I wanted to give a brief update to what's been happening behind the posting scenes!
For those unaware, I'm working with the LGBTQIA+torneys Charity Pride Zine being run by @turnabout4what! I'm not sure how much I can reveal about my piece yet (it's actually done, if you can believe it) but I think you'll enjoy it when the zine releases! It's a bit beefier of a fic compared to what's beeb posted as of late!
I'm currently working on both Blackmadhi week and Klapollo week- yes, it is 14 different fics I am writing, and yes I did decide to do both weeks when I have a hilariously busy June schedule.
Hallmark Cliches is on hiatus at the moment- I can't give you any specific return date, alas.
TYAC's third section is pushing for a potential August/September release. To make it short, I don't want there to be chapters that are just casefic from AJ but from Klavier’s POV. Turnabout Corner has to have at least one chapter rewrite to adjust for that. Serenade needs some heavy editing as well- don't get me wrong, I don't want heavy game casefic, but also Serenade is... well, a lot. I'm not even sure how to approach Succession yet.
Moulding Clay (the rp fic adaptation I'm doing with @alithiasigma) gets bursts of work done. And, by bursts, I mean they go "hey when was the last time you looked at the doc" and I go "whoops" and then work on whatever short burst I can get through before executive dysfunction hits.
I don't have anything in the works that's too particularly fun, alas! Some dusty wips that need a facelift could go up, but that takes away from projects and deadlines, and I wanna make sure I have those done! That being said, I am gonna try to get at least a fic out next month. I've yelled a few ideas into the void, but who knows what will stick!
18 Oct 2017. If you could be part of any bookish squad, which would you choose? I will surprise no one by saying I’d want to be part of #DumbledoresArmy. Hanging out with awesome humans, learning spells, defying the swooping bat of enigmatic horror that is Dolores Umbridge? Total #squadgoals. This cute necklace was included in the September box from @TheYAChronicles! You can get a discount on any TYAC purchase with the code CAA10. They’ve just sent out their October CHASING TIME boxes and I am so keen for mine to arrive! There are still a few left if you want to place an order! Day 18: #AllTheBooksOct: Squad goals #OctInBooks17: Book and jewellery . . . . . . #bookish #openbook #harrypotter #orderofthephoenix #theyachronicles #tyac #bookstagramfeature #bookishfeatures #aussiereaders
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 2/?
Fandom: 逆転裁判 | Gyakuten Saiban | Ace Attorney
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Garyuu Kyouya | Klavier Gavin/Odoroki Housuke | Apollo Justice
Characters: Garyuu Kyouya | Klavier Gavin, Odoroki Housuke | Apollo Justice, Mayudzuki Daian | Daryan Crescend, Original Characters, Ensemble Cast - Character
Additional Tags: Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Rating May Change, Canon Rewrite, Slow To Update, Slow Burn, mostly canon-compliant, Other additional characters to be added
Chapter 2 is live, and with it, 1/7th of the second second section has been uploaded!
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 8/?
Fandom: 逆転裁判 | Gyakuten Saiban | Ace Attorney
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Garyuu Kyouya | Klavier Gavin/Odoroki Housuke | Apollo Justice
Characters: Garyuu Kyouya | Klavier Gavin, Odoroki Housuke | Apollo Justice, Mayudzuki Daian | Daryan Crescend, Original Characters, Ensemble Cast - Character
Additional Tags: Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Rating May Change, Canon Rewrite, Slow To Update, Slow Burn, mostly canon-compliant, Other additional characters to be added
Chapter Summary:
It's 2026.
We all know what that means.
...well, we know what happens starting in April, anyways. This is before that.
(this time i just straight up forgot to post about chapter 7, my bad)Final chapter for section 2! Friendly reminder that TYAC is going on an update hiatus again while I work on Section 3! Ideally I’d have a return to posting by June, but I’m also rewriting a chunk of it to manage workload/actual fun content that isn’t just “cases 2-4 of Apollo Justice but Klavier this time”.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/?
Fandom: 逆転裁判 | Gyakuten Saiban | Ace Attorney
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Garyuu Kyouya | Klavier Gavin/Odoroki Housuke | Apollo Justice
Characters: Garyuu Kyouya | Klavier Gavin, Odoroki Housuke | Apollo Justice, Mayudzuki Daian | Daryan Crescend, Original Characters, Ensemble Cast - Character
Additional Tags: Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Rating May Change, Canon Rewrite, Slow To Update, Slow Burn, mostly canon-compliant, Other additional characters to be added
Summary:
So, maybe he isn't a coward, but Klavier's been through a lot, and throughout everything, hesitation still lingers.
And he's not letting that stop him.
aka: A love letter to Klavier Gavin as a character, because Capcom shoved him in their basement and refused to develop him as a character, which is the biggest fucking tragedy, because he's got so much potential. This is my boy now. I will give him relationships and make him multi-dimensional, and you cannot stop me.
It’s finally started.
TYAC is officially here.
(Special thanks to @thelocalmuffin and also Liv, who’s tumblr blog I either don’t know/can’t remember, for being beta readers!)
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 3/?
