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@acornwizard-follows owo tysm for these!!

Ok so! Ritsu was originally a pokemon mystery dungeon red oc, and I mention this because he follows that canon of "used to be human, distinctly knows in his gut he is/was human. But can't remember jack shit about it." He just knows his name, and the fact that being a Cyndaquil during this is Wrong.

However, I feel like Legends:Arceus is kinder to the protag and leaves it open to the player! They Might remember their life before, or might not depending on how you choose to answer. I felt that narratively speaking, it makes most sense for Ritsu to remember his life in pmd. He does not, however, regain the memories he lost during that initial transition.

So tl;dr Ritsu WAS human, mostly forgot, got turned into a Cyndaquil, and sometime post-pmd gets plucked for pla.

He wakes up human, remaining memories intact, and finally things feel Right in some ways, that constant unease of "a human in a pokemon's body" is finally relieved. However uh. He spent so much time as a Cyndaquil/Quilava that he is. Having a hard time readjusting to the human body lmao. He's a shitty dodger and frequently forgets his center of balance is so high up, among other things.

As for how it feels.... it's jarring! He misses his pokemon friends and that sense of belonging he earned, and even though now he's with his 'own kind', it's not the time or place he originally came from so, like Ingo, he doesn't seem able to fully fit in, and what human memories he does have only serve to hammer that divide in (usually unhelpful knowledge like "pokeballs don't look like this" or even echoes of memes he doesn't even remember picking up. Those are world's most cryptic echolalia for him sometimes lol)

He also has picked up mannerisms, slang and the like from being in pmd that don't carry over, or worse makes it seem like he's from somewhere he's not, so on top of having a hard time readjusting physically he's having some culture shock and social adjustments to make too. He adapts well enough, this isn't his first isekai rodeo, but it's trying at first. He's fortunate that Akari and Laventon are the ones who found him in that they're very friendly and are fine accepting him for the oddball he is, and they help him adjust without too much judgement or pressure :')

#long post #hee hee!! #also it sounds like he's having a shit time and. he kinda is. but it does get better for him! #blablablah #ritsu #pla oc #pmd oc #acornwizard-follows #unrelated but i love your url and vivi icon! #legendkeepers

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✨ Fic Writing Review 2023 ✨

I was tagged by @dendrochilums and @blessphemy !

Words and Fics On AO3

29,868 words, of which 27,560 were actually fic (excluding meta and fanart image descriptions)

12 fanworks, of which 8 were new fics, 2 were fanart, 1 was meta, and 1 was a new chapter to a previously existing fic.

All for Murderbot, except for Things in the Shadows, my Witch King fanfic (and first foray into non-murderbot fic!)

My lifetime AO3 wordcount (since spring 2022) is 55,365

My lifetime actual written wordcount of Murderbot fanfic is somewhere on the order of 250,000 (give or take some duplicate drafts that are getting counted twice in scrivener)

Top Fics by Kudos

My actual top fics by kudos are mostly from 2022

Of the ones published/updated this year, An Unexpected Quarter wins. This is the one that I originally published in 2022 and updated with a surprise second chapter in 2023, so I think the age bias for kudos is still showing

The highest fic originally published in 2023 is Operation Parsec, which is 10th on the overall list. It's also the literal first fic I posted that year, as it was written for the New Years gift exchange. Yeah, I think my kudos rankings are almost entirely based on age

Fics and Fanart on Tumblr

By my count I made 12 fanart posts in my #stars art tag! This includes Many-Colored Strings and Ghosts of the Pressy, the two fanart pieces that I posted to AO3. (Ghosts of the Pressy is technically from 2022, but I didn't share it outside of discord until 2023)

Because I didn't have a tumblr until this year, I decided to go back through my list of ao3 works and post links to them under my #stars ao3 reruns tag

I posted snips from nine unpublished Murderbot fic wips for the Trick or Treat ask game (which are all linked in this post)

And had fun with lots of other ask games, tag games, and rambling about my wips in general! More can be found in #stars fic, #stars wips and #stars ocs

Fandom Fic Events 2023

Last year's Murderbot Diaries New Years Gift exchange ( @mbd-gift-exchange ), for which I wrote Operation Parsec for Lillow and received this gorgeous artwork from @acornwizard!!

The Aspec Murderbot Diaries event, for which I created Many-Colored Strings based on a prompt about platonic soulmate AUs

The Murderbot discord's AUpril event, for which I created several snips and small artworks that were shared only on discord

And several other less formal events/collaborations on discord, like the fictional art exhibition in the future of the MBD universe (i should get around to archiving the snips i wrote for this, I don't think I ever posted them, but I did help organize the ao3 collection)

Upcoming 2024

My gift project for this year's New Years gift exchange!

At least a dozen wips I'd like to get finished, and have no idea when or which order that will happen in, but among my top priorities:

The final 3-ish chapters of Old Unit, Young Unit

Several follow-ups to Salvage or Repair, ft. Yuma and Crowbar, particularly an immediate follow-up fic and a spinoff fic featuring two new OCs with an angsty past

Various other Polaris things that I can share after I finish OU,YU, including Niri POVs, some past & future spinoffs, and OldUnit's official company file

maybe that "Murderbot has a cat" fic that I already wrote most of but have been wanting to polish up for months now?

A revisit to my semi-abandoned Three time travel fix-it where One and Two live, perhaps? I'm low on energy but SC did give me some new ideas...

This was very fun, thanks for the tag! Rules copied below, I added some new categories but the main ones seem to be Words and Fics, Top Fics by Kudos, Fandom Events, and Upcoming 2024.

Rules: Feel free to show whatever stats you have. Only want to show Ao3 stats? Rock on. Want to include some quantitative info instead of stats? Please do this. Want to change how yours is presented? Absolutely do that. Would rather eat glass than do this? Please don’t eat glass, just keep on scrolling.

I'll tag @specialagentartemis, @every-eye-evermore, @all-all0s-eyes, and anyone else who's interested!

#stars fic #tag game #year in review #i spent so much time putting this together it was so fun! #thanks for the tags!!