#which would be proven to be off by the professor in the end before rufus fucking evaporates in some water

[cola-vampire]

Hey, real quick can we consider that comet Rufus Aldebaran (I fucking forgot his name he's so forgettable LMAOO) discovered is a catalyst comet from adventure time??

[aparticularbandit]

State of Bandit Fic

it’s been a couple of months since i posted one of these and i’d like to have one done by the end of the year SO here we go. under a read more for length.  my apologies, mobile users.

plans for the rest of the year:

roisa secret santa goes up next monday.  i still don’t know what i’ll post on the monday after that.  i have another chapter ish of falling written, but idk if that’s a direction i really want to go with that novel.  maybe, maybe not.  idk.

word count maintained 2k during november with only a few hiccups.  this month the first couple of weeks i had multiple days where word count was less than 1k.  i’ve gotten it back up to 1k and think that the sudden jump from main focus on roisa hp au to main focus on rss was part of the issue there (when i go and make sure i get 1k in the hp au, i tend to hit 2k again, so there’s that).  i plan to try and maintain the 1k to the end of the year with the hope that i reach a total of 400k written this year (at the end of november, i was at approximately 381.5k - give or take a few - which means i only needed to write 18.5k this month.  i have at least 11.5k in various other non-roisa hp au projects from this month, not including any word count from second writes, and i know i’ve done at least another 1k (probably 2k or more) in the roisa hp au - so i should be hitting that if i keep up the 1k minimum).

that Christmas project i said i started last year and wanted to finish this year won’t be finished in time for Christmas most likely so my apologies.  :/  it just takes more mental thought for less word count and my focus right now is on rss.  sorry.

plans for next year:

i’m very tentative on these, but this is what i’ve been thinking about (and may or may not actually do):

focus on five days a week at 1-2k with saturdays and sundays off - still plan on keeping word count on one of those days but giving the other one for second write for the monday update because i’ve found that trying to do the second write and final edits and get 1k written is really hard for me to do, especially with longer updates.  so i’m not going to push myself for that.

this also potentially allows me an additional day to spend editing or drafting other projects - like the roisa hp au or mexican stud or stuff like that which i want to be finished and go through another edit and possible betaing before posting - and while that might not be immediately, i like that space being open and available.

focus on finishing the rough draft of the first book of the roisa hp au and hopefullly get it through a second draft and betaing and polishing so that maybe it starts getting posted in july or august.

i was thinking july but we’ll see.  i don’t want to lock myself into something like i did with ACAL this year, and while i like having it set up for the beginning of the school year, i’m not sure that’s enough time.  i haven’t done this kind of editing/drafting/betaing before on a project - with the exception of noir fic, which...hasn’t been posted and got stalled in the fourth draft.

i also think that this would be in place of the monday updates instead of a separate update as i originally planned.  because this first book is currently 16 chapters long, that would give me multiple months to focus on other projects while they’re updating - and that time off was something i really wanted in july and ended up getting mostly in october and november.  so we’ll see.

possibly hosting roisa fic week probably around july 4th and then possibly hosting rss next year, as well, but with a longer application time (probably all of october, but unsure).

possibly pick-up lines month for january into february in time for valentine’s day.  still not sure.

more focus on personal projects.

i want to write my original fic and i’ve been focusing on fanfic and that’s not a problem but i should do some writing on my original fic, too.

not sure what this means yet because i plan to maintain monday updates because that’s been a good schedule for the past however many months and i like having that schedule.

i did set up a blog for that fantasy thing i mentioned a while back, but it’s...more complicated and something i want to ease into before bringing it up real big.  so.  in the wings.

time off from social media in january.

not sure how i’ll be doing this either, but i just want to take some time off from facebook/tumblr/twitter/etc.  i don’t think full blackout because i plan to still be posting links to chapter updates and such here, but i’ve found...i get really worn-out and waste so much time and i just.  want to see what happens.  idk.

so that’s that.

and then general fic updates:

posted but incomplete fics:

if you lived here, you’d be home now

no change from last update

started a reread, maybe that’ll help

jane: the real story

no change from last update

might be dead fic; i’m not super interested in continuing this

blame soulmate timer au

heart in motion

no change from last update

luisa and the child

aka the sequel to luisa and the fox

no change since last update with the exception of some brainstorming

sin rostro

holding off because other projects are louder right now.  still excited for this idea, though

emilia antonia

started the next chapter.

probably going to be focusing on this as one of my primary focuses in the new year.  actually i should poll about this.

