#I'll probably do the redwood scripts too but idk when
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candaru liveblogs reading her own writing: episode 4
ngl the whole backstory bit was just so fun to write. also rich girl mera
GET IT? GET IT? CUZ IT RHYMES WITH REFLECTION? GET IT—
and the Giovanni parallel of Molly’s first time standing up for herself!! aka local gremlin chooses NOT to pick a fight he can’t win for once
ngl I’m proud of this whole monologue by Indus because reading it is just like “oh yeah that makes sense!” and doesn’t give the impression that I took DAYS figuring out how to close all the plot holes (which I did)
I love Lambchop
I distinctly remember being REALLY happy about this part, for some reason. I guess because I destroyed the dinosaur bones and wasn’t sure how I was gonna get Gio up into the vent?
...ok this is worse than the McHammer joke, I’d like to have a word with my past self
HGBASDFKLGH I STILL LOVE THIS PART
can’t even tell you how annoyed I was that Indus needed to send the Amulet out on a little frisbee because physically he cannot get close enough to Percy to just grab her/tap her with the Amulet himself and that felt SO stupid and anticlimactic to me but hgsdhfklgh whatcha gonna do
another little reference to Parapet from the RP blog! you can’t prove that Epithets AREN’T sentient beings that whisper influences into the subconscious
as I mentioned earlier: one of my favorite things in this project was to take lines of dialogue from the original and then twist them by changing their characters/scenarios
(the original is Molly talking about Giovanni in her first moment of standing up for herself because he’s inspired her; in this version, it’s Indus rationalizing hurting other people because of how much he cares for Mera)
for anyone that didn’t catch it, this isn’t just Molly somehow brute-forcing her way through— she activated Hushabye (which “unsummons summoned stuff”) to force the barrier to go away! the smashing effect was honestly more for the aesthetic ashgiksdlfhg (if Jello can have Mera summon blue fire for no reason I can have Indus’s barrier shatter into pieces for drama u-u)
in EE all of Giovanni’s boys are in love with him, so naturally all of swap!Molly’s girls want her to adopt them
ngl when I typed “you’d better watch yourself when you grow up” I stared at the screen for a solid second before going oH NOW I KINDA WISH THIS WAS A REAL SHOW BECAUSE THAT’S SUCH AN EPIC PREMISE
like. the drama/angst possibilities of “I’ll protect you but only until you’re older, at which point we are sworn enemies and I won’t hold back?” can u IMAGINE the kind of familial heart-wrenching slowburn you could make with that premise
the best canon-to-AU line in the whole darn series
ok there was so much stuff I wanted to fit into the original but just couldn’t make work for the script at the same time as when the original joke was used, but then the opportunity came up LATER and I was like
me realizing I can fit in Molly’s patented “dumb” powers after all: >:O!
me realizing I can fit in THE HEADLIGHTS JOKE after all: >:OOO!!!
THE CONCLUSION OF HIS CHARACTER ARC!!! ....uh, sorta? he’s still aiming to be a criminal but now he’s not picking a fight with everyone who he sees at least? X’D epithet is a weird show idk
okay, ALSO, trying to figure out this whole last part was really hard for some reason. trying to get Sylvie and Percy out of the picture so Molly & Indus/Mera could have a moment alone, while also making sure Gio had a ride home— it was a lot of frustrating technical “if this, then that”s.
admittedly, I actually wanted Gio to be the one to get the Indus/Mera moment because that'd be a more perfect “swap” of the original, but I knew from the start that Molly was gonna use her dumb powers to let Indus and Mera hug. so, y’know, sacrifices had to be made.
...so, uh. I was sleep-deprived because I stayed up late to finish the last script on time, and in my haste these two lines were originally typos (I kept the names “Giovanni Potage” and “Zora” rather than switching them).
so if u ever feel bad about ur writing please remember that everyone not only makes mistakes but apparently canon-shattering mistakes
aaaaand that’s it!
...I feel like I should have some sort of commentary about the swap!Museum Arc as a whole but I really don’t other than “it was one of the best experiences of my life to write/publish”
OH fun fact I guess I can share; I first decided to write the Switched Scripts while I was re-listening to the audio of EE for the 4th time while painting a house :D SPECIFICALLY, during the part in episode 3 when Molly breaks away from Indus and runs into the other exhibit; I was jumping up and down stimming rapidly because the show just gave me SO MUCH ADRENALINE with how good it was, and I suddenly went “I GOTTA REWRITE THIS WHOLE SHOW BUT WITH SPLIINKLES’ AU. THAT’S WHAT I GOTTA DO” kind of out of nowhere?
and then i did! live your dreams kids
#candaru liveblogs reading her own writing#I'll probably do the redwood scripts too but idk when#epithet erased#epithet switched
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