Welcome to my writing blog. I’m Wren, you can find my main blog over at @wayward-wren. Likes and follows and possibly replies will come from over there.
This blog is going to serve as a place to post my fanfictions and probably some snippets from the original story I’m working on.
I love interacting with people! Send me an ask or a message. I’m always down to talk about my fics, and I love any kind of interaction, even someone scrolling through my blog and liking all my posts, so don’t be shy to do that. I’ll also accept prompts, though I may not be fast at responding to them.
Alright, now for some links for ease of access to places.
AO3 account. Most of the stories on here are over at AO3. I usually cross post stuff, so check that out!
Marvel Stories. These stories include the MCU, Netflix shows and some comic stuff.
Star Wars Stories. Star Wars has been a big part of my life for years, and I’ve written a number of stories in that universe. Mostly Clone Wars era, and I do have a couple of Own Characters who I want to write about more.
Other Stories. These are the stories that are from various fandoms, including ITV’s Endeavour, Detroit: Become Human, the Umbrella Academy, Doctor Who fics I write a while ago and a number of one off stories from other fandoms.
Please let me know if any of the links aren’t working or lead to the wrong place! (I spent a full day sorting this blog out, and I know I’ve missed some stories from the numerous side blogs I had going). I look forward to hearing from you!
This post is Very Out Of Date as this blog hasn't been super in use lately. I'm not sure if I'll be bothered updating it, but maybe one day!
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
“It’s a long story,” Etho said reluctantly. “But the short of it is that I…I used to lead a very different life.” He didn’t look at Gem or Grian as he spoke. “DominusMalus…Well, I had a hand in killing his family. Permanently. No respawns.” Wiped them all out with my own two hands and no help. “After that, he was fixated on tracking me down. I’m still not sure if he wanted to kill me or…hire me.”
Hire was a mild way of putting it. Hire implied a level of choice in the matter.
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Doc has a lead to striking a blow at a network of hybrid hunters and traffickers. All it requires is for Etho to face a part of his past he would much rather leave behind.
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I should post my latest fic here huh? Ethoslab but with Winter Soldier inspired backstory ^-^
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
“We don’t have time,” Impulse said, and his voice wavered, subtle enough that anyone other that Skizz wouldn’t have noticed. “You need to get them to safety. They won’t leave--you know that.”
“None of us will!” Skizz said, pulling his hands free and tugging again. Impulse grabbed his wrist again, forcing them both to still.
“Get them to safety. They need you,” Impulse said.
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Or: Zombie Apocalypse AU and Skizz has to make the worst choice of his life.
Posting my completed whumptober day 6+7 hermits and Co zombie apocalypse au story because I am very happy with it and want to make people suffer ^-^
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Oh BTW I'm doing Whumptober! If anyone is interested, check it out over here! I'm back in the MCYT trenches, writing a zombie apocalypse AU for hermitcraft/life series focused on GIGGS and drawing a little world building inspiration from their Phasmo streams. The aim is to write a story (or chapter) per prompt each day! Going off vibes more than actually following the prompts, and I just posted day 6 which is EASILY my favourite so far!
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
The last time she had been sick, she had curled up in a corner of the ruin she had taken as her home on Dathomir, hoping and praying that the Nightbrothers wouldn't find her like this. They listened to her, respected her as they should, but she knew if they had found her in such a vulnerable position, they would have shown no mercy. Perhaps that wouldn't have been the case had her sisters been alive, but with them gone she knew she was at risk.
She had survived and recovered, but it wasn't an experience she was eager to repeat. And yet, here she was. On a small ship now in hyperspace, stuck in close quarters with three other beings.
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One-shot fic putting Merrin in a Situation for @chaotic-pulsar ^-^
Chapter two has been posted! Cal has been kidnapped by the Haxion Brood, but things are about to take a dramatic turn with the appearance of a third party.
Chapters: 1/7
Fandom: Star Wars: Jedi: Fallen Order Series (Video Games), Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Cal Kestis & The Mantis Crew, BD-1 & Cal Kestis
Characters: Cal Kestis, BD-1 (Star Wars), Merrin the Nightsister (Star Wars), Will add more as we go - Character
Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Cal Kestis Needs a Hug, Grief/Mourning, Angst, Mantis Crew as Family (Star Wars), a couple of clone wars characters will show up, not saying who yet :), Kidnapping, Bounty Hunters
Summary:
BD whistled on Cal's shoulder, pulling his attention abruptly. At the same time, something twisted in his chest, a sensation that something wasn’t quite right.
“Merrin--can you take the supplies back to the ship? I want to check something out quickly,” he said. Merrin cast a strange look at him, eyes narrowed.
