#a bunch of unposted stuff

[bunkinoo]

Merry Christmas!!!

Gonna post some art (some are old or i never finished)

[themortaldraw]

happy pride

[dykefrin]

hold up chat im one follower from 100 followers on here??? this is crazy???

[beatcroc]

Does tails doll count?

of course.... my beloved ringracing menace....

[progmetol]

hey guys I found a bunch of unposted Tharns and some other companions on my hard drive so I put them all together. Here you go. (under the cut is more but it is shipping stuff hidden for your pleasure)

also this abveri kiss that I don’t remember drawing?? But I’m 95% sure was a ryan ottley invincible study because I recognize the expressions from an invincible panel (idk which)

also while I’m posting abveri might as well post this shit post

I’m done now

[s-dei]

Misc things unposted from a 2023, to complete my posting-check table Didn't had much to say abt them/ had some specific jokes, so i just throw them now in a bunch.

Translations for some: 3-4) Space is a fkin amazing thing - Guys, come fkin on - You don't belong to the club - Him being obsessed with 'stars' doesn't count? - No (For context: after having some short-but-passionate Venom/Kraven frenzy in December, I realized there is some significant amount of russian monsterfuckery in my fixes. While Sergei and Alexei match in alien stuff, you Nikolai gettin no vodka, go work on your combat reports) 7) Ooooh, are you drawing? Yes I do. Come by fkin one, gonna please you all you peaches

[yellowocaballero]

I love your moon knight fics so so much — would you ever consider writing more of them? Sorry if you’ve answered this question before.

Also, the way you portray Boba and Fox inspired me to write a fic about the two of them which is not very good but is so in my brain all the time that I have written like 40k words and counting in a week. Twilight On Owl Creek Bridge is such a masterpiece that it has irrevocably changed the way I view Star Wars as a whole. I genuinely could not have cared less about the Clone Wars before reading it, and now it is on my mind 24/7. Boba and Fox are the most tragic characters in the SW universe and nobody can change my mind about it. They both just want to live goddamnit!

On another note, have you watched Thunderbolts? I’m not usually a marvel movie fan but watching that one really hit me in a way I seldom feel except for reading your works. The idea that a group of unambiguously, absurdly fucked up losers are truly the only people that could feasibly make a team of heroes we deserve felt like it just fit so well with all of your marvel stuff.

I will not be writing more Moon Knight stuff! I told all of the stories I wanted to tell, and then some. I did recently post a 60k thing that I should have probably put on the masterpost...here's the post, I'll stick it onto the masterpost. Beyond that, I do have a bunch of unposted stuff lmfao, but none of it is really fit to print. When I first got this ask I poked around my drive a bit to see if I should throw any of it on here...the third story in the MK mens rea trilogy was really ALMOST done, there's the entire Heroes For Hire backstory fic, it's a lot but none of it's really...I might reblog this with some of it, when I have a second.

And I'm SO HAPPY that Fox and Boba live rent-free in your brain because they also live rent free in mineeeee. Fishhooks was a solid little story, but I ended up touching on some concepts that got much, much more fleshed out in the Boba POV story for the No Chip AU. Every time I write Boba I really do just go deeper and deeper into how fucked-up weird that entire situation is. Also Fox. Unfortunately, my takes are very - uh, Meg specific, they're very much a me thing, so it makes me happy to know that the vision is spreading (somebody wrote a Supernatural/SW AU influenced by my Boba and it was FANTASTIC).

Obviously I need to see the fic once it's done. Obviously you have to link me. Obviously. Give me it. It's also very hard on me being the lone cowboy in this town.

