“When we make it out of this, I’ll teach you to shoot.”

Yoooo just reread LotL and I must ask

What is the sequel about? Your note at the bottom says it's going to be Kai and Morro centric with "a certain villain canon is already making use of" but I cannot for the life of Mr figure anything out beside Kai and Morro maybe getting along finally?

I don't need sleep I need answers (affectionately, in desperate need of sleep)

Unfortunately the entire draft of that is only like 4K words so far. I’m still very much in the outlining phase. It doesn’t help that I recently watched s11 and desperately want to find a way to include Akita somehow because I LOVE her but since LotL basically takes place in the middle of the “the ninja have nothing to do, are getting lazy” thing, Wu wouldn’t send them to a quest in my version, and so season 11 basically wouldn’t have happened at all.

I have a working title, and I know that it’s going to involve Kai and Morro separated from the others on a quest to rescue Lloyd, but the specifics of how and why and what the others are doing during this are not worked out yet in my brain.

I also know I wanna include Harumi because canon redeemed a character I thought deserved a redemption arc, but (from what I heard) in the worst way possible. I need to get caught up on the actual show at some point.

Unusually for me, I actually have a really good idea what I want the climax to look like, so I have to work backwards. For LotL, I had a lot of the opening done or planned, then the ending, then the middle, and the climax was LAST.

It’ll definitely be a bit after I finish SoRS (which I’m not even halfway through with at this point cause I’m adding the Wu chapter) before I have enough to post so unfortunately many sleepless nights await the both of us lmao.

Hi, just wanted to ask, how did you get into the witcher franchise (did you read the books before you played the games or vice versa?). Love your blog, byeeee :)

ty for the ask!! i hope you dont mind if i go too in-depth because i was legit thinking about this earlier today... 

tldr: i played tw3 and liked it, then read the books

i got into the witcher because one of my favorite gaming youtubers was doing a playthrough of tw3 on youtube in around i think september 2017. i liked this specific gaming youtuber for being shit at games and not caring about it... but tw3 was a different game. it felt like the decisions mattered, that there was an actual story here, that when this youtuber made shitty decisions and didn’t really care about the characters involved, i got frustrated because this game seemed really good... so i picked up the game myself and played it though, it was magnificent. not to r/witcher “the witcher 3 is literally the best game created in this history of ever” but it was sincerely good... not only does it have a great story, characters, and graphics, but it is genuinely comfortable to play as a game, even if you’re not great at games (i like playing video games but i’m not good at them when it comes to combat, i literally just would prefer to hack and slash through). so, i played through tw3 and the fact that it made me cry multiple times i found to be really interesting... but it was still just a game to me, it wasn’t something i thought about when i have time to daydream headcanons. i had read i think the witcher (short story) halfway through playing, just to get a feel of what tw3 came from, but from that, i realized the books and the games were incredibly different entitities, and i decided to not read the books until i had finished the game, or at least until i had more free time on my hands (mind i was in high school and was a senior, and during this time was when i was submitting college applications... exceptionally stressful, and the reading/writing part of my brain was absolutely fried from essay writing and reviewing). i was particularly struck by geralt and ciri’s relationship and the isle of mists quests fucked me up pretty bad. 

then around later 2017, i was really enjoying tw3, and had finished tw3′s base game and hearts of stone, and was now making my way into blood & wine. i was just playing it like normal, then came the part when geralt met regis. at first i wasn’t too interested (i mean, i was, but in the story of blood & wine, not in the books) until the little journal text pop-up appeared on my screen. you know, the one about quests you just received, or characters you just met. it was going through the motions of saying i finished this quest, picked up this new one, i was all like fine, fine, okay, alright, and then it just fucking puts regis’ long-ass name on the screen taking up a good amount of my FOV and i am immediately like, what? what the fuck? who the fuck? that’s the name? of the guy we just met? that guy??? he didn’t seem like someone with a name like that? who the fuck IS this guy.

so i head over to the wiki page for regis. i thumb through the basic information, i’m pretty interested, this quest stuff to find ciri sounds interesting. i decide to give the witcher books another try, because i have more free time now and am way more invested as everyone here as characters. also, i want to find out more about yennefer, because she was being badmouthed by everyone i saw online, and i wanted to read more about her and see if she was really so bad (spoilers: she’s not at all, the internet is just misogynistic).

i don’t think that i’m going to actually really care��about these books, i just want more flavor and explanation about how in hell a witcher met a vampire and these two somehow became friends. so, i don’t care about reading them in order. i go online and find fan translations of every book, i open baptism of fire and i just start reading the bit about the fish soup. i’m suddenly just laughing my ass off, really interested in who these other characters are, milva and cahir, and how dandelion seems to actually be the best friend to geralt that he was said to be in tw3. i also notice immediately that geralt... oh my god, geralt’s such a cranky bitch. i’m SHOCKED at how annoying geralt is. i realize that this is probably what geralt’s been like, this whole time, and tw3 just gave me a sterilized version of him. i’m trying to decide if i like this change or not, at first i HATED it... but then realized it actually gave him a character, where in tw3 he feels a little more... empty, waiting for the player to project a personality onto him.

