on one hand: jademythra would NOT wait to contact lloyd Colette and zelos given everything, so, setting it immediately after (or within weeks of) ywkon1 makes the most sense

in fact, setting it after ywkon2 makes even LESS sense. theres no WAY that's their first meeting with jademythra, that's insane

HOWEVER. the other hand: trying to put myself in a pre ywkon2 mindset, esp wrt colette and zelos' feelings on family, is a nightmare

in sum: it makes no sense for it to be AFTER ywkon2 on the timeline but THEMATICALLY it is a struggle to figure out how it fits before. gah

((of course, the part where jademythra get married isnt the problem here. the part is I'm struggling on where to place jademythra properly meeting Colette and zelos for the first time))

the real problem also is the presea and mithos thing in here but I suppose that can also be delayed like 6 months or whatever. gah!!!! what a nightmare

I CAN come up with several convoluted reasons it takes like 9 months for lloyd colette zelos to meet jademythra with "travel time" being a not insignificant one of them, but lol, lmao,

[squinting as I reread] maybe the themes are fine, actually.... this prose is banger, anyway,

the prose IS banger-

fuck the timeline it doesn't matter it's soup etc

uke vc: wait Jade got married?
Asch, blandly deadpan: it has been one thousand years. that's what you're worried about?

LMAO

in Luke's defense. it makes sense to be the last thing to expecy

also my further thought is I could keep the prose as is and then just let the gang get totally distracted by trying to hunt pyra down for six months LMAO.

jademythra would even understand....

mythra is in fact one of the distracted ones

listen at 100 6 months feels like nothing

i think them getting distracted by pyra hunt feels accurate, yeah,

nods nods

all thats left is to rotate the Themes in my head and decide where i'm going with this

which fuck it i might as well write down what i've concluded so far here

which is a lot of. waffling on things.

wow trying to make this coherent and finding out rubber duck method sure does work

-> lloyd being told by functionally Strangers to him that had they known he was alive they would have torn the world apart searching is an interesting contrast to anna, but also, should he know that before ywkon2? or after?

rubber duck actually works everytime. its astonishing

points for before: helps build the tension of trying not to hate his mom
points against before: i think jademythra would drag anna relentlessly even in front of her son so like. hm. HM. maybe i shouldn't.

-> i could just have them meet briefly (long enough to clear the air between them and colette+zelos, which jademythra care more about) which means how this affects lloyd is minimal but hmmmmmmmgggg

once again do i think it's better to contrast jademythra vs miang before or after having met her? you know??????

both options could be interesting...but its a tough call ;pensive:

RIGHT....

i have enough stuff to write leading up to the start of pyra search that i can definitely let the thought simmer....

at least u can let it simmer.... maybe writing the approach will give you a better sense of what feels better narratively?

nods nods

my main thought is that i know for a fact that if jade finds out about miang's funny failsafe and what that did to zelos is going to make him lose his Entire Shit, and i think that would be A Lot for colette and zelos to be their first functional introduction to a guy, you know?

i mean!!! that alone is a pretty good weight to one side tbh

YEAH HAHA

so at the very least i have narrowed it down to: the gang is going to get distracted by pyra hunt for sure which means it isn't until after ywkon2 that lloyd and colette and zelos actually functionally move into malik's town....? or something like that.

the pyra hunt will at least keep their interactions with jademythra at a minimum which is what i need the most to keep myself from fretting about the continuity of ywkon2 in its entirety

eitherway: the jademythra wedding fic has upgraded from "barely about the wedding, more about lloyd's whacky extended family" to "jademythra don't even get (re)married in this one! they cancel their fucking wedding!!!!)

dweebs

oh noooo this wedding just keeps getting more complicated for them hahaha

ITS FINE ITS FINE its wedding 2 for them anyway since they hit their 100th anniversary (or close enough to it)

(it was at least partly an excuse to invite lloyd and colette and zelos to see them ON THEIR OWN TERMS instead of waiting around for anna to do FUCK ALL like she ALWAYS DOES) (<- jademythra's opinions of anna and her sense of timing is harsh but possibly fair)

(*probably fair. given, well, you know. the everything)

a slightly complicated but. definitely fair take

there is so much juice here it's unreal

also i reread the . here let me just get the fic itself. this one. one mistake is all that it can take - rarsneezes - M...

and i am taking mythra voice "you can't ask me to forgive anna for letting me think you were dead for FIFTEEN YEARS, malos" to heart.

might as well toss it in this plurk also: was rotating fic titles and (fiora voice) "we'll press on and on and on!" is in my head. so i am considering. some variation thereupon.

also shit man. nothing says i can't do a timeskip in my own fic. maybe i WILL get jademythra wedding'd in this one after all

you CAN still timeskip. there is nothing stopping you

search on and on and on (for pyra)

oh that's a fun one

what are they doin??? searching. lotta searching

THATS TRUE

(<- does not intend to write any of the search at all)

(<- not even sure they'll find pyra in this one because that wasn't the point of it)

eh

they dont have to find pyra. or be shown searching. its thematic.

not the point, you're so right--

YOU'RE SO RIGHT

my tangential variation upon the title is "life goes on (and on, and on)"

thats also p good, and ig fitting for wedding fic?

yeah!!!

i think also it fits somewhat with lloyd coping with Surprise! Giant Family!

tho also. man. if i'm postponing the jademythra wedding i could even postpone it long enough that asch gets to see it. much to think about......

i mean!! you ARE delaying it

he could go to the wedding....

weird lurky awkward creature at wedding

its what he deserves!

i guess!