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Hello! Welcome to my book. I'm starting it off with a clarification and a warning. I have a lot in mind for this story, so I want to ensure readers aren't taken aback by it or the story themes. I am also newer to using AO3 to write, so if anyone has recommendations for tagging or formatting, please let me know.
This will be a reverse harem story. It will be cute and romantic and sappy and self-indulgent. It will definitely be a little cheesy at times, it's a story about seven men falling in love with the same woman.. Don't take it too seriously.
However, I've also kept the dystopian aspect in because I do want to write something more story forward. Going along with this will be a warning, this story is set in the 1970's. Misogyny will be a theme in this book. The reader is a young woman from an impoverished background in a male dominated setting. The Long Walk is a work focused solely on men, so I want to dive deeper into what a woman's life would be like in a totalitarian state such as the one described in the book. A lot of the same warnings for the movie apply as in this book. Foul language, crudity, men being icky, PTSD and poverty.
I have just recently started reading The Long Walk after watching the movie! My interpretation of the characters is solely my own analysis of them. I will construct their backgrounds and varying aspects of them where there isn't canon, I'm open to hearing silly headcanons you have for the boys that I can write into the story. I will keep the core aspects of them there obviously, but a lot of the boys don't have much mentioned aside from snippets of past/stories/etc.
This story is meant to be a fun stress relief project for me while I'm in college, so bare that in mind. I'm simply a girl who likes raggedy men and wants to write stories.
Thank you for reading. I hope you enjoy!