Ridiculously Horribly Long Plotbunny / Fic-In-Progress List

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I cannot stop using this icon. ♥ for Katy.

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Things are getting unreasonably unreasonable here, and I've had more ideas in the past week than I think I can deal with (damn you both, Rina and Cendri), and thus I want to set out a list of things I am writing, mostly for myself. I put artblogging here, so I figure that ficblogging is JUST AS RELEVANT.

AKA: hilldo should not bother with this post. I swear, pookie, one day I'll post something you're actually interested in reading.

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THE MASTER LIST OF STUFF.


IN PROGRESS

• FFVIII, How Not to Date Blondes. The one with Zell and Quistis patiently waiting to get it on, and Seifer waiting for a real goddamn meal. It's nearing the end, I can say with confidence, but there are still about what, 6? 7? chapters to go, which with Enkida and I probably means that this fic will go on for another year entirely.
  Status: Ch14 posted; Chapter 15 started.
  [ff.net link]


• FFIV, Hunter. The one with Kain and the zombies, so far. We're only on Chapter 2. This fic's outline is like 10,000 words or something. Still going!
  Status: Ch2 almost ready to post; Ch3 to be started soon.
  [ff.net link]


• FFVIII, The Last Order. The one where Squall screws up a lot and Garden may or may not blow up. (FREE BEER.) irish_ais and I are kind of stalled on this one, but I'm not giving up yet, because I like telling stories without the fairy-tale ending.
  Status: Stalled on Ch7
  [ff.net link]

MEMES I AM STILL WORKING ON

• "Five Things" Meme. Yes, I'm serious. I am still working on this. I believe I still have rosencrantz, fanaticalone, xahra99, whoisus, bottle_of_shine, and irish_ais and shanaqui again.
  I really need to put limits on these memes, because this is ridiculous. XD I mean -- you guys may not get yours, honestly. I am trying!, because it's a meme and it's what you're supposed to do. But, yeah.


• AU MEME. I have not done this one yet, but I have wanted to do it from the second I saw bottle_of_shine do it. What an awesome idea. But I said to myself, Self, you can't do this one until you finish the "Five Things" Meme. And once you finish it, put a limit on the amount you'll sign up to write from any meme in the future, for crying out loud.

CLAIMS

• FFIV, Rydia for mount_ordeals - I really will not have a problem finishing this claim. At all. I just have to get back into the habit of writing.


• FFVIII, Quistis/Rinoa for fated_children. This claim I still want, but I think I am going to back off on one of the 'challenges' I picked up with the claim - make all pieces link into a longer story. I think the claim would be easier going if I wrote one-shots instead, and saved Blueblack for myself.


• FFX/X2, Rikku for pyre_flies. Again, just need to start writing. No problems with this claim at all.


• FFVIII, Ellone and Edea for over_look. Same.

FFIV: Ongoing ideas

• Rydia-fic ideas. I have a lot of ideas for Rydia-based fic I want to try. I still want to write the one-shot that spawned Hunter, although at this point it will be redundant because Hunter is like 200,000 words on the same basic idea. However, trying to condense it into a one-shot as I'd originally planned will be interesting.


• And since "Edge-bashing" is becoming an FFIV cliche, this only means I must break it. (Sorry, Katy, but I have to write Edge-fic sometimes! XD) This spawned from a discussion with lassarina about Kain, honor, Rydia, and freedom. The basic premise is that Rydia feels "trapped" with Cecil, Rosa, and Kain, and all of their politics and rules and deals of honor; Kain is trying to honor her as his significant other, but he always chooses the realm over her. Whereas Edge is the sort of non-traditional, "fuck you, custom and authority!" ruler who wouldn't expect Rydia to always dress nice and mind her language and not insult people, which in the end might be what Rydia needs. It will be an interesting exploration into characterization, really.


• FFIV HS AU. ENOUGH SAID. This will eventually be a claim between me and katmillia, for notagain_again. There will be fic AND art. It will be amazing. Also, Rosa/Edge!


