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I've reached the inevitable point one gets to when about to finish a fic where ideas for sequels, prequels and spin-offs start to creep in. Since I have a tumblr, I might as well let you guys in on the ideas I have that I'll prolly never write but still persistently cross my mind these days.

All of these are related to IWOAMOT of course:

The 'Shameless Headcanons' prequel set in the Kamino days which would follow Fox's batch in the early days and insert as many Clone Folklore headcanons i could possibly fit into one story. I think this one would be quite fun, especially exploring Fox's latent force abilities and just the nuances of Rex and how he integrated into the main batch

The 'Disgustingly Sappy RomCom/Down right Horror movie' Prequel, which would FINALLY give me the chance to explore the EXTENSIVE BACKGROUND INFO I've created for Quinlan and Fox's relationship that I don't even TOUCH in IWOAMOT (I'm very sad abt this btw). I mention the RomCom/Horror bc I like to think that the early days of the QuinFox relationship was literally Quinlan kicking his feet writing in his diary with a sparkly pink gel pen like 'Fox is so cute ^.^ I like him so much he's so sarcastic and funny and he makes me feel bubbly >///<" and then there would be an abrupt cut to Fox who's gripping the sides of his desk so hard he's leaving indents in the wood with a haunted expression on his face like "I CANNOT be FUCKING ATTRACTED to this HOT GUY I have TRAUMA TO LIVE THROUGH and he's FUCKING STUPID" like the dynamic is very much "I have a crush /wholesome" vs. "I have a crush /agonised screaming"

The 'Let's see how many Corrie Clone ocs in can make' Spin off set during the events of IWOAMOT which would heavily feature my favourite trio of Kite, Maven and Kelpie and Condor too. I'd also want to look at a Corrie who is also force sensitive and how that effects them as well as a Corrie character who just spends the entire time scared shitless of Fox lmao (those last two are far more developed in my mind but I'm only dropping the general idea here)

The 'Let's see how complicated we can make Foxs recovery' sequel, which i have a vague idea for a plot line revolving around Quinlan and/or Fives being in the extremely uncomfortable position of regaining Fox's black out missions memories via Force magic Dream shenanigans. This one I'm hesitant to write, cause it could get real dark REAL quick, but I like the idea of testing Fox's relationships by having others be the one to see the very worst actions he's done, with Fox having to navigate the inherently terrible experience of his loved ones seeing him at a low he himself isn't even privy too, and his loved ones having ti deal with, ya know, terrible terrible violence. But this idea feels plain mean to write, especially when I worked so hard to give Fox a break.... it could be interesting though

Anyways, these are just some ideas I wanted to toss out, some are definitely more developed than others lmao. Feel free to lemme know what you think of them

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Fives : Hey Rex, just got back from being dead and boy do I have a story to tell you

Fives: I have soooooo much blackmail material on you now

Rex:

Fives: Rex…?

Rex:

*🚨🚨MOTHER HEN MODE ACTIVATED AT FULL CAPACITY🚨🚨*

AHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA BRO REX IS GOING TO TAKE ONE LOOK AT FIVES' MIRACULOUSLY-ARISEN-FROM-THE-DEAD ASS AND LOSE HIS SHIT

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Oh yeah, guess who just answered every single one 😎😎

Would just like to say a sorry to anyone who left a comment on the most recent chapter, I've really left yall hanging😔😔

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Would just like to say a sorry to anyone who left a comment on the most recent chapter, I've really left yall hanging😔😔

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In It Was Only A Matter Of Time I know it’s about Fives and Fox, but I have a question about Echo!

Do they eventually find him? I know you have one chapter left of the fic so I don’t think you’re probably gonna show finding him but I just kinda curious on what happened to Echo

Yeah, Echos whole shindig is deffo not covered in IWOAMOT (alas, if only I had more time to plan and write a sequel 😔) but I HAVE ACTUALLY THOUGHT ABT IT. Echos story would prolly follow a similar route with canon, the only difference is that obvs the war would be dying down and Fives would practically drop everything and sprint across the galaxy the MINUTE he heard even whispers of him being alive. Echo would deffo come back to one hell of a story tho lmao

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Fives: *is now alive so he can now tease and be smug about meeting his brother-in-law*

Fives: This is a good day

LMAOOOOOOO Fives is gonna see Quinlan and look at Fox with THE MOST SHIT EATING GRIN

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Thank you for the new chapter of 'It was Only a Matter of Time.' it's one of my absolute favourite fox stories, and i have no words to describe the space it takes up in my head. I'm going to go reread it 50,000 times now!!

AW THANK YOU FOR READING, that really does mean a lot to me, especially since, as a fellow individual with a large percentage of brain space being taken up by this story, I understand the significance of that❤️❤️❤️

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This is a day late but here's chapter 19 of IWOaMoT!

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LMAO @gaeasun yeah I ended up realising I could do BOTH 😈😈

Wanting to keep the number of chapters at exactly 20 Vs. The desire to tie up some emotional lose ends FIGHT

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OK SHES BACK idk wtf I'm gonna do when I need to update the info on there but I'll cross that bridge when I get there

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HELLO, if you’re here you’re prolly here from ao3 but either way, welcome!

This is mainly gonna be a place for me to talk about the various works I have running around on Ao3. Feel free to ask any questions you’d like and I’ll answer them as best as I can. I like to talk so dont be shy :)

My fics:

Stranger Things

Steve Harrington’s Guide To Planning a Party (Without Blowing Up): (9/9)

Robin Buckley’s Guide to Retrieving a Cassette (And Dealing With Idiot Friends): (3/5) currently on Hiatus

(Both Part of this series.)

Star Wars

It Was Only A Matter Of Time (18/?) Currently in Progress

Anyway, don’t have much else to say, thanks for stopping by!

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Wait maybe I can just like, reblog it from someone else's blog?????

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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💀 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’m back, what’s 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.

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alright I’m back, what’s 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.

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BRO I LOVE UR STAR WARS FIC SO MUCH!!!! it has such good characterizations and a really neat concept I’m obsessed!!!! it’s 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

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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