so, i just read all of the hansa bits of baptism of fire, skipping over anything i don’t understand. i am saddened when i can’t find any more, so i move onto tower of the swallow. and then lady of the lake. “oh, so that’s why geralt was surprised to see regis in blood & wine...” feeling at a loss after reading stygga, i start at the beginning and make my way through the books chronologically, like they should be read. i soon realize that this series really isn’t about killing monsters at all, and i’m thrilled. i thought the series was just going to be about geralt killing things in a swamp and reporting back to whoever hired him, like in tw3... and i was wrong. this series is about personal connections! relationships! ... and fatherhood. [see read more for personal junk]

i can’t remember when i started disliking tw3. it must have been around the time that i finished the books (im using the word finished loosely... i still havent finished some scenes because theyre too violent to read and continue with my day in peace, and i also read tos/lotl by skipping around, so i never got the full experience of reading them as full novels).

i just distinctly remember returning to my tw3 new game+ save after rereading the fish soup scene, and thinking about how lonely the game felt... i just felt so dispairingly alone, this loneliness that i hadn’t felt while playing before, that i had to put the game down. i returned to the game again, but i had just reread edge of the world... and i felt so alone again. 

so reading the books ruined tw3 for me, not out of malicious intent, but just because i think i realized geralt isn’t meant to be the lone wolf. the novels center around him and his family and friends, and i just genuinely missed that when replaying tw3. plus, i began to realize a bunch of things, like ciri’s scar is supposed to be bigger, geralt’s supposed to wear his hair in a headband, yennefer’s hair is actually curly, dandelion’s supposed to actually be in the game. there were so many inconsistencies with the characters i had imagined while reading the books that eventually i just stopped playing tw3 (i already played it once, so nbd) and got really into the books. 

sometime later i saved up like $80 to buy the paperback versions of the books (UK versions including season of storms) because i knew i was in really deep lol and i wanted the official translations super badly, also we were doing an assignment in class that allowed us to do something with our favorite book, but we needed to have it in-person and not as an e-book, so it was the perfect excuse. much time spent on hansa headcanons later and... here we are today.

a read-more, because this is more personal. 

the witcher series picked me up at an eerily appropriate time. two things in it stood out to me: 1) geralt’s relationship with ciri 2) regis’s alcoholism. 

i distinctly remember an event where i started crying in front of my parents because my dad was being so absent in my life or maybe it was because they were arguing, something like this... and i remember referencing tw3 isle of mists quest actually by saying “i shouldn’t have to learn it (good parenting) from a video game” ... lol. it wasn’t an epic burn from a 17 yo, but it was just a painful remark made in anger. i still think back to it because of how first watching geralt hug ciri made me feel and how i was actually really bitter because i was jealous of ciri for about a week after completing the quest. then i kind of pushed it out of my mind and didn’t think so much about it, until the night i mentioned it.

in late march of 2018, something very bad happened in my family. that’s probably the best way to describe it. the situation ended in my parents finally separating. my mom and i were pretty afraid and lost after that. after i had collected my thoughts and everything and went back to as “normal” as i could, about a month later, when the creative part of my brain finally began to function again and wasn’t inhibited due to fear, i clung to the witcher more than i did before... and this time, actually particularly to regis, because guess who has a whole redemption arc relating to not being alcoholic and being a genuinely good person who speaks gently and heals the vulnerable?

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Currently reading:

Not really anything in particular, just a lot of misc Ninjago stuff. But fun fact about me: I have an excel spreadsheet of all of the fics I’m subscribed to and I’m very close to 1400 fics (19,804,731 words). Ninjago is the 5th highest in fic count but 1st in word count! I’m mostly scrolling through that to reread my favs, and trying to get over writer’s block.

Favorite Color:

Purple. Any shade. I don’t think it's possible to have an ugly shade of purple.

Last Song:

Either “I Know The End” by Phoebe Bridgers or the song I used in this speedpaint: https://youtu.be/mTkOSqIv8MA called “Vision pt. II” by Lost Sky (ft. She Is Jules). I’ve had both stuck in my head for the last couple of days

Last Movie:

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish. Great movie, 10/10

Sweet/Spicy/Savory:

I like sweet and I like savory (not spicy tho I’m a huge wimp) but like not TOO sweet or TOO savory and it depends on the texture too. Writing sensory issues for Morro in LotL was easy as SHIT. Best food ever is popcorn (either kettle or the cheesey kind) so make of that what you will

Currently working on:

I’m trying to finish the next chapter of Shores of Restless Souls because I’m almost done with it, but I’ve written all the parts I was excited to write and now the opening of the other sequel is calling to me lol. (Not even another chapter of SoRS because I’m in the mood to write angst and most of the rest of it is fluff!) I don’t usually write linearly so it’s hard to focus on a part I’m struggling with.

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