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It's Six Sentence Sunday!!! I haven't been working on much this week - mainly because a lot of my time was focused on finishing and uploading a Zelda fic - but I did write a few sentences for my Moonfall one, the first of the 2021 sections.

The alarm fell silent, and for a few blissful seconds there was nothing but silence.

Beep beep beep.

“Oh, fuck off!” Not even looking she blindly aimed a punch at the damn thing hoping to punt it into the damn wall—

“Ow.”

She’d hit something far more solid than an alarm – she’d hit Brian.

“Shit, Bri, I’m so sorry.” She said, sitting up to see him rubbing his arm with a grimace. “I thought you were asleep.”

“Yeah, I figured.” He said wryly as he switched off the alarm. “Woke up and decided to sort it out before you caused property damage.”

(Devon is not a morning person).

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#six sentence sunday #oc: devon avery #brian harper #wip: it's the end of the world as we know it (and i feel fine)#moonfall #fyi they're not together this is PLATONIC bed sharing because why not

Not done one of these in a while, so here's an extract from my Moonfall fic - this time from the 2011 section (specifically, the day of the Endeavour disaster).

When Devon was five – nearly six – years old, she’d wanted to be an astronaut. She’d also wanted to be a cake-maker, a scientist, an architect and an artist, because like most children she’d bounced around from interest to interest at the drop of a hat and at this point in time had decided she’d do all these jobs and be the very very best but her space obsession? Had been the most intense. For months she’d devoured every space book she could find, learning about the planets and the stars, reading about the moon landings and how people hoped to go to Mars and it had all sounded amazing, to her. What could be better than going out there into space? And the Space Shuttle had been the most exciting thing of all – a reusable spacecraft! Space travel being made more accessible! Sure, there hadn’t been many missions yet but wasn’t it great? And Devon had dreamed and dreamed that one day she’d be an astronaut on a Space Shuttle and make all sorts of fascinating discoveries – she’d be the best astronaut ever. And when she found out the next launch was going to be televised, she’d begged her parents to let her watch it because everyone else was going to be watching it – a live event, all the way over in America, and Devon had been so, so excited. ...It had ended up being not just the first, but the last shuttle launch she ever watched.

(Once again I am putting my character through it.)

#work in progress wednesday #oc: devon avery #wip: it's the end of the world as we know it (and i feel fine)#moonfall

it's the end of the world as we know it (and i feel fine)?

My Moonfall WIP!! A film I would...probably not ever have watched if not for Patrick Wilson's presence, let's be honest here, and like it's...okay, I guess, but it has shit pacing and massive fucking plot holes everywhere.

Anyway, so, the main focus of the fic is Devon Avery, forty-two year old self-defence instructor, fairly average, - practical-minded, has a fondness for seventies and eighties music, refuses to get a touchscreen phone and generally dislikes modern technology in general. The only things out of the ordinary are the faded burn scars on her arms and the fact that she's best friends with Brian Harper of all people. Of course, she has secrets of her own - namely that she can't remember anything from 2005 to 2008, despite having gained every single scar she has during this time, there's no apparent reason for the memory loss, and there is no paper trail for her injuries despite the fact they've clearly been treated. She moved to America for a fresh start and befriended Brian, only for him to go through something out of the ordinary two years later - the reason she's the only person from his old life to still be in regular contact with him is because she a) believes him and b) opened up about her own experiences.

She expects never to get answers, but in December 2021 weird things start happening across the globe and then she starts getting flashes of memory - remembering things that seem impossible and yet she knows they're not, and when the revelation about the Moon getting closer happens it's clear to her and Brian that the two events are linked, they just don't know how.

This is an interesting one mainly because I'm planning to write three timelines - the overarching one, the one that starts the fic, where Devon is helping to try and save at least some of humanity, is set in the last hours before Moonfall is due to happen. At this point she's remembered everything and Brian, Jo, and KC are on their last-ditch mission to prevent the end of the world. Then there's the Endeavour incident and its' aftermath as Devon does her best to help except for the most part Brian isn't in a very good place, so that's a struggle. Then there's December 2021 up to the events of the film - Devon and Brian trying to understand what in god's name is going on.

(Also this fic is gonna be an AU because of what Devon was involved in and also I am fixing those damn plot holes)

Of course, this is probably also one of the most self-indulgent fics so far but I like it!!! I really do!!!

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OC Introduction - Devon Avery (Moonfall)

29th of March 2022: In the final hours before the moon is due to crash into Earth, Devon Avery assists in the last-ditch effort to save at least some of humanity while fearing for the fate of her planet - and of Brian Harper, her best friend who is currently on a mission to destroy the AI responsible for what's happening, because it's a mission she fears he won't survive, and she's not sure what she'll do if she makes it and he doesn't...

Fourteen years before, Devon moves from England to America after losing all her memories from between the 30th of January 2005 and the 2nd of October 2008 - amnesia that doesn't seem to have been caused by anything, but it's a mystery compounded by the catalogue of scars she has across her body, notably burn scars across her arms and torso. More than that, there's no medical paper trail and the company she's supposedly meant to have worked for goes defunct not long afterward, and Devon struggles in the aftermath as she feels she can't open up to anyone about it, especially when even her own family seem to think she's either lying or was involved in some kind of cult. Dropping out of the maths degree she was halfway through, she sees the move as a chance for a fresh start, and in 2009 befriends one Brian Harper, a NASA astronaut. Life seems to be looking up.

