#other bastard mages are in there so i didnt trust my brain

[baekuras]

Okay so first of all I'm sitting here. Fucking 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺ing so hard that I think I have legit tears in my eyes about these... These sweet goddamn tags. People don't usually go off in the tags like this on my posts so this made me briefly ascend to another plane of existence from the sheer EUPHORIA that someone actually gives a shit about this not-so-little-anymore story I'm frantically spinning as I go along about these two.

To answer your question: legit, when I first sat down and draft out ideas for all the prompt squares I got for the save a witcher bingo, I originally wanted Levi to show up for only one chapter and have the other squares unconnected to it because it was a one-off "we meet once and never think of it again" kind of meeting. He wasn't supposed to linger. He wasn't supposed to stick around fore more than one chapter. He was only there because I wanted someone to call Kiyan tadpole and because I had no ideas for the language prompt and the lad happens to know a lot of them. He. Wasn't. Meant. To. Stay.

And then I was working on chapters 2-3 (the angstTM) and I still had no clue how to get Kiyan out of this mess. At the same time, I was kind of playing around with different ideas of Levi and Kiyan interacting more (like a kid playing with barbies - I mean, that's what ocs are for; exploring the setting and canon characters as well as adding to it in their own way.)

And then um, I got attached. They started to genuinely work in a strange "cryptid4cryptid" kind of way while being... surprisingly wholesome? In a way? Kiyan is 100% serious and profesional and dedicated to being an emotionless witcher, whereas Levi is the kind to try to pet the enraged fiend first and swing his sword second, probably because a part of him considers himself closer to a monster than a human or elf. I'll get to their respective issues eventually in the story and I don't wanna infodump here because this ask is already long as hell.

So tl;dr hello, thank you for existing, please ramble in my tags as often as you want. I've been on an university-related writer's burnout for the past month and a half, so this was, well... It helped. A lot. Thank you.

Also I am STILL not over the tadpole thing. it's so CUTE that as soon as I first met the lad in-game I was already attached. That, and reading Ireneus's journal hurt me physically, so this writing event fell into my arms from the very heavens. By the way, expect the next chapter soon!

<33 glad you enjoyed my tag spewing

I know how good it can feel to just have someone yell in them but it's always nice to get, i guess feedback back that other people enjoy it just as much xD

i don't usually tag or comment much even though i know this buuuuut sometimes i get my brain to actually cooperate and get my good thoughts out because there is a lot i enjoy and hey your fic defintely belongs there

I do love how your thought process was...similar to mine when reading through 2&3 Just a case of „okay so, next chapter Levi will come back right?“ especially with the whole calming voice and special eyes deal which just felt made for dealing with everything Kiyan has going on

I also very much look forward to delving deeper into both their characters Kiyan being an obvious one because....kiyan But Levi also definitley interests me, what with a whole school you thought up which leaves more room for playing around, but also because he just...feels off in a good way? Not in a „he has some secret evil agenda/is a monster“ kinda way, but more in an „unused to people“ way (which ofc fits with what you mentioned about him considering himself more on the monster side of the scale than human/elves; and also talking to monsters...or supposed monsters which complicates the whole witcher deal of killing monsters but I mean, talking about a solution with them so that someone can be spared or smth is a good end as well-also puts the whole „humans can also be monsters“ thing on more even ground when everyone gets some sentience and i will stop that thought there before I let my brain go on a tangent on that random thing)

I am also glad me just blurting out some thoughts made you happy, Uni can be a lot (don't know it personally bc i dont need that burnout but i see it in my friends too) so i am glad I could put some energy back in

the tadpole thing is the best and always will be (even if the seas havent been kind to kiyan....which i guess fits for a cat)

and urgh every time i reread Ireneus's journal i just-nope i hate it I sometimes reread if i am unsure about details when they pop up in my mind again (like dates or who did what and when) but god-fuck that guy

also happy to hear the next chapter is coming soon :3

I shall await it with baited...patience really

the one good thing about a character so little written about like Kiyan is that there is no expectation of content so anything at any time is a miracle given by content creators (doesn't make me any less excited for it though~)

also regarding your tags on my latest art involving kiyan: if he ever does get a pre-ireneus art i will scream

it's not impossible, but its not likely I will however remain mad that all cats get to hang out and he is stuck in northern realms hell (and lets be honest, if ireneus ever got a card he'd go there too and that's just unecessary; although i would like a face i can picture punching...)

#asks #shadowy-dumbo-octopus #txts #the last part actually made me check if ireneus truly wasnt in gwent #other bastard mages are in there so i didnt trust my brain #that did make me remember him being all like #'Hahaha with this demonic creation i shall make i will be like alzur' #well more like 'since alzur this hasnt been done' kinda deal #and i am stuck between #'Sure you will be like a mage who essentially turned the world upside town with the creation of new beings not only Witchers' #but that gives too much credit to alzur whom i also hate #and the other mood is #'Lol k we got another bug-fucker running around' #i dont even know all that much about alzur bc i hate the way he exists #so my brain automatically went Ew at any information #and then i read more and yeah i still hate him #dont like his face dont like his anything so if ireneus is half the man alzur was #pls leave #i mean leave anyway obviously but just...extra leave