#im trying to think if i have anything Less Murdery and high stakes and maybe the one about the Knight and the Monk 🤔

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Do you ever devise plots around the children your characters have? What their family life is like? How they raise these kids?

I'm just curious to know as I love your plots and they are so fun and intriguing.

it depends! for stuff like john and the harvester, there are no children involved, so there's nothing there to explore, but for things like the knock off ancient world narratives: absolutely! there's nothing messier than high stakes inheritance claims, and for stuff like that, you need to world build the family life otherwise it's. boring.

I have this one ancient-rome-but-I-filed-the-serial-numbers-off-it story where this one guy hooks up with general of his father (the emperor) (everyone's above 20 here btw), and a week later the emperor is assassinated, and the guy realizes he's pregnant. the general is making a play at assuming power, even though the main character is technically listed in the will as successor, and he hates the idea of the general taking advantage of the pregnancy to legitimize his take over for power, so his best friend comes up with an idea to get married and pass the baby off as his, and there's like. another 20 years of story I've built up in my head after that. there's parricide and everything!

also tysm!! 💞💗💖

#the main character's best friend is a soldier and after some political upheaval the main character does get to assume power #there's like. one military campaign in there somewhere where the main character and their first kid #accompany the best friend/husband to the borders and ends up getting pregnant and giving birth in the military camp #so that's like. a thing that happens. #the main character gets pregnant again later with twins and its pretty harrowing so they call it quits with kids after that #theres some vague organized crime story ive been turning in my head like a plate in a microwave too #that one. huh. that also involves parricide. #im trying to think if i have anything Less Murdery and high stakes and maybe the one about the Knight and the Monk 🤔 #that one's pretty straightforward as far as i can make anything straightforward #3 kids. mostly an exploration of medieval-ish life tbh. the knight turns out to be a pretty good father which makes him happy #given the (gestures in the direction of war) and how tired he was of seeing death all the time #two of their kids grow up to be traders and merchants and the third kid becomes a scholar