I love that twist.

You ever play Transistor, by chance? You should at least watch YouTube clips, if only for its awesome soundtrack. Minus time travel, the vibe feels similar.

While less similar, I sometimes think about a similar scenario in a transcendent future, specifically Orion’s Arm. There’s no time travel there either (general relatively rules), but basically, two deep soulmates diverge. One transcends to higher levels of consciousness where, eventually, their substrate spans and encloses multiple stars, while the other person stubbornly stays the same. And I think out little vignettes, like conflicts of trust when one parter can literally simulate reality for the other, despair, worry, scenarios where even the transcendent human turns to their partner in a crisis.

Avatar fics!

I just finished and posted my first long-form story ever, a kinda maudlin, meandering, and neurotically written Korra AU. It’s a ‘what if her training was brutal and abusive,’ exploring brushed over canon concepts as things go way off canon’s track. It’s also an outlet for runaway lore in my head (like lavabending on metal, or connections between bits of spiritual lore).

The shows (and books) hit me in a grim and delicate period of my life, especially the Korra/Zuko Alone episodes. I guess they stuck with me; writing them back out helped me process some things in the real world. I daydream original settings, sure, but I feel like the structure of a franchise helps.

Hence, unfortunately, the itch is not scratched. So I’m writing out a second fic, this time set in canon, expanding past Korra’s era and into a AU of Seven Havens. But this time, it’s actually planned a little, and written in… well, slightly less fanficy prose.

I started writing a not really SI character for a fic, and thought “huh, this guy is definitely on the Au-ADHD spectrum…”

I knew the ADD part. Still coming to grips with the other half, and it explains a. Lot.