AnwynB03

DUCKTALES READERS, QUESTION!
          
          So, I am slowly but surely working on the next chapter of Little Sister AU, so don't worry about that.
          
          But, I wanted to know what you guys think of this here idea:
          
          I've started writing a more original story in the same AU, with the entirety of the show in mind now that it's over.
          
          Takes place 3 years after the show ended, so the triplets Chloe and Webby are about 14. Adventures, angst and emotional problems, just like the show!
          
          What is it call, you may ask?
          
          Well, season 3 episode 2.
          
          Sound fun?

DUCKTALES RELATED, SPOILERS AHEAD
          
          Should I delete Random Thoughts of Louie? I haven’t shipped Loubby for years, and now it’s canonically incest, soooooo
          
          I what do you guys think? I think for now I’ll just cut the chapters with reference to the ship, but I’ve never actually been super proud of that story; I barely tried on it, they’re all single drafts with minimal editing.
          
          Tell me what you guys think, I could use some help.
          
          -Anwyn
          
          They/Them

Summary for new TMR story I'm working on:
          
          Trigger Warnings: Mentions of depression, past self-harm,  emotional abuse, dysphoria
          
          In the happy-go-lucky small town of Glade Valley, Oregon, everyone's favourite depressed mom-friend, Isaac "Newt" Newton-Ross is living with his Mum, Step-father Drew, and little (half) sister Sonya.
          
          About a year clean off cutting himself, Newt wakes up one normal Saturday in August, and is surprised by an extra shift working in Step-father Drew's bike shop (which is a fancy name for their garage they fix bikes in).
          
          That afternoon, cute new boy Harlan Gibson shows up, needing his bike's chain de-rusted. Afterwards, he asks if Newt could come with him on a walk later, and show him around.
          
          Cue a mostly-fluffy story with some angst in it related to depression, emotional abuse from Step-father Drew, and maybe even some dysphoria because it's my story and I can project if I want to,  but mostly just following the two boyos as they navigate their new relationship, hitting milestones along the way and growing together.
          
          Thoughts?

Just wrote a very long message here.
          
          No indication of anything wrong.
          
          I click “post”...
          
          Whole thing gets deleted because it exceeds the character limit...
          
          BRUH TELL ME THAT BEFOREHAND, DON’T JUST DELETE MY HARD WORK!!!
          
          Too tired for this and I have school in the morning, so I’ll try again tomorrow afternoon or something. Just an explanation of the Newt x OMC story I’m working on, it’s not important.

YOOOOOOOOOOOOO
          
          Chapters 0 and 1 of WICKED is Weird are up! Currently working on chapter 6, so might be able to have a somewhat regular upload schedule for a bit! Yay!

4/3
          
          Ok apparently I lied, this is the last part.
          
          So, in the end, my point with this rambling mess is that I want more stories without shipping, with just strong platonic, familiar bonds. Where a girl happens to be a girl, and it’s addressed, but not focussed on, and maybe a tiny bit of implied, one-sided Newtmas, because I can.
          
          So, I'm writing that. I hope you enjoy it when I'm done!
          
          Sorry for the essay,
          
          Anwyn <3
          
          They/Them

3/3
          
          Another very important distinction I want to make: this is decisively not a “Girl Power” story. May might deal with a few random sexist shanks, but that’s not the point, those guys will most likely be glossed over. She’s not the smartest in the Glade, she’s not the strongest (heck, she’s pretty small), she doesn’t really have a moment where she has to prove herself to the others, she just knows her way around a first aid kit and writes things down to keep things organized. The most backlash she gets is when she first gets there, and it’s not because she’s a girl, it’s because she’s only 11 or 12. Ageism is more an issue for her than sexism, and that goes away after a year or so. A lot of the stories I’ve read have the girl punching a guy out and everyone respecting her afterward, even though technically that would earn her at least a night in the Slammer.
          
          May’s not immune to consequences. At one point in the story, she breaks a very important rule. Not gonna spoil it, but long story short, even though her goal was to help someone, she gets a week in the Slammer, just like he does. Nick and Alby are sympathetic to her, but they don’t bend, because order is important in a society full of minors (as Lord of the Flies taught us).
          
