heya! will you be posting your fun and family-unfriendly fic on your AO3 account when you finish it or do you post on tumblr? Thanks for sharing the snippets so far btw, I'm really looking forward to reading the whole thing once you finish! Thank you!
Both! I post all my archive-worthy fic to both my AO3 and tumblr, and crosspost it on this blog under the tag for $8000 a month i will stop; I also post excerpts, unpublished snippets, and all other original content under that tag, though I'm still working on going back and tagging older posts from before I started organising this blog properly a couple years ago.
Additionally, my other Good Omens WIP, a slow-burn exploration of the cycle of Heavenly emotional abuse and the 6000-year habits Aziraphale and Crowley will need to break post-failed-Apocalypse, is being updated serially here while I work toward finishing the first chapter so I can publish it on AO3 and tumblr.
Thank you so much for your support and enthusiasm! It is so encouraging to know there are people excited to read what I've been working on.
(…Given just how family-unfriendly the pirate fic is — my draft is tagged with several major archive warnings, Period-Typical Everything, and a list of additional warnings long enough that I have to put them in the author's notes instead of the fic tags — I'm contemplating putting together a compilation of meta in that fic that can be read without having to endure the surrounding story context, because I know that's not the sort of content everyone enjoys. If I do that, it will be posted to this blog under "for $8000 a month I will stop" as well.)
SPIDER DATING AU??!!! Yes please :DDD (i really dig meet cutes for PromNyx, though tbh i dig anything for those two)
yes!!!! i ended up mashing up the spider au and the secret dating au, but i am in fact working on it. i’ve got like 8 pages already? it’ll be done at some point, but it fell by the wayside when i came up with the other oneshots i had enough drive to finish quickly
here’s a lil preview~ i posted more of it on my patreon here, but when it’s finished i’ll be posting it all as usual
It begins with a shriek.
Nyx moves before he knows what the threat is. Has to move before he knows what the threat is because that’s the Prince’s friend screaming. Nyx can’t allow anything to happen to the Prince’s friend under his watch, or then the Prince would be wrathful.
Warping to the Prince and his friend, frozen where they stopped in the Citadel’s hallway, he pushes the two of them behind him, holding out his kukris in front of him.
But… nothing happens.
“Oh my gods,” the Prince says, long-suffering. “Did you scream because of that spider?”
A spider? Nyx thinks, eyes zeroing in on the offending suspect.
It is in fact a spider.
It’s not even a venomous spider.
Nyx stares at it, looks back at the Prince and his friend, then sighs. He approaches the spider, gently picking it up in his gloved hands, and takes it to the window and lets it go.
“My hero,” he hears the Prince’s friend say, and turns around in time for the friend to dart over to him. “Thank you, thank you, thank you!”
“It was nothing,” Nyx gets out, a little flustered by the overwhelming gratitude. Over a spider. “It was just a spider.”
“But my best friend,” the guy says, shooting an accusing look at the Prince, “would have left me at its mercy and laughed at me.” To be fair, Nyx also probably would laugh at him if he were in civvies. “Noct, I’m replacing you. With this guy, who will save me from spiders. Hey, what’s your name?”
“Nyx Ulric,” Nyx answers. The Crownsguard in the room is smiling at his expense and getting away with it because the Prince and his friend are both paying attention only to Nyx.
“He’s cooler than you, Noct,” the Prince’s friend says. They mercifully start walking again, out of the hallway. “And way more heroic. You gotta step up.”
“Fine, Prompto,” the Prince says, “join the Crownsguard and protect me from, you know, enemies and daemons and assassins, and I’ll rescue you from spiders. But you know, we could have just walked away.”
…
Several months later, Nyx is fighting a cluster of arachnes outside a Niflheim base to support the Prince in his sabotage mission.
Normally, arachnes are nothing to Nyx because he’s godsdamned good at what he does. But these arachnes didn’t appear out of the darkness. They came from the fucking base.
And they’re way too fucking powerful, shit--
Nyx warps to avoid one, running into the legs of another in the process, knocking him down. He rolls as he feels a prickling sensation on his skin, just in time for a lightning strike to hit the ground he just vacated.
Shit. He throws out a firaga spell to keep on of the alpha arachnes at bay, and incinerate the tarantulas near her.
He hears the rattle of machine gun fire, and this time Nyx warps up a tree. But the bullets aim squarely and only for the tarantulas.
“Hello, opening,” he hears, as a fucking bazooka missile strikes one of the arachnes. Nyx sees an opening of his own, and he warp strikes down into an enemy, pinning it to the ground with his blade, twisting it around and out to finish it off.
