#bayonetta endlings fic

[mothknight42]

For the ‘So Many Ideas’ post about WIPs, I’d love to hear about any ideas you have for the stuff listed in the post!!!

THANK YOU FOR THE ASK ! ! ! ! AHHHHHHHH I love a good excuse to talk about the feral ideas that are constantly scratching at the cat posts of my brain. I am going to ramble (as per usual......my apologies) so putting my answers below the cut.

Fics I want to write

All of the fics I write are ones I want to write, so this category is a bit funny. But I REALLY want to write a very dorky and self-indulgent Tokyo BayoJeanne rivals fic where they play competitive Splatoon. LMAO. I don't know if I ever will, because it is so ridiculously niche and silly.....but the idea is floating around currently. Jeanne is a Splatana Wiper Deco main and her backup is the fucking Bamboozler (ANNOYING TRYHARD MOMENTS). Bayo mains Dark Tetra Dualies and her backup is the Dynamo Roller. They spend entire matches just trying to kill each other, much to the chagrin of their teams. They meet IRL and are like. Oh she's hot. Oh no. OH nooooooooooo. Their first date is bowling which is way too fucking competitive and they end up making out in the bowling alley's shitty arcade. Love wins.

Fics I want to read

Lumen Bayo. I want this fic so badly as something I could just sit down and devour. In an ideal world, this fic would be written together by dubhgloinne, Dikhotomia, and Wilmaa and I would sob and scream and bite my hand until it bled at every chapter. Alas. They are not writing it, *I* am, so I will do my best to emulate the things they all do fabulously well and translate it to my own style. Part of why this fic is so daunting is because it is something I want primarily to read, and I am not sure if I can pull off the actual writing haha. We shall see.

Also a BayoJeanne coffeeshop AU. How the hell does this fandom not have one yet (as far as I am aware). I have started writing it but.....I know nothing about coffee. Or tea for that matter. So I will probably never finish writing this one. Someone else, PLEASE. I FUCKING BEG. BAYOJEANNE COFFEESHOP MEET CUTE ! ! ! !

There is just One Scene and I could write it but it would be waaaay more cool if I had all the build up to the scene but unfortunately. I can only figure out the Scene

Oh god. I have one tiny snippet of scene for a sequel to my orpheus fic, where Jeanne and Bayonetta have a full fight over Jeanne's over-protectiveness ..... but it would hit harder if I properly set it up and properly let them cope. It has been sitting in my drafts for months. I may never finish it. But I want to.

I keep changing my mind. Where am I going with this

Fun fact - last year I started planning what was supposed to be my first proper multi-chapter (side-eyes DH) set post Bayo 2, where Jeanne and Bayo would manage to bring a small cohort of witches back to life accidentally due a failsafe put in place by the Umbran Elder. But I was worried I was veering too close to some of the amazing ideas andthatisterrible has explored in their Endlings series and couldn't stop changing my mind on what to do with it. I have since abandoned it. I came up with an OC for it (a butch Umbra named Calliope) that I was IN LOVE WITH. She appears briefly in my blood and darkness fic, but this would have been her chance to shine. Alas. RIP to her.

This has been done a million times before. But. Hear me out

Jeanne and Bayo falling in love post Bayo 1. I have written this fic twice before, a million other people have written it, and yet here I am doing it a third time. But here me out. t4t BayoJeanne falling in love. DO YOU SEE THE VISION.

I will 100% Never Write This. This is just my Emotional Support Idea no one can ever know about bc it makes sense only to me

This used to be my t4t bayojeanne fic, but cringe is dead and I am free so I am actually writing it and will post it someday. I don't think I have any current ideas that fit this category.

Would be better as a comic...

I have had this idea pinging around in my head about Umbran hair rituals since last May (and playing Origins has only made it worse) but I think because so much of it is about feeling and vibes it would make for a much prettier and more impactful comic. I can't draw though so. RIP. I will probably break down some of these ideas and incorporate them into other fics though.

This will be my magnum opus if I can just get my 50 pages of ideas into a coherent narrative

Lumen Bayo. God please. Praying I can pull it off. I love it so so so so so much.

