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The Ambiguity Of SelfishnessThe Ambiguity Of Selfishness Q&A!
Hiya everyone!
Before the Q&A, I want to say thank you a billion for giving this story a chance. I really like this storyworld, and I think I’ve improved in terms of writing or at least understanding how to characterize my characters and their motivations. So I’m super happy that there were others who were interested in my ideas, especially since I’m pretty sure they’re a bit off-meta.
And a special thank you to melodyoficeandfire and sharo001 for regularly leaving comments as I was releasing this lengthy story over like 1.1 years (omygosh it's been over a year!); reading them gave me much appreciated support x3
If you decide to skip the Q&A--TLDR;
Whether you followed along in the releases or stumble upon this story much later, I appreciate your interest and feedback via a message, comment, or upvote!
I'm planning on doing a sort of drabble sequel now that Minseok is a demon! No regular updates, but I have many ideas still for this storyworld hehehhee. Feel free to subscribe ~here~ for, like, a random surprise read every once in a while hehe
And now the Q&A~
1. What were the inspirations for this story?
FINALLY—I can recommend these stories:
Pawssession and Have Your Steak (And Eat It Too) by XiuChen4Ever (ao3)
and
Straight To Hell by Scarlet_Sky (aff)
Because this is where I got my inspiration from!
Originally, I read Have Your Steak, and then Pawssession (gah the feels), and then I wanted to read more demon stories and I found Straight To Hell (so good). Then after I finished those, I laid in bed thinking about them (because I always do) and was like, ‘But WHY do the demons exist? Did they have factions? Or jobs? Why go to the human world (aside from exhortation and entertainment)? Why is there that connection between the two worlds?’
‘Oh! What if they did have jobs and it was like guarding humans from the unseen supernatural threats?!’
And then it kinda spiraled from there (╯▽╰;;)
But yeah, those stories are probably the biggest reason that Chen is a cat (Pawssession – A (demon) kitten was found at the site of Junmyeon’s homicide scene) and why there are marks of demonic power (Straight To Hell – The mark that binds Minji (OC) and Baekhyun is a tattoo and allows Minji to borrow Baekhyun’s light power). A lot of the cat things I incorporated are from research with inspo from Have Your Steak; seeing the zoo cats in Chapter 30 is inspired from that story too (did you guess it?)! But if you read those stories (do it do it do it), you’ll probably see that all our plots are very different hahahhaa
2. How was TAS originally planned?
LOL
I mean, I did have an idea for it. I wanted something more light-hearted because I invest a lot into my stories and I didn’t want to do that again right after Converse, but yeah… that didn’t happen x’D
It started out as these demons and angels using this environmentalist worker’s house as a meeting point, and the environ worker being like wtf, but then dealing with it and eventually coming to enjoy their company (one’s company a little more than the others).
Like, I wanted it to be a bit of crack comedy, because those are hilarious, but apparently I am incapable of writing short stories (why brain why). But I’m pleased with the final product anyway hehehe
3. What scene did you imagine first for this story?
Gogogogogo!
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