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quidfree · 6 months ago
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a new witvok chapter has hit the towers. it's 36k
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quidfree · 6 months ago
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just finished rereading witvok... (and screaming very loudly especially at the tournament scenes) i remember you writing somewhere that essence is a more toned down version of quirks but i was wondering if you'd be willing to go into more detail re the difference in scale btwn quirks and essence. i'd interested ofc mostly in shouto and katsuki but izuku as well like was his essence also... a strand of hair he had to eat? and the other characters as well if you're willing!
<3 great question actually! (and thanks for the rereads, next chapter is nearing completion and is very very long lol)
the pragmatic line of thinking i had going in was that i couldn't have the characters maintain quirks with the scale of power they have in canon, because it just took them too far out of the genre setting. i wanted it to remain fantasy, so they kept some of their powers, but essences are toned down to like maybe 1/3 of canon scale, and need a channel to work with the kind of precision they would be used with in bnha proper.
to give examples with the girlies, shouto wouldn't be able to do a sports fest style ice wall in this, despite this being something that comes fairly effortlessly to shouto in canon. smaller scale. everyone's essence is a lot more attuned to their physical body and space. she also wouldn't be able to do like a hell spider because that's too fine-tuned. hence supplementing attacks with a bow and arrow (very shouto, i feel). but in any event this shouto still refuses to use fire, which will be plot relevant very soon. same sort of thing is true with katsuki, who wouldn't be able to pull off a howitzer impact but can easily do ap-shot equivalents.
izuku's backstory in witvok is very arthurian. inko was a chambermaid for the bakugou nobles, so izuku grew up around katsuki before eventually becoming her servant / page and therefore kind of stumbling into combat training, and then in parallel to canon during the first major battle they found themselves in he ended up having a sword-in-the-stone moment with the sword that in this 'verse represents OFA and which all might had (unbeknownst to the GP) increasingly lost the ability to use and so discarded during the battle. so izuku is strictly speaking still without any essence of its own, he's just the only person except all might who can wield the sword (very thor's hammer vibes). and the sword has similar power to classic OFA, so like immense physical strength, green lighting, etc. as in canon it took him a lot of work to adjust to actually wielding it as he does, and his gauntlets (a nod to his red gloves) ease a lot of the physical brunt of it.
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quidfree · 11 days ago
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THE SHRIEK I SHROKE AT SEEING NEW WITVOK CH
thank you 🙏 it's such a niche labor of love it makes me happy to have hashtag real ones who ride for it too
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quidfree · 9 months ago
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i love witvok so much like i didn't know how much i needed medieval lesbian todobaku... i will wait however many years in takes to complete and then i will print it in book format and lovingly bind it and keep it on my future bookshelf... thank you for writing it... hope you're doing well!
TT thank you !! appreciate the patience and the well wishes. next chapter's not far off!
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quidfree · 9 months ago
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Hii, Could you give us any teaser/tropes you're going to include in Valley of Kings? And does that include any of these things:
Ser Bakugou in a ball gown
Tdbk riding on the same horse (doubling)
Knight rescues the Princess from the evil dragon but the roles are swapped (like in canon)
~ 🐈‍⬛️
haha none of those actually - give them some credit. in terms of tropes, hmm.... patching up wounds? mutual heroic rescues? sieges? dramatic unlocking of powers? keepig watch together? can't be giving too much away either.
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quidfree · 2 years ago
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Bakugou Katsuki being Shouto's champion is ingenious, like damn, Kacchan must be seething inside 😂
of course. curse shouto and her basic respect for everyone around her, too. really not appreciated when you’re fostering one-sided enmity.
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quidfree · 1 year ago
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“I’m sure,” Shouto says, thus, and sets her crossed hands down on the table, straight-backed. No point wasting time on small talk. “I’ve come to you with a proposal.” 
Midoriya’s green eyes are intent despite the easy smile. “I would gladly hear it, whatever it is.”
“It’s just that,” Shouto says, blinking once. “I’m proposing.”
that’s probably the funniest stuff i’ve read in a month
I love how you write and characterise these characters so much
thank you lol. sometimes while i’m writing a line of dialogue i’m like, yeah, that one hits. this is one of them.
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quidfree · 2 years ago
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The tdbk chemistry in this chapter was off the charts even though they barely interacted in the first half! Katsuki being so taken aback at being called by her proper title, and that drop of blood at the end. Shouto always never thinking much of Katsuki but still always looking for her in the crowd, and having flashbacks of their ballroom dance while watching her dodge a freaking sword.
