My isat crossover fic!! Siffrin is in a different Universe. He doesn’t know how he got here or why, but boy is he gonna wander around until he figures it out! I’m sure this will cause no emotional distress whatsoever :). And there’s absolutely, definitely nothing else wrong at all.
Siffrin’s current Universe: Neva (a very cool game by Nomada Studio!!)
I’m making an ISAT au!!!!!!!!!! :DDD It’s a canon-divergence au because I like those, though I won’t tell you quite when in canon it diverges (you’ll figure it out, you’re smart).
Please go check it out, I’d really appreciate it!! :33
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Hello everyone!! I have been working on this suuuper secretly (not... really I didn’t try very hard to hide it at all) for the past month or so and now I’m finally done with the first chapter so I can FIIINALLY post it!!! My isat au!! I’m making one! It’s cool!!!
This will be an ongoing project and I am so fucking excited about it! It’s just a fic with some art sprinkled here and there for now but tbh who knows where it’ll go!
And now I can finally say, too, Happy Siffrin 100!!! This is the official one!! Woohoooo!!!!! 🎉 (...siffrin 150ish by now but shhhhh). We made it, gang, and we are NOT stopping here. I’m already working on more chapters of this fic and I have big plans for this au, now all I gotta do is execute them!
So... until then!! :D
A final thing, some of the baseline for this fic is semi inspired by this animatic (which is not mine and not at all related to me, I just thought it was neat and then my brain got goin’), including the song I’m using for the the chapter names in and title of part one! Along with some concepts that started out heavily inspired but ended up evolving and moving away from the original source material! Originally the fic itself was named ‘Dear Fellow Traveler’, but in thinking about it more I figured that may be both discourteous and confusing, and I wanted my au to have more of its own identity! So now the fic and the au share one name: ‘The Tale of the Shard Walker’, or simply Shard Walker for short. The connections between this fic in its current form and the animatic could probably only be suspected if a direct tie were to be drawn between them now, still I think to be in this community is to take joy in paying homage to things that inspire you, so here I am! Inspired or not, though, the animatic is really good and you should absolutely go show it some love!! Right now!!! Do it /threat (/silly (/but actually go do it. right now. 🔫.))
(crepic sex scene everyone! Wooo! These two are So sweet with each other i couldn't Not write one.)
(anyway this can be seen as a continuation of This or just its own separate thing, you decide.)
(anyway enjoy!!)
They laid there together, a soft shaky gasp escaping cross with each curl of epic's fingers.
"There we go.. there we go, pretty thing, stars you sound Heavenly, don't you? Doing so good for me~"
This never got old for him, the soft rolling of cross's hips, his squirming, the breathy, quiet moans that would escape him, the flush on his face and his eyes squeezed shut, features scrunched up in pleasure as he tried so desperately to keep himself quiet, and oh.. how epic just Loved to make him fail.
"Epic.. epic- Ha~!"
His eyes flew open, and epic didn't even have to look down to see which spot he'd managed to hit, he could Feel it, feel it in the way he massaged it with his fingers, feel it in the way cross's body twitched and spasmed under his gentle touch, the jolt and Gasp he got when he pressed down and rubbed firmly against it.
"Epic- Epic~!"
And oh, yes, of course, he could hear it too~
"Ngh, ha~ ah~ hn-"
And there go his words, he Loved this part, it never got boring, the way cross tried so Hard to keep his melting mind intact, desperately pushing the mush epic had pleasured it into back into a shape that was vaguely brain-like, to see the clarity leave his eyes as they got hazy and teary, his voice more whine than word, and stars did it turn him On.
"What's wrong lover?" He pressed his fingers up and rubbed, resulting in a nice jolt and a sweet moan of his name - garbled, yes, but epic knew him well enough by now to know what he was trying to say "cat got your tongue?~"
He kept his voice teasing on purpose, cross liked being cooed at, but if he did it too soon then cross would just get embarrassed and push him away, oh no, epic would have none of that.
Not with such a pretty tempting lover right beneath him.
He changed the tempo of his movements, and was quite delighted to find cross had pushed his leg up against him and wrapped it around his side, his head thrown back and writhing side to side here and there.
God, epic wanted- no he Needed, to see him fully naked one day.
