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me: "oh hey! I could have this connect like this! This is a good head canon that will work in this story! I just need to see what exactly it said in game"

Me: "wait... it already draws a straight line to... ?? Ok... maybe not a head canon? Is this actually implied or am i just..." 🤨

This is now one of THOSE THINGS that i feel like the writers ment but did not have time and space to be really clear on.

#ff6 project #just talking #One day i will make a LIST of things i think are way to solid head canons #This is not the day #This is about Cyan and the injured soldier in mobliz becoming kinda friends while they were there #And having some dark talks about what happened to their homes #Explains how pissed he gets at Celes about Maranda when they meet in Narshe #As well as why he takes up trying to chear up Lola later #It isnt just him greaving vaguely. He is greaving a young man specifically and what could have been for the young couple #Maybe this is obvious to some people but damn did i only now see it

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I’m surprised Sabin didn’t get swept away by the ocean and end up on the other side of the world, knowing him.

#🤣🤣🤣

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It isnt that i didnt see where people were coming from about long fic. The responses about not reading anything really long.

But today i was looking for a nice fanfic to read, and i found a long one that i thought may be interesting. I had to back out before geting to far because it was just... boring.

When ever that happens i have taken to forceing myself to read and figure out why i dont like it. And that brings me to why i think people balk at high word counts.

It was boring because it had to many words. To much was said with 5 or even more sentences when it could have been 2 or just left out completely.

I am aware what i have now on my story likely needs to be cut and combined in places.

That there are to many of the wrong words. Places where more descriptions are needed and places where characters get stuck in their own heads.

But despite being at almost 150k words i am actually trying to keep it short.

The problem is i am focusing on charicter development, and well there is so so much there and it is slowing me down lol.

Hopefully what i end up with will not be boring. I plan on asking my beta readers to mark where it drags so i can fix it. But i would rather not bore my friends and make them regret agreeing to this 🤣

#ff6 project #Seriousy i got my friends on board before it got so long #One has played the game and is a fanfic author #The other has never played it but writes #Then there is my mom who was the one who taught me to write and had some self published stuff like 20years ago #My mother also doesnt play games so i only really got one beta that can check for game stuff #But since this is kinda a test run for writing original fiction 2 betas from out of the fandom will probably help #I asked my dad but he just kinda looked at me and was like 'uh... i dont really like to read?' Which was the answer i expected 🤣 #But he played the game way way back #We played together #Omg if i realized this was going to be such a large project i probably wouldnt have started #But i am COMITED now... #I have been pleasantly surprised my ADHD has been on board for this long #But like. I have always loved to write

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No Escape

This part is one of the instances where because of how the game does partys with only seeing the one character you get some odd impressions of what happens.

I can see Cyan just kind of going along with this, but Shadow and Intercepter i would think would be like "no, thats fine"

My fave part of this is that ghost just... hanging on. I am fairly sure that was the idea that promted this 🤣

I started this a year ago as a quick 2h draw, got so so frustrated trying to draw the guys i just stoped and put it aside for a year lol

I really wanted to finish this one though, so i picked it back up yesterday and finished it today. While there is more i could do to it, it started as a quick draw so i wanted to keep it to fairly short times.

My quick draws went from 2hrs to 5-6hrs in a year so... lol this was probably about 6hrs.

#final fantasy 6 #my art #my artwork #ff6 project #cyan garamonde #ff6 #sabin figaro #I drew the train last year and didnt want to redo it #But it looks like two sub sandwiches and i can not unsee #If i was to start this over i would do a lot differently but i wanted to keep what i had done over a year ago

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*looks up average chapter length in books*

"Book chapter length usually is in the 3k-4k range"

*looks at my chapter lengths*

I am thinking i may talk to much? My SHORTEST chapters are the only ones in that range... there are 3 of em... 6 are about or over 10k... (i am at 17 chapters)

Welp i know i will be cutting some of it anyway, i will worry about being to wordy later.

#just talking #I just finished the longest chapter #It is over 13k words #It should be the longest one by the end #I was originally going to have the part before it with it but i split it into 2 chapters because over 15k seemed a bit much #But this part needs to be together. Or at least i feel like it does #So... 13k it will be i suppose #Maybe i can cut some of the count by moving things around #Part of the problem is i dont want to cut much from the game #And that means having little things that happen that ups the word count

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Seriously i have been working on this part all month, it is eating me.

The tragedy of Doma is just...

This part is so so hard, it took me over a week to realize why i was acting weird. I dont do well with grief, i just... shut down. I am not the most aware of my emotions on the best of days but i am just not ok, and so off. i was so confused because nothing had happened.

Then it dawned on me i was trying to see from Cyan's point of view and that kind of pain just... shut me down.

I hope i can get this part to do what i want it to. But damn is it all going to need work from what i have. I kept having to stop and gloss over because it was jacking me up so bad.

