#Dragon Blood (work-in-progress title for this AU)

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WIP Tag Game

Tagged by @crystalshard, which may prove to be a miscalculation, 'cause boy-howdy do I have a lot of works in progress...

Rules: In a new post, list the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it! And then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

/cracks knuckles

Star Wars: -Fulcrum & Family, the new Tano & Twins re-write -Dreamwalkers Luke and Leia -History Reversed with sequel trilogy Ahsoka, Luke, Ezra and students dropped back in the Clone Wars -Birds Fly sequel Can We Start Over, Bly's pov -Something Big is Happening (Misc/Understudies crossover) -Clone Wars Cass (DC/Batman crossover)

Marvel -The Big One (5+1 Spidey saves Morgan, Pepper meets Doc Strange, Another Chance conclusion with Wanda) -Kids Club, post-Civil War kidnapping fixit -MCU Miles Morales, title tbd -Spider Assassins AU, multi-continuity-combination -X-Fire, Laura/Wolverine, Gabby/Honeybadger, and Rachel/Phoenix -Heroes of Tomorrow re-write with way more kids from different superhero groups/families

DC -Pantheon AU -the revised Alf-verse (22 Bat-grandkids and counting) -Rotten Luck re-vamp (Young Justice season one Team in the Justice League Unlimited universe) -Continuations: The Batman "seasons six and seven" if I ever get around to re-writing the early stuff (my very first fan fic ever, I've improved a lot since those high school days) -Teen Titans meet Robin's horde of younger siblings (original cartoon) -Battorian AU (Diana is human, Clark's a demigod, Bruce came from another planet) -Mandalorian/Star Wars AU (Mando Alfred adopts orphaned Bruce. This is the Way.)

HP -Pair of Potters sequel, year two for Heather, official year one for Harry, the beginning of a long headache for Dumbledore -Founder Foundlings, reincarnation fic -Cheers to the Wish, more Guardian Ghosts Lily and James -Philosopher's Mirror, canon-divergence of the unintended resurrection variety -the third effing chapter of Muggle is as Muggle Does -Thief!Harry AU, my all-out middle finger to the Author Who Shall Not Be Named

Transformers -Terratron AU (Bee meets Dragonfly, Elita makes Artemis, Bee and Fly stumble across Megatron and Rion, Prowl and Beats, Beats finds Jazz, accidental babysitter Serrate, Hornet and her big race, etc etc) -Hard Facts and Simple Truths, humanformers AU -TFAnimated swapped 'verse, with Elita Prime and her team of spacebridge technicians: Arcee, Ironhide, Wasp, and Jazz -G1 sparkling-Starlane AU -TFPrime crossover with Hot Wheels: Battle Force Five

Atla -follow-up to A Small Condition, aka the "Monk Gyatso goes into the iceberg with Aang and Zuko assumes *he* is the Avatar" AU -continuation of Ursa leaving royal life and stumbling across a dying dragon who entrusts her with a baby and two unhatched eggs -Avatar!Yue learns airbending from Aang's grandkids and that whole big mess of world-altering changes

My Hero Academia -Doubles AU (finishing Brand New Day and getting a move on with Double Take as a canon re-write with Pro Hero Shimura Tenko) -continuation for Great Beasts of the Mountain -third chapter of Instinct, my first A/B/O attempt -more next generation fluff, the Archive and Guardian saga

Misc -Sea Beast fic where Crow gets injured, suffers total amnesia, the doctor who patches him up sends for Jacob, and there's a very awkward dance between them and Maisie and Blue as the old man slowly gets his memories back -The Faceless Wolf, a mildly (make that incredibly) ambitious Game of Thrones canon-divergence attempt -Jamie Reagan and the Terrible Horrible No-Good Very Bad Day, a Blue Bloods whump idea I've had rattling around for a while -Milo and Claggor Survived AU from LoL Arcane -Grandboss Gibbs, a bittersweet NCIS fic that would, in my opinion, have been a better end to the series than trying to go on without the main character of the show -Storm Hawks past-and-present-collide idea with some previous generation OCs -Edge Chronicles TWIG GETS TO MEET HIS MOTHER DAGNABIT -may as well throw in what will be my second self-published book, Trials of Youth, because the current draft is definitely a work in progress

Aaand we'll call that good. Now to see if I get any nibbles...

(I know the game says tag a person for each WIP but I don't think I've got that many writing acquaintances on here, so instead I've got one person per fandom grouping)

@wafflesrisa @eirianerisdar @jinxquickfoot @theredscreech @resamille @tarisilmarwen @icarussmicarus @gallusrostromegalus

[by-glass-and-waves]

do you have a playlist or like a mixtape for inspiration or setting the mood when writing your stories?

Oh boy I hope you're ready because YEAH I DO

Associating songs with themes/scenes/locations have been my thing for like years and I would totally listen to a song over and over to figure out what happens during each part as well as what themes/ideas fit with a song. I made a few playlists on my oc worldbuilding shit a long while back in this manner heh

My playlist is divided into each AU, complete with weird titles to remind me what is what in each song

It is a work in progress though, a lot of them on the bottom haven't been organized yet and may not even be used actually there's a lot to organize omg

Link is for my YouTube playlist (and if you're on YouTube Music I recommend using the video for the first song because if you select the audio only version it will not give you the remix)

I go by vibes more than lyrics, and I thought that most of these should be more soundtracks though there are some exceptions

Song list/associations under the cut, it'll be in the playlist description as well (it's really long sorry)

Emil Ultimatum - Narinder (Courtship/Depression Quest/Restart) - use the video vers since the song vers only plays Emil (Despair)

Depression Quest

Courtship of the God of Death

Master of Time - Narinder

Dark World - Anupet

Epilogue - The Gilded Cage

Wretched Weaponry (short vers) - The Chained One

Widespread Illness - Prison of the Mind

[Tower of Sunz] - The Wrong Side of Love

Midcentury Motion - Escape

Danger in the Forest - Darkwood

Terra -

ZETA, la chanson - The Wanderer

Esto Gaza - The Heart Shaped Pond

Bran Bal - Eye of the Storm

Currents - Respite

Yoru Vln - The Stars Above

Somnus - Grief in Darkwood

Restart

Freya's Theme - Narinder

Malchut's Song - Shapash

The Kingdom of Noigllado - The Bishops

Kagachi - The First Resurrection

Ristaccia - Chaining the One Below

Trisagion -The Temple (Shapash)

Pandemonium - The Temple (The One Who Waits)

Memoria - Recollection

Once in a Lullaby - The Crystal Temple

Wretched Weaponry (long vers) - The Crystal Temple/Regret

Candy Shoppe - The Blacksmith's Final Gift

Innocent Wish - Yearning

Palliative - Distance

Water from the Same Source - The Admirer/Understanding

Unrequited Love -

Eidolon Wall - The Gateway/The Lands Below

Shadowlord's Castle/Memory - The Temple, Defeated

Eidolons on Parade - Slow Descent into Despair

Sarabande - Understanding/Contentment

When We Finally Fall Asleep, Pt. 3 - Mutual Understanding

Amusement Park - Arms Full of Offerings/Growing Jealousy

Dark Colossus (Kaiju) - The One Who Waits

Copied City - The Gateway

Possessed by Disease - Unraveling

Mourning - The Bishops

19th Century AU

The 13th Anthology - Narinder

Snow in Summer - The Lands of the New Faith

Turii ~Panta Rhei~ - The Dying World

Turii ~Panta rhei~ (Orchestra) - The New World

Main Theme of Final Fantasy V -

Zephyr Memories ~Legend of the Eternal Wind~ -

Saving Words for Making Sense - A Tender Moment

The Disney Afternoon - Town Theme/Respite

Blinded by Light - Crusade

Silver Dragon - Boss Battle

Gods Bound by Rules - Frivolous Masquerade

Blind Justice, le concerto - Blood of Chaos/"What… has become of us?"

Grandma (Destruction) - Guardian of the True Word

…con lentitud poderosa - Threshold of His Temple

Bipolar Nightmare - Betrayal

Black Song White Scales - The Sacrificial Beast

The Sound of the End - The Point of the Sharpened Blade

Raison d'etre - The Final Battle

God Shattering Star - The Final Battle

The Ultimate Weapon - A Heart for a Heart/Sacrifice

North - The Red Crown

Dispossession/Piano Ver. - Aftermath

Dust to Dust - Crossing the River

His Dream - Within the Circle

Theme of Love - No Illusion

Terra's Theme -

Shadowlord - Shamura

Shadowlord's Castle/Roar - Silk Cradle

Sustained by Hate - Revelation/Disappointment

March of the Dreadnoughts -

Atonement - A Heart for a Heart

VS. Star Dream - Kallamar

Midnight Moonlight -

The Final Battle (Magolor's Theme) -

Three in the Morning (Aftermath) - Abandoned/Regret

Destati - Imprisonment

Village of Dali - Respite

Kaine/Salvation - Relief

Alien Manifestation - Bitu

Dwelling of the Ancient Gods - The One Who Waits/The Gateway

Lord of a Dead Empire - The One Who Waits

Between Heaven and Earth - The One Who Waits

Birth of a Wish - The Red Crown/The Deal

A Beautiful Song - vs Heket and Miniboss

Crumbling Lies (Front) - vs Shamura and Miniboss

Song of the Ancients (Atonement) - Baal and Aym

Pascal - Ratau

The Spirit Dais - Bitu

Tango Appassionata - Allani and Narinder

Phantom Forest - Lost in the Gardens of the Ball/Shamura

Aerith's Theme -

Nautilus - The Capital

Yoru Vo - Halycon Harbor (Night)

Moonsetter - Baal and Aym

Requited - Across the Room/The Dance

War & War - Shamura

A Funeral of Flowers (Rain) - Prince Narinder (Unfettered)

A Funeral of Flowers (Thunder) - Prince Narinder (Amenthes)

[yoonia]

schedules & progress ● 2023

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⇝— Updated: Dec 30th, 2023

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⇝— 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐬

✎ 2023 Blog Insight & Sneak Peek: WIP teasers and summaries

✎ 2022 Writing Recap

✎ June - July 2023 Writing Process

✎ August 2023 Writing Process

⇝— 𝐨𝐧𝐞-𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐭𝐬

✎ What You Wanted (M) | Kim Hanbin/B.I x reader | First Time Sex, Virgin!reader, Boyfriend!Hanbin, Smut, PWP - Posted: Jan 21st, 2023

✎ Eternal Sunshine (M) | Hoseok x reader | Past Lovers!AU, New Beginning, inspired by Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Minds (yes, the movie), Epilogue for Spotless Minds - Posted: Apr 2nd, 2023

✎ Mirrors: what becomes of us (M) | Jungkook x reader | FWB to lovers!au, pwp, smut, angst - Posted: Sep 7th, 2023

✎ The (im)Perfect Ending (M) | Namjoon x reader | Past Lovers!au, Second Chances!au, Infidelity, smut, angst - Posted: Oct 12th, 2023

✎ Overdrive (M) | Kim Hanbin/B.I x reader | Musician/Artist!B.I, Manager!reader, Smut - Posted: Nov 10th, 2023

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✎ Spotless Minds: visual concept & series masterlist | Hoseok x reader | Past Lovers!AU, Mature theme - Posted: Apr 5th, 2022

✎ Chance Encounter | Christian Yu x reader | TA!au, College!au - latest update: chapter 6 | posted: Aug 12th, 2023

✎ In Motion | Jungkook x reader | Masturbation Club!au, Smut, Mature theme - latest update: In Motion — epilogue | posted: Aug 18th, 2023

✎ Mirrors: story guide | Jungkook x reader | FWB!au, smut, angst | posted: Sept 7th, 2023

✎ Bedroom Hymns | Yoongi x reader | Fairytale retelling, Fairy King!Yoongi, Princess!reader - latest update: chapter xi. wanderers-2 | posted: Dec 18th, 2023

⇝— 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬

✎ Free Falling (M) | Jimin x reader | Established relationship!au, Smut, part of Falling trilogy - Posted: Feb 25th, 2023

✎ Come Undone (M) | Yoongi x reader | Established relationship!au, Smut - Posted: Oct 29th, 2023

⇝— 𝐟𝐢𝐜 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐬

✎ G.H.O.S.T: The Hacker’s Tale — Carousel side story | Hoseok x reader | Hacker!Hoseok, assassin!reader, Suspense Thriller

✎ Alpha’s Inferno | Namjoon x OC | Supernatural!au, Werewolf!Namjoon, Vampire!reader, Angst, Fluff, part of Shifters Series

✎ Flux: Blindsided | Jungkook x reader x Yoongi | Established relationship!au, Smut, polyamory!au

✎ A Christmas Fix | Taehyung x reader | Secret Baby!au, Second Chance!au, Strangers to Lovers!au | Part of the Jingle All the Way collaboration

✎ Nefarious: In Motion - A spin off | Jimin x reader | Sex club!au, Smut

⇝— 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐨𝐧 𝐮𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞: Nov 6th, 2023

➛ 𝚂𝚙𝚎𝚌𝚒𝚊𝚕 𝙲𝚘𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚝:    ↪ Monthly Writing Journal    ↪ Writing Class 101 with Dia    ↪ Original Story: Honey Skies | Prologue; Chapter 1-12    ↪ Never Falling (M) - Uncut Version    ↪ We Are All Dreamers (M) - Special Edition: Male version    ↪ Game On! (M) - Unpublished WIP (rough draft) | Jungkook x reader     ↪ Under The Willow Tree - Blood Moon Rising hidden explicit scene #001