Fandom: 逆転裁判 | Gyakuten Saiban | Ace Attorney
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Garyuu Kyouya | Klavier Gavin/Odoroki Housuke | Apollo Justice
Characters: Garyuu Kyouya | Klavier Gavin, Odoroki Housuke | Apollo Justice, Mayudzuki Daian | Daryan Crescend, Original Characters, Ensemble Cast - Character
Additional Tags: Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Rating May Change, Canon Rewrite, Slow To Update, Slow Burn, mostly canon-compliant, Other additional characters to be added
Chapter Summary:
Sometimes touring is easy.
Sometimes... not so much.
psst, third chapter is out, and we’re now 2/7 for section 2!
Usually, this blog updates infrequently, and it’s whatever project I’ve got in-progress. The prompt challenge is on temporary hiatus right now, but each individual prompt has been its own contained fic.
I want to take this time to... I dunno, explain this fic? I owe this to nobody, but I still feel that it’s important, because throughout the past year and change, TYAC has been something of a constant for me.
TL;DR for under the read more: no, TYAC isn’t taking over priority for Hallmark Cliches, nor will it be taking priority any time soon.
If you follow my main blog, @implodingcacti, then you might be familiar with this acronym. I’ve tagged posts on my main blog with #still dont have a tyac tag for a while now- yes, I know the tag is goofy, but I never bothered to change it, and it became a running gag. There’s a bit of assorted chatter from last year when progress was really kicking off, and then life hit me during NaNoWriMo and I put it on hiatus.
This fic is, quite literally, the culmination of me deciding that Klavier deserves better than how he’s treated. Capcom has shoved him into the role of a petty cameo, and that’s a damn shame.
This fic is me giving him the care and consideration that he honestly deserves. Klavier has so much potential in-canon, and yet he’s let down by a lack of bonds. We know he has a brother, we know that Daryan is his friend, and that’s... it. We know nothing about extended family, or what his time was like at Themis, or the other 3 Gavinners and their individual dynamics. Hell, we don’t even know what happened to Vongole, Kristoph’s dog. Where is she, Capcom? Where did you put our baby?
I’m not gonna pretend that this isn’t an ambitious project. I’m not going to pretend that this fic is going to shatter people’s worlds, too- don’t get me wrong, I’d love to, but I don’t want to disappoint myself. Honestly, I’m not expecting much of anything beyond making him feel as fleshed out as he deserved. I latched onto him after Serenade, getting to see all of those miniature glimpses into his band and recognizing similarities between my own performing experiences, and damn it if I’m not soft on the man. That case really was what sold me on loving him, after all.
That being said- TYAC is still completely unfinished. At the time of writing, my in-doc wordcount is sitting a bit over 100k (103,047 to be exact, in case anyone is curious). This includes scene notes for things I haven’t written, script for in-game cases (because fuck it, I decided I wanted to have the cases in the damn fic), and the fic itself. TYAC is not finished, nor is it close to being done.
If ever I am running a fic that isn’t TYAC, that fic is taking priority. Eventually, I’d love to have TYAC be finished, and I’d love to share it with people. I’m also very aware of my own abilities, and even if I dedicated all of my time to working on it, I’d get quickly burnt out.
I’ve had a lot of estimates about where the fic’ll end up wordcount-wise. Each one has been wrong. I’m setting a rough estimate around 200k, and hoping maybe I land under that. I have no idea if I will.
Another thing I wanted to mention is that I’ve talked about the fic being in sections. Section 1 is its own chapter, and is the shortest so far out of everything. I’m gonna go over the sections upcoming, their names in the doc, and kind of give y’all a rough estimate of what to expect.
Section 2: SEVEN YEAR OVERVIEW; NOW WITH TOURING DRAMA
Takes place where 1 left off, here’s our Gramarye trial and the 7 year gap. Did you like the other Gavinners? There’s a lot of them here. It’s the “developing the Gavinners” section.
Section 3: IN PRESENT TIMES. DISBANDING.
Spans the in-between space of Turnabout Trump and Turnabout Corner to right before the events of DD. We have 3 cases here- Corner, Serenade, and Succession. If you haven’t played AJ, you can essentially read a good chunk of it. The characterization leaks out a bit as well. I know I’m developing Klavier, but there’s someone else who I think would be fun to include...
Section 4: RECONNECTIONS. GOODBYES. A SOLO CAREER THAT KEEPS PAUSING. REPEAT AS NEEDED.
Two games in one- we’re spanning DD through SOJ with this one! One case in detail, though- it’s Turnabout Academy, but this time with less bleh. There’s mentions of other cases, and a bit of overlap, so it isn’t like you’re completely missing out, but there’s a bit more going on with Klavier. Lots of emotional shit. Boy’s gotta react to shit, after all. Capcom, you cannot hide your grieving and comforting from me. Miss me with that shit.
Section 5: TWO YEAR OVERVIEW, NOW WITH TOURING DRAMA, ROUND TWO; ELECTRIC BOOGALOO. (30% more pining edition)
Post-SOJ, baby! Two years of a free and open playground where I am free from the confines of canon and will handle the boy how I see fit. There’s emotional healing in this chapter. Funky friendships. My official promise to the “Do They Know Yet” blog being once-again upheld. I’m tying up loose ends in as many neat bows as I can.
That’s as much as I can touch on without it being spoilers.
At any point, please feel free to ask questions about this fic. I am constantly vibrating about this project.
Thanks for sticking with me through it all. Hopefully I’ll have new stuff out on it soon!
