the rest of the fic.

ask me for director’s notes on any fic or scene!