I have not seen Thunderbolts, and I wasn't really planning on it! That tracks with the Heroes For Hire thing lmfao - the connecting thread between them is honestly how they were all fucked over and disenfranchised by society (or is Danny), and that feeling is very coherent with them Just Being Guys. Something I liked to do in the best life world was to just imagine superheroes being things other than superheroes, living their lives in their own way - MK as an indentured servant, She-Hulk as both a superhero and an influencer, the HFH as losers who live like college students helping people for very little pay, Dr. Strange working retail, MCU!Peter Parker being his assistant and finding his own path, Ghost Rider doing Doordash. It makes the actual superheroes in the story a lot more purposeful - the Avengers (She-Hulk, Wasp, Monica, Hawkeye, Sam!Cap) are Avengers on purpose, it is a very specific kind of thing that a very specific kind of person does. It creates this rich and robust feeling world and I ended up being very fond of it.

I'll let you know if I do see it, but I wasn't expecting to. I haven't seen an MCU movie innnnn a while (I would say that the last I saw was No Way Home In Literal 2021 but Wikipedia says Wolverine & Deadpool is MCU, which - doesn't feel right at all). Glad everybody has the Avengers 2012 fanfic life that we all wanted, though.

[hollowed-theory-hall]

Writer interview tag

Tagged by @wisteria-lodge

I fear this would be a bit of a boring interview since I only have 1 published work on ao3 (so I'll include unpublished fic wips for some of the questions)

How many works do you have on ao3? 1 (and another 100+ unposted, unpolished wips 😭)

What's your total AO3 word count? 87,813 (Just on the 1 fic)

Your top 5 stories by kudos?

I only have the one: A Matter of Chance

Do you respond to comments? I try to. I don't always, but sometimes I'll sit down and just answer a lot of them in one go. Even when I don't respond, know that I read and appreciate each and every one, yes, including the ones that are just a string of hearts — I love getting the ao3 comment emails.

What's the fic you've written with the angstiest ending? I only posted one fic which is unfinished as of this moment. The endings for all my wips are either happy or bittersweet. I don't tend to write tragedies, but I do love me a bittersweet ending.

There is a pretty angsty wip I abandoned where Harry ends up in Azkaban at the end of GoF that is pretty angsty all the way through, It's more of a psychological horror story, so the ending there is not super happy, but it doesn't end in tragedy either. So, that.

What's the fic you've written with the happiest ending? As I said, the one posted fic isn't done and I tend to write happy endings, but if we're talking unfinished abandoned wips, then probably the Gen one of Harry traveling back to the 1970s and most of the war is avoided.

Do you write crossovers? Not really. I tried to write a few, but I always find that they shift the focus too much from the story I want to tell. I found two old wips of attempted crossovers in my docs and neither of them passed the 1k words.

Have you ever received hate on a fic? Not on the fic, no.

Do you write smut? I cannot write smut for the life of me. I tried, but I can't do it. I can write the prelude to smut, the after-smut stuff, but the smut itself — my brain just won't do it.

Have you ever had a fic stolen? Don't belive so.

Have you ever had a fic translated? No.

Have you ever co-written a fic before? No. I have a beta (the same one for everything, she does not have a tumblr, but she has an ao3) who reads over what I write and helps with editing and brainstorming sometimes, but, I'm the only one writing my stories.

What's a wip that you want to finish but don't think you ever will? Most of them, unfortunately. I used to be pretty bad at finishing things, but if I had to pick one unpublished, never-to-be-finished fic it's one of the first fics I ever tried to write. It's a Gravity Falls fic, taking place a few years after the show, with a whole mystery I made up and everything. I tried rewriting it a bunch of times but I never got past the 20k words mark, so it'll probably never happen. Even if I like a lot of the bits I wrote there.

What are your writing strengths? Dialogue and pacing.

I know I'm good with getting how characters speak, their little mannerisms and (in the case of HP) witty remarks like the books have. And I love writing dialogue. As for pacing, I used to not be great at it, but I've gotten many compliments about it and I think I'm pretty good now at sensing when a scene should end, or how many scenes should be between events and such.

