There’s this trend in Ladon and Orange, across all the branches. Even down to the final draft, and even down to this fanfiction. They reconcile and things become mundane. I started writing the fanfiction to explore their antagonism. They beat each other up for a good first third of the work. They want to kill each other. And somehow on the island or my subconscious in the act of writing that pure antagonism loosens, turns to smoke, blows away. It’s 3 weeks into their stay and Ladon’s anger is running out of gas. It’s 4 weeks in and Orange asks lucidly what Ladon’s first life was. It’s 5 weeks in and Orange comes back home with a sharkbite. I can’t think of a draft where they’re constantly fighting on the island. That’s not a viable story.
"[Growing up] is hard and nobody understands." // https://www.homestuck.com/story/2391