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Is it Opera Omnia that distracted you from Of Ingwë? ‘Cause it’s been distracting me from my things. If it is, are you amenable to sharing your ID? You’re a very neat person, and it would be kind of fun to have you as a friend in-game.

Record Keeper and Opera Omnia. I never had Gameboys or PSPs growing up, so as an adult trying to basically turn my smartphone into that… Record Keeper was exactly what I had wanted Brave Exvius to be and is the gameplay I like best. But Opera Omnia is fun, though, and has character interactions (and now I’m waiting for the rest of the chapters and characters to be released). The music, especially the remixes, have been great- I almost dropped my phone in excitement over recognizing Final Fantasy II’s battle music, which is odd because damn if that tune isn’t a horrible ear-worm due to all the weeks of level grinding.

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Flu recovery (and IOS Final Fantasy games) nixed my plans to finish the ‘Of Ingwë’ chapter earlier this week. We’ll see about tomorrow. Forgive me but I’m going to probably move the taming of horses to another chapter, because I haven’t written any of it yet and I’ve unintentionally built it up in the plot and would have to research and gives details and ugh… Other tangential ‘making the sausage/behind the scenes’ stuff- Ravennë and Ingwë demanded a scene together for the next chapter, and I’m debating how close to make their vibe to what I’ve dubbed “that AU version of Of Ingwë where I go off the rails of the central premise of Ingwë supplanting Imin by having Ravennë seduce Ingwë back when Alakô was still alive, thus creating Arda’s first Awkward Dinner with the New In-laws”. Not to be mistaken for the Of Ingwë AU Sequel where Ingwë and Elwë swap places, sort of.

I wish you would write a fic where Gorlim rescues Eilinel after all. Oh god I don’t recognize myself anymore. But really please?

I wonder who this might be. Okay, I don’t have a fic, but I have a very easy tweak to make this happen.

I don’t remember whose fic it was, maybe jess or kate, who wrote that eilinel had a limp, a clubfoot or a badly healed break, and that’s why she lived away from others and gorlim believed eilinel had been abducted by Sauron’s troops…long story short, it became my headcanon too and thus when i read one of the 1630/Ring of Fire books (The Devil’s Opera, btw) where two of the main characters is ‘Stark Hans’ the underground boxer and his sister who is sweet and lovely and walks with a very bad limp because her legs didn’t heal right during the crush of trying to flee Tilly’s sack of Madgeburg under the 30 Years War … ergo Eilinel has an older protective brother (and also adopted a one-armed orphan boy) and Gorlim becomes the burgher’s son now progressively modern cop who courts her (only, like, Barahir’s outlaw Silm version of that). So um. that AU:

Gorlim, Eilinel, and orphan younger-brother/son go with Emeldir. They make it to Dor-lómin. Gorlim is the heroic warrior that makes sure his family plus Morwen and Rían get there safely and then trains the girls as surrogate beloved uncle. And I’m being hella nice, Gorlim and family also survive the Fifth Battle. They take pregnant Rían to Annael. Eilinel and Gorlim convince her to stay/escort her to Huor’s grave but makes sure she gets back. Tuor grows up with Grandpa Gorlim and Grandma Eilinel too.

Bëorian!Hans is the one that takes Gorlim’s place, Sauron tricks with fake ghosts of his family- probably the orphan boy- and who ghost-returns to warn Beren. This is only a tiny AU.