sakura_no_miko | Entries tagged with worldbuilding

Fandom: Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure (Part 5-centric but features all parts)

Rating: R

Pairing: Buccellati/Abbacchio, Sorbet/Gelato, Narancia/Kakyoin

Warnings: canon character death; canon-typical violence; body horror/gore; depression; discussion of suicide, drug abuse, homophobia and transphobia

Other notes: post-canon, afterlife, ensemble, multi-part crossover, character study, relationship study, world building, mythology, minor characters, trans character, found families, parents & children

Length: 194k+, WIP, series

Summary: Leone Abbacchio knew betraying the boss would almost certainly mean death. Accepted it. Sure as hell didn't anticipate that the afterlife would entail train rides with the world's chattiest assassin, old British men who bake you pie whenever you want, Narancia dating a nice boy with a hole in his chest, and occasionally chasing the creature that used to be Giorno Giovanna's father off your porch with a shotgun. Bruno better be proud. Abbacchio's really trying to be a better person.

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Leone Abbacchio learns to love Leone Abbacchio.

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Title: Eschaton

Author: nirejseki

Fandom: Final Fantasy XV

Rating: PG-13

Pairing: non, gen

Warnings: spoilers for the end of the game, canon-typical violence, dehumanization issues (relating to cyborgs), mild body horror (also cyborgs), prejudice

Other notes: post-apocalypse, survival, worldbuilding, disabled character, non-human/cyborg characters, ghosts, religion/mythology, canon divergence, fix-it fic, character study

Length: 60k

Summary:

Sure, it's the end of the world, but that just means someone's got to fix it.

And then the world found its somebodies.

(aka, with Noctis gone into the Crystal and no one sure when he'll be back, Ignis, Gladio, and Prompto end up saving the world one piece at a time)

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Title: Heart Lines

Author: PeaceHeather

Fandom: Merlin

Rating: PG-13

Pairing: Merlin/Arthur

Warnings: background character death by childbirth, attempted lynch mob, anti-magic prejudice, character injury

Other notes: au, soulmates, romantic & platonic soulmates, world-building, asexual character, fix-it fic, original characters

Length: 47k

Summary:

Everyone is born with a heart line, a pigmented mark running from the heart down the left arm to the palm, which turns color when the person comes of age, telling them when it is time to seek their soulmate. Red indicates a romantic love, while blue is for platonic "heart-friends", as the minstrels called it.

Uther had always told Arthur to ignore his heart line, that it wouldn't matter who his soulmate was; princes did not marry for love, after all. If was lucky, he'd be able to keep her as a mistress, so long as he did not get any children with her. Uther hated magic and would have urged Arthur to ignore the heart line anyway, if he could.

Arthur wasn't sure his soulmate was really a woman despite Uther's assumptions. But Arthur's heart line hadn't even come into its full color yet, which meant he hadn't come of age in the eyes of the gods, despite being named crown prince by Uther. So it really didn't matter: whoever his soulmate was, he wasn't yet ready to meet them.

Then one day his heart line comes in, and it's neither red nor blue.

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Title: The Last Poem of Jedha

Author: schweinsty

Fandom: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

Rating: PG-13 / light R

Pairing: mostly gen, background Jyn/Cassian and Chirrut/Baze

Warnings: various issues relating to warfare and living in an occupied state; military violence, institutional violence, terrorism, genocide, planetary destruction, suicidal ideation, character death (sibling), depression, memory loss, mental health issues, character injury

Other notes: original characters, worldbuilding, alien culture, family, siblings, disabled character, literature, mythology, academics, viva la resistance, au, canon diveregence, hurt/recovery, team, ensemble, nonlinear timeline

Length: 15k

Summary: How Bodhi Rook temporarily misplaced the two most important things in the galaxy, and how he found them again (with a little help).

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Title: truth and ideals (and the fallen in love).

Author: michellejjones

Fandom: Pokemon Black and White

Rating: PG

Pairing: N/Touko

Warnings: Pokemon death, mild violence

Other notes: outside PoV, rivals to lovers, worldbuilding

Length: 9k

Summary:

The patience behind her gaze throws him off; The silent wisdom throws him off even more. Her sentence is short, and simple, but she packs so much power and love and intelligence behind it, that N stops moving for a second, stops moving just long enough for Snivy to laugh haughtily before stalking back to his trainer.

"Just because I raise Pokemon differently than you," Touko says slowly, eye contact never wavering, "Does not mean I love them any less."

N's jaw drops, processing her words and then processing her voice: It's pretty.

She bows her head at him, ever-respectful, and goes back to being silent. After a brief pause, the argument between he and Cheren -with the occasional snide comment from Snivy- resumes. When the confrontation is over, it's like Touko has never even spoken, and N almost forgets her words.

