The Cinnamon Chronicles

Title: The Light In Me.
Fandom: Bomberman (Poisonverse).
Pairing: f!Shiro/Regulus (with flashes of Shiro/Regulus/Zoniha).
Words: 2904.
Summary: No matter the distance, I'm holding your hand.
Rating: PG-13.
Notes: The ragingly awful contrived shippy problematic trashfire known as Poisonverse has been a thing of discussion between khaures and I for about 2 or 3 years now, but the vast majority of what we've written for it don't deserve to be inflicted on anyone's eyes but our own. However, since Khaures has one themeset about the ship up and I found several floating random ideas from reviewing older discussions, I decided to own up to my part in this hellish disaster and put together a corresponding themeset for public consumption that will raise far more questions than it answers.

Details for this 'verse are in a constant state of flux, but the suuuuper basic premise is this:

At some point after destroying the Angel of Light and Shadow, Shiro finds herself on Thantos again by some happenstance. Regulus, keen on testing himself against Shiro yet again, offers her free boarding at his place in exchange for regular sparring. With nowhere else to go and nothing else better to do, Shiro takes him up on his offer. Much to her utter horror and confusion, she finds herself increasingly attracted to Regulus. Even worse: he feels the same.

Just as their roommates-with-benefits relationship starts to settle in a little, Shiro is snatched from her life by a powerful seraph named Sylach and "poisoned" with heavy amounts of seraphic energy coursing through her veins, leaving her a near-catatonic, weakened, and forgetful mess without Regulus' shadow influence countering the effect. In order to protect her, Regulus lays a celestial claim on Shiro, marking her — at least in the eyes of celestials — as his property, not to be touched or messed with, and he and Zoniha spend the next several years taking care of her.

Naturally, all of this leads to a shitton of anger, bitterness, and despair on Shiro's part, to say nothing of the existing issues in her relationship with Regulus caused merely by the fact of their personal differences. The miraculous purging of the poison later down the line only serve to make Shiro even more aware of how fucked up her life is, and leaves her with no excuse for running away from her problems — including ones that began before the BHB Army rose to power.

Poisonverse liberally mixes elements of both ODN (Khaures' treatment of canon events) and Edenverse, not that most people reading this will know or care. And, as with basically all of my themesets, this one jumps around in chronology.

Title and summary come from "Harbor" by Vienna Teng.

( Shiro isn't in love with Regulus. )

Title: School Daze.
Fandom: Bomberman (Ariaverse).
Pairing: Shiro/Regulus.
Words: 5479.
Summary: It’s time to get schooled in life, love, and loving life with a half-crazy bomb-throwing receptionist hero and his emotionally dead shadow elemental boyfriend.
Rating: PG-13.
Notes: Another themeset that turned out accidentally long. I tried to name the themes with things that would or could be associated with school, considering Shiro's new job.

( Lemuel Chayton College Preparatory Academy, located towards the southern end of the heart of downtown Cerbera, goes through employees like toilet paper in a food-poisoned household. )

Title: All Through the Night.
Fandom: Bomberman (Edenverse)
Pairing: Shiro/Regulus.
Words: 3899.
Summary: Silence is golden, but love wins the silver medal.
Rating: PG-13.
Notes: I CAN’T STOP. WHY CAN’T I STOP.

Went with a slightly different format for this one just for shits and giggles; there's one theme for each letter of the alphabet. (I'm sure you can guess at how hard it was to find interesting words for X, Y, and Z.)

Title does not quite come from a famous Cyndi Lauper song, but I like the song so here it is.

Also, spot the Firefly reference and get no prize whatsoever.

( Blessing or bane, the only thing Regulus is truly sure about when it comes to Shiro is that he makes his life more interesting. )

Title: Meet Me Where I Land.
Fandom: Bomberman (Edenverse).
Pairing: Shiro/Regulus.
Words: 2577.
Summary: Love in general is a battlefield, but their love is a world war.
Rating: PG-13 for the usual.
Notes: Something between flash fiction and a 1sentence themeset, with prompts taken from a random word generator. Blame khaures for both the method and the shippy madness.

Title taken from “Evelyn” by Kim Tillman. Relevant? Probably not. I just really like the song.

As usual, beware experimental stuff, super-fanon, contradictory scenarios, and other oddities.

