#aydf fic

[voltstone]

A YELLOW DRESS FORGOTTEN | TWDG Retelling (Remastered - 2024) MASTER CONTENT POST

Hello! (And hello again to the TWDG fandom. At least, to anyone who remembers this fic.)

I'm VoltageStone. Still a shit uploader. I'm trying, and yes, this is one of the fics that has been in the works for...way too long, but at the same time..., glad I waited for my writing to get better?

This, quite simply, is my love-letter to the games, and to my Clementine. It's the one story I've wanted to get right, time and time again.

Especially since the comics have come out. Even though I've come to the conclusion that the comics are divorced from the games, because it's only one person's Clementine (and an...interesting interpretation of her at that), the comics did pull me away from the games for a little bit there.

But now I'm back. And I do intend to get to Season 4 this time. To finish this.

It'll take time, but I do feel ready now. I really have wanted to write out my Clementine's story, and have something that I can read back on rather than whatever Skybound's doing.

And honestly? While most of this is a self-indulgence thing, and it's because I'm bleeding my heart out here...

I do want more people to write about their Clementines. Cuz like... Maybe if there's enough people doing it, writing about their experiences, and not just the character as a whole... We'd get more enrichment from TWDG as a whole.

For anyone who wants to add on or talk about this, or follow along without having to subscribe to me, this fic will have its own tag (#aydf fic). So. If you're interested in just this, that'll be the place. :D

Anyway, now, for this specific update, this is a master post like the one I did for LYCOS (Wenclair fic). This isn't marked dead dove, but it is still a very...gritty fic. And it has a lot of very heavy themes.

It's a dark fic for different reasons, but a lot of the same. AYDF is what got me into writing gore, body & psychological horror, and the like. That being said, it's...also just a different beast.

Largely because I'm building off of what's in the games, so dead dove doesn't feel as appropriate for this.

Still. Might as well make a post here about its content. Any updates I do will be linked back to this.

So, for those who read this story before, I hope you enjoy, and thanks for sticking around through the years.

To any newcomers, to TWDG or other readers from other fics, I hope you enjoy. :)

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Walkers. Muertos. Deadheads. Lurkers... The dead which roamed, they wore many names. Monster was yet another one. Though, Clementine knew most monsters didn't decay. Their hearts still throbbed. Their eyes, still with color. The monsters, still with words to asphyxiate.  Because she was one herself: a monster with fire in her breath, and eyes that burned her own Hell. She drank for her life. She drank to forget.

A thank-you to Telltale, a love-letter to Clementine as a character, and a passion project writing out my Clementine's story. Made by my blood, sweat, tears, and probably also mucous from the tears, but it's sanitized, I promise.

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Fic Layout:

Ep1 | Between S2 & S3. Ep2-5 | S3. Ep1.5 (Interlude) | S1, Between S1 & S2, Between S2 & S3. Ep6 | Between S2 & S3, Between S3 & S4. Ep7 | Between S3 & S4, S4. Ep8-15 | S4.

General Warnings:

Catharsis, Gore, Extreme/Graphic Violence, Fights, Murder, Horror, Body Horror, Angst, Trauma, a very Cynically Religious Clementine, Raider!Clementine, TWDG retelling (aka, a lot of the dialogue and canon-events will be here, or rewritten), (some, not a lot) Sexual Content (because it's a "growing up" thing not a horny thing, I promise, …and maybe sorta a little bit of how BPD and attachment issues do things), Violentine, a lot of homoeroticism, they are touch starved, Some fairytale symbolism, Louis will be protected and grow tf up.

Mental Health:

Alcoholism, Gambling Addiction, Addiction, Withdrawal, Relapse, Suicide Attempt(s), PTSD, Guilt, Survivor's Guilt, Rehabilitation, Psychosis, Child abuse, Parentification, and how that basically fucks Clementine in the head like a lot, and then A.J too because cycles and trauma, Borderline Personality Disorder, Trauma Trauma Trauma, and you'll never guess, a Clementine who really really really needs help and at least one (1) actual breathing adult in her life.

Oh which reminds me.

Finding guidance in adults who are already very much dead, and please Clementine, would you just bury the corpse?

…okay that's verging on dead dove, but if the game (almost) has an 8-year-old eat a dude's leg, and then a bigger dude get his head smooshed by a salt lick (which tastes gross, I dunno), I think it's still safe.

In Summary:

...okay I may have written a Carver's Clementine by accident bUT it was an ACCIDENT. My hand slipped. She's not evil, just a little demented some days, and bitter on the better ones.

I am half-joking. My hand didn't slip.

She does make the comic's Clementine look like an angel, though. So. There's that.

