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@stardustallaround AHHHHHHH VERY HAPPY TO HEAR THAT lmao of course the glaring question about Thorns accent is 'Where the hell did he get a drawl if they all grew up on Kamino??" But I choose to believe that Thorn got REALLY into Space Westerns as a cadet, purposefully changed his accent to match his favourite character, and then couldn't switch back when he got older馃拃 JDBAHDJQHDJQJFHS Lmao alright I'll drop it once I've posted the last chapter. The scene is currently stored safe and sound in my deleted scenes document so I'll make a note to polish it off and post it eventually :)
alright I鈥檓 back, what鈥檚 ur process behind characterization and concept making? (also thanks for the congratulations for ao3 pfffff)
HOOO BOY IM VERY GLAD YOU ASKED ok, ill talk about characterisation and then lead into concept making. I'll mostly be talking about 'It Was Only A Matter Of Time' cause obviously it's quick fresh on the mind in terms of what I did but if you're looking for advice, this can be applied more generally. Also I ended up rambling A LOT so I've put it under a read more. Hope this answers your question!
SO, in the case of the clones, characterisation is far more mealeable than with other fandoms where you have a lot more evidence and material to build up your understanding of a characters personality. With the clones, particualrly those like Thorn, Thire, Stone and of course Fox, theres very little canon basis, so for bulding up their characters, it was just a case of taking what fanon I liked and also constructing the personalities that would work best for the story I wanted to tell. Quick note, since this story ultimately ended up revolving around Fox, a lot of the characterisation for other characters was heaviliy informed by the questuon of "what personlity would best reveal a specific detail or invoking a specifoc reaction or relaisation in Fox" but of course as the story grew, the characters all grew into their own charactisation beyond that. That's the overview, To give you a lil more a concrete example behind this process, I'll use the Corrie Commanders.
So with the Corrie Commanders (Thorn, Thire, Stone, excluding Fox for now since he's a different story) I knew that, since they would most commonly be encountered as a trio, that they each have to have very disctinct Characterisations so it would be easy to differentiate them. So I started by assigning them a key characteristic. Eg.
Thorn: sarcastic and blunt, Thire: logical and practical, Stone: level headed.
Of course there would be other factors, but anytime i wrote them I would keep this key element in mind whenever i had them do anything. Then, something which was super fun to do, I assigned them very specific and individual 'character quirks' as I like to call them, which are essebtially just a couple other things that differntiate them and makes them unique as characters. Eg.
Thorn: he has a speech quirk which im VERY fond of wherin he doesnt pronounce the 'g' in any '-ing' which in my mind i interpret as a kind of drawl to his voice (you'll notice this in his dialogue, where Thorn will say stuff like "goin' to see" "instead of "going to see" etc) it makes me very happy to write, and ut jelps me figure out his specific 'voice' in my mind
Another example is Stone: His characteristic quirk is that he speaks very infrequently, but when he does, he always says something important. Again this is to refelect his character as someone who only speaks whne he feels like he has something worthwhile to say.
All of these tiny little considerations help build up a 'fully fledged character' so to speak, and it helps (hopefully lmao) them feel like distinct characters.
I've talked a lot but just another thing that helps characterisation (which ive mentioned before) is considering what 'role' they play within the larger story, and I do that ny mentally attaching little epithet to specific characters. For exmaple, Wolffes characater exists specifically to illuminate Fox's repressed violent tendencies, and also exists to wrench out the stuff that Fox refuses to confront or admit to himself. So to that measure, Wolffe himself is a very violent and very blunt character. He needs to be, to function for that purpose. Another example is Cody, who is 'The helpless older brother' Cody throughout the story has always been assocaited with reaching out and protecting Fox and trying to be there, but of course hes severly limited by how much help he can actually give. This ties into his character as a very earnest and protective character.
This is getting long so i might stop there for characterisation lmao, but in short, the process involves a bunch of decisons that cinsider "how does this character function within the story? How have their past experinces effected them? Where and What does this manifest as in their personality?"
OK ONTO CONCEPT.
I have a lot less to say abt this one lmao. Id already read a couple fics which dealt with the "what if Fox killed the Chancellor?" And i thought ut was interesting. Ill admit though, the concept of introducing Fives into it all mostly stemmed from frustration lmaoo. It all really started cause I got kind of frustrated with the fics that either demonised Fox or tried to downplay the significance of Fives' deaths. One of the reasons i decided to centre Fives and Foxs relationship as the focal point of the story was because I wanted to hit a medium that sufficiently acknowledged that Fives death was a tragedy which had a huge impact on those who loved him, but also that Fox's decision to kill him maybe wasn't done with pure malice.
