Melodies and Manuscripts

Writer of fanfiction, watcher of probably too much anime, and reader of a million books. Find me on Ao3 as SecretEnigma

[secret-engima]

This is the Pinned Post

Hiiii! Welcome to my blog. I have several fandoms and random things on here, aus out my ears and more fics besides.

You can find my fics HERE on Ao3, but only if you are signed in as a member as they are locked.

Or if you wanna try my original stories and get a surprise fantasy au every month, you can poke at my Patreon HERE.

I have story samples of all the currently published OG stories under the #Melodies and Manuscripts or the #patreon 

The #Melodies and Manuscripts tag also has snippets and ao3 links to various fanfics I’ve done/am doing.

Also apparently there’s a trend going around where people are Rude™ and feed unfinished stories into an AI in an attempt to get some garbled garbage that counts as an ending and are taking silence as express permission so here:

YOU NEVER HAVE PERMISSION TO COPY, REPOST, OR FEED MY STORIES OR CHARACTERS TO ANYTHING ANYWHERE EVER. NO REPOSTING TO OTHER SITES, NO FEEDING ANYTHING INTO AN AI OF ANY KIND. PEOPLE WHO DO WILL BE CURSED BY THE LEGO GODS TO STEP ON EVERYTHING POINTY AT LEAST TWICE A DAY FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIVES, THEIR TOES TO ALWAYS BEING STUBBED, AND THEIR INTERNET TO ALWAYS BEING BROKEN.

Okay? That clear enough? Great. Good talk.

Asks are welcomed but I can’t promise Tumblr won’t eat them or that I’ll get to them anytime soon, just please mind the tag rules on the ask box (also do not send me links or videos in the asks, and do not ask me about rl things unless it’s a general “how’s life” or a question about a fandom, game, or other piece of media you wanna know if I’ve seen or something, please and thank you!).

Feel free to ask about my aus, but if you do please specify which one by it’s exact tag name when possible because I have literally hundreds if not thousands of these suckers at this point and chances are high I will not know which au you are talking about unless you specify XD.

Also if you ever wanna draw fanart of my fanfic, that is okay. Just please keep it SFW, credit the story it’s based on, and then tag me if you post it to tumblr because I love coming over and flailing over it. :D

[secret-engima]

So I was thinking long and hard about Noctis’ non-timetravel cover story in Blood of My Blood and I was also thinking hard about Naruto and Calling for Rain and the thing I came up with excites me, so I come before you begging permission to write an actually-kidnapped!Noctis fic where things go a bit… sideways in the labs and a wee bit of minor transmigration happens to a shinobi who finds himself stranded in a strange world and body with, of all things, a child to suddenly take care of. (Actual clone-baby, not Dionysus. I like Ardyn, but I can’t be bothered to set up a fantastical age-regression thing for him, so I’ll settle for the cover story being literal with a few differences)

Also have I told you that your writing has me frothing at the mouth with joy. You write so well I feel actually addicted. Pebbles has me currently feral, do you mind if I take the word Shatterpoint and run hog wild with it (concept has been lodged in my brain for a long time before I found a name for it; I’d just been calling those moments Dragonbreaks like in Elder Scrolls)

As long as I am given credit as the inspiration, none of my major plot beats are copied, and you're only taking inspiration from the ideas of kidnapped Noctis and a ninja transmigration, sure!

And yes, you can use Shatterpoints, since it's a worldbuilding idea rather than a story beat or an OC :)

[secret-engima]

Your thoughts on Miruko/Dabi pretty please with a cherry on top?

I like them a lot! I think they have a lot of potential, which is why I made them a ship in my time travel au :D. I don't have any direct story thoughts about them atm (not in BNHA fixation wise rn) but I think there's a lot of charm in "the guy whose quirk is basically a physical disability but he has All The Sarcasm" and "the girl whose quirk helps her live out her dreams of Fighting Everything and probably finds sarcasm really funny". I would love to see more fics fixiting Dabi in general, but especially more with Miruko involved at basically any point of the process as a ship because I'm so. SO tired of DabiHawks I'm not sorry. Please give me more of the cranky dragon man and the feral fight bunny.

[secret-engima]

So I know in the Pebbles verse Shisui’s timeline was destroyed when he was pulled back but it suddenly hit me that Danzo would totally use the Massacre being Sasuke’s Shatterpoint as an excuse to absorb him into ROOT or get custody of him. And put him back together in a way useful to him, regardless of whatever Itachi was using as leverage for Sasuke to survive.

Shatterpoint is my interpretation of Uchiha behavior to explain why they're Like That after severe trauma, so actually canonSasuke, in my head, is Shatterpointed, so no, Danzo wouldn't ROOT him and that would definitely not work even if he tried. Uchiha know when someone is being a fake bleep rather than a real anchor ^^;

[secret-engima]

I got a new job! I’ve been unemployed played for nearly four and a half months, and I’m really excited to start on Monday! To celebrate, could we please get a few sentences from the next chapter of Saving the World For Fun And Profit?

Sorry, I don't have anything new to share, but congrats!

[secret-engima]

Hi everyone! I know I've been beyond quiet on here because tumblr makes it very hard to enjoy being on the platform these days. Some of you have already noticed and meandered over via my fics, but I and my co-author have a discord now! I'm tentatively putting an invite in here for my regulars who want to come in and say hello, it will only be valid for 7 days after this post goes up. Anyone else who joins: make sure to mind the server rules or you will be banned. We run a tight ship.

