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avernine · 6 months

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#I am on hold and I get very nervous about serious phonecalls so I decided to write a micro horror about it #this is like. not even a first draft it's the thing that's keeping me from snarking at the nice electronic lady #who intermittently spares me from the Weird Jazz #I really do want to rework this with like. actual coherence and story progression and More Weird (and also tension)#microfiction #flash fiction #short story #micro horror #horror writing #short fiction #hold fiction #hehe that doesn't have a tag at all it seems #horror fiction #weird fiction #please continue to hold #thank you for continuing to hold #and advisor will answer your call as soon as possible

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tippenfunkaport · 3 years

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Tippen’s Fics In Progress Update

It's been almost six months since I did one of these so it's time once again for a fics update. Join me below for a list of everything I'm working on and what you can expect in the next few weeks to months.

As always, you can find my fics on AO3 * FanFiction.net.

In Progress

The following fics are currently posted still updating.

The B-Team (A Catra and Bow Buddy Adventure) - I know everyone is really eager for the next part of this but I thought of a much better ending than the one I originally wrote and the next chapter is the last chance I have to set the pieces for that up before we get into the climax. So I paused it temporarily while I rework the last few chapters and then we'll go back to more regular updates.

A Merry SPOP Shipsmas!- Unless something unexpected happens, I'll be posting the last three stories from this (Seamista, Scorfuma and Glimbow) leading up to the end of the month. I also outlined stories for other ships I could write if I finish the others early but I may save them for next year.

First Kisses We Didn't Have - The last story in this collection (the Princess Prom one) is written... it's just spread out over a whole bunch of files and I need to take some time to Frankenstein them all together into one coherent thing. This will just go up randomly whenever I suddenly find myself in the mood to work on it.

Glowing Up: The Princess and The Pirate - There are four main sections to this fic. The first meeting, all of which is already up, their second meeting, then the story of Bow starting the lie of the school and finally a little capstone to the whole thing. All of this is written but I like to have a whole section edited and ready to go before I start posting it which is why this is paused until I get section two ready to go.

Prince Bow and Archer Glimmer - I have written this up until the end of Season 1. I have outlined this all the way through the equivalent of season five. I didn't want to start posting more of this until I completed some of my other fics but I have been in the mood to work on it so maybe I should just start embracing the total chaos of having a billion fics in progress at once!

Drafted but not yet posted

These are fics that I have written the first draft of but haven't actually started posting yet.

Going There (my big Season 5 from a Glimbow perspective fic) - I know, I know. I keep talking about this and not posting it. BUT I hope to start posting this before the end of the year and then it will be updated sporadically based on my whims.

Coming Home - this is the sequel to Going There and continues the story Post-War and I could technically start posting it right now because it's all written... but I would rather get Going There up first so it works like a true sequel.

Glimmer's First Connection to the Moonstone and Glimmer's First Teleport- I wrote these two fics to be a standalones but I think I might actually just make them chapters in Glowing Up to simplify my life. They are pretty much ready to go so as soon as we reach the point where they would happen in Glowing Up, I'll post them.

The Outlaw of the Whispering Woods - Glimbow Robin Hood AU! Like, I cannot BELIEVE there isn't one out there already? What are we all even doing here? Anyway, I am really proud of this one and eager to start showing it to you.

Beasts AU - Because it crushes my will to live when people nag me to update fics, I'm going to be posting this AU as a bunch of standalone one-shots. I have written the Glimbow one (I mean, duh) and then outlined ones for Catra, Adora, Mermista and Perfuma. Those will be posted whenever and maybe not even in order.

Then there are a lot of things that are only partly written including about four or five more chapters of my Horde Glimmer AU (tho I've outlined a ton more of it), a sort of spin-off of Tuna Cans with a little more angst and bunch of other things I'd like to keep close to the vest until I actually post them. I really want to get one more fic up before the end of the year to bring me up to exactly 30 fics and I would like that to be Going There... but I also won't let myself start to post that one until I finish at least one more of the in progress fics.

I'm trying to toe the line between being that person with too many fics in progress and the fact that I am a happier writer when I chaotically jump between projects.

So, that’s what I’m working on.

As I am doing this for the low low price of FREE, if you’ve ever gotten anything out of one of my fics, or want to support my writing in the future, Tips are super appreciated! ko-fi.com/tippenfunkaport

#tippen's posts #tippen's fics #personal #fan fiction

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bomberqueen17 · 4 years

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replies about original writing

msilverstar replied to your post “astroloquacious replied to your post “replies and asks and such” ...”