Anyway, if it's not clear, the tldr is this is my playthrough, and thusly my canon Clementine, just with the story tailored for indulgence and narrative reasons. Cuz. …alcoholism. …and stuff.

Not a great person. Very troubled. But you know. Tis how addiction works.

Hope you enjoy. :) If you see my blood, sweat and tears stained in the writing, no you didn't.

[voltstone]

Hey. From what I gather, you wrote a fanfic called A Yellow Dress Forgotten. I read the old version, you have a talent for writing, that's for sure, I especially like how you presented Clem's addiction to alcohol in such a way that it has hands and feet. You are currently "in the process" of writing a new version, but I think you abandoned it, huh?

Nope! I'm just a shit updater. Anyone who's followed along my writing knows, unfortunately. (Especially those with Victorious. Lol.)

Most of the issue stems from ADHD. Whenever my focus fizzles out, I've found it's best for me to not fight it and switch over to another project, because I do know I'll come back to it, and with something like AYDF, that is a guarantee, regardless of how long (and, unfortunately, whether or not I actually post what I do). The draft of the fic has 220k words. The majority of it is just not posted, because those words are throughout.

The other half of it is this year has been very strange. There's been this onslaught of one thing after the other, so I've really been focused on life. And as of late, that means a new job. Which yay, because it's a good one. Just gotta get used to the schedule (which I have been figuring out what to write as of late, and when, so yay).

With AYDF again, I dunno if you've opened up the remaster at all, I did first post that in 2022, and revisited in 2024. I just updated the date because it was an overhaul. Lol.

Months without posting doesn't mean abandonment. Nor even a year. Just means I'll probably rewrite what I do have before returning. :)

[voltstone]

AYDF | progress update 2

Episode 2 & 3: DRAGON'S DEN & DRAGON'S BREATH

More of Ep.2, with some Ep.3 (since I hop around; helps with having everything be consistent and everything). Several updates will be like this, where it won't just be the one episode. No, for the sake of not being spoilery, I won't really give insight to which goes where. …now of course, if you're familiar with the seasons and the abandoned version, it may not be that hard to deduce. Lol.

But, will say, with each of these, the snippets may look very long (I mean, they are), but I don't lie when I say these are snippets. These chapters will spill over 20k words at bare minimum.

Progress Updates (Ep.2): 1 ; TBA

[voltstone]

within me are two wolves.

to inject every ounce of homoerotic and severely mentally ill tension into one character (violet).

to also do that but like a concerning amount.

[voltstone]

AYDF in meme summary

no im not procrastinating shut up.

[voltstone]

AYDF | progress update 1

EPISODE 2: DRAGON'S DEN

Here's some snippets of the fic's next chapter! (All of these are up to edits/polish as well.) Including a look at the doc because…oof, my computer's gonna hate the size of it if it doesn't already. Lol.

For these updates, I don't know how many I'll do. It'll depend on how long the chapters are, and how much I'd like to give away. The chapters are also long, by the by, so what's here is literally a few snippets. But ah well. I'll be chipping away at this chapter for the next couple weeks, so if I'm not as active on here as I have been, that be why.

Cuz like. I'm a fic writer. …so.

(If you're interested, the link to the master post is in the title.)

Progress Updates (Ep.2): 2 ; TBA

[voltstone]

MY CLEMENTINE | vibes

song playlist (top 13)

im not explaining any of this, no.

i just think it'd be neato if we shared each of our clementine's vibe and see what interpretations we were left with even though we played the same games. 🥺🥺

(primarily listen to slowed songs since they're easier to write to and not as distracting, so i have both versions. the links (youtube) to them are below.)

Carver [ANADEL] | Original Better to Sleep [Jared Emerson-Johnson] | Original Killer [Mareux] | Slowed ; Original

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PERCEPTION [WRXCKMANE] | Slowed ; Original In Essence [Ka$tro] | Slowed ; Original

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Wonderland [Neoni] | Slowed ; Original Canada [Unlike Pluto] | Slowed ; Original Crazy [Gnarls Barkley] | Slowed ; Original

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Back from the Dead [AViVA, Besomorph, Neoni] | Slowed ; Original Downfall [Neoni] | Slowed ; Original

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Dead [Unknown Brain] | Slowed ; Original The Motto [Ava Max, Tiësto] | Slowed ; Original Outlaw [Neoni] | Slowed ; Original

everything marked blue is what i primarily listen to for writing, but whatever. here's some new songs if anything.

[voltstone]

here. a smidge of violentine.

will this not see the light of ao3 for months to come? yes.

did i just up and decide to write this for a scene i have a vague idea about? yes.

but here's some violentine. for my fic (AYDF), intended for a much later chapter than what's published currently.

i could give further context, but i think…the splurge says enough. so enjoy. lol.