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Current Fandoms: Resident Evil + Red Dead Redemption
Desired_Misery @ AO3
I have "Evil Little Brain Bugs" (quote by Wayward, about me)
I write some rough stuff, so please be mindful of the tags. Writing is my way to vent/express myself.
Welcome to my first whumptober! I am completing both Whumptober (W) and AiLessWhumptober. (ALW).
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This month's fics are all centered around Leon Kennedy and Ingrid Hunnigan from the Resident Evil games (specifically post-Resident Evil 4). Expect lots of whump, angst, ample sarcasm and sass, and plenty of field agent nonsense from yours truly, Leon "Condor" Kennedy.
Characters: Leon Kennedy, Ingrid Hunnigan (with Chris Redfield and Piers Nivans as a treat). Works below the cut!
*everything will be posted to my AO3 account , but only one is a complete fic. Everything else are scenes of larger fics that have not been completed yet.
THE WORKS
Nonlinear Recovery | Leon Kennedy POV | Scenes
Rating: 13+
Summary: Leon is struggling with medical complications after surviving Spain. While most of his symptoms have cleared up, one in particular is wreaking havoc on his plans to return to his normal life. As normal as his life could be.
Trapped By Circumstance | Leon Kennedy POV | Complete
Rating: 13+
Summary: What he has to do is very simple: don't give up the code words, don't crack, don't suffer serious injury or death, do not give anyone the code words. He needs to prove he can be trusted.
W: Panic Attack [1], Set Up for Failure [3], Sensory Deprivation [4], Sleep Deprivation [8], Fatigue [29]
ALW: Stress Position [1], Sensory Deprivation [12], Defiance [13], Waterboarding [15], Hostile Environment [16], Disassociation [19], Forced to Kneel [22], Electrocution [26], Panic Attack/Facing a Phobia [31], Animal Bite [ALT 3 for 25], Kidnapping [ALT 8 for 18]
Unfortunate Consequences | Ingrid Hunnigan POV | Scenes
Rating: 13+
Summary: It wasn’t Condor’s fault— but damn, his luck can be abysmal at the worst times. Falling through a rickety staircase resulted in the kind of injury that was immediately disqualifying to Condor being able to fulfill the mission objectives. It happened outside of the recon point, an abandoned building-turned-safehouse that clearly needed some maintenance.
W: Heat Stroke [5], "Oh, that's not good" [22]
ALW: Unfortunate Fall [2], Heat Stroke [9]
Left Out | Ingrid Hunnigan POV | Scenes
Rating: 13+
Summary: After Condor gets injured and then almost becomes a casualty of heat stroke, he is back to work. The mission is supposed to easy, light work for him while he is still technically on the mend. With Condor's classic, horrible luck, things so south fast.
W: Only for Emergencies [7], Blackmail [14], "It's not your fault" [20], CCTV [28]
Delayed Guilt | Ingrid Hunnigan + Leon Kennedy POV | Scenes
Rating: 13+
Summary: On the heels of a failed mission, Ingrid hopes this one will go better after getting reassurance that it was nothing more than a horribly unlucky situation. That happens with Condor sometimes. ...Sometimes.
W: Nowhere Else to Go [17], Collapsed Building/Equipment Failure [24]
Disoriented, Cornered | Leon Kennedy + Ingrid Hunnigan POV | Scenes
Rating: Mature
Summary: Severely injured, Leon is reduced to survival instincts that won't allow him to recognize the real world around him.
W: Passing Out from the Pain [10], Unreliable Narrator [18], Body Horror [21], Voiceless/Muzzled [27], Hospital Bed [30]
ALW: Passed Out [23], Delirium [30]
On His Back | Leon Kennedy POV | Scenes
Rating: Mature
Summary: Leon's horrific hospital stay triggers all kinds of horrible thoughts. Thanks to the pain medication he has to take, his nightmares are vivid and intense.
W: Painful Hug [15], Nightmares [26]
ALW: Non-consensual Body Modification [4], "You're so much prettier this way" [8], Hallucinations [11], Ownership [29]
Self Reliance | Leon Kennedy POV | Scenes
Rating: Mature
Summary: At this point, Ingrid knows just how much Leon cannot tolerate doctors. She does everything she can to help, but still, Leon insists he can handle it on his own. He can take care of himself.
