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6. Does this chapter/fic have any twists that you’re proud of?
Ohh normally the answer would be yes because I love a good reveal. This chapter is the first of a longfic (which in me-style is going to be...long. 7 chapters and...30K words per chapter? Eeek) so it's doing a lot of scene setting right now and less twisting.
The fic overall is dealing a lot in perceptions and the way experience shapes a person's interpretation of a situation, and the way people misread and misunderstand each other or don't understand the way they're being interpreted. So while the fact that the characters are absolutely egregiously misinterpreting things is really obvious to the reader from the outset (hopefully lol), it's more of a revelation to the characters within the narrative to realize it and to realize they need to check all the assumptions they've been making and reconsider their first impressions.
(It's a shortly after canon Zukka story, and Zuko is visiting the South for the first time as Fire Lord and Sokka's boyfriend, both of which require him to interact extensively with Hakoda, who is a bit too dad-shaped for Zuko's liking.)
10. What is the last line of dialogue you’ve written?
“We are happy to welcome your delegation,” Hakoda grits out. Like they had any choice.
Hakoda is not a happy boy at the start of this fic lol
From this WIP ask game!
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if it's any consolation hot soup has become a tic and i shouted it during my math test lmao
NOOOOO omg i’m sorry but that’s kinda funny but also i hope you weren’t too embarrassed about it. when it was my main stim I would treat it how streamers say pogchamp. my friends would be like “omg something good just happened” and My ass would say hot soup 😭
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Wisp rambles about Ex. The post.
*Cracks knuckles* This might get unpleasant!
First, his role in the plot. In the game he’s from, Puyo Puyo Tetris, the game’s plot is that the world of Puyo and Tetris are merging, which is not good. Ex is the reason why, but it’s more complicated than that.
His role is one who is in charge of dealing with and fixing any openings that might fuse the two worlds. It just so happens that years of isolation from his post (which is essentially a pocket dimension that he can’t leave from) had gave him a sense of depression, and lacked the will to fix the tear. (Literally, in his words, he was too depressed)
And he even acknowledged that this should not have happened, but this is mostly in the context of him referring to his despair as selfish. He’s quite a gentle and intelligent guy. Hell, when Tee fought him to spare him of his loneliness (because he believed that there was no way to fix it, while Tee literally wanted to take his place), it was the first chronological time where he didn't hold back in a battle.
An important decision to weigh in with him is his unholy combination of acting on Id and Super-Ego. The Id is what is considered the basic instincts and emotions we are all born with. Acting on this sentence "what I want", is what it means to act on the Id. The Super-Ego is on the other end of the Freudian spectrum. Focused solely on what's right, morally, socially, or otherwise, it's the rational thinking, critical decision making, and all that good stuff we develop later on. It acts on the phrase "what makes sense", or "what is right". When I say that Ex is an unholy combination of the two, is that he acted on his emotions (the Id), neglecting the tear (look, I don't know where to file depression in this either), though he 1: believes himself to be selfish for doing so (I mean the worlds would end so he's onto something), 2: willingly puts himself, his life, his daughter, his past relationships (since he became the Keeper of Dimensions, he ended up not belonging to one world, which causes everyone to forget about him), his mental health, hell, he put himself as a whole aside because if he won't, who will? (The Super-Ego) And with him causing all that shit to happen, he still occasionally beats himself up for it.
And the fact is that it's implied (or so I hear) he gained a genuine phobia of being alone from those years up there.
All in all, he reminds me of like a genderbent, older Sayori from Doki Doki Literature Club!. They're both two very thoughtful people who just want the best for others, even neglecting themselves. When you can peel back at the surface, it turns out that they've been doing so partially out of "if they're all happy, then I have no reason not to be". Which bites them both in the ass in their respective games plots.
And I have to give him props for being the only time in a video game I've cried. Because he hits close to home with the combination of his depression and his cognitive dissonance on how it was inevitable (literally, in his words, "I know that's selfish. I wanted to ignore my feelings... But I couldn't stop it.")
TLDR: We have a genderbent, older Sayori up in here. I fell head over heels for him as usual.
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