[FFVII] [Cid, Vincent] [Rated T] Terror of the Skies (1/?)

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Title: Terror of the Skies
Fandom/Pairing: Final Fantasy VII; Cid, Vincent
Rating: ESRB Rating of T for Teen < violence, convoluted plot, bloodplay >
Summary: Cid Highwind, infamous sky pirate and ex-Shinra engineer, never expected to find five runaways stowing away on a ship he plundered. Even worse, they have Plans for a certain famous general and his deserter best friend. [AU]
Notes: FLYING VAMPIRATES ARE GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

( The wood of the deck and the ropes in the rigging creaked, even as the deck rocked beneath his feet. )

[Final Fantasy VII, FFX] [Drabbles]

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Title: Playing With Breakables
Fandom/Pairing: Final Fantasy VII; Vincent, Yuffie
Rating: ESRB Rating of E for Everyone < depressing lack of mature content >
Summary: Vincent's twelfth reason for disliking Friday Dinner at Tifa's: afterwards, Yuffie washes dishes with a victim of her choice.
Notes: Depressing.
( I: FFVII: playing with breakables )

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Title: Like A Spider Smells Tomorrow's Rain
Fandom/Pairing: Final Fantasy X; Tidus, Yuna
Rating: ESRB Rating of T for Teen < character death >
Summary: She loves him, and there's time lodged in his throat.
Notes: Depressing.
( II: FFX: like a spider smells tomorrow's rain )

[FFVII, FFVIII, FFX, FFXII] Themes

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FFVII: your dim stars staring up at me

FFVII: the way your innocence tastes

FFVIII: a promise, a vow, a geas made of string

FFVIII: home is an unfamiliar place

FFVIII: a puzzle pieced together in his soul

FFX: I am the waves and the moon and the tide, and all are one

FFX: in the mirror a picture all too clear

FFX: mix you up some magic and dye away the years

FFXII: home they bring her hero

FFXII: so bring your swords and your sorceries

[Final Fantasy VII] [Theme 37/50] [Yuffie Kisaragi, Vincent Valentine] [Rated T] Glitterati

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Title: Glitterati
Theme: 37. Rent boy/call girl
Fandom/Pairing: Final Fantasy VII; Yuffie, Vincent (some added Corneo)
Rating: ESRB Rating of T for Teen < Mafia, minor character death, implied violence >
Summary: A double character sketch: Vincent Valentine, enforcer; Yuffie Kisaragi, gun moll.
Notes: Theme taken figuratively. Also, I love flappers.

Link is linked.

[Kingdom Hearts][Yuffie Kisaragi, Vincent Valentine] [Rated T] Happy Returns

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Title: Happy Returns
Fandom/Pairing: Kingdom Hearts; Yuffie, Vincent (some added Leon)
Rating: ESRB Rating of T for Teen < implied destruction of worlds >
Summary: Burnt Offerings universe. Vincent Valentine turns a very high number. Funny how Yuffie doesn't seem to be around...
Notes: Happy birthday, Vincent!

( He spent much of the day looking for her and finding countless others, but the ninja herself (and her 'flying sidekick,' as Auron succinctly put it) remained elusive. )

[LIONSverse] [Theme 1/100] [Aurelia; Tom, Lupus] [Rated T] Graduation Day

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Title: Graduation Day
Theme: 001. Accomplished
Fandom/Pairing: LIONSverse; Aurelia (some Tom, some Lupus)
Rating: ESRB Rating of T for Teen < implied character death, experimental style >
Summary: When Aurelia gave her Valedictorian Speech, she spoke of herself and her squad, but she was thinking about someone else entirely...
Notes: Highly experimental style. I may try this again someday. Also, I'd really like opinions on it (hence why it's here, and not at escalator2heavn.)

( That room--the sun room--is always yellow, in her mind. )

[Connorverse] [Theme 2/100] [Connor, Anoobie] [Rated T] Agreeing to Disagree

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Title: Agreeing to Disagree
Theme: 002. Aggravated
Fandom/Pairing: Connorverse; Connor, Anoobie
Rating: ESRB Rating of T for Teen < implied violence >
Summary: Connor argues with the biggest dog he's ever walked. That might be unwise.
Notes: Remember this dude? Yeah, I'm not entirely sure what's going on, either.

( The studded leather of the leash digs into the meat of his hand, into his fingers.  )

[Final Fantasy VII][Sephiroth, AVALANCHE, Turks] [Rated T] Four Minutes, Twenty-Five Seconds

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Title: Four Minutes, Twenty-Five Seconds
Fandom/Pairing: Final Fantasy VII; Sephiroth, all of AVALANCHE, the Turks
Rating: ESRB Rating of T for Teen < Sephiroth, hilarity, swearing, implied character death >
Summary: Sometime after their recent arrival in Nibelheim, Sephiroth returns to the Shinra Mansion and discovers that a years-old dancing sensation has reared its ugly head.
Notes: In the Faith & Feather universe. Also, the Chocarena is an actual song: download it here.

