#like an fe: shadow dragon fic i had in the works

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The WIP List Keeps Growing:

The Obey Me Fic

The TGAA Fic(s)

The FE3H Fic

The FE:A Fic

The Ghost of Tsushima Fic

And now I'm scribbling some Devil May Cry stuff on top of that. That's too many WIPS. I should put some back especially since these are all big projects and there's probably no way I can do them all but aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. *clinging to my WIPS*

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For that writing ask meme: 3, 16, 18, and 24.

Thank you~!

(From this Ask Meme here.)

3.     Name a fanfic/story you are particularly proud of writing.

...Can I pick more than one?

Dragon Star (Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds) is still one that I’m particularly proud of -- it might not be my best work technically, but the sheer amount of research I had to do to make a believable duel that could theoretically last 2-3 episodes of the anime itself? I’m still shocked that I had the attention span to do it, and that I was able to find pretty much every single card that I needed.

The Crossing the Realms (Fire Emblem Fates: Conquest) trilogy are also some of my absolute favorites. I was really amused by the concept when it first came to mind, and despite how crack-like it seems, I thought I was still able to make it believable. Also, I thought that making it from the Conquest point of view was interesting, since they would have more of a reason to stay in the Deeprealms (in this case Ylisse).

And finally, Light Those Flames (Mega Man Battle Network). The fic is less about the (extremely) rarepair and more development for a character who otherwise would make no sense (for context: Match tries to kill you in BN1. He reappears in BN2 as an optional battle, and your character doesn’t trust him. In BN3, he tricks you, makes you do something horrible, and nearly kills a bunch a people. In BN4, the events of that fic take place. He doesn’t appear in BN5, but reappears in BN6 as one of your teachers. And he’s a GOOD GUY this time. There are two instances where you need to select someone to run for help, and he is one of them, and HE WILL save your ass both times.)

16.   Any ideas you wanted to write about, but never did?

Uhh... let’s see. I had an idea for an AU where Fates and Awakening are in the same world, but I don’t think I ever got around to fleshing it out too well.

I’ve always wanted to write a full out novelization for my major Mega Man AUs, but probably never will. They’ve all got tons of RP logs and oneshots (and Asphodel even has a multichapter WIP fic), though.

-Babylon AU: Pretty much all the events are tossed in a blender and I pick out what I like. If anyone remembers my Xavier RP blog, this is where he’s from.

-Svarga AU: X pretty much retired from the Hunters to work as a scientist. An old, old concept that his Armors have AIs is in play in this world. If anyone remembers my Max RP blog, this is where he’s from.

-Tartarus AU: Basically a reverse-MMZ AU -- X is the amnesiac Reploid that Ciel finds, while Maverick Zero is the one in control of Elysium (the equivalent of Neo Arcadia). If anyone remembers my Phoenix RP blog, this is where he’s from.

-Asphodel AU: Basically all of canon remains, with the events tweaked just slightly to make sense. All of the Mega Man series fall into one timeline, with the BN/SF timeline taking place LONG after the Classic/X/Zero/ZX/Legends timeline.

-Avalon AU: The BN/SF anime timeline takes place sometime after the Classic/X timeline. The Elf Wars mentioned in the Zero timeline occurred, but X was never replaced by Copy X.

-Vanaheim AU: X woke up with a twin unit (OVER-1), Zero woke up with a twin unit (R-Shadow, named Reuben), and Zero remembers his mission. Sigma never gets infected, but Mavericks are still a thing. X is a little more proactive and are basically vigilantes, and Zero is a Hunter that gets Very Frustrated with X.

18.   Are there any topics you find difficult to write for?

I’m not particularly a fan of writing crack, if that makes sense? I love humor, genuinely funny stuff is the best, but if it’s crack, I don’t... like to.

Killing off favorite characters is practically impossible. If I ever do this, it’s always done off-screen before the fic started because my heart completely shatters otherwise.

24.   What future fics/events can we expect to see?

Well, I’m working on at least one FE Fates fic that has a similar concept to Whisper a Prayer, A Flicker of Awakening, and All of Them, so I think I might be getting that out soon enough. I really should just put these in a series.

Then there’s a WIP of a post-FE Fates: Birthright route fic where Odin is the main character. This has somehow hit 80,000 words in my doc and it’s not even close to being complete, and given my track record, won’t be posted until it is. Saying anything about what happens in this one will spoil it, unfortunately, but Odin is Not Happy with what happened in Birthright.