What are your writing weaknesses? Describing characters. Like, I can do it, but I'm never sure what i need to describe and what I don't. Often I just forget to write a description altogether, and then when I edit, I go: "oh, damn, I didn't describe what this guy looks like anywhere," so yeah. Like, I can do it, I just consciously balance how I describe characters in ways I don't do when I describe literally anything else.

Also, past-perfect my behated (my beta is constantly correcting me when I use past-simple/past-progressive instead of past-perfect).

What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic? Like, when you gotta you gotta, I guess, it all depends on execution. I never really had to do it myself but I know I don't mind it when reading if a translation is given at the end notes of the chapter the dialogue is in.

Personally, unless I really need the actual words in the other language there for some reason I'd probably do something like: "'[some sentence in English]' he said in French" or "he muttered something in Spanish under his breath" if the POV character doesn't understand the language. But, that's just my preference for writing for my sake and for clarity 🤷‍♀️

What's a fandom/ship you haven't written for yet but want to? Ehhh... I usually write for whichever fandoms I feel like writing (I have like two Gravity Falls wips form, like, 2016, haunting me) and I've been on a pretty consistent HP roll in the past years. I think I have one Batman comics wip somewhere, but it's pretty old. I would like to post more fics in general in the future honestly, but I want to finish A Matter of Chance first, so they'll have to wait.

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And I have no idea who to tag, unfortunately, so really, anyone is welcome to this writer interview 😊

[delta-hexagon]

a whole bunch of unposted stuff i found while cleaning out my art folders!! enjoy a bunch of dudes. from top to bottom, left to right:

an unfinished attempt at a parasite from Metroid Prime

a minecraft creeper re-imagined as a weird buggy thing

Carbine, a tecquel with long prosthetic legs, from my story "Old and Gold"

a fungus doggo!

some ing from Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

Centra, a character i started but then discarded for some reason

a lizard lady

an infestation, a parasitic creature from my story "Where the Stars Writhe"

another infestation

Tak'hara, a demon lady from my story "Sun Smoke and Scales"

Damien and Jaxx. theyre in love!! also from "Sun Smoke and Scales"

[liloinkoink]

i got an ask that had like 10 different lamplight questions in it (thank you!) and i cannot answer the whole thing rn (maybe later tonight!) but this one question, or half of one, is one i think i can answer pretty easily!

over a year ago i wrote a bunch of scenes for, uh... we'll call it an offshoot of lamplight. a few of you probs know what it is, but for those that dont, part of the plot involved Martyn and Ren being separated via some kinda magic bullshit for an extended period of time without knowing why or where the other is. i never posted any of it bc it was a collaborative AU/offshoot and makes... very little sense out of context, but id been wanting to take a few of the scenes i wrote for it and make them into an actual canon-compliant (but probs non-canon) lamplight fic, considering how it would be fun in light of the absence of Ren in two seasons of the life series

i never did do that, due to how much stuff id have to write for the setup and in between, however somewhat recently i did edit a few of the scenes i DID write to remove parts that were complete nonsense outside of the context of the offshoot. so, just to answer part of your question about scenes written and unposted, i'll attach screenshots here

all of these images are individual scenes and dont necessarily flow into each other, tho the last three are from pretty close together in the oneshot theyre from. dont worry about who the other character in these is i removed that guy's name bc itd be confusing if i didnt but dont worry about it

one of these days id like to make these into an actual fic, but for now, take uhh. Martyn gay pining moments. i guess.

[sl-walker]

trick or treat! fandom: dc comics? 🎃

From the next yet-unposted chapter of Little Rabbit!

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Rani barreled back into the apartment from the roof balcony like an adorable little disco ball, sporting a Yankees ballcap with the logo made out of sequins and a new jean jacket, also with sequins adorning it on all the pockets. She had new clothes on and new light-up sneakers flashing rainbows in the heels, and somehow it came as precisely no surprise to Booster that she had probably gotten Guy wrapped all the way around her pinky no less than six times while they were out, but likely more.