( To say that he was surprised to see Cid, Reno, and Barret all on the front step of the Shinra Manor would have been an understatement. )

[Shadows] One Final Mercy - Outline - With Music

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OFM outline with music:

( LENGTH WARNING )

[FFVII] Ideas

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01. Why Ethers Are Expensive and Do Not Go in the Microwave: A Horror Story

Let me explain: it starts with the fact that Tifa does not watch over Denzel all the time. Sometimes Cloud is home long enough she leaves the kids with him. And sometimes Cloud would rather sharpen every blade in First Tsurugi than, yaknow, pay complete attention. If they're quiet, he's cool (shows you EXACTLY how much Cloud knows about kids). Denzel watches the preview for the next episode of Battle Gone Bad, which is what happens when Ethers, Potions, and Elixirs expire for various reasons, and decides that they should heat a pair of Ethers.

Ethers are made of a homemade blueberry syrup, alcohol, light carbonation, mint, and a Philtre of Lifestream. They tend to become mostly alcohol when heated. As alcohol is a depressant, this makes them mostly useless in battle when taken by adults.

Denzel is 11. Marlene is 6. They have one Ether each. This does not end well.

In the end, Marlene is falling-down drunk, and Denzel's not much better off, not to mention there's some sort of weird alcoholic blueberry syrup with glowing bubbles ALL OVER THE KITCHEN. And somehow, this is all Cloud's fault.

Yeah, there are perils to living with the best martial artist in the world.

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02. A fic based on this song. Watch me cringe in shame. FFVII, YV, mindless fluff (most likely post-DoC).

[Poetry] Water In My Shaking Hands

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Round little marbles of water bounce through my fingers.
My open hands struggle to catch them as they glint in the light,
Drop,
Bounce,
Roll,
Scratch along the floor.

When I can touch them, they are wet
And slip through my fingers.
There is no holding on.
My relationship with you is insubstantial.
I am left scrambling after them
On hands and knees,
Sobbing as more fall.

Why do you leave me alone
In this house?
With these thoughts?
With this pulling tide in my head and heart?

I hate what you do to me.
I will never ask you to stop.

6 November 2008

[Final Fantasy VII] [Yuffie] [Rated T] Love Is

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Title: Love Is
Fandom/Pairing: Final Fantasy VII; Yuffie
Rating: ESRB Rating of T for Teen < violence, pretentiousness >
Summary: Eight lessons about what love is.
Notes: Second-person, what the hell. Oh, the pretentiousness.

( When you're thirteen years old, all knobby knees and the beginnings of breasts, falling in love is hard and loud and angry. )

[Kingdom Hearts][Yuffie Kisaragi, Vincent Valentine] [Rated T] Bogeymen

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Title: Bogeymen
Fandom/Pairing: Kingdom Hearts; Yuffie, Vincent
Rating: ESRB Rating of T for Teen < implied violence >
Summary: Vincent, Yuffie. The monsters under her bed and why she never ran away.
Notes: Kouhei was invented for "To Hell And Back." Not sure she's a permanent fixture in the Offerings verse.


( He tells her he's a monster. He knew her too well to be surprised when she laughs at him. )

[Burnt Offerings] Ideas

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1. Burnt Offerings x Jungle Book
   
   • Yuffie versus Shere Khan
     
   • Vincent versus Bagheera
   
   
2. Burnt Offerings x Gargoyles, Version One
   
   • Anton Sevarius, Dr. Hojo, the bar at the end of the universe
   
   
3. Burnt Offerings x Gargoyles, Version Two
   
   • David Xanatos versus Hades
     
   • Vincent versus Xanatos (BATTLE OF THE EYEBROW RAISES!)
   
   

[FFVII] Idea

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Trying to connect these dots:

• underground behemoth fighting
  
• running on walls
  
• exploding an airship with a fire hydrant
  
• Jetski playing chicken with an eighteen-wheeler
  
• Vincent Valentine as the John Wayne drifter
  
• a diner where even the coffee has a film of grease

[Final Fantasy VII] [Theme 10] [Shera, Cid] Genuflected

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Title: Genuflected
Fandom/Pairing: Final Fantasy VII; Cid, Shera
Rating: ESRB Rating of T for Teen < Cid Highwind Language Warning >
Theme: 10: acceptance
Summary: Sometimes she thinks "Goddamnit, Shera!" has become her name.
Notes: Only spoilerific if you haven't played the original game.

