#arcane plotbunnies

[arcane-ish]

I need so badly a fic about Silco being there and holding Vander's hand while Vander gets Vi's name tattooed.

And/or an apic art of Silco holding a doubled up, sobbing Vander "my brother is hurting".

I also would like to point out that "filling your own cup" is code for getting laid. And Vander knows how that is necessary for a balanced life ;)

I also noticed that Benzo has a tattoo too, a small one, on his finger. But I'm too lazy right now to check season 1 whether he had the same one there.

[dungeonsynths]

i know it's very very unlike jayce to ever go down to the lanes but i need a fic about season one era viktor hearing a cousin is getting married and deciding to tend to his roots in the undercity, and somehow jayce getting roped into being his plus one. i just need a fic like that.

[aenramsden]

I did actually have an interesting idea for an AU where the roles basically get swapped around - Vander dies on the bridge as he charges the Enforcers to put his body between them and his friends, losing his life but taking a dozen men with him as he just refuses to go down. Silco loses his appetite for violence, never having had that do-or-die fight for his life while drowning that changed him so radically. And Felicia survives, but loses her husband and her best friend and goes “okay, I am going to make this city better for my girls, whatever it takes”. The industrialist mafia don route is hers, in this timeline.

The idea was that Vi would have been old enough when this went down to kinda start side-eyeing how her mother had changed so much and so suddenly, and also had some issues around Powder being very much mom’s favourite child with her enthusiasm for tinkering, so she hangs around Uncle Silco at the bar more and gets introduced to his lost-their-fire revolutionist buddies and learns theory from him (you cannot tell me that young twink Silco didn’t go off on radical leftist revolutionary political theory), resulting in a Vi who’s still angry at Piltover and not content with the status quo and wants to act and fight back, but who trades some raw ferocity and power in her fist-fighting for precision and dirty fighting, and who can actually verbalise her thoughts and better argue back against Caitlyn about social justice if and when they meet.

Powder, on the other hand, is a lot more settled and less crazy in the sense of trauma and the Scribbles, but is Mom’s Favourite and absolutely idolises Felicia and wants to be just like her when she grows up. She listens to everything her mother says about revenge on the Topsiders and how sometimes violence is necessary for change, and you have to let them think you’re harmless and useful to them right up until you spring the trap, and Powder’s bombs will be the key to getting Zaun its freedom, and Vi is kind of uncomfortably aware that her little sister is getting progressively more and more radicalised by their mother but has no way of actually, like, stopping it.

Not until little Powder gets entered - as a paid student, daughter of a wealthy industrialist who always seems to show up with her 6”7’ heavily tattooed bald “secretary” (Vi is sure she could take him) and the tall buff cloak-wearing woman she calls her “assistant” - into the Piltover Academy. To learn more about mechanisms and chemistry and science and all the other advancements the City of Progress has given the world. “The only way to defeat someone more powerful than you,” her mother tells her, “is to learn to use their own tools against them”.

And Vi is fine with that. She’s fine. Of course Powder should be the one to go to the Academy. Vi knows her little sister is the smart one. She doesn’t even want to learn from Topsiders herself. Who cares if she wasn’t even given the option, when she’d just have turned it down? She’s fine with it. Maybe this will even backfire on Mom, get Powder seeing the Pilties as people - asshole people, yes, people who don’t pay enough fucking attention to what’s going on under their feet, but people who deserve some level of violence higher than “nothing” but lower than whatever Mom is planning that probably involves levelling most of what’s on that side of the river. She’s been trying to work out how to phrase that without gagging on the words as they come out sounding like she’s defending the people who fund the Enforcers, so if this does it for her, that’s fine. It’s fine. Everything is fine.

But maybe she trails along with Pow-pow just to get a look at this place her little sister will be going. You know, scope it out, get the lay of the land, that sort of thing.

And maybe she runs into a girl there.

Who knows where things might go next?

