#I'd forgotten how fun NOS is to write for

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Hi, if it’s possible can I have a little one shot of NOS4A2 x villain!reader? Like them having their first meet cute while they’re both stealing from the same place and it ends in a sweet kiss??? (This is very self indulgent I know)

WELP Sky and Anon I'm SO sorry for the wait but please, take this humble offering - I decided to combine these asks so I hope you don't mind!! Also we love self indulgence here, that shit rocks.

NOS4A2 x Electromancer Villain!Reader

- It’s a Classic Situation. Mood lighting, delicate ambiance, privacy. A night on the prowl, An unexpected touch of hands, galaxy class security over an item he’d very much like to steal…

- HOW you didn’t notice each-other until you both reached for the priceless diamond in question is a mystery, he has no idea how you didn’t show up on his heat or energy sensors-! But despite how lovely you look when startled, darling…

- “While it’s always a pleasure to make like minded acquaintances-” he purrs, monocle eye narrowing at your look of shocked recognition. “- you should run along little morsel.” He scrapes his claws scraping over the diamond (and parts of your soft little fingers) in question. “This is my steal tonight. Get your own.”

- and really, that should have been it.

- Until you try to electrocute him and he goes from 30% battery to 120% in the space of a nanoclick.

- Oh darling darling darling! Helllooooo nurse he’s going to swoon-! He IS Swooning! He’s-

- (He’s managing to stumble-swing-float like a baked atom into every high security measure you both slipped past so elegantly before, giggling like crazy)

- In panic - as every security guard in this quadrant suddenly starts crashing toward you both and alarms scream through the halls – you make the executive decision to grab half a ton of punch drunk robot vampire and bolt. NOS takes this moment to coo appreciatively at whatever parts of you he can reach, babbling incoherently.

- Oh! Oh good looks and a meal he didn’t even have to pay for! Darling if you’d told him this would be a date he’d have put in a little more effort-! OW! Don’t pinch his wires, that’s mean :( oh but if you LIKE that then he can, he can- aww, no fun...:(

- Later, after you've thrown him onto your ship and made a sneaky getaway - He makes an effort to...reclaim at least some dignity.

- Since that was presumably your first villain rodeo – really darling its quite obvious stop squinting – he has decided to take pity on you and show you the ropes, as it were! In exchange for keeping him topped up, of course. A lovely mutually beneficial relationship, wouldn’t you say?

- No, do not get flustered, don’t do it- fuck.

- Don’t get me wrong. NOS4A2 is charming. He’s competent and knowledgeable and very very good at the villainy he was essentially ‘born’ into (when he’s not overcharged and drunk).

- He’s also frantically space-googling romantic lighting and space engagement rings and planning where he’s going to propose because by week three you’re pirouetting through the night sky together and adding lightning to your dramatic entrances and trading absolutely awful puns as you flee from star command and little sweetling he’s obsessed, absolutely enthralled. Little spark plug, his adorable storm cloud, his pet names come thick and fast and in front of ALL audiences.

- You’re going to become star command’s biggest headache because now that he has a free portable lunchbox NOS4A2’s previous corpse trails have gone cold. You two could literally be anywhere. Nebula is tearing out his moustache as we speak.

-XR has requested two years of paid shore leave as part of his trauma counselling - which would be fine if he hadn't also requested a nucelar bunker and half the sectors weapons to be requisitioned for his vampire-b-gone bermuda galaxy stay-away-vacation.

- Zurg, on the other hand, is frantically trying to figure out how to turn the entirely of his empire into a vegan plant based supply chain as it’s quite literally the only thing you two can’t fuck up. He receives a space nobel prize for sustainable advances in technology and uses it to turn every plant in the Gamma Quadrant carnivorous as a weekend project.

-the first time you kiss NOS in the middle of the thunderstorm he gets so high he blacks out. Turns out he's a sleep cuddler.

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20 questions for fic writers

Thanks to @isagrimorie for the tag!