Booster had been half-dozing on the couch, sleeping off the excellent spare ribs Guy had apparently arranged to have delivered upstairs from the kitchen; he barely had a chance to brace himself before Rani hollered his name and landed on him, all elbows and knees, knocking half of the air out of him.

But even getting some (additional) bruises, her overwhelming joy got a breathless laugh back from him. "Good time, I'm guessing?" he asked, bodily rearranging her so she wasn't inadvertently beating him up quite so much.

"We went to Union Square!" Rani said, after hugging him; she barely paused before hopping down and turning around to show off the back of her jacket, which had the matching Yankees logo to the one on her ballcap, before turning back, bouncing on her toes, face a little flushed and eyes bright. "Guy took me to three stores just for my clothes, and I got my hair cut and new barrettes and then there was a playground in the park and I got to play, I met a bunch of other kids, and then we went to another restaurant and got lunch and we talked to a man with a funny accent who gave me lots of hard candy—" She dug a handful of wrapped hard candy out of one of her pockets and grabbed one of Booster's hands just to put it all in his palm. "—so I brought you back some, and he's the one who Guy got the tickets from for the game tonight!"

Booster looked down at his collection of gifted hard candy and smiled, a little bemused, then leaned out to set it on the coffee table. "A haircut, huh?" he asked, pulling her ballcap off and pretending to inspect her head, looking her hair over this way and that, humming thoughtfully before giving a light tug on her bangs and making her giggle. "Looks good."

"The lady who cut it was really nice and she talked like this—" Rani put on a pretty decent Brooklyn accent while she took her ballcap back and put it back on, which made Booster grin. "—and Guy got me a bottle of shampoo just for me while we were there."

There was a discussion coming about that kind of thing, Booster knew. What he didn't know was what to do with it if it went about how he expected it to go. But that wasn't really something he thought oughta involve Rani, at least not at first, so he just nodded back. "And where is Guy?"

"Right here," Guy said, walking in from the balcony with an armload of boxes and yet more of them following him in a train of green glowing bags and parcels. He could barely see over the top of the ones he was carrying in his arms, but his eyes — also green at the moment, almost eerily so — had a dare written in them. "You sure you didn't slip that kid some Red Bull or somethin' when I wasn't lookin'? She about wore me right out."

"I've been properly awake maybe a half-hour so far today. If I had a Red Bull, I wouldn't be giving it to her," Booster said back, getting up from the couch to maybe relieve Guy of a couple boxes, pulling the bill of Rani's hat down on the way by, making her squeal-laugh with false indignation. "If the stuff didn't taste like SweeTarts and stomach acid, anyway."

[gnawerpoint-rw]

Post-Hiatus Updates

My little hiatus is finally over :3 I thought I'd share some updates relating to GP:

It's summer break for me and I start college this August, so I'll hopefully have plenty of time to work on GP

I got a laptop :3!! Until now I've worked on GP on my PC, which is slow and I obviously can't access that when I'm not home. I've moved a bunch of my modding stuff to my laptop but I'll most likely use both computers

I went on the region lease form and leased (the majority of) the GP regions. All of them have four letter acronyms (Gleaming Spires is GPGS, for example). This makes me unable to use region art but ehhh it's a sacrifice I can take. And maybe someone will fix that eventually

I'm putting the newer rooms (the ones that only have geometry so far. no tiles) into the world file. I'm planning on making a video of me navigating the put-together region so far

I'm planning on redoing the sleep screen art (I really like it but I want something better) and finally making Gnawer's select screen art. For now I think I'll use a very basic slugcat without extra coding as a placeholder for Gnawer

I got Obsidian (a note taking program) on my laptop and have been making wiki-style notes of different parts of the mod. I might post those because writing lore posts makes me nervous and half of the ones I've written are unposted

I think this is it? I've kind of started making music, as in I made part of a song on my phone once and haven't touched the app since. Honestly I might commission someone for most/all of the music

[maythedreadwolftakeyou]

Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Spread the self-love ❤️

<3 Ooohhh ok hm... honestly i do not post much fic (checked AO3 and only 18), for the amount that i start writing and then leave in various stages of completion in drafts on my computer, oops. Unfortunately at least 1 favorite is in that category, but here we go!

