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scribblemyname ([personal profile] scribblemyname) wrote2013-09-22 07:54 pm
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Fluff, Relationships, and Traditions

This entry is part 52 of 52 in the series 365 Challenge

So characters have habits, ways they interact with certain people and situations, things they do and like to do, stories and histories together. I've known a lot of my characters' for a long time but getting them all into fic is interesting, particularly for the ones I don't know that for.

I've got about five novelettes I want to turn out plus a short story, created out of the 5 Things Meme and then the whole Pieter/Ashen dynamic that originally played in my head before I even wrote that first Ashen drabble (and it is awesome to me, but got sidelined drastically with a deluge of other prompts), but, but, but...

I'm on day 265 of my challenge and story count 157 and I'm still plying angles and there's all those little things above that I'm itching to nibble at. Want to help a girl out?

Particularly of interest to me are things like where does Wesley work (not sure actually), and then relationship things that I haven't gotten to like how Justus always recognizes Shift regardless of her current form or demeanor, friendships, sibling relationships, Ilsa and her husband, etc.

Calling for prompts, as promised:

  1. character(s) and/or canon/fandom
  2. random word, quote, or other prompt

Oh, and I'll try to keep it short and fluffy or sweet. Try is the operative word. :grins:

Prompts

Ficlets

Seven Days

Kingdoms and Thorn

Originally published at Liana Mir. You can comment here or there.

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[personal profile] scribblemyname 2013-09-25 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)
They were out. Not interesting enough.

I can see that about mongoose, but frankly, it's gotta be a creature Pieter would keep, which means travels well and doesn't leap to protect him from people he's trying to get along with. At the same time, not a pet of the specially gifted until Ashen shows up, and I'm not all that familiar with a lot of exotic kinds of rodents.

I think I'm going to have to make up a species. :plops chin on hands: Might work.

This is the weirdest setting to work in: it's half our world and totally not and I didn't rework names, but did have to rework languages and tech and other little signals that this is different (while not going all the way) simply because I didn't want to saddle myself with the real world or saddle the real world with the mess I've made of this one. It means I have to make it different and the same all at once.

[identity profile] thecatisacritic.livejournal.com 2013-09-25 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)
That's good.

I remember liking Messalina (Messy) in the books I read, but Nell didn't usually travel with any of her animals.

Someone I used to know had hamsters and guinea pigs, someone else had a chinchilla, but they don't seem quite like the kind of pet he'd take with him.

After looking at a certain story of mine, I kind of thought he needed an animal like... um... Trystan, but I don't think that would work.

Those worlds that are like ours but not quite ours are... tricky. It would be easier to do them all in other worlds sometimes, but it's harder at the same time. Plus, sometimes one doesn't want the kind of stuff that happens in them to be a part of ours when ours is bad enough...
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[personal profile] scribblemyname 2013-09-26 02:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. The original premise had this going on in the United States. Needless to say, the instant I put it to paper, that changed. I love my country and won't give anyone another false excuse to hate it more. We've got enough Americans that hate America and want to change it into something completely different.

[identity profile] thecatisacritic.livejournal.com 2013-09-26 05:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I try to avoid using real locations myself, and Aether ended up a private organization because I didn't want the situation reflecting badly on real people. Same with a few other pieces. If I can use a private organization, I will. There are always a few... bad eggs in any bunch, so a private organization abusing its power makes sense sometimes. Other times it doesn't. Usually the only time the government is completely corrupt is when I created it. Otherwise, it's not so bad, just maybe a bad employee or too.
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