( Goddamnit, Shera! )

[Final Fantasy VII] Ladyverse

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Plans for the Ladyverse

01: Eight Portraits of a Lady - Rated T - Eight reflections on love, loss, and where she hid the steel beneath her silk.

02: Going Forward - Rated T - Barret learns to live without. Sequel to "Eight Portraits of a Lady."

03: What Good a Kingdom - Rated T - Yuffie, Marlene, and what it's like losing a mother. Ladyverse.

04: Exile - Rated T - They say they're releasing Cloud from the hospital. Maybe they shouldn't. Ladyverse.

05: Milestones - The problem of two men raising a girl? Sometimes, there are places they just can't follow. Ladyverse.

06: Carbon Under Pressure - Shera wishes Tifa could be there to see it. Ladyverse.

[Final Fantasy VII] [Yuffie, Red] Exchange // [Kingdom Hearts] [Yuffie, Cid, Leon] Contests

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Title: Exchange
Fandom/Pairing: Final Fantasy VII; Yuffie, Red
Rating: ESRB Rating of E for Everyone < none >
Summary: Yuffie likes Cosmo Canyon
Notes: For leviathanmirror's request: Yuffie, Cosmo Canyon

( She wouldn't explain even if someone asked, which is about as likely as someone figuring out where she spends her spare moments. )

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Title: Contests
Fandom/Pairing: Kingdom Hearts; KH FF ensemble
Rating: ESRB Rating of E for Everyone < none >
Summary: Halloween Town is somehow beneath their dignity. ...or so they think.
Notes: For leviathanmirror's request: KH!Yuffie, Halloween Town

( Then again, Yuffie probably got the best end of the deal. )

[Final Fantasy X] [Rikku, Lulu] [Rated E] Weather

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Title: Weather
Fandom/Pairing: Final Fantasy X; Rikku, Lulu
Rating: ESRB Rating of E for Everyone < none >
Summary: It's cold in Macalania. Pity for Rikku she's not even wearing pants.
Notes: For leviathanmirror's request: Rikku, Macalania

( It's not that she's not proud of what she is. )

[Kingdom Hearts] [Cloud Strife] Distance

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Title: Distance
Fandom/Pairing: Kingdom Hearts; Cloud
Rating: ESRB Rating of E for Everyone < none >
Summary: Cloud returns to Hollow Bastion a little earlier than planned. KH1. Drabble.
Notes: For Mish's request: "KH!Cloud, in Hollow Bastion, back when the Beast was prowling it"

( It's colder now. )

[FF7] [Tifa, Cloud] [Rated E] Bleeding Colors

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Title: Bleeding Colors
Fandom/Pairing: Final Fantasy VII; Tifa, Cloud
Rating: ESRB Rating of E for Everyone < some angst >
Summary: She doesn't know what she wants from him. It might help if he didn't wake her up at four in the morning.
Notes: Cross-posted from ff7_fanfiction @ DW

LINK

[Rurouni Kenshin] [ensemble] [Rated T] Genre Meme

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Title: Ten Styles of Story
Fandom/Pairing: Rurouni Kenshin; Aoshi/Misao, Kaoru/Kenshin, Enishi/Tomoe, Sano/Megumi
Rating: ESRB Rating of T for Teen < some violence, some disturbing imagery >
Summary: Ten miniature stories for Rurouni Kenshin.
Notes: No, I don't know either.

( Ten genres meme )

[Final Fantasy VII] [ensemble] [Rated T] Genre Meme

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Title: Scattered Shots
Fandom/Pairing: Final Fantasy VII; everyone from the original game.
Rating: ESRB Rating of T for Teen < some violence, some disturbing imagery, some character death >
Summary: Ten miniature stories for Final Fantasy VII
Notes: Thar be femslash in there somewhere.

( Can't sleep. )

[Final Fantasy VII] [Yuffie/Shalua] [Rated AO] Let Go (or, Six Step Seduction Plan)

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Title: Let Go (or, Six Step Seduction Plan)
Fandom/Pairing: Final Fantasy VII; Yuffie/Shalua
Rating: ESRB Rating of AO for Adults Only < graphic sex >
Summary: "Hate to say this, I know I don't have any right to, but whatever the hell that is, you need to let it go."
Notes: Actually one of my favorite bits of porn I've ever written. (I just love me some Yuffie/Shalua. I admit it.)

