going home

rating: g
word count: 1050
fandom: girl genius (oc-centric)
summary: vaska, set perhaps a week or a month after becoming jӓgerkin

originally posted 10/15/15

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vaska doesn’t actually remember deciding that she wanted to be a jӓgermonster.

she remembers watching them when they were in town, sweeping through in a rush and rowdy grouping, all sharp points and wide grins, fur and scales and weird, mismatched uniforms. she remembers one of them noticing her as she struggled to climb the wall that was just slightly too tall for her chubby arms, even as big for her age as she’s always been. he’d waggled his claws at her, nudged his taller compatriot until he looked, and both of them flashed her incandescent smiles like half moons made out of teeth. then vaska’s mother had found her and chivvied her along to get washed up for dinner.

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bad idea or best idea

rating: t
word count: 2400
fandom: girl genius (still pretty oc-centric)

summary: don’t go drinking with bored jӓgers. just don’t. inspired greatly by this page in the comic.
(i’m sorry about the accents in this one, i wrote most of it off-the-cuff at various late-night times and also was attempting to layer drunkenness on top of the already confounding jӓger accent and it was just a disaster please forgive me)

originally posted 10/23/15

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it’s not like it’s uncommon for off-duty jӓgers to start... diverting themselves early in the day. but ognian’s squad is part of the platoon left on castle-minding duty while just about everyone else is having fun ransacking somewhere in ukraine with the master. which is just unfair, really: the castle can protect the town! it doesn’t need thirty-odd jӓgermonsters to help it do that!

oh, sure, some of the neighboring lords have been getting uppity, and it wouldn’t do to leave the town visibly unmanned, but that’s beside the point.

the point is…

the point is that oggie’s squad has been drinking since yesterday afternoon, all right.

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second time lucky

rating: e/nc-17

word count: 5700

fandom: oc-centric girl genius

summary: the first time thomas meets vaska, it’s in the hidden bar under mamma gkika’s. the second time she meets her. is also in the hidden bar.
(this is porn. this is just porn. let’s be real here.)

originally posted 11/1/15

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it hadn’t taken thomas long to figure out that the hidden bar under mamma gkika’s served as some sort of infirmary, mostly. the cast of jӓgermonsters is ever-shifting, and sometimes there are more than other times. thomas would be lying to herself if she didn’t say that she was kind of keeping an eye out for one in particular, but mostly she just keeps going because it. feels different, down there, like a place out of time. the girls upstairs all know thomas, now. mamma sends her a sharp, too-knowing smile sometimes when she catches sight of thomas. thomas doesn’t know what that smile knows.

the boys don’t come with her much anymore. kastor said that it feels like he’s not supposed to be there. thomas can’t understand that. there’s something down there that feels like the key to what she’s been missing all her life.

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