lirillith: Locke x Terra (Locke x Terra)
Title: For the Road
Fandom:  Final Fantasy VI
Pairing: Locke/Terra; mentions of Locke/Celes and Locke/Rachel
Word count:  ~6500 words
Rating: PG
Warnings:  Mentions of violence
Summary:  It's not the first time they've pretended to be married, but this time it's Terra's idea, and it takes Locke by surprise.
Notes:  Prompted by Suzume and finished for my Trope Bingo “fake relationship” square.  There will be a sequel once Trope Bingo and Rare Women are finished.

'Let’s be married. It’s warmer sharing a bed anyway.' )
lirillith: the cast of FF6 (Act VI)
Title: Even Here We Are
Fandom:  Final Fantasy VI
Characters: Ensemble
Word count:  ~5k words
Rating: PG
Warnings:  Mentions of violence
Summary:  A handful of vignettes from an alternate version of FF6's world in which everyone has a daemon, an external embodiment of the soul.
Notes:  This is a Daemon AU, essentially a fusion using the concept of daemons - embodied, external souls - from Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy. Everyone has a daemon, which in childhood can take any form but settles, generally around the time the child reaches puberty, into a fixed form that in some way reflects the individual's personality and identity.  Additional notes on Tumblr.

Needless to say, Locke's daemon is a magpie. )
lirillith: Barnaby with a black cat (Barnaby and cat)
Title: What the Cat Dragged In
Fandom:  Tiger and Bunny
Characters: Barnaby, Kotetsu, brief appearances by Karina, Antonio, Nathan, and Yuri
Word count:  ~3400 words
Rating: PG
Warnings:  Nope
Summary:  A rogue NEXT turns Kotetsu into a cat.
Notes:  Written for the "animal transformation" square for Trope Bingo. Unexplored elements: How Barnaby’s going to react when he realizes Kotetsu can’t flush the toilet after himself as a cat; Kotetsu destroying Barnaby’s belongings because he’s bored; Barnaby holding ‘And then you got so into chasing the laser pointer that you ran at full-speed into the wall’ over Kotetsu’s head for the rest of their lives.


The old man was exactly the same as a cat, if considerably more dainty. )
lirillith: (LinLin conbi)
Title: It Takes a Village
Fandom:  Tiger and Bunny
Characters: Ivan, Pao-lin, Sam (the mayor's young son) and ensemble; Ivan/Pao-lin pre-relationship in the background
Word count:  ~8k words
Rating: PG
Warnings:  Ivan's nearly 20 and Pao-lin's not yet 16, if attraction with that age difference bothers you
Summary:  A little over a year after their first adventure with him, the heroes are asked to babysit Sam again.  This time, Ivan and Pao-lin are in charge of him.
Notes:  Written for the Trope Bingo "accidental baby acquisition" square.  Set circa episode 14, or just a bit before; T&B are busy being the hottest stars of Hero TV, Sam's about a year and a half old, and Ivan may have gained some confidence but still doesn't know how to talk to girls.

Sam made a little hiccuping, unhappy noise; his lower lip was quivering visibly. Ivan flung himself on the toy bag like it was a grenade. )
lirillith: (Madoka)
Title: Dress For the Occasion
Fandom:  Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Characters: Madoka-centric, mentions of Sayaka, Mami and Homura
Word count:  ~600 words
Rating: PG
Warnings: Nothing
Summary:  In turn-of-the-century Mitakihara, Madoka thinks about magical-girl costumes.
Notes:  I knew I didn't have the time or inclination to do a true period piece examining tons of historical nuance, and the Madoka girls live in a world that isn't all that tied into its history in a lot of ways; I felt like I could transplant them to another era and most of the changes would be cosmetic, provided they still had the freedom to run around together and attend school, and in Kyoko's case, practice Christianity with some degree of openness, though she doesn't appear here.  If I was going to do a costume piece, I might as well tackle a canonical instance of a character being very involved with the costumes.  Besides that, my first anime/manga fandom was Rurouni Kenshin; I know that Japanese creators frequently mangle the hell out of the Meiji era, so that made me feel a touch less guilty about any mangling I'd inflict.

If you could use magic to look however you wanted, why wouldn’t you? )
lirillith: Homura, Madoka, and all the screens (screens)
Title: Sunshine
Fandom:  Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Characters: Homura, Madoka, mentions of the others
Word count:  200 words
Rating: PG
Warnings: Spoilers, free hand with the show's timeline
Summary: Homura watches the others spend time at the beach in a relatively peaceful timeline.
Notes:  The text was written to accompany a photoset.

