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Title: Salve
Fandom: Final Fantasy 4
Characters: Edward/Cecil
Rating: PGish
Length: ~4.6k words
Summary: After a resounding defeat in Fabul, Cecil learns a little about what to fend off -- and what to let past his guard.
Notes: This is actually a rewrite of a story I wrote like...probably 15 years ago at this point, if not more. Horrifying thought. I was curious to see what would happen, and the result was that it's five times as long and has a lot more blood in it, which...#WritingJourney, I guess. It's still extraordinarily sappy, to a degree that is probably embarassing, but hopefully I've proven my edgelord credentials enough that I am allowed this indulgence. Wound bandaging, a bit of extra blood on top of that (look, Darkness does HP damage, what do you want from me), angst with a mostly hopeful ending, bed sharing, indulgent amounts of headcanons about game mechanics.

A knock on the door was the last thing Cecil wanted to hear at the moment )
ghoulmouse: ([Inscryption] Opinions)
Title: Amphisbaena
Fandom: Final Fantasy 4
Characters: Baigan. Appearances by Golbez, Scarmiglione, Cagnazzo, Kain
Rating: Mature
Length: ~6.6k words
Summary: Being a monster outside as well as inside has its ups and downs.
Notes: Hoo boy. Of all the fics nobody asked for, I think this is the least asked-for of all time. The story actually spun off a different fic that didn't work out (probably for the best given that it was kind of vile even for me) because I couldn't deal with Baigan's stupid snake arms. They suck so bad. In the game he's all like "Golbez has given me a great gift" and I am here to tell you: no he did not. Anyway, this has lots of extremely graphic gore and violence, body horror, non-explicitly-described rape; I hesitate to give this the guro tag given I don't think the gore in this is particularly eroticized, its mostly just gross.

The quote at the beginning is from Lucan's Pharsalia, a Latin epic poem about the conflict between Pompey and Caesar that knocked me on my ass when I read it in school and quickly became my favorite because it has some truly gnarly stuff in it. There's a lengthy sequence near the end consisting of Roman soldiers dying in graphic, horrifying detail to a variety of different deadly snakes, which in all honestly was probably the primary inspiration for this fic.

At least a blatant seditious act would have given Baigan an excuse to break the Lord Commander's nose. )
ghoulmouse: ([FF14] Sharp Tongue Loyal Heart)
Fandom: Final Fantasy 14
Characters: Emmanellain/Honoroit/Sicard
Rating: PG-13
Length: ~1.8k words
Notes: More Kiss Battle stuff. This was in response to an anonymous prompt, and it took me a little bit to write, so I hope Mystery Shipper sees it someday. Let it be known that I am never one to pass up my OTP (or OT3 in this case, Sicard can come too). Warning for ambiguously teenage Honoroit as usual, and I apologize for Emmanellain barely being in this (the prompt kinda necessitates it tho). Also, I tried not to make Sicard sound like a renn faire pirate but GOD is it difficult.

Prompt: The inevitable 'if you hurt him I'll hurt you' talk )
ghoulmouse: ([FF4] Song of Courage)
Fandom: Final Fantasy 4
Characters: Edward/Anna (though, like...just look at the notes I guess)
Rating: PG-13
Length: ~1.2k words
Notes: I really don't know how to rate this -- it's terribly graphic or anything, it's just kind of a huge downer. I mean it's primarily Edward carrying Anna's body around. Death, grief, brief thoughts of suicide, aftermath of violence.

Prompt: last kiss )
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Fandom: Final Fantasy 4
Characters: Edward/Edge
Rating: Everyone
Length: ~600 words
Notes: More Kiss Battle stuff, just silly and cute. This has the distinction of being the first thing in a while that I have 1) composed entirely inside a website text box and 2) lost the first version of due to this. Sigh. Also, I watched my friend play the Namingway Edition ROM hack of FF4 right before writing this, and there's a bit that stood out to me in that translation where they have Edward say "Assuredly so" instead of just like..."Yes", I suppose. In retrospect it's very funny to see how much that single line seems to have influenced how I write Edward's dialog.

Prompt: full of surprises )
ghoulmouse: ([Nier:A] Mutually Assured)
Fandom: Final Fantasy 1
Characters: f!Black Mage/f!Red Mage
Rating: Teen
Length: ~500 words
Notes: Reposting some Kiss Battle 2024 stuff! First, vaguely femdom wizards. (goals amirite)

Prompt: only you understand my power )
ghoulmouse: ([FF14] Sharp Tongue Loyal Heart)
Title: Let Sleeping Dragons Lie
Fandom: Final Fantasy XIV
Characters: Emmanellain/Honoroit
Rating: Explicit
Length: ~6k
Summary: Being transformed into a dragon comes with a few challenges that Emmanellain is ill equipped to deal with on his own -- but luckily, someone's looking out for him.
Notes: I dunno what to say about this, except that I saw a friend's prompt about Emmanellain turning into a dragon and temporarily lost my mind. Literally just monsterfucker porn that doesn't fit with either the lore OR the timeline of the game, but you know. Some light "in heat" themes, also its sort of implied that Honoroit is a teenager in this but it isn't really a focus.

