Life and Times of Teh Asuka

RESTORE


Fandom: Final Fantasy 7 (post-Advent Children, no Dirge of Cerberus, no Crisis Core)

Status: Work in progress. And I write slowly.

Summary: Two years after the events of Advent Children. Cloud and Tifa never hoped they might see Aeris or Zack ever again -- and they did hope they wouldn't have to deal with Sephiroth a third time. They were wrong on both counts.

Having their friends back is great, but it also comes with its share of awkwardness, confusion and other, more practical troubles; having to deal with a newly sane -- or is he? -- but still bastardly killer doesn't help. Especially when they still have to keep Denzel, Avalanche, WRO and the Turks happy.

Meanwhile in the Wutai court, a sinister plot is brewing that could engulf the whole world once again...

Genre: action/psychological/romance. Plot. Attempt at redeeming Sephiroth. Possible polyamory.

Pairings: ...Well. This is kind of complicated.

It starts out more or less Cloud/Tifa and Zack/Aeris, mostly because two of them were alive and two of them weren't. They won't cheat or betray each other. But they might start mix'n'matching.

And then there's Sephiroth.

There will be straight, male/male and female/female interaction. It also means that the dating situation will be more complicated than "do you like me, Y/N" and "Yay we kissed once, now we're gonna get married true luve forevarrr." Mm, polyamory. I'm going to be shooting for a fivesome, just to see if I can make it happen in character, but at best I expect fluid twosome/threesome combinations amongst the five of them and for people to have favorites, not an equal "everyone loves everyone else just the same" situation. There will be jealousy and awkwardness. Tifa is shy like that, Cloud is confused and likes keeping to himself, and Sephiroth will be trying his best to stay asexual and not interested. I'll have to see how far I can believably push them, and if they won't do it in a way that doesn't break suspension of disbelief, then I won't force it. (Strangely enough, I expect no problem from Zack and Aeris.)



And even with all that babble, the plot still gets more spotlight than the relationships.


Warning, I don't have a beta for my posts on Livejournal. Betareading is for the ffnet version, but I haven't started to post it on ffnet yet. There are probably stray mistakes here and there and weird characterization or anti-canon stupidity. I'll be thankful if you feel like pointing them out, but it's alright if you don't. Hopefully my beta will catch what I missed anyway.


Prologue

Chapter 1.1
Chapter 1.2

Chapter 2.1
Chapter 2.2

Chapter 3.1
Chapter 3.2
Chapter 3.3

Chapter 4.1
Chapter 4.2

Chapter 5.1
Chapter 5.2
Chapter 5.3

Chapter 6.1
Chapter 6.2

Chapter 7.1
Chapter 7.2
Chapter 7.3

Chapter 8.1
Chapter 8.2

Chapter 9
...


Sidefic: Cloudette and the Yellow Orb (Genderbending crack.)
Prequel: Fluff and Feathers (gen, slow-paced Cloud + kids + chocobo fluff)
Sidefic: Misfortune (Sephiroth/Cloud preslash)
SOLDIER (the first few lines of a Restore sequel I might never write. Sephiroth + OC.)


Genderbent Alternate Universe ficlets:

(Cloud and Sephiroth are women, Tifa and Aeris are men ♥ )
Prequel: Sephiroth in Wutai (slightly edited/expanded version)
Sephiroth and Aerith and gardening


(Zack is a woman)
Zack, Aeris, Sephiroth. Flirting. Kind of.



Fan-fanfic!
by shewhoflies: Some Tifa introspection, on Zack.

Yesterday I decided I would write!

And then I promptly did nothing. I feel very bad about this.

So obviously today I had to write!

Which is why I spent the day doing some more nothing.

Now it's nine thirty PM, and I'm writing summaries for my fics, since I've realized the FFnet ones are kind of thin and for the LJ-only fics I have a tendency to just never bother actually telling people what they're about. I just ramble on about my ideas for a few posts, and if you've missed those posts, when you see the next chapters you're VERY confused. My bad. Anyway. I need to pretend I'm actually doing something, right?

