B R O K E N P R I S M

Title: Of Heaven And Ocean
Fandom: FFIV/FFVIII
Characters/Pairing: Kain, Rydia, Edge
Rating: PG-13

Prompt: Rydia/Edge/Kain, as SeeDs. The three of them would make a devastating team with their complementary skills. Something that could be really cool would be them being sent to the continent with Odin's tower, and encountering him; how would they react with holes in their memories? What are their favourite GFs? Go wild! - lassarina

Notes: I felt bad taking a prompt from someone I knew for NewGamePlus. Apparently I made up for that by writing 15,000 words.

Teaser/summary/thumbnail:
Kain, Rydia, and Edge are the newest SeeDs to graduate from Baron Garden, and are sent on a mission to obtain a rogue Guardian Force in Centra. But wild Odin does not come easily, and the storm that follows as he and the other Guardians clash stirs up old memories, new truths, and a fate that could drown them all.

Of Heaven And Ocean on AO3

Same As It Never Was

Fandom: FFVIII
Cast: Rinoa, Squall, Quistis, Laguna, Ellone (starring with Kiros, Watts, Zone, Ward, and Angelo)
Ships: Rinoa/Squall, Kiros/Laguna, Laguna/Squall, Quistis/Rinoa, Quistis/Squall, Quistis/Rinoa/Squall.
Rating: R (individual chapters PG-13 to R)
Warnings: Well, PLEASE reference the list of pairings for all relevant warnings!

Other Relevant Tags: oh shit it's a long final fantasy fic get in the car!, the fandom hell bus has arrived honk, no I am not going that way, sqwhale, incest, no seriously this fic is freaking long we are not kidding, meta, magic meta, suddenly bechdel, we ship everyone/kiros

Notes: Co-Written with justira, this is the fic that blossomed from our innocent desire to write some incest into one of the most epic and awesome projects I have ever worked on; it will likely be around 200K and 2011 by the time we're done with it.

Thanks: to renay, katmillia, and safety_caesars for beta, critique, comments, and cheering. ♥


Summary: Rinoa's gone public as a Sorceress and is campaigning for Timber's independence, Laguna's steering Esthar's re-emergence, Galbadia won't give up, Squall's dealing with the political fallout as Garden Commander -- and in case no one has enough on their plates, something's wrong with the Sorceress-Knight Bond. When terrorists attack Timber in the middle of Squall and Rinoa's argument over where the new Garden should go -- Timber or Esthar? -- they decide to take a break, hoping that if they can sort out the politics in their separate spheres, they can come back and sort through the quietly desperate mess of their private lives and repair their Bond.

Sorceresses still make the world nervous and Galbadia won't let Timber go; Esthar needs to come out of hiding and Garden needs to decide its place in the world. Four lives are unraveling -- but maybe, between them, they can find the answers...

Same As It Never Was
on AO3 || on ff.net

Reading Guide

This guide, like the story itself, contains massive spoilers for FFVIII.





( The Incest-Free Guide to Same As It Never Was )

Read the Squall-flavoured summaries if you really really really want to avoid any hint of squick, don't mind being spoiled for plot-relevancy, and don't mind missing out on the character development.

Read the Laguna summaries if you want to avoid being spoiled for the story's plot, want to see the character development, and generally want to get as close as possible to reading the story without the Laguna/Squall.

So, let's go folks!

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Chapter 1
Free and clear!

Chapter 2
Free and clear!

Chapter 3
Free and clear!

Chapter 4
Free and clear!

Chapter 5
Free and clear!

Chapter 6
Action: Commence being wary. Most of the chapter is all right, just bonding stuff. The very last scene is NOT all right. If you're curious, feel free to read up until the late scene with Ellone on the train. If you are not sure, skip, and read one of the following summaries to stay caught up!

( Squall's Summary, Chapter 6 )

( Laguna's Summary, Chapter 6 )

Masks

Fandom: FFIV
Characters/Pairing: Rydia, Asura
Rating: PG

Notes: 200-word drabble. Catching up on the claim (finally!).