Ok so I've seen and read a bunch of 'Oh what if Silco took in Vi instead of powder' etc type fics, very noice.

But has anyone seen/wrote one where, instead of Vander taking them in, it's Silco that finds Vi and Powder on the bridge? Like episode one, babies Vi and Powder? I wanna know. I wanna read that. I know he was like, busy getting up after Vander beat the shit out of him at the time (unless I've got my time-lines mixed up) but still, I think it'd be fun since he knew their parents too.

[yellowmagicalgirl]

20 questions with a Fanfic Author

Thank you for the tag, @aerialworms

How many works on Ao3?

320 public (albeit mostly archive-locked), and then there are three unrevealed works as well.

2. Total AO3 Word Count?

332,344

3. Top 5 fics by Kudos

Reunions and Revelations: Post-Rise of the Titans fix-it, except I never watched RotT. I find it rather interesting that despite krexie being such a controversial ship, this still manages to rank above any other ToA fic I've ever written. Rated G.

Supplanter: Changeling!Jim meets his familiar while in the Darklands. Rated T.

Birds, Bees, and Blood Magic: co-authored by @tunafishprincess and based on Tuna's AU where Jim and Claire accidentally made a magic baby in a cauldron. Rated G, on almost-certainly permanent hiatus (Tuna, if you want to change that, let me know).

Merlin’s Unavailable (Please Leave a Message with his Apprentice): AU where Douxie was the wizard in the tomb instead of Merlin. Rated G.

No Reason for Love: Post-Wizards AU in which Krel merged with Gaylen's core to defeat the Arcane Order, and then he went into self-imposed exile because he hates himself for merging with the core to keep everyone safe from himself... except Douxie followed him into exile. Rated T.

4. What fandoms do you write for?

At the moment, my fandoms are Khyber Shards and its sequel Blades and Banners as well as whatever fandom I get assigned to for an exchange. Also, I have a plot bunny in the works for Eberron Renewed.

5. Do you respond to comments?

If I have the spoons to.

6. Angstiest Ending?

One of my recent fics, the priest that you ignored might qualify because the main character of it tries to bait her friends into killing her.

7. Fic with the happiest ending?

Out of my recent fics it has to be Body Temperature Restored, since Gideon gets brought back from the dead.

8. Do you get hate?

One of the major reasons why I no longer post on FFN is, well. Let's say I get 100 reviews over the course of a couple months. 90 of them are those "pay me to draw fanart" scams. 9 are queerphobic hate comments. 1 is genuine.

Meanwhile, AO3 is so much nicer.

9. Do you write smut?

The closest I have gotten is fade-to-black foreplay.

10. Do you write crossovers?

Generally no, but I do have a couple crossover plotbunnies hopping around my head.

11. Ever had a fic stolen?

Roughly half of my fics got scraped.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Once someone offered, but otherwise the closest I've ever gotten is writing a fic in German for my German class, rewriting it in English, and then uploading both versions.

13. Have you ever cowritten a fic?

See question 3.

14. All time favorite ship?

Apparently it's krexie, since I wrote 35 fics about them on AO3.

15. WIPs you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

All of them. However, my ToA muse has pretty much moved on.

16. Writing strengths?

Angst.

17. Writing Weaknesses?

Fluff, as in true fluff and not just hurt/comfort. Also, anything that requires me to be hyper-aware of bodily positioning, like fight scenes and smut.

18. Thoughts on mixed language dialogue?

I enjoy it if you either link a footnote or do something cool with hover text, especially if the POV character is supposed to know what's being said.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Either Miraculous Ladybug or Tai Chi Chasers. I fist published for ML, but idk how long my TCC fic had been in the works since it was a decade ago.

20. Favorite fic you’ve ever written?

How dare you make me choose?

I guess I'd have to narrow it down to either the longest fic (Destiny's Pawn), my only completed multichap that's longer than a 2-shot (Juliet Dies in This), or first time I wrote the first fic in a fandom (A Burning Helm). Those are the three I'm most proud of for different reasons.

