Title: The Temptation of Invention
Fandom: Nicholas Darby: Raver Messiah
Characters: Nico ♂, Belphegor ♀
Rating: G- ( L0 N1 S0 V0 D0 )
Warnings: A lot of leg and some cleavage
Notes: Nico and Peggy, because I haven't done anything with them in a while, and this venture firmly reminded me why. I really need to rework both their skins… *groans pitifully* But, Peggy's proposing yet another wild invention, and Nico's not sure he approves, yet. Yes, for anyone following that series, that's the incarnation of Christ and one of the multitude of summoned forms of the demon Belphegor, Lord of Licentiousness and Invention.
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Title: On the Nature of Dates
Fandom: Nicoverse
Characters: Anael/Hananiah ♂, Lucifer/Berhanu ♂
Rating: G- (L1 N0 S1 V0 D0)
Warnings: Catty remarks, Luci's terrible beard, angels teaching sex ed
Notes: I wrote most of this like… in October. Then it stalled out on me, until yesterday. In case anyone ever wondered how these two met…
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Title: Hananiah – Test
Fandom: Nicoverse
Characters: Anael/Hananiah ♂
Rating: G- (L0 N1 S0 V0 D0)
Warnings: Half-shirtless dude.
Notes: So, I know I've mentioned more than once that Anael gender-swaps, and has at least once canonically been a dude. However, I don't think I ever finished writing any of those. So, yeah, dude!Anael. No post, because it's a test. Yes, his fingernails are driving me bugfuck, but I'll fix that later, when I care. (And, yes, I took a week off, because holy shit, but now I'm back. Commission work will start again, shortly.)
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Title: Strangely Ornamental
Fandom: Nicoverse
Characters: Gabriel â™…, Nico ♂
Rating: G-Â Â (L0 N1 S0 V0 D0)
Warnings: Shirtless dudes. Bad lighting.
Notes: Ehh. Picked up this Fabergé egg prop and wanted to play with it. Lighting the inside is a pain in my ass, as demonstrated by the fact that Nico's nearly invisibly dim, while Gabi glows in the dark. On the other hand, Gabi always glows in the dark. Also retextured the whole egg out of Gemologica, because the original materials looked like crap.
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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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Title: Proclaiming the Glory of Man
Fandom: Nicoverse
Characters: Nico ♂
Rating: G-Â Â (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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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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[ Master Post ]
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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