Then on the 12th of January 2011, she sees a news report: Space Shuttle Endeavour has lost all electronic systems and is going to attempt an emergency landing. Devon's terrified her worst fears are going to come true - that Brian will lose his life in a fatal accident. He doesn't, but his miraculous landing is overshadowed when he's promptly scapecoated by NASA after he insists that some kind of alien anomoly was responsible for what happened. Over the next year and a half he withdraws from everyone, his marriage hits the rocks, and when he leaves without a word after his final appeal fails, Devon worries she's lost him for good...

Only she refuses to accept this - instead tracks him down and opens up about her own mystery, and admitting that she believes he saw what he saw. She saves the friendship, but there's still a lot of unanswered questions for the both of them. Nine years later Devon has (mostly) settled down in Los Angeles - she has a good job as a self-defence instructor, lives with her best friend, and is considering finally doing the maths degree she dropped. She's somewhat resigned to never getting her memories back and has (mostly) made peace with this, even though she can't shake off the feeling that whatever she went through, it was far from an average experience.

Then over the next month there's an increase in floods and earthquakes across the world and whispers that something is up with the moon even though no one seems to be able to pinpoint what, exactly, this something could be. Then Devon starts getting mild headaches and flashes of things that never happened, and both she and Brian grow increasingly concerned when the symptoms get worse and yet, much like the amnesia itself, there seems to be no cause for it.

Then comes the day Devon realises these are her memories, slowly returning to her bit by bit, and she starts to wonder, really wonder, just what the hell she got herself into all those years ago, whether their return is connected with what seems to be a global threat - and whether she was somehow part of the same conspiracy that cost Brian his career and his marriage...

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#oc: devon avery #wip: it's the end of the world as we know it and i (don't) feel fine #moonfall

It's Six Sentence Sunday! I've mainly been writing for the Flufftober Spring Edition this week and once again been reminded that a) typing up written writing takes ages and b) sometimes the characters will hijack your story and you just have to go along with it 🥰🥰 and these aren't reaching the WIP folder as I'm working on them quickly. I have, however, been working a bit on my Moonfall WIP - which I hope will start to chug along now that I've actually seen the film.

If Jo and Brian and KC’s mission failed the world would end, simple as that – the moon would crash and humanity would be wiped out, save for the several thousand they’d managed to save so far, just several thousand out of several billion—

Better than no one, but…they still could’ve worked out a plan, if they’d only known, if NASA had bothered to let them in on anything instead of threatening them. If Brian succeeded—

There were too many fucking ifs. If Brian succeeded, if he lived to tell the tale, if he still wanted to know her after finding out the truth—

She mentally kicked herself for the latter thought – Brian had been nothing but supportive in the two weeks since her full memory had returned, and she felt faintly ashamed for even thinking otherwise. The world would be irrevocably changed, but they would – hopefully – be together to see it, and their friendship would still be intact.

(Hopefully.)

Devon is really gonna go through it in this fic (to the surprise of... nobody who reads my fics)

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#six sentence sunday #oc: devon avery #wip: it's the end of the world as we know it (and i feel fine)#moonfall

It's (belated) Work in Progress Wednesday so here's an extract from my Moonfall wip - still very much in progress as I have yet to track down the movie (and also yes, this fic is self-indulgent but then again, aren't they all?), so I'm just writing down scenes as they come and I'll iron out the details later. This is after Devon manages to track down Brian because she's worried about him - and decides to open up about something personal.

Aside from the burn scars on her arms, there was also a gash on her left side, markings on her calves like she'd been caught in barbed wire or something and, to his shock, what was clearly a healed bullet wound in her right leg. By far the worst, though, was the massive fucking claw marks across her back - she only showed him part of them, but it was obvious they extended across the entire part of the body, and though like the others they had somewhat healed over, they'd also clearly been deep, and the blood loss that must've resulted from those injuries... "What the hell happened to you?" He burst out. "Jesus, you look like you've been in a warzone, Dev." "Yeah, well, for all I know I might well have been." Devon grimaced. "Thing is, all of these? I got them between February 2005 and September 2008." "And..." "And I don't remember a single thing from that period of time." "...What?" What the hell?

"Pretty unbelievable, I know, but it's true. Last thing I remembered it was the end of January 2005, two weeks away from starting my new job - and then I wake up on October 2nd 2008 with no memory and no job because the company shut down. I had no skull fractures, no brain damage, no signs of drugs in my bloodstream, no signs of any other trauma. I hadn't gone missing and then reappeared. But those three-and-a-half years were just...gone." Brian had to sit back and take that in. Devon had always been evasive about her time in England, had always shrugged and said this was a fresh start for her. No fucking wonder.

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#work in progress wednesday #oc: devon avery #brian harper #moonfall #wip: it's the end of the world as we know it (and i feel fine)