"The Sun's Chosen" Commentary, Part 1

I participated in the second annual Zoroark Games this year, and I thought it would be fun to talk a bit about how I approached my imitation entry this year. I meant to do this for my imitation last year as well, but didn't manage to pull it together (or even a properly completed version of the fic, lol)--perhaps someday. For now, anyway, I'm going to post the various drafts of this story and talk a bit about why I made the choices I did--what I was trying to do in order to make my story feel like a kyeugh fic.

For context, the Zoroark Games are a fanfic exchange and writing exercise where the goal is to fool the other players by writing a story in another person's style! This involves writing two one-shots, one "real" one that's simply your own writing in your own style, and one "illusion," a story written in the style of another (randomly-assigned) author in the group. The goal is to fool as many people as possible into thinking your illusion story was written by the author you're imitating, while also correctly identifying who wrote as many of the other stories as possible. I had a great time, if an abysmal showing, last year, so I was super excited to participate and hopefully not embarrass myself quite so badly this time around!

As I mentioned earlier, this year my assigned writer was kyeugh! With the author assignments made and this year's list of prompts posted, my first task was to figure out generally what kind of story I would be writing!

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