New year, new WIP! I figured I’d start the year off right with the…uh, long-awaited? sequel to Reincarnation Blues! Special thanks to @seiya234 for helping me plot and outline this baby.
Yes, it starts with a scene you may have already…seen. Bear with me. We’re going places.
I’m also on AO3 as MaryPSue!
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“So. Season two. Any ideas about how to start it off with a
bang?”
There was a general shuffling of papers and buzz around the
writers’ room table. Zelda, unsurprisingly, was the first to speak. “Well, the
viewers are still losing it over Bael. I thought -”
“Just a moment,” Ian interrupted. “Do you guys think we can
hold off on having Bael show up again until the finale?”
Reincarnation Blues (95,096 words, published April 2, 2015, completed September 26, 2015)
This fic was the product of an idea that absolutely would not leave me alone. I’ve mentioned before that originally Rosa was the centre of the piece, with Ian as a supporting player and partner in crime in her bid to take over the world by being adorable and popular. Rosa Darling, Taylor Swift’s Evil Twin, crawled fully-formed out of the first time I heard Delta Rae’s ‘I Will Never Die’, at least two months before I ever wrote a word of Reincarnation Blues.
8. How does your OC keep track of time? Do they have a planner? A calendar?
Ian has a work calendar with the show deadlines carefully plotted out and all the milestones they have to hit to make each deadline. Ostensibly it syncs with his personal calendar. In real life, he has used his personal calendar exactly twice – once to enter Mira’s birthday into it, once to enter their anniversary into it. He never looks at clocks and can frequently be found cursing about being late for things or moaning that he accidentally stayed up until four in the morning.
Mira has a pink planner with the year written in gold-embossed script font on the cover and lacy or patterned stickers for every conceivable occasion. The whole thing is colour-coded by month and occasion and gets used, very earnestly, for the first three months of every year (sometimes four, if she’s feeling particularly committed). She usually wears at least three different pieces of jewelry that tell time, however.
14. If your OC owned a Tumblr blog, what kind of content would they post?
Ian’s has a default theme and icon with no about or summary. It is 75% reblogs of pictures of animals in places they shouldn’t be with no context provided, memes about the Illuminati, and ridiculous mashups, 20% Just Animation Industry Things, and 5% 3am existential musing shitposts.
Mira’s has a teeny-tiny anime theme in lavender and white, with a little animated Mizar sprite above her summary, which is mostly kpop and kdrama, Bollywood, kawaii fashion, and Just Relatable Writing Things, with a lot of yelling about her books and her characters and flipping out whenever someone does fanart of them.
19. Does your OC like to collect things? What kind of things do they collect?
Mira collects just about anything pastel and frilly, the more ordinary the better. She has, among other things, a pink and white toaster that toasts Hello Kitty faces onto any bread you put in it and a lavender and lace toilet brush cover.
Just had this cute little headcanon that at some point Ian and Mira colab on a children’s storybook. They plan the story together and then Mira does the writing and Ian does the art.
It’s a moderate success, by no means an instant classic but successful enough to help Mira expand her audience she can write books for if she so chooses to.
Alcor the demon? Oh sorry, you misheard me, I had said Alcor the demom. Toby get dressed we have to be at this doctor’s appointment in 10. Maddie please eat your vegetables I see you trying to hide them. Acacia you get out of that massive tree right now how did you even get up there. C’mon kid who was almost sacrificed we’re going to your new home you’re safe now. Yes ma’am of course I’ll take your baby and keep them safe what do you take me for some kind of- oh. Right.
marypsue
Ian is on a trajectory towards self-actualisation and found family and not aN EARLY AND AGONISING UNTIMELY DEATH BECAUSE OF A DECISION HE MADE IN ORDER TO SAVE HIS CHI L D R E N
seiya234
okay so
i’m feeling very called out rn
marypsue
YOU OUGHT TO
seiya234
HEY
HENRY HAS A VERY HAPPY LIFE AND IS FINE WITH HIS CHOICES
marypsue
YOU INVENTED HIM
YOU CHOOSE HOW HE FEELS
YOU MANIPULATE HIS EMOTIONS
THIS MEANS N O T H I N G
seiya234
um look
a seagull
marypsue
I put a character’s eye out and gave him PTSD and I’m still doing better than you