falling

have another chapter written but not posted but not sure if want to keep that direction or not

started the chapter past that one as well

aftershocks

all of the current chapters are posted

back to back-burner

debating a flashback chapter

the time of your life

finished posting bitches get glitches

rafael’s fic - and the rest of this series - is one of my potential primary focuses in the new year.  i’m still really excited about this series and where it’s going.

have working titles for both rafael’s and petra’s fics.

apparently michael, who i hadn’t planned to have involved, is maybe going to actually show up.  i’m thinking his first appearance might be in petra’s fic, but i’m not sure on that point.

unposted fics:

where the lightning splits the sea:

aka roisa hp au

the first book rough draft is probably going to be my primary focus in the new year, as i stated above.

currently in chapter eleven of what i expect will be sixteen.  chapter lengths vary, so it’s possible that when i go through the second write i may change chapter divisions so that they aren’t too long for ao3 postings.

i’m still super excited to be writing this one and super excited to jump into this fic so - i haven’t hit burnout, which is amazing.

mexican stud

aka rosalint fic

no change from last update

probably a primary focus in the new year as stated above

everything’s coming up roses

no change from last update

various other soulmate aus

no change from last update

epic superhero crossover

aka jtv/tick/timeless/supergirl/x-files/agent carter/person of interest crossover

possibly also to include proven innocent and deputy in a tie-in with the x-files aspect - re: how to get mulder and scully directly involved and not just have the syndicate and world-building aspects

still getting bigger

obviously i have added in person of interest as part of the crossover - primarily because i pulled in wendy mcnally - bridget’s character - from one of the episodes not because i’m pulling in main characters or themes (although there’s a possibility of that)

i have started bits and pieces of this

mexican stud, obviously

mostly dottie/lint stuff

and then a few thousand words in collateral damage, which is basically the wendylu fic that explains what happens with luisa in the three years after rose’s death

the primary fic taking place three years after rose dies but there are a lot of other interconnecting fics that cover that period and earlier, etc.

i want this to be a primary focus, but it’s...complicated

timeless/noir fusion fic

HEY I STARTED IT

IT SHOULD BE REALLY COOL

LOOK IT’S EXCITING AND I WANT TO WRITE MORE OF IT

basic premise: lucy teams up with amnesiac!assassin!emma as they delve into secret societies and etc.

emma is an assassin and has amnesia.

rittenhouse doesn’t suck.

carol doesn’t suck.

lucy is still a history professor, but at amy’s behest (YEAH AMY’S ALIVE), she went to a smaller university somewhere else instead of going into carol’s department

idk who else will show up in the fic yet - emma probably has one of the machines but i’m not sure which one yet either, so that means probably should look at rufus/jiya/mason and maybe flynn BUT not sure

noir is very female-focused with no male main characters so trying to mesh that with timeless is complicated

the focus would need to be on emma and lucy and their relationship

as a result, this will likely end up being prestmore.

sorry not sorry.

there are other projects i’ve considered - like one with nymphs kind of related to something else, and pick-up lines month like i mentioned above, AND ALSO @only-freakin-sunflowers AND I MIGHT BE BRAINSTORMING A COLLAB PROJECT - but i think that’s a good place to stop for now.  ^^

[raxistaicho]

3Hopes is, um. Very contentious when it comes to “proving” any one thing or the other. 

Only among the Edelgard haters. (Also bold mine)

Regarding point 1: It’s Caspar. Also the rest of the support line might show more and clarify the C support.

Point 2: The Scholar in question was speaking in past-tense when praising Rufus’s political acumen. The stress of involvement in killing Lambert could have easily done a number on his statecraft.

Point 3: Actually the friendship seems largely one-sided from Monica, and mostly only after having her life saved. We also don’t see Edelgard’s immediate reaction to Kronya. It could have been a pretty heart-breaking moment for her.

Hire bandits to scare off one singular professor

Not get ANYONE ELSE either frightened off or hurt in any way

We never see the replaced professor in person, though Alois’s wording, “Frankly, we had someone else in mind for the role, but they ran off during our dustup with the bandits,” seems to suggest they were new to the position. it’s entirely possible something about his character made it apparent he was a coward, which is proven true either way.

Hope that Jeritza gets assigned to any class despite clearly being unqualified to straight up lead a classroom and not just be a weapons instructor, which 3Hopes explicitly shows to be the case (randomly leaving in the middle of class, never speaking with the students, not caring for safety, openly talking about shit like “blood scents”) 

Manuela and Hanneman are also eccentrics but they’re good at their jobs. Also, it doesn’t really matter how qualified he is if Rhea’s pressed for options.

- else why wouldn’t he just be a professor already, he’s been there for ~2 years by the start of 3H.

