#(But I love your writing and I love Nora too so far haha! 8'D)
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If River heard anything that the woman said to her, she did not show it. Could not show it, truly. Words had long failed her, as any remaining 'fight' left within was spearheaded to the frontlines of keeping her awake and from going completely dead-weight on Nora. It was a terrifying thing to feel as she was spirited-off to somewhere and lain upon that table, knowing that this losing battle could only be won on the whim of a complete stranger.
But the fear that rent her heart and squeezed her guts like a horrid pain-homunculus, was not even spared mostly for her own life.
"-ny..." The final thought on her mind before that uncertain slumber finally dragged her down under, was the face of her young daughter.
"DAGNY!"
Rising hands reach to nothing, the name tearing from her throat strangled and raw as the wounds still dotting her form. The one at her side is all-too happy to 'punish' this harsh awakening with a searing spike that forces her to double-over.
"Sh-Shit. Good morning to you too, body." River hisses under her breath, wide-awake now, as she takes-in the surroundings through sweat-covered bangs. Where the hell was she? The place she'd stumbled-into the night before was decent from what little was remembered, but this? Total bad vibes painted these walls.
Swallowing, River raises gingerly this time, swinging her legs over the table to stand. Her body, however, plays the part of Judas well. Pain awakens anew the moment any weight is put on her feet; and that red-stained table and anything near it clatters as she's brought to her knees.
"Ugh-...! M-Maybe I should've asked for a robo-body instead of a patch."
It was a quiet night for Nora as relaxed in her large armchair with a good book and a glass of red wine. She felt a clam come after she had just spent the last few days going from her day job as a surgeon and saving lives of men, which she hated, to her night job of killing and slow torture of them. Cycle of life in her eyes.
But as she felt a nice calm as she took a sip of her wine, a loud and pounding KNOCK came to hear door. She sipped some wine on her shirt and she was not happy as she got up in a huff and marched to the door, ready to curse the person behind the door... but when she opened it, her features softened at her visitor.
A new woman. Injured and bleeding. Woman who looked like she owned the color as it matched her so well. She was hurt and bruised and needed help. She did care how she heard of her, Nora never turned down a cry for help from a fellow female.
But as she picked up the body of River, she saw Batman across the street and they shared a glare for what felt like forever until Batman went away. Nora pulled River down to her secret room behind her bookcase and down the stone stairs to her torture room that rarely operates as a moonlight surgery room for injured women like River.
Nora went to work, once changed into scrubs, and mended River. Cleaning her wounds and sewing her back together as the perfectionist she was. The wounds told Nora she fought long and hard against Batman and she longed to hear River's story. Even pulling a few bullets from her and a Batarang. Wrapping the wounds in dressing to help them heal. She looked down at her new friend with a wicked smile.
"You owe me more than interest for my rug, my new friend. Rest. Tell me your story tomorrow." She said softly to let River rest for the night.
The next morning, Nora awoke and brewed coffee for her and River, if she awoke...
@red-hemlock
#ghosts-of-gotham#Long post#(No worries at all! I just it's okay that I responded to your post with... Another long post...)#(...I couldn't resist I'm sorryyyyy. Dx;;;;)#(But I love your writing and I love Nora too so far haha! 8'D)#(I'm just gonna guess that Nora is brewing that coffee upstairs and not in the torture room.)#(Or maybe she's just a quiet and sneaky coffee-ninja and Riv just hasn't seen her yet. xD)
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WIP Game
List the things youāre excited to work on this year in as little or as much detail as you like, and then tag some friends!
Tagged by @enchantedtalisman (and againĀ it wonāt tag you. Tch. Sorry. But thanks for the tag!)
(Behind a cut, because you donāt want to read all that. ...Or maybe you do?)
