fanart, comics, and other things. eternally obsessed with Tales and Ace Attorney, let's add Ghost Trick, Persona and Cassette Beasts to that too why not, RPGs in general are neat. got an AO3 of the same name and a general side blog @midnight-rice. spoilers sometimes untagged so be aware
As a United Statian… does it sound okay to put “former mining company town” modern!Lhant in Minnesota? I looked it up and there seems to be mining stuff done there so I think it could work? 🤔 (I. may or may not. be trying to do an SPN crossover. don’t look at me ;-;)
lmao yeah that probably works! Anywhere in the Rust Belt/Midwest tends to have some small mining towns--- Minnesota, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, etc. Gary, Indiana honestly has Lhant vibes from when I went to the Dunes near there, being a rather small run-down town next to a big ass body of water used to power factories and refineries but also near open farmland (anything near a Great Lake really would probably be similar to Lhant and Lake Grale). I'm not sure what exactly you're looking to do with this setup but at least I can say yeah Minnesota also sounds right, at least from my own limited Midwestern experiences.
Good luck with your spn crossover, it sounds very fun! 😄
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 💜💜💜
ooo Jay you are activating the zestiria sleeper agent in my brain, I wanna hear about ALL the zesty ones 👀 but if you need a more specific answer, "Sorey is trying his best!!" immediately captured my heart, as well as the true name one ("look at these BABIES" 😂)
hehehe I'm always waiting for the opportunity to reawaken zesty feelings >:3
"Sorey is trying his best!!" is actually a request that's been sitting in my inbox for wayyy too long from @suzaku (hiii I didn't forget!!!) from some point when I asked for fic prompts:
i still adore this idea and the work is definitely in progress!! technically!!!!! anyway here's a snippet
Instead of simply waiting and feeling what he could feel, he figured he should just, well, pretend he was the wind. He pulled that image into his head, of light summer breezes and blustering gales, of flying through the air and whipping past leaves, of ruffling those perfectly fluffy bangs that sometimes obscured parts of Mikleo’s gentle-sharp lilac eyes. For a moment, it almost felt as if he’d brushed them aside with his own fingers.
Rough-soft leather against his outstretched palm startled him—again—out of the swirl of his thoughts. When he opened his eyes, he was met with a grinning, if very windswept Mikleo holding his hand.
“I said feel the wind, Sorey.” Mikleo’s lips thinned and pursed, a habit he had when he was trying not to laugh, “Not start a windstorm.”
Sorey couldn’t hold back his ecstatic expression. “What if I like starting windstorms, huh? What will you do then?”
As for "True name learning oh boy here we fucking gooooo look at these BABIES", I do think it's fairly self-explanatory sjxkd but I wanted to do a take on how Sorey might've learned Mikleo's true name ✨✨ I believe my plan was for it to happen when they were kids, but I hadn't actually gotten to the true name reveal last time I touched this wip... Anyway, snippet time
“Not telling.” Mikleo stuck his tongue out.
“Mean.”
“Am not.”
“Are too.”
“Am no—”
Sorey tackled Mikleo off the log, slamming them into the ground and driving the breath from the seraph’s lungs as he was pinned down by his shoulders.
“Sorey! Ow!” Mikleo hissed, kicking up and pushing in an attempt to dislodge his friend. He managed it, flipping them around so Sorey was the one getting leaves and dirt in his hair. “You jerk!”
“You’re the jerk.” Sorey stuck his tongue out this time, and Mikleo quickly snatched a handful of leaflitter and shoved it in his face. “Agh! Mikreoo.” Sorey grumbled through his mouthful of vegetation and dirt, turning his face to the side and spitting to get it and the taste out.
seriously!! look at these babies!!! they're so silly <3
can't wait to write more shenanigans with them,, and many feelings
Rules: make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Tag as many people as you have WIPs. People can send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, then post a little snippet/preview or tell them something about it!
