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Plot Bunnies I’ll Probably Never Write | June Feature

Tableau

A Harry Potter Fanfiction

Tableau: In ballet, a large picture on stage formed from a grouping of dancers. Typically at the beginning or end of an act, it is an important moment frozen in time in which the audience can register what has been seen.

SUMMARY: In late September of 1981, brothers Gideon and Fabian Prewett were cornered and murdered by Death Eaters, loyal followers of Lord Voldemort. Mere weeks later, the Dark Lord was defeated and his followers scattered. In the chaos of the war’s final moments, no one noticed as Aileen Prewett and her 13-year-old daughter Ellie cut ties with the wizarding world and disappeared into the ether until it was too late. Fifteen years later, however, Voldemort has returned and his retribution has been swift against those who previously opposed him. After her mother’s death leaves her with no other choice, Eleanor Prewett makes her return to the wizarding world to stand against those who ripped her family apart. Allied with the reassembled Order of the Phoenix and rediscovering a family she thought lost, Ellie crosses paths with Sirius Black, quickly finding that she is not the only one who feels the pressure of filling a dead man’s shoes. With his help, she may even find that she is not the coward she thought herself to be.

This Sirius/OC plot bunny has bounced around my writing folders for a long time. I doubt I’ll ever get around to writing it, but I am more than happy to answer any questions about it or about Ellie! My ask box is always open! :)

PBIPNW Taglist: (Let me know if you want to be added/dropped! No pressure either way!)

@eddysocs​, @wordspin-shares​​, @kattegatsqueen​, @darknightfrombeyond​, @randomestfandoms, @randomfandoming1, @ocfairygodmother​, @foxesandmagic, @the-fandom-trash-fairy​, @hoqwaarts​​, @thecharmedburrowspn-files​, @ocfanhub

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OCs I’ll Probably Never Write | March Feature

Airen Jiang of the Sei’naka and Flame Clans

An Avatar: The Last Airbender OC

NAME: Airen Jiang

ALIASES: Tunshi | Satyani | Yiwai | Xunsu | Jiuzhi | Wairen

BIRTHDATE: Winter Solstice of 83 AG

AGE: Biologically 16 | Assumed 19

NATION: Fire Nation | Flame Clan

FAMILY: Sei’naka Clan - Jiang family

Governor Katai Jiang - father - deceased

Lady Hana Okuno - mother

Lieutenant Kenta Jiang - half-brother - deceased

Captain Reika Jiang - half-sister

Katsu Yachi Jiang - brother-in-law

Airen Jiang - niece

Flame Clan - Brethren of the Black Flame

Muhai - mentor/father figure

Zhishi - mentor/mother figure

Rui Yan - friend/sister

Hu Zhao - friend/brother

APPEARANCE: 5′6″ | Pale skin | Lean, muscular build | Light gold eyes | Long, curly black hair |  Tattoo of black hand surrounded by flames on right bicep | Three lower lobe piercings in each ear; two upper ear piercings on left ear | Crooked nose and 2nd & 3rd fingers of right hand from poorly healed breaks | Various scars - most notable: deep ropey scar at base of left thumb; notch in left ear; claw marks on right ribs and hip

PERSONALITY: Self-reliant | Impatient| Loyal | Intense | Focused | Competitive | Hard-Working | Impulsive | Ambitious | Charming | Quick-tempered | Clever 

SPECIAL SKILLS: Martial Arts - Xing Yi Quan & Tiger/Dragon-style Silat mix | Weaponry - Straight Sword and Rope Dart | Stealth | Strategy

HOBBIES: Reading | Star-gazing | Paisho | Dancing | Playing Erhu | Swimming

BACKGROUND:

Born into a house of minor Fire Nation nobles known for their illustrious military service and skill with the sword, Airen was the only child of General Katai and his second wife. After a battle in the Earth Kingdom resulted in her older brother’s death and her father’s retirement from the Army, Airen moved to the Earth Kingdom colonies when her father was appointed Governor as a reward for his service. 