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Writer's works in progress

I saw that someone else had written up their wip-s, so maybe writing up mine will make me GET ON WITH IT and help me write more on one (or more) of them. 1) 1938 Brooklyn Murder mystery: in which a Ripper (any killer with a knife is always dubbed a Ripper by the press, it's a thing) stalks the young men of the queer/gay community of Brooklyn. One by one young men die and the cops either can't or won't do anything about a few dead [slur]; the mob doesn't care either; war looms in Europe; the Mayor is trying to clean up the city before the World's Fair; the dynamics of the queer community itself is changing as men and women who previously might not have considered themselves part of it are thrown in with it, with new laws meant to manage a moral society; and two men, in exactly that predicament, are watching their friends dying at the hands of the Ripper and hoping they're not next, while dealing with feelings for each other. (The historian in me has run amok.) 2) The Sweater Curse: (Bagginshield) In which hobbits consider it bad luck to make crocheted or knitted garments for themselves (a sign that one has no kin) because sweaters are made and given between first and second degree blood relatives (parents and children, grandparents and grandchildren, aunts and uncles and nieces and nephews). Other kinds of garments are given freely. If a sweater is given to an unrelated person it is considered a proposal. In which dwarves make their own crocheted or knitted garments for themselves (a sign of their craft-skill and self-sufficiency). Other kinds of garments are bought and sold freely. If a sweater is offered as a gift to another person it is befuddling at best and an insult at worst. The Sweater Curse in our world says that if a person, usually a woman, starts to make a sweater for their significant other, usually a man, before they are married, the relationship will end. The fic I'd imagined had a happy ending - with Thorin thinking that Bilbo had been making the sweater for himself. "You loveable dunce, did you never notice I'd keep borrowing Kíli to size it correctly for you? I'd be swimming in it!" 3) transman Phil Coulson fic. I'm not trans, so I'd have to tread carefully here. My real aim is feminism and femininity. A male Coulson has leeway in a manner that a female Coulson would not. A male Coulson is not told that he is missing out on the essential manly quality of being a father and a husband; he is not automatically assumed, on walking into a room, to be the secretary or the assistant. Women always have to be twice as good to be perceived as half as competent, and then (often) they're told not to be a b*tch about it. But all this from the point of Clint Barton, who is kind of clueless, and who really loves Phil (I kind of love this ship and like the rest of the fandom I'm not really sure why), means that he just sees grade-A badass Phil Coulson. Full stop. No edits. No matter what is, or isn't, in his past, in his pants, in his medical file, or what his parents used to call him. 4) Werewolf romance novel Tall dark and handsome (TM) is the antagonist who is stalking and eating people. He's a creep who plays into rape culture and preys on young women who think that his bad boy vibe cover up anything other than a black heart. The protagonist is a smart and kick-ass young woman with a shiny degree and huge student loans working below her talents, as a barman, which is how she knows of the antagonist and his creepiness. She has a friend, her landlady's daughter, who is close to her age. (Yay for passing the Bechdel test? I'd better, after actually meeting Alison Bechdel.) The love interest is this sandy blonde dorky guy, a drifter who works construction and throws darts at the bar. When people start getting chewed up he's the prime suspect, and even our protagonist doesn't know what to think - but only until our antagonist tries to take a bite out of her, and he intervenes, as a werewolf. And from there it's your usual. I got sick of the werewolf books with creepy rape culture overtones and not passing the Bechdel test and thought, I could do better. 5) a Clint Barton/Darcy Lewis fanfic, in which she helps patch him up after Loki's mind control. In the comics, Clint had a pretty messed up childhood. Circus, dad who beat him, taught to shoot by a man who beat him and then used him first as a thief and then as a killer (or so I loosely understand; and I'd be using a variation on that in the fic, anyway). He would have had to have therapy for it at SHIELD just to be functional as an agent around people. But Loki's mind control messed with all that, breaking the locks and self-management he'd had for so long. He'd have major depressive episodes and PTSD following it. And Darcy, being a civilian, might not be the best person to bring him out, but she was there for Thor and the Destroyer. She saw some shit. And who knows what she had in her childhood. (I do, because I created it, but I'm the author and I can do what I like.) What was done by Loki cannot be undone, but what was done before Loki could, just maybe, be done over again, more painstakingly and with greater care, like walking around the glass shards of a broken vase. 6) a Fíli/fem!Bilbo