rosewithallherthorns

It's that time of year again. The time I sign up for Nonconathon. All my requests this year are for fanfic.

Overall DNWs: revenge on the rapist


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Dragon Age
Mystic Messenger
Original F/F
Vampire: The Masquerade


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Vampire: The Masquerade

All requests are for fanfic.

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Jane Crocker/Dirk Strider

John Egbert/Jade Harley

Tavros Crocker/Harry Anderson Egbert

HK-47 & Female Dark Revan

Honda Tohru/Sohma Akito

2023!Nebula/2014!Gamora (MCU)

Cole/Female Inquisitor

Red/Ruby (Rubyquest)


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Post Sakuma's True Ending | Ending 21 - The President's Afternoon.
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It’s a truth that beats in Sakuma as steady as his heartbeat.

“I love you.”

When his body stings and his eyes ring with tears, it’s true.

When he’s too lowly to deserve his master’s affections, it’s still true.

When he sees the way Maeda cracks, slowly as pavement, and he can hear the soft “perfect” that his master whispers in his heart, it’s true.

When his master witnesses his humiliation at his body’s reactions, prods those on, it’s true.

When his heart aches for his fellow’s pain and jealousy eats at him, it’s still true.

He spent decades learning mathematics, language, etiquette, history. This is truer than any of that.

When he looks out the window and confirms that the weather is excellent, the sky a clear blue, he does not internalize it the way he accepts his inner truth. Every part of him has been prepared and emptied in the vain hope it could contain something so profound, so sacred. He’s still overfull of the revelation of it all.

He cannot take his master’s heart and nestle it next to his own always, but his master thought of something else to keep with him always.

He tries not to let it drive him to his knees the way his master’s voice does, but he’s weak and perverted. Some part of his mind knows that Maeda loves him that way.

And that’s what makes the truth more beautiful than painful- Maeda loves him back, leaves marks of it all over, tells him in a thousand little ways.

It’s amazing.

 It's that time of year again! The time when I sign up for a lot of exchanges.

In general I tend to like darker tones. People doing bad things without great justifications, failing their interpersonal relationships, struggling against dysfunction, drowning their love in an empty pool of pining. Everyone I requested is already female, but if you want to genderswap more of the cast around them in canons so they're also women, I'd be thrilled with it.

Heathers - The Musical

Heather Chandler/Veronica Sawyer

Oh man, I really love the "Candy Store" song. I'm familiar with both the musical and the movie, so if you want to add movie elements or fuse the two canons together I wouldn't mind. Is Veronica still dealing with a ghost? Are they doing weird soulbonding rituals at midnight that turn out to actually work? Are they dating but hiding their relationship? Is Chandler upset that Veronica keeps hanging out with J. D.?

DNW: Veronica is dead, genderbent Ram & Kurt or focus on them

Twilight

Bella Swan/Victoria

I've never watched the movie version. I just really like the idea of Bella creating the same sort of fascination in Victoria that she tends to in everyone else! Victoria is chronically evasive of danger, but I imagine that Bella manages to bring that into her life one way or the other. I'm happy with Bella being turned into a vampire eventually or remaining human. Bella being distressed at being held captive is fine, but I would like her to be attracted to Victoria despite herself. Edward being dead for whatever reason seems like it would make this ship easier to work with.

DNW: Bella spending too much time angsting over Edward. 

Portal

GLaDOS/Chell

I really love GLaDOS as a snarky, genocidal, science-focused robot, and Chell as the unfortunate recipient of her attention. But at the same time, GLaDOS is the only sentient being around for a while. And then Wheatley happens, but that doesn't turn out all that well. Human au sounds fun, but only if Cave Johnson is absent and GLaDOS is as unhinged and safety-optional as she always is.

Homestuck

The Condesce/Grandma English | Alpha Jade Harley


The Condesce/Neophyte Redglare



This pairing is kinda new and exciting to me!
Steven Universe

Avatar: The Last Airbender

I never actually watched Legend of Korra, so please ignore that canon entirely. I did see the Search where they reveal where Azula's mom went off to, but if you want to ignore that too that's fine.

Fandoms: Steven Universe, Gravity Falls, Homestuck, OHHC, Darkangel Trilogy, Ace Attorney, KOTOR

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I'm working on figuring out how to explain this. Hope it helps.

So you want to write Bill Cipher but you can't figure out how to do it?