“I do not think we should separate,” she said.
“Yeah, but we need the supplies. You can get back faster than I could. We won’t be long, I just have a feeling…”
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It's meant to be just a routine supply run on an out of the way planet. Unfortunately, routine supply runs never go according to plan. When the Haxion Brood arrives, Cal is thrown into a series of increasingly unpleasant events. At least he might get out of this with a new ally or two; that is, if he makes it home alive.
New Fic! reawakening the writing blog yet again. maybe this time i’ll be consistent!
And there were no rainclouds hovering over my head - Wayward_Wren - Star Wars: Jedi: Fallen Order Series (Video Games) [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
The Stinger Mantis was a small ship. Cal was by no means claustrophobic--an adolescence of crawling into the smallest parts of a scrapper job had cured him of any risk of that long ago--but even he felt the close quarters of the ship when they were in hyperspace. It took approximately forty steps to pace from his workbench in the engine room to the cockpit. Cal knew, he’d counted one sleepless night.
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Or: the traumatized, hyperactive teenager figures out what it means to live with other people.
After the Empire fell, they returned to Tatooine. And they visited the farm.
Han landed the Falcon not far from the sandswept complex, almost reclaimed by the ocean of desert. By silent agreement they let Luke disembark alone.
Leia sat on the ramp of the ship, giving her brother space in his own grief but not wanting to leave him entirely alone. He stood at the boundary of the property, head bowed in silent communion with his loss.
The warmth of the suns was filtered through the shade the Falcon cast as Leia sat, legs tucked up to her chin. For a moment, she felt envious of Luke, that he had a physical place for his loss. Her own loss was an empty hole in space, forever left gaping.
Finally, Luke lifted his head and let out a long breath. He seemed to shake himself out of it and turned back towards Leia. There was still a heaviness to his steps, and Leia wasn't surprised when he held out a hand to her.
"Come on," he said. "I want you to meet someone."
She followed, bemused and curious. He led her from the shelter of the Falcon and into the sunlight, carving a path it was clear he had taken many times before.
It was a graveyard, not far from the homestead. Luke released Leia's hand and his own on the warn wood of a marker. Leia could make out through words carved into it.
Shmi Skywalker.
"This is our grandmother," Luke said, and his voice was full of stories. "She was a freedwoman."
McGucket and co fighting killer robots spin-off of Some Sunny Day is coming together very slowly but I am working on it. Here's a snippet that may or may not make it into the final product because I potentially need to rewrite the whole bit
Mr McGucket shrieked the last and Pacifica yelped as the car abruptly skidded to one side. She found herself pressed against the window, Mr McGucket’s giant gun knocking into her. She was going to need a five hour shower after this.
“I dunno if this thing can do off-road,” Soos cried, even as he slammed the accelerator down and careened into the forest. Dimly Pacifica was aware that there was some kind of path smashed through the trees, but she was too busy trying not to scream or do something equally embarrassing.
“If I die I am suing you all!” she cried.
“You chose to come!” Wendy shouted, letting out a whoop as the car bucked over a root or something and gained some impressive airtime.
(edit in case anyone actually reads this, i messed up and put "i'm fine" in twice for day 25 and alt prompt, so either ignore that or you can use "do it" as an additional alt prompt)
these prompts came together through community submissions and then a voting form where people voted for their favorites, here are the top 53 prompts
i want to try a slightly new format where there are still only 15 days for creation prompts but with additional community prompts/questions. those are entirely voluntary but are here to possibly inspire some community interaction and trying new things
i'm excited to see some awesome creations in january!
go here for info/rules/tagging
go here for faqs
(note: number 31 is not a creation prompt and therefore not required to complete the challenge, it's just colored black so the colors add up)
text version of the prompts and rules is under the cut
(image description note: there are 31 numbered prompts, on each odd number the text color is black and on even numbers the text color is white)
Whumpuary 2025
a whump-themed multi media creation event for january
create for at least one prompt from each odd/black number to complete the challenge
community prompts (even/white) numbers are voluntary
main prompts
1. sacrifice | headache | "this will hurt"
2. how did you find the whump community?
3. choice | storm | black eye
4. what are your favorite whump tropes?
5. "do you trust me" | manhandled | chills
6. share your favorite whump creations (others or yours!)
7. unfair fight | insomnia | "no one is coming"
8. what media genre do you like whump in?
9. trapped under rubble | gunpoint | out of time
10. write your own whump prompt
11. "i didn't ask for this" | blood | abandoned
12. create something in a new/less familiar medium
13. close call | sleep | choking
14. what's your favorite character dynamic?