As always, when it was all said and done, Honoroit found himself having to do all the work himself. )
ghoulmouse: ([TTRPGs] Exalted)
Drabble around a quote from tonight's Exalted game that I liked. Lan Thousand-Thoughts is mine, as you can probably tell by the relative amount of words dedicated to him lol. He is a sloth-totem Lunar scholar, result of my dedication to making shifter characters based on extremely uncool animals.


"I will say," Iron Hyrax went on, "that it is good to speak with someone who cares about questions, rather than merely getting things done."

Lan Thousand-Thoughts leaned on his staff. With his face still shaded by his straw hat, he was as inscrutable as ever, though there was a pleased note to his voice, faint but distinct like a drop of strong wine in a cup of water. "There is little I enjoy more than a question," he said.

"And for my part," Coptopteryx said, grinning ear to ear, "there is little I enjoy less than getting things done."



Re-pinned my fanfic masterpost, as I realized you could just make the fandoms into little drop down thingies, which solved the problem of it being annoyingly long. Might still get annoyingly long if I add too many fandoms to it but for now it seems all right.
ghoulmouse: ([FF4] Fight or Flight)
Title: Stand and Deliver
Fandom: Final Fantasy XIV
Characters: Emmanellain/Honoroit
Rating: Explicit
Length: ~5.1k
Summary: Master and servant put on a little pantomime in the woods.
Notes: One of the approximately a zillion smut fics I had sitting around, many of which are actually this specific pairing, lol. Everything I wrote started to gravitate towards the 5k mark and beyond, I think, which started to make everything feel like a huge undertaking to finish and clean up, which lead to just this giant pileup that I'm still sorting through.

This doesn't take place at any specific point -- I think I actually started this one before Endwalker, that's how long I've been sitting on some of this stuff -- but Honoroit is significantly older in this one, though still not full grown elezen tall. Also, they ARE roleplaying a ravishment fantasy (apparently a favorite topic because I keep writing it), so it's a little rough and there's some pretend lack of consent, but it's all pretty silly IMO and obviously just a game.

A naive young nobleman found himself accosted on the road by a cruel and cunning highwayman )
ghoulmouse: ([FF14] Rin)
I was working on this Unukalhai (FFXIV) fic a while back, but I ran out of steam for a variety of reasons. One was that the glimpses of the Thirteenth prior to becoming the Void that we've gotten in the game are like, JUST different enough from what I had in the story that I don't think it works anymore but not different enough to spark a new direction. The other was...I just could not for the life of me nail down Elidibus. Unukalhai obviously has mixed feelings about him and I could not figure out the right...balance? Something?

This was the only scene I actually liked upon poking at it again but I genuinely have no idea if it makes sense out of context as its own vignette. Elidibus retrieves Unukalhai from some kind of voidsent torture dungeon shortly after the Flood of Darkness; Unukalhai is unconscious for a while and Elidibus leaves him in that structure on the moon to recover; when he wakes up he's obviously fucking terrified. I think there was supposed to be a scene where he tries to flee and ends up getting caught by Emet-Selch and handed back to Elidibus that I never wrote, because obviously I wanted to get to the part where Unukalhai tries to graphically murder Elidibus.

The Part Where Unukalhai Tries to Graphically Murder Elidibus (warning: graphic) )
ghoulmouse: ([Nier:A] Mutually Assured)
Title: FAILED TO CONNECT / WITH / MY LOVER
Fandom: NieR:Automata
Characters: 2B/9S
Rating: Explicit
Length: ~2.5k words
Summary: Upgrade Request FROM: No. 2 Type B REGARDING: [redacted]. Status: APPROVED.
Notes: !!! GARGANTUAN spoilers for the latter half of Nier Automata in this one !!! For Nonconathon 2023, which has finally revealed and I'm out of Convention Hell so I can crosspost it, lol. Basically I have never stopped thinking about the fact that YoRHa androids have a unique emotion called "battle fever" that they experience when committing acts of violence, which was based on human love and sexuality. 2B exorcises her many feelings via erotic violence on 9S's deactivated corpse. Noncon, robogore/guro, something sort of existentially between necrophilia and somnophilia, extremely blurred lines between sex and brutality. The title is from the weapon story on 2B's heavy blade Virtuous Treaty, which I've always thought was probably about the two of them.

All androids had that lust for violence in them, but it really was different when you met the right person. )
ghoulmouse: ([Pokemon] Fairy Type)
Title: And a Bottle of Rum
Fandom: Final Fantasy XIV
Characters: Alisaie/Lyse
Rating: Explicit
Length: ~2.k words
Summary: Alisaie makes an all right pirate when she's properly inspired.
Notes: Written for an exchange. Alisaie and Lyse fool around in an inn after a misadventure, roleplaying a bodice-ripper ravishment fantasy with Alisaie as a pirate and Lyse as a hapless maiden. I think I went overboard on the silly pirate talk, but maybe Alisaie would too. Also features bondage, knife hilts used as sex toys, and girls being dumb.

