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courtanie · 7 years

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I'm gonna go max greed on this so sorry in advance but I'm soooo curious :o...'Painted in Shrouds', questions 1, 3, 4, 5, and 11 through 15. Sorry senpai :p

Dear lord, son. U better be sorry i am offend. jk love u mwah. This is gonna be a long’n.

1 - What inspired you to write the fic this way?

This is so weirdly worded what does it even mean. Write it how? Style? Plot? Characters? Fuck idk. Let’s go with idk plot we’ll pretend that’s totally what it means. Honestly Unmasked from like 2010 is what inspired it. Shrouds was literally my way of going “I can write the same kind of stories way better now watch me go Kyle is actually gonna be the undoing aspect this time not just the target I swear”. Plus crime stuff is just... super interesting and I wanted to make it somewhat intricate but still make sense with Cartman’s lil mini mafia. I guess it also turned out like it did where no one knew for sure what was going on until it was written out because that’s how it was for me. I was going blind for most of the actual evildoings plot idk how the fuck I got it to actually work but hey we did it America.

3 - What's your favorite line of narration?

Hella cheating here but can we just count the entirety of Kyle breaking out of the cuffs with the mason jar lid? I just really had a lot of fun writing that whole thing. Like, it’s so stupid. It was such a ridiculous methodology for him to escape but I had a lot of fun with it and going into a lil flashback with Kyle learning to cook with Sheila which is the only headcanon in existence that I really latch onto like a leech.

4 - What’s your favorite line of dialogue?

Again, cheating, but I loved this exchange: “’What's his name, Kahl?’" he cut him off. "’Don't leave Butters hangin', he's lookin' pretty needy for the scoop.’"The redhead glanced between both of their waiting faces, gulping steadily. "’Um… M-Mark,’" he worked out.Cartman smirked, "You mean like… a question mark?’" Because fuck u I’m hilarious. Actually the entirety of their exchange in that chapter was pretty fun I threw in so many poor puns and I’m personally angry that Kyle didn’t catch on quicker. Kyle I write you smarter than that what were you doin’.

5 - What part was hardest to write?

Oh god. So much of it was so hard to churn out, especially towards the end. I think the part I struggled with the most though was Kyle tricking Burke and Kashkov in their last scene. At that point I was battling with an injured and exhausted Kyle, a resurrected Kenny, was trying to figure out how to get the baddies to react to Kenny’s death and all those schematics, and I had to ooc Kyle pretty hard to make it work. I think it was the one thing over just a few lines that I had to have someone else read over to make sure it like, made a lick of sense pft. (Throwin out another thanks to Kris for that, ur a doll)

11 - What do you like best about this fic?

I was really proud of the way I made it all come together in the end. It was really worrisome for awhile with getting everything to actually line up and figuring out if it actually worked, but it did and now that it’s over, I look back on the migraines from hours of research with rose-colored glasses pft

12 - What do you like least about this fic?

It got so. Fucking. Tedious towards the end. I mean my last a/n very clearly stated how DONE I was with it. I lost all hint of caring about eight chapters from the end with only lil boosts in I believe chappie 35, the jar scene, and then the final confrontation with Cartman. Other than that everything just DRAGGED. I was so paranoid everyone else would despise it as much as I did, but apparently I was the only one who thought it was dry and exhausting. Either way, I don’t wanna lose passion on a fic like that again.

13 - What music did you listen to, if any, to get in the mood for writing this story? Or if you didn't listen to anything, what do you think readers should listen to to accompany us while reading?

Skillet - Hero, Whispers in the Dark, Within Temptation - Let Us Burn, Linkin Park - Burn it Down, Starset - My Demons. Fun fact: My Demons influenced certain aspects of this story so much that it was the main inspiration for my kysterion oneshot ‘Take me High and I’ll Sing’ (and where I got the title from pff)

14 - Is there anything you wanted readers to learn from reading this fic?

Always have a fake watergun on hand, Kids. You never know when your enemy is gonna threaten to shoot you in the face. ~Life lessons from Courtanie~

15 - What did you learn from writing this fic?

Always have a fake watergun on hand okay I’m kidding. I learned a whole lotta things. I learned that hey, I can pull off crime drama to a reasonable extent. And I learned better ways of masking characters from one another. And, most notably and I’m so gonna fucking get made fun of for this but, thanks to Kyle and the role I put him in, I finally fucking realized what I want to do in school. Thanks to his nerdy numbers ass and the research I did for his role, I finally goddamn figured out that I wanted to go into accounting. It literally took his dumb damsel ass to get me there but here we are after fucking seven years. Thanks Kyle I love u u r my eternal strawberry.

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