Something could always go wrong. Something always has. )
lirillith: (Blue Rose)
Title:  Karina the Vampire Slayer
Fandom:  Tiger & Bunny
Characters: Karina, Kotetsu, Nathan, Ben; mentions of many more
Word count:  1600 words
Rating: PG
Warnings: None to speak of. 
Summary: Karina Lyle, the newest Slayer, is notified of her destiny by two of her teachers on her first day of high school.  She really doesn't take it well at all.
Notes: For the "vamp/were/supernatural" square on my Trope Bingo card, despite the fact no actual vampires appear in the story.  Like the steampunk AU, I have everyone's roles figured out for a much longer AU fic I may never write; this is just meant to set up the universe.

She kept having creepy recurring dreams: some tattooed guy with pink hair who turned out to be a vampire, an old man with glasses instead of eyes, a snake with its tail in its mouth, cowled figures carrying torches. )
lirillith: Ivan Karelin surrounded  by origami cranes (Origami Cyclone)
Title:  Rule 34
Fandom:  Tiger & Bunny
Characters: Ivan, Pao-lin, Karina
Word count:  3300 words
Rating: R
Warnings: NSFW; mention of underage characters appearing in written/drawn porn
Summary: Ivan discovers Hero TV fandom and finds it kind of unsettling.
Notes: Written for the hooker/porn/stripper square for my Trope Bingo card.  A few of the pieces of fanart described are composites based on art I saw on Pixiv; all the fanfics are entirely imaginary, and any resemblance to any real fics, WIP or completed, is purely coincidental. 
 
He should ABSOLUTELY NOT go looking for Japanese fanart. )
lirillith: (Karina)
Title:  Sum Of Its Parts
Fandom:  Tiger & Bunny
Characters: Kotetsu, Antonio, Barnaby, Karina
Word count:  just under 1k words
Rating: PG
Warnings: Nope
Summary: Kotetsu's days as a rock star are behind him, as far as he's concerned, but fate has other ideas.
Notes: Written for the Trope Bingo square "Band AU;" not sure if Kotetsu and Tomoe had Kaede in this universe. 

Of course your group had real chemistry when you'd been together since you were in high school, and you were harmonizing with your wife, and the three of you could all finish each other's sentences. )
lirillith: BT (a thousand and one nights)
First of all, apologies if I've screwed up or misunderstood the rules in some way: the only other exchange I've participated in is Yuletide, and I believe the matching on this one is different.  If I start talking about prompts for characters you don't want to write on the fandom we matched, feel free to ignore that part, since on most of these I'm pretty flexible and would be fine with any combination of nominated characters.  I'm not trying to game the system, I'm genuinely confused by it.  While I'm mostly in the market for character-centric gen (or in some cases femslash) I do have some het ships and favored male characters I'll mention.  Obviously those are all optional, so please don't take that to mean I don't actually want fic centering on the women!

If you find yourself regretting the fandom match and wanting to switch, I can't really help you with the availability of Suikoden games or FF6, nor can I hook you up with a level 86 character so you can do Li Li's quests in World of Warcraft, but I can tell you that Tiger & Bunny (a superhero action/dramedy) and Madoka Magica (a very dark magical girl anime) are both available subtitled on Hulu, if you have access to that.  T&B is 25 episodes long and Madoka Magica is 12. 

Touching on some other things that some people feel strongly about:  Use whatever narrative tense or POV you want.  I don't have any triggers to speak of, though I really, really, really hate scenes of public humiliation.  I get annoyed with Japanese honorifics and terminology used in non-Japanese settings (i.e. Tiger & Bunny,) though I can take or leave it in Japanese settings and I've used them myself.  Another thing I can take or leave is extra-canon info (spin-off or tie-in works, adaptations in other media, interviews with the creators.)  They can give some fun info to use to embroider the world, but I hate when people act like they're irrefutable canon or use them to stifle fan theories and speculation, i.e. "that's a neat idea but the writers SAID..."  As far as I'm concerned, canon is what's onscreen, not what's in the game guide or on the character designer's blog or the director's Twitter.

Things I like are pretty much covered in the prompts, but in general, I enjoy world-building, meta about the functioning of the world (its magic system, the superhero industry in T&B, etc.) domesticity that doesn't erase canon personalities (when I talk about domesticity, I'm thinking more of bickering about the dishes than about smooching while shopping for curtains,) sex that's awkward or silly, people who enjoy each other's company and laugh together whether they're platonic friends or lovers and whether they're sharing a meal or having sex, and maybe most of all, people finding ways to reach hope and contentment despite having been to hell and back. 