Thinking quickly? Not your strong suit. )
ghoulmouse: ([Bloodborne] Hunter's Nightmare)
Title: Blood/Lust
Fandom: Bloodborne
Characters: Annalise/female Hunter
Rating: Explicit
Length: ~2.3k words
Summary: The Queen of the Vilebloods is unimpressed with the first hunter to cross her threshold in a century or more.
Notes: Noncon, guro with TONS of blood, snuff (though death is inherently ephemeral for hunters). I really liked the visual of going into Frenzy, with spikes of your own blood stabbing out of your flesh, and since Lady Maria has blood manipulation powers and is questionably connected to the Vilebloods I thought maybe Annalise would have something like that too. Also, I love the threaded cane.

The martyr Logarius had put up a long, grueling fight. By the end of it, the hunter was limping and battered... )
ghoulmouse: ([Kemetic] Venerable Ibis)
Title: Independent Study
Fandom: Johannes Cabal series
Characters: Horst, Johannes
Rating: Everyone
Length: 666 words (yes lol)
Summary: Helping Johannes with his university thesis involves slightly more than just picking up a few books at the library and making a sympathetic pot of tea.
Notes: Yuletide treat, I think. "Asenat" is an Egyptian name from the Bible but I'm certain the intended reference was actually "The Thing on the Doorstep" by H.P. Lovecraft.

'This is for my thesis,' Johannes replied tersely. 'Hand me the crowbar.'  )
ghoulmouse: ([FF5] Greg)
Title: Sea Song
Fandom: Final Fantasy V
Characters: Faris/Siren
Rating: Explicit
Length: ~2.9 words
Summary: Faris takes the siren prisoner to lead them out of the ship graveyard, but it hardly goes as planned.
Notes: Written for Femslash After Dark 2019. Dubcon with some mind manipulation and violence for spice, and it leans a little into the whole undead thing Siren has going on, mechanically speaking.

It made a comely enough semblance of a maiden, when it wanted to. )
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Title: Diving Under
Fandom: Final Fantasy 4
Characters: Rydia/Leviathan
Rating: Explicit
Length: ~2k words
Summary: Rydia has no use for human things, especially human desires.
Notes: Written for a round of Porn Battle (RIP) and it got kinda weird, although I don't know where else a sex scene betwen a human and a giant sea serpent would go. Sort of soft-vore-adjacent, with fearplay and Rydia as a definite monsterfucker, because she would be.

A great many monsters, she knew, harbored a desire to sport with mortals. )
ghoulmouse: ([FF5] Greg)
Title: Full Fathom Five
Fandom: Final Fantasy I
Characters: Kraken/Black Mage
Rating: PG-13
Length: ~800 words
Summary: A wizard makes a fell bargain with the sea.
Notes: For some round of Final Fantasy Kiss Battle. Lovecraftian-inspired corruption with tentacles that is probably unfair to black mages everywhere.

But at the end of the day, it wasn't as though he hadn't warned them. )
ghoulmouse: ([FF14] Doubt)
Title: Star-Crossed, Star-Misled
Fandom: Final Fantasy XIV
Characters: Jannequinard/Carvallain
Rating: PG-13
Length: ~5.1k words.
Summary: Carvallain commits one last sin as a Durendaire.
Notes: Written for Relationshipping 2021. A slight AU where Jannequinard's trip to Kugane goes a little less smoothly. Sibling incest where one party (it's Jannequinard, of course, lol) isn't fully aware of the blood relation. Carvallain and Jannequinard have kind of a nebulous relationship in canon -- there's some stuff that seems to suggest he's Carvallain's younger brother, but Jannequinard is also said to be Charlemend's nephew (making him and Carvallain cousins). I wanted them to be brothers here, though, so brothers they are (even if that doesn't seem to be the current intended interpretation). Background implied parental abuse, and implied past Rufin/Jannequinard.

Carvallain had once imagined himself a mathematician. )
ghoulmouse: ([Octopath Traveler] Cyrus Albright)
Title: You Never Forget Your First
Fandom: Johannes Cabal series
Characters: Horst/Johannes
Rating: Mature
Length: ~1.5k words
Summary: A moment between two monsters in a crypt.
Notes: Missing scene from the first book. I always thought "You wish!" was a weird-ass thing to say to your older brother when he asks if you think letting him drink your blood is too homoerotic. So, supernatural-instinct-driven (largely) unrequited incest feelings. No sex, though, just vampire biting.

So, when Horst knew that biting his brother was the worst mistake of his life, he was speaking from a position of expertise. )
ghoulmouse: ([FF5] Greg)
Title: A Crystal Dimly Lit
Fandom: Final Fantasy 1
Characters: Red Mage, Fighter, White Mage, Monk, special guest appearance by Gigas Worm
Rating: Teen
Length: ~6.6k words
Summary: Four heroes, each bearing a crystal, come to Coneria, and it goes about as well as you'd expect.
Notes: I think this was an exchange fic, and the requester wanted a male white mage, so I just went ahead and made the rest of the party female. There are a zillion of these kinds of fics but I'm still kinda fond of the red mage's backstory here. And yeah I was scared of the Gigas Worm as a kid, IDK.

Today the sun was hotter than usual -- it seemed to grow hotter every day, and there was precious little shade on the plains. )