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[essbeejay]

go_google_me, I have seen your proposal and wish I could act on it immediately, but one thing I am desperately trying to do with this epic (which is waaaaaay longer than my terrible "skirt" epic) is get a much larger amount of it written before I begin posting, or else it may just totally fall by the wayside and I'll never finish it for another 10 years (like my terrible "skirt" epic). So, I'm not sure how well I can follow through on the proposal. Certainly not immediately. But I try and match you for the time being with other fic :)

Btw, cagalli_chan and mathkid have been a great help for me as betas, but I'm thinking with TEF semi-underway (and still really only existing as very isolated pieces of a much larger story arc), by the time I even get around to just having something ready for a beta, real life may have sunk its claws into them deep, deep, deep by then (I know for a fact it often does with me, and we all have full time jobs and home responsibilities as well (BEING AN ADULT IS AWESOME D:)). Would anyone be able to help out? Granted, it's a little early in the game for me to be asking, since I honestly don't think I'll have anything remotely ready to send out until another six months has gone by, but I wanted to just put that out there...

Speaking of mathkid (and only mathkid; I don't have the time for open requests right now), you should drop me a comment with any special request for Friday. Seriously, hit me :)

100 Questions: 1-10
100 Questions: 11-20
100 Questions: 21-30

100 Questions Meme: 31-40

31. Any other characters support/criticize their relationship? I don't know that anyone would approve, though I do think their siblings would simply... "put up with it."
32. Where are their dating spots? Each other's bed.
33. At the meeting place, who usually waits for whom? They usually come at the same time Okay that was dirty. More than likely it's Buttercup, because Butch simply can't show up on time for anything.
34. Why is s/he always late? Because his subconscious is trying to convince himself that he doesn't care enough to show up on time. The only reason Buttercup is so punctual is because she doesn't feel she has to go through the effort to make herself presentable. (If it were someone she convinced herself she's genuinely in love with, she'd put a little more effort into it.)
35. Who (or what) else do they love as much as each other? For Buttercup it's the Professor. Butch, on the other hand, doesn't have anyone besides his siblings, and he just wouldn't be attached/dependent on them in that way. Also, not to say that Buttercup doesn't care about her sisters, but deep down she knows they can take care of themselves (though they work better as a team).
36. If they had to choose one, what would they choose? Buttercup would always, always choose her father. Butch would have nobody. So it'd be much more devastating for Butch to lose her, because he doesn't share that "familiar" bond with his brothers (they don't really "get him" or understand his character on a personal level) and he doesn't have a parental figure to turn to. He'd get horrendously self-destructive.
37. What gifts did they get for the other person? Butch strikes me as the type who'd like to drink, so he'd grab alcohol, but justify it as a gift by assuming he's really only getting it for himself. Buttercup wouldn't get anything for him, because it's not "a real relationship." She'd feel the only appropriate gift for him would be sex, because that's all there is (or should be) to their relationship.
38. What did they say when they hand out their gifts? Butch: "Here." Buttercup: *takes off his shirt*
39. How did one of them propose to another? There wouldn't be a proposal, certainly not a wedding proposal. I seriously don't see them ever getting married. They'd just wind up sleeping together again and again, until at one point Butch is practically living with Buttercup, and after a good amount of time (and possibly a "major event"), they just kind of quietly accept that they're living together. At most, Butch mentions one sleepy morning that he's got some killer entertainment system he wants to bring in, or something, and Buttercup just goes "Whatevs" and they start talking about where the fuck they're going to put it.
40. And their answer? No real answer. Just gradual acceptance as living/being together becomes a matter of fact.

As always, hit me with your thoughts and opinions :)

Now it's off to catch up on comments and read! Yay!

Comments

[the-audren-file.livejournal.com]

I just love the way you write the Greens. Seriously, I haven't found any other writer who can capture their personality the way you do and write with such tactile quality. Heck, even the meme you've posted makes me crave for a good Green fic @_@

[cagalli-chan.livejournal.com]

Ahaha since when have you been updating...and with frequency!? lol like I'm one to talk Need to go to work/school here so I won't be able to talk till then but nice to know you're updating and writing. :p

[essbeejay.livejournal.com]

HA, this posting every day thing is totally not going to last! Once this meme is done I'll do that disappearing for half a year thing again because I'm lame :PPP

Hope all's going well! Real life can suck a lot of the time, so I hope it's treating you right ♥

[mathkid.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow. I might cry. Happy tears. Um, stuff I want for my birthday... BKS, BKS...?, MAKE NICKELODEON START PLAYING AVATAR AGAIN-- I mean... anything with Buttercup, keywords (optional): saturday morning cartoons...? Oh, you don't have to write me anything! You could just, you know, work extra on TEF... or something. *cough*

Speaking of real life, six months from now I will actually be a whole lot less busy than I am now... since I am GRADUATING in 30 days and then I have the WHOLE SUMMER OFF (till October) and then start "real work" which is, I promise you, less time-consuming than what I'm doing now. *HAPPYDANCE* I CAN'T WAIT.