Maybe it's your unpublished first novel and you should move on to the next?

I have moved on, many times, and have circled back around to it because it is a story I want to tell and care about deeply. I think there’s a story in it I ought to tell, but I am also aware that I’m fairly mired in it-- however, the only reason it’s being discussed at all is that I picked it up briefly because I spent a year slogging through a Brand New Idea that also bogged down into bullshit after I wrote about 3/4 of a draft and it failed to develop a plot.

So methinks it’s not that particular novel that’s the problem, somehow.

mikkeneko replied to your post “astroloquacious replied to your post “replies and asks and such” ...”

I'm sure you've heard this one before, but: perhaps printing out your draft, the whole ass draft, and then typing it up again would let you sift out the good stuff

Mm I tried that. The waste of paper horrified me, so I used side-by-side computer windows and transcribed it entirely in the 600,000-word process I described earlier. What happens with that is that I often think “oh I could go this other completely different direction here instead” and then I have two completely incompatible storylines going, and you can repeat that infinitely and it’s super easy to get a million words of which there is not one coherent chunk for you to work on. So that’s super not an approach that’s useful for me, but I know it works for other people and I’m not knocking its validity-- I just know, I’ve tried it, a bunch, that’s great for a really thorough final polish but utterly disastrous for a good way to winnow through a lot of ideas and pick just one.

astroloquacious replied to your post “astroloquacious replied to your post “replies and asks and such” ...”

WOW, that's a lot! I rescind that particular bit of advice, then, ha ha. Would you say that the issue is more a lack of feedback, then? You mention feeling like it needs editing-- do you mean structural editing? Is it an issue of not feeling like the plot & characters are solid?

It’s that I have too many ideas, chase down more and more of them, and wind up with a huge fractured mass of story, mostly worldbuilding, with endless iterations of new reworkings of the old ideas, and they are measurably better with each iteration! but I can’t actually support a plot on them, they’re too fragmented.

My problem is largely that for most of my life I haven’t had anyone willing to read my writing, and it’s only made worse by my horrid rejection-sensitive dysphoria that means that if someone says a thing I wrote isn’t exactly perfect as-is then I have to lie on the floor in despair. I’m hoping I’m a bit more robust now as like a whole-ass adult but that’s debatable. In my real life, people think it’s funny that I think I can write a novel, and are super not interested in reading it, and that’s all I’ve had.

pantsy-fancy replied to your post “astroloquacious replied to your post “replies and asks and such” ...”

If if would help your original novel progress to have an AO3 comment squad for cheerleading & encouragement as you write chapters, then sign me up!!! You are one of my favourite writers and I would love to read anything you're working on. (Apologies if this is out of place--I realize I'm jumping into the middle of a conversation here)

Oh, you’re not out of place at all. Someone else (@s_leary? maybe?) suggested I put this original work up locked on AO3, and I was under the impression that original works were prohibited on AO3, but now that one mentions it I guess they changed that. It’s not impossible! I just... don’t use AO3 as a place for concrit, so I’m not used to attempting that, but I guess I’ve had some good comment discussions there. But that’s why I was trying to post the mammoths thing on Dreamwidth back in 2019 (you know, before the earth’s crust had cooled, back in that epoch, so long ago), but so few people use DW it was rather difficult to really get any discussion going.

I could try AO3, I suppose!

#pantsy-fancy #msilverstar #mikkeneko #astroloquacious

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haru-sen · 5 years

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Out of curiosity, why do you write as a hobby. What do you feel when writing? Do you see the whole plot first and details later?

You’re about to get a whole ass answer complete with childhood trauma. Mild trigger warning for child abuse?

So, tumblr ate the first draft of this and I’m annoyed. Today has been very annoying. But I digress. The easiest thing to talk about is the process. I start everything with a small idea. It can be a few lines of dialogue, a character prototype, or a “what if” question. One of the first scenes I thought of for IAL was the “Jack making bad sandwiches” and Lucky asking “Are we poor?” And I realized I really wanted to write that relationship dynamic. Obviously that scene came much later in the story, but it was one of the first building blocks. And then, I have to take that idea and build it into something that can stand on its own. Because alone, it’s just the ramblings of a maniac. Great, some OC made a joke about Jack’s cooking skills? Who really cares? Well, you do, by that point in IAL. (I assume you do if you made it that far...)

