Question A Wild Motley Appears

Hi y'all!

Wow, dang, it's been years hasn't it?

I'm still me. Still married to Renae, who I now call Ren in everyday life, even in front of my mother. Mom is tolerant, but not terribly understanding and she still can't seem to wrap her head around Ren's pronouns, or that I now officially and legally have a wife instead of a husband. It could be worse.

I wandered back in because my long distance girl friend, Erisian, started writing here. Yes, Ren has met her and likes her. It's not cheating if you have permission from everyone involved. Last night she linked me to a thread that started about four months ago asking about Heyoka 3. That had me confused because Heyoka 3 was never finished. Apparently the survival class scene was published separately? I dug through an old backup disc and found my old HK3 notes, and the Survival Class scene in question. If someone points me to where to put that, I can repost it.

No, I never intended to ship Heyoka and Buttercup. (I had a different target in mind!) Jamie was just being extra vulnerable to glamours. In the very next scene a teacher very pointedly gave Jamie a shield talisman to wear to block some of that out, because boy did they need it! I deliberately wrote Jamie to have flaws and weaknesses as a counterpoint to the overpowered Kimba trend.

Yes, I've been told Jamie is no more. RIP. I knew when I left that Jamie was fair game, and there were issues that made it difficult to keep writing that character.

As for myself, thing are going ok. I'm still teaching and learning Tai Chi. I'm starting to get into some of the really fun old school stuff there. As Ren mentioned a couple months ago, we're in the process of raising a teenager. My life more or less revolves around getting Ren to all her appointments on time since she doesn't drive. No, I haven't been writing much of anything lately.

Welcome Back

Welcome back! ... You and Renae are married??! Totally did not know. ... Have a belated Congratulations!

People were shipping Heyoka + Buttercup? ... *Remembers* ... I can see how they would.

... So, you gave Heyoka to the whole WU when you left? That's why they could be used, unlike the characters of the others who haven't been heard from, but also why you didn't know precisely what happened to them?

Hope things stay okay!

Hey! Welcome back!

Ah, totally for the record and such, I didn't start writing WU fiction until after that whole Jamie thing happened ...

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Welcome back! It's been way too long.

Welcome back.

Congratulations on the marriage, I hope you and Renae have long happy lives together.

And at least one good thing came out of Heyoka's death. Phoenix there got dragged kicking and screaming into the Cabal to write Hank stories.

Please stick around and join the mayhem, even if it just to bounce story ideas off of JG, Elrod, EE, and Morpheus. They really need idea help, they write so little.

Be sure to check out Gen 2.

Watch out for wild Tinks.

Welcome back! It's good to see more faces returning. Hope lives again!

Congratulations on your marriage! I'm glad you're still strong together!

Thanks for all the congratulations, though Ren and I were married years before we started writing for Whateley. The real congratulations goes to Ren for finally getting in front of a judge to get her name and gender marker changed. She's been my spouse for 18 years, but legally my wife for only a few months. Same sex marriage ftw! Unfortunately they only have M and F on driver's licenses, so I won't be getting mine changed in the foreseeable future.

I remember how I used to look over and see the pink satin of Sapphire's place on her screen all the time and I told her since she was reading it all the time, she should try writing it. Then when she got into Whateley, I got inspired to make my own character too.

Yes, I did tell the other authors they could keep using Jamie. I knew what a PITA it was to coordinate between different characters, authors and timelines to keep everything on track. It only seemed fair to let them keep using the character if they wanted to.

I don't read Gen 2, so I don't know if the Thunderbird spirit has found a new host, but you could try a story about a new avatar for the spirit, and the spirit dealing with the PTSD of the murder of Jamie, even after a decade.

Edit for clarification: the Spirit I was talking about was Heyoka's T-bird spirit.

So how many returned authors have there been in the last 6 months? And how many official canon authors are there that have at least shown up recently vs the total?

Welcome back Motley and hi there! As others have said, feel free to do as you please (provided it's not something JG would do), and don't feel beholden to write if you don't wish to.

It's just nice for those of us (relatively) new to the universe to see the old guard return to whichever degree.

JG wrote:

Ametros wrote: Welcome back Motley and hi there! As others have said, feel free to do as you please (provided it's not something JG would do), and don't feel beholden to write if you don't wish to.

It's just nice for those of us (relatively) new to the universe to see the old guard return to whichever degree.

Motley would never do anything as bad as what I am prone to doing...

How dare you challenge me on my first day back!

Not to contradict Kristin, but I'm not sure ScramblerJ has shown up here that I'm aware of, either. But they went mostly away even before the first stories were released.

JG wrote: That wasn't a challenge, that was me trying to offer you plausible deniability.

Well there's your problem. You should have bin offering him deniable plausibility.

Welcome back, person who I only know through reputation.

I'm going to enjoy having the opportunity to fix that... right after coffee.

Hail the castaway returning home at last! Or at least, they told us you and Renae disappeared on a three hour tour, so I assumed...


(I just wish I'd thought of that joke when Renae started posting. I could then make it a running gag.)

Welcome back, we have never met but nice to meet you.