Her father was a wise and honest leader of the colony, dealing with both Fire and Earth citizens fairly. This earned him enemies, however, after he exposed corruption within the colony and arrested the guilty parties, turning them over to the Fire Nation for judgement. Hired by these enemies, Muhai, a Flame Clan assassin, attacked the Jiang house while Airen and her mother were supposed to be gone, killing Governor Katai only to find Airen still at home. 

Unable to leave her as a witness to the murder and prohibited from killing her since she was not a target, Muhai instead decided to take the child back to the Flame clan. There, he urged her to lie about her age so that she would be seen as old enough to train with the other children. Otherwise, he believed she would be discarded as a burden to the clan. Airen was accepted into the clan and soon adapted to their harsh way of life, training in martial arts, weaponry, and other skills.

Airen progressed through her various levels of training near the top of her class of recruits, finally being inducted as a full member of the clan’s highly-capable warrior order, the Brethren of the Black Flame, at the age of fifteen. She made quite a name for herself very quickly, and there were some who believed she could even be talented enough to replace the clan’s reigning chief. Naturally, the chief did not enjoy this threat to his position, and so he sent Airen to the Fire Nation on a mission that was doomed to fail.

Sure enough, Airen was unable to complete her mission. In the process, she was arrested by Fire Nation soldiers, where her attempts to escape finally landed her in the Boiling Rock prison months before the Hundred Year War’s end. It is there that she is found by Firelord Zuko after he traces an attempt on his life back to the Flame clan. 

Airen finally gets the opportunity to successfully escape, but her return to her clan isn’t the homecoming she had hoped for when she learns that the Brethren has devolved into trading their skills for money. While the clan leaders lead their people to believe they are agents of balance weeding out corruption, they are instead loaning their members out as assassins and spies, hoarding wealth bought through deception and bloodshed.

Unable to stand idly by as her people are deceived, Airen allies herself with Firelord Zuko and Avatar Aang to expose the truth. In doing so, however, she is branded a traitor, and becomes another target on the clan’s list... 

I have SO MANY notes about Airen, and could scream into the void about her for literal hours. So if anyone wants to enable me know more about Airen, my ask box is open! :)

OCIPNW Taglist: (Let me know if you want to be added/dropped! No pressure either way!)

@eddysocs, @wordspin-shares​, @kattegatsqueen, @darknightfrombeyond, @randomestfandoms, @randomfandoming1, @ocfairygodmother​, @foxesandmagic, @the-fandom-trash-fairy​, @hoqwaarts​, @thecharmedburrowspn-files​, @ocfanhub

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Plot Bunnies I’ll Probably Never Write | March Feature

The Black Flame

An Avatar: the Last Airbender Fanfiction

SUMMARY: The Hundred Year War has ended. Former Firelord Ozai is doomed to spend the rest of his life in prison and the Four Nations are coming together to rebuild a world ravaged by war. And yet, just as a tentative balance is achieved, a series of assassination attempts throws the newly-crowned Zuko into the middle of a conspiracy to reignite the war between nations. The young Firelord never expected restoring balance to the world and righting his ancestors’ wrongs to be easy. As he and Avatar Aang investigate the source of the assassins, however, an unlikely ally leads them to the realization that this task will be even harder than ever imagined.   

This Zuko-centric, post-series plot bunny is one that I hope to bring to fruition one of these days since AtLA is probably my mostest favoritest fandom of all time! It would definitely be some time before I could do justice to it, however, so I feel like it qualifies for PBIPNW. If anyone wants to know more about this plot bunny or its corresponding OC Airen, my ask box is open! :)

PBIPNW Taglist: (Let me know if you want to be added/dropped! No pressure either way!)