Feng’s an AU version of my main character from a novel series I really need to rework. Spoiler: the conceptual question was, “what happens when heroes/adventurers settle down and have kids? What kind of family life do they have?” And then it turned into an in-depth examination of unhealthy family dynamics and the difficulty of being halfway between worlds both metaphorically and sometimes literally. Second spoiler: Just because you’re an awesome monster-killer/mercenary duo, doesn’t mean you’re going to be great parents.

So it’s usually some kind of idea, that I just keep building on till it becomes something that could be a more concrete story. But it takes time to foment. I’d been two months into the Overwatch fandom before I started writing IAL. I had all kinds of ideas, mostly for the Angst!AU and the current timeline. I’d written a few teaser scenes for that, but on a whim, started IAL instead. And it grew so much faster than I expected.

So it’s taken me awhile, but I’ve gotten to the point with ideas (and drafts!) where I can be excited about the shininess of a new thing, but also know that I’m really going to have to work on it to make it better. It’s rarely just “poof!” and “awesome.” I have to take an extra step to ask what makes this idea/character/scene stand out from everything else that is out there. What am I really adding? And you know, sometimes stuff isn’t better/different/greater than everything else out there. But it’s still enjoyable. And I’ll take that too.

When I write, it’s planning and creativity. On good days, I’m entranced in what I’m doing, really planning/living the scene in my head, and really pleased with my progress. (Heavily focused daydreaming?) On bad days, it’s a slog to stay on track, nothing feels good/inspired, and I feel like a hack. I’ve learned that how I feel while creating doesn’t actually guarantee the quality of the work. When I go back to edit, sometimes the stuff is really good, sometimes it’s not, and the stuff I write when I feel bad can actually be really good and vice versa. But it always needs to be edited.

On a side note, all my internet friends groups I made because of writing. Sometimes we shared fandoms, but it was always the writing/reading that connected us. (Sometimes, that was bad, because writers are neurotic and sometimes egotistical. Shocking, I know.) Put us all together and the insecurities were numerous. :P

Now, onto the heavy shit. In my case, I don’t know if I can call writing a “hobby.” It’s a coping mechanism. I know that sounds a little pretentious, but bear with me. I would write even if there was no one else left to read it, because I’ve grown my brain in that direction. It’s easier for me to work out shit on paper than it is to talk about. (Or at least, I can make it sound cooler and more coherent on paper than just putting it in stream of consciousness sort of blather.)

I started writing when I was 12. I have loved reading all my life, but up till then never considered myself that creative. I did some fiction writing before that, never very seriously and never with any intention to be a writer. It might have never caught my interest, but I have immigrant parents who had good intentions and terrible parenting skills.

In middle school, things were pretty terrible at home. I didn’t have outlets. I will flat out say they were abusive and crying got the response “I’ll give you something to cry about.” I was kind of crybaby when I was five (yes, even for a five year old). I had an excellent poker face by eleven.

I used to draw, but I wasn’t very good at it, and my parents didn’t encourage it, because I wasn’t very good, so what was the point? (Yes, I know that logic is wrong, but that’s what I got told.) And also, even if I was good, I wasn’t going to make any money. So don’t bother. I wasn’t allowed to play sports. I had no musical talent or inclination. I wasn’t really allowed to leave the house very often. If I wanted to go anywhere, I had to take my younger sisters (four and eight years younger than me) with me, because I was the oldest and what kind of sister was I if I went out with people and left them at home? (Ahem. More bad logic, I know.) No, they were hardcore serious about this. And if they didn’t want me to go somewhere, they’d just say that they didn’t trust those people with my sisters. And let’s not even get into the power dynamic with my sisters and how that worked. It wasn’t pretty, for any of us.

My parents, like the Asian stereotype goes, were obsessive on schoolwork. So if I was doing “homework,” they left me alone. And if I wanted to use the computer, I had better be doing homework. I started journaling, for both therapeutic and legal reasons. It was depressing as fuck recording the nonfiction events of my life. One day, I wrote a little fanfiction scene from Sailor Moon in crappy script format. It was so terrible. But I liked it. I reread it so many times. It was empowering. So I wrote another one. And then started a whole damn series. It was baaaaad. I filled multiple notebooks with this saga, in pencil, so it’s probably illegible now, though I have them in trunk somewhere. I wrote a more polished (but still bad) version for a Sailor Moon fanfic archive and was thrilled when people actually read it and kind of liked it. (...they had terrible taste, lol) But that’s how I passed the time. At home. At school. I just started writing when I was upset, or bored, or just because. It was melodramatic, self-indulgent, and a coping mechanism. My teachers encouraged it. (English teachers usually liked me.) And gradually, I got better at it. I stopped writing scripts, started writing proper stories. My characters became better, more fleshed out. I expanded into original fiction.