Meanwhile, he hears another bazooka missile strike an enemy.
Then a couple of grenade explosions.
And more gunfire.
And so on.
Soon enough, the daemons disappear into black smoke, melding with the darkness of the night. As always, the night itself seems to tremble for a moment, as if strengthening with the return of daemons to it, but it fades so quickly that Nyx is never sure if he only imagines that the night itself wishes them dead.
Footsteps land besides him, and Nyx turns around to thank his savior.
Bright blonde hair and an equally bright smile greet him. “Woo! That was a lot of them wasn’t it?” It’s the Prince’s friend. Prompto.
Nyx stares until Prompto bounces on his heels a bit. “Uh, you okay, Nyx? Were you injured? Or did they get you with a spell?”
“You’re afraid of spiders,” Nyx says.
He blinks at him. “Uh, yeah?”
“These are giant spiders. And you’re fine.”
“Oh!” says the Prince’s friend. “I mean, yeah. Normal spiders are too small for me to shoot at, so. They freak me out. At least with daemons I always know when they’re there, you know?”
“But you--that was some good fucking shots there,” and shit, maybe he shouldn’t swear in front of the Prince’s friend. He’s not a noble, though, right? It probably doesn’t matter. “Have you ever tried to shoot a spider from across a room?”
“Uh… no, because that seems super dangerous?”
An explosion from the base shakes the ground, and Nyx knocks the Prince’s friend down to protect him from debris. When the world calms, he helps him up. “Listen, we both survive this, and I’ll help you get over your spider fear by teaching you to shoot a spider from across a room, deal? You ready to rejoin the fray in the base?”
“Uh, yeah, but--shit!” he yells, as Nyx hooks his arm around his waist and warps them back up to the base. “I don’t really think knowing if I can shoot spiders across a room really has anything to do with being afraid of them,” he says, summoning out of the Arsenal even more explosives to use on the swaths of MTs in front of them.
you have a dragon au? are you willing to share anything about that? :DDDD
so it’s based on this dragon prompto fic here which i said that i might continue one day
this may not be the way people imagined i would continue it buuuut same verse
it has somehow developed into thinking about how drautos is also a dragon, how nyx starts to suspect that he’s not human, and confronts him, and well. this happens. this lil teaser.
Drautos grabs him by the throat, and slams Nyx against the wall.
“Be quiet,” Drautos hisses. “I won’t have you ruining all my hard work.”
“What—the fuck—are you?” Nyx gets out, pulling at Drautos’ hand and finding no give. He thinks briefly about summoning his weapons and stabbing him but he wants—he wants to know—
The Captain sighs. “I’m a dragon, Ulric. I’ve been pretending to be human long than you’ve been alive.”
“A dragon?” Nyx asks, his effort at escape lessening. As he relaxes, Drautos’ grip on him eases a touch. “But I thought—don’t they usually have horns?”
“Not necessarily. That’s one of the more obvious features, but it’s only one possible feature that follows us in our human form.” Drautos shrugs. “I have scales on my back.”
Vividly, Nyx sees played out in his mind a memory, when an MT soldier tried to skewer his Captain from behind with a lance. Nyx warped to help him, knowing that the second it would take him to warp would be the second in which his commander would find himself with a brand new hole, but as he got there to strike the MT down, Drautos was still standing. The sword had only sliced his clothing.
“But don’t—dragons have hoards, and territory, and—what are you doing here?”
The hand tightens, and Nyx arches, trying to relieve the pressure. Drautos steps in closer until Nyx can feel the heat from his body, and his arm presses against his chest like a bar.
“Listen to me, boy,” Drautos growls, an edge of inhumanity and immortality on the words. Nyx shivers because wow he’s never heard Drautos sound like that before, and he desperately tries to hide it since now is not the time. “Insomnia is my territory. The Kingsglaive and its soldiers is my hoard. And you, even though you a nosy, upstart piece of shit, are mine too. And you’re going to keep this quiet. Understand?”
“Yes, sir,” Nyx says. Drautos stares him in the eye. Nyx doesn’t think about his pants are growing tighter by the second. Recklessly, he adds, “I’m yours.”
Drautos blinks. He looks pleased but not sure how to handle that, so Nyx continues, “So that means you’ll help me take care of this boner I’ve got?”
Too much. Drautos drops him and reels backwards. “What?”
“If i’m one of your treasures, does that include sex?” Nyx asks, propping himself up straighter against the wall. “Cause. I’m down. Or up, actually, I guess.”
