Wait what if in the trigun racer au, Vash just randomly omits details about his life. Every now and again Wolfwood will find new Lore about his crush and just need a day or two to digest it.
It wasn't enough that Vash was The Stampede, but now he found out that Knives - one of Wolfwood's richest clients and the detector of a business empire, is his brother.
And it happens in the most ridiculous ways too. Vash comes over to hang out with Ww when he's working (because Ww gives him donuts) and Knives drives in his expensive-ass-customized car and Vash ducks behind the table.
"Vash what are you doing, I can still see you. Did you do the errands I gave you?"
"... no? I was going to later-"
"You-"
And they start their sibling verbal sparing.
Or he randomly found out Vash studied at Stanford finished top of his class with engineering, minoring comp sci. And he found it because Ww's computer crashed and Vash fixed it.
Or Milly comes in one day to tell him all about this cool new humanitarian organisation that is helping Ww's orphanage and it's Vash again.
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Not sure if this still is going, or if this has been done, but could you have authors note/behind the scenes thinking on False's chapter from Built Family?
HI EP!!! Ignore that you sent this a long, long, long time ago it's fine I'm slow I know--
Yes, it's still going, and yes. I can do False's chapter(s).
Once again, to anyone who wants to read the chapter:
There you go. Now, on to the breakdown!
False's chapter, I knew from the start, was going to be long. Previous Hermits had gotten a bit of backstory, but not to the extent that False did. We didn't see Xisuma's people wiped out. We didn't see Joe's full rampage as Herobrine. We didn't see Mumbo's full work at Protech. Heck, we didn't even see Cle's server get wiped out by Protech. But the Watcher's wiping out False's server felt too important to just summarize or have happen off screen.
I had a few ideas for False, but I knew I wanted her to be a fighter.
I was originally going to have False and her Mom be a survival duo. Single Mom and her assassin daughter against the entire server. And while I enjoyed the idea, I decided against it. Not sure why but the adoptive fathers' angle just fit better with the vibe I wanted to do with False.
On a note of False's Dads, I would like to clarify: Sym and Gerrick were not romantically involved with each other in any way. Gerrick was his right-hand man, but Sym is ace in my head. Both see False as their adoptive daughter and are co-parenting but not romantically involved.
False had probably the most rushed introduction, but then had this really long, "Oh no, everyone is getting killed by winged demon/eldritch horrors" and, I'll be completely honest: that was not my intention at the start. I knew I wanted to show at least part of the server's destruction, but it just. Kept. Going.
I wanted people to hate the Watchers. I wanted to address the "some writers have the Watchers as redeemable/some of them are good or at the very least, redeemable." This version of the Watchers: Not redeemable. Yeah, we know they did something bad to Xisuma and Void but it's very vague as what exactly happened to them. I wanted to paint a very clear picture of: "These people are bad and 100% deserve what X is about to bring upon them."
I wanted to show that Watchers are not invincible, but it is very hard to actually kill them. Honestly, the only reason these players were able to kill as many Watchers as they did was because they have been fighting for years. In False's case, her entire life. These are professional killers and most of them were wiped out by five of these things. The only reason any of them survived was because Xisuma and company showed up.
It was at that point that I knew I had to split the chapter into two, partially because of how long it was and partially because the moment
False staying on the server wasn't really planned either. But, I quickly realized that, at that moment, she was grieving. She had accepted that she was going to die. The two people who cared about her the most were dead and she was going to follow them. But now, she wasn't dead. And she wasn't sure what to do.
Xisuma was the only person who could reach out to her (Cleo could have done it as well but seeing as she wasn't there at the moment--) and understand what it was like to lose everything you cared about.
Originally, I wanted to show more of the "hubs between worlds" but I didn't have time for it. I debated if False needed new clothes, but determined that she would have had more militaristic gear, not her Minecraft skin. The coat being both Sym's sniper and a piece of clothing was a last minute addition, but I didn't want False walking around with a sniper for a few reasons.
The main one being that I didn't feel like she would heal with it because she' never take it off, keeping her in the anarchy mindset. A knife is fine, because it is small, easy to forget. A sniper? Not so much.
Miscommunication! Not just the only form of drama for rom-coms, but also between friends and family, lol. I knew False would never have the courage to ask to stay. She had to wait for an invite.
... Which the Hermits forgot to give. A common mistake in their earlier days, but they get better.
I can't think of anything else but this note turned out a lot like False's arc.
Long.
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*leans into mic* ahem...
Series where a sex-positive aromantic and a hopeless romantic asexual are tasked with raising a murderous demon child called 'Fuck, Marry, Kill', with arrows going from each word in the title to the respective character
*walks off stage*
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