#clexa wild west au

[femininenachos]

Hi. I've noticed you changed the number of chapters for your fic "the pursuit". Did you change your mind about the epilogue?

I want to return to it when I feel inspired enough, but I didn’t want the 7/8 chapter count hanging over me in the meantime, considering the main story is complete and the epilogue would just be an added bonus. I do plan to write it at some point, I just don’t know when that will be, sorry!

[femininenachos]

@orangeyouglad8 !!!

Wild west AU

@femininenachos @dreamsaremywords

[bigonsarcasm]

Idea #3

What about an AU fic where Lexa is a no nonsense, cold hearted Old West bounty hunter and Clarke is a prostitute in one of the towns she frequents? Lexa finds herself feeling super protective when she finds out that Clarke is being abused by one of her patrons, a sadistic bastard from the upper class. She is able to squash these feelings by staying on the move and focusing on her work, but they come back with a vengance when she returns to find that Clarke was kidnapped at the behest of said patron. Of course the law will do nothing considering her class and occupation versus that of her kidnapper, therefore, Lexa takes it upon herself to find Clarke and bring her to safety. Anybody down for that? The evil, abusive patron can be anybody and Lexa may or may not have a g!p.

[gravitywonagain]

Rules: Post 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.

hehehe... hahahahaha... oh this is gonna be... embarrassing, mostly, but also very fun!! thank you for tagging me @amethyst-noir <3<3<3

A Necessary Evil [wangxian]

All the Monsters Come Out at Night [wlw wangxian]

Alone on Lunar New Year? Mad at your dad? [wangxian fam]

Assassin's Creed AU [wangxian]

Beating Like a Hammer [wlw wangxian]

Boy Meets Sword [mxy&suibian]

Breathing You In (I Don't Wanna Stop) [wangxian]

Bury the Sunlight [burial mounds fam]

Caiyi Town (Gilmore Girls AU) [wangxian fam]

Can't Cheat Death While You're Digging Your Own Grave [nhs&wwx]

Control [beefleaf]

Do you like apples? [wangxian]

Dreaming in Red [wangxian]

Dresden AU [wangxian fam]

Edges that Scratch (and notes on the Expanded Monterey Genderverse) [wlw wangxian]

Fierce Corpse JYL [yunmeng siblings]

Fire in the Back of My Throat (Sunshot Band AU) [wangningxian]

Fresh Powder in the Pine Trees [wangxian]

Gui Daifu | 鬼大夫 [burial mounds siblings]

Gun Oil [sunny bees]

Hand in Hand with a Brother (Demonic Shuangjie AU) [yunmeng sibs]

High Fidelity [wangningxian]

Homeless AU (and a treatise on the US treatment of felons by librarian LWJ) [wangxian fam]

Hot for Teacher [wangxian]

I am Not a Vessel for Your Good Intent [wangxian]

I Got Dumped in Tokyo [wlw wangxian]

Immortals [lan wangji/&wen ning]

In the Parking Lot Between a Dairy Queen and a PL$ Check Cashers [junior quartet, zhuiyi]

Inquiring Minds [wangxian, wwx&jc]

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Parker [leverage ot3]

Ramen House [wangxian]

Rope Burns [clexa]

Roses Don't Know When They're Dead [xuanli]

Sign Your Name Across My Body [wangxian]

Teal Eyes [fair game]

The Bar [thunderblink]

The Korrasami Sexcapades Playlist [korrasami]

The Too Personal AU [wangxian]

The Trashbag AU [korrasami]

The Water's Right, It's Sinking In [wangxian]

Turnt Up at the Club [sunny bees]

Under Streetlights [wangxian]

Undergrad Groupchat [wangxian]

Urban Fantasy AU (What Does the Huli Jing Say?) [wlw foxxian/dragonji]

WAGBFM: Can You Hear That (Whistle) -- A Nighthunt [junior quartet]

WAGBFM: Devil's Worst Nightmare -- A Rendezvous [mianqing]

WAGBFM: Nails in My Coffin -- A Marriage [songxiao]

WAGBFM: The Killing Kind -- A Prequel [wangxian]

Weird West AU [wangxian]

Words are Gonna Bleed from Me [wangxian]

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wow. okay. sure. at least 50 is a nice round number?

(i put the main focus in brackets when i start writing a thing, but sometimes that changes and i forget to update so... idk if all of those are super accurate or not? i guess we'll find out!)

Tagging: anyone who wants to do this! it's very fun! and also painful. but mostly fun! and i'm super excited for questions!

ask away! i'll answer whatever, whenever :)

ETA: still open. open forever. maybe i'll even try to keep it updated if people want that?

[clexaweekofficial]

Old Western au? There's not enough wild west clexa fics out there imo lol

Yee Haw!

[femininenachos]

I feel like wild west clarke is the most similar to canon; just doing shit that's clearly bad but saying well, what can you do, it's gotta be done and it's gotta be me doing it..Oh and here is a completely valid reason for my wrongdoing so 🤷🏽‍♀️

Oh for sure, this fic was an opportunity for me wallow in canon Clarke’s morally suspect, wily ways, and absolute badassery. The Wild West setting just beautifully lends itself to that too.

[femininenachos]

I feel like lexas really hesitant to let Clarke tie her up for anything because she’s been burned before and last time she walked out in her ☹️ poor yeehaw baby

Let’s just say that while Lexa forgives, she never forgets. She has to get her little digs in. Clarke might pout, but it’s the least she deserves.

[femininenachos]

When does outlaw Clarke let Lexa tie her up for fun reasons

Epilogue. Nuff said.

