indecently undignified

rating: m -- e

word count: 2500

fandom: steampocalypse (a post-apocalyptic fantasy steampunk 'verse)

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lithi keeps thinking that people will stop surprising him. that he's seen what they have to offer, and he can keep going with a working theory. but people are worse than particles, even particles now that magic has fucked the whole game. people keep doing something new. like aaren, attaching herself to lithi for absolutely no reason that he can see. she's not the first to follow him into the woods, no.

there was bren, soft hearted and timid, thrown in when lithi accidentally saved him from a cult kidnapping they'd both got caught in. sully, caught out in an airship crash, the only other survivor. xeo, almost more oversexed than lithi and sick with it, withering away at his side. he'd been those people's last chance, the only one around, a coincidence.

reyhe, who tracked him down after he got her pregnant (how many more, how many poor bastards can claim lithi's blood? lithi tries not to think about it; it makes him feel all cold and nauseous inside). years of his life, people who stuck around for one reason or another, and he's caught unprepared for each new one, even though he'd think by now it would be routine.

usually, they last as long as it takes for lithi to scare them away, either on purpose or accidentally. he hurts them one (or many) times too many, and they're gone.
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rating: T

word count: 2700

fandom: homestuck, post-game feferi-is-empress alternia (entirely original character focused)

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==> be the subjugglator troll again

you didn’t actually volunteer to be here for this long to bother labrynth, no matter how hilarious he is. no, your best hatefriend aneris recently got transferred to this ship and promoted and you haven’t gotten to see her in person since you met her, pretty much. she’d still been in training, then, and now she’s already a captain of a warship while you’re, uh. still under review for leading a squad. that’s okay, though. aneris is much more of a leader than you are, anyway; she actually has interests and ambitions other than poking things with sticks. (big. heavy. iron. sticks. the better to beat some heads in if you have to!) really you just ran into labrynth first by chance.

when he finally scrapes you off, you wander off to find aneris. this proves harder than one might think, probably because the rapprochement carries easily thirty thousand trolls, and its admiral insists on a much greater deal of integration than most. so you can’t, for instance, just go find the warmblood living quarters. why do they gotta make a girl’s life so hard?

you give up after an hour of wandering down corridors and making people nervous.

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rating: T for violence/gore

word count: 2000

fandom: homestuck post-game feferi-is-empress alternia (entirely original character focused)

originally posted sometime mid 2017

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your name is aaeren sindra, and you and yours have a job to do and fast to do it. you've been given your pick of ships on the rapprochement (the fuck kind of name is that, anyway. the empire's going so strange outside the ranks of the subjugglators and the history they continue to teach untouched by propaganda from her complacency's gentler reign). it's not what you would prefer, but your ship's disabled for the minute and this is what you have until the rapprochement gets you back with your own. and there's things to do as don't wait for what you'd like.

"that one," you say, pointing lazily at one of the warships in the upper deck with the iron bar held loosely in your fingers. you can't say what drew your eye to that one, in particular, except that there's something familiar about it among the rest of these sterile spacefighting vessels. "tell whoever you need to, i need it crewed and ready to take us down to that planet sharpish," you say, and the big tealblood sort of squeaks in dismay in a way that cheers you right up.

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