#jeb cain

[the-patchwork-girl-of-oz]

Technically if you apply the “Draculaura and Mavis are technically sisters” logic to other adaptations of classics, these are technically “brothers” and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it.

[lovemurphythe100]

He so good looking Love him on tin man

[klcthebookworm]

Six Sentence Sunday: Nonestic Tales: Pirates of the Nonestic

Nonestic Tales: Pirates of the Nonestic

BookWorm's Library | Ao3

Wyatt Cain cantered through the gates into the Royal Palace's compound. The Royal Army hadn't finished renovating the former Longcoat headquarters, but the Palace next to the barracks gleamed in the suns. He wondered which tower housed DG before shaking his head. A lowly Tin Man--even if he was a hero of the realm--shouldn't be concerned about such matters. He cast one more glare at the Palace before stopping his horse in front of the guard on duty. He tilted his fedora as he looked down at the uniformed young man. "Commander Wyatt Cain to see Captain Cain."

Summary: Away from the familiar O.Z., the runaway Princess and the Tin Man join Captain "Blood-rage" Betsy Bobbins' quest and cross swords with sullen pirates, the navy out to stop Bobbins, and a legendary evil lurking in the Nonestic Ocean.

The second story in the Nonestic Tales series takes place an annual (year) after the Tin Man miniseries. DG runs away from the princess gig and Cain is sent after her, and they end up outside the borders of the Outer Zone with pirates. Because nearly everything is better with pirates!

On a more serious note, this is the story where all my headcanons began to bounce around and really expand the worldbuilding. I pulled from L. Frank Baum's original Oz series, Gregory Maguire's Wicked series, and a fascinating movie adaptation of Return to Oz from 1985 that also traumatized many of its viewers. I ended up making a more detailed history timeline than I normally do, making maps to illustrate the changes to the landscape between what we know of Oz and what the miniseries portrayed as the Outer Zone, and finally detailing out the solar system the best I could so I could figure out the calendar. I hope you enjoy this novel and the series it is a part of.

[klcthebookworm]

Six Sentence Sunday: Nonestic Tales: What Memories Can Bring

Nonestic Tales: What Memories Can Bring

BookWorm's Library | Ao3

She propped her head on her elbow and considered the nude man standing at the large window. The glow beyond the glass tinted his scarred muscles and fair hair green. Heat pooled in her belly as she remembered how those strong limbs had tangled with hers on this bed. But he seemed content to expose his glory to Central City below. "I married as exhibitionist."

His lips stretched into a grin. "Only for you."

Summary: Now I see you standing with brown leaves falling around and snow in your hair. Now you're smiling out the window of that crummy hotel over Washington Square. Our breath comes out white clouds, mingles and hangs in the air. Speaking strictly for me, we both could have died then and there.

This short prequel story to the Tin Man miniseries had two germinating ideas. The first developed from my analysis of a scene we get in the miniseries:

So later after Jeb has said Zero killed Adora, after seeing Jeb has his own suit with his camp (and that must have made packing in a hurry a bitch. I hope it came in handy with interrogation sessions.), Cain has a nightmare of finding a time loop projection of Adora's death. Not even her real death, a projection of it! *Pause to snuggle issues!Cain*Okay, so now that we've established that we interpret these two scenes through Cain's macho POV, here comes the question that popped into my head. What if Adora was the one in the suit?

The second germinating idea was hear "Diamonds and Rust" by Blackmore's Night. The lyrics were haunting and for me fitted perfectly for a woman who lost her husband and the pain involved in the memories. And the story grew from there. I have linked it directly to the Nonestic Tales series, but it also works as a prequel for Dragons and Ninjas, Not His Kink, and Alchemy. Content warning for a suicide. I hope you enjoy this story.

[jesbelle-writes]

NaNo Nano

“Who’s in the other coffin?” asked Jeb.

“My cousin, Marigold Byrne,” replied Cain.  “While I was waiting at the morgue for all the papers to go through the proper channels, the clerk asked me to check the roll of bodies no one had come to claim.  She was on the list.  She was one of the first to be… disinterred and brought to Central City.  She died blowing up a bridge over the Munchkin River.  I sent a crow to my brother, Wes, letting him know she was there.  He wrote back saying her parents refused to have her in the family plot — same with her husband’s kin.  I guess she ran away to join the resistance and they cast her off.  So I took her as next of kin.”

“That’s awful!” said Angeline.

“How could anyone do that to their own family?” asked D.G.

Jeb just scowled at the floor.

“The way they see it, they cut off a rotten branch to save the tree,” said Cain.

[jesbelle-writes]

NaNo Nano

“He’s making D.G. and the queen out to be the villains in the story.  He’s telling people that the queen wanted her child by her ‘slipper lover’ to inherit her throne, and that she tried to kill you when you caught on.”

“Wait, they think Ahamo’s not my father?”

“It’s a big part of their dogma.  They say magic is leaving the O.Z. because of witches breeding with men from the other side.  They believe you’re the product of your mother’s legitimate marriage that she later denied in order to marry Ahamo.”

“So who is my father supposed to be?” asked Angeline.

“Me,” said Ambrose.  

Jeb nodded.

“There were rumors years ago,” said Ambrose.  “Completely unfounded, of course.”

[shahrezad1-blog]

So I'm toying with  Jeb/Azkadellia concept I have from the Tin Man miniseries. XD Should I write it, I wonder? Should I?

[buttonspushingthemselves]

One of my Tin Man OTPs:

So you're young, brash, attractive, and sassy. You're also in a leadership role which you didn't ask for but that's how life is. On top of that the family situation which you'd accepted as fact is a lie.

Thankfully your not-dead dad is besties with a long lost princess who is in a similar boat and also single.

This is why, despite them never exchanging words in canon, I ship DG and Jeb like a lot. That and they can name one of their kids Adora without it being hella awkward. And she can teach him to ride a motorcycle and he can teach her swording and they can snark and blank-stare and it would be lovely.

I might have to go write some more of it because there is a depressingly small amount of DG/Jeb fic.