![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
I have been playing Dragon Age: Origins still. I'm worried that I am even irritating my best friend with how much I'm into it, which she would never admit probably.
I really want to write fic about my Warden and stuff. This is the closest I've ever come to an OC that felt important enough to bother with. Like, there have been some well-developed OCs within the context of bigger canon RPs that I have had or written with in the context of roleplaying, but that was self-contained and reliant on context.
I also started writing a Fallout New Vegas fic before the pandemic became a big deal in the US, and I was having fun with writing my player character there and coming up with her back-story and everything. That was probably more whole-cloth OC generation than this is because of the nature of that kind of game not being as character-driven except in the broadest possible way. I would like to go back to that eventually, but at the moment my brain is like Dragon Age, Dragon Age, Dragon Age, food, thoughts of friends or family, Dragon Age, anime, Dragon Age, other fandom thought, other thoughts squeezed in, Dragon Age, Dragon Age...
It's the first new thing I have been into in a while. I have a lot of things that are perennially important to me, fandom- and otherwise, but this new interest thing is always a bit of a honeymoon stage. But I guess I am even more excited about it because my best friend has been into this pretty consistently for years.
Earlier this year, she gave a few of my ongoing interests a shot, and it's really cool to be able to talk to her about those now. I really hope to be able to continue being on the same wavelength as her about it. I hope that I am able to help her feel revitalized about it eventually, the way she helped me with my interests, rather than pestering her with it.
One of my concerns about writing fic about my Warden is that I learned that there's someone who has written literal novels, both in canon-verse and in AUs, about an OC with a similar name and the same ship. I actually kind of want to read some of these fics but not before I get my own initial stuff out on paper? But I am terrified in either way that someone will take it as me intruding on their space when I had no idea until I just started browsing the AO3 pages of recently updated fic.
I mean, I think a lot of people name Female Couslands with a Rose-related name, especially if they plan to ship with Alistair, as a sort of justification for why a rose would remind him of her when they hadn't known each other for very long. That was one reason my best friend suggested Rosamunde was a good choice when I named it on a list of possible options I had come up with. Naming characters always is the worst.
I also don't really know if I can ever write stuff that doesn't require 10k of investment, which makes it hard to get going with something that isn't meant to be a novel.
I really want to write fic about my Warden and stuff. This is the closest I've ever come to an OC that felt important enough to bother with. Like, there have been some well-developed OCs within the context of bigger canon RPs that I have had or written with in the context of roleplaying, but that was self-contained and reliant on context.
I also started writing a Fallout New Vegas fic before the pandemic became a big deal in the US, and I was having fun with writing my player character there and coming up with her back-story and everything. That was probably more whole-cloth OC generation than this is because of the nature of that kind of game not being as character-driven except in the broadest possible way. I would like to go back to that eventually, but at the moment my brain is like Dragon Age, Dragon Age, Dragon Age, food, thoughts of friends or family, Dragon Age, anime, Dragon Age, other fandom thought, other thoughts squeezed in, Dragon Age, Dragon Age...
It's the first new thing I have been into in a while. I have a lot of things that are perennially important to me, fandom- and otherwise, but this new interest thing is always a bit of a honeymoon stage. But I guess I am even more excited about it because my best friend has been into this pretty consistently for years.
Earlier this year, she gave a few of my ongoing interests a shot, and it's really cool to be able to talk to her about those now. I really hope to be able to continue being on the same wavelength as her about it. I hope that I am able to help her feel revitalized about it eventually, the way she helped me with my interests, rather than pestering her with it.
One of my concerns about writing fic about my Warden is that I learned that there's someone who has written literal novels, both in canon-verse and in AUs, about an OC with a similar name and the same ship. I actually kind of want to read some of these fics but not before I get my own initial stuff out on paper? But I am terrified in either way that someone will take it as me intruding on their space when I had no idea until I just started browsing the AO3 pages of recently updated fic.
I mean, I think a lot of people name Female Couslands with a Rose-related name, especially if they plan to ship with Alistair, as a sort of justification for why a rose would remind him of her when they hadn't known each other for very long. That was one reason my best friend suggested Rosamunde was a good choice when I named it on a list of possible options I had come up with. Naming characters always is the worst.
I also don't really know if I can ever write stuff that doesn't require 10k of investment, which makes it hard to get going with something that isn't meant to be a novel.