@eddysocs​, @wordspin-shares​​, @kattegatsqueen​, @darknightfrombeyond​, @randomestfandoms, @randomfandoming1, @ocfairygodmother​, @foxesandmagic, @the-fandom-trash-fairy​, @hoqwaarts​​, @thecharmedburrowspn-files​, @ocfanhub

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Secrets of the Unknown and Fade for the WIP Files Tag Game please - from, Foxesandmagic

Thank you so much for the ask, @foxesandmagic!!

Secrets of the Unknown

This is an oldie! One of my very first fanfiction ideas! It was a “Harry Potter has a twin sister” fic set post-GoF.

Harry’s twin--Jessica--wasn’t at Godric’s Hollow the night of Lily & James’s death and was instead with a friend of Lily’s who was also the sister of Augustus Rookwood. This friend ended up raising Jessica and home-schooled her rather than sent her to Hogwarts.

After Voldemort’s return and the mass breakout from Azkaban, Augustus Rookwood and the other Death Eaters would attack Jessica’s family. Her parents would send her to Dumbledore as soon as the attack started, sparking the Big Reveal as to her true parentage. The Drama!! :P

Fade

This one is an original fiction idea: a bit of a supernatural murder mystery.

When several students go missing and some are found mutilated, main character Katy’s college campus goes on high alert. Katy witnessed a murder (or so she thinks) and identifies the killer as a fellow student. She then learns, however, that the murders are the work of rogue Immortals (mystics, vampires, and shapeshifters) and that she witnessed one of the heads of the Immortals killing one of the rogues.

I don’t remember why I had titled it “Fade” and there isn’t an explanation in my notes...so there is another mystery all in itself! XD

Thanks again for playing!! ^.^

** Send me an ask with a title from this post and I’ll share info/a snippet from this WIP! :)

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For the WIP files ask: Spanish Treasure, Hand of Justice, and Letters from Everie! :-D

Thank you SO much for the ask, Effie! I promise I didn’t forget!

Spanish Treasures:

Hoo boy, let’s see what I remember about this one! According to my computer, I haven’t edited anything in this folder since 2010! XD

Harry Potter fic set post-Order of the Phoenix

Harry/OC

OC’s mother was gonna be the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher

OC’s family would be pureblood wizards from Spain & there would be some drama between Spanish & British pureblood wizarding families with the return of Lord Voldemort.

Hand of Justice

This one is a high-fantasy, swords & sorcery original fiction idea I’ve been chewing on, but it’s still very bare-bones.

The main character--Tahira--would be the daughter of a disgraced knight who had been accused of treason in a failed assassination plot and put to death.

She would eventually discover that her father had been framed and set out on a journey to prove his innocence.

Letters From Everie

This is an old idea! It’s an original fiction idea set in a dystopian future.

Main character would be from an affluent family and would question the status quo of the world but not have the drive to change anything. They would then find a record of letters sent from a young woman named Everie who had been a revolutionary in the early days of the world’s evolution into its current state in the story and had been arrested and sentenced to death.

The letters would have been juxtaposed with main character’s own observances of the world around them, sparking their desire for change.

The main character would have become involved with a revolutionary group with some disastrous consequences. I think I had planned to leave it open-ended, with the reader speculating on whether the main character was killed or escaped to join the rebels and maybe had considered making it a series?

Thank you so much for playing! :D

** Send me an ask with a title from this post and I’ll share info/a snippet from this WIP! :)

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OCs I’ll Probably Never Write | February Feature

Regina “Reggie” Peters

A Julie & the Phantoms OC

NAME: Regina Marie Peters

NICKNAMES: Reggie | Gina | Little Princess | Sprout | R2/Artoo

BIRTHDATE: March 4, 2004

AGE: 16

OCCUPATION: Student

HOMETOWN: Long Beach, CA

FAMILY: Arthur & Rebecca Peters (Parents)

Oliver Peters (Older Brother)

Reginald “Reggie” Peters (Uncle-deceased)