I'll tag @tunafishprincess, @avirxy, @pirate-melody, @elizabethemerald, @littlecactiguy, and @autumnalfallingleaves

[ao3feed-arcane]

Epistolary // You Think it's so Easy? To Cling-

by Marta_Ayanami A shooort ficlet. Arcane/Sailor Moon fusion crossover. If you know Sailor Stars (90s anime) this plotbunny ficlet is coherent, if not then not.   In this verse, Star Guardian Jayce is sixteen years old. Star Guardian Viktor is (was) nineteen years old the day Galaxia takes his star seed, a day before April 3rd. Or something. Words: 951, Chapters: 1/9, Language: English Series: Part 13 of Finite Dreamless Solitude (in a Few Eons, He'll Be Back if You still Believe) Fandoms: Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon | Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon (Anime & Manga), Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Categories: Gen Characters: Jayce (League of Legends), Sailor Galaxia, Chibi Chibi but not the one from SM, Chibi Chibi, Diana, Queen Serenity who is Ximena Talis past life, Vander, Singed, Luna, Diana (Sailor Moon), Hino Rei, Taiki Kou, Seiya Kou, Princess Kakyuu (Sailor Moon), Silco (Arcane: League of Legends), Caitlyn (League of Legends), Vi (League of Legends) Relationships: Jayce & Viktor (League of Legends), Caitlyn & Jayce (League of Legends), Caitlyn/Vi (League of Legends), Caitlyn & Jinx & Vi (League of Legends), Caitlyn & Ekko (League of Legends) & Isha (Arcane) & Jayce & Jinx & Vi & Viktor (League of Legends), Luna & Jayce Talis, Artemis & Viktor Talis, Heimerdinger & Artemis & Viktor, Jayce/Viktor (League of Legends)/Original Character(s), Jayce (League of Legends)/Mel Medarda/Viktor (League of Legends), Jayce/Viktor/Rei Hino, Jayce & Rei Hino, Rei Hino & Michiru Kaiou & Viktor, Other tags to be added - Relationship, Sailor Galaxia & Chaos, More tags to be added - Relationship Additional Tags: Just a plot bunny one shot prologue, I will write the real ficlet next year, Crossover Fusion, Jayce Talis is NOT Usagi Tsukino, truly, so many events will differ in details, Sailor Moon anime manga fusion, Jayce did see V death and forgot for sanity like in manga, but his behaviour will lean a bit moreclosely to 90s animeUsa, but different cuz JT is no Bunny XD, Expect some crackangst this is pretty star guardians au crossover fusion ahoy so, and my poor sense of humour, at least my heart is in it eeeyyyyyy no worries, sorry that was baaaaaaad XD, pft born that way, sorry I will stop I will reader you're not my family or friends won't get injokes, I wonder how many lung injokes Vik tried to share with Jayce, first ones made J cry, until he got into the humour, sorry boyfriend, pssstt I'm a simple gal who said nothing here, I will del some tags tomorrow if my heart's in it, ok ok I'm shutting up read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/Dr20nh9

[loveforever86]

Mel and Jayce are so perfect together, a unique combination of love, desire, beauty and power.

[nyxelestia]

Oooh, now I'm imagining a very dark AU where Viktor is more like Singed or Silco, while Mel is more like Ambessa, and both of them are trying to manipulate Jayce to their respective heels.

Poor Jayce loves them both but is being torn apart by their political ambitions.

There’s a reading of Arcane where the message is, in part: Viktor and Jayce are so brilliant, and love each other so much, that they will destroy every world they find themselves in.

And that’s true. But there’s also an even darker reading: that Jayce alone will destroy the world for anyone he thinks cares about him.

His loneliness and his need for love are so fundamental to him. And we see in the show how readily he commits to anyone who shows him something like love—to Viktor, who becomes his partner the moment he believes in Jayce; to Mel, throwing himself in her lap, desperate for comfort and touch.

