28, she/her 🪻 A teacher trying to survive by gaming and reading ✨ Obsessed with #BG3 and #COE33 ( 📌 #Verstave ongoing fic, writing process here ) 🔞NSFW!
Finally daring to make this account public to share my ongoing #Verstave fanfic I just started posting. ✨
‘Of Virtuosity and Heart’, a story of new beginnings.
https://t.co/QFFpxOJ2XD
I heard my brain reply to this comment like “well I can think of several big sworded men in that game, gotta narrow it down mate” and I knew I had to open my cycle app.
I just saw a comment under an IG post about Simon the Divergent Star, someone was confused about his existence and asking where they could find « the big sworded man ».
Me, getting closer to ovulating phase and thus being unable to ignore double meanings:
Of course it's mostly about my interpretation of their characters and how I choose to write them in my fic. But I love to think that with Gustave, Verso can have the same long and meaningful talks that he has with Sciel, as well as teasing/annoyed banters like he has with Monoco.
Something I absolutely adore about E33 as a writer is the treasure it is for dialogues. I love that I can imagine thoughtful, deep conversations with quite long paragraphs for each character; but also settle on shorter lines that convey instant emotions or alternate tones.
For example, I love to write Sciel and Verso's conversations as long and caring, and on the opposite, Verso and Monoco's as short and banter-friendly.
What's wonderful is that, in my opinion, Verstave makes it effortless to alternate between these two types of dialogues. 💞
Reminds me of a student who wasn't satisfied with a piece of dialogue he included in an essay about a duel between a knight and a bandit.
It went like:
- Give up and die, knight!
- Never, I'll fight!
- Come on, please?
- Damn, you're polite.
- Oh thanks, that's cause of my mom.
(If you're curious: the duel did happen, obviously, but the bandit really wasn't a good fighter and the knight ended up giving him advices on everything, even willingly giving him chances to strike him. It was a really fun read with a nice twist of my instructions!)
I laughed my ass off when he had me read it for one last spelling check before submitting it for good. He was telling me that the bandit is new to his job and was never really a bad guy, but the dialogue felt off.
I begged him not to change anything, and he was delighted. 😂
Yes, I'm blatantly bragging. Perhaps it's not even that good but I love what I did so. 😎 I'm not teaching my students to have self-confidence and faith in their work, to not apply it to myself!