Here's how I do it! Hopefully it'll be helpful. ( Note that I enjoy many many people's versions of Bill )

Anything is fair game for Bill as far as morality goes. Murdering babies, lying out his rectangular behind, swapping the functions of every hole in people's faces, hurting people in their most sensitive areas, breaking apart families, and so on.

He doesn't refer to himself as evil, but he does refer to himself as insane casually and somewhat frequently.

Recipe:
Bring out your inner douchebag, add drama and curiosity. Stir the pot. Add only enough maturity for a five year old. If you notice compassion boiling on the surface skim it off before it settles. People's pain is funny. People's stress is funny. Pretend things are true until they are, whether it's Bill's or how people should react to Bill, who is totally to be trusted as long as it's useful to be. Once he's done with them he'll rub that trust in their face. Any gags which require extra hands, props, voices, the bending of space-time, knowledge of completely made up things, do it.

Convenient questions:
You are Bill Cipher.
You are interacting with someone. Do they know who you are and what you do? What do you want to convince them to do, if anything? Is there a particular view of you that you want them to keep? What is your opinion of them?

Bill changes how he presents himself A LOT, depending on what he wants and who he's talking to. He can be a helpful muse or 9-to-5 villain or your new lord and master or a friendly party host or an uncaring boss. This probably changes depending on how much Time Punch he's drunk and how much patience he has at that point.

In general:
He's very dramatic and showy! He generally does something to unnerve whoever he's talking to every minute or so while he's in Deal Mode. He doesn't talk formally except in extreme circumstances. Which isn't to say he doesn't use big words!

Run whatever he's saying through the Cookie Jar Test. Would the tone sound out of place on someone wheedling for the location of a cookie jar, denying anything had been stolen from it, blaming someone else for stealing from the jar, blithely ignoring that his hand is stuck in there while talking to someone, triumphing over having eaten all the cookies, saying that no, it really won't hurt your diet at all, gloating about replacing the cookies with rocks, insulting them for thinking they could hide the jar, or something like that? It's a made up test, but in general pretend there's a cookie jar and he's either luring someone towards theirs or trying to get to it himself. He's trying to set someone in motion, or he's performing the motion himself. Or he's in Party Host Mode and just trying to say whatever he wants and show off a bit.

He's the essence of that person who gets WAY TOO CLOSE TO YOU and then pretends it's totally normal until you think well, it must be normal.
He doesn't have anything to prove or particularly care about people's opinion of him unless they're useful to him RIGHT NOW or shortly afterwards in the future.
He can also be compared to a frat boy or a used car salesman.
He plays on insecurities and weak spots, presenting himself as someone who can solve all your problems, or whatever he offers as totally awesome.
He gloats, either about how great he and his plans are going or how dumb his enemies are.

He uses misdirection a lot, especially to make people fight with themselves over the wrong thing. He shows himself running off so no one will suspect he's disguised as Soos and to create a threatening time crunch. He implies he's dealing for Mabel's puppets to create something that Dipper finds sufficiently important that he won't question that Bill actually wants something far more vital and dangerous because he's too busy struggling with his conscience and current sister issues. Making people fight the wrong battles is one of his things.
If he makes a mistake, he brushes over it briefly, never to be mentioned again. Same if other people bring it up. Or no, it wasn't a mistake, it barely counted, but not in a speech at length about it.
He's not very aware of how much other people care about each other, and he's much more likely to interpret sadness as related to others' goals or selves than the feelings of others.

He doesn't lambast himself for any failings, and he isn't self conscious or guilty about his actions or his appearance.
He insults pretty much every human he interacts with, particularly via insulting nicknames.
He's capable of being tricky and (more) subtle, such as when he pretended to be Soos, but he can also be very blunt, like his total failure to act like Dipper during his time as Bipper.
He lies. He lies a LOT. He's an unreliable narrator who talks like he's got an ace up his sleeve even when he doesn't.
He's easily bored a lot of the time. Combined with his large ego, this leads him to do things like wait and see what his enemies can do to try and stop him
Bill is motivated by his idea of fun, or by his goals (which lead to his idea of fun). Or spite, in the case of Time Baby. He doesn't like being restricted and seems to see freedom as an absolute good (for him), since it will let him crush anything he wants.

No matter how awful the he is, Bill thinks he's excellent.This includes appearance, and personality. Failure to complete goals won't result in him flagellating himself. Maybe a short, snarky comment about it at most before he redirects to the next thing.
He's got lots of eyes in depictions of himself, eyelike or triangular shapes, and other stuff. He also has some amount of mind/dreamreading ability. Put it to use, let him know all sorts of things that would be unfortunate or awkward or intriguing. If there's something he doesn't know, he'd probably a) pretend he knows it b) dismiss its importance c) agree to find it out for a price

Analysis of deals Bill made or might have made:

Tribal Shaman: he didn't know what he was doing with building the portal, and I'm not clear on what (if anything) he asked for. Put this up as ???