Tiger & Bunny: Pao-lin Huang and Karina Lyle )

Final Fantasy VI: Terra Branford ) 

Suikoden: Cleo )

Suikoden III: Aila )

Madoka Magica: Kaname Junko and Saotome Kazuko )

World of Warcraft: Li Li Stormstout )
lirillith: Barnaby holding a wine glass (Barnaby)
Title:  Necessity Knows No Law
Fandom:  Tiger & Bunny
Characters: Barnaby, Saito, Kotetsu, cameo appearances by many others
Word count:  3,000 words
Rating: PG
Warnings: Nada
Summary: Barnaby Brooks Jr. is only casually interested in the new technology, developed by engineers like his parents, that's rapidly transforming Stern Bild and the rest of the world; all he wants is to solve his parents' murder.  To that end, with assistance from his guardian, he joins the ranks of the masked, costumed crime-fighters who've captured the public's imagination despite the way they operate on the edges of the law. 
Notes:  A Tiger & Bunny steampunk AU, written for [community profile] trope_bingo.  A very different setup for the present-day heroes and a somewhat different background for superheroics in general (and for Albert Maverick’s business empire.)

The business of costumed adventurers — Good Samaritans, masked vigilantes, heroes — was an odd hybrid of lawlessness and frontier justice, a creation almost unique to Stern Bild.  )
lirillith: Rude and Tifa (halfway to anywhere)
Title:  Gretna Green
Fandom:  Cinders
Pairing: Cinders/Perrault
Word count:  500 words
Rating: PG
Warnings: Nada
Summary: Cinders and Perrault get drunk and wake up married.  Written for the "accidental marriage" square of trope bingo, and played absolutely straight.

What she didn’t remember was the precise origin of the gold band on the fourth finger of her left hand, though she could make an educated guess. )
lirillith: (Kaede)
Title:  The Apple Doesn't Fall Far From the Tree
Fandom:  Tiger and Bunny
Characters:  Kaede, Muramasa, Kotetsu.  Muramasa POV.
Word count:  ~2100 words
Rating: PG at most
Warnings: Some mentions of bullying.
Summary: Kaede's too much like her father for her own good sometimes.

They've been down this road before, with Kotetsu, but it's a little different this time. )
lirillith: (Karina)
Title:  Music To Her Ears
Fandom:  Tiger and Bunny
Pairing:  Karina/Kotetsu (one-sided-ish)
Word count:  ~1500 words
Rating: PG at most
Warnings:  If for some reason you're disturbed by teenagers crushing on clueless adults, this is not the fic for you.
Summary: Karina and Kotetsu stay in touch after he retires, which doesn't do anything to end her crush on him.
Notes: A Yuletide treat for [archiveofourown.org profile] jedishampoo 

She was *owning* all this textual analysis stuff her English teachers wanted her to do. She practiced on every scrap of communication Tiger sent her way. She wasn't going to be rusty at all in the fall. )
lirillith: the cast of FF6 (Act VI)
Title:  Out of the Ashes
Fandom:  Final Fantasy VI
Characters:  Locke and Edgar
Word count:  ~4k words
Rating: PG to PG-13
Warnings:  Mentions of death and carnage; it's set in the WoR
Summary: Locke helps create Gerad, but for his part, he has a bit of a complicated relationship with hope.
Notes: A Yuletide treat for [archiveofourown.org profile] deadcellredux 

'You want to lead a gang of thieves?' )
lirillith: (Cis)
Title:  Live and Learn
Fandom:  Tiger & Bunny
Characters:  Cis, Keith Goodman, Dr. Rotwang
Word count:  ~4k words
Rating: G
Warnings:  None
Summary: Cis wasn't exactly malfunctioning when she got away from Rotwang, at least not in the way he thought she was.
Notes:  A Yuletide treat for [archiveofourown.org profile] notboldly50295 

For some time, Cis had been experiencing a mental state best equated to frustration. )
lirillith: (Sophia)
Title:  Wisdom
Fandom:  Cinders
Characters:  Sophia and Cinders; implied Sophia/Basile
Word count:  ~1100 words
Rating: G
Warnings:  None
Summary: Sophia knows better than to trust easily, but her stepsister seems to have matchmaking on her mind.
Notes:  A Yuletide treat for [archiveofourown.org profile] Ember_Keelty 

She knew better, even though the prince's smiles, and his shocked, stifled laughter when she was too original, seemed sincere enough. )
lirillith: (Treasure Hunter)
Title:  The Joker and the Thief
Fandom:  Final Fantasy VI
Characters:  Locke and Edgar
Word count:  ~5k words
Rating: PG?
Warnings:  Nada
Summary: Locke and Edgar's first meeting, five years pre-game.
Notes: My Yuletide assignment fic, for [archiveofourown.org profile] docelot .  A few pieces of the Figaro royal family's backstory were taken from the Marriage of Figaro doujinshi. Everything else is my own extrapolation from canon.

' How'm I supposed to get a king to trust me? I can barely get cops to trust me.' )

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