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I have some unfortunate news regarding the bonus chapter. There's not going to be a bonus chapter. I had started writing it yesterday and I had already come pretty far, but I had done this in a different Word-document (the same one in which I had written the pride chapter) and when I turned on my computer today, turns out it had restarted. At first, this didn't seem like a problem, but now there seems to be an issue with the document in which it's been written (I have had this before, by the way, but with an Excel document, so I don't have the patience to try and fix it). This means that there will be no bonus chapter, but simply the Q&A with some fun facts about the story instead! My apologies for the inconvenience (:

Q&A

Who was your easiest character to write (other than Y/N) and develop?

Honestly, I'm not sure. But I personally think that Wilbur was the easiest character to write for me, mainly because I have written him before, and as a yandere too. Dream is probably the second easiest character (up till now) for me to write. 

How did you get into writing?

I wish I knew. I've been writing for as long as I can remember, so I have no idea how I got into it. When I was young (I'd say around 6 or 7) I already wrote TMNT fanfiction, even if I had no idea that fanfiction was even a thing. I just rewrote the episodes with my own OC in them, in the form of a script. And before that, I wrote some other stuff when I was even younger, although that had no plot and just a character who got a cat or dog. 

Are there any previous chapters that you would edit your writing in, or are you satisfied with how you’ve written them?

No, I don't think so. I mean, I'm sure that there are chapters I wish I'd written differently, but I don't like reading my stuff back with the intention of pointing out every flaw of it, in a sense. I think I prefer reading it back in a few years and seeing how I've improved even more. I'm satisfied with the way I've written them, not necessarily because every single word is just the definition of perfection or something like that, but because it came straight (gay) from the heart. Writing is a passion of mine, so I tend to be less perfectionistic about everything, which is only good for me, haha!

Who are your least favourite character to write and develop/who was your most difficult character to write and develop?

I don't have any least favourite, but I do have some characters that I haven't been able to give the time they deserve yet, thus making them harder to write and develop. I think the best example of this, being Quackity. 

Do you proof-read your work?

Nope! And the main reason for this is that I usually publish a chapter right after finishing it, which happens right before I go to bed, so I don't have the time to proof-read. And then there's the problem of the fact that as soon as I've finished a chapter, I'm already thinking of what's going to happen in the next, so my mind cannot handle reading at moments like that.

Asked by Zero, via Discord

Who are the love interests and who are not?

If we look at the love interests we've had in QC, you'll get all the people who were on the roof with Y/N in CHAPTER 48. Characters such as Jack, Schlatt and Eret are not love interests, but rather friends. In the next part, there are going to be some more love interests, under whom George, Punz and Bad. Foolish might be one of them as well, but I'm not sure yet about him. 

Asked by Gogy, via Quotev

Is there a reason Y/N wants to build the portal? I don’t know what the portal is, could it be leading to the said Limbo?

It's understandable you forgot, but this question has already been answered a little bit in the following part of the story (from CHAPTER 28: A Good Excuse): 

“He is my son. Or at least, he would’ve been.” Schlatt stares at the table for a moment and lets out a sigh. “After the… accident… I hated myself so much more than I did before. I discovered something too, but it didn’t make anything better. I couldn’t crawl back to my parents either. I tried everything to bring them back. I used that book that Captain Blockbeard allegedly used to escape his own personal hell, only to discover that it’s not actual necromancy. I started building a portal to travel through time with, only to realize that you can’t change anything anyway. Then I made a portal that could travel to alternate universes, but there were things that I needed that I couldn’t get my hands on. I still have the blueprint of it all. Every single thing that I made, written down in a small notebook. I don’t know if it’s important, but that doesn’t matter. That’s all beside the point, though."

I hope this answers your question! (:

Asked by MotivationNotfound, via Quotev

If, y'know, MC wasnt in a place where they could fake their death and was absolutely forced to choose, who do you think they would choose? Do you think they'd still choose Sally, or will Wilbur and Dream say "no <3"??

Honestly, I never even thought about that, but I think that they would have found a way to 'escape' anyway. They would have probably found a way to make them all fight each other, thus giving them a chance to escape. And even if they wouldn't be able to escape, they probably would manage to put the right people against each other, with only one person remaining in the end, who they could easily either finish off or weaken enough to overpower them, and still ending up choosing Sally indeed. 

