Squee, it was really lovely to see this comment like 3h after I posted 60K words! I feel so spoiled.
I'm writing a pretty unusual take on Bardic Gift, but that is partly bc Stef is using it in a really weird way that no one else does – I had the constraint of "figure out how the hell Bardic is useful for eavesdropping on a conversation through a rock wall". I'm really excited to have Stef explore various creative ways of using his Gift, because he totally would. (One of my favourite aspects of Snowblind is Stef using Bardic as a weapon, so I may steal that as well).
I love Van & Liss too! Lissa completely steals the show in her (few) scenes in canon, so I've been excited from the beginning for her to be around more. I've really enjoying building up their sibling relationship, complete with teasing.
The dinner party was soooo much fun to write, and is also something I would have had a really hard time writing a year ago. I think I may have learned from some of you guys (thene in particular) about how to write juicy social awkwardness.
Re: Van & Stef's relationship, the awkwardness here is in preventing them from realizing it until Stef is old enough that it's not going to squick people a bunch. (At this point, Stef is still young enough that Van isn't attracted to him in that way, more just drawn to him in general.)
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I'm writing a pretty unusual take on Bardic Gift, but that is partly bc Stef is using it in a really weird way that no one else does – I had the constraint of "figure out how the hell Bardic is useful for eavesdropping on a conversation through a rock wall". I'm really excited to have Stef explore various creative ways of using his Gift, because he totally would. (One of my favourite aspects of Snowblind is Stef using Bardic as a weapon, so I may steal that as well).
I love Van & Liss too! Lissa completely steals the show in her (few) scenes in canon, so I've been excited from the beginning for her to be around more. I've really enjoying building up their sibling relationship, complete with teasing.
The dinner party was soooo much fun to write, and is also something I would have had a really hard time writing a year ago. I think I may have learned from some of you guys (thene in particular) about how to write juicy social awkwardness.
Re: Van & Stef's relationship, the awkwardness here is in preventing them from realizing it until Stef is old enough that it's not going to squick people a bunch. (At this point, Stef is still young enough that Van isn't attracted to him in that way, more just drawn to him in general.)