Now seriously, I’m not going to say that I don’t have issues because of it. But sharing this stuff doesn’t hurt me. It’s uncomfortable in the sense of “oversharing with people you don’t know super well should be uncomfortable...if only the person in the cubicle beside me would learn that.” It’s mostly just weird. So there’s no need for obligatory comforting comments. It’s cool. I talk to my parents every few months in a civil fashion, once a month if I’m unlucky. And it’s not anything to brag about, but there are boundaries in place and I’m good. So kind of a happy outcome.

But yeah, that’s why I started writing. It was that or kill real people.

*insert serial killer joke because I'm too tired*

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scriptstructure · 6 years

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I never really learned how to revise. When I’m going back and rereading, I’ll change a word or rephrase a sentence, but nothing more than that. I always felt like there was some sort of system or way that people should revise that was never taught to me. One of my current projects right now is going to need a lot of reworking and probably sections torn out and redone, and I’m blanking on how to approach this. Is revision haphazard, just finding a thing and fixing it in the moment? Or is there a systematic way I should be doing this?

Hey, congrats on getting to the point where you can start revising your piece, that’s awesome! I have [THIS] post that goes through my approach to second drafts and beyond, but I’m going to go through a few methodological details on how to actually get into the editing process.

First up, yes, I think that it is best to approach editing in a systematic manner. We begin from the ‘biggest’ changes, and work our way down to the smallest. We work on:

Narrative Arc → Subplots → Character Arcs → Chapter Arcs → Paragraph Structure → Sentence Structure → Word Choice

See? From the biggest, most overarching structural elements down to the smallest, over the course of several rounds of editing.

So how do we approach each of these stages of editing?

Narrative Arc: Does the story overall, as a whole, hang together and make sense? Is the setup, climax, and resolution satisfying? Does the ending answer the questions that need to be answered?

At this point, we shuffle things around, does chapter seven actually need to be chapter five? Are there gaps in the story that we need to fill in? Make notes of what needs to go where.

Subplots: Are each of your subplots pulling their weight and contributing to the overall story? Do they add something significant to the story and our understanding of the characters/ world?

Here, we can add in sub plots if we need something to fill a gap in the piece, or we can remove subplots if they aren’t actually pulling their weight (or, of course, rewrite, or add in things that make the subplot work the way it was intended to).

Character Arcs: Does each character’s personal progression make sense overall? Could scenes be added or taken away to strengthen the characters? Are all the characters necessary, or could some of them be removed and their roles given to other characters? Do you need to add a character in?

Chapter Arcs: Does each chapter contain a coherent narrative arc? Does each chapter add to the overarching narrative?

We can move things around, say chapter four is a little weak, perhaps we take the important elements of it and divide those between chapters three, five, and eight so that the story flows more smoothly.

Paragraph Structure: here is the point where I’d recommend working on hard copy, we’re getting into the way that your prose is arranged, and making choices about the tone, register, and pacing of the prose.

Do you tend to use long paragraphs? Short paragraphs? Are there places where you’ve got a whole lot of ideas packed into one paragraph, when they might be more impactful with more room to breathe? Are there paragraphs that repeat information that has already been given, in such a way that it doesn’t really add to the piece? (remember, repetition isn’t bad if it’s done deliberately and purposefully, but you want to make sure that it’s doing what it’s supposed to do)

Sentence Structure: Are your sentences clear, concise, do they actually say what you want them to say? Do you tend to begin your sentences in the same way over and over again (eg, in first person POV stories, it’s common to see a LOT of sentences beginning with ‘I’--not necessarily a bad thing, but if it’s not done purposefully and for good reason, it can become irritating. How else might you begin each sentence, so that when it does need to begin with that particular element, it is its most impactful)

Word Choice: Much like sentence structure, here we’re looking at whether we’ve chosen the most impactful way of phrasing things. Repetition is another thing to watch out for here, are you using the same word multiple times in close proximity? Might want to see if there’s another word you can use there. Highlighters are a great way to work on this, go through and highlight words that you seem to be overusing, and think of whether you might replace some of them with other choices. Think about the tone of the piece, the level of language that is appropriate to the characters and feel of the piece.

