I'll get my Final Fantasy list and original fiction list done by monday.
MY COMPLETE WIP LIST OF SHAME FOR DRAGON AGE/THEDAS
This is why my Scrivener file has far too many words of story drafts and notes and meta but so little posted.
…orz…
If anything interests you, let me know. This list should be 100% complete.
Organized loosely by amount done, from lots of words drafted to plot bunnies and premise bunnies. When text exists in a public location, I’ve included links.
~ ~ ~ Fic that is has evolved far beyond plot bunnies and I have no excuse because so much text and plot already exist ~ ~ ~
A Selfish Act - Cullen/femAmell/Alistair - short story for kmeme - After defeating the archdemon, Amell leaves Alistair and returns to the tower to reconcile with Cullen. As their fragile relationship begins a new chapter, angry!Alistair and angry!sex ensues as angry!Alistair instructs virginal!Cullen on how to sexually please Warden Amell. The complete 8000 word story exists, but only the first 1570 words were posted. No excuse for not finishing this. I suck. orz. Genre: kink meme drama with sexytimes.
It’s Good to be the King - Cullen/femSurana/Alistair - short story for kmeme - post-game, King Alistair no longer wonders why Surana rebuffed him during game events when she appears at the palace escorted by Templar Cullen. Later, he spies on them while they have sex. Once Alistair is suitably aroused, he suddenly remembers how it is good to be king. Partial draft, 3000 words. Genre: erotica, Templar/mage D/s.
Dales End - Aveline/Wesley - short story - Aveline and Wesley meet, post-battle sex ensues. The all important missing scene not included in their
official backstory. 1000 words drafted, probably 2000 when done. Genre: character sketch, erotica.
What He Wants - Cullen/femHawke - short novel - Shy, needy Cullen lives in his own fantasy as he pursues a relationship with the elusive wealthy apostate Hawke. She kicks him out of her life after an accidental pregnancy and raises the child on her own. Cullen searches for meaning while Aveline tries to patch up their unlikely relationship. Leandra does not approve. Full detailed outline, first 25,000 words written, first 18000 posted here. Genre: gender-deconstruction of romance, family drama, drug abuse, reconciliation.
A Necessary Arrangement - Cullen/femHawke, Cullen/Sebastian, femHawke/Isabela, Fenris’ Fist/Cullen’s Face, AU Kirkwall - illustrated novella - Meredith forces trusted Knight Captain Cullen into an arranged marriage with the unwilling apostate Champion Anna Hawke. Complete deconstruction of marriage and HEA as Cullen takes out his frustrations as a Lowtown cage fighter and Hawke crawls into Isabela’s bed. Twist ending of a deconstructed romance plot. Partially narrated by tranquil assistant Elsa as she records each and every sexual activity Cullen engages in with his lawfully wedded wife. Partial plot outline, 13,500 words written, the link above goes to an early draft of the first chapter which has been expanded. Genre: transgressive fiction, bizarro-fiction, WTFfiction.
This Bird Has Flown - Alistair/femSurana, femSurana/Cullen, Alistair/Morrigan - novel - Alistair fears telling his lover, Neria Surana, about his royal heritage so when she decides to recruit her ex-flame, broken!knight Cullen, after the broken circle quest, Alistair decides this is the easiest way to break off his relationship. Nothing goes as planned when it becomes clear that traumatized Cullen is unfit for service.
Blatant pastiche revoicing/re-enculturating Alistair’s POV. Full plot outline exists with some scene-by-scene level detail, 44,500 words of mess drafted. Link goes to tumblr tag that contains some of the pieces. Genre: coming of age, relationships, trauma, literary/upmarket.
Ten Thousand Swords - Cullen/Neria Surana, Wynne/Greagoir - novella or short novel (personal canon) - Neria Surana’s backstory: a servant’s daughter in Amaranthine, her sister’s arrangement marriage in Denerim, Neria turning herself in to the Chantry to get a better life in the circle, friendships and adventures as a circle apprentice, meeting young templar Cullen, falling in love, things going wrong. Full outline but scenes could be outlined further. 25,000 words drafted. Genre: young adult, coming of age, fantasy, friendship, drama, canon expansion for Ferelden’s circle.
Shameboners & Toasting the End of the World - Cullen/Hawke/Sebastian - short story -> novella - Started as “Shameboners” (6500+ words, mostly done) in which Cullen and Sebastian get shameboners for Hawke and solve the problem kinkmeme-style. Wants to turn into a secondary canon Hawke for me: Act 3 + post game with Hawke/Sebastian/Cullen in a glorious threesome of bliss because Hawke is exactly sort of women who needs two men to satisfy all of her political and personal needs. ;) Almost the entire Shameboners short story is done (6500+ words). Vague ideas and plot bunnies for the rest of it. Genre: Politics, religion, and lovingly glorious porn.
