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queenofthursday6599-blog · 2 years

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The weirdest thing about Yandere Simulator’s world isn’t the fact that the supernatural just casually exists, it’s not the fact that the main character’s mother committed and got away with 6 murders back in the 80s, it’s not even the fact that the hairdresser is also secretly a serial killer who’s never been caught.

No it’s the canonical reasoning as to why Akademi Academy exists, and how exactly all of the students are at least 18.

The canonical reasoning as to how Akademi Academy exists, how all the students are at least 18, and why all the students have uniforms that look like middle school uniforms. Basically the whole explanation as to why Akademi exists as it does within canon.

It’s that Akademi Academy was originally created by Saisho Saikou (as in the original head of Saikou Corp.) so that his daughter Ichiko (the heiress who took off for reasons unknown after graduating from Akademi) could have a do-over of her high school years. Because her real high school years were so miserable, because she was just a normal, average high school girl with average grades, but everyone expected her to be some sort of prodigy because she was Saisho Saikou’s daughter. So she got picked on for not meeting expectations.

So this extremely wealthy man created an entire post-high school institution, just to give his daughter (who's already graduated from high school and should have been entering university), the opportunity to re-live her high school years and make better memories. In order to make up for the fact that she had to suffer through the shame of being just average in high school.

And then after Ichiko graduated he just decided to keep Akademi open, because it’s a good business I guess. It is an actual institution of learning, though apparently it’s one where you can also re-live your high school years at.

Which is apparently also a reason some of the characters go to Akademi at all. Just wanting to get a do-over, or an extension on their high school years.

Which has to be the craziest and least healthy thing I’ve ever heard. Like these grown men and women pretending to still be teenagers, and repeating high school drama. Instead of going to university, and trying to gain adult experiences and grow into adults.

Like that is such a recipe for infantilization. All these Akademi students have to have graduated being a bit more stunted than they had been when they enrolled. They chose not to partake in the life milestones of their peers (of going to uni or joining the normal work force) in place of pretending to still be 15, 16, or 17 years old for another few years.

Although there’s a very real possibility that the real reason Ichiko was so miserable during her real high school years is due to the whole Fun Girl thing.

You know, that thing where Saisho Saikou stuck one of his teenage daughters into some invention of his, that he was so sure would work on the first try that he didn’t even bother testing it beforehand. And largely wiped said daughter from existence.

And the reason Ichiko probably left is that dressing up in a sailor-fuku and larping still being a high school student for 3 years as a grown woman, isn’t going to be at all helpful or healing for a young woman who’d lost her twin sister in a completely avoidable accident as a teenager, that she may or may not even remember.

[But not completely wiped from existence, because there are apparently a number of elderly people in 202X mode who remember Ichiko Saikou having a twin sister. To the point that there’s a dupe of the Mandela Effect in Yandere Simulator’s world called Ichiko Syndrome.

I personally go back and forth on the whole wiped from human memory aspect of the Fun Girl situation, Saisho Saikou is a crazy, evil old man. Who was arrogant enough to stick his own child into an invention that he hadn’t even tested, and is a literal eugenicist.

I don’t doubt for a second that if his daughter had ended up vaporized but not wiped from people’s memories he would have created something that would have done that part for him to hide her death.

So I’m really fond of the head canon/theory of: Fun Girl wasn’t wiped from existence and now exists in a void. She was just murdered and is now a ghost, but Saisho Saikou created some sort of machine that suppressed/wiped the memories of her from people it was used. So that he wouldn’t have to go to jail for inadvertently murdering one of his teenage daughters.]

#yandere simulator opinion

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fanfoolishness · 3 years

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Interview with a Fic Writer

Tagged by @novantinuum, thank you!

How many works do you have on AO3?

242 works. The actual fuck??? Wow, me. Of course, this does span about 9 years, so I guess that's not that insane?

What’s your total word count on AO3

549,737! But that averages out to only 2271 words per story, haha. You got me! I think I have less than 10 fics that have more than 1 chapter. I love one-shots, what can I say?

How many fandoms have you written for and what are they?

Oh, you want to get into this? All right. We'll get into this:

The X-Files, proto-fandom, ur-fandom, first OTP ever... yeah, 15-year-old me went. WILD. Many horrible Mulder/Scully stories, and some Doggett/Scully and character study stories as well. Mostly not very good, but with occasional flashes of decent writing. Really had a difficult time writing romantic feelings between 30+ year-olds given a) I did not date in high school and b) was 17 and not an emotionally stunted FBI agent.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - not a huge volume of stories, but definitely some very angsty Spuffy and Spike tales.

Harry Potter - just one published fic (Lupin grieving Sirius), and one with Snape and Harry having a heart to heart I could never quite get right.

Then came the dark times (vet school) where I was exhausted and hard at work for a few years and I thought, horribly, I might have outgrown fandom. Thank god for...

X-Men First Class and the undying love of Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr! I'd never fallen for a slash ship before but my god I fell hard for this one and wrote my first fandom smut and my first real AU (mutants with zombies) that I never finished.

Then.... let's see...

Quantum Leap drabbles!

Two Avatar the Last Airbender fics!

Agents of SHIELD fics, mostly focused on Coulson and FitzSimmons, and super angsty.

Bioshock Infinite sads (god I love writing the sad bad dad)!

And then the juggernauts of Mass Effect (my longest fic to date with 30 chapters!) and Dragon Age, which were endlessly productive and are still productive given the variety of different protagonists you can create, different choices, and different relationships to canon characters. I'm still working on a Hawke/Varric fic in the back of my mind here.

There's one random Gravity Falls fic (wish I could have got a little more obsessed with it, or gotten into it while it aired) of Stan sads, and one tiny Avengers ficlet of a sad Tony and Peter.

