On filling out worlds: The funny thing about my Angel Sanctuary fanfiction -- as opposed to every other fandom for which I've written -- is that all the stories fit into a single continuity. They assume exactly the same interpretation of canon events, and rely on exactly the same additional bits and pieces of backstory. "Debts" and "The Transient and the Eternal: Time" will even be explicit about that, once I get around to working on the rest of Alexiel's incarnations. (I'm currently bogged way down in southern India circa 170 CE and keep getting distracted by other WIPs.) "Making a Big Scene" and my unfinished oneshot about Belial's early life also slot in neatly.

It's odd, because usually I like to ring more changes on canon, but Angel Sanctuary has so many places to handwave, and so much fascinating yet unexplored backstory, that it's almost more fun to just figure out a single logical explanation for how it all hangs together. It's like writing an epic saga, without actually having to write the saga -- just do the structural planning and occasional sketches for verisimilitude.

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Of course, every time I notice that continuity effect, it makes me want to go write a mad crossover story in which Setsuna and Sara run away in 1995, end up in Yokohama, and run into Kubota and Tokito from Wild Adapter, but I usually have enough willpower to stamp that impulse back down again. *grin*