Summary: As often as Alpha is deployed, you'd think they'd recognize if they were being shot at. But that's the thing about BOWs; they don't tend to be intelligent enough for that. Within the fog of combat, it takes a while to realize that someone is shooting back.
W: Multiple Whumpees [13], Blood Trail [19], Friendly Fire [ALT for 11]
ALW: Multiple Whumpees [6], Concussion [14], Misunderstanding [17], "I'm absolutely not qualified for this shit" [20], Internal Bleeding [28]
Shared Sleep | Leon Kennedy + Chris Redfield POV | Scenes
Rating: 13+
Summary: Leon has nightmares very often. Leon sharing a bed with someone happens way, way less often. It is not exactly great to dream about zombies when Chris fuckin' Redfield is the one lying next to him.
ALW: Zombies [ALT 4 for 27]
Experiment 537 | Luis Serra + Leon Kennedy POV | Scenes
Rating: Mature
Summary: How Luis Serra becomes friends with an intelligent BOW... who ends up being Leon.
W: Healed Wrong [6]
ALW: Deconditioning [24], Shock Collar [ALT 6 for 3]
i think this captures the defining pathology of the collective social media psyche right now. we are in the thrall of people who are wantonly cruel but who also demand to be coddled at all times in every way
the thing about mothers in fiction is that a lot of fandoms seem to be under the impression that the worst thing a woman can possibly do is be a bad mother. like they can forgive deadbeat dads easily but the moment a woman is a bad or even mediocre mother she's the devil incarnate to them. and then you're like "i like her and i think she's interesting" and they immediately go "oh so you think it's okay to be a bad mother (which is the most evil thing a woman can be)". and don't even get me started on how they react to female characters who are bad stepmothers
we gotta stop treating other peoples headcanons and interpretations as some sort of malicious attack on the character itself. I know you love the character and you feel that certain interpretations go against the core of their being, but that doesn’t actually mean it shouldn’t exist. you’re tiptoeing a very conservative line when you take away other people’s safe sandbox to play in when you engage in the fandom and negatively asserting your own interpretation. you don’t need to announce your vehement disagreement every time you don’t like something to the whole fandom, the truth is you need to learn to be uncomfortable and not make it everyone else’s problem. block and filter, curate your own space.
I don't think Tolkien is a good fantasy writer because he scored the highest at some objective Best Fantasy Book Test that every fantasy writer has to take, I think he's a good fantasy writer because he created a world based on things that he was interested in. I feel like a lot of fantasy writers think that they need to create a whole language for their world because Tolkien did and obviously his books are the best so they have to emulate him, but Tolkien did that because he was a linguistics nerd. I think the lesson to be learned from him is not that you have to include elves and deep history and new languages, but that you have to write endlessly about the things you are a huge nerd about and use those things to create your fantasy world
I saw advice once ((I'm sure it's somewhere in my writing advice or writing tips tags, but this was years ago)) that instead of emulating Tolkien and pouring linguistics into your writing (unless, of course, you're also a linguist) you should pour the thing YOU love into your writing
are you a fashion nerd? write about their dress, the fabric, the style, let that be the part you flesh out and out and out - what fabric do the elves wear? how many layers? (are they even elves?)
are you a bug nerd? make a fantasy species that's bugs. that's based on bugs. same goes for any kind of animal. elves are OUT, my species based on bearded dragons (lizards) is IN.
tangentially this is probably an aspect of why Homestuck was so popular. WOW, did Andrew Hussie care about their funny bug-like Troll species. WOW, was the worldbuilding for troll castes and stages of life like. Tolkien level of detail. Also!! Homestuck is full of Hussie's love for WEIRD VIDEO GAME MENUS and COMPLICATED MECHANICS.
so pick whatever you're a nerd about and fill your work with that. you don't need a fantasy language. but maybe you want to talk about the anatomy of dragons. maybe you're a nerd about Cambrian period organisms and life. maybe you're a nerd about book binding. or about music and how music can be magic!
hell, Witch Hat Atelier - whose anime just started airing - exists because people pointed out to Shirahama that art & draftmanship are basically real-life magic*. and WHA is a series about magic through drawings and ink! And how the best magic is precise and careful applications of the magic ink!!!
(*source - but be sure to read the whole thread!)
so... you don't have to be Tolkien. Be your own freak. And put your own nerdery into your work.
everyone who is not currently in the process of moving please pause and take a moment to be grateful that you're not currently in the process of moving
