HELLO IM HERE TO TALK ABOUT FICTION

a wild sev emerges from the depths of the ravine HI WHATS UP LETS TALK ABOUT NANOWRIMO, ORIGINAL FICTION, AND MY FUCKING SABBATICAL

( me yelling into space about my life )

Anyway, the IMPORTANT question is about NaNo projects. I've narrowed it down to 3, because I have to start somewhere. (none of them are lesbian werewolves in space, namely because while i have the characters and worldbuilding down, the plot needs some solid work i haven't done.) Let me know what you think of the following concepts -- you don't have to vote or anything, but if something sounds interesting, I'd love to hear it.

1. Young woman working as a non-magical analytical scientist suddenly and drastically discovers she has the specific magical ability of working a season's circle with a coven of four (spring summer autumn winter; she's autumn). The season's circle is when four witches work together to create a passageway between the [land of the fey] and the human's world, allowing an (1) powerful being to step through or back. This particular circle is attempting to summon a cool demon-type dude who is powerful enough to stop an entity called the Oak King, who's basically spreading dark magic through the land etc etc. The circle has been holding on to the magic with only 3 witches but they need the 4th to complete the rite. Unfortunately, Amber has no fucking clue how any of this works and basically gets stabbed with her power; Summer really hates her for some reason; she has to come to terms with Autumn being the season of death; and who the hell is going to finish her analytical work while she spends three months in a season's circle coma? Additional options include: background romance, Gay, lots of fun worldbuilding, urban fantasy type setting where this could be the real world just with some magic bullshit.

2. Sassy idiot lady born with the power to scry into the past uses her magic and tools to make a living exploring things for fussy customers who want answers. Lives in a rough edge of town, doubles at a bar for free food, manages to get by in the grey area between the brightness of the City and the darkness of the Void. One day a scry doesn't work, which has never happened in her career, and she starts finding out other magics are failing: the bar owner's beer went off, her father's healing magic didn't come when called, etc etc. She's eventually sought out by [the equivalent of a detective] to help [a City murder case] but drags him into finding out what's going on in their small town as recompense. Turns out the two are related, but she doesn't have any other magical powers and doesn't know how to fight off this [creature] that's slowly moving in on their City. Bisexual protag and this is definitely Not Our World. Additional options include: Karma Knights (when killing someone is right, they're the ones who do it), Wild Gay Fairy, this world could easily explode if i let it.

3. Young lady was born with a huge reservoir of magical energy but lacks the ability to channel it all. Having been abandoned/orphaned (not sure yet) she's now training with the dwarves to learn how to be a healer, figuring she may as well try it. Her (erstwhile; somewhat removed) cousin has the gift to heal the earth, and asks Enna to come on her pilgrimage across the Civil Lands and into the Nolands to try to heal the damage so that the land can be used [think: remnants of a nuclear apocalypse healed by elemental magic]. Cousin, her existing band of jolly protectors, and Enna set out across the absolute disaster of the journey, haunted by demons and Nightmares, often having to invent new ways to use their skills because nobody has faced this shit yet. One part FFX pilgrimage, one part Enna finding her own purpose, one part environmentalist rants in the form of a tiny girl.

Thoughts?

[edit] markdown y u always do this to me fuck ity

IM ALSO HERE TO SPAM

all the ghosts (11709 words) by seventhe
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Final Fantasy IV
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Rosa Joanna Farrell/Cecil Harvey, Cecil Harvey/Kain Highwind, Edward "Edge" Geraldine/Rydia, Kain Highwind/Rydia, Edward "Edge" Geraldine/Kain Highwind/Rydia
Characters: Rosa Joanna Farrell, Cecil Harvey, Kain Highwind, Edward "Edge" Geraldine, Rydia (Final Fantasy IV), King of Baron, Odin
Additional Tags: Baron Castle is a character, Summons & Summoning Meta, Eidolons, Eidolon Meta, Mist is also a character, Historical, Ghosts, this exploded, Brandy - Freeform, Implied Relationships, friendships, the importance of love, the need to heal, why the fuck is this so long
Series: Part 2 of Momentum, Part 11 of Sev's Commission Run 2019
Summary:

Sometimes Rosa wanders the castle like a ghost. She isn’t used to the feeling: a healer is always within their body, aware of every cell, every beat of their heart, every twitch of their nerves. But Baron Castle takes something from her, makes her feel less-than, and she needs to understand it.

It makes her feel like a shadow. But whose? Cecil’s shadow, a damsel in distress? Kain’s, a love never fulfilled? Perhaps the shadow of her own mother, bright Golden Jo, who’d saved so many lives? She is the shadow of all the Queens that have been. She stands in the shadow of Kings.

“I am not a shadow,” Rosa says aloud.

The walls tell her she is. She will not listen.

This is a commission from flonnebonne that is long overdue, but it also just fucking long, longer than I ever expected. I've been waiting to write something like this for a long time. I hope it suits! thanks for commissioning me! <3