And the world is lucky in some ways that it’s Viktor he attaches to, and not someone who has wanted from the start to use him.

It would not have been hard.

[arcane-ish]

I just thought of an AU where the Noxians don't come for Viktor so quickly and Warwick doesn't "die" in the attack with Isha quite so quickly.

Warwick hating himself because he's the only thing Viktor can't heal. Thinking that confirms his evil nature. Thinks of himself as disfigured and scary. So much rage inside, but he's not like Vi, he isn't turning it on himself, but who is really there to kill and punish. Yeah there is Singed, but beyond that.

Vi distraught over the situation, because of course she is. A battle between her struggling with change and her urge to save everyone.

She'd try to tell Vander it's okay, he's still the same, but that just makes things worse for him.

Jinx watching them and having the realization that actually really she is the one who understands him better. She creeps in and tells Vanderwick that for the longest time she thought she was the monster. (which of course triggers Vanderwicks "must make her feel better" instincts) Maybe contemplates telling (lying?) Vander that Silco did alright for himself.

Vander asking why there are not statues of Silco. (Vander feeling really uncomfortable with having a statue. Feels like they have a false image, they didn't know the real him. Maybe Jinx explaining that the statue isn't really about him, it's about the way he made people feel)

Jinx having the realization, she thought of herself as a monster, she loved Silco because she thought he was her one kindred spirit. Now she has the maturity to see Vander and Vi are broken in their own way as well.

(maybe that realization hitting that if all those people who seem put together on the outside are actually messed up inside too ... that means... Leading to Jinx creeping in on Ekko and sharing this thought with him [plus the news about Vander and Vi being back in town])

(actually this whole thoughtchain was triggered by the mental image of Vandrwick running around in pain and wondering why Silco doesn't have a statue/thinking Silco deserved one more. But that I remembered that he likely would have no reason to think that and so everything just flowed in retroactively)

[dungeonsynths]

i have an arcane plotbunny i wanna turn into a fic but i struggle soooo much writing jayce!!!

[zaundads]

modern au

Vander x Silco AU modern plotbunnies 

They meet in juvie. The staff is horribly abusive, and Silco plans a revolution to overthrow them and expose them. 

They meet in jail. Either they arrive on the same day and vow to stick together. Or Vander was there first, takes one look at Silco, decides that Silco won’t last a week alone and takes him in. Or Silco has been there before and is delighted at the thought of latching onto the new guy and explaining the lay of the land to him. 

They are roomates in college, both in on a scholarship. Both are chronically short on money. Silco decides to make some money on the side doing phone sex/erotic voice recordings (he is too insecure about his looks to do streaming). Watch Vander suffer as he has to constantly listen to Silco doing his best, sexiest voice readings as Vander tries to get any studying done. 

Alternatively, they are college roommates and Silco talks Vander into cam-ing (ie streaming himself in his underwear, jerking off etc). Silco gets very possessive and manager-y for something that is just them, a webcam and their dorm room. (they are probably hiding from the university that they are doing it because it could get them kicked out) 

Hear me out: barber/hairdresser!Silco, Vander comes in for a shave.Sparks fly. (but seriously, barber!Silco with a shaving knife, could so see that as a solo art)

As a contrast to Silco being insecure about his looks: erotic dancer Silco (He’s an artist dammit! not a chippendale!), bouncer!Vander. 

I was thinking tattoo artist!Vander and art student!Silco but then I thought the basis of Vander and Silco are that they are from a similar background, so how about: competing tattoo artists Vander and Silco and eventually to prove their craft they alternate tattooing each other, leaving their marks on each other.  

Grumpy patient!Silco has been in a car accident, Vander is his at home nurse or physical therapy trainer. 

Chef x restaurant critic. Either Silco as the haughty chef who gets offended that anybody would even try to write a critique on him or Silco as grumpy critic and Vander as the super laid back chef. 