Somebody else was doing it for that duration, maybe?

Hope that her class - or the one Jeritza is leading - is the one assigned with chasing down the bandits, and not the Knight of Seiros who don’t know about Monica being a captive 

Okay, now we’re getting into the realm of misconceptions. The scene in SB shows clearly that Edelgard didn’t plan the possibility of the rescue taking place ahead of time; it came up as an unexpected opportunity she chose to capitalize on. It’s part of why her being able to take on the Agarthans really early like she does in SB wasn’t an easy thing she could have done at any time; it was the result of some lucky breaks in her favor.

Having Jeritza lead one of the three classes just gives her more options to work with when planning moves.

Somehow know that Monica is still alive - after months of being in captivity, which has no reason for anyone to think would happen because it makes no sense to keep her alive that long if they were just going to kill her and nothing else between the time she was captured to the time she’s rescued in 3Hopes, which is at minimum multiple months. 

Actually she was probably not in captivity for very long at all. She said she was kidnapped “just before graduation” and she was a member of the Black Eagles prior to Edelgard’s year. Students graduate from the Academy during the Lone Moon (March in real-world terms).

So she would have been kidnapped during the Lone Moon of 1179, which is literally a month before Three Houses begins (in the Fodlan calendar, the New Year is at the start of the Great Tree Moon, or April by our reckoning, and the game begins halfway through the Great Tree Moon).

Judging by the timing, the rescue would have taken place at the end of the Great Tree Moon, or the end of the Harpstring Moon (May) at the latest, so at most she was in captivity for only one to two months at most. We don’t actually know how the Agarthan replacement tech works, but it seems for whatever reason Kronya had to kill Monica herself, and she was in fact on the way to do it when the rescue was carried out.

And all of this, to save Monica… who, again, Edelgard literally never mentions caring about whatsoever at any point in all of 3H. 

Repeating my point above, Edelgard didn’t plan to rescue Monica ahead of time, she simply jumped at an opportunity that arose.

And which like… isn’t mutually exclusive with the idea that she wanted to also assassinate Dimitri and Claude. Because, and I bring up the big ‘ol question again, why would Claude run away from a completely safe situation? He himself says that he, Edelgard, and Dimitri were separated from everyone else, with no objection from Edelgard or Dimitri in describing their situation that way - and in that situation, it would make more sense for him to run, because it’d be just three people against an entire band of bandits. Edelgard takes them “to safety” because Claude ran away, which she didn’t plan for and must now work around.  And with her knowing about the bandits beforehand, she would have known not let to them be separated from everyone else in the first place if she really wanted Dimitri and Claude safe.

If she wanted them dead, why did she follow them into the woods and then do nothing to expedite their murder? Three Hopes actually posits she was trying to lead them to safety in Remire. Also, Claude ran because (early on at least) he looks after himself first and foremost. I know that doesn’t gel with Fanon Claude, but it’s the truth of him. There’s no contradiction between Claude running from perceived danger or running from actual danger. Dimitri chased after Claude because Dimitri, and Edelgard followed to salvage the situation and keep them from getting themselves killed.

Which she doesn’t. Because Edelgard wants them dead.

Then she’s about as bad at killing Dimitri and Claude as she is at genocide.

Because she wants to conquer Fodlan - which we now double know for a fact, if we take 3Hopes as canon, is something she wanted independent of TWS “forcing” her, because she boots Arundel out of Enbarr, cuts ties with TWS, and still declares war on the Church and still plans to conquer the neutral Alliance. Which in 3Hopes we know she did with no attempts at negotiations with Claude 

If anyone on my side of the debate said Edelgard only declared war on the church because Thales made her then they’re stupid. She declared war on the church to remove them as a political and military force in Fodlan. Her creation of the Southern Church, if anything, only furthers the claim that she has no problem with others practicing faith.

We don’t quite know how Edelgard gets into Gloucester territory in Three Hopes, because SB chapter 4 clearly takes place after GW chapter 4, but given it’s Acheon and Gloucester’s territory she’s camped on, it’s entirely possible she convinced them to let her use their land as a staging point from which to attack Garreg Mach. She does attack Burgundy territory, but only to pass through to Garreg Mach, not to seize the territory.

The amusing thing is Edelgard in Scarlet Blaze makes no mention that I can recall of even wanting to attack Faerghus; Dimitri drags his own country into a war currently between only the Empire and the Central Church because Rhea has his whole kingdom by the balls.