APPEARANCE: 5′ 1″ | Caucasian | Willowy build | Brown eyes | Long, curly brown hair

PERSONALITY: Intelligent | Creative | Logical | Non-confrontational | Artistic | Empathetic | Idealistic | Naive | Moody | Friendly | Anxious

SPECIAL SKILLS: Violin - Member of Los Angeles Youth Orchestra | Mathematics | Music Composition | Baking 

HOBBIES: Violin | Reading | Chess | Yoga | Tennis

FACECLAIM: Zoey Deutch

BACKGROUND:

Born to ambitious lawyers Arthur & Rebecca Peters, Reggie’s life—along with that of her older brother Ollie—has been planned from birth to be one of success and prosperity. While Ollie flourishes in this environment, however, Reggie feels stifled under the weight of her parents’ expectations.

Freedom is only found in the moments when she draws her bow across violin strings, every doubt and insecurity fading into the melody. But in her parents’ eyes, music is no more than a hobby, an addition to a resume, a key to scholarships and opportunities meant to push their children a step ahead of their peers. Reggie doesn’t know how to tell them any different or how to explain that her soul feels most alive when she is a single piece of a larger orchestra, rising and falling at the command of the conductor’s baton.

After an accident lands her in the hospital, Reggie discovers no one can see or hear her save for the boy that looks an awful lot like the dead brother her father doesn’t talk about. Reggie doesn’t know much about being dead—she isn’t even good at being alive!—but, with the help of her ghost uncle and his ghost friends, she might find that almost-death is the push she needs to find her place among the living...

If anyone wants to know more about Reggie, my ask box is open! :)

Tagging a few people that might be interested: (Let me know if you want to be added/dropped! No pressure either way!)

@eddysocs, @wordspin-shares​, @kattegatsqueen, @darknightfrombeyond, @randomestfandoms, @randomfandoming1, @ocfairygodmother​, @foxesandmagic, @the-fandom-trash-fairy​, @hoqwaarts​, @thecharmedburrowspn-files​, @ocfanhub

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Plot Bunnies I’ll Probably Never Write | February Feature

Unsaid Reggie 

A Julie & the Phantoms Fanfiction

SUMMARY: When Reggie is involuntarily poofed away during a rehearsal, he winds up in the middle of a chaotic emergency room. There, he is surprised to meet another Reggie--Regina, a young violinist teetering on the verge of life and death after an accident leaves her in a coma. What begins as investigating how to return Regina’s spirit to her body evolves into more as the Phantoms realize Luke isn’t the only one facing unfinished family business.

This plot bunny has been mauling me the hardest over the past couple of weeks, so I thought I would share it first! It came to me after binging JatP and thinking Reggie & Alex both need ‘Unsaid Emily’ moments with their families.

If anyone wants to know more about this plot bunny, my ask box is open! :)

Tagging a few people that might be interested in PBIPNW: (Let me know if you want to be added/dropped! No pressure either way!)

@eddysocs, @wordspin-shares​, @kattegatsqueen, @darknightfrombeyond, @randomestfandoms, @randomfandoming1, @ocfairygodmother​, @foxesandmagic, @the-fandom-trash-fairy​, @hoqwaarts​, @thecharmedburrowspn-files​, @ocfanhub​

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New Monthly Feature!

Plot Bunnies I’ll Probably Never Write... 

+ Corresponding OCs!

So...my brain produces a lot of plot bunnies.

Like A LOT.

I don’t have the time, patience, or discipline to foster each of these plot bunnies into its own project, but some of them do have aspects I find particularly interesting. And some of them have a tendency to stick around and disrupt my current projects, which can be very frustrating when I already get such limited time to write and try to use that time productively.

After stewing on all this chaotic creative energy disrupting my currently-published WIPS, I think I’ve come up with a solution that will let me burn through some of that energy without pulling too much focus from my main projects. It will also give me more material to work with and pull from for ask games and such, which will be nice since I feel repetitive always drawing on the same two-three OCs/projects.