So god help him if he had to force feed cross his compliments and make him swallow to get him and his pretty, ravishing purple ecto in sight then well you Better call him a farmer the way he'll make sure cross is nice and stuffed before "slaughter".
"Aww.. is my pretty thing losing his mind because of me?" He all but cooed, his eyes lidded and his pupils basically hearts at this point as he gazed at and fingered cross.
"I'm sorry, but I'm enjoying this too much~" he winked at him, his cheeks beginning to hurt from smiling so much.
God, he loved cross so, so much.
Dear stars above, what this man does to him-
"Mmn.." cross beat weakly at him, as if to tell him to shut up, and epic's lovestruck gaze only deepened at the adorable gesture.
"Cute~"
"Hn.."
"Mm.."
He adjusted his position a bit, burying his face in cross's neck and just breathing him in for a few long, blissful moments, the movements of his hand not stilling as he just.. breathed.
He's always smelled so good, somehow it seemed even more so at times like these but, that was probably just the high of endorphins.
He could get high on cross any day of the week though, but he liked to savour moments like these, cross never liked to do this too often, usually because he needed a lot of recovery time afterwards, if not a few hours then a few days before he fully went back to normal.
Epic never complained though, oh no, the extra cuddle time made him Giddy.
"Cross..." He purred out, pressing soft kisses against his pretty, Pretty neck.
"I love you so much.. so so very much, i love you, I love you so much."
Cross only whined loudly in response, both arms coming up, claws out, to dig into epic's back.
"Sweet thing.. pretty thing, so pretty, being so good for me" he never knew what other words to use for him other than 'Pretty', he did it too much, he knew, should switch it up but there wasn't exactly anything else that fit him More.
"I love you" he repeated, the lilt in cross's voice showing he was getting close.
Eh, cross was never into Too deep penetration anyway, he'll sneak off when he's sleeping and take care of himself later.
"I love you" he repeated again, lifting his head from its heavenly, moaning pillow to rest it above his head instead, letting cross have a turn to hide his face
"Love you" he purred, the words cross was saying - if they could even be Described as words anymore - getting higher and higher in pitch as he moved.
He was quite insecure about it, actually, how high his voice could get, especially during sex, often trying to deepen it no matter the occasion, coughing to hide his "mistake" when he accidentally spoke in its true cadence.
Epic didn't get what the big deal was. Well, he Did, of course he did, cross told him, and even if he didn't it wouldn't have exactly been too hard to guess, but he thought it was actually rather nice.
He thought Everything about cross was nice, and he was quite proud of it, too, glad to be the one with the most correct opinion in any room he walked into.
Shame more people couldn't see it, oh well.
A problem for another day.
He murmured a few more soft praises as he pushed cross over the edge, feeling his body Jolt under his own as he cried out, his moans Breathy as epic closed his eyes and rubbed him through it.
Once cross has calmed down, he withdrew his fingers, wiping them on the bed (he needed to wash them anyway), and took a moment to admire cross.
"Aww, i love it when you get like this"
His eyes were dazed, tears sliding down his face as he, with great difficulty it seemed, turned his flushed face to look at epic, and epic couldn't help a small giggle at the scene.
"Aw, c'mere."
He cupped his cheek with the hand that wasn't inside him earlier (cross valued cleanliness quite a bit), and brought his own face closer to nuzzle against his with a content sound.
Cross liked it too, it seemed, as he also closed his eyes with a soft sigh, relaxing into the bed.
"Mm, i love you~" he sing-songed, not bothering to open his eyes to see what cross thought of that, ha, oh no, his lover couldn't even Think right now.
"Cute thing.. i love you~" he's parroting himself at this point but who cared? Certainly not him, and certainly not cross, who was too busy burying himself against epic's chest to think about much else.
"Mm.. cute thing"
He settled himself down as well, feeling blissfully content, he'd always found Cross's pleasure hotter anyway, and oh trust him, he had more than enough of this burned into his memory, all nice and safe for him to access later when cross wasn't there. (He got too embarrassed, when he heard what epic did when he thought of him, and epic wasn't too keen on getting a pillow thrown at his face again)
He sighed contently, throwing an arm across cross's chest and sliding one beneath his back, settling in with his pretty lover tucked against his neck, already dozing off.