• FFIV Evil Rosa AU. I am still planning on getting lassarina to play in this 'verse with me.

FFVIII
Okay, this one will have a TON.

• Shore Boys is the tentative name I've given to the fic-verse revolving around Seifer, Zell, and Edea. bottle_of_shine can be thanked for helping me around this, and also can be blamed if it ends up Seifer/Zell like it might. The story is mostly about relationships between mothers and sons, in the context of the FF8-verse and everything that entails. But it's also about healing, and family! And probably snark.


• Gunpowder is the fic-verse that is bottle_of_shine's fault. Irvine and Seifer are off on a mission; each one thinks they're protecting the other. Only Squall knows the truth. And basically Irvine and Seifer have a lot of hot boysex.


• Blueblack is kind of like a crackverse, except that it's my plot-based vehicle to write Quistis/Rinoa girlporn and eventually work my way up to the Squall/Rinoa/Quistis/Seifer OT4 of my dreams. Lots of Sorceress-Knight meta comes into play here, actually. Initially this was to be for my Quistis/Rinoa claim, but the story has become too bogged down.


• Avalon. THE CRACKVERSE. Ellone's story. Eventually, I will write this.

OK, and sadly, this isn't even finished, but I had a horrible day at work and I'm going to post it now before I lose it, and then update more tonight or tomorrow.

Comments

[deadshrimpblues.livejournal.com]

Lady, I am deeply entwined in the middle of a story where Cloud dredges Aeris's corpse and has a tea party. You want to talk about cracked pairings, I have an AIM log from last night where the phrase "I wonder if she still smells like fish" got bandied about more than once on the subject.

Eels in the vagina are terrible and hilarious things.

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

H-HOW IN THE WORLD DID I MISS THIS.

I think I love you a little bit too much for this. The mental images this has provided me with should not leave me this horribly, horribly pleased.

[katmillia.livejournal.com]

General comment that applies to all: COCK

Right. Now onto specifics!

Rydia-fic: Y PLZ.
Edge-bashing: I don't bash him, I just really, really dislike him and it comes out in writing. But hey, to my credit, I totally wrote an Edge/Rydia/Kain sort of thing and I didn't bash hard at all so I think I get points for that. (adds to tally of -98532785702537 points. CRAP!!!) He's just... my ex in pixel form with perhaps one redeeming quality. I'm not kidding!! I just can't do it!! Okay, okay, I swear I'll try, right? Try to not hate him? Yes? YES??
FFIV HS AU: UM YES WE NEED RINA TO SEND US THE PARTS WE WROTE ON THE LAPTOP!!!!!!!!!11!!!

Shore Boys: Y PLZ.
Ellone fic: Y TO BE WRITING THIS NOW PLZ.

*looks at list*

DAMN YOU HAVE TO WRITE A LOT OF FIC FOR ME. Uh. I mean DAMN YOU HAVE A LOT OF FIC IDEAS. *halo over head*

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

WELL HEY it's obvious that Edge is a cock, but he also has good qualities too, and he's got a more fiery temper which I think Rydia might be drawn to, at least partially. BASICALLY I wouldn't want to surprise you with a fic saying "Rydia/Kain, Rydia/Edge" and then RUIN IT because it's BACKWARDS. ;)

But I will still make you read it and comment. BECAUSE I AM EEEEEVIL

And yeah, I have way too much fic on my hands. And I didn't even get to FFX or beyond.

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

p.s. you will be like my only fan of the ellone fic BUT THAT'S OKAY BECAUSE IT WILL BE AWESOME.

p.p.s. You just reminded me of another FF8-verse I have called "Nostalgia" which probably ends up with Squall/Ellone overtones DAMN YOU I HAVE TO ADD ANOTHER ONE TO THE LIST ;)

[katmillia.livejournal.com]

UM.

BUT SQUALL/ELLONE IS HOT.