So, at the beginning of each month, I’ll share one of the many plot bunnies floating around my writing folders, along with profiles for any OCs that might be attached to that bunny. If anyone wants to know more about them, my ask box and private messaging are always open!

Fair warning that these projects will be from a wide variety of fandoms from comics to movies to TV shows, so if your fandom interests are more narrow, this would not be the feature for you!

This might be a bust, but I figure it’s worth a shot! If I get enough interest in wanting to see the different projects, I’ll make a taglist for the feature and maybe figure out how to make a masterlist so all the info is in one place. We’ll see what happens!

For now, I’ll say my first feature will be the particularly-aggressive Julie & the Phantoms plot bunny that has been plaguing me for the past couple weeks, so keep an eye out for that!

I’ll also tag a few mutuals who might be interested in this monthly feature. If you aren’t interested, let me know and I’ll be sure to not tag you in any future posts!

@wordspin-shares , @eddysocs, @foxesandmagic, @kattegatsqueen, @darknightfrombeyond, @ocfairygodmother, @randomestfandoms, @randomfandoming1, @the-fandom-trash-fairy, @hoqwaarts, @thecharmedburrowspn-files, @ocfanhub

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2021 so far has me in the mood to revert to my feral 12-year-old fandom self. 

Posting every WIP idea that comes into her head no matter how bad it is. (Do we even still care about Mary-Sue OCs after the dumpster-fire of 2020??)

Working on 15 projects at once...when would any of them be updated? 12-yr-old Lauren sure as hell didn’t know. She was just vibing in her imaginary worlds. You’d get updates whenever she felt like it.

Quality over quantity? Lauren didn’t know her. You’d get 1500 un-beta-ed, barely grammar-checked words and that would be the end of it.

Those were much simpler times.

In other words, my perfectionism is currently clashing with my creativity.

Also, I binge-watched Julie & the Phantoms (HIGHLY RECOMMEND!) after seeing it invade Tumblr and getting curious. And now I’m being mauled by plot bunnies and I really just wanna make progress on my other WIPs.

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Ringing in the New Year at my House:

12:00 AM January 1, 2021

12:01 AM January 1, 2021

Did I do this right?? 😂

Sound on for the sweetest pupper snores from my best girl Molly Wolly! ❤️🥺❤️

Happy New Year, one and all!

Here’s to saying farewell to the dumpster fire of 2020 and optimistically bracing ourselves for whatever 2021 has in store!

May your year be filled with love, friendship, creativity, and fur baby (or human baby/significant other, if that’s your thing! 🤪) snuggles! 🥂

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Legacy: The Hound of Hell | A Supernatural Fanfiction

Chapter Two NOW AVAILABLE on FF.net and AO3

**Banner made by the fabulous @ocfairygodmother!

SUMMARY: Dean & Sam Winchester have lived their lives surrounded by the dark forces of the world, pushed and pulled and forced to bend in their mission to rid the world of evil and save innocent lives. Learning that they are the heirs to an extinct organization dedicated to chronicling the supernatural world was just another day at the office. In reviving the Men of Letters, however, they find they are not as alone as originally thought. Joined by Erica, a fellow legacy seeking her own answers within the walls of the bunker, the brothers dive headfirst into a world of nigh-impossible trials and ancient magic when given the chance to close the gates of Hell and forever remove demons from the face of the Earth. But as they learn that Erica’s ties to their quest run deeper than they could possibly imagine, Sam & Dean must consider the long-reaching consequences of this endeavor and whether they are willing to pay the cost. Perhaps, in the end, a legacy of blood and death is all that awaits the Winchesters.

