2016 post-Yuletide reveals post

[merryghoul]

Fandoms: Luther (TV), Mr. Robot (2), Burn Notice (3), American Horror Story: Freak Show, American Vampire, James Asher Vampire Series, Vampire Babylon.

There are spoilers in this post for all these fandoms, so tread carefully if you're not caught up.



I was matched to lurrel. Since we matched on two fandoms and I felt inspired enough, I wrote lurrel two fics. I posted these at around the same time, but I'll talk about the first fic I posted to AO3 for lurrel first:

(do you know) where do we go from here (3108 words) by merryghoul
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Luther (TV)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: John Luther/Alice Morgan, John Luther/Justin Ripley
Characters: John Luther, Justin Ripley, Alice Morgan, William Marwood, George Stark, Erin Gray, Mary Day
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Season/Series 03, Assault, Minor Character Death, Gun Violence
Summary: Marwood's gun doesn't go off, Justin survives, and Alice arrives.

lurrel wanted something Justin-centric, and I wanted to write a Series 3 fix-it where Justin didn't die and Alice, Justin, and Luther left London together and alive. I ended up doing a rewrite of the last two episodes of Series 3, with some changes here and there to not have the fic be a carbon copy of said episodes.


And here is the second:

data_r3c0very.exe (2258 words) by merryghoul
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Mr. Robot (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Elliot Alderson/Tyrell Wellick
Characters: Elliot Alderson, Tyrell Wellick
Additional Tags: POV First Person, Gaslighting, Hand Jobs, Blow Jobs, Yuleporn, Yuletide Treat, Season/Series 02 Spoilers
Summary:
elliot wakes up after being shot. angela and tyrell are there, mr. robot isn't. wtf? wt2? elliot recovers deleted files.

fic about what might've happened after the season two finale.

The second season ended with Tyrell shooting Elliot in his stomach because Elliot, with his dissociative disorder, was very close to dismantling his plans to stop E Corp. It also ended with Tyrell confessing to Angela that he loved Elliot. As I note in the fic, this will probably be Jossed when Season 3 starts, but this is a guess at Elliot figuring out his relationship to Tyrell after getting shot.


I wrote a Madness treat for alchemise:

Recooperation (706 words) by merryghoul
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Burn Notice
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jesse Porter/Michael Westen
Characters: Michael Westen, Jesse Porter, Fiona Glenanne
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Hand Jobs, Hospitals, Injury, Season/Series 04, Yuleporn
Summary: A fight over an injury turns into something different for Michael and Jesse.

One of alchemise's requests was porn between Jesse and Michael after Michael was shot in the shoulder midway through Season 4. I chose to do this short scene, set while Michael was in the hospital recuperating from his wound.


I wrote a treat for Karios:

Nothing for Something (1513 words) by merryghoul
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Burn Notice
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Michael Westen, Sam Axe, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Case Fic, Gambling, Yuletide Treat
Summary: Michael and Sam help a college student who is cheated by a fake internet café.

Karios wanted case fic, so I came up with a short case involving Michael, Sam, and illegal gambling casinos.


My first pinch hit this year was for millari:

Mixed-Up (1579 words) by merryghoul
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Mr. Robot (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Elliot Alderson & Angela Moss
Characters: Elliot Alderson, Angela Moss
Additional Tags: Pre-Series, Kid Fic, Children, Museums, Literary References & Allusions
Summary: How Elliot and Angela ended up going to the Queens Museum when they meant to go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art when they were younger.

millari wanted backstory for Elliot and/or Angela. I was intrigued with Elliot and Angela's love for the book From the Mixed-Up Files... and the story of how they ended up at the Queens Museum instead of the Met when they were children, so I wrote what I thought happened on that trip.


I wrote a fic for sweetcarolanne:

Freeze Time (1399 words) by merryghoul
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: American Horror Story: Freak Show
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Jimmy Darling/Dandy Mott
Characters: Jimmy Darling, Dandy Mott, Elsa Mars, Pepper (American Horror Story)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Master/Servant, Dubious Consent, Mind Control
Summary: Dandy couldn't buy the Tattler twins from Elsa, so he bought Jimmy and Pepper instead.

I knew sweetcarolanne has wanted fic for Freak Show for the longest time. I actually offered to write Freak Show for femslashex last year (well, the last exchange), but I didn't get matched to her, and I didn't have time to write anything for femslashex before Yuletide started. I made a promise to write her a treat for her for Yuletide after I was done with my assignment.

sweetcarolanne wanted Pepper-centric fic and didn't mind Dandy/Jimmy on the side. She also mentioned giving Pepper a superpower, since AHS is abundant with superpowers (and some of them very deus ex machina-ish). To fit all these ideas together, I came up with a what if-AU, set at the end of and deviating from the first Freak Show episode, where Dandy bought Jimmy instead of stubbornly insisting on the Tattler twins. (And, as a bonus, Dandy also ends up with Pepper.) I thought forcing Jimmy into servitude would make for an excellent dubcon situation.