Been trying to write a good summary for Teamwork 2.5 and 3; I'm poking at my personal site and why am I restricting myself to FFnet-sized stuff anyway. >( If anyone's willing to help me clarify or formulate them better, go ahead, but mostly I'm just posting those so I don't lose them in the depths of my computer.

( summaries -- Naruto, FF7, GW, mermaids )

Stolen from joisbishmyoga: Take any one of the fandoms you know I write in, and give me a type of AU (space opera AU, pirate AU, superhero AU, Ancient Rome, etc). I will then explain what story from your chosen fandom I would write for your chosen type of AU.

Fandoms : Naruto, Final Fantasy 7, Gundam Wing, Katekyo Hitman Reborn, D.Gray-man, Bleach, Harry Potter, The Sentinel, Seirei no Moribito, Dragon Ball Z.

edit: ... oh, i love my family so much. I'll go back to the meme later if i can, but right now i've kind of lost the worldbuilding mood. grrrr.




-I'm still poking at the old kissing meme from time to time, but it's not going fast. .__.;


-In FF7 ficcage news, I think my main problem with it is Aeris' characterization. She's supposed to be wise and mysterious in some way, yet down to earth, optimistic and flirty, and in this scene, she should come across as relieved of a lot of worries yet still commiserating with Cloud and Tifa's own worries -- but she comes across as pretending she isn't haughty, and expecting Cloud and Tifa to be glad and happy to have her and Zack back, to the exclusion of their own feelings.

It's strange how I like Aeris better than Tifa in-game, but Tifa is so much easier to write semi-properly. I mean, I'm still not a Tifa specialist, but it's easier to give her some sense of dimension. Aeris... nope. *sigh* Will need to rewrite the last scene I wrote, I think. In the meantime, I'm poking at a few Aeris-centric drabbles. Maybe writing her POV will help... Anyone got good Aeris-centric fics to rec?


-sarolynne posted pictures she took during her trip to visit me. Mostly ANIMALS~ Also one pic for size comparison purposes. ... I'm not the one who's tiny, she's the one who's tall. T_T

Belongs in the Restore ficverse, but it can be read independently, all you need to know is 1) it's post-AC by a couple of years and 2) Aeris, Zack and Sephiroth decided they didn't like hanging out in the Lifestream anymore.

( Cloudette and the Yellow Orb, or Why Shopping With Aeris Is A Bad, Bad Idea. (working title, help me out here. D:) AKA Asuka Is A One-Trick Pony, Bis Repetitae. )

unbetaed so plz help? sleep has vainquished me so the scene isn't done, woe and misery. but finally!!! i managed to write past this. it only took me three tries and about twenty pages of writing to trash and start again. ~__~

... my aeris and tifa voices really need some work.

( ff7 - restore )

So apparently there are awkward not-quite-english sentence structures in there. If you can spot them, or any other kind of mistake, it will be a great help. .___. ♥

I can't help but feel it drags on a bit, and I can't tell if it's because I spent a while sticking all the pieces together, or if it's because it really does lose its momentum and rambles on. Hn. Suggestions welcome.

As for fic names, I think I'll call this one Restore, and the one where Seph and Zack end up at the North crater Revive, after materias. Restore gets to be this one because they're getting back to a good life and the plot starts from there, but there are other unrelated-to-resurrection things coming up too. The other one is more about them reviving... in the middle of nowhere. And then dealing with the shit that falls on them in direct consequence to it.

Okay, it's going to be confusing as hell, but hey, that's the best idea I've gotten so far. .__.;

( Read more... )

... This is the one with Denzel and Zack in the churck. I finally finished the meeting scene, whew. x___x

Not sure I like the beginning, might just cut it out until Cloud's at the church, I dunno.

( long time no see~ )

And another post-Advent Children ficthing... I wasn't going to post until I had more of it, but Saro asked to see, and I'm a whore for comments anyway. XD

( scene 1, complete, unbetaed )