Fallout from the Fade (Dragon Age: Inquisition): Hawke is left in the fade during the events of DAI's Here Lies The Abyss, but manages to fight her way back out. However she's left to recover from the severe side effects and trauma that come along. Ok my confession here is while i have not updated this fic since 2020, i have in fact written more of it. But since i kept going so long (months... and then years...) between chapters I decided it'd be better if i just finish writing the rest myself (at least roughly) so i know how much more there is to go and can update it on a more regular schedule in the future when i start posting again. Alas i am very slow at this bc of grad school and also bc i get distracted easily and... have less motivation to work on it when not actually getting feedback as i go. So i may change my mind about this approach eventually but it's where the fic stands now.

Like Teeth Against His Heart (Dragon Age: Inquisition): After Solas wakes up from uthenera, he has many conversations with a variety of spirits over the course of DAI. Sometimes they tell him what he wants to hear, and sometimes they don't. I typically like the recent things I've written the most and this is that. It's a prose-poem style that plays with formatting, aka its kind of Weird, and weird is my favorite. I wrote it for a charity zine which also meant i had to have a Final Version rather than endlessly tweak it forever which was irritating at the time but also good for me.

Unposted, No-Finalized-Title fic, with the file jokingly named 'Sam I Am' (Mass Effect: Andromeda): pre-Andromeda and game timeline but from the perspective of your ship's AI, who also lives inside your character's brain, and in the game admits to altering your brain/body, and hello??? the game did NOT let me respond to that to the degree I desired? One of my literary obsessions is the combination of AI (the sci fi kind not... generative art etc) plus human augmentation... what that does to both parties sense of self, their relationships, how they view and function in the world, etc. In the vein of Silently And Very Fast by Cat Valente, Imperial Radch by Ann Lecke, Murderbot by Martha Wells... and I spent soooo much time wishing Andromeda had gone deeper into that angle/thinking about it myself I wrote. Quite a long fic about it. But i only played the game once and there wasn't much fan love/fanworks for it so I never posted it or any other Andromeda stuff I wrote, it was more just for myself. I'd like to go back and finish this fic but I estimate it'd be in the 40-70k word range and i'd need to replay the game to refresh my memory so it's like, a project for when i have a bunch of free time at some point in the future, since it's mostly just for Me.

the people you love become ghosts inside of you, and like this, you keep them alive (Mass Effect trilogy): Snippets of a variety of Garrus' thoughts and memories of Shepard, and a growing realization about the nature of love like theirs. I don't expect anyone to love this one but me, because it's just a self-indulgent thing I wrote specifically to figure out the flavor of grief involved in the relationship between my personal Shepard and Garrus. It's not as poem-formatted as my Solavellan one but the prose leans hard in that direction, and they came from the same place for me. I wrote it after finishing the trilogy because I (unlike a lot of fans, i know) felt very adamant that the correct ending for my Shepard is that she is dead now, and not coming back, and needed to cry some more about that.

like the leaves after a long winter (Dragon Age II): It's the first Christmas/Satinalia since Leandra's death, and Hawke is not in the mood for festivities -- until she realizes that everyone else will be spending it alone and finds herself hosting a party without even meaning to. I'll be honest #5 spot was kind of a toss up between this one, Less A Man Than A Wild Cat, and Grief. But I've decided on this one because 1. it covers my favorite thing to write about aka grief, but is actually written as a story/proper narrative unlike others i've already put on this list. With fanfic the most important thing to me before anything else is self-indulgence. While I love writing for prompts (like this one was!), my specific joy in that is taking an idea from someone else and figuring out how to cram all the things I care about into someone else's plot summary. Fanfic for me is like... it feels weird to call it 'writing exercises' because that implies i don't care about the final project when i very much do. Writing challenges? Maybe? Idk i just really enjoy having limitations to work within. Having NO boundaries is where I do my original content writing, so writing within the bounds of an existing franchise already means there's some limits (like keeping to characterizations, plot, etc) and then adding more on top makes it a fun experience and keeps me engaged.