I gave Pepper the power to freeze time because I felt that was a very alien-ish superpower, something that would fit in with Pepper eventually gaining intelligence and speech through alien powers later in her life (show-wise, this was earlier, in AHS: Asylum). You know, as if the aliens she'd later be abducted by were watching over her and making sure something bad didn't happen to her until her death.


I wrote a treat for applebutter:

Transients (6095 words) by merryghoul
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: American Vampire
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
Relationships: Pearl Jones/Skinner Sweet
Characters: Pearl Jones (American Vampire), Skinner Sweet, Hattie Hargrove, B. D. Bloch
Additional Tags: Crueltide, Yuleporn, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Childe & Sire Interactions, Body Horror, Vampire Violence, Vampire Bites, Spooning, Casual Sex, Outdoor Sex, Vampire Turning, Arson
Summary: Skinner and Pearl team up to stop B.D. Bloch and his cruel reign in Hollywood.

I may as well explain how I fell into the vampire canons I wrote for Yuletide. I actually read American Vampire a long time ago, when the first TPB came out. I picked up the comic again after I received my femslashex assignment, which asked for original fic between a vampire, a vampire hunter, and a human. I really wanted to look at how some authors treated vampires in various different canons--not only did I pick up American Vampire, but I also read some F/F short story collections and The Gilda Stories (another vampire book I read a long time ago, well before said novel was republished). I never finished American Vampire after the first TPB came out, but this year I did finish the whole line of American Vampire comics (both Cycles, all the limited run series and one-offs, and both Anthologies).

applebutter wanted fic set mostly in the First Cycle, which follows a strain of vampire mutated from European vampires from the late 1800s to 1950. applebutter was happy with fic with Skinner, Pearl, Hattie, and Calvin Poole. applebutter also wanted fic with Skinner/Pearl or all four in a cracky PWP situation (like sex pollen). In the comic, however, Pearl has a love interest who eventually becomes her husband, Henry Preston.

For my fic, I decided to focus on how Skinner and Pearl might've gotten together if Henry wasn't in the picture at all, and if Skinner stuck around instead of leaving Pearl to fight Bloch by herself and going to a book reading about a book based on his life. I ended up writing an AU of the Pearl-centric story from the first five issues of American Vampire, keeping most of the action around Hollywood. I also decided to make Hattie more of a hero in this story. In the Pearl-centric story in the first five issues, Hattie is friends with Pearl, but then betrays her to become the star of Bloch's films, and then an American Vampire in her own right by injecting Pearl's blood in her body with a knife. In my story, Hattie is enraged over what Bloch did to Pearl, and then asks to be a vampire to avenge Pearl being left for dead.

The only reason why Calvin doesn't show up in the fic is he's introduced later in the series, first as a solider in WWII (he eventually becomes an American Vampire himself). I don't think there would've been any logical way to incorporate him earlier than when he was introduced in the comic.


I wrote a Madness treat for PineapplePrincess:

Maintenance (774 words) by merryghoul
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Burn Notice
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sam Axe/Fiona Glenanne
Characters: Sam Axe, Fiona Glenanne
Additional Tags: Yuleporn, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, Spanking, Erections, Woman on Top
Summary: Sam turns to Fiona to rediscover something he hasn't had in years.

PineapplePrincess didn't mind pure smut with spanking and Fiona on top, so I wrote it.


My second pinch hit was for melannen:

A Visit From a Friend (1022 words) by merryghoul
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: James Asher Vampire Series - Barbara Hambly
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: James Asher/Lydia Asher/Simon Ysidro
Characters: Lydia Asher, Miranda Asher, James Asher, Simon Ysidro
Additional Tags: Surprises, Presents, Post-Book(s), Fluff, Oxford
Summary: Ysidro visits the Ashers the only way he knows how.

After femslashex I wanted to read a few vampire books for fun. I had no plans to offer the the James Asher vampire novel series for Yuletide, as I didn't think I'd finish them in time before the exchange ended. But I did, and I decided to pick this pinch hit up. If I had more time, I probably would've considered something that might've taken more time to work on, like exploring Lydia's feelings after Margaret's death or Ysidro's history before he was a vampire or when he was first turned as a vampire. For the time I had, I elected to write a book set after the latest book in the series, Darkness on His Bones.


My final treat was for DoreyG:

Compromise (1288 words) by merryghoul
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Vampire Babylon - Chris Marie Green
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Characters: Dawn Madison, Vlad Tepes | The Dragon
Additional Tags: Post-Book(s), Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe - Daemons, Paris (City), Modeling, Crueltide, Misses Clause Challenge
Summary: The dragon never left Dawn. It only changed form.

On the other hand, I picked up the Vampire Babylon series with the full intent of finishing these books before Yuletide to write this. I was intrigued with DoreyG's prompt of the dragon and Dawn coming to a compromise to work together after the dragon possessed Dawn, as well as an optional prompt to write an AU like a daemon AU. I decided to combine the two together for my fic.


My gift was written by Madoc (CadairDarllenMadoc).