forgotten fox ficbit
With Palpatine's dying breath, he curses Fox to be Forgotten.
(Fox isn't really bothered.)
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There was a personnel transfer authorization sitting in Marshal Commander Thorn's crowded inbox.
He didn't remember requesting a fourth commander. The Guard was in desperate need of one following Thire finding Palpatine's wrinkled ass dead in his office, and the ensuing shitshow about the former Chancellor being a Sith and also controlling the war from both sides. Interim Chancellor Organa was incredibly competent and parsecs better than their previous natborn overlord, but even he was being swamped by the uproar in the Senate and the peace talks with the Separatists and the doubled amount of assassination attempts and the petabytes and petabytes of datawork--
Thorn couldn't remember requesting another commander, but he also couldn't remember the last time he slept.
Commander Vertex stood calm and at the ready on the other side of Thorn's desk, all-black helmet tucked under his arm as he waited patiently for Thorn to remember how to read. His hair was stark white, and there were vine-like scars wrapped around his neck that disappeared down into his blacks. The remnants of Sith lightning, Thorn knew, now that they'd been briefed on what that kind of thing looked like.
Vertex's file was sparse, mostly redacted, and marked him as coming from the Special Operations Brigade, which Thorn could entirely believe.
"This isn't part of an investigation, is it?" he blurted, brain-to-mouth filter entirely gone after five too many cups of caf and an inadvisable number of stims over the past month. "The Guard was already cleared of suspicion involving the former Chancellor's death--"
Vertex held up a hand. Thorn's mouth snapped shut.
"It's not," Vertex said, his voice firm, reassuring. There was something about it that made Thorn relax, as if his beleaguered hindbrain knew that the other commander had everything under control.
Spec Ops troops were amazing.
"The GAR is just reallocating resources given the recent upheaval," Vertex continued. Thorn nodded along like that all made sense. "I'm here to help with anything you need."
The word 'help' triggered a sudden burst of manic hope in Thorn's chest, and he lurched forward across his desk, grabbing Vertex's free hand in both of his own. The commander didn't even blink at the sudden movement, calmly meeting Thorn's wide, desperate eyes.
"Can you--" Thorn struggled to keep from sounding like he was begging, which he definitely was. "Can you do datawork?"
Vertex's sigh was entirely exasperated, and the roll of his eyes oddly, familiarly fond.
"Yes, Thorn. I can do your datawork."
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Pt 2
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Writing Masterlist
mela | 21 | she/they | carrd | ao3
heya! I've put off making this for so long but I. should just get this done. I write multifandom so all fandoms will be listed w/ fics below, and all indie games will be linked. feel free to talk to me abt any of these, if I was insane enough to write abt it then I am down to talk abt it. smile
important: ficsforgaza initiative masterlist
Completed
*asterisked fics include major spoilers
*Double Blind (Mistrick, John/Chase)
rating: T | category: M/M | chs: 1/1 | words: 2k (exactly! somehow)
relevant tags: canon compliant, post true ending, unhealthy relationship (not a surprise for them)
The afterlife(?) with John Blanc: take two.
*young romantics (We Know The Devil, Jupiter/Neptune/Venus)
rating: T | category: F/F | chs: 1/1 | words: 823
relevant tags: post true ending, comfort
Venus is still grinning that same careless little smile as Neptune sweeps to her and slides a murky finger in her hair, judgemental despite the mutual plunge, the allure of the feathers they had already fallen for. Jupiter is still in the distance, her living storm scaring away the last of god’s world, her living storm a balm on their misery, and Venus coughs out small flecks of blood, laughs at the sensation.
(Three girls and a hug after the end of the world. Two girls are still kind of liars. That's okay.)
light-like (Mob Psycho 100, Emi & Mob)
rating: T | category: Gen | chs: 1/1 | words: 971
relevant tags: during canon, introspection
The night he restores her manuscript, Emi takes her blue pencil and colors Kageyama in, just like that.
Emi writes a story and considers her feelings more. She considers Kageyama's, too.