Henchmaniacs: Considering Bill offered Ford the chance to join them, it seems likely that he adds those who make a deal with him that he likes to his crew. This is purely speculation, though.

Ford: according to journal 3 he wanted to clock in more hours on working on the portal than he was physically able to, so he let Bill take over his body while his mind slept. Bill got even more work done than he expected, but Ford's eye also started bleeding afterwards. So he got what he wanted, but there were side effects, and he didn't know what he was asking for.

Gideon, 1: He makes every effort to give Gideon the code to the safe. So it's clear that if you wait to fulfill your side of the bargain until he's done his, he will pull through, especially if you have a specific way for this to happen filled out.

Dipper: Him smashing the laptop did reveal a clue about the owner and lead to a solution! It did not keep to the spirit of the deal even a little bit, though, between the puppet fake out and how vague it is.

Blendin Bendin: he got out of time jail, which is what he asked for. He didn't want to be possessed or bring about the apocalypse, most likely, but both the letter and spirit were fulfilled.

Mabel: She got a time bubble. It was more of a magic wish fulfillment bubble. It's not clear if she would have aged, and while it includes fakes of the people she loves (and real Waddles) I don't think it's what she really wanted. Put this down as ???, she seemed happy while she was there. Didn't know what the gizmo did and didn't ask. Didn't know it was Bill.

Gideon, 2: Gideon did get power over everyone, freedom from jail, and the key to Mabel's prison! As we don't know the actual terms of the deal we can't be sure how true he was to it, but Gideon seemed pretty happy before Dipper convinced him to fight.

Stan: would Bill have actually let Stan and the kids free? Who fucking knows. Him immediately recapturing them or setting the Henchmaniacs on them or eating the section of the Earth they're on is not implausible.


Character Interaction: 
These may have glaring errors or be interpreted in different, equally valid ways. Feel free to comment if you have something to contest or add!

Gideon:
Nicknames: living ventriloquist dummy, short stack
They strike deals when necessary. Bill makes Gideon sheriff of the wasteland, but Gideon doesn't like being anyone's second in command. Bill is amiable when he has no hold over Gideon, although he can't resist fucking with him via deer teeth, and likes humiliating him after Gideon turns on him.

Dipper:
Nicknames: Pine Tree, my old puppet

Bill sees him as a threat because he keeps looking for information that Bill has always been able to keep hidden before.

Pain is funny, but Dipper's pain especially so! Here, have Bill trying to get him to rub jalapeno peppers on his eyes.
https://www.reddit.com/r/gravityfalls/comments/315yoy/im_bill_cipher_i_know_lots_of_things_ask_me/cpyov2u/

Mabel:
Nicknames: Shooting Star
She tickled him out of the body he stole, and he probably isn't happy about that. He put her in the most devious prison he ever made, so he either thought it was funny or thought keeping her out of the way was important. Alternately, it was a way to deal with Gideon and keep to the letter of his deal on both accounts.

Stanford Pines:
Nicknames: Fordsy, IQ, Sixer, Mr. Brainiac, tough guy, smart guy, man who changed the world, Stanford Pines, friend, brainiac, "brainiacs", "you two", old man, six fingers, and kid

Seems to enjoy bragging and messing with Ford, both before and after the portal. Probably wasn't quite acting himself when Ford thought he was a good muse, but you never know. Was described as whimsical by Ford.

Stanley Pines:
Nicknames: Stan, Stanley, old man

Not a lot of interaction. Doesn't seem to view his Mindscape as particularly special when he first comes. Comments on cleanliness when he comes to it in the finale. Tries to deal for his soul in the puppet infomercial shorts

Henchmaniacs: He seems to care about what they think (putting on a show and party for them, poooossibly not poking the hornet's nest too much with the multiple face guy), but not enough to care about their pain if they smash into the barrier. Bring out your weird showman and a sense of easy authority. Bill makes the rules, and he doesn't want them dead but is fine with them trying to eat each other and gets annoyed with their incompetence if they fail to destroy an enchanted Mystery Shack. They are all fine with things like eating kids and turning people into statues. List of names: Kryptos, Pyronica, Amorphous Shape, Xanthar, Paci-Fire, 8 Ball, Teeth, Keyhole, Hectorgon.