1 How many works do you have on Ao3?

14

2 What's your total Ao3 word count?

452,732

3 What fandoms do you write for?

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (and technically Angel, I suppose, but not really), Mass Effect (but not recently)

I've also tried writing some Avatar: The Last Airbender and Farscape and Person of Interest works over the years, but nothing that I've finished yet.

4 What are your top five fics by kudos?

Coexist: Season 3 Buffy AU in which it was Giles, and not Jenny, who was murdered by Angelus in Season 2 [27 chapters; 277,084 words; various POVs but mostly alternating Buffy/Faith]

Last Year's Rain Didn't Fall Quite So Hard: Season 4 Buffy AU in which Faith wakes up from her coma having forgotten about killing Allan Finch and everyting that happened afterwards [one shot; 16,904 words; Buffy POV]

Together: Season 3 Buffy AU in which the Homecoming Dance goes a bit differently [one shot; 2,711 words; Faith POV]

Done: post-canon Buffy fic set a few years after the end of Season 7, with Buffy having mostly stepped back from being an active Slayer [one shot; 4,312 words; Buffy POV]

Mixed Signals: post-canon Buffy fic looking at Faith's changing relationship with Buffy since first meeting her [one shot; 4,919 words; Faith POV]

5 Do you respond to comments?

Not often or promptly enough. I try though: I really do appreciate the comments I get a lot.

6 What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Think this is a toss-up between two different canon-compliant Faith POV one-shots: One Girl In All The World and Calling.

7 What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Together is the happiest and fluffiest thing I can imagine ever writing.

8 Do you get hate on fics?

I don't think so? None that I can remember anyway. (I do use the block and mute features on Ao3 though, so maybe I'm just blissfully ignorant.)

9 Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

No. Just don't have the talent for it.

10 Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?

I don't have any published crossovers but I do have very vague ideas for a Buffy/Farscape crossover that I sometimes play around with in my mind. (Largely inspired by the joke of taking the couple of times Crichton makes references to 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' which his crewmates don't get, and pretending that they're right to assume he's talking about a person he knows rather than a TV show he used to watch.)

11 Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not to my knowledge (and honestly I'm not sure I'd want to know if I had?).

12 Have you ever had a fic translated?

If I have I don't know about it (and I would love to know if I did!).

13 Have you ever co-written a fic before?

No. I think it might be fun, but I'd probably have to change the way I write a lot.

14 What's your all time favorite ship?

Moya!

I mean, look at her!

(Oh, okay, it's Buffy/Faith, if that wasn't obvious.)

15 What's a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

I'd love to finish either of my uncompleted Mass Effect fics (the first and longest, Residuum, is actually fully planned out and has been for years: I just got stuck on writing a particular chapter and never managed to come back to it; I had a fairly detailed plan for Night Winds in Nos Astra when I posted the first chapter but then I decided I hated it and never figured out how to fix it.)

16 What are your writing strengths?

Dream sequences. Internal monologues. Foreshadowing. Planning. Quoting bits of canon back at the reader in hopefully interesting ways. Hopefully getting the characters' voices sounding reasonably accurate.

17 What are your writing weaknesses?

Deadlines. Brevity. Physical descriptions. Titles.

18 Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

I haven't really thought about it much before, honestly.

19 First fandom you wrote for?

Mass Effect is the first fandom I submitted anything for anywhere online. I wrote some Avatar: The Last Airbender fic before that though (a long Azula POV AU that I would kind of like to come back to one day, though I'd probably have to rewrite it from scratch).

20 Favorite fic you've written

Realistically, I think popular consensus must be correct that Coexist is the best thing I've ever written (though I sometimes wish I'd spent more than a minute thinking up a title). It's definitely the work I'm proudest of, and I think it contains some of my best writing (and ... well, most of my writing, based on the numbers I just posted). But I have a bit of a soft spot for some of my earlier Mass Effect fics, which aren't incredibly polished but I learned a lot from working on, and for Last Year's Rain Didn't Fall Quite So Hard as well.

Tagging: @juanabaloo @beatriceeverytuesday @explosionshark @bodytoflame-ao3 and anyone else who wants to do this.