I could do a million more, but since I know there is probably no chance in hell anybody picks them up I’m gonna stop ;) 

[yokarny-yokai]

Still thinking about this btw

An Arcane AU where Caitlyn did not free Vi or go after the gemstone thief on her own.

So Silco and Jinx manage to successfully separate Zaun from Piltover perhaps experiencing some more bonding in the process over working together without the distractions. Jinx does become a symbol of revolution after all. And she is kind of Silco's heir ( as his daughter?). + she's probably more stable because of the absence of destabilizing elements (Vi) trying to pull her loyalties in different directions.

After several years a release of the most Zaunites that are still in the Stillwater prison is negotiated. Vi happens to be among that freed Zaunites numbers.

Just imagine - she's set free. She's home again in Zaun. But everything is different.

She's free thanks to Silco negotiating prisoners' freedom ( unknowingly including her). Her sister is his heir and Undercity's hero and goes by Jinx.... Everything is so weird and confusing. What would she do.

[amlovelies]

10 Characters, 10 Fandoms, 10 Tags

thank you for the tags 💜 @griever-receiver @horchatabun and @kittlesandbugs. I’ll tag @wayhavenots @plotbunny-bundle @rosarx @griffin-wood @vmpnano @lightinger @nerdferatum @danielsullivan @freckled-lili and @coldshrugs I think this has already started to make the rounds so sorry if you’ve already been tagged and no pressure obviously

in no particular order:

Julia Ortega (fhr)

Mason/morgan (twc)

rose tyler (doctor who)

ventress (star wars)

seven of nine (star trek)

sevika (arcane)

Melisande Shahrizai (kushiel’s legacy)

alistair theirin (dragon age)

leah (stardew valley)

steve rogers/captain america (marvel)

[jujyfru1t]

Fandom Snowflake Challenge #6: Create something

(Crossposted from Dreamwidth)

I don't know how to @ or tag people on DW, but verhalen has a brilliant setup that I plan to adopt in the future. Well, a Completed Works masterlist might be a bit much because between listing my over 60 oneshot and just linking to my page, yknow...? what I mean is I applaud them for doing that though ^_^U

Their WIP status page gave me a lot of ideas and I hope to do the same thing-- more of a "here's top-of-mind plotbunnies + the order of my ongoing series + actual WIPs" if I ever get the multichapter fic fires burning (my ficlet collections don't count. but maybe they should hmmmm). That being said, I wasn't sure if I'd have anything for this one. Howevverrrr, I diiiid finish Arcane a few days ago and god. god. top show of the new year so far (yes i did watch it fandom-blind, i'm so happy i diiiidd). what with a metric ton of pain, I ended up writing a small fix-it ficlet. (no i didn't post it right this second whaddya mean) Here's the AO3 link; it will also be up on FF.net and it's on my Tumblr writeblog.

[arcane-ish]

Request for a timebomb fic where they are constantly on the cover of Vogue Zaun and eventually go “Why does everybody think we are dating?” “I dunno, weird. We are not dating? Whatever gave them that idea?” 

And after a few rounds of denial they are “You know.... maybe ...” 

Sidenote: I bet Vogue Zaun and Vogue Piltover would be extremely different and it’s fun to imagine in what ways. 

[gorgeousgalatea]

For the fanfiction writer asks: 2, 5, 12, 33, 40, and 47. And as for the title - "The Finer Things (Are Finite Things)."

2) What fandoms do you write for and do you have a particular favourite if you write for more than one?

“Write” is a strong word right now unfortunately. RWBY remains my most prolific fandom at least; despite my tenuous relationship with canon I haven’t had anything seize my plotbunny interest to the same degree, although I have scattered wips for The Magnus Archives, Genshin Impact, Witch Hat Atelier, Resident Evil, Arcane, and Thor: the Dark World. Pluuuus some dusty old posted wips for Avatar the Last Airbender and Katekyo Hitman Reborn I still feel guilty about never finishing. But yeah, RWBY’s still the top dog right now.

