Of Age (Final Fantasy XII, Ashe/Drace)

[puella_nerdii]

Title: Of Age
Author: puella_nerdii
Fandom: Final Fantasy XII
Pairing: Ashe/Drace
Rating: NC-17
Wordcount: 4,246
Warnings: Age difference (Ashe is sixteen, Drace is in her late thirties)
Prompt: Crossroads - what they want is not the same, but the means to each end may run in parallel.
Summary: Ashe is a child no longer.
Notes: Pretty spoiler-free. Sorry this

Comments

[wolfie]

Okay, so I have yet to peronally "meet" the character Drace in the game, seeing as how I've only just gotten out of the Leviathan. But I clicked since it did say spoiler-free.

And I must say, that was one mighty-hot sex scene. ^_^;;

I did find it a little strange that Ashe seemed almost ridiculously willing there (would this have not been probably her first partner?), but I suppose we can just chalk it up to hormones, or my not knowing enough of the illustrious Lady Ashe's character so that I shouldn't be commenting on it...

Either way, uhmmm yeah. Still was quite a well-written piece. ^^ The dialogue seemed very on cue compared to what I've played so far, which frankly, is not a small feat.

Thank you.

[puella_nerdii]

I chalk it up to a mix of rebelliousness and hormones myself and Ashe being desperate to prove that she's mature enough, dammit -- the latter part of which I need to emphasize more, I think. (In my headcanon, she's had a few experiences with people before, but nothing enough to violate the Sacred Virginity Clause the nobility holds so dear.)

I'm glad you still found the dialogue and the smut well-written, though. And you're very welcome. :D

[puella_nerdii]

Thank you! I have Mad Crazy Love for the politics in FFXII, so I try to work them in whenever I can. And I'm glad you liked the smut!

[mithrigil]

oh beautiful for spacious skies and amber waves of SAND

That was beautifully told. Ashe's indignance is fabulous, and all the ceremony and cattiness of Archades. And the innuendo throughout. Mmm.

(One thing, though--the plural of Judge Magister is Judges Magister.)

[puella_nerdii]

Whoops. *goes back to fix*

Thank you! Ashe is so fun when she's indignant, bless her. And I keep on falling more and more in love with all the craziness of Archades every time I write about it.

[laylah]

oh, gorgeous. just. omg. yes. <3
This is so rich and vivid -- I love the physical detail about Archades (and the soldiers being so coarse about it, and Vossler growling at them) and the way you treat the kind of awful, trapped position of an unwed, un-betrothed princess in a place like this, and mmm, the hotness. I might be pathetically weak to this pairing.

...also I'm really glad that I just scrapped and re-started my Ashe/Drace SK prompt, because my first instinct was to write something along these lines, and it wouldn't have been nearly as good as this.

[puella_nerdii]

Meep, I'm sure it would have been really good! But I still can't wait to see what you do with the prompt. It looks hot.

Growly!Vossler is lots of fun. And yeah, poor Ashe is not in the best of positions here, to put it mildly. Archadians are bitchy enough as it is, and when you throw in Ashe's current position on top of it -- yeah. (I COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND being weak to this pairing. It's Ashe. And Drace. They're both so badass and fabulous. mmmm.)

[puella_nerdii]

Thank you! ^^

Part of the reason Drace kept her armor on was because I couldn't find my book that explained how to get it all off while I was writing this. I'm glad that ended up working well, though. Also, I am firmly of the opinion that armor is about seven thousand different kinds of sexy. :D

Ashe giving it a go...ohcrap, that's hot. Mmm.