➛ 𝙸𝚗𝚜𝚙𝚒𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝙱𝚘𝚊𝚛𝚍 & 𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚜:    ↪ Carousel; character chart & family tree (updated version - posted Nov 6th, 2023)    ↪ Carousel; Inspiration Board    ↪ Shifters Series; Inspiration Board    ↪ The Dragon King: Blood Moon Rising side story - excerpt & moodboard    ↪ Cinnamon Bliss; Inspiration Board    ↪ About Time; Inspiration Board    ↪ Shifters Series; World Map & Legends     ↪ Shifters Series; A Complete Guide to Original Characters and Pairings    ↪ Chance Encounter - Visual concept & Playlist    ↪ The Bedroom Hymns; Inspiration Board       ↪ White Lies; Story timeline

➛ 𝙵𝚒𝚌 𝚃𝚎𝚊𝚜𝚎𝚛𝚜:    ↪ Only Us | Jungkook x reader x Jungkook | Mafia!Jungkook, FBI Agent!reader, Twin!Jungkook  ↪ G.H.O.S.T: The Hacker’s Tale — Carousel Side Story | Hoseok x reader | Hacker!Hoseok, assassin!reader    ↪ Take It Slow (previously titled Virgin Mary) | DEAN x reader | Bartender!Dean, Writer!reader  ↪ Flux: Blindsided | Yoongi x reader x Jungkook | Polyamorous!au, Smut, part of Flux Series  ↪ The Whispers in The Mist | Yoongi x reader | Sacrilege!au, part of Sacrilege collab  ↪ Hunting Season | Hoseok x reader | part of Shifters Series  ↪ About Time | Jungkook x reader / Jimin x reader: excerpt and teaser for final chapters

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[calenlily]

Ask game from the lovely @anamazingangie (hugs and solidarity, girl, I’m also in the working a little on a lot and feeling like I’m not making much progress camp 💕)

Feel free to send me a title your curious about and I'll respond with an excerpt. I’m also going to tag some folks in case they would like to do the same!

The only “rule” is to post the names of every doc you’ve worked on in the last...week, I guess? Tagging people and including word counts is optional. Feel free to reblog this post or make a new one.

All of these are House of the Dragon and more or less Daemyra focused, because I remain in hyperfixation mode. Titles are my document titles since that seems to be the name of the game, some of which are very much shitty working titles

Dragon Girls - Rhaenyra and her evolving relationship with Baela and Rhaena during the first years on Dragonstone

hold the light given unto you - set in my early Daemyra marriage AU, 4 years into Rhaenyra’s reign, she decides she wants another baby (first chapter posted as a oneshot on AO3, now working on a self-indulgent breeding kink smut continuation)

desire is hunger is the fire i breathe - set in my Sex Lessons AU, first time blowjob ficlet

Ruined - set in my Sex Lessons AU but it’s all farce and no smut, revolves around Daemon being a drunken ass

Discovery - set in my Sex Lessons AU, probably the earliest scene after the start of Daemyra’s secret relationship, so far mostly just isolated thoughts and descriptions that I’m not entirely sure what I’m doing with yet

Soulbound - AU where Daemyra develop soulmarks when Rhaenyra first flowers, and no one is happy about it (first chapter up on AO3 under the title Twin Flame Bruise (Blossom and Bind), now working on chapter 2)

Celebration - set in my Sex Lessons AU, word of Daemon’s annulment comes from the Vale and Rhaenyra sneaks herself into his bed to celebrate

Cloudbreak - set in the timeskip between episodes 7 and 8, Rhaenyra takes newborn Aegon III for his first dragonride and Daemon worries about her pushing herself too much too fast

Mountains of the Moon - set in my early Daemyra marriage AU, several years into Rhaenyra’s reign, Rhaenyra deals with the succession crisis in the Vale following Lady Jeyne Arryn’s death, the most difficult part of which is convincing Daemon to stay out of it

Blood Roses - AU diverging from episode 4 but with fairytale elements: Rhaenyra is under a Sleeping Beauty curse, Daemon is forbidden to try to rescue her but that’s not going to stop him, and there might be more to the story than appears at first glance (first chapter up on AO3, now working on the second and final chapter)

Battlefields - Rhaenyra in childhood convinces Daemon to teach her to wield a sword, and after the hunt in episode 3, tired of not being taken seriously as heir, decides to prove herself by flying off to join the war in the Stepstones, my biggest current WIP

Tagging: @luthien-under-bough @whimsicalmeerkat @girlwithakiwi @mrpinniped @mswhich

[gali-la]

WIPs List

This is a list of all the things I plan to get written some time in the foreseeable future! Also linked to my intro post, to be updated as I continue writing and/or remember more ideas~

Last Updated: January 5, 2024

Works in progress & partially published:

Baroque Pearls, chapter 8 [ON HIATUS until FEBRUARY 2024] Warnings: Graphic depictions of violence Progress: 900 words! Counts for something :D Summary/Idea: back to the boys! ASL trio arrives in Dressrosa Relationships: Crocodile/Doflamingo Characters: Crocodile, Donquixote Doflamingo, Luffy, Ace, Sabo

Sweetheart, be my Sweet Heart, chapter 3+4 [ON HIATUS until FEBRUARY 2024] Warnings: Gore, blood Progress: none :( Summary/Idea: Keeping Rosi alive Relationships: Rosinante/Katakuri Characters: Donquixote "Corazón" Rosinante, Charlotte Katakuri, Charlotte Tablet, Charlotte Lola

Works in progress/mostly written:

Kanjuro-centric Warnings: Graphic depictions of violence, mentions of death Progress: Mostly written (13.5k), conclusion undecided Summary/Idea: A canon-divergent fic centered around Kanjuro and his role in the Wano arc and its subsequent battles and events Relationships: TBD Characters: Kanjuro, Kin'emon, Orochi, Oden, Kiku, Momonosuke

Baby Luffy Warnings: Mentions and threats of kidnapping, deadnaming, implied abuse, homophobia, pregnancy Progress: Mostly written (10.8k), first part of a series Summary/Idea: Crocodile calls Doflamingo for help to save his son from Dragon, who wants to train him into a child soldier from birth Relationships: Crocodile/Doflamingo, Crocodile/Dragon Characters: Crocodile, Monkey D. Dragon, Emporio Ivankov, Inazuma, Donquixote Doflamingo, Monkey D. Luffy, Donquixote "Corazón" Rosinante

Dofuwani Highschool/Modern AU Warnings: N/A Progress: Mostly written (2.3k) Summary/Idea: Okay, it says "Highschool AU" in the title, but really, they were just friends in highschool, and they meet up again at a highschool reunion, after they both have significant glow-ups (and only because Crocodile's family pushes him to go) Relationships: Crocodile/Doflamingo Characters: Crocodile, Donquixote Doflamingo, Whitebeard, Marco, Portgas D. Ace, Haruta, Thatch, Izo

Solidly outlined/partially written:

Dofuwani Royalty AU Warnings: N/A Progress: 875 words Summary/Idea: A study of the relationship between Doflamingo and Crocodile from Vivi's perspective, set in a Royalty AU Relationships: Crocodile/Doflamingo Characters: Crocodile, Donquixote Doflamingo, Vivi Nefertari, Cobra Nefertari

Marace Fake/Pretend Relationship Warnings: N/A Progress: 1.7k Summary/Idea: Modern AU, Ace asks Marco to be his pretend relationship for a family reunion of sorts. Relationships: Marco/Ace Characters: Marco, Portgas D. Ace, Monkey D. Garp, Monkey D. Luffy, Sabo

Dofuwani Model AU Warnings: N/A Progress: Mostly outlined, 1-2 scenes written Summary/Idea: Modern AU, Doflamingo becomes a model for fun and a little extra cash on the side. This stirs things up in their relationship, but because they are both emotionally constipated, no talking occurs and misunderstandings abound. Relationships: Crocodile/Doflamingo Characters: Crocodile, Donquixote Doflamingo

Thatch/Izou Canon Divergence AU Warnings: N/A Progress: Partially outlined Summary/Idea: Izou doesn't end up going with Oden when he is young, and therefore doesn't join up with the Whitebeard Pirates and remains in wano. This is where he and Thatch meet for the first time. Relationships: Thatch/Izou Characters: Thatch, Izou, O-Toko, Minatomo’s workers

Thatch/Izou modern AU Warnings: N/A Progress: Partially (1/3) outlined Summary/Idea: Thatch works at a club as a bartender. Izou gets a job there as a dancer. Naturally, and to no one's surprise, they fall in love Relationships: Thatch/Izou Characters: Thatch, Izou, Marco, Portgas D. Ace

Surviving on strong ideas, hopes, prayers, dreams, and vibes:

Killer/Kid Soulmate AU Warnings: TBD Progress: general idea :( Summary/Idea: Soulmate AU, taking place in Wano Arc, where soulmates can feel each other's true emotions despite whatever façade they put on. So despite being affected by the smile fruit, Kid can feel all of Killer’s emotions as they truly are Relationships: Kid/Killer Characters: Eustass Kid, Killer

Yamato-centric Warnings: TBD Progress: None. Um, I'll work on it Summary/Idea: A fic centered around Yamato. How or what it's gonna be, who knows. Relationships: N/A, TBD Characters: Yamato, TBD

Guilt Warnings: TBD Progress: Chunky paragraph+summary. Summary/Idea: A fic centered around Franky as he drowns himself in guilt after the events of water 7, and believes Luffy only asked him to join the crew to repay for his horrid actions towards usopp Relationships: N/A, TBD Characters: Franky, Straw Hat Pirates, TBD

Jigsaw AU Warnings: Graphic depictions of violence Progress: I have THOUGHTS Summary/Idea: As is says on the tin, a Jigsaw au. Featuring Dofuwani >:) Relationships: Doflamingo/Crocodile Characters: Donquixote Doflamingo, Crocodile, Monkey D. Luffy, Portgas D. Ace, Sabo, TBD

Totoro AU Warnings: Mentions of terminal illness Progress: General idea is there and sounds fun to try. Summary/Idea: AU following the plot of the movie Totoro, where Shanks and Buggy take the place of the two sisters with Roger and Rayleigh as their parents. Relationships: Rayleigh/Roger Characters: Shanks, Buggy, Silvers Rayleigh, Gol D. Roger

Guardian Angel Warnings: Mentions of death, graphic depictions of violence Progress: General idea Summary/Idea: A "Rosinante Lives" AU that I thought of... September '22, consisting of Rosinante escaping Minion Island and encountering other members of the worst generation at various points in their lives and saving them. Relationships: N/A Characters: Donquixote "Corazón" Rosinante, Trafalgar D. Water Law, TBD

Severed Tendon (Bad things happen bingo) Warnings: Depictions of violence Progress: Idea and thoughts abound Summary/Idea: One of sanji's tendons is severed. Fighting with his legs and cooking with his hands, this only leads to devestation. Relationships: TBD Characters: Sanji, TBD

Hospital Stay (Bad Things Happen Bingo) Warnings: Hospitals, medical equipment, injury Progress: Planning >:) Summary/Idea: Modern AU, Rosinante is injured and taken to the hospital. Crocodile comes to visit him Relationships: Crocodile/Rosinante Characters: Crocodile, Donquixote Rosinante

Rejected Zine Pitch Fics! These were pitched for zines but didn't make the cut, but I still want to write them anyway (someday)

Addams Family AU Warnings: TBD Progress: None Summary/Idea: Donquixotes as the Addams family, but focusing on Law Relationships: Kid/Law Characters: Eustass Kid, Trafalgar Law, Donquixote Pirates

Timetravel AU Warnings: N/A Progress: None Summary/Idea: Rosinante is dropped into the future and meets Smoker Relationships: Smoker/Rosinante Characters: Smoker, Donquixote Rosinante, TBD

Non-OP Revolutionaries AU Warnings: TBD Progress: None Summary/Idea: Sabo and Koala meet at a royal ball Relationships: Sabo/Koala Characters: Sabo, Koala, TBD

Spy AU - SFW + NSFW Warnings: TBD Progress: None Summary/Idea: Smoker infiltrates Rain Dinners as an undercover agent Relationships: Smoker/Crocodile Characters: Smoker, Crocodile, TBD

Cross Guild Canon Divergence Warnings: TBD Progress: None Summary/Idea: Rosinante washes up on the shores of the cross guild's island/base with memory loss Relationships: Rosinante/Crocodile Characters: Donquixote Rosinante, Crocodile, Buggy, Dracule Mihawk, TBD

Cyberpunk AU Warnings: TBD Progress: None Summary/Idea: Zoro stumbles into cyber-doctor Law's shop/clinic. Things spiral into chaos from there Relationships: Zoro/Law Characters: Roronoa Zoro, Trafalgar Law, TBD

I'll be updating my snippets post and Writing Game in a moment too, so feel free to check that out as well!

[the-lupine-sojourner]

Dragon Blood (Blue Bloods Inspired Dragonball Z AU) [Intro]

Okay so I caved and wrote this up for that Police-ish/Gangster-ish Blue Bloods-Inspired DBZ AU I wrote about a little bit ago. 

This is meant as a teaser/trailer. If anyone wants to commission more scenes from this universe, all you gotta do is shoot me a message and we can take about it. 

For now, I’ll let this be only continued through commissions, but if everyone likes it enough, I might be able to work something out. Who knows? 