That was the initial thinking, but the funny thing abt writing any story of any kind is that it inevitably develops a mind of its own. I didn't initially think sibling relationships and love was going to be such a core part of the story I was writing but sometimes the concept starts to mould itself into creation without you even being aware it's happening.
SO, in short: fun concepts come from finding something you don't like and going 'Why don't I like this? Can I make a story where I DO like this?'
But yeah! That's some thoughts about characterisation and concepts behind IWOAMOT specifically lmao but of course the stuff mentioned here can easily be applied to anything.
If you have any follow up Questions/unanswered areas of Concept making and characterisation, lemme know! As demonstrated, I can talk for ages.
#its like the rounding off of Kites arc (which i never really git to do)#wherin Kite was originally written to act as a bit of an 'Outsiders POV' to Coruscant#and then that role transitioned to be more of what i mentally refer to 'the death of innocence' or the inhernat disillusionment#that is inevitable on Coruscant#but yeah ill rpolly end up giving a more thorough run down on the characters once its all over#<- the voice of a man whos in disbelief that they only have one more chapter left to write#and is currently procrastination that Chapter bc they cant quite belive its nearly over#talkin#ask
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alright I鈥檓 back, what鈥檚 ur process behind characterization and concept making? (also thanks for the congratulations for ao3 pfffff)
HOOO BOY IM VERY GLAD YOU ASKED ok, ill talk about characterisation and then lead into concept making. I'll mostly be talking about 'It Was Only A Matter Of Time' cause obviously it's quick fresh on the mind in terms of what I did but if you're looking for advice, this can be applied more generally. Also I ended up rambling A LOT so I've put it under a read more. Hope this answers your question!
SO, in the case of the clones, characterisation is far more mealeable than with other fandoms where you have a lot more evidence and material to build up your understanding of a characters personality. With the clones, particualrly those like Thorn, Thire, Stone and of course Fox, theres very little canon basis, so for bulding up their characters, it was just a case of taking what fanon I liked and also constructing the personalities that would work best for the story I wanted to tell. Quick note, since this story ultimately ended up revolving around Fox, a lot of the characterisation for other characters was heaviliy informed by the questuon of "what personlity would best reveal a specific detail or invoking a specifoc reaction or relaisation in Fox" but of course as the story grew, the characters all grew into their own charactisation beyond that. That's the overview, To give you a lil more a concrete example behind this process, I'll use the Corrie Commanders.
So with the Corrie Commanders (Thorn, Thire, Stone, excluding Fox for now since he's a different story) I knew that, since they would most commonly be encountered as a trio, that they each have to have very disctinct Characterisations so it would be easy to differentiate them. So I started by assigning them a key characteristic. Eg.
Thorn: sarcastic and blunt, Thire: logical and practical, Stone: level headed.
Of course there would be other factors, but anytime i wrote them I would keep this key element in mind whenever i had them do anything. Then, something which was super fun to do, I assigned them very specific and individual 'character quirks' as I like to call them, which are essebtially just a couple other things that differntiate them and makes them unique as characters. Eg.
Thorn: he has a speech quirk which im VERY fond of wherin he doesnt pronounce the 'g' in any '-ing' which in my mind i interpret as a kind of drawl to his voice (you'll notice this in his dialogue, where Thorn will say stuff like "goin' to see" "instead of "going to see" etc) it makes me very happy to write, and ut jelps me figure out his specific 'voice' in my mind
Another example is Stone: His characteristic quirk is that he speaks very infrequently, but when he does, he always says something important. Again this is to refelect his character as someone who only speaks whne he feels like he has something worthwhile to say.
All of these tiny little considerations help build up a 'fully fledged character' so to speak, and it helps (hopefully lmao) them feel like distinct characters.
I've talked a lot but just another thing that helps characterisation (which ive mentioned before) is considering what 'role' they play within the larger story, and I do that ny mentally attaching little epithet to specific characters. For exmaple, Wolffes characater exists specifically to illuminate Fox's repressed violent tendencies, and also exists to wrench out the stuff that Fox refuses to confront or admit to himself. So to that measure, Wolffe himself is a very violent and very blunt character. He needs to be, to function for that purpose. Another example is Cody, who is 'The helpless older brother' Cody throughout the story has always been assocaited with reaching out and protecting Fox and trying to be there, but of course hes severly limited by how much help he can actually give. This ties into his character as a very earnest and protective character.
