Dressed in Feathers | K.TH FF

CREDITS

(As in like movie credits, but it's more so the story bio lol.)

I have been writing this story for over 2 years; 1 year on, 1 year off, and the rest slowly to finish the story. Slides history shows that I started the concept and plot on September 6, 2022 (which I had JUST graduated high school that May and took a semester off before starting college), and Docs history shows that I started writing the story on October 13, 2022, and I continued writing where I got stuck in the past around August or September 2024, and today's finishing date is October 24, 2024. Damn, I didn't realize I started the story-story on Jimin's bday. But when I got back into it this year, I had such a huge writing frenzy on this story! I went from near beginning (beginning of minotaur battle) to near end (reaching the Fates) in one week! I mean... It's a short story. I never planned it to be long, but still; I never burnt out. I only slowed down because I needed to let the ideas take their time to flow. I swear, this story was a re-obsession. It's personally one of my favorite worlds, and I just love Tae. I didn't want to give up on this story, and I'm glad I didn't. Here I am with it finished. That's farther than I ever dreamed of when I began this story. I was fantasizing reaching the moment where Tae battled the Fates and wondering how he was going to do it, how he was going to beat them (except I knew for a while how he was going to beat Yoongi). Especially Namjoon. Oh my god, Namjoon! Fate of the Future! I did NOT know how to counter his insight at the time for the longest time.

First and foremost... The music. I know y'all noticed. It's full of Toby Fox (Undertale/Deltarune) and BTS orchestra covers. In my defense, it's just that whenever I was rereading the story for my own entertainment and for error-editing reasons, those songs were what came to mind for those atmospheric scenes. Styx and the northern lights being the first examples. Since then, I started mix-matching music for the battles and ambient world exploring. And of course, I know you might have noticed a pattern with that, too. BTS covers for the battles, Undertale/Deltarune covers for the atmospheric ambience. It just felt better that way because most of the BTS orchestral covers that I know give more of a battle feel; they're epic and tense. Versus the Undertale/Deltarune covers of the biome music (like Waterfall, and the Scarlet Forest) better matched atmosphere for how slow they are. ...Except for that one BTS song I used for River Styx, "Black Swan." That one was just *chef's kiss* perfect. Oh! And "Tear," too, for when Gyeowool died. That one, as well. To me, that was perfect for her transformation from living to spirit because of how emotional the orchestra is, like a buildup. But other than that, whenever the BTS music came on when things were getting tense, to me, that was like "Ohhhh shit! Shit's going down!" Sooooo, yeah.

Oh! And I have an OST playlist on Spotify for the story in order. It's just "Dressed in Feathers OST." Link's down below if you want to visit it. Everything is in order with the story timeline and how you read everything, just that there was one song that did not exist on Spotify because the artist isn't on there and that's "Her Theme" by Sully Orchestration. But that's it. Just that one song. That makes me grateful Wattpad has connections to YouTube.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4O00WzOaIpu6vDOyKbFzp8?si=omWSZFzYS1O0yPVyudJn5A

The story was originally titled "Don't Fear the Reaper" after the Blue Öyster Cult song as a joke, but then I felt like that was plagiarism when I used the first 2 chapters of this story for a fiction writing class a couple semesters ago, so that's how I got the "Dressed in Feathers" title in the end, ending up changing the OG and keeping the new title. At the end, I ended up finishing the story with a badass cover of that very song. I just liked the new title originally for a school paper a lot that I couldn't let it go.

With the worldbuilding, I was making up everything as I go. Normally I plan everything out with the culture and the type of world and stuff, but for this one, I just wanted to wing it, and I think it turned out very well and stayed interesting. I did actually do a little bit of planning, like what Tae and the Fates look like and what they're wearing and what powers they have, and also each biome and their guardians. And in this wing-it worldbuilding, it's my own fictional take on the real world's supernatural and paranormal phenomena, trying to explain why things are that way. Like, for example, why do we still have ghosts haunting us if there's an underworld for them? Why and how are there cryptids? If gods can die, can spirits die? How long have entities like Death been around? Can they reproduce like gods can? All of these questions I asked myself and came up with an answer because I knew people would be asking the same questions. I also thought that deities of different cultures, whether it be Egyptian, Greek/Roman, Japanese, Hindi, Christian, Norse, etc., all had to share the same world because there's only one Earth, and that the grim reaper doesn't necessarily work for any of them, but rather work WITH.