So I didn’t get anything done Saturday after having pulled a half day of work and then sleeping through most of the rest of it after I got back home. Rather than focusing on the review update or actually writing on EM3 where it matters, that little random short I was working on started expanding in my head, linking to other bits and pieces I’ve been thinking about. Besides writing out scenes, I was already digging into genealogies and the history of the setting. This will almost certainly get turned into something later. I just have to decide if I want to integrate it into one of my existing series or let it be its own thing.

It all started with me playing KageMasu, looking at Iris’ civvie costume and imagining snarky banter between her and Cid (more in line with the way he interacts with Alexia, so definitely out of character for both of them as far as Kagejitsu canon is concerned). The character that started to form from this Cid stand-in got me thinking of a reimagining I had of the confrontation between Wendelin and Kurt in 8Nan. The inspiration is clear for anyone who knows what they’re looking for, but of course it’s turning into its own thing and the more I develop it, the less obvious the roots will be. Yes, this energy would be better directed toward the stories currently in serialization, but you know how the artistic temperament can be. When inspiration strikes, you have to follow where it leads.

I imagine I’ll be playing around with this story more, but I do intend to switch over to RttW and maybe also try to finish Chapter 23 of EM3 while I’m at it. Stay tuned.

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