@any-mouse @fortheloveofgodgoaway @raven-6-10 @spideypoolalways you guys get the honor of direct tagging because you were in my inbox still ^^;

Check out the Melodies & Manuscripts community on Discord - hang out with 247 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

[secret-engima]

Does Gremlin verse Oscar double as a squeaky toy? I mean Sondor certainly used him as one in V8 but just in general I feel like Oscar would make a squeak sound if you squeeze him

Do not use your Gremlin verse Oscar as a squeaky toy! They become very anxious and upset when squeezed! Picking up and squeezing Gremlin verse Oscars without prior permission can cause agitated and unwanted behavior and should only be done with prior consent and trust! (but yes, he would squeak if you squimshed him)

[secret-engima]

Wow, I have asked enough to have a tag! 😊 Are you going post about your Danmachi fics here?

Uhhh maybe a little bit! But as you can probably tell I'm not active on tumblr much ^^;. So I can answer asks about it when I'm on, but most of my actual unhinged rambling these days is on my discord :).

[secret-engima]

Pebbles verse, very important question:

Does catnip, or silver vine, work on the Uchiha too? Ranging to spazzing them out, or making them so very chill.

Pebbles verse, very important answer:

Depends on if it's an Uchiha with a strong bloodline connection to the Cat summons! If it's someone with Crow summoner blood, then nope! If it's a Cat summoner or someone with strong enough blood ties, it won't conk them out unless you have a truly unholy amount, but it can make them a bit peppier or more mellow!

[secret-engima]

Ok so, You originally had Oobleck out of the main plot's nonsense but now I think he might be since he's...sort of Sondor approved. If he doesn't, wouldn't he recognize ren and nora when they get to beacon? And if he does....dear lord, he's going to get pulled into Oscar's nonsense. And that means he probably is going to find out about Ozpin's nonsense. He's going to have SO many questions. Mostly about what it was like in various points of history. All the random questions he has could FINALLY be answered.

Yeahhh, Oobleck escaped containment and now he's part of the plot lol. He's in for a time! But I can't say more or else it will be spoilers :).

[secret-engima]

Hi there! It's been a looong while since I've really engaged with your AUs (or FFXV stuff in general) but I was cleaning out an old notebook and found an ancient thing I'd scribbled out for the Royal Twins Yuffie and Rufus for the Moonlit Skies(? The Cloud as Prompto) verse. It's mostly Niflheim court stuff that's missing a lot of polish and will probs stay that way if I post it, but are you... still in those fandoms? Do you want it?

Hi! I'm not in FFXV/FF7 at the moment from burnout, but I do still love them! If you wanna post the snippet on here and it's not NSFW or anything, feel free and tag me! I do still read my notifs, I'm just not actualy active on here very often. :)

[secret-engima]

When you are back in the mood for it, gremlins doing shows/heists in the style of the shows from now you see me. I recently watched it and all I could think of is circus heists like in your au

I haven't seen it! But a heist chap will almost definitely happen at some point lol.

[secret-engima]

*peeks in* is this alive? will there be any rambles or interacting with the new Danmachi stuff on here?

It's technically still alive, I do keep some tabs on it, but tumblr is not really fun for me to be on much anymore, so you'd have a lot better luck with Danmachi rambles by joining my discord, sorry ^^;. I intend for the blog to stay up though!

[secret-engima]

I was recently inspired by your pebbles fic to write my own fic and was wondering if it would be okay to put you down as a mention? Because you inspired me to write a shisui time travel fic due to the hirashin. I haven't posted it yet due to this

Sure! You can mention that my fic inspired you! In fact, if you intend to post on Ao3, there's a specific checkbox you can find when creating the work to mark it as "inspired by/remix/translation of another work" and then if you fill out the information, it will allow ppl to directly find my fic from yours and visa versa :). Otherwise, a mention of the fic name and author name that inspired you works just fine.

[secret-engima]

So how are the muses been? I'm mostly asking since I have more more stumbled upon your ffxv stuff in my own binge to feed the insasible hunger of my most recent special interest of finding good time travel fix-its, but I know how writing can be so, how are you right now?

They've been busy as ever, by which I mean I'm actually drowning in aus for a bunch of fandoms! So I'm okay, but it's one reason I haven't been on here in ages. I already have too many aus to juggle without getting more.

[secret-engima]

So I was going thru the Nox verse tag again. While doing that, I had a Big Brain Moment. A logical explanation for /why/ LCs are spectacularly bad at self care/preservation/remembering to eat, all that. It's the draconic instinct. Dragons don't generally need to really defend themselves, they're covered in armor that very little can actually dent, nevermind get past. They genuinely don't need to eat for days, they usually eat big meals that take actual days to digest before they need more.

Honestly that's a hilarious thought and I may or may not be keeping it now, thanks.

[secret-engima]

I've read a few of your works. I'm a little confused by how you describe Caelum magic conveying emotions and such. What is the lore/logic there?

The lore/logic is based in how canon LC magic is clearly based in memory points at the Lucii ghosts and we DO see Noctis get a power boost when he gets upset enough in the game during brief points. Mostly my logic is that magic is innate to LCs, which means that as something that is innate and is also energy, it is going to react to their emotions and broadcast them unless they conscious decide not to. LC magic isn't a hard magic system or a science, it's literally a part of them, and I felt that meant it should be able to reflect/react/project their emotional states. Also I just really like using softer magic systems where magic is will and will is emotion and nobody can stop me. so.