          Besides the main plot, the focus of the story will mostly be her relationship with the boys, particularly with Newt. Before the Maze, they were close as, as she calls it, “sibling substitutes”. May’s big brother from before, Joey, looked very much like Newt, and May looks a lot like Lizzy/Sonya, the main difference being the shades of blond between the pairs. May needed a big brother, Newt needed a little sister, so they were that for each other. From the time between their Insertion in the Maze to when Thomas arrives, that relationship needs to be (re)established.

2/3
          
          Then I read Scorch Trials, Death Cure, and Fever Code.
          
          Yeah, Holly burned. She’s dead. No longer in existence. I started building May from the ashes.
          
          Now 14 instead of 10, more tomboyish, no longer leagues smarter than everyone else, just about equal. Also, I dropped her into Group A, because if everyone else does it, why can’t I? Difference between mine and most (not all, the fic Different had a pretty good explanation of it) is that I actually came up with a reason: as kids, May had been Swapped with a boy named Pablo, to see what sorts of Killzone patterns the psyches could get from their anxiety. It’s a weak justification, but hey, so’s the reason they were ending children into a maze to cure a disease. Par for the course with this franchise.
          
          My original version of my May fic I called The Youngest Original, and it’s… not bad? It’s still up for the moment if you want to check it out. Might keep it up indefinitely as a memorial, who knows. I’m not proud of it, but it’s not the worst thing I’ve ever written. I’m completely rewriting it and may have accidentally turned it into a pentalogy called A10- The Salve, but there are aspects of it I want to keep.
          
          First, the dynamics. They need to grow much more slowly than they did, but I like the relationships I made between the “family” of the Gladers. Alby’s the irritable, tired oldest brother; Newt’s the sarcastic, protective brother; Minho’s the annoying but loyal brother; Gally’s the rebellious one who can’t stand the older ones; May’s the overprotective, mothering sister. Family’s one of the most important themes of this story, so I want it to feel actually realistic. I can’t just say they’re close, I have to establish and show it. It has to build, just like a romance has to build. Except, you know, platonically.

1/3 cause character limit
          
          Gonna go on a ramble about my Maze Runner story (and a bit of why I write the kinds of stories I do) and how/why I'm reworking it, so read if you care, ignore if you don't.
          
          All the Maze Runner stories I find with OCs are GladerxOC stories. Now, that’s fine, I get it, there’s even a few that I really like (I particularly like Isaac Newton’s Girl on Fanfiction.net, even though it portrays him as straight, because the main character Lily is just really likable, and it’s a fix-it fic where the bad thing still happens, the characters just actively work for a long time to fix everything). But, as an ace-ball, I’d always thought it would be cool to just be real close friends with these boyos. We all agree here that many OCs are just audience stand-ins, which is fine. But if that’s the case, then why not make a few non-romantic ones (or more male OC protagonists, but I’m getting sidetracked here, maybe I’ll do that next).
          
          If you’ve read my stories, you know that basically every story I have is a younger sister story. My first published fic (on Fanfiction.net, I dunno, maybe go read it, but I’m warning you it’s not great) is called Angie, and it’s about Anguis Malfoy, Draco’s younger sister. After that I wrote a fluffy sibling story with Ginny and Fred and George. When I switched to Wattpad, I posted my DuckTales Chloe AU, with the triplets’ 3 months younger sister (because they’re ducks, its possible). 
          
          It seems I just took my favourite characters at the time and gave them younger sisters. Some may say this says I wish I had a different/better relationship with my own older brother and I’m projecting that desire on any loving male characters, but I’m not a psychologist, so I wouldn’t know.
          
          Alas, poor Newt wasn’t immune to this, either (I’m not sorry). When I had only read the first book and seen all the movies, I created a character named Holly: 10 years old, found the way out of the girls’ maze with Aris, and found to be Newt’s little sister.

Just realized I have exactly one Minecraft stack of followers. Yay!