Chapter Two: Paranoid

Teaser:

Mornings at the bunker had become a liminal time for the Winchesters. Carved deep into the Kansas bedrock, the bunker was devoid of any windows or natural lighting to indicate the time of day, and neither Sam nor Dean were in the habit of setting an alarm when they weren’t working a case. Over the years, their circadian rhythms had been well-trained to allow only short bouts of sleep at a time, but the security of the warded bunker soon lulled them into the occasional habit of oversleeping. Sometimes Dean would wake to find Sam had already taken his morning run, eaten breakfast, and settled into researching a new topic before he could even get his own eyes open. Other days Dean would spend an eternity in solitude before Sam would finally wander into the kitchen searching for coffee, hair sticking up in all directions and eyes half-closed. The younger Winchester apologized each time it happened, as if he were inconveniencing his brother by taking advantage of the extra rest. Dean, however, accepted it as another advantage of their new base of operations. This was what it felt like to be safe. This was what it felt like to be home.

Today Dean awoke to his internal clock insisting it was later in the morning than he was used to, but his weary body suggested he take a few more hours to rest. He sat up and dug the heels of his palms into his eyes to shake the dregs of sleepiness away. A glance at his watch revealed it was barely eight o’clock. Normally, this would suggest he was unusually well-rested. Now it only served to remind him of how restless his night had been. He’d finally dozed off in the early hours of the morning after constant tossing and turning, unable to shut his brain off and go to sleep. The reason for this was a few doors down the hall in room fourteen—unless she was already awake.

Dean had been less than delighted upon realizing the bunker’s newest guest had decided to take up residence in the room directly around the corner from his own. He’d been tempted to tell Erica to buzz off and pick one of the bunker’s other numerous bedrooms to sleep in, but then had thought it might not be such a bad idea for her to be close enough to keep under watch. He hadn’t anticipated how the encroachment would mess with his own sense of security. Every time he closed his eyes, his mind constructed images of her stalking the halls to murder him and his brother in their beds or else conjuring up legions of evil to do her bidding while they slept. He had even found himself out of bed at one point, creeping to her door—just checking on her, he told himself—only to find she had locked herself inside. That had done little to reassure him.

Continue Reading on FF.net or AO3

OR

Start from the Beginning on FF.net or AO3

Legacy Taglist: (let me know if you would like to be added or removed!)

@wordspin-shares​, @ocfairygodmother​, @foxesandmagic​

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It’s time for my 2nd annual OC Ficmas!!!

What is my OC Ficmas? It’s 25 wonderful days of me supporting OC fanfictions! (Think 25 Days of Christmas but with fanfiction OCs)

How can I participate? 

Be following @ocfairygodmother​

Reblog this post (This way I can send you a friendly reminder in case you forget to send me a fic)

Submit to me (or include in the reblog) link(s) to ONE of your own OC fanfictions. (Fanfics only - not original stories this round, sorry) It doesn’t matter how old the story is either!  Just pick one of your fics! :)

Asks or privates messages with links to stories will be ignored.

Make sure you are on my OC Creator Directory

DEADLINE: November 30th, 2020 

If you choose to submit one of your stories, then please be prepared to drop some reviews on other people’s stories when the masterlist is posted December 25th.  I won’t police reviews, but c’mon guys - ‘tis the season.  

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Sneak Peek | Legacy Chapter Two

Coming December 11th to AO3 and FF.net:

Legacy Pt I: The Hound of Hell

Chapter Two: Paranoid

Story Summary: Dean & Sam Winchester have lived their lives surrounded by the dark forces of the world, pushed and pulled and forced to bend in their mission to rid the world of evil and save innocent lives. Learning that they are the heirs to an extinct organization dedicated to chronicling the supernatural world was just another day at the office. In reviving the Men of Letters, however, they find they are not as alone as originally thought. Joined by Erica, a fellow legacy seeking her own answers within the walls of the bunker, the brothers dive headfirst into a world of nigh-impossible trials and ancient magic when given the chance to close the gates of Hell and forever remove demons from the face of the Earth. But as they learn that Erica’s ties to their quest run deeper than they could possibly imagine, Sam & Dean must consider the long-reaching consequences of this endeavor and whether they are willing to pay the cost. Perhaps, in the end, a legacy of blood and death is all that awaits the Winchesters.

