#(when ik first finds him in the attic and he lies about who he is)

[journey-to-the-attic]

ok, so I love zhaolu with all my heart BUT I'm curious, did you ever consider making dialuci into a real thing in jtta? Like, I know that's not what you're going for, but did it ever cross your mind? 👀

i think the idea of doing so did, but i don't think i ever considered actually doing it - it just didn't really appeal to me at the time. fun fact, i went into the fic fully intending not to include any romance apart from wizlecto's established relationship (which as we all know has now fallen through)

generally i'm not the biggest fan of their romantic dynamic - i feel like if i were to push them in a more intimate direction, they'd be more of a qpr

#answering asks #anon asks #belphie and astaroth just sort of happened when i first came up with the reasoning for belphie picking astaroth's name #(when ik first finds him in the attic and he lies about who he is) #in that astaroth is the first non-brother-or-diavolo-or-barbatos name that belphie thinks of #since they were friends already from the astromancy club #and then i went 'you know what would be cute. if they went on star-gazing dates together' and decided on a whim to include it in future #zhaolu of course came into being with the ddvd au and then grew on me tremendously to the point of bleeding into every jtta au #(and very probably eventually into classic jtta at this point) #and solphisto just sort of emerged initially from an anon's ask and then me going back and realising i accidentally made them super divorce #(there's also mephistwo but that one's more a crack thing atp than anything)