I am not even TRYING to go deep into the grief in this! I dont want it to be that depressing! I dont think what i wrote is very deep on it but just puting myself there even to lighten it is... damn it is taking my ass out...

i really underestimated how hard it would be emotionally to try and put myself in the mindset of a man who lost so much at once.

This part has been so so hard to get through.

And i feel like i havent done it justice at all.

#Hello darkness my old friend. Would you mind fucking off again #I have depression i do not need this crap #I need to figure out a way to not have it kill me to write this stuff #Welp the whole point of this project is to learn how to write books #Guess this is an important lesson

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i really underestimated how hard it would be emotionally to try and put myself in the mindset of a man who lost so much at once.

This part has been so so hard to get through.

And i feel like i havent done it justice at all.

#just talking #Fuck what happened to Doma is so damn distoying #How do you go on after that

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... huh ok this chapter is already pushing 10k and it is probaby, at best, only 2/3 done. i wanted to do this whole part in one chapter but it is looking like it will have to be split... that will probably leave me with a short chapter and then a long chapter...

or keep it all together in one really long chapter i guess.

I will probably have to tweek it once i get to editing to smooth out pacing either way...

#just talking

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my ADHD ass

I want to write it is time to write, i want to be writing...

😭😭😭 why is i not writing!? 😭😭😭

HOW DID I END UP ON TUMBLR!?

#just talking #Or rather complaining #... sigh ...

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Something Aint Right

This whole part was kinda startling to me when i was little. I really didnt get what was going on just that now two of my people were gone!

That they were bad people kinda didnt click the first time i played this. In my defince i was like 9? And had the reading comprehension a rock. (Seriously no shade to baby me i had a very very hard time learning to read because of learning disabilities)

I did this one sometime last year. This was a lot of fun to make! Took forever! Ment it to be a sketch! I realized that the water in the picture should have been ice way to late and just said 'whatever i aint fixing it' 🤣

I want to point out the attempt to make the shadows in back look like wings and the shadow talons in front reaching for Biggs and Wedge kuz i remember trying real hard on that :D

#ff6 project #ff6 #final fantasy 6 #final fantasy vi #my artwork #my art #terra branford #Not sure it counts? But she IS in there lol

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Me: thy? Thine? I think it is 'thine'. Doth? Doth doth doth? Yea ok maybe? Hence? Can i use hence that way? Thee, thy... uh...

Google: ... good luck ...

Me: 🙃🙃🙃

#Cyan why you got to be so difficult!? #ff6 project #Seriously they get it wrong in game i am having to double check #I am only doing this on dialog i aint puting everyone through it being in naration also even if it is his point of view

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Manta momma and the odd baby.

I actually thought i posted this here? But apparently not? lol.

This was the first art i spent a long time on and finished! I spent a month on it back in 2022. I even got it prented last month so i can look at it on my wall!

#sky children fanart #sky cotl #sky children of the light #my art #my artwork #I am really fond of this one #Not only do i still think it came out really nice #But like it was an important milestone in geting things made #Uh i am trying to remember to put descriptions on the art but i feel like i am bad at it #So sorry about that

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Terra's Grief

It always struck me just how tragic him turning himself into magicite literally right before they would have been reunited was. If he had held on, just for a bit longer, he could have hugged his daughter for the first time in like 15 years.

The first time i played it i missed the connection between them. Ever since i just stop and look for a long moment at the tube he is in. Thinking "just wait this time, just for a bit, just wait"

I had originally planed to have the ghost of her father behind her, but ended up just leaving the open space he would have been in.

I desided to just go ahead and post this separately so i could tag it. :D

#ff6 project #my art #final fantasy 6 #my artwork #ff6 #final fantasy vi #terra branford #fan art #Esper form Terra

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Something for the ff6 project! She's so shocked!

(And i like drawing terra with elf ears i think its cute ok let me live)

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I don’t know how to casually play video games. It’s either I’m not interested or I play for 16 hrs straight and forget to eat.

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Palom and Porom!

I just got to Troia and I’m suuuper underleveled atm (at least I’m assuming I am based on how hard just the regular random encounter battles are). I mean. It could be worse…. I’m just so invested in the plot you’d think I’m trying to speed run this game with how little else I’m doing 💀.

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Honestly one of my favorite things about the FFVI fandom (specifically the art side) is that everyone has a different way they draw the characters and add personal touches. It makes it so much more fun and I’ve been in too many fandoms where if the character isn’t drawn completely and totally on model someone’d lose their shit.

This generally just has to do with this being very possibly the chillest fandom of all time and also the fact that each character has like a million different designs and their main portrayal is a couple of pixels. But it is genuinely refreshing

That and it’s a lot of fun (+ good practice) as an artist to come up with designs for the characters. Maybe I’ll make a breakdown of some of the designs I came up with sometime.