*I am afraid to write the stronger word (Xenoblade Chronicles 1, Seven/Meyneth)
note: Seven is the moniker used to avoid the spoiler character's name; as soon as you click the link, this will be spoiled. please be cautious!
rating: T | category: F/F | chs: 1/1 | words: 1.3k | series: 1/2
relevant tags: during canon, body dysphoria, canonical character death
Her name is Meyneth—perhaps Lady Meyneth, but no, it just doesn’t feel quite right. So Meyneth it is, and the flare of memories she leaves in her wake is enough to bring a girl to her knees.
All of this freely presses itself against her spine in wonderment, but she has not been brought to her knees. She stumbles, but refuses to fall. They, her machine body, together-and-separate, refuse to fall. So then, she is…
Seven, before and after.
*your dead best friend is walking up the stairs (Xenoblade Chronicles 1, Seven & Shulk)
note: Seven is the moniker used to avoid the spoiler character's name; as soon as you click the link, this will be spoiled. please be cautious!
rating: T | category: Gen | chs: 1/1 | words: 2k | series: 2/2
relevant tags: during canon, identity issues
When Seven pulls him aside, it isn't to tell him that she's dying, which is honestly what he thought she would lead with.
*we put our mouths on the least lovable (Great Ace Attorney Chronicles, Kazuma/Ryuunosuke, Ryuunosuke & Everyone)
rating: T | category: M/M | chs: 1/1 | words: 7.9k
relevant tags: post-canon, marriage of convenience (sort of. it's stupid), found family
Almost two years after the Professor case, Ryuunosuke encounters his own greatest problem known to man: himself.
Or: the adventures of Naruhodou Ryuunosuke's assumptions and the civil partnerships they may or may not pull certain best friends into.
*there are no secret lives (Great Ace Attorney Chronicles, Gina/Susato)
rating: G | category: F/F | chs: 1/1 | words: 2k
relevant tags: alternative universe - canon divergence, hopeful ending
"Ya know, I kinda figured you'd follow 'Oddo anywhere."
I would, Susato thinks. I would, if my need to grow into my own person wasn't just as strong as his.
(Susato, Gina, and a goodbye that wasn't.)
these hands of mine were clumsy, not clever (Project Sekai, An/Touya)
rating: G | category: Multi | chs: 1/1 | words: 1.1k
relevant tags: post-light up the fire, unresolved emotional tension
The first time he says her name — really, properly allows himself to say it — she's working at the counter, even now, and her smile is off.
*that's what you call thaumaturgy (Persona 5, Akechi & Sumi)
rating: T | category: Gen | chs: 1/1 | words: 1.4k
relevant tags: mild psychological horror, royal bad ending, unreliable narrator
She—Sumi goes carefully frozen, like someone sculpted her face into practiced surprise. "Akechi—"
"I forgot," he says, and pushes forward, ignoring the disoriented look she's shooting his fingertips, "I fucking forgot on the way here. What is your name?"
She giggles, a stupid nervous trill that throws a stone right into his spine. "Shouldn't you know that already?"
note: very brief, very violent flashes of self-harm and suicide
Pyramid Scheme (Persona 5, Takamaki Ann)
rating: T | category: Gen | chs: 1/1 | words: 1.9k
relevant tags: during canon, (mild) alternate character interpretation, strained friendships
How did I get to this point, Ann thinks desperately, and like a film reel, hears the echoes of her own self say, Stop worrying, I'll be fine. I know exactly who I am and where I'm supposed to fit. I'm a girl; we can't afford not to know in this world.
(Takamaki Ann grows up too fast.)
note: canon-typical allusions to pedophilia, implied sexual assault, referenced sexual harrassment, everything associated w/ p5's first arc
on your steps at dawn (Persona 4, Kanji/Naoto/Rise)
rating: T | category: Other | chs: 1/1 | words: 964
relevant tags: during canon, pre-relationship
So she figured out pretty quickly that Kanji’s thoughts were in her head, but how do you even start that conversation? ‘Hey, I know we’ve been hanging out lately, and you let me hold your arm sometimes even though you never give me animal crackers, and once you knitted me gloves because I forgot mine back in the city, haha, also I can read your thoughts now!’
