Anghraine

brambleberrycottage said:

1 and 8 for writer's ask?

I replied:

1.

My favorite thing that I posted in its entirety this year: probably the gift of men, my Eldarion/Faramir’s daughter fic that I managed to squeeze into my challenge format of seven parts of seven sentences each. It had been rolling around in my head and in scraps for a long time, even though it’s quite short, and I finally managed to get it out in a way I was happy with!

My favorite thing that I updated this year is, inevitably, the chapters of The Jedi and the Sith Lord (the current fic from my Lucy Skywalker [f!Luke] ’verse) that I added. For some reason, TROS ignited my brain and after some four years of no updates I added a ton of chapters within a few weeks.

8.

Which fic this year was the most fun to write? Hmm, it’s got to be Lucy! I just really enjoyed it—the evolving relationship between Lucy and Vader, the droids, the ~drama, the RO cameos, everything. It’s a nice change, too, because while I’m really fond of the Lucyverse, some of it has been a misery to write and this was just a great time.

I had trouble figuring out how to read the characters' voices in the opening chapter of The Jedi and the Sith Lord (finally, we're at my baby!). But the droids are too fun to just read in my standard voice with no variation, esp given that I tried for some of the canon inflection with Threepio in Adventures and Imperial, so I finally came up with concepts that made it manageable.

Of the three droids in Ch 1, it's probably Tuvié (surprisingly!) who came out sounding the least like my conception of her, which used to be a sort of high-pitched, bubbly Threepio ... but my voice doesn't work that way, so I decided to just lean into style and go for "over-eager hospitality student" vibes instead.

Three and a half years later, this is happening! *waves flag*

title: The Jedi and the Sith Lord (1/?)
verse: Lucy Skywalker: my f!Luke AU, following from The Adventures of Lucy Skywalker and The Imperial Menace.
summary: Lucy emerges from carbon-freeze as the captive of Darth Vader.

For those who don't want to go through 50k of largely retelling canon, there's a detailed summary here and a comparatively short summary under the cut. But it's close enough to canon up to this point that you can probably go straight into the fic.

( 'Short' summary )

( Ch 1! )