All I have are vibes

Eldritch horror Bayonetta, who gets a hold of both Eyes of the World and uses them to prevent Jeanne from ever dying. She becomes a god and loses her humanity in the process, and Jeanne is horrified (both by what her lover has become for her, and because she still loves her despite it all). My favorite Mass Effect fic of all time plays with a similar idea/theme, so I am drawing inspiration from it. But I only have vibes, not a real plot. It will probably be pretty experimental.....if I could write it in a similar style to this fucking incredible fic by Dikhotomia that would be epic. One day. ONE DAY.

WIP I started and haven't updated in 2 years and oh god its beEN TWO YEARS???

LMAO. It was this fic but since I finished it I don't have any other WIPs that have been sitting stagnant for more than four months. The other ideas pinging around my brain right now are Origins focused (I have a longer Morgana/Rosa endgame Origins AU fic in the works, but who knows when that will see the light of day.



ANYWAY. Hope this was interesting?

[asleepinawell]

Found your Endlings series browsing the bayojeanne tag on AO3, and I absolutely loved it! It was much appreciated after the disaster of Bayonetta 3. The way you characterized Jeanne and Bayo was fantastic and there were some great story moments. I wanted to ask, as a writer who struggles sometimes with getting my planned stories out on paper, do you have a process? Like, do you structure a story, then write it out, do it piece by piece, or something else? The Endlings stories were all fantastic.

I have no structure at all. :') Basically if I have an idea I just sit down and start writing without any real plan and just write straight through it without outlining or going out of order. Drives my other writer friends nuts. I used to post each chapter as I wrote it with no idea how it would end and the plot always seemed to work itself out, but I switched to pre-writing entire fics so I could edit them as a whole before posting which I think improves the quality. I'll generally do 3-5 full editing passes before posting and often keep editing chapters right up until i post

The one thing I sometimes do is sketch out top-down maps of areas especially if there's action stuff going on. I find it helps me keep track of what's happening where. We're talking really rough maps that are a bunch of lines and circles mostly. I also did some "sketches" of some of the bosses I designed for the bayo fic series...which like...i'm not an artist and i did them in a sketch app on my phone so yeah. here's one:

I was having a really hard time describing the boss and doing this helped a lot

On a similar note, I often use reference images. For Endlings I went and took a ton of screenshots and for other stuff I've done in the past I've looked up whatever I'm writing about and found pictures. I just find it easier to have visuals to glance at

There are a lot of different ways to go about writing a longer piece and I think it's just a matter of finding the way that works best for you. I will get bored and quit if I try to outline first (I do sometimes have very specific scenes in my head ahead of time and I kind of look for a place for them as I go), so I just sit down and write. I can't really explain how that works. I think it might be worth trying a range of different planning strategies. Like try writing with no plan and then with a detailed outline and then try to look for the sweet spot in the middle if those don't work. I'm not sure that helps much but it's all I got

and thank you do much and i'm really glad you enjoyed my fics! i think we're all pretty bummed out about where bayo 3 went but that's what fandom content exists for

[asleepinawell]

Chapter 12:Vacation

Rating: T

Fandom: Bayonetta

Relationship: Bayonetta/Jeanne

Chapters: 12/12

Summary: Faced with a deadly threat, Bayonetta and Jeanne are forced to travel back in time to the Vigrid of their childhoods to find an answer.

Short lil epilogue. Fic complete!

[asleepinawell]

Chapter 10: A New Complication

Rating: T

Fandom: Bayonetta

Relationship: Bayonetta/Jeanne

Chapters: 10/12

Summary: Faced with a deadly threat, Bayonetta and Jeanne are forced to travel back in time to the Vigrid of their childhoods to find an answer.

[asleepinawell]

Chapter 6: The Other Side of the Mirror  

Rating: T

Fandom: Bayonetta

Relationship: Bayonetta/Jeanne

Chapters: 6/11

Summary: Faced with a deadly threat, Bayonetta and Jeanne are forced to travel back in time to the Vigrid of their childhoods to find an answer.