[femininenachos]

Was Clarke just waiting at her own grave for Lexa to show up or did she have another plan for how to tell her

She’d been sneakily surveilling Lexa’s movements and followed her. But Clarke’s backup plans have backups, so she would’ve found another way, most likely catching up with Lexa on the trail - she knew roughly where Lexa was headed, after all.

[femininenachos]

I'm jumping on the yee haw lesbians bandwagon 🤠

The pursuit has been an amazing read, thank you for blessing my timeline! 😘

Thank you, so happy you liked it! 💜💜💜

This fic is a bit outside my wheelhouse (action scenes, an actual plot lol), but it’s been as fun as it was challenging to write. Gonna miss these two!

[femininenachos]

Lexa getting her little cowboy heart stomped on waking up alone and tied to the bed 😩

The comment @syngularitysyn left on AO3 sums it up nicely lol:

[femininenachos]

Okay so you know Clarke’s confusion sadness at mouth weather when she realizes Lexa betrayed her to save her people. They little heartbroken tear filled look? Well in the pursuit when Lexa sees Clarke again she’s gonna look at her the exact same way 😩 that “you left me there” looo and I am EMO ABOIT IT

I know exactly what you mean, but initially it’s more like the barely contained loathing of the first time Clarke sets eyes on Lexa after three months of living like a wild woman in the woods:

[femininenachos]

hi! I just read the first two chapters of the pursuit for the first time and I just wanted to say that holy shit your writing style and characterization is amazing!! The way you perfectly blended the world of the 100 with the Wild West is fucking amazing, and your descriptions of the scenery and the characters is god tier. I honestly can’t wait for more !

🥹 Thank you! This fic is a real labour of love so I’m absolutely delighted to hear you’re enjoying it so far.

[femininenachos]

Read Chapter 3 on AO3

The Pursuit

~7k words, rated M.

Renowned across the frontier as one of the fastest, deadliest guns in the West, there's been no lack of adventure in the life of bounty hunter Lexa Woods. But she gets far more than she bargained for when she stops by the local saloon before taking on her next job.

Because that's when Lexa sees her.

Read on AO3

[femininenachos]

just read the recent update of clexa wild west au why does it feel like clarke will attempt something again that will completely make lexa go feral... also is there a reason why you pinned cut to the chase hmmmm

Interesting theory…

But, honestly, there’s nothing to read into about Cut to the Chase being pinned. I have no plans to do a continuation (although that AU does live rent free in my head). I was going to put together a pinned masterpost of my fics and the tags for the extras/headcanons/playlists for ease of finding all that stuff, but I’m lazy and haven’t gotten around to it yet, so CttC remains pinned only for that reason 😄

[femininenachos]

Was drawing outside this afternoon with my music on shuffle, and “Just Like Jesse James” by Cher came on. I got big “The Pursuit” AU vibes. Loved every minute of it. Not sure my neighbors were as pumped about my enthusiastic sing along but 🤷🏻‍♀️😬😁

Just for you (and Cher 🙌), I’m going to share a snippet from a second chapter that might never otherwise see the light of day:

~*~

With the safety and continuing liberty of her people foremost in her mind during waking hours, being in a constant state of alert from dawn till dusk, Clarke hasn’t got the luxury to entertain notions of anything else.

But in the dark, laying on her bedroll under the pale moonlight and a vast blanket of stars, that’s when her guard slips and uninvited thoughts creep in, and she feels this twinge in her chest. It ain’t exactly guilt, but she might call it regret. Not for the robbery—Dante Wallace had it coming. Not even for the innocent bystanders caught in the crossfire simply by virtue of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. The end justifies the means and she made her peace with that long ago.

No, what haunts her, what she can’t seem to shake is that look on Lexa’s face when their eyes locked amid the hail of bullets: crestfallen for the briefest of seconds before Lexa’s expression hardened. All prior warmth extinguished by cold, hurt fury that blasted through Clarke from twenty paces away like a Winchester repeater. But the part she couldn’t fathom then, and still can’t figure now, is why she even cares.

She should be counting her blessings.

Ought to take a whole heap of satisfaction from outsmarting a woman who’s respected and reviled in equal measure among gunslingers and outlaw gangs alike, from here to the Rio Grande.

Clarke hadn’t rightly intended to bed her. Least, not until she spied Lexa in person.

No one told Clarke the long arm of the law could be so alluring. She saw those fine, sculpted features, the curve of full lips, eyes the colour of a storm-tossed sea, and she decided she had to know whether this woman was all hat, no cattle, the risks be damned. Well, it turns out Miss Lexa Woods has a weakness for a low neckline and a truly astounding talent for using her mouth.

(She will not, cannot, allow herself to dwell on the way Lexa looked in the soft lamplight, a thin sheen of sweat on her golden skin, one arm flung over her head as she fought to catch her breath. Or how Lexa gazed at her in the morning as they lay atop the rumpled sheets, bright-eyed and glowing, a smile never far from her lips.

Clarke squashes every recollection of the final kiss they shared on the threshold of that hotel room, shortly before all hell broke loose. How it ran deep and heavy, tinged with something bittersweet that she tried hard to smother. When Lexa, ears tipped pink and wearing a little smirk, told her, “Keep the bed warm.” So much promise wrapped up in so few words.)

None of that matters now.

The gang looks to Clarke for leadership. They rely on her. Their very survival hinges on her keeping a clear head, and whatever remorse she might feel for wronging a beautiful woman... she needs to bury it quick.