sinnatious

This is it for Xmas 2011 giftfics - I've more or less matched last year's wordcount, if not number.  There were some other fairly enticing prompts remaining, sorry if they were one of yours, but with how severely my writing time has been cut lately, I'm anxious to turn my attention back to some of those lagging in-progress efforts instead.

So here's the first one of the last two (LJ is being rather stingy about post size lately, keeps introducing formatting rubbish).  Hope you enjoy them!


For ninasnum

A. Dissidia Duodecim
B. Cloud
C. I would like to see a sequel to your fic "Allure of Honey" to see the reactions of the characters from Dissidia Duodecim to Lady Cloud.

AN: This makes how many fics I've written featuring Cloud cross-dressing now?



( The Honey Before the Bee )

(The second half - read this part first) 

 

( Continued... )

  

Title: Fallacious Deity

Rating: PG, mostly for violence. Contains spoilers for Duodecim. Probably also helps if you've played the 6th and 7th reports.

Summary: If Cloud killed Chaos in the twelfth cycle...

Author’s Note: This part gave me no end of trouble, I want to be rid of it.  It's all very talky, and also very long, but I hope you enjoy anyway.

Part 1
Part 2

( Part 3 )

Title: Fallacious Deity

Rating: PG, mostly for violence.  Contains spoilers for Duodecim.  Probably also helps if you've played the 6th and 7th reports.

Summary: If Cloud killed Chaos in the twelfth cycle...

Author’s Note:  (spoiler warning) This mostly came about due to Cloud's (heart-breaking) fight against Chaos in the Reports - where he gets his ass kicked in the cutscene directly after the fight, WHICH DIDN'T MAKE ANY SENSE because I had Cloud at Level 100 and on first hit I Omnislashed that bastard, and killed him in one strike despite forgetting to equip any accessories or gear. :| As always, I settle my grievances with fic.

Also, as a side note, Cloud gets an unfair distribution of awesome. Because I’m biased, and it suited the story. There are like twenty characters!  I can't not play favourites.( Part 1 )

 

Man, fanfiction. Whenever I get about halfway through a story I always hit this point where I just want to throw it out because I’ve suddenly realised it’s utter rubbish and the glorious plan in my head is not surviving its meeting with reality. Then there’s the mental bargaining – should I just go ahead and post it regardless on the off chance the forgiving fandom will like it anyway, or should I spend heaps of time editing and trying to fix it on the slim possibility it comes good, or should I just abandon it and move on to some other idea that is inherently better?  :/

It’s hard to throw out something like 30,000 words, though. That’s like fifteen one-shots. I could grow to like writing one-shots, simply because they’re not around long enough for me to think too hard about them. Does anyone else have this problem when writing longfic?

Anyhow, enough on the perennial crises of fic-writing confidence. I want to talk about Dissidia! Spoilers within. I AM NOT VERY FAR, BUT SPOILERS NONE-THE-LESS.  (Just started Chapter 7!)

( Fangirling under the cut )