( Regulus looks so different after a trip to the barber that Shiro, upon coming home, actually pauses in the doorway for a moment, wondering who the hell the stranger is that’s sitting at the kitchen table. )

Title: Paperwork.
Fandom: Tales of Graces f. (!)
Pairing: Hubert/Cheria. (!!!!!)
Words: 1509.
Summary: No one needs more evidence for why the king and the captain should never be allowed in the same room together, but here it is anyway.
Rating: W for Where Did This Even Come From?
Notes: So, uh...somehow I have gone from shipping Hubert/Cheria on a purely intellectual level to planning out a long-ass AU PSL for it with weavingmemories, constructing an appropriately shippy playlist, and re-designing Hubert and Cheria’s outfits for the AU. It’s also the closest I’ve ever come to wanting to RP smut with someone. Help. Oh, right: said AU is called Viscariaverse and it involves Asbel dying not long after the end of L&L, thereby setting off a chain of events in which somehow Hubert is not only forced to remain as lord of Lhant in Asbel’s stead, but he also has to marry Cheria for...reasons. we’re still figuring this shit out, shh Needless to say, there’s a lot of angst and awkward that results from all this, but thankfully this fic takes place after the two of them have begun sorting out their many issues and made headway towards being a happily-married couple.

(The name of the AU comes from the viscaria flower, which symbolizes an invitation to dance according to the Victorian language of flowers. The inspiration for the name came from a memethread in which...well, just guess.)

(The actual fic idea can be blamed on an inappropriate Jade Curtiss macro.)

( Some days, Cheria wishes King Richard and Captain Malik were around Lhant Manor more often. Other days...she’s utterly grateful that they aren't. )

Title: Secret Files.
Fandom: That Thing With Wangs Wings.
Pairing: :3c / B|
Words: 1333.
Summary: She just can’t resist.
Rating: F for Fuzzy. Or Fluff. ...Fluzzy?
Notes: Initially intended to be pure fluff, this fic took a bit of a dark turn once certain developments happened in Luceti. Yikes.

( She only intends to brush away a leaf that’s fluttered onto his head as they sit beneath the cherry blossom tree one brisk autumn day. )

Title: The Awakening: Part I.
Fandom: Bomberman (Edenverse).
Pairing: N/A.
Words: 2194.
Summary: Wake up. Your destiny's calling.
Rating: PG-13.
Notes: I name this "Part I" as if I'm actually going to write Part II, pfft. I have vague plans for it but the urge to do this story diminished around the time I hit Baelfael's part, maybe because I got derailed polishing out his backstory when doing the first draft. But I generally like what I have here, so I decided to throw it up. Besides, I miss Edenverse.

( “Awaken, my knight.” )

Title: Experiment Log #3 - Normalcy.
Fandom: That thing with the wings.
Pairing: Babygurl/blue-haired brother.
Words: 2636.
Summary: Let the record show...that Hubert actually acted like a normal person in love for once.
Rating: M for Mood Whiplash. Oh boy, the mood whiplash.
Notes: Also known as the Stepford Hubert Shift!

( In the middle of browsing the bakery’s offerings through its window display, Pao-Lin suddenly finds herself enfolded in an enthusiastic hug from behind. )

Title: Experiment Log #2 - Animal Ears.
Fandom: Luceti.
Pairing: Tiny god/linefaced lieutenant.
Words: 1727.
Summary: Let the record show...that Pao-Lin once grew mouse ears and a tail.
Rating: M for Mouse!
Notes: Luceti recently introduced “barrier incompatibilities” as another option for players to explain character absences if they need to hiatus. Technically, such incompatibilities are limited to what’s listed in that link, but for the sake of this fic I took some liberties, since it would be easier than trying to retrofit this Shift into an experiment.

...no, but seriously, will you look at how fucking precious Mouse-Lin is? Hubert never stood a chance.

( By Luceti standards, Pao-Lin spontaneously sprouting delicate white mouse ears and an equally delicate mouse tail one day was pretty much par for the course when it came to Shift effects (in this case, barrier incompatibilities). )

Title: Facial Hair.
Fandom: Luceti.
Pairing: Pao-Lin/Hubert.
Words: 738.
Summary: The unfortunate implications of Hubert ever growing a beard.
Rating: B for Beard. Or Blue.
Notes: I miss writing for these two, but I can’t currently brain any of my more involved ideas (of which there are many, alas). So have a short and swiftly-written crackfic. It’s better than nothing. :|

(Seriously, though, look at that fucking wordcount. Under a thousand words, man.)

( It’s an innocent enough inquiry that’s likely occurred to every person who’s witnessed the phenomenon in question. )