While these are my top 5, I definitely don't think most of them are what other people would pick as a favorite from my (admittedly very limited) amount of posted writing, Fallout from the Fade being the exception. I think my friends probably like the one where I turned Fenris into a cat best (and that was VERY fun it's just also more lighthearted which i struggle to write sooooo bad), and then every one else is in my inbox about the single Solas x F!Travelyan fic I wrote largely as an experiment in writing sex scenes. sorry to everyone who read that and then tried to read my other fics and discovered its mostly blood and loss and Yearning...

[mellodazey]

a little fun fact about my writing

okay, so you know my fanfic, right? truth is, this is my second attempt at writing something like this. and back when I was writing my first attempt in a previous fandom, I posted chapters as I finished them. and that didn't go so well. there were SO many long hiatuses. and then a bunch of stuff popped up in my life that caused me to just abandon it entirely.

and because I already had multiple chapters written of THIS fic, I decided to do something different. I posted the first four chapters, then waited a little bit before posting the next one. I've found that scheduling when to post the next chapter has helped me SO much. plus, the time between when I'm writing, posting, or drawing stuff gives me time to go over my unposted chapters and make changes/fix mistakes.

as of right now, I have three chapters currently unposted. the next one will be posted on the 13th, if nothing gets in the way.

[superlarva]

I'm only asking this on anon, because I have to message people from my main account/blog which is confusing when I do most of my reblogging from my side blogs. So for the purposes of this message, I am @clonethirstingisreal

And I want to apologize for reblogging all of the chapters of your Rex being a dad to Echo and Fives story, because I'm sure you're going to be inundated with notifications and you might not even be on here very much...so please don't feel the need to respond to my reblogs, I just want to make sure they live on my blog and that my followers get to see them, because I think everyone should read them!!! I love this story so much!!

So anyway, yeah...thanks for writing it! And I'm pretty sure you said you would be writing at least one more chapter, so I look forward to that!

I just didn't want to stress you out with a bunch of notifications.

OMG, hi @clonethirstingisreal (I hope you can see this, for some reason it won't let me tag you properly)

First of all, you have nothing to apologize for, friend! I love receiving notifications--hearts, reblogs, and comments are all much appreciated. I cannot express the amount of joy that I feel after coming home from a long day of work and seeing that someone has been enjoying and engaging with something I have written, so, thank you very much! <3

Second, I only started seriously posting things on tumblr this summer and I am still learning tumblr etiquette and features, so if I'm being honest, I have been a little scared/nervous to respond to people all the time. With that being said, I do read everyone's comments and reblogs (as I said before, they make me very happy). Perhaps as I get more comfortable here I will respond more. :)

Third, I'm delighted that you are enjoying Raising Dominoes! I currently have nine (I think) unposted finished chapters and more on the way, so don't worry, there's plenty more to come. Some things to look forward to are first days of school, trips to the library, Echo coming home, celebrations, a side of angst, all the good stuff. I've been trying to post every Sunday night, but sometimes I have events or work that get in the way.

Okay, now on to some responses to some of your comments/questions! :)

I'm happy that the little Bad Batch cameo brought you in! We'll see more of them once the boy's are in school!

Hehe, I'm glad you like the hospital parking lot scene. I wrote that one from experience. I feel I have done my duty if I was able to give someone the feels!

