#Time to weave all the threads I've been building into a full tapestry

[thatonebirdwrites]

It is finally done! This chapter turned out way longer than I planned. But they all have a lot to discuss.

EXCERPT:

Lena looks at her hand and murmurs the spell she’d learned in her dreams. The gold light shimmers in her hand like a flame almost. She tilts her hand back and forth then upside down. The gold flame sticks to her hand and only dissipates when she clenches her fist. 

Wait. 

Lena scrambles to her feet. She didn’t need to repeat the chant. 

She murmurs the chant once and holds her palm up toward the ceiling. Sure enough, the light reappears, but it doesn’t go away or grow bigger when she falls silent. It stays in her hand, flickering almost like torchlight. Holy shit.

Before the unbinding, she had to keep the chant going for the energy to stay in formation. After that moment, any magic she did was intuitive, she didn’t think, just did it. So had the chants allowed her to push through the cracks in her binding? It’s the best hypothesis she has.

“Hey you,” Kara’s voice startles her. The gold flame briefly flares before Lena quickly shuts her fist to stifle it. 

“Hey.” She sits down and grasps Kara’s hand. The blonde’s pallor is definitely better, more golden than pale now. “How are you feeling?” 

“Tired and achy, but no more pain!” Kara grins as if that’s the best news in the world. Maybe for a Super it is. Her hand squeezes Lena’s. “And you? I saw that magic flame. You weren’t chanting for it! Did you learn a new trick?”

“You could say so.” Lena gives a one-shoulder shrug. Now seems as good as any to address their prior battle. “I would like to inform you that I’m mildly angry at you.” 

She prides herself on her precise control over her behaviors, thoughts, and words. And yet, when Kara was injured, she’d lost all three in a melding of the sword’s aliveness with her fury. She shudders to think of what might have happened if Kara and her friends hadn’t found a way to pull her back.

“Only mildly?” Kara’s smile is cocky almost. “Gosh, must be losing my touch.” 

Lena sighs and clenches Kara’s hand tighter. “You could have died, Kara.”

The levity in Kara’s expression fades. “I — I had to do something. I felt you fading. And he hurt you.”

#supercorp #lena luthor #Kara Zor El #Kara Danver #supergirl cw #supergirl #cw supergirl #kara x lena #Sam Arias #Andrea Rojas #Kelly Olsen #Alex Danvers #Ruby Arias #The teams are back together #Time to weave all the threads I've been building into a full tapestry #I need a map of National City now

[sukehiroselei]

For the fanfic ask game, 1, 14, and 16 please E 🥰? Thank you and I hope you have a good day~!

Hi Lyra!! Thanks for the ask! 🩷

1: Do you prefer writing one-shots or multi-chaptered fics?

Hmmm, this is tough. I often start out writing and intending my fics to be one-shots, but they typically evolve into multi-chaptered fics. 😂

14: How do you write emotional scenes? Do you ever feel what the characters feel? Do you draw from personal experiences?

Ooh, great question! Most of my fics so far have been romance-based, so the big emotional moments are often confessions and/or realizations that one of the characters is In Love™.

These scenes typically have a "purpose" (often to advance the plot or spur character growth), so I try to think of the story in its entirety—how we got here + what will happen from then on. I find that this is one of my short-comings as a writer, so I'm trying to remedy it with my current Black Bulls-centric fic to have these emotional tableaus without necessarily having a "purpose" for them other than to create depth in the preexisting characters.

There are times when I try to put myself in the position of the characters I write about, although I wouldn't say I can feel what they feel. For me personally, it's a slippery-slope if I think of myself as the character; I find it difficult to separate *my* feelings from how the character would *actually* react, resulting in a characterization I don't like. (Heavy Disclaimer that this is just my personal preference for my own fics, but I love reading everyone else's interpretations of the characters!!)

I think it's inevitable to draw from personal experiences. I don't think I'm a good enough writer to pull emotions out that I've never experienced myself lol

tl;dr: I revisit the canon and extrapolate from there

16: How many fic ideas are you nurturing right now? Share one of them?

Oh my god, there are so so so many. My Google Drive and Fanfiction account is full of unpublished/unfinished WIPs hahaha. I have a notes app document with brief outlines for Black Clover fics and that alone has 30+ items so far. 💀

I'll share a few here because why not hehe:

A) Current working title is In Another Life (although that could still change) — Mereo x Princia fic

Follows the events of the movie, where Mereo scours the ends of the earth for a way to contact Princia in the past. It's a little angsty and a whole lotta doomed by the narrative. An excerpt I really like:

Your soul is molten down by her fire and you hope that maybe she could smith you into something useful. Perhaps a shield in the next lifetime instead of a spear.

B) Memento Mori — Speculative fiction from Julius's POV

Idk if I'll continue this fic, mostly because it strays a lot from the canon and I'm always scared of wandering too far haha. It's basically a fic of how Julius was conscious of Lucius's existence all this time & actually took steps in countering The End to the best of his ability. A little excerpt:

It is a wonder how one could look ahead to the threads of time being woven into an ever-changing tapestry without going mad. Born into a body with two souls, Julius knew that the Other lay dormant, waiting for the opportune moment to take over this mortal shell they shared, and burn the tapestry into ashes.


A lesser man would have gone insane, but Julius willed himself to be strong. So much so that he earned the only coverless grimoire in existence, learning whatever magics he could to keep the End at bay somehow. [...] He could see how each decision could alter the future weaving in front of him. Every word spoken, every action, is a seed being planted to defeat the inevitable End. So this is how Julius lived his life: always steps ahead to ensure that the foundation he builds would be strong enough to keep standing, even when the time that the Other soul fully takes over his body comes.

Thank you so much for playing!! And apologies for the big block of text omg I didn't think my answers were going to be this long hahaha 🙈🩵

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