Kryptos: We know Bill hates the symbol Kryptos according to the AMA. Does he also hate Kryptos his henchman? I assume so, but he doesn't show it during Weirdmageddon.

Fiddleford:
Bill emphasizes Fiddleford's "lack of commitment to the project" when he's trying to drive a wedge between Stanford and Bill. They never talked before Fiddleford went insane that we know. Fiddleford makes a triangle symbol around his eye in the depths of his insanity, so he might have interacted with Bill around then. Fiddleford builds a robot to fight Bill with zero comment about them having any kind of history.

Jack the Ripper: Bill knew him well enough for Jack to ask Bill not to reveal his love of clown masks. This did not stop Bill once Jack was no longer useful to him.
https://www.reddit.com/r/gravityfalls/comments/315yoy/im_bill_cipher_i_know_lots_of_things_ask_me/cpyokkj/

Time Baby:
Nicknames: OBESE BOMBASTIC DIAPER-WEARING TYRANT, 9 TRILLION TON TODDLER
He hates Time Baby. A lot.
https://www.reddit.com/r/gravityfalls/comments/315yoy/im_bill_cipher_i_know_lots_of_things_ask_me/cpyoge5/

Wendy:
Bill doesn't seem to have a high opinion of her, according to the AMA.

Gompers: According to the Reddit AMA, Bill likes him better "this way". There's various hints that Gompers wasn't always a goat and was transformed into one by a witch. During Weirdmageddon, Bill doesn't stop to look at him but does turn him giant. Maybe that was intention?

Alex Hirsch: I feel like I've heard about him joking about making a deal with Bill somewhere, but I can't dig anything up.

Fanonically:

Do whatever's fun. Try to keep things recognizable.

Hello! I'm excited for this! My tastes vary depending on canons and pairings, but I'll try to be specific. Anon comments are on, so feel free to ask for clarification.

My ao3 name is rosewithallherthorns.

I requested Akatsuki no Yona, Fruits Basket, and Girl Genius in Soul Swap here: http://rosewithallherthorns.dreamwidth.org/1288.html
It's a mess but you might find some cool ideas.
I requested Akatsuki no Yona in Smut Swap here: http://rosewithallherthorns.dreamwidth.org/501.html
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I can't find this call anywhere on the internet! It's a true travesty, so I'm transcribing it here. Note: the first two options have a "am I interrupting something" option to talk about, so I assume the whole first stretch is a giant innuendo.
Jaehee's route, Day 8, outgoing call: This place is scary.

Yoosung: Arrgh! Oh, hello? He-hello? Ahh! Don't push me! Sorry
MC: Yoosung?
Yoosung: Gah~ I'm at the supermarket!
Yoosung: I came to get some food, but they're having this huge sale where 100g of pork is only 69 cents...! So I ran over... only to find a huge wave of people.
Yoosung: Aargh! This is mine! Don't take it out~! God....
Yoosung: ...Oww... Someone just stepped on my foot and took what was in my cart! How could they...? My god...
Yoosung: I just wanted to fill up my little belly... was I being too greedy?
Yoosung: I should just head over to the fish corner... I should at least get fish since I can't get pork.
Yoosung: Hi~! Could I get a piece of mackerel.... Aarrrgh!!
MC: Yoosung! Are you okay!?
Yoosung: ...Oh.... oh my... god... So-someone just punched my side. Why!? They're not even having a sale here! Why are there so many people!?
Yoosung: No.... I can't give up the fish.
Yoosung: Hi! Could you just throw it to me?! I really need that piece of mackerel! Just throw it! Please...!!
Yoosung: Oh yeah, got it!.
Yoosung: I want to go home now. This place is scary.
Yoosung: Ugh... I should get in line.... My dear pork belly... I'll just see you next time...
Yoosung: I can't just push around all the old ladies and be that desperate. I'll still young~! I have a reputation to keep up!
Yoosung: Next time, should I just come super early and leave or should I ask Zen to come with me...? I need to think of a way to solve this.
MC: I'm hungry.... Yoosung, go get me some food.
Yoosung: Wh... what!? What did you just say?
Yoosung: Do you want me to be your maid or something?
Yoosung: Uhm... but... well, come to think of it, it won't be so bad to be your maid.
Yoosung: I kind of like being treated like on. Doing something for someone else and getting insulted at times. I actually fantasize about it.
MC: I think that would suit me.
Yoosung: Oh my god~ Let's talk about that later.
Yoosung: It's my turn! I have to go pay. I'll see you later at the chat room!