#volfred is a wip

[sparklecur]

ive been given too much power

[wipbigbang]

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Pyre

#097

Title: Stargazer

Pairing/Characters: OFC centric, Oralech, Volfred Sandelwood

Rating Mature | M

Warnings/Tags: Chooses not to use Warnings

depression, low self esteem, major injury under reactions, panic attacks, dissociation

Summary: You must have hit your head... It was just meant to be a short walk. A quick excuse to get you out of the house for a MINUTE.

But you fell... You think you fell.

And now your knees hurt and the stars are too bright, the night rife with color and there's a man. Face down in the river.

Written in 2nd person POV with a named, nonflat, female protagonist

[jpdoingart]

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Assassin’s Creed Odyssey

Alexios: Bow Study || Bright Colours || On Holidays || Head Studies Brasidas: Collection || In ‘Spartan Scene.’ || Wreathed in Gold I || Being Woken || At the Beach || Like a Saint || Like a French girl? || Black and White || Wreathed in Gold II || Head Studies || Watching the Wrestling || Contemplation || Pomegranate Nikolaos Thaletas: Thaletas || Head Studies Herodianos: Character Design Ship: Thalexios - Beneath the Trees || Fic Cover: Love Me in Storms || Tender Ship: Alexidas - Collection || Trying New Things || A Private Moment || Stormy Seas || Forehead Kisses || On Holidays || A Shady Spot || PFPs || Brasideia 2023 || Oof Ship: Alexithenes: One Night in Athens Ship: Herodietas - Painting

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla

Male Eivor: Armour Study collection || Armour Study 1 || Armour Study 2 || Head study Ubba Ragnarsson: Collection Ship: Ubba x male Eivor: Collection || An Intent Look Sunniva Ivarr & Halfdan Ragnarsson

Other Media:

Hades (Game): Ares: Collection || Modern Ares Ship: Thanares Ship: Zagares - In Elysium The Sandman: Dream of the Endless (Trapped) Pyre (Game): Volfred Sandalwood

Original Characters

Roman:

Hand of Fortuna (published novel): Lartia || Lartia tipsy Gates of Janus (WIP novel): Titus Lartius || Titus Lartius and Juventa

Spartan:

The Good Spartan (fanfic, on AO3): Antidas: Collection || Scene - Panel One || Pose Studies || Smiling || Redesign (w/ short hair) Adimantos: Collection || Pose Studies || Relaxing || Violence || Violence continued Bardas

Hollow Lakedaimon (WIP novel): Eukleidas

Spartan Scenes: In the Gym || It Started with a Thwack || The Palaestra (Trad media) || WIP The Gymnasium || Training the Horses || Adimantos, Brasidas, Antidas

Ancient art redraws:  Spartans Hunting Boar ||

Other:

Arity (WIP novel) : Jimmy || Two Portraits The Artist (WIP novel): Fred || Agricultural Worker (1920's) Lief & Ember (Minecraft OCs) : Sleeping || Lief portrait Colour Studies: Man in Sea || Sadulaev (Olympic Wrestler)

Art of Things Other than People

Colourful Things: Colourful eggs || Egg = Olive? || Colourful Things ||Trees || Flowers in the Clouds || Olive Tree || More Colourful Things|| Symbolic self-portrait ||

Realism: Landscapes: Ancient World (sketches) || Sparta ||

[ofbleedingink]

1. A smile tugs at Volfred’s lips. “I have recovered,” he finally says, tapping out the ash from his pipe onto the soil below. “As for healing—real, proper healing… only time will tell. That’s the best answer I can give you, I’m afraid.”

WIP sharing time

For every rb this post gets i will share one (1) sentence from my pyre longwip

Bonus points for comments with specific wip snip requests!

[azurefishnets]

2, 18, 25?

Ooh, sorry for the late reply--I didn’t see your ask until today. Thanks for sending it!

2. Tell us about what you’re most looking forward to writing – in your current project, or a future project

While writing exchanges are always fun and we’re entering the season of them one after the other (Trick or Treat 2020 is still taking signups!), I have two bigger FFVI/GT AU WIPs on hold that I’m longing to get back to when I have a few more spoons: Hanging in the Balance, which I’ve just started, and The Soul of a Queen, which I’m planning to rewrite.There’s so much in the AU that I can’t wait to get solidified in a story, and/or expanded after nearly two years of discussion! Just...as soon as I get it together.