Chapter Summary: Trouble brews when the Winchesters don’t see eye-to-eye on how to handle their new guest. Sam digs for the truth behind Erica’s connection to the Men of Letters while Dean questions her motives.

Word Count: 5, 811

Excerpt:

On the surface, Erica gave all the right answers and each of her actions made perfect sense. But Dean’s instincts were still screaming a warning. He didn’t like the way she watched everything, seeming to miss nothing even though she didn’t say anything. He didn’t like the way she studied him with narrowed eyes when she thought he wasn’t paying attention. He didn’t like the edge to her smile or the bite to her words, suggesting a double-meaning he couldn’t decode. Trouble simmered beneath the surface of her carefully constructed façade. He was certain.

Sam, however, made it clear that he thought Dean was being paranoid, having said as much when Dean had voiced his concerns after dinner. Erica was nice. She had answered their questions. She had fed them. Now she had gotten Sam alone, out for a run through the woods where anything could go wrong.

Dean wondered if maybe his brother was having his own tactics turned against him. If so, Erica was good. But he trusted Sam to be better. His brother was capable of handling practically anything, and even if she managed to catch him off-guard, the younger Winchester had Erica more than outmatched in size. Still, that didn’t mean Dean liked the idea of the two being alone with him having no idea of where exactly to look if they didn’t return in a timely manner. Almost losing his appetite at the thought of what could be happening outside the bunker, he impatiently settled in to wait.

The time spent pondering the myriad of ways Erica could kill Sam during their run while making it look like an accident was mercifully short...

Legacy Taglist: @wordspin-shares​, @foxesandmagic​, @ocfairygodmother​

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What is up with 2020 and screenwriters giving us lackluster endings to otherwise enjoyable shows??

First Game of Thrones, then The 100, and now Supernatural?

I’ll be the first to say a creator shouldn’t completely abandon their own ideas because someone reads them differently than intended, but the converse of this is also true. Just because someone has predicted how things will end doesn’t mean the creator needs to change things to maintain surprise. If anything, a fan being able to correctly guess the ending is a sign of good writing through effective foreshadowing and presentation of themes.

Instead, writers and showrunners are doing fans dirty in their insistence on “unexpected” endings where the unexpected completely defies character development in favor of being edgy.

All this rambling to say I am currently Big Sad.

Oh well. I guess this is why we have the fanfiction community. The stories we love are only truly over if we want them to be.

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OC GIF Tag Game

Tagged by the fabulous @wordspin-shares​! Thanks, love! :D

Rules: Choose an OC, then post a GIF with zero context for each prompt. Tag five other OC creators/blogs to keep the game going.

I tried to do Rimiriel from my LotR fanfic Rose of Gondor since I haven’t given her enough love recently, but I had trouble finding GIFs that even somewhat matched, so I had to revert back to Erica from Legacy! She’s being an attention hog lately!

OC’s FC or Name:

Love Interest(s):

Occupation:

A Hobby:

Likes:

Dislikes:

Positive Personality Trait:

Negative Personality Trait:

Hogwarts House:

Zodiac Sign:

Disney Princess or Heroine they’re most like:

Fic Spoiler:

Tagging (more than 5 :-P): @darknightfrombeyond​, @iron-parkr​, @the-fandom-trash-fairy​, @randomestfandoms-ocs​, @randomfandoming1​

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WIP Last Line Tag Game

Thank you for always thinking of me, @wordspin-shares!

Rules: Post the last line you wrote (from any WIP) and tag the same number of people as there are words.

If the kid wanted to blow her ears out and be deaf by forty, that was her own problem. But she could’ve picked some better music for the job.

