You've single-handedly opened my eyes to how absolutely darling Aethas is (why was I ever sleeping on him??). :3 Anyway, I'm curious about your belf origin story!! <3 What initially drew you to your favorite blood elf NPCs?
Aaah, I’m so glad!!! It’s funny, so was I lmao until I saw all of the great fanart by @syrosaur (ALL AMAZING)! And then we started talking about him, and I wrote that first Hal/Aethas fic, and the rest is history <3
When BC came out I fell in love with the blood elves at once for their dubious morals and coolass aesthetics. <3 I’ve been playing WoW on and off since 2006 with a friend, mostly off since Pandaria (friend stopped playing, so I was only really playing for free on the PTR in brief windows), and never in a really story-invested way until… I started playing again in this new place called Boralus and there was this one funky pirate guy, and I looked him up for fun and oh damn, you can be queer in WoW now?!
So then when I inevitably went back to Silvermoon I had some Thoughts In Mind and saw the beloved triumvirate standing there /no and thumbsup-ing each other… “Surely they must be wildly popular!” I thought to myself, so when I went on AO3 and found all of four (4) fics, I said to myself, “Barely any fandom content? Guess someone has to do something about that!” And the more I write them the more I want of them!!! Please!!! The elves are good!!!
WoW: Midnight fills me with Such Dread.