The Art of Pillow Talk - fem!hooker!Hawke/Fenris, femHawke/Cullen, femHawke/Thrask, femHawke/Emeric, femHawke/Wilmod, femHawke/Karras, Bethany/Keran - novella/novel - Hawke keeps her sister Bethany out of the circle by offering sexual services to templars, thanks to Malcolm’s coaching and training. When Geisha!Fenris sees cheap hooker Hawke making sloppy moves on hapless Cullen, Fenris decides to train Hawke as a high class courtesan. Hawke rise in power, taking every powerful templar into bed save one, Knight Commander Meredith. Meanwhile, PTSD-ridden lyrium-addicted Cullen believes that Hawke is actually his very specially girlfriend. Soooooooo many notes plus 10,000 words of draft. Has a beginning and and end, but lacks the crucial middle part. Genre: erotic political slipstream transgressive fantasy.
Varric’s Greatest Lie - Cullen/Bethany - short novel or long novella - Kirkwall in which Hawke is Varric’s fictional creation and Cullen’s cover for doing things that a Knight Captain absolutely cannot do. …except Cullen start to believe that Hawke exists as a separate persona. Blatant pastiche with Fight Club. 13,300 words drafted + outline. Genre: parody, transgressive fiction, pastiche.
~ VL’s “A History of Lies” Kirkwall + Side Stories ~
A History of Lies - Cullen/Mari Hawke, others - novel or collection of interconnected stories (personal canon) - THIS IS MY KIRKWALL - deep canon exploration of kyriarchy in DA2. Novelization from Cullen and Mari Hawke’s POVs plus years of missing scenes between the acts. Themes: Expatriates. Racism. Ethnic tensions. Religious tensions. Hybridized identities and social passing. Myth. History. Historiography. Missing scenes galore. …Written 100% canon-friendly with gap-filler for the years between the acts, with the novelization with the creative inclusion DA2’s “missing” DLC: Recruitable/romanceable Cullen + Exalted March Revisioned. Rolls around in this. 170,000 words of disconnected disaster that makes no sense. Outlines upon outlines. omg O_o idek. Genre: HISTORIOGRAPHIC METAFICTION GALORE. Literary.
Side stories in addition to the above word count include:
This is Kirkwall Sending - Cullen, Aveline, Bran, Fenris, Anders, Elthina, Varric, others - novelization of DA2 as epistolary fiction, co-authored in Mari Hawke’s universe- As the who’s who in Kirkwall jockey for political positions, an uneasy friendship bonds the Knight Captain and Guard Captain as they attempt to keep the city under control. Meanwhile, Fenris is Kirkwall’s equivalent of the weird loner who sits in his dilapidated house listening to the police scanner while drunk blogging. Massive canon meta-as-fiction. Giant co-authored outline, spreadsheet, and tens upon tens of thousands of drafted words. Omfg idea how many words written in past year. Waiting for self and co-author to get our collective shit together. Genre: canon-metafiction, dark humor/parody of government organizations and civic society. Upmarket.
Anthem - Fenris/Anders (in Mari Hawke’s canon-friendly Kirkwall) - novella - After engaging in forgettable casual sex at a men’s club, Fenris and Anders meet again through Mari Hawke. Two of society’s losers bond over what they hate as Kirkwall goes to hell in a hand-basket. Drugs, alcohol, madness, boredom, bad sex, and co-dependent mutual masturbation, plus occasional bitter complaints about (mage) Mari Hawke’s relationship with arsehole Chantry mouthpiece, Knight Captain Cullen, all while stirring up trouble and running from the law. After the Chantry Boom, Sebastian forces Anders to become tranquil, Fenris helps train Sebastian’s army as Anders remains at his side. Fenris contemplates a thousand regrets and seeks a cure for tranquility. Partial outline, disconnected drafted scenes, 6000 words written. Genre: transgressive fiction, down and out in Kirkwall, gay porn, tragic beginning and middle with a feel-good ending.
Blisters - Cullen/Mari Hawke - short story originally for kinkmeme but pulled for deconstructing the kink - unsexy deconstruction of D/s and BSDM. During the political tensions of Act 3, Fem mage Hawke forces Carver and Cullen to sexually dominate her during a templar interrogation. Carver is confused. Cullen is upset. Once Carver is sent away, Cullen become horrified when his cock betrays him, becoming rock hard at the thought of abusing a mage. Outlined, partly drafted - 2100 words so far. Genre: dark-kink deconstruction, dub-con, dark erotica.