Asked by Sun_flower01, via AO3

Who was your inspiration for Y/N’s character?

There isn't just one person who inspired Y/N's character, actually. But one of the characters was Rich Sanchez, from Rick and Morty, and I'm pretty sure I also got inspired by Wilford Warfstache, from the Markiplier Universe or whatever it's called. Other than the two of them, Y/N's behaviour is mostly based on my own and my friends'. 

What do the other characters (who aren’t arrested) do now? How do they all cope with the reader being gone?

Read that in the second part! Published now! 

Who was your favorite character to write?

I don't have any favourite! I absolutely love writing Y/N, as expected, but writing from Dream's and Wilbur's perspective has also been quite an experience, for example! 

Is there any chance that Y/N will bring Sally back with the revival book?

Who knows? Maybe there is, maybe there isn't. Maybe Y/N will finally find peace, maybe they will find a way to join their lover. The future is uncertain, which makes it all the more interesting, doesn't it?

Asked by Nosyfan, via AO3

Fun Facts!

• The cover of Questionable Choices (which you cannot see on AO3, unfortunately) is a painting made by Vincent van Gogh, called Woman Sewing. Vincent made this painting kind of as a preparation for the Potato Eaters, experimenting with the way to paint light mainly. I chose this painting as cover mainly because I thought it fit Y/N's most current trauma at the begin of the story, being Sally's death, and Y/N's mental health problems. I also imagined that this painting would be able to represent Kristin's problems, before her suicide. 
  • Before ultimately choosing Woman Sewing, I was already looking at some of Vincent's paintings. The other candidates were Starry Night, A Pair of Shoes, Beach at Scheveningen, The Potato Eaters, Vincent's Bedroom in Arles and A Skull of a Skeleton with a Burning Cigarette. 
• It's called Questionable Choices because that is what I thought it would be when I started writing.
• Sally is Dutch. 
• Questionable Choices is inspired by the discontinued fanfiction, Error, on Wattpad, written by Hanamocha. 
• The name of the DeMeter company and the Pogyber app was thought of by my dear friend, Cynder, who unfortunately does not have an account on any of these fanfiction sites that I know of (but you might have interacted with xem if you are in the discord). Thanks to them, DeMeter became the name of the company. 
  • Pogyber had some other names that both Cynder and I thought of for the app, them being: 
    • IFindYouStranger
    • Ztranger Dangur
    • PoggersPeople
    • CyberFriends
  • DeMeter also had some other potential names, under which: 
    • Pogtober
      • "No, that's just oktober" ~ Cynder
    • L'Company
    • TechnoL'oligy
    • L'Men
    • LE'Humanoid
    • L'Cyber
    • Le'Window
    • Lapple
    • L'Science
    • L'Manworks
    • L'Manjet
    • L'Mathena
    • L'DionySUS
  • The name DeMeter originally comes from the goddess Demeter, who is the goddess of harvest and agriculture, but with a clever twist. We all know the Meter, I'm sure: the unit for measurement and the spelling used in West and North Germanic languages. 'De', meanwhile, is an article in Dutch, both replacing the 'L' that L'Manberg has and referring to the three crosses on the L'Manbergian flag that refer to the flag of Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands. 
• The reason I named the Devil's Bridge the Devil's Bridge, is not because of what Wikipedia told me, but because one of my favourite detective series, Hinterland, has an episode and location with the same name. It also just sounds fucking cool.
• I really like using alliterations. 
• Rick and Morty, Bojack Horseman and Five Nights at Freddy's have been other things inspiring me while writing this story. 
  • Schlatt building a robot of his son is what I'd like to call "Pulling a Henry Emily". 
• The weather in the story most of the time represents the weather I was having at the moment I was writing it. The only examples in which this weren't the case, was when it snowed in the story. 
  • At one moment in the story, Y/N has a nosebleed and doesn't know how to type properly with just one hand. That is me. I also had a nosebleed at the very moment writing the event. 
• Sherlock is an insert of my own cat.

Unfortunately, this story has come to an end. But the second part should be published by now! 

Read it here!