In no particular order, because my level of excitement changes at the drop of a hat: 6 BNHA fics, and one each FFXV and FO4. 1700 words of synopses and babbling.Ā (Friends who read my stuff: if you wanna skim through these and tell me which one(s) (if any) youād most want to read, thatād be rad. =D Will it influence what I work on? Who knows? My inspiration is fickle as shit. But it couldnāt hurt.)Ā
1. āTouch2ā -- current WIP, 10k + notes. BNHA. Dekumight. Estimated total: 20k? Ā Ā Ā Picking up right where āTouchā left off, this fic is a slightly more detailed/slow/slice-of-life story than its predecessor. The 10k Iāve written so far takes place over the course of only 2 days, and itās mostly Toshi and Izuku getting to know each other, and Toshi being yelled at by his manager (an OC called Suzuki). The general plot of the story doesnāt deviate very far from canon, as far as Iāve planned. āTouch2ā will probably cover at least up to the entrance exam, but Iām not entirely sure. Given that leisurely pace, thereāll probably have to be a Touch3 and 4 as well, if not even more.Ā Ā Ā Ā Iāve been slowly hacking away at this one since the start of December, just in between whatever else I might be working on. Kind of got to a point where I need to actually think about what happens next? ^^; Also, itās gotten too long to be a one-shot, I think, but Iām going to have to be careful how I split it up. Itās not written for splittingā¦ Well, Iāll figure it out. Just gotta keep writing first.
2. āMake the Most sequel, and side storiesā -- only notes. BNHA. Dekumight. Estimated total: lots??? Ā Ā Ā Iām lumping these all together, but this includes quite a few stories, some of which I have plans/notes for, some only ideas. One of the first is a fic that might be, at most, half the length of MtM, which is the events of MtM from Toshiās POV. This was actually requested by a friend, but it was something I kind of already wanted to do, which is cool. Other side stories include perspectives from other characters, some things like dates and vacations, Izuku learning to use his powers, and some extra NSFW scenes, because why not? After all of those, I intend for there to be an āofficial sequelā, taking place towards the end of Izukuās college run, which might function as more of an epilogue than a sequel, due to the potential lack of actual plot. Ā Ā Ā Geez there is just so much potential for this series to go on in side-stories and extras and etc. I actually get a little mad at myself whenever I neglect to continue it, because itās sort of my main, well, IP, I guess youād say. Itās my kudos breadwinner. XD I should just do it!
3. āLoveless epilogueā -- only notes. BNHA. Dekumight. Estimated total: 7k? Ā Ā Ā A short...er sequel/epilogue, taking place roughly a year (I might change that) after the main story, revolving (spoiler alert) around Toshi figuring out if/when/how to propose to Izuku, and summing up how things have gone in the past year. Mushy because I love marriage, okay guys, I just love it so much, and also a little bit morbid because of an in-universe tradition that could be considered either romantic or creepy, depending on your views. =D Ā Ā Ā I actually ought to write this one likeā¦ immediately, while the main fic is still fresh in my mind. Itās extremely self-indulgent, maybe more than just, yāknow, my normal writing. But I think at least some of the people who read LOVELESS will like it. ^^ And I will, I think. And thatās all that really matters, right?! *shakes head ānoā*
4. āWasteā -- current WIP, 1k + notes. BNHA. Dekumight(-ish?), and Deku+friends. Estimated total: 15k???? No. Probably more. Ā Ā Ā A Fallout fusion. Vault 211 (21-1 or twenty-one one) has been carefully breeding superpowers into its population for the past 200 years, but if yours doesnāt show up by your 18th birthday, prepare to be kicked out on your ass into the unforgiving wasteland. Guess whoās the newest resident of the wastes? Lucky for Izuku, he meets a frightening creature who takes to looking out for him. āHumanā under some description, heās sure, this guy has radiation levels through the roof. Burly super-mutant by day, gangly rotting ghoul by night, he doesnāt exactly have a lot of friends, but boy is he good at surviving in the hellscape that the world has become. Ā Ā Ā I freaking love Fallout a whole lot, and look, Toshi/All Might is so very much a ghoul/super mutant, and vaults just give you so much free reign to give people powers and etc etc, look, it just seemed like something that would work. Not sure really how itās going to go, but weāll see. =]
