#which will be a point of interest in the story 👀 without spoiling too much

[atlasofthestaars]

another amazing chapter!! i would honestly love a movie marathon with them <3 and i love the focus on johnny this time, he's really just a guy with a good heart! bringing reader a blanket and a pillow :((( liu kang at the end there ....... hes so in love with the reader wtf ?!#$??!"? and bi han showing he cares in the most hostile way possible 😭😭😭 bxnsnsnd the only reason i dont want mileena as a love interest is bc i really wanted to see how you would explore her and tanyas dynamic :") kitana as a love interest tho..... thats wife 🤭 and ik this is getting long, but i have a couple questions; do you have an outline for the whole story prepared or is it being changed as you go? since you said adding shang tsung as a love interest would alter the story a bit? and (if it spoils anything, dont worry about answering!) how would you plan on ending it since reader's got a reverse harem going on? do you plan on giving reader an endgame with someone? again, sorry this got a bit long!

(p.s. can i be ☄️ anon? i plan on sticking around for the whole story hehe expect me after every chapter bcus ive subscribed to it on ao3 🫡)

Thank you so much! A movie marathon would be wonderful with the champion squad, but I can imagine how chaotic the emotional whiplash it could get if they all got to chose movies. Like imagine going from a lighthearted rom com to like??? A dark and gritty action movie LMAO I enjoyed writing for Johnny this time around, but I do worry I made him a bit (?) Out of character for his characrer progression, but I'm glad you enjoyed him nevertheless aha ^^ I did really like writing him as a dude who just means well, since he really just is that! Liu Kang is definitely feeling SOMETHING for the reader HAHA Mr. Fire God catching feels? Or is he just really nice 👀? Bi-Han struggles with showing he cares, but he really does. If only there was a therapist character to help him though HAHA Oh I definitely get why you'd want that! Mileena and Tanya's dynamic was interesting for me in this game, so I will have fun portraying that if she doesn't get voted in. If she does, uh, I'll definitely have to figure out what to do LMAOO I love Kitana 🙏 She's my fave female chara and my main in Mk1 !!

I don't mind it being ling at all, I love reading stuff like this and being able to interact with you all!! I don't know many people in my personal life who are willing to hear me obsess over Mortal Kombat like this HAHA

I do have a rough outline of the general story! As well as more defined plot points I like to hit within the arcs of the story. For example, I consider the part of the story we're in to be like the training/pre Outworld arc?? And I have certain moments with characters I want to hit before we move on with the plot! Of course, I am a very impulsive person so I leave it open and easy to change if needed. Events that happen later also tend to change to better fit the flow of the story, but I generally know the direction I want to head with everything.

I plan on giving every love interest an ending (think like endings in mortal kombat for each character!) So ideally I'd like to give each character their own unique ending/epilogue with the reader! People on AO3 also have requested a harem ending which I am open to making, but can't gaurentee due to characters like Shang Tsung. I mighttt make one without certain characters depending on how it all ends, one with everyone, or not one at all! I don't want to stress too much over that right now so that one is still up in the air whether I'll do it or not (especially since we've like, barely started ahaha)

And you can be ☄anon!! I'm happy to hear I have your support on this journey <3 and ty for supporting me there too! I love to see all the feedback from everyone, so I will happily await any comments you make! Thank you again for your kind words and support!

[jingerhead]

haven't heard anything about there now, steady love in a bit anything new there 👀

honestly ik i literally brainstormed it w you but i speak for the people here tell me everything you want to about the mermay au

Oh Blind Neil my baby, I ended up putting that on the backburner to update for a while as I work on newer things hehe. Honestly I just think it works super well the way it is right now too, like I could post another part of it whenever I wanted to and not have to worry about completing any sort of story there. I'll get around to updating it sometime, promise!

And oh man the mermay au....I am just so excited about it. It was 90% inspired by @fortheloveofexy and @rhyva beautiful collab they did which you can look at here (AND YOU SHOULD BECAUSE ITS INCREDIBLE). Here's some basics about the story without spoiling it hehe:

Neil is a half-mer, meaning Mary was a mermaid and Nathan was a human. Nathan is a ruthless pirate captain that hunts mers in the sea, usually killing and selling them to build his fortune. He captains the ship The Butcher and at one point captured Mary, who he decided to keep instead of sell or kill. He used Mary as a weapon, forcing her to use her singing to lure in other ships to plunder and destroy them, keeping her under control once they had Neil.

Mers don't have the ability to become 'human' once they are out of the water. If they are left outside of the sea and dry out, they will die a slow and painful death. As a half-mer, Neil can go from 'human form' to 'mer form', which is a painful process and unsatisfying no matter where he is. If he hasn't gone in the water for long enough, his body will physically ache and itch for him to go into the sea. If underwater for too long, his body will physically ache and itch for time on land.

Nathan has never allowed Neil to go into the sea. He needs Neil for something important and can't risk him escaping.

