Fic or Treat door for EstiRose!

[estirose]

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EstiRose's Door

DW username: estirose

Light is on for: Anybody

What's in the Bowl? Short fic!

Let Me Know: A fandom, prompt, and character.

My list of fandoms I can write in got kind of big, so I've listed them in a different post. I write in a variety of live-action tv series (mostly of the SF/Fantasy bent or Toku/AmeriToku), some Disney movies (Mulan and The Little Mermaid), and a variety of video games (mostly cozies/farming - Stardew Valley, Fantasy Life, Coral Island, My Time at Portia/Sandrock etc, but I also have an enduring love for the Project Zero/Fatal Frame games and I just finished Stray).

Other info: My shipfic tends to be fairly gen-ish and I can't write porn to save my life.

Comments

[embraidery]

Fic or Treat!!

Oooh, Monument Valley? I'd love something for that. I love the architecture and just something twisty about what it's like is great, or the main character's adventures through it!

Or Stardew Valley is also good! I love Elliott, Willy, and Sebastian; something about green rain or enjoying one of their fave things in a quiet moment? Is that too many options?

Happy spooky season!

Shifting Shifty Paths (Monument Valley, worldbuilding)

[estirose]

Worldbuilding Monument Valley (and trying to see things through Ida's eyes) was very fun!

The path shifts before Ida's eyes. There's a trick to it, she knows; look at things just right and they fall into place. At least almost always.

It just takes perseverance, and patience. Especially patience. Patience to retrace one's steps, patience to wait for the geometry to shift, for paths to raise or lower, for Crows to get out of the way. She knows she can only control her own movements, her own steps. Everything else is the slowly-shifting mechanical pieces, with occasional help from a friend.

She sighs every time she reaches a new place. The puzzles change, the geography shifts around her, but there is naught to do but slowly let the pieces shift and move and hope that she figures out which angle will make everything make sense. Perhaps there will be another ghost, another cryptic message. She does not care.

Ida does what she needs to do. She replaces what was lost - or stolen, according to the accusing ghosts. If she was the thief, it was a long time ago, far beyond her memory.

And then she steps again. One foot in front of the other, another path, another challenge. Someday she will be at the end of her journey, but she does not know when that is, or when she will run out of things to return.

It is her path. And she will follow it.

Re: Shifting Shifty Paths (Monument Valley, worldbuilding)

[embraidery]

Oooh, lovely! There’s something about the rhythm of the paragraphs, the repetition of phrases within sentences, that feels so appropriate to the slowly shifting architecture and the sense of doubling back and trying again. The sigh and the tired resignation of “someday she’ll be at the end of her journey, but she does not know when that is”…love it! Thank you!