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about your twt poll! i did choose plot because it was what gets closest to my option but my fav part of your fics would have to be the characters! the way you write their personalities and dynamics with each other!
i do also love your plots but i mainly think your characters are the core strength and are like the key element of the plots/stories you create
+ your world building for alternate universes like the argentum chronicles and 579 slay
ooagh thank you so much, i used to be so anxious about characterisation – because those are not my original characters and i essentially don't know these people exactly, but Every Reader of my works also already knows them to some extent – that i still get super relieved every time i get a compliment about them, and to hear that they're what drives my works.. that's how it should be! so thanks! in addition to the worldbuilding, yeah i guess plot is the most fitting combination for those two aspects. thank you for submitting this comment!
where did you learn so much about ballet?? your descriptions and details were marvellous, it must've taken a lot to word all of it 😮
i've been doing ballet since i was very young, maybe 4? i was never that good, my technique was aesthetically displeasing even when i was a teen, and despite everybody's best intentions, i never aquired better posture from it, but i still kept the passion for the craft and the love for the movement. i was encouraged to attend ballet spectacles, did research for funsies, got to incorporate my knowledge even in university and did research for seriousies. i'm happy to hear that i created an enjoyable experience for the readers, i love ballet a lot! even if i won't perform it properly again, i'll always deeply respect and enjoy this artform
did you have more about jun and minghao's storyline?? i was so intrigued about them and their relationship👀👀
junhao have a very healthy and relaxed situationship going on. even before the discussion of the group's sex lives in the fic, they are sleeping with each other, but don't disclose it to their friends because... well why should they? the others assume it anyway, since all their relationships to sex are pretty open (it's no secret that wonwoo has slept a lot with his friends, for example hao. i'd assume a post-fuck discussion between junhao is what prompted jun to ask wonwoo to sleep with him lmao.)
however, we can't forget that seokmin gets thrown into the mix at some point. jun and minghao are together at that point, but they're not extremely exclusive, and most importantly, they're friends. so when jun notices (very quickly) that hao is catching feelings for seokmin, he encourages minghao to pursue him. they don't love each other any less, even if that love teeters more on the side of platonic than romantic. but there is still romantic love between the two! and jun is very fond of seokmin, so after some solid conversations (with and without seokmin) they do work towards becoming minghao and his two boyfriends. and maybe more, at some point. but there is this kind of "jun and minghao are made for each other" sentiment binding the two of them together, and whatever happens, they're not going to abandon one another
very silly question bare with me but who would the main cast of black boots main in genshin if they played it hshdhdhd
HOEGTHGWIOHG oh okay. Vernon Wrio main I'm sorry. that's a big man that punches ice and has cat ears, he's gonna think that rules. he won't notice that he loses hp because he spams the food bag constantly either way. Wonwoo plays Ningguang Keqing Succhrose Amber, do with that what you will. Seungkwan has buffed Barbara to the max, Seokmin goes with Ayato cause he's hot, Hoshi plays Cyno cause.... rawr. jun mains ei (youch mama) and hao played once as female traveler, jihoon is a xinyan lover
how did you decide on the nutcracker being the featured ballet for the story? was there any specific reason or just cause it's cool/fun!
rmbr how seok goes "Vernon is so hot as rat“ and Wonwoo goes WHAT THE FUCK???? ? yeah that's one of the first things i wrote for this fic i just.... wanted Vernon as a hot rat king on stage and Wonwoo having a fit over it. i don't know that many ballets (at least i didn't at that point) even though i'm very passionate about them, but the thought of an alluring... fucking.... rat...... was very entertaining to me. and thus it was nutcracker time
do you have any ideas as to what jobs etc. the characters would do after the story ending of black boots? kind of like a ''where are they now?''
ooooh jobs! okay so keeping in mind that most of them have to still do service.... howoo are the only ones that already pulled through it, and jihoon went into music production, while soonyoung is doing social work, dealing with "troubled kids" that got into juvie and need a proper support system. Minghao is excempt as well, and he would go into fashion, doing Westwood-ish and sustainable work. now after service, Seungkwan and Seokmin both go into entertainment, Seokmin on musical stages and Kwannie into variety shows, first as a technical assistant, but at some point he'll stand in front of the spotlights hehe :P
And now to our protagonists.... Vernon and Wonwoo. they both do their service, maybe they get their call around the same time. however it is, they basically can't see each other for those two years because how will they be able to get their days off at the same time except for the holidays – but no matter what, they find back to each other when it's all over. I've actually never thought of specific jobs for them, except that Wonwoo might keep doing his semi-archeological work in academia (even though he kinda despises the inner workings of university – eh, maybe he'll try changing things up) and Vernon stops doing ballet. Does he stop right after his service? or does he keep going for another six years with Chan by his side while Jeonghan has already retired? I think he is 29 and standing in a big living room with loads of cds and vinyls and cats and happy with how he is where he's landed, and he's got his best friend and lover by his side, and he's never lost his passion for the craft
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