Thank you so much @idoltina! Picking five things is so hard, but let’s try it. I was also tagged by the wonderful @nelsynoo, so here we go.

These are all veilguard fics.

and i want to know what would happen if i surrender to the sound
(Band AU, currently incomplete but about 18k so far, with general polyamourous madness but most notably rook x viago and rook x lucanis, rated E)

this is part of the series i’m co-writing with @mxssful, in which viago, lucanis, teia, my rook (vero) and moss’s rook (rosa) are all in a melodic hardcore band together and all (eventually) in love. it’s extremely silly and yet everyone has way too much trauma. it’s such a weird ‘verse and yet it’s one of my favourite things i’ve written.

no saints among us / only those who kneel
(viago x rook [pre-relationship], 2771 words, rated T)

choosing which vero/viago fics to post was HARD but this one is one of my favourites. it’s a bit of a character study, just establishing the extent to which viago and vero are very fucked up and viago’s kind of awful and vero knows this but is fine with it because he’s less bad than what came before.

proof of life (counting heartbeats to keep from counting days)
(viago x rook, 4190 words, rated E)

the other viago/vero fic is this mid-relationship one, which takes place shortly after the events of eight little talons. the basic premise is that vero hears that several talons are dead but doesn’t know which ones and thinks that viago and teia might have died. then viago shows up back in salle with a snakebite wound and, well, smut ensues.

five
(lucanis x spite x rook x viago x teia, 3644 words, rated E)

this was my first foray into the polyamourous madness that characterizes most of my writing. this is with my other (non-vero) rook (whose name is technically jin but nobody ever calls her that), and is basically just an orgy with her and her crows. it’s silly but also weirdly heartfelt and i’m just very fond of it. it was just supposed to be this non-canon ridiculous thing and then everyone went and fell in love and now nearly everything i write is a polycule.

what she deserves
(lucanis x spite x rook, 4228 words, rated E)

this is one of my earliest DA fics, from before i got obsessed with polycules. it’s basically my interpretation of the gondola date/lake scene that we got some illustrations from but doesn’t appear in the game. a note on this one: i wrote my lucanis in this series before finding out that lucanis was supposed to be demi/a virgin. he’s very much not a virgin here; he has a history of using sex workers but has never had a serious relationship before rook, and it’s about him navigating his romantic feelings and how he’s unused to navigating relationships and sex when he has genuine feelings for someone. i think i would still characterize him as demi here, as he uses sex mostly as stress relief and not because he’s necessarily super interested in it for the most part, but yeah, if you’re super attached to virgin lucanis, this one won’t be for you.

to pay this forward, I am tagging the following: @mxssful, @inquisimer, @crabs-with-sticks, @nirikeehan, @megthemariner

xoxo