#moby dick au

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okay yeah. who doesn’t love a good au?

(can you tell my favorite book is moby dick?)

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Pt 1

"Whatever you do, be careful. It's completely feral. It's not a lick of sense in'em but smart as a whip." The man says.

Logan scoffs because he already knows.

"Him."

"What?"

"It's a Him."

"How do you know?"

"Oooh trust me.. we go back a loonng time.. been trying to catch this menace for almost 2 decades now." He wanted to say centuries, but even he wasn't that dumb.

Logan had met the creature long ago as a child. His mother took him to the lake to play when he spotted a bright red fin jumping deep into the water. "H-hello?" He had asked, merely a wee boy. Not even old enough to have his claws yet.

The thing that stared back had such large, beautiful amber eyes, glossy and full like frog eggs willed with apricot jelly that shimmered in the sun.

The thing had hid his ears, making a sharp chirp at him, puffing up as if scared of James but the tiny frail boy did no such thing to harm it. No, that creature was the most beautiful thing he's ever saw, and since he was a lad he's been trying to see him- catch him again- hoping deep down he would remember him and talk to him again.

"What's your name?" He asked, stepping deeper into the lake, but the critters eyes widdened, rushing forward to push him back, such worried and concerned eyes as James landed on his tush in the sandy water. His mother had warned him plenty about water drop offs but never creatures like him that sparkled with each light that glided over his scales.

"Ouch!"

"Sorry!" he makes another fish noise, dipping down deeper into the murky waters.

James' eyes had never been so big. "You can talk?"

The creature tilts his head, curious. "You can talk?"

"Hey!"

"Hey."

"Stop that!"

"Stop-... Sorry."

"No, it's okay. You were just scared."

"Scared." He repeats, the large spikey fin on his back going down as his webbed fingers make small waves in the water.

"Yeah... you like wading in the water?" That young boy asks, only bouta year older then the creature. "What's your name anyway?"

"Name?"

"Yeah. Your name. Do you have a name, or do you just wade through the muck all day and not have to go to school?" James smiles, chuckling a bit. At the time, James was quite jealous that the creature didn't have any studies to attend to and got to play in the lake all summer, not understanding that he had to stay there for this dark dirty water was his home.

"Wade?"

"Okay, Wade! My name is James."

"James.." He repeats, his smile growing so wide that most of his teeth shown.

James, as little as he was, stumbled back, taken suprise by the teeth.

Wade quickly shuts his mouth, his ears drooping. "Sorry!" He repeats, in a voice not his own, mimiced from someone else. This seemed to be how all of his words were, close replica's of other's voices.

Logan, almost two hundred years later, still remembered that day like it was anything. Esspecially because Wade had spent the last 20 decades slipping from his traps, chewing through ropes, releasing entire hauls of fish, putting holes in their boats, etc.

He felt like he would go crazy if he didn't catch him. That was every fishermans dream, right? To catch a beautiful mermaid? Well- in his case merman. Though Logan thought he was more of a siren then anything. He sang sweet songs that echoed the rocks, crashimg dozens of boats, none living to tell the tale. All but Logan.

Bracing himself, he throws open the door, stepping inside as he see's his arch nemesis with a thick chain around his throat, his hands and his tail wrapped tight in attempts to keep him still, but this was near impossible.

Wade hissed, jumping towards him, but the chain kept him just inches from his face with his three rows of shark like teeth bared. He was snarling, weakened from the lack of water, clipped on some of his fins, a slice in his hip. His nose was already bleeding, saliva dripping down his chin as his nostrels flared.

It reminded him of a rabid dog he had once seen as a young adult. Mindlessly wandering with white foam dripping from its jaws, growling and bumping into things from such a delirious state. Except those dog's eyes were empty, blank of emotion. Wade's eyes were narrow and were filled with fear and hatred.

Logan remembered those bright yellow eyes like yesterday.

"Wade..settle down." He starts.

With his fins puffed up in all his beauty, Logan smirked. Gorgeous as the day he met him..

Pausing mid hiss, It was as if Wade finally got a good look at him, hearing his voice, realizing who he had the pleasure of growling at.

Logan knew he couldn't see well outside of the water. He knew he could smell him, though, and that's exactly what he did, Wade's nose twitching with curiosity before his mouth curled into a large sadistic grin.

"..James."

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A few panels from the Moby Dick "ghost hunting" AU I drew for Battleship 2025.

See it in full on AO3.

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Whale Fic Announcement

Hello everyone! Happy four-days-left-of-Nanowrimo! As of now the first draft of moby dick au, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, is 99% finished! So I’m officially announcing that new chapters will henceforth be posted on Fridays, starting next Friday Dec 3!*

*barring unforeseen circumstances of course, but i’m really excited to get these chapters up!

As a little teaser, here is the number of times I used some fun key words in the current, unedited document of the entire fic:

writhing: 5 blood: 118 Griddle: 270 imbecile: 12 skeleton: 98 butt: 7

Feel free to request more words, I’ll search + post them if the results are funny. And thanks to all of you who have encouraged/enabled me on this journey! 

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Wild LotR + Hobbit AU #3

All the books, but written in the style of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. AKA: An entire chapter on the whiteness of the Arkenstone or the goldness of the ring, one very short chapter of just a character saying “um um um” while drinking, a 25-page sidenote all about each race of Middle Earth... Let’s face it, though, The Hobbit is basically the plot of Moby Dick.......

[icarusredwings]

Moby dick au Except its monster fucker.

James meets a small creature in his childhood and spends 200 years trying to catch the thing. Within those 200 years they have been on and off as friends, sworn enemies, soulmates, and even worse.

Logan has journals upon journals filled with sketches and writings, a sightings log even about this damn sea creature (siren wade) and has suspected him of maming roughly 500 people, drowning them and devouring their bodies.

Not only is wade eating his crew and purposly hunting them, he destroys their netting, stole their fish, released large catches, broke their fishing equipment, put holes in the boat multiple times and once, Logan has even harpooned him but Wade still lived.

He's obsessed with him, pissed off and he talks about him the way the joker talks about batman, passionate and impressed with his intelligence and beauty but GOD he wants to wring his neck so bad. After finally catching him to the point Wade cant escape, he feels... guilt.

He wanted to catch him this entire time and wasted his whole life trying to do it. Some cabin members assumed Logan had a weird fetish and wanted the fish for himself like an exotic pet. Others thought logan wanted to eat wade or sell him for an extremely high price, but theyre all wrong. He does want wade for himself.. but as a lover.

He's down bad for that finned fuck and now that logan has him right where he wants him? He has no clue what to do with him. If he lets him go wade will just leave. If he keeps him chained up wade will hate him forever. So what does he do? He cant kill him.... but he can fuck him!

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

The final Whale Fic Friday is upon us. It’s been a hell of a ride.

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Happy Whale Fic Friday! This chapter contains bones and feelings (that’s what she said)!