Hannah – Test

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Nov 102014
 

Title: Hannah – Test
Fandom: Nicoverse
Characters: Lucian ♂, Anael/Hannah ♀
Rating: G (L0 N0 S0 V0 D0)
Warnings: None
Notes: I remember when writing Hannah, that Davidson listed this angel as 'Haniel, chief of principalities and "the tallest angel in Heaven"', which seemed a little weird, but I liked it. The angel is also, as with so many angels, referenced exclusively as male, which… *shrugs* did not stand. I constructed her as nearly seven feet tall, in this particular shell. Lucian's included for a size reference. He's an average-sized dude, maybe 5'9". And now, back to my commissions queue.
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Proclaiming the Glory of Man

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Nov 082014
 

Title: Proclaiming the Glory of Man
Fandom: Nicoverse
Characters: Nico ♂
Rating: G-  (L0 N1 S0 V0 D0)
Warnings: Shirtless dude. Bad lighting.
Notes: Still working on a certain someone's birthday gift. Knocked this out in a couple of hours, to ease the frustration. Nico tends to emphasize personal and community responsibility, over divine intervention. Divine intervention's great when the total population's a couple hundred million, but a little less viable when you get up into the billions. So, here's our hero running his mouth in the courtyard of a church, in natural light and heavenly glow versions. ("Gabriel… Gabi, what the hell is this glowing shit? Go tell dad to knock it off, will you?")
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Girls' Night Out

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Nov 052014
 

Title: Girls' Night Out
Fandom: Magelight/Nicoverse crackover
Characters: Solaris ♀, Belphegor ♀
Rating: T (L0 N2 S0 V0 D0)
Warnings: Half-naked ladies
Notes: Yes, it's Dark's birthday. Yes, this is Frost's birthday present. Sorry, guys, I've committed a birthday swap! Solaris and Belphegor enjoying a girls' night out, at the temple. Whose temple? I'll leave that to your imagination.
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Contentious Intentions

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Nov 032014
 

Title: Contentious Intentions
Fandom: Nicoverse
Characters: Nico ♂, Lucian ♂
Rating: G- (L1 N0 S1 V1 D0)
Warnings: Oblique references to smut, shin-kicking, teh gay, expletives
Notes: Lucian really is the typical asshole older brother. One might even say that older brothers are all in some way based on Lucian, since he's older than everything but the Greater Lords. The prototypical older brother.
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Death and Desire

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Oct 222014
 

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Title: Death and Desire
Fandom: Nicoverse
Characters: Gabriel ♅, Michael ♅
Rating: T (L0 N0 S0 V2 D0)
Warnings: War, death, holy vengeance, ethics of a damaged archangel
Notes: In about 701 BC, an Assyrian army led by Sennacherib sacked forty-odd cities in Judah and laid siege to Jerusalem. Assyrian records report the successful sack of every city besieged, except Jerusalem. Although they also do not report defeat there, those records are kingly propaganda, so all bets are off. The story goes that Hezekiah, King of Judah, prayed in the Temple of Jerusalem, for deliverance, and as the first king in two and a half centuries to do so, his prayer was rewarded, and 185,000 Assyrian soldiers died outside the walls. This is variously attributed to Michael, Gabriel, or the onset of one of the usual siege camp diseases. I decided to go for all three. (I never thought I'd be writing Michael, but I suppose it had to happen, eventually…)
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The Birth of the Sea of Salt

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Oct 192014
 

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Title: The Birth of the Sea of Salt
Fandom: Nicoverse
Characters: Gabriel (as Labashi) ♂, Hizkiel (as Harsu) ♂, Kafziel (as Kurigalzu) ♂, Lot ♂ & his family ♀
Rating: G- (L1 N0 S0 V1 D1)
Warnings: Objectification of angels, threats of violence, really oblique threats of rape, violent nationalist sentiment, non-explicit mass destruction
Notes: A telling of the fall of Sodom and Gomorrah, from the perspective of the angels. I apologise for the names. Lot's supposed to be Chaldean, and Chaldean names are a pain in my ass to find, but he spent enough time in the Jordan River valley that I can mangle some names for his family. And then I had the bloody stupid idea the angels should be posing as Chaldean merchants… I give up. Also, I like Lot's daughters as self-determined hellraisers, able to make their own decisions and enforce their intent. I think canon supports that. And Gabriel loathing its shell is always hilarious — so, yes, this is really substantially before the fall of Jerusalem. (~2018 BC, maybe?) And if you've got any problems with my geology or geography, keep in mind that historical fiction is still fiction. (And I'm using a trope that's been argued by biblical scholars, which doesn't make it true, but does make it sufficiently popular to base a fictional work upon.)
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Blessings of Drunkenness

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Oct 072014
 

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Title: Blessings of Drunkenness
Fandom: Nicoverse
Characters: Nico ♂, Lucian ♂, Ometochtli ♂, Yin (Magdalene) ♀, Gabriel (mentioned) ♅, Raven's Daughters (mentioned) ♀
Rating: T (L2 N0 S0 V1 D1)
Warnings: Weird cultural stereotypes, bizarre interpretations of Mexica mythology, intentional cultural appropriation by trickster deities, vast quantities of alcohol, mentions of mythological violent death
Notes: Nico's doing a gig at a political event that suddenly spawns a neverending spring of booze, courtesy of the Mexica gods of drunken shenanigans. If you read a lot of my stuff, you'll recognise a couple of faces in the crowd, pretty early on. And, yes, Lucian has an accent that occasionally gets in his way.
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A Little Excitement Before Lunch

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Sep 282014
 

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Title: A Little Excitement Before Lunch
Fandom: Nicoverse
Characters: Nico ♂, Gabriel ♅, Kamaria ♀, Moyra ♀, Lola ♀
Rating: M (L3 N0 S0 V2 D0)
Warnings: Shootings, bigotry, head-slapping, delusions of immortality, actual immortality, oddly American points of view, and a pissed-off archangel
Notes: No great leader, in the modern world, goes without a few assassination attempts. Few, however, have irate archangels looking after them. I expect you will be offended by this, in some way. If you find any of it offensive, I'm doing it right. If you're wondering where Gabriel's intensely acrimonious introduction comes from, it's inspired by Luke 1, wherein Gabriel brings news of the impending birth of John the Baptist, and curses Zacharias to silence for doubting an angel of the lord.
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Demigods and Coffee

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Sep 262014
 

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Title: Demigods and Coffee
Fandom: Nicoverse
Characters: Lucian ♂, Belphegor ♀
Rating: G (L0 N0 S0 V0 D0)
Warnings: None
Notes: Lucian and Belphegor, a cup of coffee, and a city street. Illustration for 'A Pain in the Ass'. I am not talking about that damned coffee cup. You'll notice Belphegor's skin is not a colour you'd expect to see on a person. That's sort of intentional. She's described as being bronze-skinned, but I liked a slightly more brassy colour.
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A Pain in the Ass

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Sep 262014
 

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Title: A Pain in the Ass
Fandom: Nicoverse
Characters: Lucian ♂, Belphegor ♀
Rating: M (L3 N0 S2 V0 D0)
Warnings: Butts. Blasphemy; expletives; a little bit of blood; ridiculous amounts of butt-pinching; come on, it's got the Lord of Licentiousness in it, were you expecting PG?
Notes: Lucian and Belphegor have a really weird, really long relationship. Lucian's just happy to have someone to talk to who's been there for some of the things he remembers. If you're wondering why Belphegor is female, here, it's because he's been summoned, and summoning Belphegor results in a beautiful young woman. Illustration for this is the next post.
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