WE SHOULD PROBABLY WRITE MORE ELLONE.

SO THAT MORE PEOPLE LOVE HER!!!

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

I think I'll pick Ellone for cockeyed_art next time! She needs more art too! <3

[rosencrantz.livejournal.com]

aww don't worry bout my meme claim I don't even remember what I asked for at this point.

besides you know me, I rather see new chapters of Hunter and HNTDB than memes. Plus we's doing that pyrefly claim together for 20_inkspots right?

I swear I haven't forgotten about HNtDB either, btw. Just been super busy planning my US trip and parent wrangling. :)

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

Haha, I have been so busy with classes and work, it's incredible that I managed to write that much on Hunter. We've just hit that busy time of the year. Did you know, though, that HNtDB is almost a year old? WE SHOULD CELEBRATE. AND BY CELEBRATE I MEAN ASK FOR FANART.

And yes, we are still doing that claim, but I didn't even make it to FFX/X2 and beyond x________X My reactor basically exploded today and I was so cranky from about 4:00 onwards that I'm pretty sure I pissed off everyone I spoke to. (Even hilldo, which makes me a right COCK.)

[salarta.livejournal.com]

Oo, Evil Rosa AU. Sounds like it could be interesting!

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

I am trying to remember the original premise to that one! I believe we said, What if when Rosa was in the Tower of Zot, Kain (and Golbez's magic) convinced her to join their side? And what would happen to the rest of the game? Cecil shows up to exchange the crystal for Rosa's life, but Rosa has taken up with Cecil and joined the enemy?

She'd make a fairly formidable enemy, not ONLY for the emotional mindfuck that Cecil would have to go through after becoming a Paladin and then having to fight his two best friends, but also because there are no real healers on the other side, and so her White Magic could basically make Kain pretty unstoppable. PLUS, then the party would have NO healer at all. And since I like Rydia, there would be an extra helping of Guilt Trip on Rydia's part for abandoning her White Magic in the Land of Summons.

I just really like the mental picture of Rosa in sexy evil armor, also. >.>

[salarta.livejournal.com]

XD on Rosa in sexy evil armor!

I always pictured Rosa during the game as the type that wouldn't be easily seduced to the dark side by magic and words. It felt more like something where she'd need a different past, or some type of drug/plant, to make her become evil.

I DID think of an AU once for her that I never did, that's similar! In that idea I had, Golbez was going to assign Valvalis to more or less torment Rosa with the intent of "breaking her," since the time it takes Cecil to rescue Rosa is a VERY long time. The reason it would have been AU is that the end of the story was going to have a surprise twist where Rosa and Valvalis switched roles. In other words, Rosa would have been turned into Valvalis, and Valvalis "became" Rosa with the intent of her acting as a spy in the party for Golbez.

I didn't follow up on it because of lack of motivation, logical flaws (why have Valvalis act as a spy when she can just kill them all in the middle of the night?), a slight personal feeling that it would be disrespectful to Rosa as a character (I have too-high idealism for her, so I don't think she'd crack easily), and I just plain felt awkward about the whole idea of writing about her being tormented like that.


Oh, and the points you make in the second paragraph are very true. :) I think that a story like that would really highlight how important she really is to the party in the original game; a lot of people overlook her worth because they hold more value in if a character can do a ton of damage.

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

I always pictured Rosa during the game as the type that wouldn't be easily seduced to the dark side by magic and words

- yes, definitely, and this was one of the major hang-ups, but also one of the major and most interesting plot points of the idea IF we could make it work. But there were a couple things to work with. Rosa could've had lingering feelings for Kain (even just friendship), and if Kain 'saved' her in the Tower of Zot, the dark magic could've turned those feelings into the beginning of being something more, making Rosa more sympathetic to Kain. She could've been feeling a small bit of resentment against Cecil&co for making her stay back at Fabul rather than fight - again, unlikely for some views of Rosa, but if there was a small bit of it in her heart, Golbez could've jumped on it. (I mean, later in the game she refuses to let Cecil hold her back and make her stay behind, so there is even canon evidence that COULD support this if done right.) Perhaps she even still held some loyalty to Baron because of her father and mother, and Kain convinced her that the "right thing to do for Baron" was to join up with Golbez and the "King" and get the crystals.

