ynsbrightorbs

[ynsbrightorbs]

idk if youve been asked this before, but how do you go about picking which characters from the aot canon to put into your stories and then (for lack of a better phrasing) tailoring/matching their personalities to fit

Omg I’ve never been asked this but honestly there’s not a specific equation I use for this. I’ve mentioned this before but I’ll go into a little more detail, I like to take characters and make them more realistic and believable outside of the anime. I feel like with anime in general characters tend to be exaggerated in a sense. Like you can take hange for instance, I don’t think in real life as a real person they’d see something of interest and start yelling and drooling LOL even characters like gojo or connie or literally anyone. And this isn’t a bad thing, it’s great in canon and in anime, but when writing modern aus or just aus in general, people don’t really act that way. I like to dissect the general characteristics of these characters and make them real and believable.

For hange specifically, in my opinion they’re someone who can be very passionate about their interests, they’re very educated on their interests, they’re someone very temperamental in a way (as observed by the chair kicking scene, man handling the priest, punching the shit out of that one guy and you can tell this isn’t really in their nature by the way they kind of react to their own actions after the fact) I think they can be an asshole in very unintentional/humorous ways without even realizing it. (Autism lol) and they also have this tendency to again, act on their passions in ways that may not even benefit them. They take on more than they can chew at times and this tends to take a very negative toll on them as a whole person. In the anime, these things are exaggerated and I like to take these things and tone them down not only to fit real life but to also align with my narratives. Hamartia hange for instance, I don’t think hange would be an alcoholic, but I wanted to make them struggle with this for their character arc and for the plot I had in mind. Some things I do just add for my own plot but I try to keep the heart of their character, just in tamer ways. Again in hamartia, they’re not very overly enthusiastic about their interests but they have them. There’s moments where their interests pop up and you can tell they’re very very educated on these interests. That dry, unintentional humor shows up many times. And again this overall need to take on more than they can chew (the band itself being something they don’t even really enjoy but they do it anyways for the people around them) in be all things, Hange is very very very blank. This is on purpose and we’ll start to see more of their personality come up as the story progresses. I don’t think canon hange would act this way, but I need it to align with their character arc I have in mind while still eventually bringing them back to the heart of their character. If that makes sense honestly idk don’t quote me

As for other characters, I really don’t plan too much on which characters I add to my fics. I know I outline but really I’ll just add characters to add characters sometimes. Like today I was writing chapter 14 of BAT and I added a character in just for the fuck of it without planning on it at all. And again, I use this formula of diluting personalities for realism with every character. Some, it’s easier to do. I really like writing ymir, I think her character is already very believable with a few tweaks. Levi as well, very easy to write and have him feel very close to canon.

I try to think of the best characters best suited for roles in my fics. Like how I decided on making Levi commander of the kings guard, I wanted that character to be very stern and very hard on the knights in training. I thought of the scene where were introduced to the character and he’s like relentless with the boy he’s training and I was like omg. Levi. Perfect. Or by making Erwin the (deceased) hand of the king. This also aligns with canon of Erwin’s death and that’s something I also am trying to do with BAT. it isn’t just a hange x reader, this is truly an AOT au. I take the events of the anime and kind of make a parallel of it for the story. With this in mind, some characters just write themselves. Others, I do have to fit them into the characters I already know I want. Yelena for instance, in BAT she’s is very. What’s the word…..vulgar? Yelena in canon is not this way. She is still very domineering and direct and kind of scary and I keep those factors in while also adding to her character to give her a lot more dimension in the world I’m building.

I always get scared that people think I’m writing these characters very out of character but I just do it very subtly. And I feel like if you know these characters at their core you’re able to see it reflected in my fics.

[ynsbrightorbs]

Been rereading some of BAT recently and I’m praying it ends with a happy ending. Just imaging Hange and Little Dove free from their cages and just living out in a field together somewhere or something along the lines of that. But the more I watch Game of Thrones for the first time (currently on season 2 whoop whoop) my hopes for that become less and less for that

But anywho, hope you’ve been doing well Lane and I hope all has been good for you as well!

