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Based on an original story and alternate future by Sonny & Ais called In the Company of Shadows.
Based on an original story and alternate future by Sonny & Ais called In the Company of Shadows.
See below for amazing information on the duo behind In the Company of Shadows.
Sonny is the token slash dude who is in his early thirties and lives in NYC. A divorced single dad, he spends most of his time working, and running after two young sons who control his life. Hobbies include reading (read thirty novels in 2010, an impressive feat and a sign of way too much time on his hands during that year), writing, and making attempts to head to the gym regularly so that he can be super studly but not usually accomplishing this. He is bisexual, and thinks you should go to hell if you think bisexuals aren't real, because he has probably sucked more cock than you and several generations of your family.
In other news, Sonny got into slash when his ex-wife introduced him to the concept when stumbling onto Gundam Wing fanfiction. He found it hilarious, but mostly just offended people in GW fandom and didn't actually write anything himself until way later when he decided to delve into original fiction where he could screw up the characters without needing a creative license to do so because they belonged to someone else.
Ais is a boring female in her late twenties who talks way too much but doesn't have much to say. Main things of note: Dogs! (she loves them) Vegetarian! (for something like 12 years-- MEAT IS MURDER! Except she doesn't really care if other people eat meat and it just amuses her to think of yelling that.) Bi! (for realz)
Further quirks include an abnormal obsession/curiosity with other languages. This has included trying to figure out how to translate something in a language she doesn't know by using online dictionaries simply to see if she can. She's taken classes for seven different languages but isn't really fluent in any except somewhat passably in Spanish. Also, she's pretty freaking random and has an addictive personality with a small focus, which means she can be obsessed with something one day and it can be dead to her the next if she finds a new interest. So if you ever wonder why she never seems to get anything done...
She's been down with the writing thing for pretty much as long as she remembers, which isn't always that impressive since some days she forgot what she did and/or said two seconds ago. Back in the day she was all about fantasy but then through the corruption of her friend Sonny, she got into fiction. She was indoctrinated into the cult of slash by accident. She stumbled across yaoi after trying to look up something about Ronin Warriors, back when it showed on Cartoon Network after school. It was shocking at first! But then she was like, oh hey actually this is interesting.
From there, she got into Gundam Wing (primarily 1x2x1) and eventually determined that slash/yaoi was her main interest for writing/reading. Now her only sadness is that she isn't more into horror stories that perhaps also include gay boys, because then she could go around trying out the double entendre of, "I like slash-slash-slash. That's right. You heard me."
Sonny and Ais met through a mutual friend in the Gundam Wing fandom, in part due to a fanfic Ais had written and a recommendation site where Sonny was volunteering. They ended up becoming friends and by now have known each other for several years online. They don't remember the exact amount but it's probably somewhere between 6 and 9 years. They can't be bothered to figure out exactly how long-- and also neither of them remember exactly what year they met. They have never met in person.
In the Company of Shadows began as a way to pass the time. Sonny wanted to write a story for fun and asked Ais to join. Neither of them felt like putting a ton of effort into the characters or world since it was just something to do when bored, so they took main characters from past roleplaying games they'd both played in and settled on a dystopian world.
What In the Company of Shadows became is nothing at all like what it originally was going to be. Sin and Boyd were going to be side characters, and they were paired up as a joke because the combination of a girly emo boy with a psychopathic serial killer was funny to Sonny and Ais. Sin and Boyd were only going to be work partners and even that relationship was likely to be distant or strained. But when Sonny and Ais started writing, they discovered to their surprise that there was undeniable chemistry between Sin and Boyd's personalities.
So they started over trying to be somewhat chronological in the story. As they wrote, the story kept expanding and eventually became a series. When they released it on AFFN, they didn't expect anyone to like it as much as they did. Since then, they've expanded the series to a plot that will span 4 books and Interludes that could make their own book. Years later, they also noticed that the quality of Evenfall (the first book) wasn't what they felt was acceptable, which was largely due to the fact that they'd been rping the story just for their own amusement in the beginning. They decided to revise it so it was on the same standard as the other books they were writing. Somewhere along the line, they went from Sonny and Ais figuring things out to Sonny & Ais, respectable(?!) slash writers and co-authors of In the Company of Shadows.
(...ok, we're already rescinding the respectable part.)