From my SPN WIP Legacy...Three guesses as to whose POV this is from! XD

I definitely can’t tag 30 people, so I’ll leave this one open to anyone who wants to give it a go! :)

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Legacy: The Hound of Hell | A Supernatural Fanfiction

Chapter One NOW AVAILABLE on FF.net and AO3

**Banner made by the fabulous @ocfairygodmother!

SUMMARY: Dean & Sam Winchester have lived their lives surrounded by the dark forces of the world, pushed and pulled and forced to bend in their mission to rid the world of evil and save innocent lives. Learning that they are the heirs to an extinct organization dedicated to chronicling the supernatural world was just another day at the office. In reviving the Men of Letters, however, they find they are not as alone as originally thought. Joined by Erica, a fellow legacy seeking her own answers within the walls of the bunker, the brothers dive headfirst into a world of nigh-impossible trials and ancient magic when given the chance to close the gates of Hell and forever remove demons from the face of the Earth. But as they learn that Erica’s ties to their quest run deeper than they could possibly imagine, Sam & Dean must consider the long-reaching consequences of this endeavor and whether they are willing to pay the cost. Perhaps, in the end, a legacy of blood and death is all that awaits the Winchesters.

Chapter One: Intruder Alert

Teaser:

Sam stepped over the threshold onto the bunker’s main landing, only to pull up short. His eyes narrowed as he surveyed the brightly lit control room and the library visible beyond. “Did we kill the power when we left?”

“Pretty sure, yeah,” Dean confirmed from behind his left shoulder. “Why? Oh.”

Wasting no time, the eldest Winchester stepped around Sam, dropping his duffel bag on the landing and drawing his pistol from inside his jacket. Slow, deliberate steps carried him down the metal stairs in silence as sharp eyes skimmed familiar surroundings. Matching Sam’s low, cautious tone, he asked, “No one can get in here without a key, right?”

Sam nodded as he drew his own weapon, then remembered that Dean couldn’t see him as he followed his brother downstairs. He thought back to his disastrous visit with a former member of the Men of Letters and the valuable information he had imparted a few weeks before. “That’s what Larry said. This place is supposed to be warded; nothing gets in unless we let it.”

“And we’re the only ones with a key.”

It wasn’t a question as Dean switched off his pistol’s safety, head on a swivel as he paced through the control room, searching for anything out of place. Sam mirrored his brother as they entered the library. Each took a side of the room and paced between the shelves, checking each nook for intruders or clues.

As Sam approached the middle reading nook on the right side of the library, he found his first confirmation of an intruder in their new base; stacks of books and papers littered a small study table, which Sam knew neither of the brothers had used yet. Dean hadn’t been much interested in the library archives at all, preferring to explore the bunker’s many other features while Sam had been doing his own reading on the larger center tables where he could spread multiple books for easy reference. Even if he had used the more private area provided by the reading bays, he had spent all his time researching the Men of Letters and their various allies around the world. As he skimmed the gathered titles and a few passages that had been bookmarked—a pencil in one, a receipt for ten bucks worth of fuel in another, a shamefully dog-eared page in the last—he noticed they all pertained to demons and summoning rituals.

“Someone’s been here.”

“You sure? I thought maybe this was yours,” Dean called. Sam found him standing at the center table, a black leather jacket hooked on one finger that was obviously too small for either of the brothers to claim.

“You’re hilarious,” Sam said dryly, abandoning the study area to join his brother.

“I know.” Dean broke into a self-satisfied grin before draping the jacket over the back of one of the chairs. Returning to business, his lips pressed into a thin line as he glanced around the library. A series of hand gestures directed Sam to search the right wing while Dean took the left.

Tightening his grip on his pistol, Sam nodded his agreement, slipping past his brother back toward the main entrance.

“Sammy?” The low note of warning called his attention to where his brother still lingered at the head of the library’s center table. “If they can slip past the wards, there’s no telling who or what they are.”

Though it was unnecessary, Sam understood the unspoken message there. 

Be careful...

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