A Chaotic Neutral

A very bad authoress I am, but I must claim that it is purely not my fault. A series of Real Life Intrusions made my amount of free time dwindle into the negative numbers. But I have returned now, and I am back on track with everything. Here's a short update!

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At last, I dare step into the massive collection of stories that is my Final Fantasy VII arc "Shattered" initially focusing on the Vincent/Cid pairing and later, branching into several others.

The first in the series, "Shattered Ice" was the first full-length Final Fantasy fiction I ever wrote. I started this arc back in September 2005 and it's reaching it's end in September 2009. Fitting, I think. If I can finish in time, I plan to post the last chapter on the last day of September, to commemorate it's beginning.

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... draws ever near.

Here I be, on chapter 18 of Shattered Children, with only chapter 19 left to go, and a possible interlude should someone provide me some ideas for it. If not, I'll just forego the interlude in lieu of a simple epilogue. Really, it's up to the readers. What few I have left. *laughs*

I'm rather pleased with the way Shattered Children's final chapters are shaping. I thought I would get stumped on the relationship between Tseng and Sephiroth, but it's actually flowing very well. I suspect even the smutty scene will come easily. Two more chapters...

Looking back, it seems like so long when I started this arc. And now the end is in sight. It almost makes me a little sad. And nostalgic. I reread most of Shattered Dreams the other day -- just for kicks -- and was amazed by how much my writing style has improved, even more so than in Shattered Ice Redux. Though I'm awfully proud of Shattered Boundaries. I think I'll turn Reeve and Reno's relationship into an original story one of these days. It's so great.

Ah, and Archer Kyle is totally going to become an original character. Perhaps the main character in another slashy fiction of mine. The guy who's always unlucky in love, through his fault and not, he's just full of bad luck. Maybe a touch of comedy? Hmm...something to ponder. In any case, Archer will get a chance to shine. And so will Reis. Undoubtedly, she will show up in the story as well. Perhaps as his temporary het foil? 

In any case, Shattered Children draws to a close. I'll keep ya posted!

I updated again! Huzzah! Again, only fanfiction as I haven't written anything original in a while. Not to mention my site is in the midst of undergoing reconstruction. Trying times. Sorry!

Fanfiction: 

1) The Beautiful Lie Chapter Eight: Decision
2) Seireitei Monogatari Drabble 132 Thanks for the Memories


Fanfiction News!

I've made it a personal goal to finish Shattered Children, so I'm focusing exclusively on that. So far, I've managed to finish chapter 14 and I'm about halfway done with chapter 15. There's only 16, the interlude, 17, 18 and the epilogue to go. At this pace, I might finish before September. Hopefully. I do need to re-read through the story to make sure I'm not contradicting that (though I went a tad too far back and started rereading Shattered Dreams, lol)

Afterwards, I plan on devoting time to finishing The Sweetest Downfall and Chronicles of Valentine. I'm hoping to knock some of this unfinished business out of the way to leave me more time to work on other stuff.

My goal? To only be considered actively working on six fics at max (including original fiction). Right now I'm working on fourteen and that's just too much. I don't have enough time to get anything since I'm spreading it over too many. So, to finish a bunch of half-started and get to the good stuff.

More to come later.

24760K words and counting! Here I was worried that it wouldn't be long enough, but I'm almost at my goal of 30K with several chapters more to go. Some scenes took longer to write than I would have thought.

Annnnnd, I've gotten a faint idea for a prequel to this. Something with het romance, of course, since it'll be between the Seeker and the King. Two people, a chance encounter, and the both of them carrying secrets. She doesn't say who she is, he doesn't say who he is. A night of passion leads to several more nights of uncommitted passion, with one or the other constantly creeping out of the bed before the morning comes. Don't worry there isn't your traditional "She got pregnant, oh noes, what does she do?" or anything like that. It's just a simple matter of emotions slowly developing, with the poor king trying to figure out how to woo a woman who isn't like any other. She doesn't respond to flowers or pretty gifts or candied words of endearment. She responds to blood and battle and the heat of the moment. What convinces the Seeker to lay down her mantle and take up life at his side? We'll have to see. *devious smirk* Does it at least sound interesting? 

I've got a couple of other heterosexual romances in the plotting stages, very, very different from Harlequin, I assure you. In fact, I'm hard pressed to call some of them women because they act too much like men. But then, people tell me all the time that I think and act like a man sometimes, so it's not necessairily a bad thing. Makes things interesting.

I've also got a couple new slashy stories I'm working on as well. I need something to replace the Requiem of Janus. But I also need to knock out some unfinished stuff first. We'll see how things go.

Fanfiction writing is progressing at a steady clip. I'm on chapter five of The Sweetest Downfall so I"m working on completing that. It's shaping up to be quite different than what I originally suspected, with hints of there being actual developing feelings between Renji and Gin before circumstance separates them and Renji focuses on Kira. Just goes to show how the heart can be so labyrinthine. I'm rather fond of it.

I haven't forgotten about my FF7 stuff. As soon as I finish The Seeker, I plan to focus my efforts on finishing Shattered Children, and then work on something else, only to come back and focus on Chronicles of Valentine.

I've been focusing on finishing the unfinished stuff lingering on my harddrive. I have some requests that I still haven't managed -- a lingering Sukisho! request from about two years ago is only the start of it. I owe a Byakuya/Ulquiorra for a story trade. And my banner-maker is owed another Sephiroth/Tseng. Ah, so much to write, so little time.

I'm on time this time! Surprise of surprises. *yawns* It's quick though!

Fanfiction: 

1) Bleach - Seireitei Monogatari - 124 - The Thrill of the Chase - Kenpachi/Ichigo
2) Bleach - The Beautiful Lie - Ch 04 - Judgment
3) FFVII - Shattered Children - Ch 13 - The Fall From Grace

Original Fiction

1) The Requiem of Janus - Chapter Twenty-Four - Delusions of Grandeur


As of today, I will no longer be posting fics on mediaminer.org. My reviewage and readership is mostly nonexistent, and it's one less place to update, so I will no longer be using that site. I am still on ff.net, aff.net, and my personal site however. I hope to someday condense it down further. Thanks!