5) If you had to choose a favourite out of all of your multi chaptered stories, which would it be and why?

On average my more recent (...for a given value of ‘recent’) multi-chaptered fics are all ideas I got heavily invested in and prooobably have yet to finish, so favorites are hard. I guess I would go with Ten Things About the Vongola Family by dint that I can pretend it’s finished. Although it technically isn’t and is also a list fic rather than an ongoing narrative...Apology Not Included is actually finished, let’s say that. Even though two chapters is probably also cheating.

12) Who is your favourite character to write for? Why?

If I’ve written their POV it probably means they’re a favorite XD Qrow has sass for days and I love writing quips, Raven has the kind of morally reprehensible self justification that is my jam, Ozpin and Salem are opposite sides of some really juicy immortality studies...I’m a huge fan of snark, moral ambiguity and angst, really.

Although shoutout to Rokudo Mukuro from Katekyo Hitman Reborn several fandoms back who happened to be a body hopping, conniving, morally bankrupt illusionist whose abilities stemmed from several lifetimes of reincarnation contained in an eye that may have been implanted in him by the abusive cadre of mad scientists he wiped out in revenge, who after a stint as an antagonist became an ally by necessity while having maybe three standards and showing absolutely no remorse whatsoever and goddamn if that isn’t a ridiculous number of my favorite things all rolled into a single character.

33) What’s the biggest compliment you’ve gotten?

There’s been so many super sweet ones, I can’t choose! The one I get the biggest buzz from are the ones that say my characterization is on point, because that’s what I really strive for, but it also gives me the warm fuzzies when people pull their favorite quotes or engage with the narrative because that really gives me the sense that my writing managed to resonate with them emotionally. Compliments, man. They’re great.

40) Do people know you write fanfiction?

I don’t hide it but I don’t volunteer the information either. And chances are anyone who has to ask is not someone I would feel comfortable having read most of my fic lol

47) Here’s a fic title - insert a made up title. What would this story be about?

The Finer Things (Are Finite Things)

Hmm, I’d say this sounds like an Ozpin identity study? The give-and-take in identity between immortal and incarnation, and the value of a singular lifetime--knowing that things are capable of ending when he has a mission and an enemy that refuse to. And to toss some shipping into it, how Qrow’s Semblance emphatically draws attention to the finite in a way Ozpin is uniquely qualified to appreciate...and as I write this I realize that this is less a specific story idea and more just the shipping dynamic I work with, oops I hope that is okay @_@

[ao3feed-arcane]

Epistolary // Forgot Your Death at Our Airport // why are all my postcards to You all frantic and hysteric? Who knows. must be my very healthy insomnia

by Marta_Ayanami A shooort ficlet. Arcane/Sailor Moon fusion crossover. If you know Sailor Stars (90s anime) this plotbunny ficlet is coherent, if not then not.   In this verse, Star Guardian Jayce is sixteen years old. Star Guardian Viktor is (was) nineteen years old the day Galaxia takes his star seed, a day before April 3rd. Or something. Words: 683, Chapters: 1/9, Language: English Fandoms: Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon | Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon (Anime & Manga), Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Categories: Gen Characters: Jayce (League of Legends), Sailor Galaxia, Chibi Chibi but not the one from SM, Chibi Chibi, Diana, Queen Serenity who is Ximena Talis past life, Caitelyn, Vi, Vander, Singed, Silco, Rei Hino, Yaten Kou, Luna Relationships: Jayce & Viktor (League of Legends), Caitlyn & Jayce (League of Legends), Caitlyn/Vi (League of Legends) Additional Tags: Just a plot bunny one shot prologue, I will write the real ficlet next year, Crossover Fusion, Jayce Talis is NOT Usagi Tsukino, truly, so many events will differ in details, Sailor Moon anime manga fusion, Jayce did see V death and forgot for sanity like in manga, but his behaviour will lean a bit moreclosely to 90s animeUsa, but different cuz JT is no Bunny XD read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/Dr20nh9