Another important thing in word choice is to look out for when you’re hedging or undercutting the impact of your words. “Protagonist could see the mountain in the distance glowing, the plume of black smoke curling from the summit.” versus “In the distance, the mountain glows, plumes of black smoke curl from the summit.” The first one might be the better choice if you’re putting an emphasis on the character’s perception of events, but the second one feels more immediate, we’re stepping past the character for a moment to give the reader an insight directly into the world.

So that’s a very brief overview of how to systematically approach a large edit.

Another few tips: Save and BACK UP each stage of your editing process. If you lose your current version, you want to be able to get the next closest version so you don’t lose too much. Also, if you change stuff and decide you don’t like it, you want to be able to go back to the last version that you did like.

BACK UP YOUR DRAFTS! EVERY SINGLE ONE!

I know I laboured this point in the ‘Second Drafts’ post, but TAKE BREAKS!! Sometimes to get a ‘fresh perspective’ on your work and figure out what needs doing, you gotta take a step back, let yourself rest! Let the story rest!

I also can’t emphasise enough the importance of the ‘retype the whole thing’ step in the second drafts post. It really does make such a difference, it’s hard to understand it if you haven’t done it that way before.

And finally, I want to say, I know that a lot of those steps will look scary, there’s a lot of cutting, removing, deleting. But most stories pick up a lot of stuff along the way that just doesn’t quite fit in. Not that they’re bad ideas, or that they’re wrong, just that they aren’t right for this particular story at this particular time. Don’t throw them away, you can keep them for the sequel, or for other projects entirely, but don’t weigh down your piece by trying to keep in every shiny little idea you found just because you’re afraid that you’ll never get to use it if not here and now.

"Perfection is Achieved Not When There Is Nothing More to Add, But When There Is Nothing Left to Take Away"-- French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupery.

The editing process is different for each piece, according to what each piece needs. Some edits you’ll add thousands of words, some edits you’ll cut thousands. You might change everything about the story, or you might just need to polish the word choices.

Go in with a plan of action, devised with a mind to what your particular piece needs, and work through the steps, from biggest to smallest.

I hope that this helps!

#writing #editing #second drafts #submission

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macchiatomingi · 5 years

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dysnomia.exe (ATEEZ Cyberpunk!AU) Chapter 4

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Following the events that transpired a few months ago, San and Yunho took it upon themselves to do system checks on you more frequently after you had to be shut down. ‘Precautions,’ they’d always say. You had no choice but to sit quietly as they ran test after test on your systems. Often calling in Jongho to research a specific component they may have found or called in Hongjoong and Seonghwa to discuss their findings. A myriad of new information was revealed through the constant testing, a few of the things being that you were of a rare line of android that was discontinued after the burning down of Sector 00913, your program had a hidden component that not even San could get through, and your line of android was more susceptible to being installed certain programs that most current android couldn’t get.

Nothing mentioned a strange code that was broadcasted during a forced shutdown.

You were once again in San, and now Yunho’s, office, sitting on the table hooked up to a compu-pod as they ran more tests. Mingi was the guest of the evening since everyone else had gone to the Outlands to buy food. He sat quietly in the back corner of the room, watching San and Yunho work with a blank look on his face.

“Mingi,” Yunho starts, eyes still focused on the screen in front of him, “what’s up with you?”

“Nothing.”

“You’re barely leaving your room,” San starts, you take note that his primary emotion is Concern, and you’re Curious as to why but since talking would require the use of a program that’s being modified you can’t, “again.”

“Haven’t been sleeping well,” Mingi responds, closing his eyes leaning his head back on the wall behind him. You glance over at him and realize that he’s right. On average, he’d only been sleeping two and a half hours each night, for the past week and a half. You sent a message to San detailing this, earning a sigh from him in response.

“What did the robot say?” Mingi asked, opening one eye to stare at San.

“Calixte is an android,” San started, “and they said you’re only getting around two hours of sleep a night. Are the nightmares really that bad?”

“Seonghwa could mix up a drink for you that’ll keep you asleep.”

“No.”

Silence. Nobody really spoke after that. Yunho and San exchanged concerned glances with each other before continuing to try and get into a highly encrypted section of your programming. They’d been trying for days, especially since Jongho mentioned that it was something unique to your line of android. A line that had been discontinued for malfunctions similar to the one you’d been experiencing just months earlier.