There's one Wheel of Time fic! Dammit I wanted Rand and Tam to reunite so much sooner than they did.

40-odd Steven Universe fics! So many SU fics!

One random Schitt's Creek fic of David and Patrick!

And finally, The Mandalorian, with 47 fics. Phew!!!

What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

1. The Invitation, The Mandalorian. Din Djarin finds himself in dreams that seem realer than real, reminding him of his loss, but he begins to find a sense of hope again. A promise is kept.

2. The Outstretched Hand, The Mandalorian. Din Djarin is a man of action, but sometimes, the quiet finds its way in. Din reckons with the aftermath of the events of Chapter 14, the Tragedy. (My very first Mando fic!)

3. Not the Sentimental Type, Steven Universe. Priyanka Maheswaran has long prided herself on keeping her emotions in check. But a mother's love can only grow, and sometimes it expands to people she never anticipated. Like the Universe boy.

4. Translation, The Mandalorian. Din Djarin was a man of few words, but many languages. Some might have thought the Child had no language at all. Din Djarin and the Child grow to understand each other.

5. Full Disclosure, Steven Universe. Just as the world begins to recover from Spinel's attack, Steven starts having nightmares. The more he ignores his fears, the worse they become, until he's left with no other choice but to ask for help. (My thoughts on what would drive Steven Universe Future, and I wasn't far off.)

Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

I really try to! Even sometimes years later if I realize I've missed some. I appreciate each and every one, and have definitely made friendships through comments <3

What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

Oh, hell... I'm too lazy to link these but if anyone wants to read them let me know or find them on my AO3!

A Stopped Clock from Bioshock Infinite has Booker DeWitt ravaged by Korsakoff's amnesia from his long-standing alcoholism. Is Columbia real or imagined? Hard to say.

The Viscount's Way shows Varric Tethras having become his parent, and a cruel, hard viscount of Kirkwall.

Songs in the Key of Red shows how Cullen fared under the dark future in Redcliffe in DAI, and they write happy endings, don't they? shows what happened to Varric. Both horribly depressing in different ways!

Two by Two, Hands of Blue shows a not unexpected end to lyrium addiction :( Poor Cullen, he got a lot of angsty developments, didn't he?

Do you write crossovers? If so, what’s the craziest thing you’ve ever written?

Never really got into crossovers or AUs. Just... meh for me!

Have you ever received hate on a fic?

No, I don't think so.

Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

Charles/Erik, Shepard/Garrus, Shepard/Liara, Shepard/Tali, a mess of different f/f femShep drabbles, and most of my Dragon Age pairings have gotten sexytimes. On the other hand I helped start the NoRomo Mando tag for the Mandalorian to help find non-pairing Mandalorian content. Depends on the pairing and the fandom, for sure.

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Nope, thank goodness!

Have you ever had a fic translated?

I think so! There used to be a Spanish-language wiki linking to some of my old X-Files stories XD

Have you ever co-written a fic before?

No, but friends and I definitely will beta each others' things to help with sticky points.

What’s your all-time favorite ship?

ALL-TIME? Just, why? So many ships I loved in years past turned out to have pretty damn problematic elements I didn't see at the time, so it's hard to say... Mulder/Scully actually has a ton of issues, Buffy/Spike obviously has issues... so maybe Hawke/Varric (except not canon!) or Garrus/Shepard or Brosca/Alistair.

What’s a WIP you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

Still need to finish my Hawke/Varric fic for after Adamant! I have 3 chapters written that I haven't posted. Maybe posting them will help inspire me....

What are your writing strengths?

Dialogue and POV writing from different characters; I feel fantastic writing Steven and Greg, though totally at sea trying to write from Connie's POV, randomly. But I think my dialogue and emotional beats are what people tend to tune in for. When I do write romance, it's usually very sweet and silly and pulled from life. I also love writing nature scenes and settings to help establish mood. Mood and emotion and catharsis are my bread and butter, and I like my poetic prose.

What are your writing weaknesses?

What the hell is a long, well-thought-out plot? Like what even is that???? My longest fic with 30 chapters is basically "Shepard has PTSD and hangs out with her crew. They have some funerals." THAT'S IT. How the heck people actually come up with plot that ties into the lore of a fandom I genuinely have no idea and it's the biggest thing that's held me back from finishing original work. I can come up with a setting and characters and then trying to make them do stuff that's more than just talking to other characters and deepening their relationships with them... how the fuck???

I also definitely have 10-20 words that I am in constant danger of reusing like every other paragraph, LOL!

What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

I don't speak any other languages so I always avoid it as much as possible. I've seen people describe sign differently in fics and picked one way to depict it that made sense to me for Grogu, but that's about it.

What was the first fandom you wrote for?

The X-Files, of course!

What’s your favorite fic you’ve ever written?

Towards Another Day, the tale of how Cullen went from being a templar in Kirkwall to commander of the Inquisition, is definitely up there.

Reverberations is one of my rare multi-chaptered fics and one of my favorite for the catharsis at the end. It makes me tear up every time. 5 times Din and Grogu encounter the Dark Side, and one time they find the Light.

Either a world for the birds (Steven develops a closer relationship with his Uncle Andy, learning birdwatching along the way) or on the subject of rocks (Steven and Jasper finally reach a peace) might take the prize for favorite SU fic.

Tagging (if you’re super bored and would like a fun thing to do) fellow writers:

@lastwordbeforetheend, @runrundoyourstuff, @honestlyhufflepuff, @art3mys, and @fake-starwars-fan if you would like to play!

#fandom #writing #on writing #fanfiction #damn look at me go #memes

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