And with her declaring war on the Church after her “reforms” were implemented - meaning, the Church didn’t do anything to prevent her from changing Adrestia 

Rhea censured Varley heavily and ordered his assassination. How is that “not doing anything”? If anything it perfectly proved my earlier claim that Rhea would declare Adrestia a heretical state, and now that we know Faerghus literally cannot exist without the grace of the Central Church, if she made that call then Dimitri would be forced to declare war on Adrestia.

three hopes confirms the teachers theory ( basically that edelgqard didnt hire the bandits to actually kill any of the students but to get rid of the professor and replace him/her with jeritza edelgard was literally taking the other 2 to safety. ) at the time people theorized the goal would be espionage but now its revealed thep lan was to save monica by using jeritza positon ( jeritza would be the one to break protocol and go into fortress (further than the other 1/2

if there's a 2/2 then it got ate, sorry!

3Hopes is, um. Very contentious when it comes to "proving" any one thing or the other. In just the demo it's already outright retconned hard-canon facts. For example:

Caspar not understanding why Petra would be... awkward around his father in 3Hopes directly goes against his first support with her in 3H, where he knows out the gate that his dad murdered hers. He knows this "recently" - recently, and this support chain is available immediately, meaning well before the time period 3Hopes is set in.

Rufus being a politically savvy, tormented kinslayer is certainly interesting, but literally everything we learn about him details him as a useless womanizer with no talent for politics, so him "being known" for the former is... not exactly congruent with what we knew of him before.

Monica being someone that was oh so loyal to Edelgard and was one of her most loyal servants and Edelgard knowing her personally either means that 1) this relationship is completely 3Hopes fanfiction, as Edelgard literally never mentions the real Monica once, ever, to anyone, and doesn't even pretend to be saddened at the heavy implication of her death by Kronya's hand in 3H, or 2) Monica was close with Edelgard, and Edelgard only didn't rescue her in 3H because it wasn't convenient enough for her and didn't care for Monica on a personal level despite knowing her personally, going so far as to willingly work with Monica's murderers without telling Monica's father any of this and letting him stew in despair. Which drives him to steal a Relic for leverage to save the dead Monica, which leads to his death. Cool!

And besides, this... doesn't even change anything? Like, alright, let's accept that part of Edelgard's plan was to install Jeritza as professor in 3H. So, you're saying that her OG plan, in the OG game, was to:

Hire bandits to scare off one singular professor

Not get ANYONE ELSE either frightened off or hurt in any way

Hope that Jeritza gets assigned to any class despite clearly being unqualified to straight up lead a classroom and not just be a weapons instructor, which 3Hopes explicitly shows to be the case (randomly leaving in the middle of class, never speaking with the students, not caring for safety, openly talking about shit like "blood scents") - else why wouldn't he just be a professor already, he's been there for ~2 years by the start of 3H.

Hope that her class - or the one Jeritza is leading - is the one assigned with chasing down the bandits, and not the Knight of Seiros who don't know about Monica being a captive

Somehow know that Monica is still alive - after months of being in captivity, which has no reason for anyone to think would happen because it makes no sense to keep her alive that long if they were just going to kill her and nothing else between the time she was captured to the time she's rescued in 3Hopes, which is at minimum multiple months.

And all of this, to save Monica... who, again, Edelgard literally never mentions caring about whatsoever at any point in all of 3H.

And which like... isn't mutually exclusive with the idea that she wanted to also assassinate Dimitri and Claude. Because, and I bring up the big 'ol question again, why would Claude run away from a completely safe situation? He himself says that he, Edelgard, and Dimitri were separated from everyone else, with no objection from Edelgard or Dimitri in describing their situation that way - and in that situation, it would make more sense for him to run, because it'd be just three people against an entire band of bandits. Edelgard takes them "to safety" because Claude ran away, which she didn't plan for and must now work around. And with her knowing about the bandits beforehand, she would have known not let to them be separated from everyone else in the first place if she really wanted Dimitri and Claude safe.

Which she doesn't. Because Edelgard wants them dead. Because she wants to conquer Fodlan - which we now double know for a fact, if we take 3Hopes as canon, is something she wanted independent of TWS "forcing" her, because she boots Arundel out of Enbarr, cuts ties with TWS, and still declares war on the Church and still plans to conquer the neutral Alliance. Which in 3Hopes we know she did with no attempts at negotiations with Claude, meaning she always planned on doing so and nothing Claude could say would change that. And with her declaring war on the Church after her "reforms" were implemented - meaning, the Church didn't do anything to prevent her from changing Adrestia, and in fact actively helped her in clearing out the Imperial palace, and she still declares war on it. So her nonsensical plan to save this girl she suddenly cares about does not erase her actions, nor does it say that she wasn't trying to kill people she planned on killing anyway regardless