Where the River Meets the Sea (new fic) + notes
Hilda meets Claude’s parents. They’re not who she suspects.
Postgame, Verdant Wind. ~12k words.
Here at AO3.
idk if people really do "making-of" or fun notes on fics anymore? but i'm doing it today, because, fuck it whatever, and i'm feeling self-indulgent
under the cut because spoilers
so one of my Nagamas prompts looked like this:
Claude/Hilda post VW route: Claude finally introduces Hilda to his family, and she realizes there's a lot about him she doesn't know - aka "let's confront Hilda's racism". No sad/bittersweet ending please. Preferably romantic Claude/Hilda, but friendship is ok too
...which sounds 110% like my jam, so, hell yeah, let's do
i started writing it in December, though i wrote it all backwards: i wrote almost the entirety of Chapter 3 that month, because i thought Chapter 3 was going to be the "frame" around the overall story, with Claude's little teatime getting interrupted with flashbacks to the whole meet-the-parents thing.
but then i got carried away, because Lorenz was so fun to write, and i realized i'd written like five thousand words but not a single one about Claude's parents yet, whups, and thus i confronted the horrible reality that this story might need to be in chronological order.
the story started cohering the day after Christmas, when i first wrote the line "Like water off a wyvern’s back-that was what people said about trying to get a rise out of Kamyar el-Samandi", though ironically the bits with his parents were still some of the last things i wrote. (worldbuilding is hard! i am a procrastinator! etc)
Chapter 2 was an absolute bitch to write and and there were a few scenes that i probably rewrote like eighteen times ugh. good thing there was a deadline or else i'd probably still be rewriting it...!
but honestly overall the whole thing was a blast to write & i'm very excited to be steppin' back into Fire Emblem fic writin' :)
energy channeled while writing this fic:
* that time my partner decided to introduce me to his parents with literally ten minutes of notice
* seriously, we were on our way to a cabin for the weekend
* because he was like "we can hang out! we'll have the place to ourselves! it'll be great!"
* we're ten minutes away and he's like "mom'll be cooking us dinner so that's cool"
* me: ...mom????
* him: oh yeah my parents are gonna be at the cabin this weekend too lol
* me: ??!?!?!?!?!?!
* cue me frantically trying to throw on makeup in a subaru goin 50mph while swearing and shouting a lot
* cue partner being all "idk why you're acting like this is a big deal, my parents are totally chill, blah blah"
* and to this day he swears he didn't intend to walk me into a trap, he's just a space cadet and forgot his parents were also going to be at the cabin until uh. ten minutes out
* and you know, it was fine, it was totally fine, his parents were in fact ridiculously chill, but oh boy do i remember my blood pressure spiking like 800%
* (for the reverse scenario: when i introduced my partner to my parents, i gave him a fuckin' checklist, i coached him on Proper Southern Manners, he was gonna be so damn impressive... he proceeded to do exactly nothing on the checklist, and y'know what, it worked out anyway, so, whatever, life is an adventure)
* that time my brother went to Paris
* (...that girlfriend is no longer dating him)
* raymond carver (thanks for the title bro)
* ...tite kubo
* those horseback riding lessons i took in middle school, somehow
* pretty much anytime i've ever made out with a dude because i was bored & he was hot
Postgame, Verdant Wind. ~12k words.
Here at AO3.
idk if people really do "making-of" or fun notes on fics anymore? but i'm doing it today, because, fuck it whatever, and i'm feeling self-indulgent
under the cut because spoilers
so one of my Nagamas prompts looked like this:
Claude/Hilda post VW route: Claude finally introduces Hilda to his family, and she realizes there's a lot about him she doesn't know - aka "let's confront Hilda's racism". No sad/bittersweet ending please. Preferably romantic Claude/Hilda, but friendship is ok too
...which sounds 110% like my jam, so, hell yeah, let's do
i started writing it in December, though i wrote it all backwards: i wrote almost the entirety of Chapter 3 that month, because i thought Chapter 3 was going to be the "frame" around the overall story, with Claude's little teatime getting interrupted with flashbacks to the whole meet-the-parents thing.
but then i got carried away, because Lorenz was so fun to write, and i realized i'd written like five thousand words but not a single one about Claude's parents yet, whups, and thus i confronted the horrible reality that this story might need to be in chronological order.
the story started cohering the day after Christmas, when i first wrote the line "Like water off a wyvern’s back-that was what people said about trying to get a rise out of Kamyar el-Samandi", though ironically the bits with his parents were still some of the last things i wrote. (worldbuilding is hard! i am a procrastinator! etc)
Chapter 2 was an absolute bitch to write and and there were a few scenes that i probably rewrote like eighteen times ugh. good thing there was a deadline or else i'd probably still be rewriting it...!
but honestly overall the whole thing was a blast to write & i'm very excited to be steppin' back into Fire Emblem fic writin' :)
energy channeled while writing this fic:
* that time my partner decided to introduce me to his parents with literally ten minutes of notice
* seriously, we were on our way to a cabin for the weekend
* because he was like "we can hang out! we'll have the place to ourselves! it'll be great!"
* we're ten minutes away and he's like "mom'll be cooking us dinner so that's cool"
* me: ...mom????
* him: oh yeah my parents are gonna be at the cabin this weekend too lol
* me: ??!?!?!?!?!?!
* cue me frantically trying to throw on makeup in a subaru goin 50mph while swearing and shouting a lot
* cue partner being all "idk why you're acting like this is a big deal, my parents are totally chill, blah blah"
* and to this day he swears he didn't intend to walk me into a trap, he's just a space cadet and forgot his parents were also going to be at the cabin until uh. ten minutes out
* and you know, it was fine, it was totally fine, his parents were in fact ridiculously chill, but oh boy do i remember my blood pressure spiking like 800%
* (for the reverse scenario: when i introduced my partner to my parents, i gave him a fuckin' checklist, i coached him on Proper Southern Manners, he was gonna be so damn impressive... he proceeded to do exactly nothing on the checklist, and y'know what, it worked out anyway, so, whatever, life is an adventure)
* that time my brother went to Paris
* (...that girlfriend is no longer dating him)
* raymond carver (thanks for the title bro)
* ...tite kubo
* those horseback riding lessons i took in middle school, somehow
* pretty much anytime i've ever made out with a dude because i was bored & he was hot