Almost, but not quite.

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Title: waterlogged (red blue, green)

Author: lein

Fandom: My Hero Academia

Rating: PG-13

Pairing: Midoriya/Todoroki

Warnings: mild angst

Other notes: soul mates, au, episode-based, worldbuilding

Length: 9k

Summary: Izuku has never been one to curse but the only way to describe himself as his mother hugs him goodbye that morning, is royally fucked.

He’s really, truly glad no one in their class has a mind-reading quirk because from the minute his feet touched warm sand, his mind has been screaming in tune to the same famous classical overtures Tenya listens to when they study together. Occasionally, the music pauses just long enough for his brain to point out observations about Shouto that make Izuku want to stick his head under the waves and just breathe in.

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Title: Glitch

Author: simplestardust

Fandom: Les Misérables

Rating: PG-13

Pairing: Enjolras/Grantaire + background pairings

Warnings: discussion of dubcon relating to soulmates, domestic violence, stalking, prejudiced behavior, background character death, alcoholism, child abuse/neglect, self-loathing, political suppression

Other notes: AU, modern day, world-building, soulmates, vignettes, multiple PoV, minor characters, unrequited love, friendship, politics, social change, viva la revolution

Length: 40k

Summary:

If there was one person, just one, who would be a glitch in the system, of course it would be Éponine Thénardier. Of fucking course.

Soulbonding was a fact of life. You met your soulmate, and that was it, you were soulbonded and you got your tattoo. Or that's what Éponine had always thought, until she soulbonded with Marius and he didn't soulbond with her.

Grantaire would rather just pretend he'd never soulbonded with anyone in the first place. Especially not with the idealist who was leading a campaign against soulbonding laws and refused to look at his own soulmate tattoo in protest.

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Title: The Ashkaari from Par Vollen

Author: PeriPeriwinkle

Fandom: Dragon Age: Inquisition

Rating: PG

Pairing: gen, with background Dorian/Iron Bull

Warnings: some violence, body horror, enslavement

Other notes: original character, world-building, kid fic

Length: 6k

Summary: Imekari sometimes was ashamed of her horns; the other imekaris teased her and called her ox because of their unusual shape. But deep down she wanted to be proud of them, because her bearer's were wider and mightier, and he was proud of them for it.

Hissrad, his name was. Yes, she would be proud of them, just like he was, and she would grow big and strong and powerful to better serve the Qun.

Just like him.

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Title: The Fourth Estate

Author: Chronolith

Fandom: Voltron: Legendary Defender

Rating: NC-17

Pairing:Lance/Allura, Keith/James - more tbd

Warnings: violence, ptsd, racism/species-ism, racially-motivated violence and terrorism - more tbd

Other notes: post-war, social media, military - more tbd

Length: 90k, WIP

Summary: The Fourth Estate: a segment of society that wields the soft but momentous power of public opinion despite its lack of formal recognition within the political system.

Or, the first thing that rebuilds itself after Sendak's defeat is the press. With the press comes social media. You know what you get when you have social media? Fandom. You get fandom.

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Originally crossposted on tumblr and pillowfort on 11/09/18

Title: Conversations with a Cryptid

Author: AMournfulHowlInTheNight

Fandom: My Hero Academia

Rating: PG-13 (maybe mild R for violence?)

Pairing: none; gen fic (background Midoriya’s parents, I guess?)

Warnings: canon-typical violence, off-screen torture and aftermath, injuries, kidnapping, psychological horror, discussion of child endangerment, mentioned child death, human experimentation,

Other notes: mystery, family, imprisonment, gen fic, character study, world-building, social critique

Length: Long; 70k + ongoing sequels

Summary: The man was over a century old. There had to be more to it. In hindsight, it hadn’t been one of Izuku’s better ideas.

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Originally cross-posted to tumblr and pillowfort on 10/09/18

Title: Silence is the Speech of Love

Author: lady_ragnell

Fandom: Les Miserables

Rating: NC-17

Pairing: Grantaire/Enjolras, background Marius/Cosette/Courfeyrac

Warnings: explicit sex (gay), background dubcon (love magic), discussion of self-harm and suicidal ideation, blasphemy, angst

Other notes: alternate universe, pagan religion, curses, supernatural, character disability, unrequited love, worldbuilding

Length: 50k

Summary: Grantaire’s life has a pattern: he pays his respects to Aphrodite, he goes to work, he loves Enjolras and provokes him because he can’t bring himself to do otherwise. That seems unlikely to change, at least until Enjolras speaks out against the gods and ends up cursed. Grantaire does his best to help him, but it turns out it’s just as hard to love Enjolras up close as it is from afar.