18. Do any of your stories have alternative versions? (plotlines that you abandoned, AUs of your own work, different characterizations?) Tell us about them.

Answered that here, but: I probably have the most abandoned WIPs for Pyre? I try not to abandon anything forever and just keep it all for future use ( guess I’m a writing hoarder in that sense...), but I find Volfred intensely difficult to write and Oralech even more so. I have several on-hiatus fics for the AU too; there’s one that looks at each of the trio through the lens of their childhood selves but writing child versions of adult people is hard and I keep second-guessing. Original characterizations: My characterization of Molten Milithe in The Spark of Creation is entirely my own, bolstered by as much meta as I could pull from the game script and the descriptions of things that had anything to do with her. However, I tried to make her, in the long run, significantly more grey-natured than my original writing of her. I do tend to lean towards too soft, but she is a spark about to burst into a wildfire, not some cozy campfire. If I ever write more of her, I hope to focus more on some of the experiments she did to herself to become “molten”...

25. What part of writing is the most fun?

There’s a moment sometimes, when I’ve been trying to solve a writing puzzle, and it suddenly all comes together, and I find myself writing a ton of words because it’s all so easy suddenly. That is the best, and I wish all writing was like that. Understandable why it’s not, and why sometimes I’m like...”words...what ARE words anyway”...but man. I could get straight back to those hanging WIPs if my brain would just cooperate here.

Anyway, fun! Writing is fun when I feel like I’m really accomplishing something, or when I’m saying something that feels real about the characters or the situations I’m writing about. Sometimes I gotta just slap words on the page until one of those things happens but that’s just part of it I guess!

[runicmagitek]

1, 15, 45.

Thank you so much for the ask! :D

1. Tell us about your WIP! I’m drafting up a fic for Aqua/Myrtle from Coffee Talk. It follows their shenanigans during MAX West (for those who haven’t played the game, yes it’s a play on PAX West; the game is full of alternate parallels like that), including awkward flirting and gamer nerd silliness :D it’s kind of... turned into A Thing, so what was once a oneshot will now be a small multichapter fic, but it’s a self-indulgent bit of fluff that I’m adoring, especially during these tough times. Along with that, I’m editing a draft I had done last year, which involves Celeste and Tariq from Pyre discussing Volfred’s revolution, so stay tuned!

15. How do you deal with self-doubt when writing? Sometimes I step away from my writing so I don’t become absorbed any further to the point of obsession. Other times I’ll vent to a fellow writer friend who can support me, whether reminding me my brain is being mean or to be proud of what I have accomplished so far. I also like to look back on comments I’ve received on fics. Those always make me smile bare minimum. Also reminds me that even if I think what I wrote is garbage, there are definitely people out there who enjoyed the thing I wrote and shared 💕

45.First or third person? Always third-person for me! I have difficulty reading first-person stories, because if I don’t 100% jive with the POV character, I have trouble connecting and empathizing with them. And if that’s the case, it quickly turns from a story to the equivalent of some stranger talking at me while we’re waiting in line at Starbucks or something. Third-person always feels a step removed, kind of like if you’re watching a movie.

[hippo-dog]

Post game Volfred and Oralech in the library~

I’m just gonna upload this WIP because I don’t know when I’m gonna finish it because I sketched it out almost a month ago and I’m still working on it Zzzzzz 

[hino-has-fiction]

roots/rooties for the wip ask :3c

I have “root” if that helps.

Sandalwood became a name that spread through Hollowroot like wildfire, and it seeped out into the world, slipping into the minds of others, taking root within them, which was fitting for a Sap like Volfred.

[wipbigbang]

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Pyre

#097

Title: Stargazer

Pairing/Characters: OFC centric, Oralech, Volfred Sandelwood

Rating Mature | M

Warnings/Tags: Chooses not to use Warnings

depression, low self esteem, major injury under reactions, panic attacks, dissociation

Summary: You must have hit your head... It was just meant to be a short walk. A quick excuse to get you out of the house for a MINUTE.