I can't. You're killing me with the slow burn ��
so-rry, i ride for slowburn always. imagine how little content you would have gotten from me over the years without it!
look katsuki is always the one who falls first regardless of who grows into feelings down the line, because objectively shouto is just that girl. so i am having fun kind of toying with canon parallels and also just having the povs to mess around with. bc you just know in katsuki pov that last chapter was critical hit after critical hit, but since we’re in shouto’s she’s only now getting the first unsettling ‘what is this feeling so sudden and new’ alerts.
anyways yes chemistry go brrr also. imagine my self-satisfied smirk as i craft the perfect bear-trap of a scenario to put katsuki on the court as shouto’s champion. hold for too long on that scenario and you get a youtube thumbnail title out of it. my future man’s future ex begrudgingly defended my crown by putting out someone’s eye *gone wrong**gone sexual* 🥵⚔️🩸
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quidfree · 2 years ago
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For a minute their I thought Bakugou was going to replace Kirishima but bringing in Inasa was very good for the story flow. The Shouto and Eri parallels are making me cry
yeah i like giving other relevant characters screentime in my ship fics in general. like that’s how real life is right the whole world isn’t just you and whoever you’re seeing. and remedial squad is really fun as a concept. so it’s always nice when the plot lends itself to it. but bakugou was definitely readying herself to tap in when inasa beat her to it!
the shouto eri thing crept up on me unplanned but as soon as i started writing the lothian segment i kept coming up against it & just ran with it. kind of the beauty of aus i think! shifting genders and settings a little really made me notice the obvious parallels between eri’s situation and the todoroki kids’. but poor eri is always so disenfranchised in contrast to shouto- i think shouto has that faraway sense of ‘this could have been me’, sure, but more consciously ‘is this what it started like for my mother’.
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quidfree · 1 year ago
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I just read the last two chapters of your tdbk fantasy au (i was behind lol) and whenever you update it causes me such pain bc I remember that I LOVE shouto and katsuki and their neuroticisms and I want more of them. And then I remember that canon and most of the fan works for them suck ass
thank you i appreciate it. power of creative license
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quidfree · 2 years ago
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sorry to add to the never-ending inbox lol, but what’s your writing process like? do you outline for all of your fics or just the longer ones?
haha it's fine i just get stressed because i feel bad not getting back to people. objectively it's very cool to have so much to talk about with you all.
i deeeefinitely only outline huge multi-chapter fics. for anything else, i legitimately just start off with some scenes in mind, pick a random place to start from, and write until the story has reached a satisfying end. unhinged, i know.
like for my long TSH fic i fully just had 1) post-canon 'fix it' and 2) richard and francis' fight before the road trip in my head. so i just started from where canon ended and wrote until i got to the last night in montreal. yes that's 65k words.
i think writing so much is fairly easy to me because dialogue and introspection come really naturally to me (not saying that to big up myself, i mean that i find it easy to let that lead a story somewhere 'organically'). especially because a lot of what i write is more about personal development than a very rigid plot.
as for my longer/more plot heavy stories, that's when i start outlining more- rarely details, but just major beats. and then i flesh them out or restructure as i go. ex of witvok's outline for the past few chapters below:
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quidfree · 2 years ago
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Do you have any upcoming TDBK/Bnha fics? (Or are you planning any?) And will we get a double update on Valley of Kings 🤩
re: valley of kings, sort of a double update- i'm working on finishing pt2 rn.
i have one one-shot in mind due to be done after valley of kings (or during, i guess), but otherwise nothing yet. except maybe the mamma mia au one day.... inspiration strikes when it wants.
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quidfree · 2 years ago
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shouto going "“It’s just that,” Shouto says, blinking once. “I’m proposing.”" is so her. i'm laughing, hard. nobody apart from you could have made a premise with them and knights/princes(ses) work so well and so organically, too. and your characterization of shouto is always on point.
honestly that’s a favorite of mine too she gets all the best lines. but thank you very much, i have a lot of fun with the premise.
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quidfree · 2 years ago
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Deku being the unwitting and unwilling love triangle girl is too funny 🤣
my fics are always at least 50% driven by me coming up with a funny bit and then running with it. we love to subvert.
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quidfree · 2 years ago
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The Bakugou vs Rappa was too well written, had me so engrossed I could actually imagine it happening. Especially loved Bakugou's boot kick, a very her thing to do and kind of brings her wild-instinctual prodigy vibes I've been missing. Amazing chapter 👏🏼
oh thank you!! i struggled with merging their canon fights but i found it quite rewarding in the end. hard balance to strike making bakugou feel all What Like It’s Hard without weakening rappa. the whole time all i had in mind was ‘and then she needs to lure him close to do something nasty’.
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quidfree · 2 years ago
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“No, I can’t look— that’s still a woman!”
“Barely!”
Goddamn hilarious and a nice callback to Bakugou vs Uraraka 😂
the bakugou v uraraka fight is literally still one of my favorite bnha moments. we could have had it aaaaall
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