Meanwhile, Andrew is a mer of the open sea living with his small pod. The best place for them to live is in the twilight zone, their dark colored tails able to blend in far better around there. Most mers find a general location and settle down, but Andrew's pod has always remained on the move, settling down for a little bit before moving on.

But that all changes when the group come across a hunting cage deep in the water, and Andrew gets caught while trying to save the rest of his pod. They can't get him out of it before he's taken out of the sea, captured by the crew of The Butcher. They don't kill him, at least not yet, keeping him alive in a tank on the ship.

That all changes when Andrew is rescued that night by a human on board, who can trance the crew keeping guard with his voice and smells like one of them.

And the rest is a mystery for now hehe, here's a little snippet to read if you'd like!

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“What are you doing here?” Neil asked, pressing a hand to the wood. “They’ll catch you again. I can’t set you free a second time.”

There was a short noise from the other side of the boat, something Neil would’ve assumed was a scoff, but it was difficult to tell. “I’m not defenseless. I was saving my pod.”

“Your pod?” Neil asked.

“Yes.”

Neil didn’t ask further. He shifted until he could sit back against the wood of the boat, tipping his head up to look at the ceiling. “You didn’t answer my question.”

There came a short clicking and whining sound, an expansion of noise that almost made Neil flinch. His mother had been able to speak the same language as humans, never using her old one or echolocation to communicate, but Neil could still understand the sounds. He had to assume it was biology that let him. “You’re interesting,” the mer explained. “You let me go.”

“You weren’t special.”

“And yet you did it anyway.”

The mer was right, but Neil was also telling the truth. If he had the chance, he would’ve set any his father had captured free, even if he himself was trapped. As much as he ached to touch the water just once in his life, it had to be torturous for a mer to be pulled away from it. Not only that, but Neil had seen what those people did to the mers Nathan traded. 

It was his fault his mother was caught. He wouldn’t let that happen again to any other.

Hearing another click and whine, Neil blinked away from his own thoughts, brought back to the conversation. “What do they call you?” the mer asked.

Many names. Junior, Son, Mer, Nathaniel, Abram, The Thing, Fish…

He was quiet for way too long. The mer had to be getting bored on the other side of the ship. “Neil,” he finally answered. The first thing he called himself. “You?”

“Andrew,” the mer replied. Neil heard a light knock to the wood, close to his hip. “You smelled like us.”

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[theoriginalladya]

7, 14, and 17 for the fanfic author ask meme? 👀

from this list

Thank you for the ask!

7. What’s the last thing you read that made you cry?

Oh gosh, hmm.... I'm so behind on my reading and I know several of them are going to just tear me up (in such good ways!), but the last thing? Of something published, I assume (I'm invovled in several projects that have WIPs that have made me cry because they're so beautifully done).

Going to have to go with Stronger Than The Waves by MaxRev. It's a WONDERFUL story and has many moments - highs and lows and in between - and plenty of tear jerking moments too. A fabulous story...and i should probably go reread it because I really do love it.

14. (For authors) Post a line of dialogue from one of your WIPs without context.

WHICH ONE?????

“I know who and what you really are.”

17. Describe a fic that is still in the ‘ideas’ stage.

LOL Well, i guess Aubrey counts because I still haven't decided exactly how that's going to go just yet. I've got the basic idea - post Clone mission, post War even, on Omega. Aubrey is with Mordin at the clinic; John A. didn't cure the genophage. Aubrey knows he's being followed and finally finds a relatively quite place to confront his stalker...turning around and pointing a weapon in Kaidan's face.

That part I'm pretty sure of. I think I've pretty much determined the bigger plot points and ultimately who is behind what's going on, it's just the smaller plot points I'm still trying to sort out. I have a LOT of notes, a number of drabbles, PLENTY of music... I know Kaidan's mother is part Syilx and has a large weaving loom in the house and her goal in keeping the orchard going ties in with her love of nature and the environment, something her husband understood when he was alive and that Kaidan is learning to appreciate more and more over the years. Aubrey finds her interesting and delightful and in such contrast to his experience with Brooks, he's friends with Anna-Marie before he even thinks about Brooks (which haunts him on and off for a while).

I'm fairly certain Aubrey and Kaidan don't settle down on Earth, but they do visit quite a bit and for months at a time.

I also know that Aubrey will, for quite a while, be very defensive whenever comparisons are made between himself and John A. He doesn't know all of John A.'s history, but with every bit he does learn the urge to scream that he isn't John A. Shepard, he's AUBREY Shepard.

[sorry if it seems super vague, but I don't want to spoil some of the surprises in store!]

Oh, I can tell you that from the Coup attempt to the end of the Reaper War, Kaidan served on board the Orizaba under Hackett's command rather than with John A. Shepard, by his own choice.

So, for right now, it's all a jumble of ideas in my head and a lone notebook.

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