Thank you Jay (@lildoodlecat) for tagging me!! You have such hilarious titles for your wips, I feel like mine are more boring/straightforward by comparison 😅 luckily for me I recently made a list of all my wips and their words counts (the document word count, most of it is NOT prose) so I can just copy and paste it here. fair warning, there's quite a few, and some of them have been "on hiatus (i'll come back someday bet)" for years so i may have less to say about them if prompted. But without further ado here's the doc titles of all of my Tales wips!
Graces:
Grace richass hurt/comfort: 1456
Graces AU Compilation 2 Eletric Boogaloo (You Shape Me): 465
Graces AU of ambiguous definition but it's the same bullshit I always write (Training Wheels): 4982
Graces AUs in a jumbled mess (titled ones include: Seasons Are Changing; Lambda 2 Electric Boogaloo: There's Another One, Folks; Inside and Out. also a G/T Richass AU and a Psi POV story): 19,933
Graces Berzesty AU: 2285
Graces Chapters (Two Hearts Could Be One part 1): 47,862
Graces charcter reference and outline (Two Hearts Could Be One part 2): 92,690
Graces long fic: The Sequel (Two Hearts Could Be Two): 19,616
Graces rarepair Cheribert ideas: 2430
Zesty:
Living House AU: 15,857 (items with an * are wips under this same AU. Yes, they're all house-related puns)
*Room For Improvement: 4083
*Welcome Home: 5754
*Amazon Home: 951
*Shingles Virus: 2328
Joyride: 5339
Sormik timeloop angst: 1387
Innominat Returns (Falling Awake): 33,304
Zestiria but I dont have a name for it yet idk how to describe it either (personality nonsense): 1275
Zestiria ideas in a jumbled mess (featuring AUs such as human!mikleo, cult Elysia, noragami AU, Skyward Sword AU, that one kinky one): 14,695
Rose and Mikleo’s Day Off: 4185
Berseria:
Berseria But I Don’t Have a Title Yet (To Walk With the Reaper): 5453
Berseria Van Eltia Fluff (Maiden Voyage): 608
Bien-formant: 342
Diary of a Pengyon: 1579
Dotnw:
Dontw Polwiggle: 3115
Dontw Spur of the Moment fic (Didn’t Know I Was Lost): 1312
Vesperia:
Fighting of the Spirit: 1345
Ghost Trick Repede (Chance 4 a Big Reversal): 12904
Vespy nonsense of the self-indulgent kind (Angel/Demon AU with so many cliches you're gonna drown in them): 1471
Vespy Ooo (Without a Shadow): 6211
Xillia 1&2:
Eurydice: 378
Kind of a depressing mess (RIP Julius): 901
Notes for Leia (aka this girl has problems (and maybe a ghost) haunting her): 1153
Some kind of Xillia AU (ft. AUs such as spiritvessel!Jude and spirit!Jude): 4873
Sad fractured dimension stuff (jude's sister AU): 2091
Smol jude: 1281
Arise:
Werewolf!Law (You’re Running in Circles): 2332
Okay, that's all of them, currently! I really do write a lot for this fandom I just never finish anything ever so they stay stuck in my wips folder forever 😅 But anyone is free to ask me about these, in fact I will take your interest in my half-baked ideas as flattery of the highest form 💜
As for tagging others, I think Jay already snagged up my mutuals so I will open this up to literally anyone who sees this, Tales fan or no. And please @ me in it, I wanna see what other people are working on!!!!
These sticker sheet preorders will be going until New Years! I already have a few copies on the way, so the first lucky 10 will probably be able to get their copies before then ;P
Tales of Vesperia Stickers: The reason this is happening, and the one that got the highest votes on the poll! If these stickers sell well, I’ll definitely be doing MORE TALES OF starting with Berseria!
Strawberry Shortcake stickers: they weren’t popular online but they were in person! I’m having them smaller and in better quality, so I might as well have them as an option too <3