I LOVED writing the shopping trip chapter. I'm glad people have been reacting well to teen Hardcase, I was afraid people weren't going to like my choice of ages for the characters.

Speaking of ages, I could have sworn you (I think it was you?) had mentioned something about doing the math to see how old Rex would have been when the twins were born and I can't find it now, but anyway, you were right, ~16-17. I might go into that a little later, so I don't want to spoil anything for now!

Ahh, okay, that was long, sorry!

TL;DR: Feel free to reblog as much as you want! It makes me so happy to hear your thoughts!

[hungrydolphin91]

our endless unfinished wips 🤝

would very much like to inquire about 'Innominat Returns (Falling Awake)' bc the title does intrigue,,

You're in luck Jay because that's actually one of few WIPs that's actually somewhat written AND posted— you can read the first 5 chapters right here on AO3! Like the summary and tags suggest, it's a bit of an angsty post-game fic in which Mikleo, desperately trying to fix a world still filled with chaos and malevolence so Sorey can reawaken, stumbles upon the sealed Innominat and ends up biting off a little more than he can chew. And if you don't mind spoilers for this story will eventually go, I described the heartbreaking climax to V in this post, as well as posted excerpts from it here and here.

Anyway, since all I really did here was drop a bunch of links to old stuff I might as well share a new excerpt from the yet-unposted 6th chapter, where we re-encounter a perfectly normal Meebo, nothing weird about him at all. See if you can tell whose POV this chapter is written from 😂:

The stranger is a seraph, clearly, with long, gold-tipped hair tied back into a fluffy ponytail. But judging from the strength of his domain, which overpowers even Eizen's cursed aura, he is far more than that. It rivals the strength of a Shepherd, or perhaps, an Empyrean. I descend from my precipice to confront this mysterious person, only to snort as I recognize his face. "Oh. It's you, Meebo." Mikleo spares an annoyed glance in my direction but otherwise ignores me. Not that I can blame him, with a dragon drooling over his head and preparing to make him into a Mealbo. Yet even though Mikleo is alert, he doesn't seem at all afraid of the behemoth before him. "So this one is Eizen, then..?" He studies Eizen's face like a stupid scientist about to get eaten by a dragon. I don't know how to respond to such an dumb, obvious question, but Eizen, it seems, has an answer. He tries to play the old bite-them-in-half game again, but Mikleo deflects his jaws with a mere strike of his staff. Eizen seems a little startled to have his attack countered so easily and tries again, with the same results. Idiots, both of them. As I watch them volley blows, I start to feel more uneasy about this new Mikleo. Going toe-to-toe with a dragon, commanding the earthpulse, wielding a domain twice as strong as usual. Not to mention his appearance. There's no doubt his body is 100 percent pure Meebo, but the colors are all bad, traces of blue hair changed to gold tips, purple eyes now flashing dangerously gold. Gold, gold, gold. It looks dumb on a water seraph like him. And his behavior feels all wonky too. Mikleo's always been too stuffy to have fun, but he seems even more aloof now, more pretentious, even ruthless. He counters my brother's attacks with ease, like he knows the dragon's weaknesses firsthand. In fact, he even seems to be holding back, drawing out Eizen's rage yet waiting for something more. What could you possibly want from an angry dragon except his mercy?

This WIP haunts me more than any other honestly, it's right behind my ongoing passion project Two Hearts Could Be One in terms of emotional investment. But it's tricky to write because it's 1st-person with multiple POV (including Berseria characters so it requires cross-game knowledge) and I haven't played Zesty in so long so I can't get the voices and lore quite right anymore 😭 not to mention the ending I had in mind is still very vague and unfixed. Right now I'm keeping my Graces fixation going so I can hopefully finish 2HCB1 (I did NOT write 60k words for it to give up now pleaseeee brain let me finish something for once 😭) but ngl I have been secretly pining for Zesty this entire time and the SECOND I get back into it I'm gonna work on this fic some more 💜💜💜