-Veil anon

I literally I was outlining so much today I’m at chapter 38 now and I gagged myself with this plot honestly. I know the main arcs of the story that I want but sitting to go chapter by chapter with all this shit is crazy. My mind, honestly. I have an ending in mind but I also have to fight the evil voices in my head telling me to make it hurt/no comfort. Who knows. I will say though, I think this story will be anywhere from 60-80 chapters. At 38 I’m like a little over halfway done with the plot. We’ll see what happens maybe I’ll be nice….. but thank you so much your support is everything to me I love hearing from you and I’m also cooking up your request, I hope all is good with you as well <3

[ynsbrightorbs]

sometimes I cry over the mere thought of hamartia hange💖 thought you should know lol

i do too </3 i miss them im working on headcanons and ive also been drawing them relentlessly, theyre all posted on tiktok and instagram

[ynsbrightorbs]

IM SCARRED. hate sex??? wow yes please but also what love me hange no </3 hange look at me this isn’t you🥹

what have we learned you guys gotta trust me.....this fic will be hot and depressing with a happy ending at least

[ynsbrightorbs]

your iddtrl playlist has me questions if this is a smutty fic gibson girl being darlings mood board song? it’s killing me i need to know

oh god. okay. well, yes! this is an enemies to friends to lovers slow burn, but again this is going to be a very depraved fic. i wont give much but like. expect smut, hate sex? like. its nothing compared to hamartia, but thank you for checking out the playlist i said this before but i feel its very telling and gives you a lot of insight to how this fic will be. prepare yourselves

[ynsbrightorbs]

just needed to pop in here and say THANK YOU!!!! for how you write your sapphic smut. i feel like a lot of writers make it very unrealistic, which i totally understand that maybe they’re inexperienced, but it throws off a fic sometimes in my opinion. your writing of the smut in circle was absolutely top tier. i will think about those scenes literally for ever!!!

THANK YOU omg this means so much actually, i always get insecure with writing smut it's not something i do very often. but yes, i feel like sapphic smut tends to be very unrealistic, which is fine, live out your fantasies, but i feel like this also leads to over-sexualization and bordering on fetishization at times. this goes for any type of lesbian media not just fanfiction, i even argue the L word does this LOL i write for lesbians and lesbians only, i dont really care if my smut is like. sexy per say, im more of an emotion based smut writer so i really appreciate that you enjoy it :,) circle was my first time writing sapphic smut so i feel ive definitely improved since then but nevertheless, thank you

[ynsbrightorbs]

just um asking for a friend 👀 but is iddtrl Hange similar looking to that cowboy Hange fanart by xytoose you know the "what if I take you out on a ride, pretty girl?" one..... just..... curious.....

oh trust me i know the fanart LOL and i wouldnt say that the hange in my cowboy au looks exactly like that, i feel like the fanart makes hange look more like a dilf (yum) i think the fanart is definitely what i imagine hange as in my one shot my love mine all mine, but for iddtrl hange is a lot younger. if you go to my pinterest youll be able to see kinda how i envision him

[ynsbrightorbs]

Just finished reading the second chapter of iddtrl and I’ve been digesting all the sharp object references… you are brilliant. Peak writing.

OMMGG thank god, yeah iddtrl isnt a direct inspiration of sharp objects, as in the plot, but it more so inspires the themes and overall vibe of the story. i want something gritty and devastating and depraved and im so excited to get into it, thank you for reading :,)

[ynsbrightorbs]

Praying, *praying* that Little Dove at some point hates Jean just as much as I do after reading chapter 13. Because what do you mean he may or may not have ever so subtly threatened Hange. Feed him to the direwolves please oml. Totally not losing my mind over here dude. And poor Hange. Like dude, I feel for them at the moment, I really do. Especially after being forced to listen to *that* majority of the night

anyways, beautiful writing as always, even if certain things wanna make me punch a wall. Looking forwards to the next chapter for sure for sure dude!

-Veil anon

Ooooohhhh yeah. Like I said everything is for a reason, I don’t like writing scenes like *that* so I tried to keep it as brief as possible while still giving the effect it needed to. I think Hanges more so masking their budding attraction to her through their duty, and that’s why something like this would upset them so much, especially after the conversation they had at the bar the night before. Who knows. We’ll see the effects ripple as the story progresses. And on the readers end, it’s still just this massive echo chamber of anger brewing for her soooo very subtly. The day of reckoning will come, thank you for reading :,)

[ynsbrightorbs]

for some reason, jean in the latest chapter of BAT gave me a bigger ick than eren in *that* chapter in hamartia

All according to plan …………

Just know, everything is for a purpose. I don’t write scenes like that just for the fuck of it. There is reason. Trust…….

[ynsbrightorbs]

GOOD LORD YOUR BRAIN IS JUST SO JUICY AND POLISHED every single time you post something my head goes automatically LET HIM COOK like i just read iddtrl and oh my god the way you shift completely your dialogues and writing but keep your essence is crazy. like i know if you write something it’s always gonna be a gem and i just feel iddtrl it’s gonna take hamartias place as my number 1 fic from you (i’m mourning that but i know it’s gonna happen). i’m so so so excited to see what terribly dramatic and traumatic story you’re preparing and what more torturous moments you’re gonna make hange go through.

