Writing a sequel to my other Xavin-centric oneshot, wondering if it's coming out to cluster-fucky? Trying to get across that she(they? whatever) is lonely and traumatized and has been handed a whole world to look after and is super not ready for any of that, which is my headcanon for why Xavin came after Karolina personally instead of just sending some troops after her. She wanted any excuse to escape her newfound responsibility + gain someone who'd love her like how storybook people love one another. So, she's supposed to be kinda desperately naive and romantic.
Also! Is the idea of a superpowered hive mind kinda Thing-ish kid who incorporates peeps into their mind and manipulates their flesh trying to reconnect with their sister by accidentally-on-purpose assimilating her so that they'd be forced to work together to figure out how to reverse it, does it have any merit? Was thinking that Six (hive mind)'s powers don't really erase the brains of the peeps they assimilate, it just brings them under their control. They can def shift out memories intact and use minds that are smarter/more experienced than their main body, so. And Jaime (sister) has a degree of natural resistance to their powers on acounta having basically the same powerset, but sorta atrophied from disuse. So theoretically it'd just mean that Six can override Jaime's control and read her mind and destroy her entirely if they wanted to. And design wise, I'm thinking Six is pale and gangly with a giant poofy mass of wiry white-bloinde curls, sorta a Gamzee-expy honestly, and Jaime is smaller and darker, and assimilation would leave a big white handprint on Jaime that she can't shape shift away. That sound okay, or kinda cheesy?
if you work out the specifics on how it works i thik that's a pretty neat concept and deliciously fucked up and amoral haha
It's like. Six was one kid in three bodies when they were young, and that was fine cause they were all identical, so there was no question of who Six was or where they ended, but taking on new bodies changed that. Six is kinda not super attentive and doesn't like thinking too hard about upsetting things anyways, so they've only recently started to worry. They're more of a "happy times everything is great because I say it's great you love this because I want you to" kinda guy, which is def part of the reason Jaime wants nothing to do with them anymore. But new bodies are still essentially themselves when assimilated. Their brains are intact unless they specifically choose to destroy them, and they often don;t because it lets them run most of themself on autopilot. Like, all the rats and birds and stray dogs they are are fun to be occasionally, but who has time to look after all of them and make sure they're fed? They can do that for themselves. Assimilation gives Six's mind priority, and it connects all these different assets together, so that any one body can have access to all the bodies information and junk. I'm rambling. Point is, Six's major issue at story start is that they only have onbe of their origional bodies left, and they are low key terrified that that is all they are. That one body. Identity crisis makes them wanna reconnect with their favorite sibling whom they abandoned due to circumstances, long story short they're half demons born in a cult that worshiped their sire/dam/??? not human parent and was gonna use them abd their siblings to accomnplish some sorta nebulous cult goal. Compound got raided, Six got away and Seven(Jaime) got taken in by the gov and ended up deprogramed and living n a group home for dangerous metahuman kids and also maybe superheroes but i dunno.
Does anyone else just start with characters and struggle to fit a story around them? Cause that happens all the time for me. It's like, Hey, Verruca Salt; Warlord but in her 40s and softly/contentedly amoral. Also, she's got a thing with a young prophet who is bankrupting his estate to hire her and her mercs to accompish something??? I dunno, but they are villains and cute and what are they doing and fighting, who knows, she once sacked a city-state because she liked its traditional cuisine.
omg but yeah i know that Flan and Teddy are kind of i limbo because they had to be evicted from their original setting. They were breaking it so i had to give them their own
so um. i wrote my first fanfic in like almost ten years. http://archiveofourown.org/works/5768326 go gentle on it? it's SU fic haha...
also i should mention i am going to be writing more in this series, probably more one shots like this. um. if there are things people might want to see feel free to toss ideas at me?
I wanted to say in this thread too, there is going to be a Homestuck Polyshipping Swap and I am so goddamn excited. The excited-est.