This is getting long so i might stop there for characterisation lmao, but in short, the process involves a bunch of decisons that cinsider "how does this character function within the story? How have their past experinces effected them? Where and What does this manifest as in their personality?"
OK ONTO CONCEPT.
I have a lot less to say abt this one lmao. Id already read a couple fics which dealt with the "what if Fox killed the Chancellor?" And i thought ut was interesting. Ill admit though, the concept of introducing Fives into it all mostly stemmed from frustration lmaoo. It all really started cause I got kind of frustrated with the fics that either demonised Fox or tried to downplay the significance of Fives' deaths. One of the reasons i decided to centre Fives and Foxs relationship as the focal point of the story was because I wanted to hit a medium that sufficiently acknowledged that Fives death was a tragedy which had a huge impact on those who loved him, but also that Fox's decision to kill him maybe wasn't done with pure malice.
That was the initial thinking, but the funny thing abt writing any story of any kind is that it inevitably develops a mind of its own. I didn't initially think sibling relationships and love was going to be such a core part of the story I was writing but sometimes the concept starts to mould itself into creation without you even being aware it's happening.
SO, in short: fun concepts come from finding something you don't like and going 'Why don't I like this? Can I make a story where I DO like this?'
But yeah! That's some thoughts about characterisation and concepts behind IWOAMOT specifically lmao but of course the stuff mentioned here can easily be applied to anything.
If you have any follow up Questions/unanswered areas of Concept making and characterisation, lemme know! As demonstrated, I can talk for ages.
#THIS IS SUPER LONG SRYYYYYYYYYY#I just put in a BUNCH of thought abt these fricking blorbos and i wanted to give a lil snap shot of that#like the example i gave onky BRUSH the surface#each of them have a very specific role even the background characters have a very detailed role to fulfil#DONT GET ME STAFTED ABOUT KITEEEEE HES LITERALKY ONLY THERE EVERY 5 CHAPTER#BUT HE PLAYS A VERY SOECOFIC ROLE#one which i was actually kinda bummed i didnt get to explore to the fullest#like i had a specific loment i wabted to showcase with Kite but it DIDNT FIT WITH THE FLOW OF STORY and alas#i had to cut it 馃様#i think once ive posted the last chapter i might actually drop the deleted scene with Kite here#just cause itll satisfy me a bit#THANKS FOR INDULGING NY RAMBLES 鉂わ笍#ask#talkin#star wars#sw#tcw#commander fox#tcw fives#fic#tcw fic#sw fic
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BRO I LOVE UR STAR WARS FIC SO MUCH!!!! it has such good characterizations and a really neat concept I鈥檓 obsessed!!!! it鈥檚 genuinely one of the best Star Wars fics I have ever read and I just wanted to let you know that it was so good I finally made an ao3 account just to get updates haha
AHHHHHHHHHH THANK YOU!!!! Bro concept and characterisation are very important to me so that means a lot! AND LETS GOOOO AO3 ACCOUNT ACQUIRED
#lmao in terms of updates i generally tend to update around halfway through every month#so keep an eye out for that next month ;)#but bro this ask very much made my day thx sm鉂わ笍鉂わ笍鉂わ笍鉂わ笍#OH and if you wanna hear anything about my thinkinh process behind the concepts and characterisations DONT BE SHY TOTALKY GO FOR IT AND ASK#I like to ramble and i could honestly fill pages just talking about this fic lmaooo#again thanks for the message and congrats on the birth of your ao3 account lmaooo馃帄馃帄#talkin#ask#sw#tcw
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Wanting to keep the number of chapters at exactly 20 Vs. The desire to tie up some emotional lose ends FIGHT
#writing woes#talkin#guys its dire out here#like#i dont NEED to do either#like i COULD go over 20#but i also DONT NEED to weite those extra scenes like#also this is of course in refernece to IWOaMoT#which has quite franky the WORST abbreviated name on earth#i mean i guess its better than SHGtPaP(WBU)? or RBGtRaC(aDwIF)?#christ i need to stop making the names of my fics so damn long#ACTUALLY i need to stop making my FICS so damn long#ok enough rambling
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Posted another Chapter of 'It Was Only A Matter of Time' !