Anyway, let’s get to the story, alright? 

Hope you guys like it!  

God Bless and Good Day! 

~The Lupine Sojourner

It only took a moment. 

Sounds so cliche to many people, but for two siblings, it was a nightmare come true. 

One minute, they are having dinner with their mother, eagerly awaiting their father’s return, having talked (badgered, really) their mom into letting them stay up just until they can hug and kiss their dad when he walked through the door. 

The next minute, there was a knock at the door. Neither sibling saw the worried look on their mom’s face. Neither sibling was prepared for police officers to answer the door when they swung it open, expecting their father, forgetting that he never knocked. 

Sarada had to be held back since she was too young to take in the different clothes as Vegeta grabbed her. “Dummy, that’s not dad!” Vegeta grumbles as their mother takes Sarada from him. 

“But...where’s daddy?” Sarada asks, missing her mother’s wince and the officers’ teary eyes. They’d always hated this part of the job, like most cops.

“Vegeta...Vegeta, take your sister upstairs.” 

“But mom- -”

“Go!” The tone of their mom’s voice was enough to get Vegeta to take his five-year-old sister’s hand and all but drag her inside. If his mother was worried, he had to obey her and quickly. 

The woman was sat down in the living room and informed that her husband, who hadn’t come home the previous night, was found in a large meat freezer, parts of his body sustaining severe frostbite from escape attempts or possibly being wet when locked inside. 

She broke down sobbing and there was nothing the officers could say or do, so they offered condolences and ‘anything you need’ before departing. 

Vegeta knew enough to know that he should take his sister to his room and turn on the TV, promising to keep an ear out for their father, neither fully understanding yet that he was never coming home. 

Their mother was grateful her son was mature enough to give her privacy, but heartbroken he had to grow up this fast. 

And now...he’d have to grow up even faster. Sarada, too. 

God, what was she gonna do now?! She was a nurse! She couldn’t support her two kids and herself on that salary. But...she had to try. For her kids. 

She had to keep going. She had to. 

=#=#= (approximately 15 years later) =#=#=

“Meet the newest officers of the WCPD! West City thanks you all for answering the call to serve this city we all love.” Finally, Sarada’s dream had come true. 

Finally, she was able to make progress on the path to bringing the Frieza Force cartel down and getting justice for her father’s murderer. 

Finally, she was an officer in the West City Police Force. 

Sarada didn’t stop smiling all the way home, where the smile dimmed a little. She’d barely seen Vegeta at her graduation, but...he had been there so maybe she wouldn’t be snippy with him. “Hey, I’m home!” She calls, as always, slipping off her shoes and smiling at her brother as he comes to get a look at her in her uniform. 

“So, it’s official. You’re finally holier than me, not that you weren’t already with the whole church-going routine.” He gripes, examining the uniform with hardly approving eyes. 

Sarada lets out an exhale, smile now gone. “C’mon, ‘geets. You know that’s not what this is about.” It didn’t matter that this must have been the hundredth time this same discussion had happened this month. 

It only seemed to matter that it hadn’t gotten through to him yet. 

“Look, you know I support you following your dreams and shit, but you’ve never approved of what I do, either.” 

“It’s illegal, Vegeta. I knew that before I even thought of being a cop.” 

“Don’t lie to me, sis! You’ve wanted to be a cop practically since- -” Neither Sarada nor Vegeta ever actually verbalized that night if they could help it. It was too heavy a weight, even now. 

“Underground fight rings are illegal.” 

“Then why are they still around?” Sarada closes her eyes, trying to remain calm. 

“Look, Sunday night is tomorrow.” She went over at least once or twice a month to a Sunday dinner with the Commissioner (who used to be her father’s partner) and his wonderful family.

“What? You want me to be lambasted and lectured passive-aggressively about my choices? Hell no. Rather die.”

“C’mon! I’m never treated with anything- -”

“No, cus you’re the perfect angel in the family!” 

Sarada was not about to take sarcasm and mockery that laying down. “Alright, that’s going too far and you know it, Vegeta! I made a choice! I made an effort to actually do something about my trauma and past instead of allowing the people that- -instead of getting the shit kicked out of you on weekends in illegal fighting rings!” 

“And if I ‘made an effort’ it wouldn’t be taken with anything but snide remarks and passive-aggressiveness! I do still have my pride, you know!” 

“Are you serious?! I still have my pride! I took my life and I made it better! And I’ve been offering and trying to get you to do the same! I was welcomed into the fold! You can be, too! We can- -”

“And I keep telling you to back your ass off on that!” 

“Why?!” 

This was, perhaps, when they’re fights almost literally got bloody. 

When Sarada even insinuated that Vegeta dare think about leaving the gang. Vegeta would grow defensive, throwing verbal punches in order to get his sister to back off. Sarada never understood, but some part of her kept coming back to a single idea, but the idea of it scared her so much she shoved it away.

“I can’t.” There it was; the classic excuse he’d give. 

“Vegeta, you have to talk to me. Please.” 

“No!” With that, he left.

That’s what he did when Sarada got pushy. He’d leave, head to gym to pound his emotions into a punching bag. 

Sarada watched him go, helpless to stop him without further damaging her already tenuous relationship with her brother. She then collapses in the chair, already crying. 

She never wanted this. She just wanted to get her brother out of the gang that locked her father in a freezer for almost 18 hours after dousing him in water. 

She wanted to make a better life for herself and her brother. 

=#=#=#=#=

The next day, Vegeta hadn’t come back, which wasn’t an unheard of occasion.  

Sarada had to report for her first day, trying to shake off a horrible feeling in her gut. 

It didn’t work, and Sarada felt dizzy and unable to focus. It was only getting worse the longer she was on tour, and then she got a notification that had a particular tone to it. 

She’d sneakily set up a tracker app on her brother’s phone using a standard app that was already on the phone but Vegeta never used (she checked in the Settings to make sure) so she could tell where he was. She hardly ever checked it, but this time, it was like a rope tugged her to the location.

She was within 500 feet...and in a series of warehouses. She swallowed, tried to keep walking, but her feet wouldn’t move away. 

“Hey, Partner! Um, I, uh, thought I heard something.” It was a flimsy excuse, but Sarada couldn’t let this go. Her partner, a few feet up the street, turned around. 

“I didn’t hear anything.” 

“I’m closer.” Sarada points out. The officer sighs. 

“Alright, you know what? Nothing much has happened, this could be good.” Sarada chuckles. 

“Might be nothing, but you never know.” 

Together, the women in the blue uniform walk toward the warehouses, hands on their holsters, ready for anything. Luckily, Sarada’s hunch seemed to direct her to one of the closer ones, where she heard someone getting a pounding. There were three figures, one rather burly, one shorter and somewhat skinny. 

“Whad’ya know? Yer ears were good, rookie.”

Her stomach in knots, Sarada nods and breaks into a stealthy run.

She heard groans that could only be her brother coming from the man getting beaten to death. 

Heart in her throat, Sarada pulls out her gun, as she was trained to do in a hostile situation like this, calling out the typical ‘WCPD!’ cops always call out when arriving to a scene. 

“Stop right there! Hands where I can see them!” Officer Ranchi, nicknamed Launch for her tendency to run into danger head on, took up the rest of the call. The perps in question gave one last kick and punch to their victim before attempting to sprint away from the cops. “Help the victim! I get the perps!” Ranchi calls back as she takes off. 

Sarada was all too happy to help the victim, kneeling down and already radioing for an ambulance, unable to help a plea for the drivers to hurry. 

“Hey, look at me. You’re gonna be fine. Just keep your eyes open, alright?” Sarada can’t find bandages and doesn’t spot any substitute, but she does what she can, holding back tears. 

“What’re you- -what the hell..?” Vegeta’s speech is worryingly slurred. Sarada shushes him gently.

“Took a hell of a beating, Vegeta. Just hold on.” 

Officer Ranchi comes back, the perps chained up, the single pair of cuffs linking them. “Keep moving, scum! You wanna fight, huh? Then make it a fair one and don’t attack a downed man.” The men say nothing, as Sarada suspected they wouldn’t. “You know the victim?” Ranchi asks. “You look scared as shit.” 

Telling the truth in front of these obvious Frieza Force members was a stupid move, so Sarada shakes her head. “No, but remember this is my first tour.” She remarks. 

“True that. Gotta toughen up, sunshine. You’ll see a lot worse than this in your time here.” 

“Yeah, yeah. Here, uh--well, I was gonna say we could separate them, but that’s not a good idea.” Ranchi laughs as she shoves the thugs into the back of the cop car. 

“I see something from my lecture stuck. Look, I’ll take these clowns to the Precinct. You stay and do what you can for the poor sod they beat up til the bus gets here.” 

Sarada was so relieved she could kiss her partner. “You got it. I’ll be in touch.” 

Ranchi nods. “Meet you at the hospital!” 

[sigridhawke]

tagged by @ink-flavored ! Thankyou for the tag!

rules: tag 9 people you want to get to know/catch up with

Last movie at home: Pacific Rim

Favorite color: Red (I think this is the correct answer lmao)

Last song: Out of the Black, Royal Blood. May or may not have been listening to a spotify playlist while doodling a certain dragonborn haha

Sweet, savory, or spicy: Sweet. I crave the sugary delights even if they hurt me.

Currently reading: They’ve been... started I just need to decide which I’m going to properly commit to first. Also want to try and read Keep the Light Shining this year-

Good Omens - by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

Assassin’s Creed Origins, Desert Oath - by Oliver Bowden

Currently working on: There’s smaller/other projects too but probably my main focuses for this year, pretty much everything is started in some capacity.

The Divine Dragon

Toei Vampire AU

Crimson

Working title Royal/Thief KnB AU

Working title Sk8/YGO crossover - Collab with Cass

Working title SB69/Kirin AU - Comic collab with Tash

Dragon Age Tapestry - Art project I’ve been putting off for years, it deserves a place on this list lmao. Gonna try and make progress on it this year.

Tagging (no pressure!): @addicted-to-procrastination @cursedkaze @talkatave @miscellaneousrenaissant @blutkatze @inuconen @carura

[kiwikipedia]

Updated list for the Mythology AU

I’m still missing some things and I’ve added some things too? Idk whats going on lol.

Here are some extra notes before I post the Council List:

Basically, the most trusted followers of their sects ascend to familiars?? I guess???????

Stass and Adi share temples and followers— hence why Neyo is under both of them as a follower/familiar. No clue what creature he’d be able to shift into though

Saesee canonically had a Commander in the 2003 series but went unnamed and was colored incorrectly. If you know my Sticker series, you know I used him and gave him the name “Vic”, I also tossed one of his pilots in too— Char

Speaking of which, I have zero ideas for Oppo, Yarael, the Colemans, and Yaddle because they were either not on the front lines or didn’t participate in TCW because they uh. Died. (Rip Trebor and Yarael, we barely knew ye). Also only have a slight idea for Agen because the man said no to a unit and decided to yeet the hutts. Might give him the M10 because Ultimate Chaos, or Fox because He Deserves A Little Murder (did both, not sure if it’ll stick)

Still sorting out where the other Jedi would fall but from what I have been thinking either as minor gods of their own sects or minor gods under the Council’s domains.

Quinlan is a “minor god” of Trickery, T’ra is the god of the forest, Ahsoka is a follower of the Hunt, Anakin idk where to put him, Cin is a follower of Depa’s and Yoda’s (Possibly the minor god of the guardsmen or another form of protection), Sha would be a minor god because of her relation to Plo, maybe one of the wind gods? and the Padawans would follow their masters (ie: Depa and Caleb, Bant and Nahdar with Kit, Bultar and Lissarkh with Plo...). Still working on this idea

Jocasta: Historic Record

Luminara: Light

Idk what to do with Aayla

Tholme I might make the god of darkness? my knowledge on the man is lacking ngl

Micah was the god of Luck but he’s gone now :’) 

Even Piell held the OG War God title despite his status as the god of victory through battle, but then Agen was born (spawned from the blood of a battle?) and he took up the full name of the god of war? But only took spot on the Council when Even vanished. I guess?

idk what Tyvokka would be. Maybe the OG god of the Hunt? 

Yoda

Title: The Grandmaster, The Grandmaster of the Pantheon

Domain: Widom

Banner Colors: Hazy Green (HEX: #6FB170)

Closest Familiar(s) and Follower(s): (Undecided animal/mythological beast) | Gree (?) Thire (???)