[asleepinawell]

Chapter 11:The Eyes of the World

Rating: T

Fandom: Bayonetta

Relationship: Bayonetta/Jeanne

Chapters: 11/12

Summary: Faced with a deadly threat, Bayonetta and Jeanne are forced to travel back in time to the Vigrid of their childhoods to find an answer.

Last chapter is an extremely short epilogue I’ll post in the next day or two

[asleepinawell]

Chapter 8: Dreams

Rating: T

Fandom: Bayonetta

Relationship: Bayonetta/Jeanne

Chapters: 8/11

Summary: Faced with a deadly threat, Bayonetta and Jeanne are forced to travel back in time to the Vigrid of their childhoods to find an answer.

[asleepinawell]

Chapter 1: A Bad Day

Rating: T

Fandom: Bayonetta

Relationship: Bayonetta/Jeanne

Chapters: 1/11

Summary: Faced with a deadly threat, Bayonetta and Jeanne are forced to travel back in time to the Vigrid of their childhoods' to find an answer.

I hadn't planned to continue this series, but when I got the idea for this there were some reasons it needed to be part of this series specifically. For new readers, I'd highly recommend starting at the beginning of the Endlings series, as there are certain things that might cause some confusion otherwise, however you can probably still enjoy it without doing that.

(Since tumblr often hides posts with links in the body from the tag I didn’t include a link to the start of the series, however you can just follow the main link to this new fic and then click of the Endlings series in the header where is says Part 4 of the Endlings series).

[asleepinawell]

Chapter 9: The Two Jeannes

Rating: T

Fandom: Bayonetta

Relationship: Bayonetta/Jeanne

Chapters: 9/12

Summary: Faced with a deadly threat, Bayonetta and Jeanne are forced to travel back in time to the Vigrid of their childhoods to find an answer.

[asleepinawell]

Chapter 4: Heist

Rating: T

Fandom: Bayonetta

Relationship: Bayonetta/Jeanne

Chapters: 4/11

Summary: Faced with a deadly threat, Bayonetta and Jeanne are forced to travel back in time to the Vigrid of their childhoods to find an answer.

[asleepinawell]

Chapter 3: Rosa

Rating: T

Fandom: Bayonetta

Relationship: Bayonetta/Jeanne

Chapters: 3/11

Summary: Faced with a deadly threat, Bayonetta and Jeanne are forced to travel back in time to the Vigrid of their childhoods’ to find an answer.

[asleepinawell]

Chapter 5: Return

Rating: T

Fandom: Bayonetta

Relationship: Bayonetta/Jeanne

Chapters: 5/11

Summary: Faced with a deadly threat, Bayonetta and Jeanne are forced to travel back in time to the Vigrid of their childhoods to find an answer.

This is the conclusion of part 1 of this fic. Part 2 coming soon.

[asleepinawell]

Chapter 2: The Past

Rating: T

Fandom: Bayonetta

Relationship: Bayonetta/Jeanne

Chapters: 2/11

Summary: Faced with a deadly threat, Bayonetta and Jeanne are forced to travel back in time to the Vigrid of their childhoods’ to find an answer.

[asleepinawell]

Chapter 1: The Gates of Hell

Rating: T

Fandom: Bayonetta

Relationship: Bayonetta/Jeanne

Chapters: 1/6

Set after the events of Bayonetta 2, Bayonetta and Jeanne return to the ruined city of Vigrid following a trail linked to their own pasts.

This is a very story-driven fic, but also has plenty of bayojeanne content in it as well.

[asleepinawell]

Chapter 7: The New Umbra Witches

Rating: T

Fandom: Bayonetta

Relationship: Bayonetta/Jeanne

Chapters: 7/11

Summary: Faced with a deadly threat, Bayonetta and Jeanne are forced to travel back in time to the Vigrid of their childhoods to find an answer.

[asleepinawell]

Rating: T

Fandom: Bayonetta

Relationship: Bayonetta/Jeanne

Chapters: 2/2 (posted together)

Set in the past, Cereza and Jeanne take a trip out of Vigrid for a week. Mostly cute story about teenaged Cereza and Jeanne but a little bittersweet maybe.

This is set in the same continuity/universe/whatever as my Endlings series but reading the series is not at all necessary.