Claim: Rydia
Theme: #40, 'Hollow'

( Masks )

for mount_ordeals

Guys, the stuff FFEX produces is pretty amazing, I will not lie. This is just from the most recent round; I have an entire second post I plan to share, not even touching FFEX 2007. I could be reading for years. You're all awesome.

ff_press: 4 Art Recs (FFIV, FFVI, FFVII, FFVIII) and 7 Fic Recs (FFVI, FFVII, FFVIII, FFX2, FFXII).

( Recs from FFEX 2009! )

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I'm offering fanfiction at help_haiti.

I'm committing to three pieces of fanfiction - 1000-word benchmark, so I'm not committing to epics here, guys - delivered by mid-February.

Also, I'll be matching the winning bid dollar for dollar and donating it to the charity of the winner's choice, hopefully also through help_haiti.

Bids start at $5 and there are three of them still open. I know my fic isn't worth a ton, but it's for an awesome cause, and I'll be matching whatever you bid (up to $50).

Momentum

Fandom: FFIV
Characters/Pairings: Edge, Rydia, Kain (in the combinations: Edge/Rydia, Edge/Kain, Kain/Rydia, Edge/Kain/Rydia, oh yes)
Rating: R
Rated for: sex (not explicit), battle

For: justira, ABC Meme
Prompt: Kain/Edge (bonus Rydia is TOTALLY AN OPTION), "keep" -- as in a fortress, or keeping something/someone, or "keep going" or YOU PICK
So much thanks to lassarina for beta-ing this 50-page monstrosity.

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Two Notes on this fic.

( About Ira )

( About this story )

This fic is too long to be posted at LiveJournal, so you can read it in either of these places:

Dreamwidth: Momentum

AO3: Momentum

You can comment/review at either location (Dreamwidth will take OpenID), or you can return to comment here! ♥

Small Steps

Fandom: FFX
Characters: Yuna, Rikku
Rating: G
Spoilers: end of FFX

For: The Alphabet Meme, owlmoose, for K: "kittens, Rikku & Yuna"

Summary: A small gift helps Yuna - and Besaid - keep moving forward.

( Small Steps )

Keeping It Secret

Fandom: FFVIII
Characters/Pairings: Quistis/Irvine
Rating: PG ffffffff I am really bad at following through on my makeouts this week, sorry XD

For: The Alphabet Meme, astrangerenters, for S: "Keeping it Secret", Quistis/Irvine

Summary: "Mister Kinneas," she said slowly, enunciating the title. "I believe you have an assignment to complete."

( Keeping It Secret )

Am I Not

Fandom: FFIV (OGC)
Characters/Pairings: Cecil/Rosa
Rating: PG

For: The Alphabet Meme, drakonlily, for R: "Rosa is sick of your shit"

Summary: Rosa is more than his queen.

( Am I Not )

A Cowboy's Ballad of Love, Loss, and Lies
or
Seifer Almasy and the Achy-Breaky Badonkadonk
Chapter One: The Job Requirements Do Not Include Fashion Sense (1/3)

Fandom: FFVIII
Characters: Seifer, Irvine, Zell, Fujin, Raijin
Rating: PG-13
Flags/Warnings: AU.

Summary: AU. Seifer is hired as a bodyguard for the rapidly-rising young country star Irvine Kinneas by his overprotective manager, Zell Dincht. The job's fraught with the dangers of screaming fans, unfortunate wardrobe choices, and actual conversations, but all Seifer really has to do is sit back and make sure no one (but him) punches Kinneas in the face.

For: bottle_of_shine. Nay has been waiting for this for something going on two years, which is really quite embarrassing.
Thanks: to lassarina, for idea bouncing and much-needed beta.

Public Disclaimer: I’m quite nervous about this, as it has seriously been built up for years and I fear nothing can ever equal the awesomeness that was and is the original idea.
Further Disclaimer: I'm expecting frothing discussion over which title to choose when I post the rest of this (and also for ff.net).

( Notes )

( Chapter One )- - -

Stay tuned for Chapter Two, in which Seifer sends a series of terrible and profane postcards, Zell abuses muffins, Irvine actually wears a normal outfit, and chemistry rears its very unexpected head...