Mace Windu

Title: The Shatterpoint

Realm: Justice

Banner Colors: Purple (HEX #8B3DC0)

Closest Familiar(s) and Follower(s): The Zillo  (lol) | Ponds

Depa Billaba

Title: The One Who Protects

Realm: Protection/Safety

Banner Colors: Pale Red/Smoky Red (HEX #B24444)

Closest Familiar(s) and Follower(s): (Undecided animal/mythological beast) | Grey

Eeth Koth

Title: The One Who Creates A New Way (This has to do with his canon leaving of the order)

Realm: New Pathways (connects with his line about Funerals and weddings, the new path of death and life) and New Fates (His leaving) 

Banner Colors: Forest Green (HEX #75BC00)

Closest Familiar(s) and Follower(s): (Undecided animal/mythological beast) | Lock

Oppo Rancisis

Title: The Upholder

Realm: Time (he’s just begging to be the ouroboros, lets be real)

Banner Colors: Silvery Green (HEX #9BC89C)

Closest Familiar(s) and Follower(s): (Undecided animal/mythological beast) (J... jormungandr?) | N/A

Ki-Adi Mundi

Title: The Tactician

Realm: Strategy

Banner Colors: Maroon (HEX #540031)

Closest Familiar(s) and Follower(s): (Undecided animal/mythological beast) | Bacara

Plo Koon

Title: The Sage of Storms

Realm: Storms and Sky

Banner Colors: Icy Blue (HEX #B5E5FF)

Closest Familiar(s) and Follower(s): Storm Dragon/Raiju | Wolffe, Sinker, Boost

Saesee Tiin

Title: (work in progress)

Realm: Earth, Stone, and the Riches Beneath

Banner Colors: Turquoise (HEX #30D5C8)

Closest Familiar(s) and Follower(s): Grootslang. Giant elephant snakes. Terrifying but have to do with the riches of the earth | Vic, Char

Shaak Ti

Title: The Huntress

Realm: The Hunt and the Beasts of The Hunt

Banner Colors: Blood Red (HEX #B20808)

Closest Familiar(s) and Follower(s): Great Amarok Wolves | Colt, Blitz, Havoc

Kit Fisto

Title: The Spirit of the Sea

Realm: The Seas and Oceans

Banner Colors: Sea Green (HEX #22CB9A)

Closest Familiar(s) and Follower(s): The Leviathan | Monnk

Obi-Wan Kenobi

Title: The Negotiator

Realm: Negotiations

Banner Colors: Gold/Yellow

Closest Familiar(s) and Follower(s): (Undecided animal/mythological beast) | Cody, Waxer, Boil

Agen Kolar

Title: The Attack Dog ( Not sure on this one yet)

Realm: War

Banner Colors: Royal Blue

Closest Familiar(s) and Follower(s): Chimera | Fox, Fordo

Even Piell

Title: The Battlemaster

Realm: Victory Through Battle

Banner Colors:

Closest Familiar(s) and Follower(s): (Undecided animal/mythological beast) | N/A (Honestly, i dont remember his commander’s name or if he had one)

Yarael Poof

Title: The Dream Keeper

Realm: Illusions and dreams

Banner Colors:

Closest Familiar(s) and Follower(s): (Undecided animal/mythological beast) | N/A

Adi Gallia

Title: The One Who Finds What’s Hidden

Realm: Perception

Banner Colors:

Closest Familiar(s) and Follower(s): (Undecided animal/mythological beast) | Neyo

Stass Allie

Title: The Navigator

Realm: Wayfinding

Banner Colors:

Closest Familiar(s) and Follower(s): (Undecided animal/mythological beast) | Neyo

Coleman Kcaj

Title:

Realm: Knowledge and Teaching

Banner Colors:

Closest Familiar(s) and Follower(s): (Undecided animal/mythological beast) | N/A

Coleman Trebor

Title:

Realm:

Banner Colors:

Closest Familiar(s) and Follower(s): (Undecided animal/mythological beast) | N/A

Yaddle

Title:

Realm:

Banner Colors:

Closest Familiar(s) and Follower(s): (Undecided animal/mythological beast) | N/A

[vivilove-jonsa]

Yours Before I Knew

Again, since we’ve got some lovely new Jonsa-themed headers for WIP Wednesday, I’m dusting off some old drafts to share some things.  I can still call it a work in progress even if I’ve only completed two chapters in a year, right? *sighs*  (You can find the lovely Canon-themed headers here if you want to use one)

This is a Rhaegar Won/Arranged Marriage AU that I’ve been wanting to write for ages but am easily distracted from and it may never see the light of day on ao3 so here’s the first two chapters in case anyone wants to see what I’ve got.  Fair warning, it’s all set up for Jon and Sansa marrying with a side of scheming so probably pretty dull :(

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Chapter 1-ELIA 

The queen sucked on an orange wedge relishing the sunshine as the clacking of wooden swords silenced the morning songbirds.  She did not mind that.  All her life, she’d known the sounds of boys and men training every morning.  

The stone walls of her little courtyard had been baking in the sun since it rose three hours earlier. Touching those walls might lead to a burnt hand now.  But Elia would not touch them.  She was content to enjoy the radiated warmth of them as she broke her fast and watched the boys, her son…and Lyanna’s.

Not everyone loves the sun as the Dornish do and the Sun does not love everyone.

The Dornish had been infuriated with her husband of course, none more than her brothers, but they had stayed true to the Iron Throne.  When Robert’s Rebellion had ended with the usurper’s death outside the city walls, they had remained Rhaegar’s subjects though silently sullen over the insult he had done their princess.

Heeding the advice of others, Rhaegar had chosen to avoid single combat with Robert Baratheon and instead made overtures to Tywin Lannister, appealing to the man whose ego his father had wounded more than once with promises of a better reign in the future.

And despite his melancholic outlook in general, her husband chose not to dwell overly long on his part in his father’s removal from the throne nor the circumstances surrounding his death.  Lord Tywin’s men had done all the dirty work for their new king and the unpleasantness had been swept away like filthy rushes to be replaced with fresh, sweet ones.  

But not everything had been forgotten and not everything had been swept out the door either.  

“Do you yield?” she heard Aegon cry, an edge of triumph in his childish voice.

“Nay!”

Elia scowled and continuing sucking on her orange wedge.  The boy was stubborn.  Aegon was a year older.  He was taller and a bit broader.  But Aemon would not yield until he was on the ground and pinned, usually with Aegon shoving his face into the stones if the master-at-arms did not stop them quick enough. Always determined to prove himself, Aemon fought like a wolf.  No doubt the stigma surrounding his birth and his questionable place at Court plagued him.

Like a wolf. Elia smiled despite herself.  That was what he was.  He is no true dragon.  

“That’s good, Jon!” the master-at-arms said as the tempo of the clacking wooden swords increased.  

Jon.  He preferred to be called Jon.  It was the name his uncle had given him when he’d taken the child and his sister’s bones out of Dorne before he’d learned of his friend’s death.

Lord Stark had been spared by Rhaegar.  Some whispered that he should’ve met a traitor’s end but their shared grief over Lyanna had stayed her husband’s hand.  Elia did not object to it though she would’ve thought Rhaegar might’ve stripped him of his title and lands at least.  However, the Northman had been allowed to return to his frozen forests, grateful to be reunited with his wife and young son.  He’d only been south of the Neck once since the end of the war.

Rhaegar had permitted the boy to be fostered in Winterfell as a babe before sending for him when he was six.  “The North is in his blood.  It is where he will fight his greatest battles…and where he will die someday perhaps,” her husband had once said.  Rhaegar’s obsession with prophecy had only grown with the passing of years.

The North was a place that held little interest for Elia but she was aware of their own discontented murmurs.  Nevertheless, Lord Stark had kept the vast kingdom under control and helped stop Balon Greyjoy’s ill-fated rebellion recently even though many of the Northmen held no love of the Crown.  And why should they?  Aerys had killed Lord Eddard’s father and brother after Rhaegar had made off with the Stark girl inciting the rebellion to begin with.  

The fact that Rhaegar had married Lyanna in a secret ceremony, pressuring the High Septon to allow the practice of polygamy as the Targaryens of old had, had not tempered their displeasure.  Most did not believe Rhaegar’s talk of prophesies or Aemon’s potential role in some war to come but no one said as much to the king.

“My lady?  May I join you?”

She tilted her head in acquiescence.  “Have you come to watch them?” she asked once Rhaegar had taken a seat and kissed her hand, his courtly manners undimmed despite the strained state of their marriage.

He looked towards the courtyard for a handful of seconds, watching the battle below with an indifference she couldn’t understand.  “I’ve spent my morning closeted with the Hand arranging betrothals.”

“Whose?”

“The children’s, both mine and my father’s.”

Elia swallowed her disquiet and brushed her hands along her silk skirts.  “Did Viserys have objections?”

“Objections to Arianne? Why would he?  And it was agreed to long ago.”

“And Daenerys will marry Quentyn?”

“She will.”

“Doran will be pleased.”

He hummed softly in response.  She knew the young princess’s opinion would not be sought.  Elia felt sorry for the girl and her own daughter but it wasn’t as if she’d been given any choice in the matter of her own match.  It was the lot of all highborn girls whether they carried the title of lady or princess.  And besides, Quentyn is a sweet boy.  

“And who are our children to marry?”

“Rhaenys will marry Willas Tyrell.”

“You’d marry my daughter to a Tyrell?” she asked sharply, her earlier acceptance of the fate of highborn girls quite forgotten.  

“The enmity between your family’s house and the Tyrells should end.  Willas bears no ill will towards your brother nor Oberyn towards him. It’s time the rest of you follow suit.”

Elia bowed her head, knowing that any argument would be fruitless.  Rhaegar was not his father but he would not be talked out of a decision easily either.  

“And Aegon?  Who is to be his queen?”

“I had thought to heal another breach.  The North is vast and anger lingers there.”

She could not be silent on this.  “You will not marry my son into her family!”  

Rhaegar’s eyes moved from the boys below to his wife, that strange distance in him so visible.  If he was blood and fire, why were his looks always so cold?  She contained a shiver but dropped her eyes.  She rarely spoke so heatedly towards him.  Her rages would do her no more good than her sweetness in this case regardless, she feared.

“I had thought to. I’ve decided differently.  Tywin has been a faithful servant and Cersei serves you well.”

Tywin had decidedly differently is what that meant.  And Cersei...  “She hates me.”

“Nonsense.”

“You see her beauty and her smiles.  You do not see her contempt.  You do not hear her barbed words.”  You only see what you wish to when you bed her, the wife of your best friend. She would not dare speak those words.

“She won’t be marrying Aegon, her daughter will.”

“Myrcella?”

“Yes.”

“She’s only three.”

“He’s only eleven. They’ll marry after she flowers.” He softened marginally.  “It is only a betrothal, my lady.  If things change, things change,” he shrugged.    

She stewed over that before asking about Rhaegar’s third child.  “And Aemon?”

“It is my hope that match will end the rumbling in the North.  He will marry his uncle’s daughter, the eldest girl.”

“Lady Sansa?”

“Um…yes, that’s her name.”

Did he know it to begin with? she wondered.  No matter. This arrangement did not matter to her. It suited her.  She’d have Lannisters and Tyrells as her children’s good-parents.  Wasn’t that enough to worry over?  

Who cared if Aemon, or Jon as he preferred, went North someday?  It wasn’t that she disliked him.  It was just that he was a constant reminder of things that Elia would rather forget. He’d go North and marry the Stark girl. Maybe she’d never see Lyanna’s son again if he did.

But Rhaegar had other plans as always, it would seem.

“Aemon will marry Sansa Stark once they’re of age, get an heir by her and then…we’ll see where I need him most.”

“Where you need him most? I don’t understand.”

Rhaegar did not answer.

“Well done!  Well fought, boys!” the master-at-arms cried a moment later.

Elia’s expectant smile curdled when she saw Aegon clutching his hand, his wooden sword on the stones at his feet and Aemon doing a poor job of hiding his delight.  The North could have Lyanna’s son.  She could not say she’d miss him here.  

  Chapter 2-JAIME

 Ser Jaime Lannister of the Nights Watch strolled along the corridors of the Red Keep towards the chambers occupied by his twin sister Cersei.  He caught his reflection in a mirrored panel.  He didn’t look half bad in black.  He felt no more soiled in it than he had in his white cloak.

Due to his father’s role in winning Rhaegar his crown, Jaime had not been beheaded for his own rather hands-on part in seeing an end to Aerys’ regime but he had been discharged from the Kingsguard and sent to the Nights Watch for killing his king.  

He hadn’t stayed there very long.  

It was cold and inhospitable and his fellow brothers in black had all loathed him.  He hadn’t gone out of his way to make any friends there to be honest.  They were all beneath him, none could hold a candle to him with sword or lance and the North was clearly not for him.  

So, when Lord Commander Mormont had been lamenting the lack of able-bodied recruits to fill their numbers and man the Wall, Ser Jaime had graciously offered to go South to the king and his father the Hand and see to it a regular supply of warm bodies were sent the Lord Commander’s way.  It didn’t matter that most of them were the excrement of the lowest pothouses or the ague-ridden sweepings of dungeons, Jaime knew Mormont would take them, desperate as he was.  And so long as the recruits kept arriving, Mormont did not recall Ser Jaime to his post. That suited Lord Tywin and, since Jaime avoided making a nuisance of himself around Rhaegar, it seemed the king was content for him to remain and ignored him for the most part.

He gave me a life sentence meant to humble me for killing his father but knew it was necessary if he was ever going to ascend to the throne himself.  Besides, he’d have no city to rule from if not for me.  

He had fallen into a little place here at Court.  He competed in tourneys here and there, not enough to draw too much attention to himself though.  Mostly, he assisted the master-at-arms in drilling young guards as well as the young princes.  Occasionally, the Small Council would ask him questions about the Watch.  He was as ignorant as most of them but he spoke the words he thought they wanted to hear given the current mood.

It was infinitely preferable to stalking along the top of the Wall or overseeing the digging of new latrines in the frozen shit hole that was Castle Black.  He wasn’t even sure what the Nights Watch’s purpose was anymore. The ragamuffin Wildlings who made it over the Wall once in a while weren’t any true threat to the Seven Kingdoms and it’s not like that could all breach the 700 foot edifice in their way.

As for his pupils, Viserys was quite hopeless and Jaime had been glad to see the back of him when he’d left for Dragonstone a couple of years earlier.  Aegon and Aemon, or Jon as the boy preferred, had some promise though, the younger boy more than the older.  