( Yuffie is not a person given to planning unless she has to. )

[Final Fantasy VII] [Elena/Tifa] [Rated AO] Unhinged

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Title: Unhinged
Fandom/Pairing: Final Fantasy VII; Elena/Tifa
Rating: ESRB Rating of AO for Adults Only < graphic sex, gun kink >
Summary: "Now, Tifa," she says, the grin leaking into her voice. "I thought you didn't want anybody destroying your bar?"
Notes: Not my favorite pairing, but all right.

( Elena admits it: she's not what she would call proud of her job and what it was in the past, but she's not quite ashamed, either. )

[Final Fantasy VII] [Vincent] [Rated T] Dust Shall Eat The Days

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Title: Dust Shall Eat The Days
Fandom/Pairing: Final Fantasy VII post-DoC; Vincent
Rating: ESRB Rating of T for Teen < depressing >
Summary: Mortality, from the perspective of an immortal.
Notes: Double drabble. Pretentious as usual.

( Nothing really helps, but the routine makes things easier. )

[Rurouni Kenshin] [Edo Castle Oniwabanshuu] [Rated E] Technology

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Title: Technology
Fandom/Pairing: Rurouni Kenshin; Edo Castle Oniwabanshuu
Rating: ESRB Rating of E for Everyone < no objectionable content >
Summary: Hannya Does Not Like Trains.
Notes: For leviathanmirror. Not spoilerific, but made more painful if you recognize where in the RK timeline this has to take place...

( Being old fashioned is not necessarily a failing. That doesn't make it a strength. )

[Final Fantasy VII] [Tifa/Aeris] [Rated M] Space

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Title: Space
Fandom/Pairing: Final Fantasy VII; Tifa/Aeris
Rating: ESRB Rating of M for Mature < scenes of a sexual nature >
Summary: When you're two of the three women in a group of men, it's paradoxically easy to find or make a space just for yourselves.
Notes: Feminist Final Fantasy Fic? ...maybe someday.
Cross-Posted: Whored around DW.

( When you're two of the three women in a group of men, it's paradoxically easy to find or make a space just for yourselves. )

[Final Fantasy VII] [Yuffie/Tifa] Wedge / [Final Fantasy VII] [Yuffie/Tifa] Close Your Eyes

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Title: Wedge
Fandom/Pairing: Final Fantasy VII post-DoC; Yuffie/Tifa
Rating: ESRB Rating of T for Teen < depressing >
Summary: An exile's sense of "home" is split.
Notes: Couldn't decide on a direction, so I did two responses.

( Situation A: Cloud's home. )

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Title: Close Your Eyes And Think Of Midgar
Fandom/Pairing: Final Fantasy VII post-DoC; Yuffie/Tifa
Rating: ESRB Rating of T for Teen < depressing, violent content >
Summary: An exile's sense of "home" is split.
Notes: Couldn't decide on a direction, so I did two responses.

( Situation B: Torture. )

[Final Fantasy VII] [Cloud, Yuffie/Tifa] [Rated E] Gearing Up For War

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Title: Gearing Up For War
Fandom/Pairing: Final Fantasy VII post-AC; Cloud, implied Yuffie/Tifa
Rating: ESRB Rating of E for Everyone < no objectionable content >
Summary: There are clothes in Tifa's closet that don't belong to her.
Notes: Events in this drabble may have repercussions...

( Is this jealousy? Is this concern? )

[Final Fantasy VII] [Shera] [Rated E] A Wonder

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Title: A Wonder
Fandom/Pairing: Final Fantasy VII pre-AC; Shera, Cid
Rating: ESRB Rating of E for Everyone < no objectionable content >
Summary: The responsibilities of teaching--at a flight school, no less--weigh more than she expected.
Notes: n/a

( The responsibilities of teaching--at a flight school, no less--weigh more than she expected.  )

[Kingdom Hearts] [Auron/Yuffie] Ninja Versus Samurai

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Title: Ninja versus Samurai
Fandom/Pairing: Kingdom Hearts; Auron/Yuffie
Rating: ESRB Rating of AO for Adults Only < pretty damn graphic sex IMO >
Summary: Auron and Yuffie have a bet...
Notes: For porn_battle, set in the Burnt Offerings universe. No, I am not proud of this one.

( For once, they're not arguing. And for once, they're not being appropriate. )

[FFVII] [Yuffie, Shalua ] [Rated T] Some Torture Chamber Of the Heart

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Title: Some Torture Chamber Of The Heart
Fandom/Pairing: Final Fantasy VII; Yuffie, others
Rating: ESRB Rating of T for Teen < character death, angst, hatred >
Summary: Even months later, it's hard to forgive--and impossible to forget. A meditation on Yuffie's friendship with Shalua and its repercussions.
Notes: This one was like god knows how long in the making. You have no idea.

( Yuffie doesn't hate Shelke because of Vincent. )