I teased this like six months ago… heh 😅 (@wouldntyou-liketoknow tagging you bc I feel you’d be interested in this 👀)
Warnings: mentioned trauma, mentions of alcohol
- sometimes, your captain acts just a little odd. You’re used to it by now, though.
Sinking Iron; The Captain’s Log - entry 1: Gumusservi
You found the captain awake at an ungodly hour, standing by the ship’s railing like a shadow, staring at the light of the full moon glistening on the calm ocean waves.
You thought about asking him what he was doing up this late, but decided against it. Your captain was a bit of an elusive man, and if he didn’t want you to know what was running through his head at any given time, you wouldn’t be told.
Now seemed like one of those times, whatever he was thinking about as he gazed morosely into the sea was, by his logic, none of your concern. And he was right, it wasn’t.
Still, it was hard not to be curious as you snuck back to your quarters, trying to avoid making any loud footsteps that would alert him to your presence. The only time he’d ever opened up to you was during that horrible storm a few months ago, admitting that the roiling sea made him nervous, and that when he was only in training - like you were now - his ship had been attacked by a horrible beast from the deep. You weren’t sure if you fully believed that - he had been drinking rum when he’d told that story, after all. But something about the hollow fear in his eyes made you inclined to think he was telling the truth, and the whole truth.
As you entered your sleeping quarters, there was a quiet squeak, and a ghostly flash of white brushed past your legs. The ship’s cat, Crumbs, flitted across the small room and jumped onto your bed.
You smiled, crossing the room to join him and sitting on the edge of the mattress to pat his soft head.
“What’s going on with our captain, eh?” You asked in a whisper, “why do you think he’s acting so strange tonight, little fella?”
If Crumbs had any sort of answer, he didn’t give it, blinking his big blue eyes in the moonlight filtering through the porthole over your bed.
Then he jumped to the floor with a little chirp, striding back over to the door with his fluffy tail held high in the air, and only paused for a second to look back at you over his shoulder, his eyes like topaz stones, before leaving you again.
Saw Lixian had made a new game, Sinking Iron (inspired by the Iron Lung game) and I decided to play it before watching his making of video. Turns out his members forced him into adding a cat into the game, and honestly?
10/10, excellent work Lix’s members, you used your powers for good.
remember last drawing i made when i said 'drawing of the month'? yea, this is drawing of the season now,,, BUT i was really inspired by @sammys-magical-au's story 'sinking heart' and NEEDED to draw my new boy lucas💙!
It's really cool to see in a fandom so small stories and fanfics cause i have one ive been sitting on for a whiiiile but im so scared to post it lol! also sorry for being gone for a while, with 3sg going nowhere i was quite sad :( but now its comin BACK so i guess i am too!
version without the captions below, and ill hopefully see you soon!!
2, 9, 13 + both An Expected Encounter and Sinking Heart, please? It's been a while since I've come across an ask game 💞
[Ask Game]
Ayyy thanks for this 😊😊😊 it’s been a while since I’ve gotten asks for fic related stuff 💖
An Expected Encounter:
2 - what scene did you first put down?
~ I wasn’t much of a jump-from-one-scene-to-another type of writer at the time that I wrote this, and since the fic is really only one scene, I kinda just wrote it all in an evening 😅
9 - were there any alternative versions of this fic?
~ Not necessarily an “alternative” version but I did (and still do) plan on expanding on Sam’s dealings with Murdock (and the rest of the Pentas Family 😉) a little bit, specifically with how they teamed up against the alien meat dealers to get revenge on them. I think I sort of considered adding that to the original fic but ended up not doing that bc I wanted to save it for later.
13 - what music did you listen to, if any, to get in the mood for writing this story? Or if you didn’t listen to anything, what do you think readers should listen to to accompany us while reading?
~ I’m not much of a music person when writing, and I can’t think of any songs that directly inspired this/got me in the mood to write it. I also can’t really think of any songs that would pair well with the fic except for *maybe* Mx Sinister from I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME - which I admittedly haven’t listened to all the way through but it kinda gives off the same vibes as the fic to me 😊
Sinking Heart:
2 - what scene did you first put down?
~ This was still at a time when I didn’t jump around much between scenes, so the first scene I wrote is the first one in the fic 😅
9 - were there any alternative versions of this fic?
~ I was originally gonna include more stuff with the monster (aka Frank) and possibly some bits with Lucas’ death and the Rookie and Crumbs on the island (like in the secret ending of the game) but I changed my mind bc I thought a softer ending was more what I was shooting for. But that’s not to say there won’t be a Sinking Heart sequel at some point 👀
13 - what music did you listen to, if any, to get in the mood for writing this story? Or if you didn’t listen to anything, what do you think readers should listen to to accompany us while reading?
~ again, not really much of a music person with writing, BUT the Sinking Iron soundtrack would be the perfect thing to listen to while reading this fic 😁