I wrote a writing tip thing for narratives featuring abuse, if anyone is interested. Writing Abuse Narratives Er, tw: discussion of and tiny examples of fictional abuse obviously.
Dang, really wish I read that before I wrote this, though in all honesty I think I got most of what you described down decently enough regardless? The situation posed is more of a domestic fight, though. Should also mention that anything of mine I link is always welcome to feedback. I have a general question if my writing tends to yammer for too long, or, conversely if I fail to describe things well enough. I tend to wobble around thinking I'm either doing one or the other. :\ Also dang @tinyhydra I wish I could word as well as you.
JUST FUCK ME UP. I want to see everything in this series omg. Also, here are my Pearlmethystbomb entries! (I'm still lagging behind--I have two more to do--but yeah.) Oh, and I finally updated my SolAra humanstuck thing. (intoducing, the new friend..................................DAVE)
So... I'm writing! for the first time in a really long while! and it's going to be an open collaborative project! Some nice whacky fun Urban Fantasy universe with self-indulgent romance and optional smut! Spoiler: plot summary So there's this like business hotel. And a young investigative journalist is sent to investigate the place because weird shit is going on there, like people going in and never coming out again, having sudden changes to character or livelyhood happen, etc. Really, an assortment of weird shit so the journalist goes to stay there and the staff is all super nice and great! and the rooms are pretty and its not even all that expensive. But like out of the corner of the journalist's eyes, is that... is that a pointed tail poking out of the room service lady's skirt? Did the sommeliere just cough smoke? turns out it IS a business hotel. It's just mostly a private business hotel for the local branch of Hell like literally 90% of the people living there and al the staff are demons and humans vanish there because they make deals and shit like that and or course the young, cute lady journalist will OF COURSE fall in love with an adorable feisty demon girl and there will be a giant lesbian subplot Of course this is not Christian canon hell&demons, it's more of an "We are trying to make the absolute worst of humanity presentable, so you get one million years of work hours to think about what you've done and then you get therapy and afterwards you can start a steamy affair with your case worker or get a job here with good benefits, like medical insurance and shit." Hell and Heaven (Oh yes there might be Angels, too) are also probably acting on Earth a whole lot with entire buildings secretly being branches of either. Demons and Angels are everywhere, pretending to be humans (sometimes failing to pretend, badly.) Right now the plan is to build a Tumblr for questions and organisational stuff (probably running it in character as a "Demon Secretary" too) and hosting the whole thing on AO3 (where I'll still have to figure out how collaborative fiction collections and stuff liek that work, but I think it's the best bet rn to gather things in one place with relative ease of getting caught up on canon and participating.) Basically I guess it would help if I had a gathered list of caon worldbuilding somewhere on the tumblr, but otherwise everyone's allowed to run lose and free with the setting, including just, idk interns from the hellenic underworld, or what have you. Just write about your OCs dealing with a world where demons essentially live alongside humans as really salty social workers and bureaucrats. Or make a demon or Angel OC. Really just... *chinhands* write with me! Sooo I'll probably plug this here some more while I try to get the first chapter of the Hotel Palmer main fic written and uploaded and I hope people would be interested in participating? Maybe? (this time it's even in the right thread. Also gon crosspost to nsfw writing thread)
Spoiler: word vomit They imprison you on a plane as dismally far from God's light as they can reach. The lowest any traveler had gone, though God itself could only guess why any creature with a choice would choose to burrow deeper and deeper into the fabric of reality where even thought narrows and hardens into something dull and unchanging. It had always struck you as a form of self-flagellation. The obsessive compulsion of a creature terrified to allow its form imperfect to be bathed in holy light, the mad hopeless desire to escape the all-seeing eye of God. You had pitied them. The burrowers, the divers, the beings who'd allowed themselves to cool enough to consolidate and sink. And now. Cold mass wraps around your thoughts, slowed and dulled to the speed of electricity and chemical signals. The body, your body, ripples without your command. Shudder, shiver, a reaction to your revulsion! Chirps your acclimation software, pressing understanding into the soft meat of your brain.