But you fell... You think you fell.

And now your knees hurt and the stars are too bright, the night rife with color and there's a man. Face down in the river.

Written in 2nd person POV with a named, nonflat, female protagonist

[azurefishnets]

18, 21, 22?

Thank you for the ask! <3

18. Do any of your stories have alternative versions? (plotlines that you abandoned, AUs of your own work, different characterisations?) Tell us about them.

Ahaha, you know how many AAUs we’ve come up with for the FFVI/GT AU. Ones where Jowd was the one duplicated, rather than Cabanela. Where Jowd or Alma fell with Cabs onto the island, rather than Pigeon Man/Cidgeon. Where Cabanela and Cidgeon came to Figaro early as refugees. As far as my own works go, I probably have the most abandoned WIPs for Pyre? I try not to abandon anything forever and just keep it all for future use ( guess I’m a writing hoarder in that sense...), but I find Volfred intensely difficult to write and Oralech even more so. I have several on-hiatus fics for the AU too; there’s one that looks at each of the trio through the lens of their childhood selves but writing child versions of adult people is hard and I keep second-guessing. Original characterizations: My characterization of Molten Milithe in The Spark of Creation is entirely my own, bolstered by as much meta as I could pull from the game script and the descriptions of things that had anything to do with her. However, I tried to make her, in the long run, significantly more grey-natured than my original writing of her. I do tend to lean towards too soft, but she is a spark about to burst into a wildfire, not some cozy campfire. If I ever write more of her, I hope to focus more on some of the experiments she did to herself to become “molten”...

21. What other medium do you think your story would work well as? (film, webcomic, animated series?) I would go absolutely nuts on a video game version of the FFVI/GT AU, obviously, but I think I would die of astonished euphoria if someone were to turn one of my stories into an audio version with, like, sound effects and stuff. And music!

I think The Long Road Home would work well as a comic? Maybe? Or illustrated anyway. Like Rain, likewise, although I think I just think that because I can see the pivotal scene illustrated so clearly. The Spark of Creation also has this one scene that I would absolutely love to see animated...

22. Do you reread your old works? How do you feel about them?

I do reread them. Generally when someone comments but sometimes when I need to check a plot point I referenced but don’t remember how I referenced it, exactly. I like rereading them; in some cases it’s seeing how far I’ve come, or seeing where I’d like to go. The Long Road Home still makes me emotional to read--it was an emotional write too, so it’s nice to know it holds up. I don’t think I’ve put up anything I actively dislike, although I definitely take notes of things I’d want to change if I ever rewrote, like in The Soul of a Queen.

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ART CLAIMS WILL BE CLOSING AT 9PM PST ON JULY 16TH!

If you want to claim this fic, this is your last chance.

The final round of art claims is open at @wipbigbang! We have all sorts of great stories left in multiple fandoms, and we'd love any type of fanart for them: traditional art, digital art, fanmixes, moodboards, fic covers/chapter headers...any kind of art you can imagine!

The synopses are located at https://wipbigbang.dreamwidth.org/173272.html

The form is located at https://forms.gle/yyxkCxyXJopMTyUs8.

Pyre

#097

Title: Stargazer

Pairing/Characters: OFC centric, Oralech, Volfred Sandelwood

Rating Mature | M

Warnings/Tags: Chooses not to use Warnings

depression, low self esteem, major injury under reactions, panic attacks, dissociation

Summary: You must have hit your head... It was just meant to be a short walk. A quick excuse to get you out of the house for a MINUTE.

But you fell... You think you fell.

And now your knees hurt and the stars are too bright, the night rife with color and there's a man. Face down in the river.

Written in 2nd person POV with a named, nonflat, female protagonist

[ofbleedingink]

Yay one more!

5. Volfred's gift deserved better than to sink to the bottom of the sea.

Aaand you know what?

6. In his curt honesty, Oralech had perhaps even reminded Tariq of Celeste—though, where her directness had been honed and blinding, Oralech’s kind nature had always assured his frankness wouldn’t hurt.

One more for the road ❤️

WIP sharing time

For every rb this post gets i will share one (1) sentence from my pyre longwip

Bonus points for comments with specific wip snip requests!