#tcw#sw#star wars#fanfic#fic#sw fic#tcw fic#commander fox#tcw fives#Im nl I was very excited to finally post this chapter#also first time im posting an update on this blog!#very exciting stuff#Also didnt post at like 1 am so i actually had energy to write a decent author's end note lmaooo#commander fox fic
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drop a link for your star wars fic? i loved steves guide and im curious for more!
Of Course! Ive actually been thinking of connecting the link to this tumblr on that fic for a while now so I might do that the next time I update. I'll also put the link in my pinned post alongside the others.
Either way, heres the link:
The fic is mostly about Commander Fox and the relationships he has with his siblings (Oh, and also assasinations, thats in there too)
#also absolutely flattered that you want to check out my other works like鉂わ笍鉂わ笍鉂わ笍#im really glad you enjoyed it! and i hope youll enjoy this one too#its a little long (currently 130k馃拃) but Im actually quite happy with it#but yeah thanks anon#talkin#ask#anon#sw#star wars#tcw#hope you enjoy!
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I just had a "remembering that Steve exists" moment and i went directly to reading your empath au fic, it is so good
AWWGHHHHHHHHHGG THANK YOU that genuinely warms my heart
#Bro when ppl tell me they like my writing? unmatched#unmatched feeling#like you like my story? my silly litle story?#Jdjajfhjajfhajfbajsj ok im normal again#thank you anon!#this is a very sweet message#talkin#anon#ask#ALSO WHNE PEOLE SAY THEY REREAD MY FICS LIKE AHHHHHHH#THATS CRAZY
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hope all is well!! <3
All is indeed well, hope everything alright with you too!
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omg yo im so glad your doing okay! and glad your writing again aswell! i understand guilt you may feel from writting for a different fandom/taking a hiatus in one but please dont worry too hard about it, your work is great because you made it- not because of the fandom you made it for-and all true stranger things fans of your work will be willing to wait for you (or positively accept if you decide not to continue). im so happy and proud you made it through your exam period and hope the next few months treat you well!!
AWWGHHHHHHHH DUDE YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW HAPPY THIS MESSAGE MADE ME thank you! And yeah, I REALLY hope ill get back into writing for ST but for now im having fun with my other project! Lmao ngl ive survived the exam period only to immediately get launched into Uni application hell馃拃馃拃馃拃 but we move we groove. I hope youre doing well too, fellow stranger on the internet, thank you for your lovely message 鉂わ笍
#Aughhhhhhh this made my day tbh#of course im not sure whne Ill get back to writing ST but IM HAVING FUN and thats priorty number one#stranger things#anon#ask#talkin
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AHHHHHHH I'm literally honoured to be on this list :]
after three weeks of binging steddie fics to cope with school starting again here is my contribution to the stranger things fandom thank god and also jesus himself for ao3 @written-mishaps @palmviolet @badpancakelol I am going to be so annoying about y鈥檃ll鈥檚 writing and my friends are never gonna hear the end of it
#LIKE#ALL THESE FICS ARE INCREDIBLE#literally blows my mind that anyone wouod put me on the same stage as them#rb#stranger things
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@whyismangososour me and you, we're going through the trenches soldier o7
(I should disclaim since I can鈥檛 remember exactly how I wrote the last message that even if you never feel ready to get back to writing I鈥檒l still cheer for you <33333333 I鈥檓 just happy you鈥檙e alive)
JDGAJJDHAJFHQJDHWJ thanks. Honestly I'm not really sure when I'll get back to writing but I'll see how life goes lmao
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(I should disclaim since I can鈥檛 remember exactly how I wrote the last message that even if you never feel ready to get back to writing I鈥檒l still cheer for you <33333333 I鈥檓 just happy you鈥檙e alive)
JDGAJJDHAJFHQJDHWJ thanks. Honestly I'm not really sure when I'll get back to writing but I'll see how life goes lmao
#youre not gonna believe this but apprentky school is frikcing never ending#like what do you MEAN i have even more important exams in less than 2 year???? hello????#life is just endless studying#talkin#ask#but yeah i really have no clue whne ill get back to it#fingers crossed its soon tho!!!
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Literally just came here after binge reading your series and I鈥檓 so relieved to see that you鈥檙e alive and well (if suffering from exams which- goodluck soldier cause school sucks). I am absolutely obsessed with the way you write. So, please just take care of yourself and know that whenever you feel ready to write again, I鈥檒l be first in line to cheer you on.