D: thank you so much :(( I really appreciate this, I get very insecure I guess when I start new fics, especially with how much and how many people enjoyed hamartia, I feel like a one hit wonder LOL but I’m glad you’re liking my other works and it makes me very happy that you think all my works carry my *essence* I love hamartia to death, I owe my learning process with writing to it, but I think my new works take the cake now that I actually know what I’m doing and how to write decently .. so thank you, I’m ready to put hange and my readers through hell and back <3

[ynsbrightorbs]

?? Hange may be lying about being from the North??? And did Jean threaten to kill them??? Hello???? WHY IS HE TAKING EVERYONES PLACE KICK HIM OUT. And poor hange </3 please punch Jean hange

I don’t know anything about anything tbh :/

[ynsbrightorbs]

you’re feeding us so much.. BAT updating every few days and a new hange fic?!?!?

Thank you thank you, it’s very easy for me to write be all things once I get into it, it’s a genre I really love and honestly I feel like it’s easier to write than modern aus :,) I also just work a lot so I have a lot of time to write as well

[ynsbrightorbs]

LOUUUU AND THE DOG JACKIEEE

LOVE LIES BLEEDING REFERENCE MY LOVEEEEE 🙏🙏

no because i didnt even fucking realize bruh LOLL what can i say lesbianism runs through my veins

[ynsbrightorbs]

hiii can we know some more about how you plan your chapters? maybe an example?

hiii yeah! its nothing really specific, i just go ahead and make a google doc and plan out each chapter. ill put in an example of a past BAT chapter outline:

8 INFANTICIDE: yelena makes a comeback, training with yn in the beginning but this time in a private room instead of the court of arms. She trains with yelena and hange and commander levi. Tension hella and then after yn and levi have a chat about the current state of finding the people who killed the king. There’s been no leads, hange and yelena are included in the conversation but more so just listen. Yn has a fitting but hange suggests she skips it because they have something to show her. Parallel to how jean wanted to cheer up yn, hange wants to do the same and they bring her to the outskirts of the eastern territories because there’s been a baby dragon abandoned on a farm. This is a recurring event for dragons that both hange and yn end up coming to the conclusion of. They have a shared interest moment but are faced with the task of having to slay the dragon. But hange ends up fooling the farmers, and instead they take the dragon to an isolated forrest and release it.

i had to take off the last few things because it does spoil but itll look something like this, its very messy, very unorganized, its more so just a quick dump of the key plot points in each chapter and how these plot points correlate to the entire story line. be all things is a very intricate story which most fics arent so intricate so its very important for me to get it all down, regular chapter outlines dont have to be this specific, and like the stuff i had to take out i also write how these events will come up in the future and how they impact the story and characters, just to keep myself on track. i dont care for typos i dont care for making it coherent to anyone else but myself. i find is overall easier to write a complete story when you have an outline, it helps guide you but my writing process isnt rigid. ill write going off my outline but ill add in scenes that i think will flow and add to the story.

i also have an outline for dialogue, i struggle with this so its important for me when im just daydreaming about scenes and i get a flow of the conversations i want to write i will quicky open my notes app on my phone and write it down. (i tend to do this right when im trying to sleep and half asleep ill reach for my phone and quickly type it so its very incoherent a lot of the time LOL) again, not in any organized way its literally, ill give an example from hamartia:

"it didnt mean anything" explains eren told mom mom come to visit "you dont get to do that" "You dont get it" yn goes silent and shuts down "we werent dating and im glad we werent. do whatever the fuck you want just leave me the hell out of it"

it just looks like this in my notes app lol. obviously the scene thats published doesnt exactly look like this and thats what i mean by i dont strictly follow my outlines, i write as i go but it is a basis. helps me a lot because i really struggle with dialogue and like communication scenes (Im like an unsocialized puppy idk how to talk to people and how normal conversations flow)

but yeah thats about it, my biggest piece of advice is to not stress over it being perfect. outlines are just to help guide you and to make writing an entire complete story not so daunting :)

[ynsbrightorbs]

erwin please don’t be evil

erwin please don’t be evil

erwin please don’t be evil

erwin please don’t be evil

erwin please don’t be evil

i dont even know who erwin is i dont know what iddtrl is i dont know anything

[ynsbrightorbs]

WHAT HASNT Y/N TOLD ANYONE ABOUT??? WHATS THE SECRET??? WHATS THE PROMISE????

ERWIN YOURE KILLING ME

LOLLL you know me. i like to leave my readers guessing. all will be revealed eventually