“I don’t think we’ll be able to get into this program.” Yunho sighed, rubbing his eyes and leaning away from the screen of his compu-pod. You silently agreed, they hadn’t made any progress since they started working on getting into the program, not even with San’s unlimited knowledge on hacking could they get past the first layer of encryptions.

“What’s so important about the program anyway?” Mingi asked, standing up from the chair he was sitting in to look over Yunho’s shoulder.

“Well,” San starts, “it’s unique to Calixte’s line of android, and we think that this program could explain why they were glitching and malfunctioning so bad when we had to shut them down.” he finished, shutting down his hacking software and unhooking the various wires connected to you.

“Not only that, but we have to use Calixte since their line of android was discontinued the same year the fires happened,” Yunho said, rubbing the back of his neck.

The room fell silent again, it wasn’t until San sighed and asked if you all wanted to get out of the house that the mood picked back up. It would be an adventure, he said. You all just couldn't get caught; Hongjoong would riot if he knew you all snuck out, regardless of whether the public knew your identities or not. Sneaking out was a bad idea with a discontinued android. It’d raise suspicions.

Which is where your new appearance came in; Hongjoong finished designing it but never got the chance to put it on you due to the Great Malfunction, as Wooyoung dubbed it. San said that it was cute, and everyone else agreed. The skin looked almost like porcelain, smooth to the touch and you could even see pores if you looked close enough. The hair looked soft and voluminous, and Seonghwa only snickered when everyone kept asking Hongjoong where he found it. Everything looked realistic, from the hair to the eyebrows to the eyelashes to the folds of how normal skin would work on the ankles and feet.

San motioned everyone to get out of the room as he prepped the skin layer to put on you. You had honestly looked as if you just came out of the box for the past few months. A metal layer of silver over red, blue, green and yellow wires. Eyes round and scarily big due to the lack of actual “flesh” over them. You had gotten so used to seeing yourself in your natural form that you almost felt uncomfortable feeling San put on the skin layer.

He fit the face on first, using a thin spatula-like object to flatten things out and push other things where they needed to go. He then moved on to the arms, then torso, then legs and feet. He took his time to make sure everything was in place and you just stared, his motions were so quick but soft at the same time that before you could process it he was already grabbing the next piece and placing it on you.

“All done! You look...really cute. Almost date-able.” He said, a satisfied smile gracing his boyish features.

“I do not understand.”

“It’s...nothing.” He sighed, motioning for you to put on the clothes that had been laid out on the table prior to him putting on the skin layer. He exited the room shortly after and you got dressed, the outfit was simple. A black shirt with blue detailing, it stopped right above your navel, paired with black pants and boots. A normal outfit for the District you all were going to, so it didn’t phase you too much.

Exiting the room, you noticed San, Yunho, and Mingi all standing by the door. Mingi with a blank look on his face, more distant than anything. Yunho and San didn’t pay much attention to it.

“So, we’re only going to the Red District to see if anyone has info on Calixte’s make and model. We don’t use Calixte to get the information, we just ask. If they request anything we decline and leave,” San started, listing rule after rule, “we get back before midnight since that’s when everyone else gets back, and most importantly we don’t leave the pair we end up getting placed in. Got it?”

“Yes.”

“Hm.”

“Understood.”

“Okay, we can work out pairs when we get to the Red,” Yunho said, opening the door and motioning for everyone to exit, “for now let’s just focus on getting there.”

You were the last to leave the house, besides Yunho. He closed the door behind you and double checked to make sure it was off. The four of you made your way north to the Red District in silence.

Jongho said that it would be the most likely place to get answers since it’s full of people who had...questionable...ways of getting answers. It was almost scary how unyielding San and Yunho were to get answers, but if this could help on their mission to hack the program in your systems then they’d do it.

Those two stop at nothing to get what they want.

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This chapter, as well as the next one, are more filler than actual plot since I’m reworking certain details in the story outline! I just wanna make sure everything is coherent and makes sense when I actually get to the more important chapters so I hope you guys don’t mind a bit of filler until then :)

Also! The next chapter will be focused on Calixte and the ATEEZ boy of your choice :D this time it’s out of Mingi, San, and Yunho. There will be multiple points throughout the story where I base the following chapter or the following two chapters off a member that you guys choose so if there’s anyone you want to know more about, this is your chance to request them :D

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