Soft, Softer - Cullen/Mari Hawke - short story originally for kinkmeme but pulled for violent deconstruction the kink - during Act 3 when Hawke and Cullen’s relationship is in a rocky phase, Hawke ties up Cullen and comfort sex morphs into brutal pegging so Hawke can prove a point. Cullen collapses in tears, contemplates leaving Hawke for good, but fears returning to the Gallows. Drafted+outline, mostly done, 2670 words so far. Genre: total deconstruction of a kink, violent porn, dub-con/non-con/f->m spousal rape.
The Dominant - Cullen/Mari Hawke, Merrill?Hawke, Aveline/Donnic, Aveline/Fenris/Donnic/Isabela, Merrill/Fenris - novella - Total deconstruction of A/B/O trope, melded with magic and elven/Dalish lore. Omega Merrill fears that a dominant Alpha is after her and seeks Cullen’s help. Hawke is terribly confused. Cargo boat of Dalish cultural construction ensues. Many plot notes but more cultural construction needed. Already have 5000+ words drafted. Genre: horror, slipstream-fantasy.
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~ ~ ~ Plot Bunnies with Notes and/or preliminary words ~ ~ ~
Come Quietly - Fem Circle Mage Hawke/Thrask, Cullen/tranquil!Surana - novella? Novel? - After Cullen arrests mage!Hawke during Act 1 of DA2, Carver and Aveline head down the road to becoming “Champion” while Hawke works on the inside, within the Gallows, preparing a revolution with Thrask. Meanwhile, Cullen watches over the burned out Hero of Ferelden who has asked to be tranquil. Mostly just plot bunnies. Inspired by these 500 words. Genre: Alt-canon political fantasy w/exploration of Gallows, drama.
Precious Things - Bethany/Keran, GarrettHawke/Anders - novella or novel - Circle!Bethany tells her life story to the reader as she leads Kirkwall’s remaining circle mages to safety after the mage-templar war begins. Bethany provides a pro-Circle counter-point to the story of her famous brother’s whirlwind relationship with terrorist/freedom-fighter Anders. Partial plot outline but mostly bouncing bunnies. First 2800 words written and posted. Genre: Coming of age, memoir, the personal-is-political, drama, romance side plot.
Doll Parts - fem!mage!Hawke/Fenris, Fenris-as-Leto-backstory - novella or short novel - Leto wanted to forget something horrible he did in so he competed for Danarius’ attention, knowing that the lyrium ghost procedure would wipe his memories. Years later as an escaped slave, Fenris becomes involved with mage Marian Hawke despite hating everything she stands for and the relationship becomes emotionally abusive as he remembers everything he wanted to forget and leave behind. (Hawke’s friends become concerned they’ll find Hawke’s dead body in an alleyway.) Greatly extended version of “
Close.” Notes and ideas, no plot structure, no draft beyond ‘Close.’ Genre: ultra-dark slipstream transgressive fiction with extreme-kink fantasy elements a la Tevinter-sexuality.
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~ ~ ~ Premise Bunnies - nothing more than a few notes/discussions ~ ~ ~
Untitled - Blood Mage Garrett Hawke/Fenris - Tevinter fanboy, wannabe Magister Garrett and his colonialist bedroom relationship with Fenris. Rivalmance.
Untitled - Andrastian Mage Marian Hawke/Merrill - Culture clash galore. Rivalmance.
Memoirs of Knight Commander Greagoir - Greagoir/Wynne, Wynne/Irving, Greagoir/Irving - epistolary fiction from Ferelden’s Circle tower.
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~ ~ ~ Dragon Age META ! ~ ~ ~
Yes, I’m counting large pieces of meta here because I have so much of it and it wants to get finished, done, and cleanly archived in a place where people can easily find it in the future.
Alistair Meta - 26,000 words written and posted in summer 2012 - I want to sort through this, rewrite the good parts, and archive on AO3 (or somewhere). Character analysis and analysis of how DA:O provides a “create your own ‘chosen one’” story contraction kit.
Cullen Meta -- 78,300 words (idek). About 1/3 has been posted on tumblr but it is hard to find. Want to organize and archive. Obsessive character analysis galore.
Dragon Age Story + Character Analysis - 50,000 words - Collection of essays. Some posted to DW in 2012. Many ideas for partly completed essays including the economics of magic, surrealism and the fade, and tons of words about Dragon Age’s awesome female characters.
Postcards from Kirkwall - 45,000 words and counting (likely to be 100,000+ when done) - Serious critical analysis of Dragon Age 2’s handling of kyriarchical power structures, representations of women, PoCs, etc.
Various character memes for Neria Surana, Mari Hawke, and Cullen - 50,000+ words, need to finish/organize/post/find/whatevz. Mostly just for tumblr, but helpful when writing in my canon-vesre.
Crossposted at
http://vieralynn.dreamwidth.org/247449.html.