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Originally posted on tumblr on 02/11/15

Title: Not a Villain series

Author: Tallihensia

Fandom: Smallville

Rating: eventually NC-17, but chapters vary

Pairing: Clark/Lex

Warnings: explicit sex (gay), discussion of childhood abuse, discussion of sexual abuse, manipulation, character injury, general violence, suicide bombings and terrorism,

Other notes: WIP, family, character study, superheroes and their lifestyle, secret identities,

Length: 140k+

Summary: When Clark makes a discovery about Conner, honor forces him to tell Lex. Lex comes by to see for himself.

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Originally posted on tumblr on 12/05/14

Title: You Are A Paradigm (and the rest of the More Things Than Are Dreamt Of series)

Author: 1electricpirate

Fandom: Sherlock / Harry Potter

Rating: starts R, goes up to NC-17

Pairing: Sherlock/John, past John/Charlie

Warnings: explicit sex (gay), bondage scene, mild violence, references to parental alcoholism, warfare, character injury, mild gore, jealousy issues

Other notes: crossover, alternate universe, magic and Muggles, domesticity, culture clash

Length: 10k

Summary:

Sometimes, only sometimes, when Sherlock is very far away and absolutely guaranteed not to return for at least three hours, John sits on the sofa and lets the tea make itself.
In which John is (reluctantly) a wizard, Mycroft is (apparently) omniscient, and Sherlock is (surprisingly) oblivious.

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Originally posted on tumblr on 12/03/14

Title: Not Part of the Plan series

Author: Annie D / scaramouche (tumblr)

Fandom: Supernatural

Rating: NC-17

Pairing: Dean/Castiel

Warnings: explicit sex (gay), forced/arranged marriage (and dubcon elements related to that), couple of instances of self-harm, ritual/magical bloodletting and tattooing, captivity, mentions of childhood abuse, manipulation

Other notes: political drama, work-in-progress, long-distance relationship, slow build, relationship problem(solving), angst, cultural differences, adventure

Length: 340k

Summary:

Castiel's spent most of his adult life keeping his head down and staying out of trouble. This is a deliberate choice on his part, because as a cousin of the King, he'd rather stay unimportant and forgotten. This changes abruptly when King Michael decides that he has a better use for Castiel: he is to be wed to a noble member of the neighboring Republic, as part of an agreement between their two nations.
Castiel knows he has to obey, but that doesn't mean he won't rebel in what small ways he can. Unexpectedly, his actions end up having far-reaching consequences.

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Originally posted on tumblr on 12/01/14

Title: The Desert Between

Author: beatrice-otter

Fandom: Star Trek (film, 2009)

Rating: PG-13

Pairing: Spock/Uhura

Warnings: arranged marriages, cross-cultural (mis)understandings, pon farr talk

Other notes: strong female characters, discussion of culture and assimilation

Length: 14k

Summary: “All Vulcans are constrained. By our biology, by our clans, by our whole society. But women more so than men, and offworlder women married to Vulcan men most of all.” Nyota loves Spock. But she can’t have him without taking Vulcan culture, too.

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Originally posted on Tumblr on 01/11/13

Title: Affliction’s Sons

Author: Stella_Notecor

Fandom: Star Trek

Rating: NC-17

Pairing: Kirk/Spock, Winona/Sarek

Warnings: explicit sex (gay and straight), mildly (joking) incest roleplay, some exhibitonism. There’s also graphic violence/torture and minor character death in the prequel, but it’s only alluded to in the main story.

Other notes: post-XI-movie, family, bonding, pregnancy, boys being stupid over emotional issues, the power of science, crisis

Length: 70k

Summary: There has been a Pon Farr outbreak on New Vulcan. Sarek goes to investigate but is trapped on an uninhabited planet with Winona Kirk just as he begins Pon Farr himself. Spock and Jim save their parents, only to discover that they are now stepbrothers. Dealing with the outbreak, their parents’ new relationship, and their own friends-with-benefits relationship will challenge both of them.

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Originally posted on tumblr on 11/28/12

Title: Coming Home

Author: Amanda Warrington

Fandom: Star Trek

Rating: NC-17

Pairing: Kirk/Spock, Kirk Prime/Spock Prime, some hints of Spock Prime/Kirk, past Spock/Uhura, and assorted background characters and OCs

Warnings: explicit sex (gay), major character injury,

Other notes: world-building, bonding, excellent OCs, time travel,

Length: 126k

Summary: Set a few months into their first mission, the Enterprise is ordered to pick up a Vulcan Healer and transport him to the new colony. Once there they are scheduled to remain and assist with the early stages of setting up the colony. Kirk’s liaison is his ‘old friend’ Ambassador Spock, now known as Elder Sepak, who takes the opportunity to help Kirk and Spock become better acquainted.

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Originally posted to tumblr on 11/27/12