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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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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Title: Death and Desire
Fandom: Nicoverse
Characters: Gabriel â™…, Michael â™…
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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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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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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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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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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Title: A Pain in the Ass
Fandom: Nicoverse
Characters: Lucian ♂, Belphegor ♀
Rating:Â 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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Title: Struffoli With Your Sulk?
Fandom: Nicoverse
Characters: Lucian ♂, Gabriel ♅
Rating: T (L2 N0 S0 V1 D0)
Warnings: Gabriel doesn't have internal organs, but Luci, that's still disgusting. Also, the usual blasphemy, expletives, sibling rivalry, already-been-chewed pastry, more sugar than the Holy Father ever intended any one of his children to eat in a single sitting.
Notes: Love isn't always all it's cracked up to be. Also, why it's important to have friends who will come disrupt your sulking with their abject dickery in the wake of a truly necessary breakup.
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Title: Annunciation
Fandom: Nicoverse
Characters: Octavia ♀, Gabriel ♅
Rating: T (L1 N0 S0 V1 D1)
Warnings: Blasphemy, blatant manipulation, threats of impending violence
Notes: Rating's a little higher than the numbers suggest, because the Holy Father is remarkably unpleasant, here, in completely canonical fashion. Gabi's got some issues with how the Holy Father goes about things, and tries to smooth things over, wherever possible, with the illusion of choice.
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