End game for ARS, you said that it's gonna by PromNyx and I have a personal theory on how you're gonna do it (im probably wrong but whatevs). Okay so if you can get a new soul mate when your old one dies (cause im guessing that's what happened with Tinia's), did Prom maybe "die" on the surgery table? Like if his heart stopped, that's technically dead, sooo... Nyx could actually be his new soul mate now? just my little headcanon until you tell us for real c:
interesting theory! but i have not said that it’s gonna be promnyx. i have not said what the endgame is at all
DID SOMEBODY SAY FFXV DATING SIM?!?! You want questions I've got your questions! Would you include the option to become part of a three or foursome? Is everyone gonna be dateable? Can Prompto choose to run away and become a chocobo farmer? Do you have to do certain tasks to level up Prompto's guide abilities, is that even possible? Can i forget the romance plot and have Prom start an epic bromance with Dino? Is there gonna be a bad end (ie Ardyn)? I AM HERE FOR THIS *sets up camp in the corner*
potentially! i think i’d probably try to keep it a little simple if i’m actually gonna do it, and i think i’d follow @chocobro-hijinks‘s advice to start small--like maybe just add diff options to the beginning and see how that goes really
BUT LET’S TALK ABOUT WHAT I’D IDEALLY WOULD LOVE TO DO
YES i would absolutely give an option to not date anyone, and to pursue the best broship with dino possible (tho that wouldn’t be an either or--i do not support abandoning friends in favor of romance)
i hadn’t thought up leveling up the guide abilities! it’d be cool to have an element in it that’s not just talking to characters to romance them, but sometimes minigames in dating sims get on my nerves--BUT that would work well with some ideas i have for how it could go, so yeah! especially if i make it so you can join the crownsguard and romance other sentinels in there that aren’t nyx. that’d be fun
my ideal would deffo have like mutliple endings for character--like you could pick a sentinel without romancing them, for example. there would have to be a limit as to who you can romance fully tho, since limitations of time and effort.
as for a bad ending... i’d have to think about it. that could be a lot of fun, especially with ardyn
And another! Someone (probably Prom tbh) gets really into a holiday. So he's decorated their place like crazy. The home & garden magazines would be weeping to see such beauty. He made food and has little gifts for everyone (nothing expensive, just cute tchotchke type stuff). The thing is, he picked the weirdest most random holiday to celebrate (like arbor day or talk like a pirate day), so it's adorable, if slightly quirky celebration. (sorry only three prompts, i'll try and send more later)
Noctis lets himself into Prompto’s apartment, as he normally does, and stops short within the doorway. Gladio, who is carrying a few grocery bags, runs into him with a curse.
“What the hell, Noct?” he says, and then, “oh.”
A statuette of a little cartoonish Ifrit stands center on the table in the hallway, eyes comically wide and cute.
“What… the… shit…” Gladio says, as they both swivel around the room slowly. The room is decorated with banners of red, cartoonish and sometimes vulgar depictions of Ifrit in multiple locations.
“Happy Fools of Fire Day!” Prompto yells, bounding down the stairs, springing a popper in their faces. Confetti bursts out and lands on their hair and shoulders.
“Prompto, what on Eos?” Ignis asks from porch.
“Fools of Fire Day!” Prompto says with a grin. “We play pranks today.”
“Isn’t the Fools of Fire Day meant to mark when Ifrit betrayed humanity and the other Astrals?” Ignis asks carefully.
“Well, yeah, but it’s mostly an excuse to have a party,” Prompto says.
“And for blasphemy,” Gladio says. “Niflheim not worried about insulting the gods?” He pauses, and looks at one of the images that includes Ifrit with his dick out and a harem. “Never mind. Stupid question.”
"Shiva,” Noctis says. “Don’t forget about Shiva.”
“Oh, yeah,” Prompto says. “Who cares about some godly dick when Niflheim straight up murdered a god?”
Hey VJ i've been looking at your fic rants, and i was wondering if you'd be willing to share some of the titles? I'm always looking for more fic recs. Thank you!
my #fic rants tag is usually for any kind of fic commentary, good or bad. more of my livebloggling fic tag rather than what i originally intended it for.
when its a good fic i’ll make a post about it that i tag #fic rec (<-link)
the most recent fic rants were from a were-naruto fic i’ll link in a different ask, the one before that (and which i’ve talked about more) is part of the Sharingan Rising series. specifically In Good Company.
any ones further back than that and i’ve either posted about them in my fic rec tag or directly linked to the fic in the rant about them. sorry for the inconsistency
