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Hydrokinesis and Psilirium Poisoning

A Psychonauts alternate universe fanfic! A mystery is unfolding at Headquarters, and 11 year old Raz gets involved and gets into danger.

The story takes place after the second game. Fic is currently being posted on Ao3. Gen fic, see AO3 for full tags.

Chapters:

Prologue + Chapter 01 (and related tumblr post)

Chapter 02 (and related tumblr post)

Chapter 03 (and related tumblr post)

Things I made up for this fic (link)

#psychonauts #fic notes #main intro post

Chapter 03: Chaotic Conversations

New chapter!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/77009216/chapters/230348431

In which the meeting begins and it immediately goes all over the place.

More chapters and info about my fic - Hydrokinesis and Psylirium Poisoning main post

#psychonauts #fic notes #also one of the earliest parts I wrote #This chapter had a lot of drafts but I feel the basic core stayed the same #They just needed to suss out the vibes of each other (or at least one character needed to)#(Usually in office meetings people just talk about ie the weather in order to suss out vibes - but this way is probably faster I guess)

Arts show finished! That was fun!

Once i deal with this heat wave (I miss being further up north...) I am going to fiddle with the fic.

#fic notes #Toronto I miss your weather and also universal healthcare and also more government funding for artists (cries in American)

Me: I would like to clean up and post a few more chapters of my fic.

Also me: You are departing for a big arts fest tomorrow and you haven't packed and also do you have all the items you are selling ready and prepped

Me: I mean

#fic notes #i am excited about the show tho

I got into an arts fest that I've been interested for some years now! Posting more fic chapters will be a bit slower... but overall great news for me! :D

#fic notes #A friend beta read some chapters and was like “I like these parts; these other parts you may want to consider things” and i'm like “Oh"#so I'm prepping for the event and going to noodle on edits.#I actually do enjoy having multiple creative projects refreshing/balancing each other

Oh wait, I guess I could post the next chapter, in theory. There was something I was trying to work out in the early chapters, connected to a later part of the story, that I thought was keeping me from posting the 3rd chapter. The 4th chapter is where I need to finalize that, though, it turns out.

#fic notes #update - oh wait there are some things to edit in these chapters for some future chapters

A running list of things I made up in my fic

Here are some things in my psychonauts AU fic that I fully made up. Canon divergent, etc. List to be updated:

Various OC's

Raz considering himself to be mixed-race

Nearby small city of Spoons

"Full Agent" as a category

Funding and oversight of organization

#fic notes #divergence #I'm sure there are a lot of canon divergences that I forgot or didn't notice etc #but here are the things I deliberately made up #I love info archiving and sorting yay #Idk what the canon version of Raz's identity and heritage is - I've seen fan assumptions across the board #....just like how people do for mixed race people irl hahaha ahhhgh #anyway I went with 'mixed race' because I wanted to

Chapter 02: Visitor in the Lobby

Chapter 2 of my fic is up!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/77009216/chapters/213283686

Sasha's old acquaintance makes a visit.

More chapters and info about my fic - Hydrokinesis and Psylirium Poisoning main post

#psychonauts #fic notes #This chapter with the cheerful antagonistic greeting convo is basically how it was since first draft (with some rewriting and info adding)#The fic started with this ridiculous intro conversation and informed the rest

Trying to see if a friend can read the next chapter before I post it.

Update - ok beta read!

#fic notes #we're all kind of going through it with the state of *gestures vaguely* everything - understandable that people don't have spoons atm!#meanwhile I continue to work at the fic here and there

Wrote a short thing for the middle of the story!

Also thank you to everyone who dropped a kudos or a comment on the chapter I put up!

#fic notes #currently doing some background research for fic --#finally tackling the [look this up] notes peppered in the text

Finished putting together a later chapter (in the epilogues). I'll keep editing it, but it's nice to have a cohesive and mostly finished chapter.