5. āNana/Toshi darkficā -- only notes. BNHA. Nana/Toshi (probably NSFW) and Dekumight. Estimated total: 20k??? Ā Ā Ā His mentor was beautiful, kind, strong-- perfect. He didnāt realize she was being eaten away by a dark pit in her heart. He didnāt know if leaving her alone would help it. He just wanted to be with her so badly, to please her, to make that smile real, and she lacked the fortitude to refuse him anything that would make him happy. A fic about Nana and Toshi becoming perhaps too close, and Nana struggling with depression. Following the canon timeline moderately closely, it shouldnāt be a surprise that it will include a major character death, and the fallout surrounding it. Ā Ā Ā Hoo boy did the desire to write this fic just hit me like a ton of bricks a few weeks ago. This is going to be a dark, sad, uncomfortable story, most likely. And although it will end with Dekumight, the large part of the plot will still revolve around Nana/Toshi, so Iām not sure most of my normal readers will want to touch it. XD;;; I think the inspiration to write this came somewhat from the feeling that the ending to LOVELESS was not nearly as dark as it could have been, haha. Every so often I just want to challenge myself and see how many boundaries I can push. ^^;
6. āFeedā -- only notes. BNHA. Dekumight. Estimated total: 15k? Ā Ā Ā In a world ruled by a vampiric shadow known as All for One, Izukuās group has been trying to find ways to fight him. Nearly everyone is of this manās blood now, since he started handing out powers to gain followers. But itās said that an artifact of some sort exists still which can give the power to defeat him. Izuku, with the purest blood of his group, is chosen to seek it out. But the artifact is a vampire, the last of AfOās first āchildrenā, frozen and starving after failing to defeat his āfatherā, and Izuku almost doesnāt survive the encounter. Ā Ā Ā I want to write this fic, and I think I should do it while itās still cold and gloomy, because thatās the feel of the setting, but if I get distracted and donāt get around to it, I probably wonāt be too upset.
7. āParents AUā -- current WIP, 6k + notes. FFXV. Gladnis + Ignis&Noctis. Estimated total: 40k? Ā Ā Ā Teenage Ignis and Gladio happen to be babysitting the toddler prince when the Empire attacks, and in the chaos they manage to get safely mixed into the crowd of civilians fleeing the city. They decide to treat him as their own until they can be sure itās safe to return him to someone with more seniority. But will it ever be safe? Fifteen years in hiding says no, and even when Noct is oldĀ enough to be asked to save the world, thereās no way in hell his parents are going to let him go it alone. Ā Ā Ā I tried to continue writing this the other day and it was terrible. Painful. I almost cried. Literally every word of the 30 or so I managed before I gave up were the hardest things Iāve ever written. I think if I go back and play the game again (which Iād like to, since thereāve been updates and DLC), I think it will be easier. Honestly though, this is one of my favorite things Iāve yet written, so if I donāt see it to fruition, I will be moderately pissed.
8. āSame Heartā -- current WIP, 30k + notes. FO4. Estimated total: 90k (35k for act 1) Ā Ā Ā The great synth detective Nick Valentine is recaptured by the Institute, remade and reset. He awakes to his new life underground, unaware that he ever roamed the wasteland-- except for the rare moments when they plug in his old memories so they can grill him for info. Though the memories are gone again after every session, they leave an aftertaste of distrust for the people heās working with, until itās too much to ignore. Meanwhile, he finds himself as the only person who seems to truly care about the little boy theyāre all calling their savior, doing his best to help him grow up with some modicum of love in this sterile environment. When Nick finally decides to break out of their fancy little prison, itās not a question whether heāll take Shaun with him, and itās obvious where theyāll go: to find the parents the Institute stole him from. Ā Ā Ā This one haunts me, because I spent like 3 months doing practically nothing but writing this last year. I got almost, almost all the way through the first act (out of 3), and thenā¦ stopped. Now I know itās going to be impossible to get back into. And this is already a very different story for me, because itās essentially a gen fic. The intention is for acts 2 and 3 to focus on Nick and the āsole survivorā Nora, but the whole first act is about him half-raising her son, Shaun. I really want to finish this, or geez, at least the first act! Because it is painful having 30k sitting around that nobody has ever seen. And itās pretty decent! But even though I have 6 chapters done, I donāt want to start posting it until it has a halfway decent āconclusionā, so I need to finish the act. I have to.
And Iāll tagā¦ uhā¦ @oldseablues, @braincoins, @thenightisdarkandfullofbooty, @orionskingdom, @animeuzumaki7, @blessedblooduniverse, @rangrids, and anyone else whoās reading this and is also a writer. =] Tag me back so I can see it, please! ^^
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