Of masks and dances - Chapter 13: Dream Logic

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Of masks and dances - chapter 12 - Dream logic

In which Kaeya is having a bad day and it is Not Improved by monsters, a Harbinger and hallucinogens.

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I know I posted this sunday and it's wednesday, but in my defense time does not exists and the calendar is a social construct created to facilitate trade.

This is the chapter in which I fucked myself over by:

1. having an outline that used concepts that happened to show up in an actual in-game event after I had decided on them. It was Shadows Amid Snowstorms, but you could guess from my use of a shape-shifter. No, I did not anticipate fakebedo, I merely wrote an arc in which Kaeya, Albedo, Tartaglia and Zhongli had to cooperate in Dragonspine while having a shape-shifter infiltrate them. There was a The Thing aspect to it. AND I HAD TO SCRAP IT
2. thinking that going for a small Albedo POV, as a treat, would be something I'd have the self-control not to abuse. I should know myself better. I also should have considered that Albedo has a lovely voice as a character, and would be this smooth to write. Thinking in images, patterns and colors is the thing I was actually trained for and it's good to use it for something. I also like Sucrose a whole bunch more now that I have headcanons about her
3. writing a bunch of scenes that I scrapped completely. Again. If you think my chapters are long, or if you wonder how I manage to write that many words, well my only answers are that I generally scrap about 5k words from any one chapter and that even the ones that get to the post are not exactly the best words. They're the words I managed. This is how you get a high wordcount.

Honest I say all that but I love writing this fic. It is all over the place and has about as much dropped ideas as your regular chinese webnovel (I say this with much love, there is nothing I like more than a story with 100 ideas a minute), but I'm having so much fun.

All my love to people that plan and write something coherent, I read those fics with awe, but I'm not quite capable of the same feat
And I'm just fine with it.