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have you ever thought far into? the characters in MtM? I’d love to know anything specific about Sam

marypsue:

Sam is Ian’s self-insert.

Which is to say, he’s a kid with unusual interests (including demonology), a lot of often-irrational anxiety, and a ruthless, try-and-stop-me approach towards getting what he wants out of life. A bad choice made for the right reasons (trying to save his father’s life) left him in debt to Bael, and gave him something else to be anxious about. It’s almost a relief when Alcor chooses a champion and Bael decides to call in the favour Sam owes him. Getting close to Stella is not actually bad at all. Having to betray her definitely is. 

marypsue:

“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?”

Around the table, the team exchanged looks.

“What, like…like a horror movie, kind of suspense build, sort of thing? Yeah dude, that makes sense,” Ricardo said, but he still sounded uncertain. “But – all the way to the finale? That seems like too long, man. Now he’s shown his hand, wouldn’t Bael be trying to kill Stella, like, constantly?”

Ian blinked. “What? Why would he be trying to kill her?”

The look Zelda shot him was one Ian knew she only turned in his direction when he was being particularly inscrutable or ridiculous. “We did just literally finish the season with him using Sam as a puppet to try to drop her down a bottomless pit.”

“Yeah, but Stella doesn’t know that’s Bael! We revealed him to the audience through Alcor, but she still doesn’t know he even exists. Why would he try to kill her? Think about his endgame, guys.”

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If you’re still accepting prompts/ questions on RB stuff, what about something more about Ian’s relationship with his fans on a personal 1×1 level. Such as a kid that makes a request to meet him for a “Make a Wish” not just because of his show, but because they connected with his childhood, or one of those emotional kinds of fans that presents him with an painstakingly complicated hand-made gift. The fans that make him think “This is why I keep myself sleep deprived to make a deadline.”

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Her English is more heavily accented than Ian had expected, just based on how well she writes. Her smile is huge and genuine and the illustration she hands him is as lovingly rendered as any of the art she’s posted online. She’s really outdone herself on this one, Ian thinks, taking in the rich colours, the sense of scale, the details of every tiny figure, the carefully-inscribed letters of the code he’d created specifically for Mizar the Magnificent buried in the motion of the scene.

“This is going straight on our living room wall,” he says, through the enormous grin he can’t wipe from his face. “Oh, but – it’s missing something. Can I get this autographed by Mexico’s greatest up-and-coming animator?”

She laughs, and makes some comment about how without Mizar the Magnificent she’d never have been here in the first place – but she signs the illustration. And she accepts the enormous hug Ian gives her after she does.

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Usually the studio tour is full of adults and the odd teenager, but this time there’s a boy who can’t be any older than five or six, in a tiny red flannel shirt, looking around him with wide, wondering eyes like everything he sees is an enchantment from another world. When Ian rises from his desk to greet the tour, the boy darts out from the group and flings both arms around Ian’s legs.

“I’m so sorry,” the woman Ian presumes is the boy’s mother apologises, looking like she just watched her child pull his pants down in public. “Ever since he saw that promo you did where you talked to that Alcor puppet, you’ve been all he can talk about.“ 

Ian looks down at the kid hanging, limpet-like, on his legs, and smiles.

“You know,” he says, “I think I might be able to persuade Alcor to come say hi, too. Or at least the Alcor from TV.”

The boy removes his face from Ian’s knees just long enough to look up at Ian with sparkling eyes, and nods once, in apparent awe.

i saw ur missing rb hard today. can u tell us a bit more about ian and mira’s married life? is rosa still around? and dipper?

marypsue:

Rosa is definitely still around! When the girls start coming along, she declares herself their godmother (despite neither Ian or Mira being particularly religious) and makes it her mission to spoil the shit out of them. She and Dipper totally compete to give the best gifts, it’s hilarious.

Dipper gets informed in no uncertain terms that if he shows up once on the honeymoon he will regret it for the rest of his long, long existence. He takes this warning to heart, and tries to come by only during daylight hours/as previously arranged/when summoned for at least, like, two weeks afterwards. He’s not particularly good at it.

Mira worries about stagnating once they are married, especially since she and Ian are both so busy with their own creative projects, so she makes it her mission to find interesting things for them to do together for ‘married people dates’. Ian gets really into it too, though his suggestions aren’t always met with unconditional delight. Any time they’re starting to feel like they’re getting into a rut, they draw a ‘date’ from the jar by the door, pack up, and go. This is part of how they ended up taking a swing-dancing lesson together, and is also why they’ve both learned to make cheese.