Rise can feel people's thoughts and emotions in the TV world the closer she gets to them. Kanji and Naoto-kun’s thoughts are especially loud for some reason.
Devotion Theory (Pokemon Rejuvenation, Erin/Aelita)
rating: T | category: F/F | chs: 1/1 | words: 1.1k
relevant tags: during canon, pre-relationship, major v13.5 spoilers
The thing about Aelita was that she’s stubborn, and relentless, and so self-absorbed it actually hurt to speak to her sometimes, and she was everything Erin could ever have wanted. And the thing about Aelita is that all those things are just a little to the left and she’s still everything Erin could ever have wanted.
Erin, on starting to want things for herself and the girl who made it possible.
*and now, and now, and now (Pokemon Desolation, Tristan)
rating: T | category: Gen | chs: 1/1 | words: 1k
relevant tags: during canon, guilt, a tragedy in motion really
"I just want to help people," he finds himself telling Robin, and isn't it something that he can still say something so poisonous with such conviction?
(You are a bad person. You are bad at being a person. He knows both to be true.)
*As You Well Know (Great Ace Attorney Chronicles, Kazuma & van Zieks & Gina & Iris & Sholmes, Sholmes/van Zieks)
rating: T | category: Multi | chs: 2/2 | words: 16.1k | series: 1/2
relevant tags: post-canon, introspection, found family, self-discovery
After the Professor trial, Sholmes starts incessantly visiting the prosecution's office and Kazuma watches habits form all around him. Neither of them ever really stop.
note: don't be fooled by the tags this is mainly about kazuma self-discovery while sholmes and van zieks are the most divorced duo ever in the bg
hand on my stupid heart (Fire Emblem: Awakening, Inigo & Henry & Olivia, Henry/Olivia)
rating: T | category: Multi | chs: 2/2 | words: 8.1k
relevant tags: during canon, canon-typical violence, developing relationship
He’d imagined a world like this several times: his mother still standing in front of him, beaming with a confused sort of gratitude as he shouted her name and flung himself into her arms, warm and alive and fond. But when he asks where Father is, she pulls back, frowning.
“Father?” It dawns on him as soon as Mother’s face turns scarlet. “Wait, you said—do I—I get married?”
(Inigo reappears too early. History works itself out, anyway.)
note: ch1 is inigo's pov (and therefore has all the mild humor), ch2 is olivia's (and therefore has all the romance). can be easily summed up as 'inigo stumbles around in the bg of henry and olivia getting it together'
*Somewhere, Sometime, Surely (Where Is The Red Queen?, Alice/Mad Hatter)
rating: G | category: F/F | chs: 1/1 | words: 8.1k
relevant tags: post-Alice ending, yearning, minor violence, undoomed yuri...
Happiness, probably we had no such fate, but we wished for it.
In one world, Alice and the Hatter reach that fate.
*And West of the Moon (Great Ace Attorney Chronicles, Sholmes/van Zieks)
rating: T | category: M/M | chs: 1/1 | words: 6.4k (exactly!!!) | series: 2/2
relevant tags: post-canon, developing relationship, getting together
A public courtship’s private moments, told in halting steps.
The Scorpion and the Frog (Death Note: Another Note, Beyond Birthday "&" Naomi Misora)
rating: T | category: Gen | chs: 1/1 | words: 4.2k
relevant tags: unresolved sexual tension (allegedly. it's all one-sided), canon-typical violence, car rides
When alone together in Naomi Misora’s car, who really is the hunter and the hunted? Well, even if the answer to that question mattered, the ensuing car ride doesn't change anything. Or it changes everything, but only if you're sentimental like that.
(Months after the Kira case, Mello makes an addendum to August 19th.)
note: written in the style of mello's narration in another note
Ongoing
*yours, yours, mine (Find Love or Die Trying, Kat/MC)
rating: T | category: F/F | chs: 10/? | words: 2.3k so far
relevant tags: canon-typical violence, yearning, jumps around from pre- to post-canon
Stolen moments from the lights, cameras and action, given new meaning after the end. [Prompt fill collection]
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