His twin sister Cersei was at Court as well, one of the Queen’s ladies, while his father had chosen to leave Tyrion behind at Casterly Rock, out of sight and out of mind.  

He rapped upon his sister’s door and entered when a maid answered.  Cersei stood before a mirror adjusting the emerald green gown encrusted with gold she wore which highlighted the eyes which matched his own, whilst her golden hair shone in the sunlight.

“What do you want?” she asked irritably as her maid clasped a great diamond and onyx necklace around her throat.  

You, he mouthed, earning him a scowl.  Theirs was not a typical brother-sister relationship to say the least.

“Connington’s here,” she said in a conversational tone next.  “His ship arrived in the harbor last night.”

Her husband, Lord Jon Connington, was one of Cersei’s least favorite people to see.  Gratefully, he spent most of his time in his castle while his wife spent most of her time at court.  

Only five years older than the bride he’d been gifted as a reward for his faithful services during the rebellion, Connington appeared a withered old man when stood next to Cersei these days.  Jaime highly suspected she was slowly poisoning him…or having someone do it for her.  He honestly didn’t care if it was so.  The oaf did not deserve Cersei.  A good thing the children weren’t his.  

“And did you entertain your husband when he arrived last night?” Jaime asked mockingly, his gloved hand tracing her pale throat when the maid was dismissed at last.  

“There was no need. He was eager to spend as much time as possible with the king.”  Connington would rather lick the king’s boots than his wife’s teats.  That suited Jaime just fine.    

“And who was the king eager to see last night?” he whispered in her ear, the hand at her throat squeezing ever so slightly.  

She jerked her chin and stepped away from his touch.  Jaime clenched his fist and told himself it didn’t matter.  The children weren’t Rhaegar’s either.    

Saying no to Rhaegar after carefully flirting and teasing her way into an affair with him would be foolish though.  Cersei had her reasons, no doubt.  Regardless, she was still his.  She was part of him.  She would always be his in a way the others never could be, not her husband who she spent less than fifteen minutes at a time in the company of if she could help it and not her current and practically acknowledged lover, the king.  

Deciding he didn’t wish to quarrel today, he asked after her children.  My children.

“Myrcella will be queen someday.  Father has arranged it,” she told him, clearly pleased.

He nodded.  It was neither here nor there to him.  Cersei had warned him not to get too close, not to appear too doting so as not the raise any awkward questions and he’d followed her lead.  He hoped Myrcella would be treated well by Aegon but that was the extent of his interest. They were only little children for now.

“That will be something…for you to be the mother of the queen.”

A dangerous glint appeared in her eyes as a cold smile formed upon her crimson lips.  “Yes, the mother of the queen might be enough for some.”

The door burst open a moment later.  “My lady! The Queen!” the maid from earlier gasped.  

“Oh, dear.  Whatever is the matter?” Cersei asked, the sweet concern in her tone not fooling Jaime for an instant.  “Forgive me, brother.  I must go to her,” she said once all had been relayed, a sudden pain in the stomach and the queen had vomited blood after breaking her fast.

“Of course, sister,” he bowed.  “You are one of her ladies.  You must attend her.”

And I will follow you.

Outside Queen Elia’s chambers though, he was halted by the youngest member of the kingsguard. Cersei hastened within and he took up a post of sorts opposite the knight, Ser Garlan Tyrell.  

“Has the king been notified?”

“He has, Ser Jaime. He’s expected to arrive soon.”

The pounding of feet soon met their ears but it was not the king rushing to his wife’s side.  It was her children and the king’s other son.  

“Let me by, Ser Garlan!” Princess Rhaenys shouted, her dark curls bouncing as she stood.  The knight bowed and stood aside as the princess and her younger brother headed in.  But before Jon could pass the threshold, Rhaenys rounded on him.  “Not you!” she hissed.  “She won’t want to see you!”

The boy’s crestfallen expression was quickly hidden by a jerky nod.  He would not be wanted by any of them.  It shouldn’t surprise him.  He really shouldn’t allow it to wound him by this point and yet it was plain it always did. Jaime might almost feel sorry for him…if he was much given to sympathy for others outside of himself and Cersei.

“Come along, my prince,” Jaime said affably, putting an arm around the boy’s shoulders to guide him away. Out of sight, out of mind. They looked nothing alike but Jon always reminded Jaime a bit of Tyrion, a motherless boy, unwanted and unloved by most everyone.  Jaime had an undeniable soft spot for his little brother so maybe he had a touch of one for this boy as well.  “It’s been a fortnight since I’ve seen you practice with your lance.  You can’t be a knight if you never master it, you know.”

“Yes, Ser Jaime,” Jon said, looking back over his shoulder once before he allowed himself to be led outdoors.  

All morning, he drilled Jon in the lance and then swords.  He was getting quite good…for a boy of ten.

When the bells began to toll, they had just stopped to sup on roasted hen, shallots and crusty bread.

“What are the bells ringing for?” the boy asked.

“You know, don’t you, Jon?”

The queen was dead.  

Those dark grey eyes widened and the long pale face grew paler.  He looked remarkably like a Stark to Jaime.  There was little of Rhaegar in him.  

A member of the kingsguard came to share the news as night fell.  The king was said to be in seclusion and Elia’s children were with their attendants.  No one came for Jon so Jaime sat with him.  The boy cried bitter tears for the step-mother who had never loved him but never treated him unkindly either.  

Jaime allowed him a second cup of wine and soon the child was dozing in a corner while Jaime wondered how his fair sister was managing her performance, the aggrieved courtier and friend, so concerned for the welfare of Elia’s children whilst maneuvering and plotting for the day she might be Rhaegar’s queen.

Mother of the queen might be enough for some…but not Cersei.  

[corvixa]

I have this thing, that when an idea gets in my head, I either get it out on paper or it will create a traffic jam in my head and bugger up everything. So, not including my ongoing Fics, which includes the Gold Universe as part 4 is still nearly finished, I just need that last push on it. These are Ideas that can have anything from a few scenes, an idea, plots, or several chapters.

So I call this -

Winteriron WIP

(because what else 😅, I have a problem.)

In Fire & Flames - In this universe, Phoenixes and Humans live together, if one species dies then the other will too. When a Phoenix does for good, lots of natural disasters happen, starts with Tony'parents dying and then Rhodey, who is also a Phoenix, finds Tony. Who is now familyless and dying as lone phoenixes tend to die. There are several different kinds, and they come in pairs general. Golden and Ice, for example, Golden are high in magic, Ice tends to protect, especially the rare Golden, it's more tribes than individuals, there is no requirement for who likes who. It's surprising how much making a few other Avengers phoenixes tweaks things here and there, this actually goes up to the fight in Siberia and is one of the bigger WIP's. (26k)

Flash of Gold - Avengers are shifters or humans with magic, and they think they know what Tony is. They believe he is a human with magic, but they notice that he has some shifter traits, which is odd as shifters can't have magic in this AU. Only in very old stories and myth. Tony, however, is a dragon, which are myth. Instead of being like most shifters a, a human that shifts to something, he is the reverse. It only has a few scenes. Full shebang, team as Family. Steve is even a good guy. James is brought to the tower after being found and slowly integrated into the group and is wondering wtf Tony is. (13k)

The Operative Program - Howard was never meant to be a father; he was a weaponsmith. So he took the red room and the wolf spider programs and decided to create himself an Operative that he hoped would be the darker side to help Steve when he found him. Two sides of the same coin, one for the light and one to work in the shadows, Tony would be under Steve's control, he would be a weapon for the man who only picked up a shield. (Also assassin Tony is just fun.) Tony in this is a mash-up really, Tony traits, like Gold but different as he has been trained his entire life, the only reason he has developed a sense of self is Rhodey and the fact his parents died at 17. Rhodey got there first after the car crash, getting to Tony before anyone else who knew what he was could potentially claim him. Tony definitely collects people. Yinsen and Vanko for example. Chapters from Ironman up to Avengers (not complete). But enjoyed myself rewriting some out of sequence chapters, so there is a nice big scene in Siberia. (15k)

Another Persons Wish - Now this was based on a post I saw going around. Person A is married to Person B. Person A is looking back at their life and wondering if they should have married B, etc. So, A is offered a wish. Poof. Goodbye Marriage. Person A is Steve, and the story is from Tony, person B's POV. It goes from Tony planning his anniversary(because I was apparently extremely angsty when I started this!) to waking up in the past, alone and wondering what the fuck has happened. 6 chapters entirely written. Chapter 7 is in a different file and in progress when I dabble on it. (30k)

Tarnished Gold - This is an AU from my AU AU XD. Basically similar set up to the Gold Universe, Tony escapes Hydra Captivity but is brought in by Rhodey instead of spending 2 years on his own cleaning up Hydra. He only spends about 7 months before Rhodey convinces him to come in. Few other tweaks here and there but that is just side. Rhodey and James are pals too. The plot here is Howard and Maria are brought back from the Dead and Rhodey is trying to work out how to tell them what has happened and that he can't just bring them to Tony, because he doesn't know if Tony will remember them yet. Tony is a little less 'give me orders, and I'll gut you, and more 'orders made things easier'. I basically flipped his and James reactions from the original Gold universe. Tony is more in need of a hug. It's very loosely put together. I wanted something where Howard was a good dad to offset the fact I kind of made him Hydra in the next piece, and I wanted a good family man Howard with the bringing the parents back because I love reading fics that bring Howard and Maria back. (9k)

Sins of The Father - Arno has just buried his father. His mother is in a coma, he is 20 and mourning his life now he's expected to take on the business when a visitor flips his work upside down worse than the phone call about the crash. His Father? Part of a program that summoned a creature known as a Void Walker. (A creature from the Void Loki fell into, the only native species to that area, most others can't survive the void, so Loki will read as Void Touched and is 'To Be Protected' because I think that could shake up the Avengers section nicely.) Oh and he has Howards DNA. So Arno is freaked that he has a brother, that someone released and sent to him and Arno is 100% sure he is not meant to deal with severe traumatised half-human assassins that could be his kid brother. That is how Arno meets Tony and becomes very invested and turns up big brother protective instinct to 13. When summoned they're tired to a person and has to obey orders, that person was chosen as The Asset under the idea he can't disobey, which obviously fails as Winter does everything to protect Tony, including freeing him and sending him to Arno. His last order is that Tony is not allowed to go looking for or rescue Winter, which I think will be some nice drama when Bucky gets brought in (I really like this one) It has mostly set up but 2 scenes for in the future, Tony finding Coulson threatening Arno in IM2 and the data dump. (21k) (in this S/S Helped is Yelped, I'd fix it, but I've been working on this post forreeever)

Blood and an Arc - This came about from reading the Tony is a vampire fic and noticing that when he gets turned, generally Tony hates being a vampire. There aren't many where he comes back from Afghanistan a vampire and goes, huh... Well. This could be interesting. Loosely based on Vamp the Masquerade but I've tweaked it because my brain takes ideas and then runs off madly into the sunset. It is however utterly all over the place, some from Ironman and then random out of sequence chapters that I'm unsure about as I hadn't slept in a very long time on writing them and Tony went kind of Spike-ish calling James 'Pet'. I do like the idea of Tony fully embracing his changes. Yinsen never intended Tony to live, so he did something extra whilst turning him, so he is not an ordinary baby vampire and is convinced (justifiably so) that if he meets any other vamps, they'll try to kill him. In notes have Sam considering being a werewolf who works out Tony is a vamp and freaks out, because Vampires vs Werewolves and Tony is utterly confused and tells Sam he smells of mint (seriously, insomnia) Sam is baffled to find out the centuries of hatred that is claimed to be instinctual is actually taught. Sam gets kind happy he has a Vamp friend. (20k)

The Original Plan - This sets up around the end of the Mandarin (because honestly, I prefer working with Tony that has powered, especially because James has the serum and I personally think it would expand life span more than shown in Endgame. So I like evening things out and powered Tony is my jam) Tony has a bunch of plans, and they go awry. He doesn't see why and has zero clue what's going on. It's because no matter how well he plans this out, he's caught up in other people's plans. Steve is a little more "End goal justify the anything and everything." In other words, getting Bucky back is his plan and everyone are just pawns in said plan. I've taken that tactical genius title and also pushed him a little darker. After Ultron, he brings Wanda on for 3 reasons. 1 Precedence. 2 Fixing Bucky. 3 Making sure Tony doesn't find out about his parents and making sure he is on the team and available to fix Bucky's arm. That last bit changes things as instead of pulling away from the Avengers, Tony fully moves into the compound(just after AOU, it's not good). There will be no accords and Steve will find Bucky and just move him in and general plans on telling no one about the Winter Soldier. I summed up a chunk of AOU in this format, and I liked it (in an angst and pain fashion.) But it's quite long for a screenshot, so here's a chunk. Bucky is being brought in soon, but as it is, Tony is not having a good time, there might be Wanda conditions in his mind that Steve can use to convince Tony to do things... Also, because he is living there, I couldn't justify Sam not noticing there is something very wrong, so he is asking questions he didn't in canon as Tony's PTSD is more in his face living together you know? (16k)

[rwby-nwbe]

Just Finished RWBY Volume 4...

...and I actually liked it?

[Spoilers Ahead, Y'all Know The Drill]

I mean, from what I've heard the Volume gets a lot of flack but honestly? I don't think it deserves it.

