Tag: shortform collection
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Bright’s Winter Wonderland 2016 (SWTOR)
It’s the Christmas special not made to drive you insane. A simple premise: Life Day and winter-themed ficlets for every SWTOR companion. Friendship for all! Lana “’Twas the night before Life Day, and all through the base, not a creature was stirring, except for our ace.” Wynston stepped in from the hallway. “The galaxy will…
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XP Gained: Bard (Neverwinter Nights 2) 2019
Neverwinter Nights 2 starts slow and snowballs into a classic D&D 3.5 adventure with some truly glorious setpieces. Here began my bard, the original, pre-Veilguard Lynesse. I published a scattering of stories, and I’ll reprint one here. XP Gained on AO3 Lynesse felt her throat constricting when Bishop came into view. She was perched on…
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Overcoming Adviercity (SWTOR) 2017
Vierce Savins, freedom fighter, naturalized citizen to the Galactic Republic, and hater of all things Imperial. This is the canonical Republic Trooper in my Star Wars: The Old Republic. And then he met Elara Dorne. Now, I met Dorne immediately after finishing the Sith Warrior line, and I hated Imps. I hated Imps so much.…
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Lynesse (Dragon Age: the Veilguard) 2025
Lynesse’s premise is very simple: smooch Emmrich. She is a Shadow Dragon, a freedom fighter, a trained bard, anything that appealed to me as I raced along. A former sex worker and a person used to disappearing. She is what she has to be. I feature Manfred halfway frequently in her stories because I think…
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The Adventures of Forced Companions Daycare (SWTOR) 2012
Before the days when you could kill or reject companions… Companions. Why do these hopelessly clashing people come back, day after day, to the same daycare? And how did some of them even get here? We don’t know, but maybe if we watch carefully we can begin to understand… FCD was a fever dream of…
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Friendship Letters (SWTOR) 2016
Star Wars: The Old Republic had dozens of wonderfully written relationships between player characters and their companions. When a time skip placed our OCs in cold storage for five years, the game provided letters from romanced companions, speaking in wrenching terms of separation and loss. And I thought, why only romances? The result is a…
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Encounters (Disco Elysium) 2025
Disco Elysium: The Final Cut is a dialogue- based RPG with a unique skill system and stellar voice narration. You play an amnesiac cop, then things get worse. It’s in my top three RPGs for quality of storytelling, and probably top 2 for mechanics. I started writing this fanfic to continue the story of my…