sroloc--elbisivni asked: um hi feel free to tell me to take a hike but. i really like your blog and your writing and i may or may not have gone 480 pages back in it and seen "In which angels are a thing that happened around 1947 and just kind of never left; also everyone is LGBT because fuck you I do what I want" and now i'm really curious--would you be willing to elaborate?

BABE I will never tell you to take a hike about my original writing, I have real shit to get done and a bunch of older asks to answer, but I’m gonna do this instead, sorry.  I have many novels started and that’s one of the ones that gets an actual place where I’ll find it to work on, I love it very much.  Okay, so, *clears throat* let’s do this.

So.  First off, some backstory: an insane percentage of my stories are rooted in an original conversation with someone, somewhere, that goes “But it’s so stupid that this book/TV show/movie did this, because it would be so much better if they’d done that” (see also: Falls the Shadow, product of a Supernatural rage quit, Emrys Ascendant, product of a Merlin rage quit, and Polaris, product of a “please God I just want a F/F couple that lives” tirade).  This one was the product of a half-dozen episodes of Dominion in very short order (which I have yet to rage-quit, by the by, and love very much in its capacity as a ridiculous lovely garbage pile) and me turning to @twistedangelsays and going “But it would be so much better if there were two angelic factions openly, one that thought humanity was past redemption and one that believed that they were still duty-bound to love and protect us.”  And then I did kind of this weird magician trick and pulled a fully-formed universe and plot with main characters and ships out of thin air.

And thus Battalion (this novel) happened.

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Tags: battalion moran writes stuff original writing asked and answered sroloc--elbisivnia honestly i haven't worked on this in months which is a SHAME because i think it's a really fun universe also a lot of options to torture all my characters both literally and figuratively raphael is alive by the way not by the end of the novel but at the beginning it's kind of tragic because okay so michael started the war with a sister and two brothers uriel and raphael and gabriel (all the archangels i did for this universe as opposed to fts which has TWELVE archangels out of an original TWENTY FOUR) and gabriel was killed despite michael's best efforts (also gabriel went down in history as an ally of uriel because he tried to warn the cities before she hit them) and he believes uriel killed raphael and he believes he killed uriel so michael starts the novel believing he's the last seraph in the universe and then! raphael is alive! and uriel is alive! aaaaand then raphael dies of the injuries uriel inflicts on him and michael kills uriel for real so at the end of the novel michael really is the last seraph in the universe also shiloh is my CHILD i love her she is badass she deserves better than her shitty girlfriend GIRLS CAN BE ABUSIVE TOO OKAY I FEEL THIS IS IMPORTANT