Yes, this is the first volume without Monty, and yes, the fights lost a bit of their momentum compared to earlier volumes, but aside from that... it's actually pretty good?

Alright, let me give you the play by play character style.

Ruby Rose

There goes my baby... off to destroy evil.

Ruby hasn't changed much, at least to a noticeable degree, compared to the rest of the cast. Actually, no, that isn't true, she just hasn't changed in a way that would force her overall character to noticeably shift. And I think that's fine. She's still a child at times, and is still really optimistic. But the thing is, she has matured. She doesn't immediately jump head first into danger like she used to, and it's clear she's still trying to process what happened at the Fall of Beacon. And yet, she's pressing on, and I'm glad that she and the rest of Team RNJR have each other's backs.

My only concern is what will go down in Mistral...

Weiss Schnee

Welp, Jacques Schnee, congrats! You've joined Cinder and Adam on the hit list I'm writing up!

The a-hole aside, I really like how Weiss played out this volume. According to what I've heard, volume 4 took place about 6-8 months after Beacon, so I'm kinda sad that Weiss was stuck home for all that time. On the bright side, we get a look at her progress on her summons, which looks to be coming along quite nicely. Then we see the concert, and ooh does that make my blood boil. I'll get to Jacques in a bit, but personally, I'd have no qualms watching him burn, figuratively, or literally.

Fly, Weiss, fly from the coup. Give your bastard of a father the metaphorical middle finger he deserves! (P.S. Klein is best dad.)

Blake Belladonna

Oof. I hurteth.

So Blake tends to stay away out of fear that she'll hurt her friends (i.e. some alternate version of survivor's guilt). In order to make amends from her point of view, she heads home to Menagerie. And once again, we're reminded on why humanity sucks sometimes!

Humans: Here, have this desert island for your large spanning species that covers just as much ground as we do.

Faunus: But... but it's so small!

Humans: Is it? Oh well, we can't have everything!

Me: Y'all LITERALLY have several freaKING CONTINENTS-!

*Ahem* That said, Sun came along! And we met Blake's parents! But first, Sun; I'll admit, I had mixed feelings about him being there at first, but that was mostly because Blake was being angsty and despite Sun's best intentions, virtually nothing he did help. Although, towards the end of the Volume, he managed to help Blake realize why her way of thinking was wrong, so props to him for that. Uh, Sun, could you maybe knock like a normal person? Wait, Blake, DON'T SLAP HIM FOR IT!!!

Ah, Kali, you're just as chaotic as Sun, oh dear... Ghira, never change, man. Never change.

Yang Xiao Long

Oof. I hurteth again. (ADAM!! LET ME DESTROY YOU, DANGIT!!!)

So Yang has been... adjusting to life after Beacon and without an arm. Oh, and Adam gave her PTSD! Isn't that just swell?

[When the find your corpse it'll have Wilt running through your spine and your skull severed with bullet shots from Blush I swear-]

Luckily, Yang gets a prosthetic from Atlas. I was afraid she'd reject it, but it's actually kinda nice to see that she takes to it rather well. And after seeing Oobleck (YAY!) and Port again, it's cool that she's just trying to find her footing. Though, Tai, you might wanna consider NOT flying to close to the Sun Dragon, capiche?

And all this culminates in Yang finally getting back out in the end of the Volume, hoping to find some answers. Hopefully she takes Tai's words to heart.

Jaune Arc

IT'S BIG BOI SWORD HOURS!!

But seriously, it was... kinda off-putting to see Jaune act so... morose. Granted, we all know why (PYRRHA!!!), but still. I'm glad his team is looking out for him and that he's slowly starting to recover like everyone else. His conversation with Ruby in Kuroyuri was also really touching. Come to think of it, didn't Blake have a similar conversation with Sun? The PARALLELS!

Also, that upgrade, tho. CUT THAT NUCKELAVEE INTO DUST, MY DUDE!!!

Nora Valkyrie+Lie Ren

You can't talk about one without bringing up the other.

Guys, this was as much a Renora volume as it was a RWBY-Post Beacon volume. The Fall triggers some odd behavior in Ren, but we figure out why pretty quickly once we reach the Kuroyuri episode.

First, young Ren and Nora... adorable!

Second, I was NOT ready for when Nora had to talk Ren out of charging blindly at the Nuckelavee. The slap. The way Ren sees young Nora and then sees current Nora. Nothing could prepare me. Nothing.

They are so SOFT together, it's just... <3

New Characters (and Old ones, too)

Lightning round, baby!

Qrow Branwen. So Qrow serves as the inside man. He knows what's been going on, and he fills the rest of us in. We also know why he tends to keep his distance, because his semblance brings bad luck to allies and enemies alike. The poor birb. Glad he managed to survive Tyrian!

Jacques Schnee. Egotistical manipulative piece of garbage whom I will not feel sorry for once he's put in his place. 'Nuff said.

Whitley Schnee. Mixed feelings. Mixed feelings everywhere. 'Cause on one hand, I've seen plenty of the fandom's takes on his character putting him in a positive light, but on the other he starts getting kind of unbearable after Weiss loses her title as heiress. Then I have to remind myself that Whitley is the "Fawn" reaction to trauma. Weiss is "Fight," Winter is "Flight," their mother is "Freeze," and Whitley is "Fawn." Stuff like that helps me contextualize that when Whitley says things about their dad like "It's foolish to not do what father asks," or "It's barbaric. It's beneath me. Beneath father," Whitley's not just saying that 'cause he's a bit of a brat. That's his coping mechanism to the abuse Jacques put him and the rest of his family through, and it's probably been a long time that he's been telling himself stuff like this so he can keep in his father's good graces and not risk getting a slap to the face like Weiss, while also trying to deal with the fact that Weiss and Winter get a freedom that he never had a chance to get. And you have to remember that Winter and Weiss were abused to, and that trying to blame Whitley's current condition on the two of them doesn't make things any better. They're not obligated to care about Whitley just as much as Whitley isn't obligated to care about them. It would be nice if either one of them could get through to him, but they were all trying to combat Jacques in one way or another. Whitley was just the odd one out. And if you really think about it, the biggest brain play you can take from all this is to blame it solely on Jacques. I swear, when I get to Volume 4 in my NWBE AU, one of my top priorities will be getting Whitley the ever loving hell out of that accursed mansion alongside Weiss, mark my words.

Klein Sieben. Ladies and gentleman, the only valid man under the Schnee roof! And a Seven Dwarves reference no less. Thanks, I love him! Glad he helped Weiss escape his father's clutches.

James Ironwood. Oh boy, boss man is starting to lose his grip on things. Granted, he's trying to do the right thing, but it's clear his paranoia is getting to him. You know crap is getting bad if the most valid person in all of Atlas simultaneously needs to be told to get a grip from Jacques of all people (especially if he's making a point). Hope this doesn't trigger a downward spiral...

Ghira and Kali Belladonna. Ghira is done and Kali just wants to have fun. I love their dynamic and interactions with Blake and Sun! It was a nice wind down from everything else going on, though I don't think that'll last for long.

White Fang. So we got three more WF members: Fennec, Corsac, and Ilia. The Albain brothers are sleezeballs already, since they're working with Adam and all. Ilia's working with them too, but I'll have to withhold my judgement since she appears to have an as yet undisclosed connection to Blake, but I don't want to get my hopes up since she already stabbed Sun, so... Low expectations, but still expectations.

Salem's Group. Yup, Salem's a villain alright. I'll be keeping my eye on her, she just reeks of trouble. Cinder apparently lost her voice... eh, probably for the best. Emerald, Mercury, get the ever-loving FRICK outta there, you're clearly out of your element! Hazel, you're... fascinating. Neutral Evil, perhaps? Watts, you're on my radar, especially with the last episode of the Volume. And Tyrian... well, he's clearly beyond the point of no return, entirely devoted to Salem, and his psycho-sadistic tendencies are enough to freak Cinder of all people out. Needless to say, I hope something or someone takes care of him before the damage becomes irreversible.

And for now, I'll wrap this up with Oscar Pine. I'll admit, it was interesting how they set up Oscar's character as a slow burn this Volume. We learn he lives a quiet life with his aunt in a barn, and at first we're wondering "Who the heck is this kid?" But then Ozpin shows up and suddenly everything is like "Oh... wait, WHAT!?" So yeah, Ozpin just brought another child into thia conflict. At least they're both not happy about it, and hey, they met Qrow! Hopefully that keeps things from getting too crazy down the line. We still need answers, after all.

Well, those are my thoughts. Sorry they took so long. Hopefully Volume 5 won't be so hard to complete. Well... cheers!

-Mathewton, the RWBY Newbie (15 May 2020)

[pellaaearien]

Author Interview game

Tagged by @ariaadagio 2 months ago(!)

Name: Pella

Fandoms: Doctor Who and Lucifer. I don’t really write for any others. As for things I enjoy/reblog: Dragon Age, the Mandalorian, ADoW, Supernatural. I read Sheith fic but don’t watch the show. 

Where you post: Now, exclusively Ao3. Previously: FFnet. 

Most popular multi-chapter fic: By kudos, it’s actually The Devil You Know, which surprised me, because I thought 100 Ways was still ahead. 

Favourite story you’ve written so far: You realize this is like asking me to choose between my children, right? I look at every story I’ve written and there are unique things I love about them. I think it’s either The Devil You Know or Fool Me Once. I was very proud of the work I did in both of them, and the elements I used. Fool Me Once is also the first real fic I’d posted since my ffnet days. 

Fic you were nervous to post: I think Only River in the Forest made me uniquely nervous. I worried about people following the convoluted plot device and I also worried about River fans (and/or Moffat fans) being out for my blood. Thankfully that wasn’t the case. 

How you choose your titles: Either a quote/saying or song lyrics. 

Do you outline: Very rarely. Only for very long/complex fics. Locum Tenens (unpublished) is the only fic I’ve needed to outline in recent memory. I’ll occasionally jot down ideas at the end of the document I’m working on. For the In Other Words series, I have a separate document of those bullet points, but it’s not a proper outline. 

Complete: 18 complete on Ao3, with 4 more on ff.net for a total of 22.

In progress: 1 that’s posted (100 Ways). Several more that are not.

Coming soon/not yet started: Tons! Yesterday I started work on a sequel to Fool Me Once. I’m also in the middle of working on the sequel to White Days. There’s Locum Tenens, another Doctor Who AU that I’ve written over 37k words for, but I’d like to be a bit further ahead before I publish. I’ve got a few more WIPs that I’m not sure will see the light of day. Not started I have a few more plot bunnies for Lucifer, including a gender swap and a soulmates fic. 

Do you accept prompts: Not really. Occasionally I’m slapped across the face by a prompt I find that demands I write it, but that’s rare.

Upcoming story you are most excited to write: I’ve been really pleased by how new material for Locum Tenens has been coming after years of stagnation. I can’t wait to get it to a point where I can share it with others!

[hollyand-writes]

Author interview

I was tagged all the way back in January 2020 for this one, by the lovely @kagetsukai! ❤️ Here are her answers from back then. Sorry this took me 6 months to answer! 

I tag whoever wants to do this, as well as @midnightprelude, @lauraemoriarty, @lucyrne, @asaara-writes, @varghaxa, @lesetoilesfous, @natsora, @agentkatie, @effelants, @mikkeneko, @mhandersmyheart and @andrew-blackthorn ❤️ 

Name: Hollyand

Fandoms: Dragon Age 2 (but not the other DA games 😬 ) 

Where You Post: Mostly AO3, but short prompts/ficlets go on Tumblr. 

Most Popular One-Shot: Depends how you’re measuring it.

If we go by kudos, then that’d have to be my M!Hawke/Arishok crackfic, “A Growing Lack of Disgust” (199 kudos). This also wins by hits.

If we go by number of comments, then that’s either my M!Hawke/Fenris Modern!AU “Bright Lights, Big City, Blind Date” (38 comments total / 14 commenters) or my M!Hawke/Anders crackfic “Local Man Returns From Trip, Discovers Boyfriend Adopted 25 Cats” (36 comments total / 16 commenters). 

Most Popular Multi-Chapter Story: Measuring by hits, kudos and comments it’s easily my Regency AU Carver/Merrill fic “A Chance Engagement”. 

Given that it has 46 chapters and is still in progress, this shouldn’t be surprising. (I didn’t count “Major Arcana” as that one’s technically a fic collection, even though it has more hits than ACE.)

Favourite Story You Wrote: It’s a toss-up between “Local Man Returns From Trip, Discovers Boyfriend Adopted 25 Cats” and “A Shit Time To Be A Templar” which are both M!Hawke/Anders crack fics prompted by the DA Kink Meme. 

The first fic is pretty self-explanatory, the latter is from a prompt that asked for Anders shape-shifting into a bird who goes round shitting on templars’ heads, and Meredith asks Hawke to kill it (spoiler: he doesn’t). I had way too much fun writing way too many poo jokes – because I have the sense of humour of your typical dumb 15-year-old British schoolboy 😂

Story You Were Nervous to Post: Every single story and update!

How You Choose Your Titles: Titles are hard but usually one of these: 

A line or phrase from the fic that sums up the fic best 

The “does exactly what it says on the tin” approach 

Shit puns / innuendoes

Sums up the fic’s overall themes or its notable elements 

Line of dialogue from DA2 

“The Courtship of Daisy and Junior” was named after this fanart 

Complete: Just “The Courtship of Daisy and Junior” & one-shots.

