6 days until that 30 day writing challenge everyone is still going to do every year...

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...even though NaNoWriMo as a nonprofit is done. Doesn't mean the challenge itself is. Because it's not. The region I always wrote for is still doing some kind of 50k word writing challenge in a similar vein, all on Discord, done by the former ML for said region. So that's cool.

I wrote over a month ago about my ideas for NaNoWriMo and I am...not going to do any of those ideas lmao I'm sorry if anyone was looking forward to them but my ideas are always going to be in flux. It doesn't mean I won't eventually write something like it but I've attempted to write Mary Sue parodies for ages and I've never really gotten far so it's kind of...do I want to make yet another attempt at it when I could be working on something I actually have passion for? So. Yeah.

It's still something that is Sara Jaye's fault. Why is it Sara's fault? Because in this comment she made on Part 9 of my RP snark series, Sara wrote:

TBH the whole "kidnap victim accepts kidnapping by creep to escape his controlling mother" angle could make for a damn good story. The "traded one gilded cage for another" deal, the fact that unlike back home, HE CAN NEVER LEAVE HELL. Duo being a creepy groomer. The honeymoon period wearing off and Heero REALIZING he's no better off than he was at home. This could make for an excellent dark "romance". But all the "I love you, you are my precious gem" sap Rachel's pushing here is jarring as fuck and we're supposed to believe Duo kidnapped Heero out of pure selfless love for "the boy".

And I'd replied with:

The RP makes the most sense if you look at it from two angles: Heero accepting the kidnapping because it means he will get (what he considers) a better life away from his controlling mother", and Duo knowing that Heero is trying to get away from his controlling mother, and using that to his advantage by acting all sweet and loving and romantic until Heero is trapped there, and then just being a fucking creep the rest because that's what he truly is.

And even then, Duo isn't really the appropriate character for that kind of plotline, because idk how I could justify Duo's drastic personality change lol Unless it wasn't Duo being Hades but Duo being like, idk, some Prince of Hell maybe.

And I just want to note that this idea has not left me alone. I've made a bunch of attempts at rewriting this RP but nothing ever "stuck" so now there's a starchy stain on the wall and pasta on the floor from me throwing it and seeing if it sticks to the wall.

(It did not.)

WELL. As I was falling asleep one night I was struck by a way to get it to work. It being a weird time and me being on my way out I hoped I'd remember it the next morning.

And I did. And then I refined it a bit more so that the lead up to all of this makes sense.

idk who the fuck would read this, it's going to be fucked up, it's going to possibly be a dead dove even, there are going to be a lot of warning tags, I do have a lot of reservations for posting this on AO3 when it's ready to go up but at the same time... There are plenty of people I know in GW fandom who are, in fact, into dark shit like this. But yeah.