And the other interesting thing is that, of course, Rosa doesn't know that Cecil has turned on the Dark Sword and become a Paladin, so perhaps Kain could further convince her that Cecil is falling to the Dark Sword and becoming an evil enemy. So initially Rosa wouldn't really be "evil", she'd just be acting for what she believed was "right"...

The AU would, of course, take as the assumption that these things eventually trump Rosa's love for Cecil. Do I really think it would happen? No, but in an AU-verse where it did, I think I could have a lot of fun. XD

And I definitely, definitely think the party would struggle without Rosa. Especially later in the game! OMG, I would DIE!!

[salarta.livejournal.com]

Which I guess is part of why they call it AU. XP I just view her as the type that's too strong for those kind of tactics to work. It makes sense for an AU, like katmillia's Broken Sky series, though! Golbez could possibly even taunt her by twisting the situation to sound as if Cecil doesn't love her anymore if he hasn't come to rescue her yet. I'm sure you'd be able to find a way for it to sound right in an AU setup! :)

One idle thought that crossed my mind for an AU type story: "Cecil's the real threat, I'm just doing what I must to save the world."


And I definitely, definitely think the party would struggle without Rosa. Especially later in the game! OMG, I would DIE!!

In more ways than one!

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I like that - if Kain and Golbez told her that her love for Cecil was blinding her to the "truth" or something like that, in some sort of way that convinced her to ally herself with Baron. OR, really, she could then try to seduce CECIL over to Golbez's side. There are lots of ways to play with it!

[salarta.livejournal.com]

Found Life! I have a screencap of that from a different place and angle in the game with Dark Knight Cecil.

As I said, if you go through with it, I'm sure you'll write it in a way that makes sense. :)

[salarta.livejournal.com]

I realize you're too busy for writing stories now, but if you ever pick up the Evil!Rosa story, I thought of a way you could do it with the supernatural that would make sense.

We know about Cecil and how he uses a dark power to fuel his Dark Knight skills, right? What if that same force saw how good Rosa was and knew it needed to corrupt her if it wanted to keep its hold in the world? With something that powerful, it would make sense for it to be stronger than Rosa's own purity and goodness and take her over. It may not be as dramatic as something like Golbez meticulously brainwashing her, but it's an idea!

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

I -- no, actually, I like that a lot! Especially if it started with Golbez, but then this particular dark force (who could possibly be represented by Zemus, or maybe could have taken over Zemus) saw exactly what Rosa represented and realized what a threat she could be?

Because, omg. Evil white mage would seriously be dangerous!

[salarta.livejournal.com]

Plus, she's helping Cecil keep his humanity and heart long enough for him to attempt fighting that same darkness. Can't have that. ;)

I just really think the "evil Rosa" story concept is a cool one. Maybe I'm building it up in my mind too much, but it's like showing what she is by showing what she's not, but could have been. This goes along with what you've already said, showing really just how dangerous she could be with what and who she knows. This is actually making me think of that ridiculous Zeromus EG thing from the GBA game, but the basic idea for that was a good one.

I don't remember who drew it, but a while ago, I found a sketch someone made of an evil Rosa trying to seduce Kain. There's wasn't anything smutty about it, they were both in their regular clothes, it was just the look on her face, the positions of their bodies and how close they were.

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

That's actually another good point. Stopping Rosa's good influence would certainly stop Cecil's path away from being a Dark Knight. They'd be like the Dark Duo, and it would be awesome.

I do not think I am going to forget about this fic. XD I have so much stuff going on, but this is such a cool idea, really.

[salarta.livejournal.com]

I'm looking forward to it. :)