#fic notes #I tend to jump around and write parts #this does make it tricky to post chapters as I go #beginning and very end are solid #Also if I want to post those mostly finished chapters following the first chapter - I need to finish some structural stuff #i think this is giving me motivation?

okay its been a hot second since I've really been on ao3... Are we getting a lot of bot commenters now? Guest comments that don't quite make sense and never reference anything in the fic?

I ended up changing my comments section to registered users only - I'd rather keep it open, but the thought of dealing with more bot commenters makes me tired.

#ao3 #fanfic #I had an odd but plausible first comment (which I thought might be a bot but I responded to anyway)#I wasn't sure until the follow up comment gushed with compliments but had no actual details from the fic #and then the guest commenter wanted to talk to me more...?#And asked “got a handle?” You mean the handle you can see next to the fic? Not sure what this means #So I tagged the comments as 'review for spam' and the comments later disappeared #I've been online enough and read/written enough comments to know what comments from nice internet strangers look like #but I'm concerned about people who might run into this and think its real :/

Introducing Hydrokinesis and Psilirium Poisoning

We've posted the first chapter of our psychonauts AU fanfic!

Hydrokinesis and Psylirium Poisoning

Summary: A mystery is unfolding at Headquarters, and 11 year old Raz gets involved and gets into danger.

Prologue and Chapter 1 (An Invitation to a Meeting) are now up:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/77009216/chapters/201558471

The present moment is dire.... But first, let's go back a few days. Starting when Raz was bugging Agent Nein about a possible new mission. Also, let's catch up with what Raz, his family, and the Junior Agents have been doing for the past few months.

More chapters and info about my fic - Hydrokinesis and Psylirium Poisoning main post

Notes

There's a LOT more that happens besides that general one-sentence summary, but the short version felt right for now. (I feel like the title being "Hydrokinesis and Psilirium Poisoning" gives some idea of future events.)

This is a long fic. It is more finished than not, but it will definitely take a while to finish/post more parts.

Fic future: Stay tuned for trans and non-binary stuff and aromanticism. And slice of life, adventure, hurt/comfort, lots of conversations between characters.

Edit: I just realized I've been spelling canon "psilirium" as "psylirium" for my entire fic and beyond. I changed this to "psilirium" for the title, summary, and tags on AO3 (to make it easier to search for)…. But should I just keep my weird "psylirium" spelling for the rest of the fic, as part of the alternative universe fabric at this point. Opinions wanted.

Like there are so many part in my long fic where I, the author, realized I forgot to make something canon-aligned (esp in terminology).... I mean, at this point, "psylirium" for "psilirium" is just one of many examples.

Edit 2: a friend shrugged and said "eh...." when I explained my situation.

#psychonauts #fanfiction #fic notes #I fully expect to revise the first chapter later lol #and the summary tags etc.... maybe even the title haha #shoutout to my friend saying “people rewrite chapters on ao3 all the time don't worry" and encouraging me to post the first bit #aromantic #the first posted chapter isn't in-your-face aro... but by god the rest of the fic will be very aro at times #also I realized I've been spelling the canon “Psilirium” as “psylirium” this whole time and yes I fixed in here but #I am tempted to just keep my mispelling.... oh my god my whole fic and beyond is written with my version of “psylirium”#I deliberately altered canon for my AU for some parts #but some (to many) of the differences in my fic are just because I forgot canon whoops #I changed the main protagonists' relationship from romantic to platonic buddies which is arguably an even larger change...#but that one is intentional #by the grace of god I will never write a romance again - but I will write SO many ride or die friendships coworkers siblings etc

A friend beta-read the first chapter of my fic! It passes a vibe check! It's now at a "ready to ship out" level!

Tempted to post that first chapter on ao3 already, but I prefer having a whole story more or less written before I start posting somewhere... And we aren't quite at that stage. Progressing there, though.

#psychonauts #fanfiction #fic notes #Its more done compared to the December 2024 draft

alright in 2025 - among many other things happening, we are aiming to finish, edit, and post this fic

#psychonauts #fanfiction #fic notes

am I going to actually finish this psychonauts fanfic

#psychonauts #fic notes

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