JHDHAJDGQJDHHAHDBQ THANK YOU SO MUCH comments like these really do mean the world to me鉂わ笍鉂わ笍
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Okay first of all I love your writing! Great work. Second of all holy crap who thought of making people take that many big exams for that long that feels wrong - props to you for keeping going! Hope you are doing well and taking some time to decompress/destress
Say hello to my enemy: the IGCSE exam board. Lmao I think this was sent quite a while ago but in reflection I'll have to say that I was #not decompressing ya boy was on THE GRIND馃挭馃挭馃挭
#but thank you so much for the message#AND IM SO GLAD YOU ENJOY MY WROTING TOO鉂わ笍鉂わ笍#yall are literally the best <3#talkin#anon#ask
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OMG YO how are your exams coming along? Have you survived?
I HAVE SURVIVED, came out the other end with all my pieces attached 馃憤
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OK, fuck it, confession time.
As you may have noticed, it has been a while since I finished my exams (2 months) and the question of why I have not updated yet May or May not be in your mind.
The answer is this: for the past 2 months, I have been knee deep and deeply invested in writing star wars fanfic
"Author" i hear you say in despair, "how could this possibly happen?" The answer is that in the deep dark trenches of studying for my exams I needed something low effort to watch in the evenings that didn't take over every single one of my brain waves (brainwaves I needed for studying)
So I started watching The Clone Wars. Which was fine, for the first couple of months. And then my brain completely fixated on it and haven't been able to stop thinking about it since.
Now, onto the important information: What does this mean for 'A Collection of Guides' and 'Robin Buckley's Guide'?
The answer is honestly, I'm not sure. I love the story I started making, and I dont think I'm quite ready to give up on it. But I'm currently not in the headspace to write it at this moment in time. I'm hoping that whenever the next season of stranger things drops my interest will be rekindled and I'll pick it up again. But for now, it'll be on a little bit of a hiatus.
And also, as previously mentioned, I've been writing star wars fanfic instead 馃拃
Im sorry if I've disappointed You. I've honestly been looking at the well wishing messages in my inbox with like, magnum amounts of guilt cause I know a lot of you liked my story and really, that means the world to me. (I'll prolly be answering those messages once I've posted this...hopefully)
If you are, as (assumingly) stranger things fans, interested in what I've been writing the past month or so, I don't mind dropping a link, just send me and ask and I'll get on it.
But yeah, I wanted to let you guys know what I've been up to. I appreciate every one of you, thank you so much for everything
#talkin#ye#just a lil update for yall#lemme know if you have any futher questions#OMG I FORGIT TO MENTION MY EXAMS WEBT SUPER WELLLL#i got the highest grade in everything except art (where i got the second highest grade) SO IM ABSOLUTELY LIVING#just so you know that thise months where i stopped myself from wroting were deffo put to use lmaooo
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I don鈥檛 want to yell I鈥檓 just asking if you鈥檙e okay bc I reread your story like every month just in case you鈥檝e updated lmao
Dude, I'm really glad to hear you enjoy my story that much !
And yeah, I'm going to be very honest with you, I have had legit 0 time to even THINK about writing. As I've mentioned before I have been doing my 'Big Exams(tm)' so honestly my priorities have very firmly been there. It's prolly gonna be another month or two before I can start working on this again, so in the interest of being truthful, it WILL be a while before you'll be getting any updates.
But! At least I'm 13/17 Exams through! Bro I cannot even begin to describe how much these things suck like I literally had two 2 hour papers on the same day a couple days ago ya boy is EXHAUSTED馃拃
#idk how exams work in other places#but over here the exam period stretches over 2 months#and since i have to take 9 dufferent subject (each with around 2 seperate papers)#its a lot#its also very stressful#just wanted to make sure that came acriss to yall that im not exactly skipping around doibg nothing#ya boy is ON THE GRIND#now one last thing even thoigh ive talked for FAR too long#while im sure this message came from a place of good intentions#anon i would be very careful about asking authors for updates as a general rule#we're all doing this for free and it can sometimes come across as a bit demanding when pushing for updates#im sure you had good intentions but some people wont interpet the same message the way i do so be aware that you might#raise some hackles per say#talkin#anon#ask#all the love to you anon thanks for checking in 鉂わ笍
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