15. handcuffed | dead | "please, stop"
16. leave a comment on a whump fic/art/creation
17. drugged | "i'm glad you're alive" | revenge
18. favorite whump medium? (movie, book, art, ...)
19. "let them go" | overworked | head injury
20. send a nice message to someone in the community
21. bruises | "who are you?" | immortality
22. take 10 minutes to work on a wip
23. backhand slap | alone | "i can't do this anymore"
24. what do you take inspiration in?
25. "i'm fine" | missing | drowsiness
26. draw/doodle something whumpy
27. stuck in a loop | twisting the knife | rescue
28. find a creator in the #whumpuary tag and send them an ask
29. kidnapped | "don't leave me" | devotion
30. make a whump meme
31. say something nice about your own work
alt prompts
hiding
impaled
"i'm fine"
rain
betrayal
hair pulling
darkness
falling
(added later, not in the image: "do it")
rules & info
-any medium is allowed (art, writing, gifs, edits, ...)
-prompts are open for interpretation (but the context does have to be whumpy)
-create for at least one of three prompts on creation prompt days (black/odd numbers) to complete the challenge
-if you're not aiming for completionist you can do however many prompts you want any way you want
-community prompts (white/even numbers) are voluntary and don't count for completionist (but can be combined with creation prompts if applicable)
-use alt prompts to replace main prompts you don't like
some works posted on tumblr will be reblogged if tagged correctly
-#whumpuary2025
-#whumpuaryno1 (number of the prompt(s))
-#sacrifice #head injury #"i'm fine" (the prompt(s) you're using)
-any trigger/content warning tags
-any additional tags (fandom, oc, other used tropes, ...)
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
Chapter two of my Pines Behind AU, where both Stan twins go through the portal and 30+ years later Shermie, Dipper and Mabel arrive in Gravity Falls hoping for answers
I think I've figured out how most of the Gravity Falls ensemble will fit in and be changed in my Pines Behind AU (both stans go through the portal and 32ish years later shermie and the twins come looking for answers) but Soos is being problematic.
Cos so much of his character is wrapped up in Stan and the Shack; without Stan in Gravity Falls, its hard to figure out a) what Soos' job is and in general what his life looks like and b) how he gets drown into the Pines orbit.
Like Wendy I can figure out, she's a lot closer to the twins age and can be a friend and/or babysitter. Candy and Grenda (and Waddles) don't need much changing. Pacifica I have IDEAS I am excited to explore for. Most of the Gravity Falls adults can drift in and out as they usually do in the show (need to put further thought into mcgucket's role tho). Gideon I have vague thoughts that I think will develop naturally and significantly. Even have a few ideas on what Bill's role will be.
But Soos? He needs to be in this I'm just. A bit stuck. I was like 'he can help Mabel with her [redacted for spoilers] project because he's a handyman' and then realised he's only a handyman cos Stan thrust that upon him. Sitting here like what's a non-creepy way for the 24 year old adult to spend all summer hanging out with two fourteen year olds he has no connection to 😭
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/?
Fandom: Gravity Falls
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Dipper Pines & Mabel Pines & Sherman "Shermie" Pines, Ford Pines & Sherman "Shermie" Pines & Stan Pines
Characters: Sherman "Shermie" Pines, Dipper Pines, Mabel Pines
Additional Tags: Will add more character tags as we go - Freeform, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Hurt/Comfort, Older Sibling Sherman "Shermie" Pines, Ford Pines and Stan Pines Both Go Through the Portal, (but thats maybe a bit of a spoiler shh), Family Bonding, aged up a few years, haunting the narrative by absence, shermie is a good grandpa
Summary:
Sherman Pines once had two brothers. One was thrown out of home at seventeen and one disappeared at twenty-nine. Shermie never learned what happened to either of them. Shermie never got to say goodbye.
That was decades ago, and now he's a retired widower with two wonderful grandchildren. The only problem is; his grandchildren insist they want to learn what really happened to their great-uncle who disappeared. So the summer of 2014, Shermie finally lets Mabel and Dipper convince him to visit Gravity Falls and maybe find out what really happened to his brothers.
Shermie's expecting to find a shallow grave in the forest. Dipper wants to make a YouTube famous documentary. Mabel wants to make as may friends as possible. And somewhere in the forest is the ruins of a house that holds all the answers.
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What I am affectionately calling my Pines Behind AU, this is really just an excuse for me to play with Shermie as a character and explore a Gravity Falls that's mostly the same, but missing some vital component.
OOOOH BABYYYY new fic.
I wanted to share this with the world so am unwisely posting it at 1am oopsies. Will probably not be posting as often as my last fic but we shall see how it goes!