Incomplete: Um.... goodness. An M!Handers Modern!AU / Gym!AU longfic called “Employer Relations” (writing ACE has put me in the wrong headspace for it, so I’m finishing it first) and a canonverse Carver/Merrill longfic called “The Templar And The Blood Mage”. 

Also an unposted Modern!AU / Gym!AU Carver/Merrill called “How To Push Up A Daisy”, and a Pornstar AU I’m working on which I hope to post in full soon (more on that below).

Do You Outline? Sort of? Like Kagetsukai, I used to be a pantser, until I realised that style didn’t work for me with longfics. Sometimes I pants my way through the odd scene, just writing whatever grabs me (I almost never write from the start of a fic, I usually write something from the middle first), but after I’ve pantsed my way through a few related scenes I sketch out a very rough outline of the fic’s plot and a bullet-pointed list of things I want to happen / plot points to include. I tend to write up more detailed chapter summaries/plans a few at a time, write those, then go back and plan the next few chapters, and so on. 

One-shots are generally pantsed all the way through, but I approach that like my work articles – I’ve usually already got a good idea in my head of how I want the piece to go before I write it, so I just write it in one draft and post it (I tend to edit as I go along while drafting – a habit I picked up from work).

Coming Soon/Not Yet Started: I am currently 10,100+ words into a modern-day-with magic Carver/Merrill Pornstar AU called “Actually, Love” ! I am very excited about sharing that one with you all (it’s an explicit smutfic, obviously, LOL). I have the beginning and the end down and most of the middle, I just need to finish joining up all the bits in the middle! 😄

Do You Accept Prompts? Currently no, because I’ve too much on. 

Upcoming Story You Are Most Excited to Write: I’ve been saying this for years, LOL, but – the Gym AU! Especially “How To Push Up A Daisy”. Also the Pornstar AU mentioned above, which I hope to finish and post soon – I’m so nearly there and so close to the end, now to finish the thing! 😆

[onigirisuna]

i’ll be your shelter

a contribution to @zutaramonth​, quarantine edition, day 18: comfort (with a hint of day 2: family). view my other work for zutara month (quarantine edition) here. 

this is a gentle reminder to hold your loved ones a little closer today.

cw: character death. au. long fic ahead; barely-there zutara + fire nation family. cues inspired by rent.

Katara found herself smiling at the sight of Zuko, Azula, and Kiyi enjoying their dinner with Ikem and Ursa. 

Eight years ago, their family was in shambles. When Zuko was crowned as Fire Lord, he only had Iroh by his side – the only family he had for many years. She remembers the pride that swelled in her heart when Zuko stood from the Fire Sages, presenting himself as the leader of the new generation of peace; but she also remembers the sadness that came crashing in right after, when Zuko had a distant, lonely look in his eye.

He has the whole world, Hakoda told her. Yet he is so alone.

I’m here, Katara told him, shifting her eyes away from the platform. He has me. He has Iroh, too; he has all of us.

Hakoda smiled. He does, he said in agreement. But his sister’s in an institution, his father’s locked up, and his mother is gone with the wind.

He doesn’t just carry our world, Katara. He carries theirs, too.

Katara shakes the memory as she picks up another rice ball and hands it to Kiyi. “Here you go,” she says, pretending to hide the sneaky rice ball from Ursa. Kiyi giggles at the motion, then taps Azula’s hand. “Lala,” the girl says. “May you pass me the fire flakes?”

Azula stiffens for a moment, not used to the little girl nor having someone tell her what to do. Through her discomfort, she forces a smile as she pushes her free hand to deposit the bottle of fire flakes onto the little fingers that are waiting for her.

Katara’s heart aches for her. She took it the worst, she thinks.

Seeing a little girl around her mother’s arms, a girl who seemed far more like Zuko than she ever will be, shattered Azula; she felt replaced, unloved, and more like a monster than she had ever felt her whole life. If Katara and Zuko hadn’t caught up to her before she reached Forgetful Valley, she would’ve been gone forever.

Azula! she remembers Zuko yelling. Father lied to us!

No! responded the broken girl. He didn’t lie, he just lost the war. He– he promised me– it’s your fault he lost, this is– this is all y-your fault– Father loved me–

He never promised anything, Azula, Zuko said. And he never loved anyone but himself.

Katara’s knuckles whiten for a moment as she tries to shove the memory down the depths of her mind. She forces herself back to the present, where she sits with her new family, and pushes herself to enjoy her meal; after all, it is rare for them to dine in complete attendance. Zuko was far too busy to eat, especially with Unity Campaign slowly coming into fruition; he often skipped meals and endured late nights, trying his best to keep the world together.

She looks around the table, taking in the sight of her husband smiling at her mother-in-law’s new anecdote about the latest play she saw on Ember Island. “This play was more of a tragedy, really,” Ursa said in between pieces of spiced prawns. “But it was so strange, because the songs sounded so happy. You wouldn’t be able to tell how tragic the story was until you read the program.”

“What’s it called?” Zuko asks from across the table just as he takes a bite off a spicy rice cake.

“Seasons of Love,” Ursa responds. Zuko makes a noise and a face at the title, saying, “The title sounds as corny as Love Amongst the Dragons.”

Azula nods in agreement. “I have to agree with Zuko on this one, mother. You have quite the penchant for sticky sweet titles.”

Ursa laughs. “If you’d watched the play with me, you would be surprised at how fantastically heartbreaking it is.” Ursa let out a rough cough as she finished speaking.

Zuko shoots her a worried look.

–

with a thousand sweet kisses

–

Ursa’s cough progressed into bouts of wheezing and gasping. Four months later, she became bedridden as she began to cough out blood and the disease began to take over her lungs. It’s called pneumonia, my lord, the family physician told Zuko. It’s a new disease that we have yet to find a cure for. We only know that the kind that Her Highness has is non-communicable.

Will she survive it? Zuko asked tentatively, even though he already knew the answer. All he needed to see was the grim look on the physician’s face.

Since then, Zuko resolved to keep his family as close as to their mother as he could. 

He would bring Kiyi to their mother every day, sharing as many stories as they could. He and Ikem would take turns watching over Ursa, with Ikem attending to her during the day and Zuko keeping her company at night; the little sleep that he had left before his mother’s disease was gone as he spent the rest of his nights tending to her.

Azula would visit her mother sporadically; when Zuko broke the news to her, Azula ran off and burned the chest that contained all of Ursa’s unsent letters. You’re leaving me again, like you did all those years ago. 

Despite Azula’s outbursts, Zuko still continued to gather all his strength to convince her to visit their mother. On the best of days, all three of them would spend time with her together; Kiyi would create flower crowns that she would place atop Azula’s and Ursa’s heads, while the two older women would have their nails painted. Zuko would discuss the latest theatrical productions with all three girls, gathering as much intel as he could from the the Ember Island Players. 

Every time her children would visit, Ursa made sure to leave a kiss on each of their foreheads before they left the room.

This routine continued over the course of eight months, until Ursa was too weak to lift her head off the pillow or raise her hand to have it painted. All of Ursa’s energy was reserved for the kisses she would leave on her children’s heads, making sure to kiss them with all of the force that she could to let them know that she was still alive; despite her failing health, she would repeat the same words to her children everyday – 

Know that Mother loves you so.

–

(i’ll cover you)

–

One night, Katara found Zuko crying in their bedroom; without saying a word, she sidled next to him and slowly brought his head to her shoulder as she let her own tears fall.

Between the Southern Restoration Movement and her duties as Fire Lady, Katara also spent her share of time with Ursa; she came in with a basin of water every day, attempting to expel the wretched virus that has taken over Ursa’s lungs. She also closely coordinated with the physician, desperately looking for a cure.

Katara, Ursa told her earlier that day. You are a kind and smart girl; I believe you would know it to be wise to stop healing.

But they don’t have a cure, yet, Ursa, Katara said desperately. This is our best shot.

Ursa smiled and held Katara’s trembling hand and said, I know.

It was Katara’s turn to hold Zuko’s hand as he trembled beside her; without looking at her, he gripped her hand tightly in return. Despite her own shaking and crying, she reached around Zuko and gathered him into a hug, letting him pour his grief into the folds of her robes. She tried to stroke his hair and rub circles on his back to calm him down, but with her own ceaseless crying, her motions comforted him to no avail.

–

five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes

–

Ursa’s lungs failed a few days later, one year after her coughing began.

The week that follows is a blur; their friends begin to trickle in, one by one, expressing their condolences and comforting the grief-stricken Zuko, Kiyi, and Ikem. Everyone is too afraid to see Azula, so Katara takes it upon herself to check on the heartbroken girl; she finds Azula asleep in the midst of glass shards and broken mirrors, dried tears stained on her face. Katara leaves a towel and fresh fruit by her bedside table, then cleans the surrounding shards.

Katara leads the funeral preparations, letting Ikem and the three siblings process Ursa’s passing; her own heart, however, continues to break as she falls deeper into her coordination with the Fire Sages and the palace attendants – so on days when she can’t bring herself out of her bed, she lets Iroh take over the preparations.

Amidst the grief that has flooded the palace, Zuko finds himself sitting by the garden; as the attendants fly by him and guests continue to offer their condolences, Zuko blankly stares at the pond ahead. Their words and the flurry that fills the palace are nothing but white noise to him.

He stays in this trance for a couple of days until it is broken by Kiyi, who finds him in the garden and pulls him up to his feet. Taking her big brother by the hand, Kiyi brings him to a flowerbed at the back of the garden. “Mother always made sure to water these flowers, Zuzu,” the little girl said sadly. “I promised to water them for her when she got sick.”

Zuko feels Kiyi’s hands start to tremble, so he kneels to face her. Kiyi’s tears start flowing, her face contorted in grief; she shakes as Zuko pulls her into a hug. “I don’t know if I can water these flowers forever, Zuzu,” she says, her voice shaking. “I miss her. I want her to come back.”

Zuko starts to cry as he holds his sister tightly. “I miss her too, Kiyi. I miss her more than anything.”

At the other side of the garden wall, Azula quietly cries on a bed of wilted fire lilies. Mother’s favorite. 

–

five hundred twenty five thousand seasons of love

–

They couldn’t bear to watch their mother go up in flames.

When the Fire Sages conclude the burial rites and begin to light the pyre that carried Ursa’s body, Azula bolts out of the plaza.

Zuko immediately gets up to follow his sister and, before Ikem could stop her, Kiyi runs after her two older siblings. “Lala! Zuzu!” she yells through her tears. “Come back!”

Katara immediately runs after the little girl, telling Ikem to stay in case Azula bursts into flames. I've seen Azula break before, she tells him. I can handle her; I’ll keep Kiyi safe.

Katara catches up to the little girl just as she’s about to step into the garden; Katara stops her before she could get within the range of Azula’s impending fire. “Kiyi,” she says softly. “Let Zuzu talk to Lala first.”

“What about me, Katara?” she says, her breath shaking from the running and the emotional outburst between her and her siblings. Katara holds the girl and runs her fingers through her hair. “In a bit, little one,” she says. “Give them a little bit.”

–

“Azula,” Zuko says, taking a tentative step towards his sister. His body is tense, ready to move into a defensive stance. “Azula, look at me–”

“No!” Azula yells as she shoots a stream of blue fire towards him. Zuko expertly deflects it; when he hears Kiyi scream, he bends the remaining flames towards the sky. “Don’t touch me!” Azula cries.

“Lala!” he hears Kiyi cry from a distance. Azula covers her ears as she hears the younger girl.

“Mother always thought I was a monster,” Azula says through strained tears. “She never loved me the way she loved you and that little brat.”

“Azula, please–” Zuko starts, but Azula whirls around and grabs him by his shirt.

“Please what, Zuzu?!” she yells at her brother’s face. “What do you want from me? I’m a monster, remember?! A monster!”

A part of Zuko agrees; his father created a monster of his sister, drilling a sense of greed and evil into her as soon as she could talk. In the years since the war ended, however, he realized that all his sister longed for was love and acceptance from her family; it was a feeling Zuko knew all too well.

Her father manipulated her, and her only recollection of her mother was her departure; her only brother made it clear that he didn’t like her from the beginning, and when her mother resurfaced, she was replaced by a child that seemed to be far better than she ever could be. 

Azula was alone – and that was a feeling Zuko knew better than anything.

When she stares up into her brother’s matching golden irises, face contorted in agony and grief, Zuko gently wraps his sister in a hug. “You aren’t a monster, Azula,” he says softly. “Mother knew that; I know it, too.”

The sudden show of affection throws Azula off guard and makes her crumble against her big brother’s embrace; as her brother holds her, she lets out a torrent of tears.

Kiyi wiggles herself out of Katara’s grasp and runs to her siblings. The little girl’s tears haven’t stopped, and she’s shaking uncontrollably as Zuko opens his arm and welcomes her into his embrace. 

Zuko’s own tears begin to form, his cries mingling with those of his heartbroken sisters’; despite himself, he holds them tightly and presses their heads on the crooks of his neck. I’ll cover you.

[the-observant-frisbeetarian]

George deValier (2012 profile)

since: 05-02-10, id: 2348750, Profile Updated: 01-27-12

country: 🇦🇺 Australia

Author has written 11 stories for Hetalia - Axis Powers.

“If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you.” – Henry Rollins

Hello! My name is George. *waves* I am a student of Classical History who loves anything to do with history and language. I currently speak English and French, but am studying Norwegian, Latin and Ancient Greek, German, Italian and Spanish. I’m not particularly good at any of them, but I can ask for a glass of red wine in seventeen languages. Gotta learn the vital things.