fic: in which a pregnant Bilbo runs from the Mountain. (Thorin died of his wounds, but Fíli and Kíli survived.) Bilbo, in whatever feminized spelling of one's choosing, won't, can't, stay. The memories of battle, of being shaken like a rat over the gates of Erebor, are too fresh and too raw. The halls reek of dragon and she hears Smaug's eerie deep voice creeping in the shadows. No, she cannot stay. She must go somewhere green. A month, a year, five years, forever, she must go somewhere clean and cleansed. And Fíli, her One, can't go. She knows this. And she, even though she's his One, can't stay. Magic lover's nonsense and whatever, there's reality you have to deal with, and sometimes reality means PTSD and dragon stink. So they argue, the night after his coronation. She is due to leave the next day with Gandalf and it'll be the last time - it's emotionally fraught. He's mad and she's mad, because they both *want* it to be different. In my mind's eye I saw the argument, in the indirect result: his name was Frerin. And, of course, that can't be let alone, since as the eldest son of a king, half-hobbit or no, he is heir apparent to a throne, and a birthright. Tolkien wrote that dwarf populations at the end of the end of the Third Age and into the Fourth dwindled until the race itself failed - meaning that there were too few women having too few children. This is obvious enough from what we see in the appendices. A king having a son hidden from him and raised by a non-dwarf woman, even if she is his mother? A scandal, the fanon assumes, and I presume with it. 7) a Bucky Barnes in slightly more efficient and effective hiding fic. There's that photo going around of Sebastian Stan from the set of his latest movie and he has this big mustache, and jeez if Bucky looked like that, some people commented, and not all 90s Grunge, he might have escaped a lot better, since the photo Zemo circulated assumed that Bucky looked like a hobo. Personally I don't see Bucky growing that mustache (looking like Howard Stark, who he assassinated, would give him a heart attack). Nor do I see him as a teacher, of math or otherwise, as the original post suggested; he'd never pass the background check. But there's another picture of Sebastian Stan I saw that was also relatively recent (but before any of the photos from the set of I, Tonya) with a full beard, and if he'd grown that out, if Bucky had grown that out, maybe he might have looked like Norm Abram back when he was younger. So, maybe a carpenter. It's a sin to hide that beautiful jawline, but effective. Bucky would get away from HYDRA and SHIELD both, just by staying off the radar and not looking like what they expect. He could even use his real name - there are 4,207 other James Barnes-es in the US, what would make him special? There are only 27 Clint Bartons. One borrowed social security number, one rented house, anywhere would do but I was thinking Santa Fe (because I've been there and can describe it, it's cool enough in part of the year he can wear long sleeves outside and the rest of the year there's air conditioning and he can wear long sleeves inside to cover the arm, and because it's a tourist town, people with money to spend on his carpentry work). From my notes, in particular: He checks in at the spots the Smithsonian mentioned. Red Hook, Dumbo, Coney Island. Those spots in Brooklyn that are supposed to have had that towheaded little captain America to be and his sidekick to become running amok in the 1920s. Some pieces fit. Bits of bitty Steve fit in, here and here, slotting back into Bucky's memory. Steve is a huge, pun intended, part of who he once was. To have made Bucky forget Steve, no wonder he forgot himself - - or was it the other way around, that Bucky forgot himself because he forgot Steve? 8) nonfiction, Torah commentary, starting with Genesis (Bereshit). 9) nonfiction, the history (I've been working on for five years) of the Hasidic movement during the Holocaust. Various dynasties and their rebbes, and the rebbes' successors, and the survival of the Hasidim and the Hasidut - how it worked, where it happened, how it happened; but from there, which members of the rabbinical families did not survive? Why? What attempts were made to save them? When attempts were made, who was given first preference and what stated reason, if any, was given? These are questions that have not yet been answered. And I have limited access to Hasidim, by language and by culture. These are not questions anyone would ever give me a straight answer to, of course. I have strong suspicions. Nothing more. The demographics of death - these are records we do have - say a lot. And the final chapters of the book, or the last volume, or the next book, also needs to be written: the rise to power of the other Hasidic dynasties, the massive shift in power away from Poilisher-Yidish culture elsewhere due to the near destruction of that community. Lubavitch, Bobov, Satmar, Belz, and Ger - only the last is Poilisher-Yidish. Before the war the largest Hasidic dynasties were to be found in Poland: Ger, Aleksandr, and Radomsk. There's a lot here no one else has done. I suppose it falls to me. So, I have many things to work on. I have lots to choose from. If only my brain would ACTUALLY LET ME DO IT, DAMMIT.