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anghraine · 2 months ago

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I honestly feel a lot better about having posted anything at AO3, even things I won't finish, and there's something that warms my heart about posting fic for The Borgias in 2024.

I was actually deciding between two different WIPs to represent that "phase" between my undergrad years and grad school. The other one was the prologue to a Legend of Korra/Star Wars fusion in which Noatak/Amon is Korra's father and this is revealed in S1 (I think it was going to be Tarrlok who figures it out first, lol) and it actually affects the plot and it isn't just the LOK canon plot with minor adjustments—the fusion with SW was meant to be more than vague I-am-your-father inspiration. In any case, I only ever wrote the prologue about the Noatak/Senna quasi-romance that led to Korra's existence and never even got to the sheer comedy of Korra as Tarrlok's niece :(

But the Juan and Lucrezia as dysfunctional twins one-shot is closer to being a whole fic (in a side-story way) and I did like being able to add one more to my Borgias oeuvre—and getting at least some part of that AU on AO3 after all the time I spent on it!

#anghraine babbles #fic talk #i don't think senna actually ends up with tonraq in the au so there's no easy I Have A Real Dad option #and korra grows up knowing that her parents spent a genuinely wonderful year together before a ship he was in tragically sank #(this is not actually noatak's fault - he'd actually disembarked and chosen to disappear before the shipwreck happened #and just appreciated the convenience of it effectively covering his tracks after he'd made the 'mistake' of getting attached to senna #who fully believes he was in the shipwreck and is very dead)#so korra's heard all these (true!) stories of how cool the 22-y-o charismatic super waterbender noatak seemed to senna #meanwhile tarrlok discovers just who her father was and is like 'ok she's DEFINITELY getting the satomobile. but for different reasons')#the publishing au is actually incredibly involved (it's the bay area borgias fic as well!) but just focusing on juan and lucrezia #made it more possible to compress into a reasonably sized one-shot #in reality i wrote about the kids in school and how rodrigo bulldozed into their lives when their much older brother luis tragically died #vanozza is the second of his various ex-wives. also i included an adriana del milà expy even though it's very much borgias fic bc i love he #and yes she /is/ still the mother-in-law of the giulia expy :D #lucrezia ended up getting moved ahead a year from juan and joins cesare in befriending The New Kid #miguel aka micheletto - who thus is a high school friend of theirs and has complicated feelings about everything #but never forgot that teenage cesare and lucrezia stood by him when he was involuntarily outed in their school c. 2002.#lucrezia is the most obvious nepo baby of the company but actually fantastic at marketing while cesare is the creative one #but rodrigo has convinced himself that juan is the creative genius bc he(r) likes him(j) best and obviously has infallible judgment #but yeah it dovetails into the bay area au in which the alfonso d'aragona expy is lucrezia's boyfriend al from pleasanton #he doesn't like her living in the house her family owns outright in oakland for reasons he never manages to explain!)#political shenanigans and codependent siblings #avatar: the legend of korra

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