I only write Hetalia, and I pretty much only write AUs. My fave pairings are: Germany/Italy, America/England, Spain/Romano, Sweden/Finland, Russia/China, France/Canada, Denmark/Norway, Prussia/Austria, and Greece/Japan.

MY STORIES:

THE VERA-VERSE

A collection of World War Two AU’s intertwining with each other, using titles of Vera Lynn wartime songs.

COMPLETED:

‘We’ll Meet Again’. USUK. 13 chapters.

IN PROGRESS:

‘Auf Wiedersehen, Sweetheart.’ GerIta. 16 chapters.

‘Bésame Mucho.’ Spamano. 10 chapters.

‘Lily of the Lamplight.’ PruAus. 15 chapters.

IN THE WORKS:

Multi Chapters:

‘When I Grow too Old to Dream.’ SuFin. Around 6 chapters.

‘It’s a Lovely Day Tomorrow.’ LietPol. Around 6 chapters.

One Shots:

‘Somewhere in France with You.’ Franada

‘When the Lights go on Again.’ EstLat

‘You’ll Never Know.’ HungaryLiechtenstein

OTHER STORIES

Sorry for the slow updates on these. No, I have not abandoned them, and I promise not to. As I have said before, I will never abandon any of my stories. Even if it means I am sitting here updating Hetalia fanfiction when I am 65 years old and everyone has long forgotten me, I will finish every damn thing I start. (Though I think I can safely promise it won't take that long ;-D)

‘The Tiger and the Dragon.’ RoChu. 18 chapters.

‘Catch Perfect.’ SuFin. 15 chapters.

‘Meanwhile, Across Town.’ USUK, Various Others. Around 20 chapters.

I am so incredibly flattered that the amazingly talented Alyss Lane has written a song based on 'Auf Wiedersehen, Sweetheart!' It is called 'Auf Wiedersehen', performed by Willow. Please watch this beautiful song here

Please check out my DeviantArt account to see the wonderful fanart people have drawn for my stories! Thank you so, so much to these awesome artists. Honestly, I flip out over fanart. Do a crazy little happy dance and everything.

Thank you so much to the lovely Lachen for making this beautiful AMV for 'We'll Meet Again!'

Thank you very much to Triggerstorm for this amazing AMV for 'Auf Wiedersehen, Sweetheart!'

A million thanks to Infinity-Rainz for this heart-breakingly perfect AMV for 'Auf Wiedersehen, Sweetheart!'

And to my wonderful, talented beta ykwyh26 thank you for this perfect, adorable AMV for 'Bésame Mucho!’

1. La Patisserie de la Rose » reviews

AU. Accountant Matthew Williams is used to being unnoticed, ignored, and forgotten. That is until pastry chef Francis Bonnefoy appears like a burst of colour in his dull, grey life. Gift fic for TCTBS.

Hetalia - Axis Powers - Rated: M - English - Romance - Chapters: 3 - Words: 13,746 - Reviews: 161 - Updated: 1-18-12 - Published: 12-9-11 - France & Canada

2. Bésame Mucho » reviews

WW2 AU. Lovino Vargas only ever wanted something exciting to happen in his boring, everyday Italian village existence. He never expected war, Resistance, love, passion, treason, or a cheerful, confusing, irritatingly attractive Spanish freedom fighter.

Hetalia - Axis Powers - Rated: M - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 4 - Words: 31,128 - Reviews: 387 - Updated: 12-19-11 - Published: 8-1-11 - Spain & S. Italy/Romano

3. Auf Wiedersehen, Sweetheart » reviews

WW2 AU. Feliciano Vargas is a passionate, if slightly scared, Italian resistance member. Falling in love with a German fighter pilot was the last thing he expected... and it will test his national loyalty, and his heart, to their limits.

Hetalia - Axis Powers - Rated: M - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 14 - Words: 78,703 - Reviews: 1627 - Updated: 12-8-11 - Published: 12-18-10 - Germany & N. Italy

4. Lily of the Lamplight » reviews

WW2 AU. Austrian musician Roderich and German soldier Gilbert are forced into an army prison unit and a fight for survival on the Russian Front. But in the midst of blood and death and hell on earth, how long can they fight their desire for each other?

Hetalia - Axis Powers - Rated: M - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 7,256 - Reviews: 139 - Published: 11-20-11 - Prussia & Austria

5. Meanwhile, Across Town » reviews

Superhero AU. The glory days of Hetalopolis, when war raged between Superhero and Supervillain, are gone. But when Arthur happens upon an aspiring Superhero, it looks like his days as the greatest reporter in the city are again just around the corner...

Hetalia - Axis Powers - Rated: T - English - Romance/Adventure - Chapters: 2 - Words: 8,030 - Reviews: 91 - Updated: 10-27-11 - Published: 9-24-11 - America & England/Britain

6. Sleep, Little Bird » reviews

Human AU. Tino, Berwald and Peter are the perfect family. Things like this don't happen to people like them. But when they do, how are they supposed to accept it?

Hetalia - Axis Powers - Rated: T - English - Family/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,437 - Reviews: 122 - Published: 9-26-11 - Finland & Sweden - Complete

7. Catch Perfect » reviews

AU. When Berwald loses everything he is forced to move into a share house with an insane Dane, a sociopathic Norwegian, an unfathomable Icelander and a perfect Finn who makes it all worth putting up with.

Hetalia - Axis Powers - Rated: T - English - Romance/Friendship - Chapters: 6 - Words: 21,062 - Reviews: 279 - Updated: 7-1-11 - Published: 10-10-10 - Sweden & Finland

8. The Tiger and the Dragon » reviews

AU. Awkward chef Yao Wang is immediately captivated when he meets enigmatic and slightly unnerving businessman Ivan Braginski. As he falls deeper it becomes apparent just how dangerous Ivan really is… but Yao may be too in love to care…

Hetalia - Axis Powers - Rated: M - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 12 - Words: 48,785 - Reviews: 228 - Updated: 7-1-11 - Published: 7-3-10 - Russia & China

9. Gallipoli » reviews

Gallipoli, April 25, 1915. Australia is a young nation with plenty to prove. And war is where nations prove themselves.

Hetalia - Axis Powers - Rated: T - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 5,177 - Reviews: 22 - Published: 4-28-11 - Australia - Complete

10. We'll Meet Again » reviews

WW2 AU. London pub owner Arthur Kirkland is driven to distraction by loud, brash American fighter pilot Alfred Jones. Unable to stop it, Arthur finds himself falling for Alfred's charms... just as the pilot is preparing to leave for war.

Hetalia - Axis Powers - Rated: M - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 13 - Words: 44,462 - Reviews: 812 - Updated: 1-20-11 - Published: 7-18-10 - America & England/Britain - Complete

11. Stay With You » reviews

Germany lies defeated and alone in the aftermath of the Battle of Berlin... but not everyone has abandoned him.

Hetalia - Axis Powers - Rated: T - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,326 - Reviews: 24 - Published: 5-4-10 - Germany & N. Italy - Complete

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THANK YOU MARVINHERE FOR FINDING THIS!

[lostinfantasies38]

5 Questions for Writers

Thanks for this wonderful writer tag @serial-chillr​ !  Tagged by @pikapeppa, @theaiobhan, @fandomn00blr  

Sorry this took me so long to answer.  I had to scour all my work to answer a couple of these.

1. Do you have a favourite character to write? Who and why?

Shit, this is hard.  I love writing so many characters, but Alistair and Sirra are my favorites.  

Sirra is unique with her dwarven perspective, and that tends to bleed into the rest of her life.  She isn’t hardened by any means, but her worldview is admittedly different, though she always tries to save as many lives as possible.  The last thing she ever wants to be is the callous Carta bitch Orzammar labeled her.  But she is scrappy and feisty, an absolute badass in battle, and Ancestors help anyone who touches her friends and family.    

Alistair is fun to write because he is sarcastic and witty, a fierce warrior who will wreck shop on the field, but he’s so insecure.  His uncertainty and need for validation make him approachable and real.  I have so many feelings about this man - it's absurd.

2. Do you have a favourite trope to write? Or one you want to write?

GIVE ME ALL THE TROPES!!  I’m not sure if I have a favorite, per se.  I love them all and I am liberal with them, as anyone who has read my work will attest.  But I do love “friends to lovers,” “they were roommates,” and everyone’s favorite, “there was only one bed.”  

Obviously, now that I am looking at these, I think this speaks to my need for fulfillment in proximity within my own life.  There is intimacy inherent in sharing space with someone on the daily like ‘friends’ and ‘roommates’ and anytime you share a sleeping space with someone, even platonically, you form a bond.  How far that bond progresses is up to both parties, but it doesn’t remove the foundation that now exists for something more to grow upon.   

I write the things I lack, the things I want, the things that make me happy.  Because let’s face it - we all live vicariously through our characters.  

3. Share your favourite description you’ve written?

Fuuuuuck, this is hard!  I am a very descriptive writer.  But probably my Varric prompt that @somniaran sent me.  You have to read the whole thing, but it’s too long to post here, so I’ll link it.  Titled “Careworn.”

But here is a portion of Alistair’s memory of the fight with the Archdemon, from my Alistair/Rylie Trevelyan WIP.  In this story, Elissa made the Ultimate Sacrifice.

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Lips crashed together and he pulled her as close to him as their armor would allow in a desperate final plea with each other.  Elissa leaned out of the kiss and stared at him with her pale blue eyes that reminded him of whitecaps on the ocean – washed out sapphire ringed with gray, wholly unique and captivating.

“Goodbye.” 

Alistair opened his mouth to argue with her again, but her thumb pressed against the pressure point in his neck that Zevran taught her during her assassin training.  His knees buckled and his vision darkened from lack of oxygen.  When he sank to the ground, Elissa finally removed her thumb, staring at him with a heartbroken expression before spinning on her heel to face destiny. 

He was so weak that he could only watch as the Archdemon lifted its head in a final challenge to the woman barreling down on it.  Alistair raked a hand along the gore-covered stone towards her and yelled hoarsely when she snatched a nearby sword.  She slid under the dragon’s neck with sword tip raised and cleaved it in half.  Elissa rolled out from under the mighty Archdemon and without hesitation slammed the blade through its head with an anguished shout.

Blinding light and heat filled the center of the tower, rapidly expanding to encompass the whole of the building.  Alistair could barely see her in the white-hot halo, but his tainted blood located her directly in the center.  She was the center.  She was the light.  A high-pitched keen rent the air, growing in intensity until it abruptly stopped.  All sound in the city was extinguished and an eerie silence descended. The light shattered without warning and the shockwave of searing heat sent him flying across the tower, knocking him unconscious from the force of his landing on the stone.  

4. Share your favourite dialogue you’ve written?

I have so many favorites!!  But most of them are spoilers of WIPs and I don’t want to give too much away on them.  So here is my favorite snippet from Sun Touched. Apologies if you are reading the story on AO3 and already know this segment.

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“Who are you?  I specifically told Carroll not to let anyone cross the lake.  We are dealing with a delicate situation here. You must leave immediately.”

Sirra bristled and took a bold step forward.  “No. The mages are obligated to aid the Grey Wardens during a Blight.  I didn’t come all the way here to be denied men for the scourge that threatens us all.” 

The Templar narrowed his eyes, but didn’t speak. He simply appraised the dwarven woman whose fuse was as short as her stature.  “The Circle is lost. Abominations and demons roam the halls. We were overrun and not prepared for such an onslaught.  We’ve barred the doors to keep them out and are waiting for reinforcements from Denerim for the Right of Annulment.”

Alistair groaned and Leliana gasped at his pronouncement while Sirra huffed impatiently with her hands on her hips.  "Oh, for the love of all the Paragons!  What does that mean?”

Alistair snorted softly at her dwarven curse and murmured in her ear.  “The mages are probably already dead. The Right allows for the Templars to kill everyone inside to prevent abominations escaping and any mages that might be alive from becoming possessed.”

Sirra reeled back in shock, staring at the older Templar, as fury bubbled within her.  “They are mages! They have magic! They can’t all be dead! You locked them in there and left them to their fate like cowards!”  

A hush descended on the room and he opened his mouth to refute her and regain his authority, but she cut him off with a slashing motion of her hand, glaring at him in defiance.  “I’m going in and I will save them, which is what you should have done! And when I return you will aid me against the Blight or so help me, you won’t be begging the Maker to spare your life, you will beg me.  Is that understood?”

“I assure you abominations are nothing to scoff about.”  The Templar closed the gap between them and stared down at her imperiously, attempting to intimidate her.

Flicking her throwing knife into her palm, she tossed it casually in the air, catching it by the hilt with ease, a murderous glint in her dark gaze.  “Do I look like I’m scoffing to you? I have confidence in my abilities. You really should thank me for doing your damn job, but if that’s below you then at the very least, get out of my fucking way.  I have people to rescue.”

5. Scene you haven’t written, but want to?

I have a few AU ideas, which would allow for some interesting scenes/scenarios, but I’m keeping them close to my chest right now.  I don’t know that they will ever come to fruition, but if they do, I want them to be a surprise.  

 Thanks for tagging me, friends! Tagging forward to @bigfan-fanfic @ginnyq @darlingrutherford @ranawaytothedas @somniaran @jacklyn-flynn and anyone else who would like to play!