No one, that's who!

Fandom: Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance/Radiant Dawn
Characters: Shinon, Rolf
Word count: ~1200
Warnings: Strong language, general Shinon-being-Shinon
Notes: genprompt_bingo - "Artisan / Craftsman." This is maybe the longest it's ever taken me to write ~1200 words, because I got off to a false start that I had to scrap, and also I spent a lot of time reading about various Mediterranean styles of bow construction. Any factual errors are my own.

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( Better things to do, like making stuff. )

Fandom: Fire Emblem: Three Houses
Characters: Edelgard, Hubert
Word count: ~800
Warnings: Major character death and general bad vibes!
Notes: Stumbled across feflashfriday recently, saw the prompt "Came Back Wrong," was immediately possessed to hack this out. In the spirit of the thing, I stopped futzing with it when I hit two hours, so it's less polished than is my ideal, hah.

WHILE I was writing this I was also baking approximately 50 cookies, which was a fun juxtaposition. Cutting shapes out of dough and thinking about the undead.

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( Somehow it wasn't enough. )

Fandom: Tales of Symphonia
Characters: Zelos, Zelos's Mommy Issues
Word count: ~1200
Warnings: Some crude humor. Dissociation/unreality/hallucinations (ambiguous - but let's just say this dude is having A Time). Mucking about with verb tenses.
Notes: genprompt_bingo prompt - "Snow and Ice." What a slutty overcoat looks like is left as an exercise for the reader. Making Zelos suffer is fantastically diverting, and I don't know why I haven't done more of it in all these years.

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( Yeah, okay, boo-hoo, your mom's dead. )

Three experimental things from the past few months that are not my in my usual medium:

• an essay, researching which I pretty much pulled up a Final Fantasy IX game script and ctrl+F'd the word "remember"
  
• MIDI remix of Raine's theme from Tales of Symphonia
  
• some drawings of Hubert von Fireemblem

Dear Yuletide Author,

Hail and well met! I am AO3 user Phlyarologist and I am requesting an assortment of dirtbags, villains, preternaturally hot women, and guys with boats*! I hope something in the prompts that follow will appeal to you, but if not, feel free to ignore them and do your own thing. If you also like any of my niche favorites, I trust your judgment already.

My prompts tend to skew gen, but shipping-wise m/f, m/m, and f/f are all welcome. Although I do not want explicit sex scenes, offscreen/implied/fade-to-black sex is fine!

General likes: Humor, friendship, adventure, worldbuilding, missing scenes, character study, interactions between characters who don't normally share a lot of page- or screentime, bittersweetness, hope in the face of adversity. Dirtbags, scoundrels, weasely little bastards, etc. Angst, complicated family dynamics, body horror, deathfic.

DNWs: Explicit sexual content (implied or fade-to-black is fine), non-con, unrequested incest, unrequested adult/underage ships; mundane AUs for canons with supernatural elements; modern AUs for non-modern canons; pregnancy; non-canonical child characters; gender or sexual orientation as sources of angst/conflict; non-canonical death by suicide (canonical suicides or suicides-by-proxy are fine; ideation or attempts not resulting in death are fine); vomit, feces

*Also three pretty reasonable teenagers, whose reputations I am sorry to tarnish by association.

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Fandom-specific prompts:Tokimeki Memorial | Lord Ermenwyr Series - Kage Baker | The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass | Armadale - Wilkie Collins

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Dear Press Start creator,

Hey, how are ya! This is Phlyarologist here to push some kind of handheld gaming agenda while I still can!

At the time of this writing, you can still add funds to a Nintendo 3DS eShop account by redeeming a gift card code, but that capacity will go away during the creation period for this very exchange, and funds in said account will only be usable through March 2023. The 3DS was and remains a pretty nifty console, and mine has provided me tons of entertainment in the past eight years. I'm doing 3DS-themed requests this year, for some games I have particularly enjoyed during the console's supported lifespan. And I'm likely to keep playing them long after.

My requests will contain spoilers for Pokémon Sun and Moon, The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, and Etrian Odyssey 2 Untold story mode, so I guess watch out if you haven't played any of these and were planning to someday! (I think you should totally plan to play SuMo and ALBW; my recommendation for EO2U is a bit more qualified, ha ha ha. It's got a lot of charm but some very frustrating boss mechanics.)

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( General likes and DNWs )

( Pokémon Sun and Moon )

( The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds )

( Etrian Odyssey 2 Untold )

Fandom: Ace Attorney, Final Fantasy VI
Characters: Ema Skye, Sabin Figaro
Word count: ~1100
Warnings: None
Notes: For intoabar: Sabin goes into a bar and meets Ema. (Salty AA4-era Ema, naturally.)

For my previous A Ficathon Goes into a Bar entry, my research consisted of looking at diagrams of well pumps. For this year, I looked at diagrams of arm locks. This is the difference between the Figaro brothers.

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( Oh, nice, two guys whaling on each other for fun and profit. )

Fandom: Lord Ermenwyr series - Kage Baker
Characters: Ermenwyr
Word count: 200
Warnings: None
Notes: For Be the First 2022, I decided to pimp this weird fantasy series. This was written to do double-duty as a GYWO Yahtzee prompt, for "loyal" but honestly, given the attention my MS is demanding at present, I'm not really committed to Yahtzee this year.

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( a new kind of pain )

Howl's Moving Castle, book!Howl/Sophie on movie!Howl/Sophie
Final Fantasy IX, Steiner
Final Fantasy VI, Strago (& Relm)
Final Fantasy VI, Locke/Rachel

And a couple I accidentally posted logged out...

Hollow Knight, Hornet & the Knight
Collegia Magica, Anne/Dante

Fandom: Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn
Characters: Micaiah/Sothe/Pelleas
Word count: ~6k
Warnings: Dysfunctional relationship, gnarly dark magic, gnarly dark magic symptoms resembling a terminal neurological disease?
Notes: The Sothe/Pelleas arm of this mess gets the most attention but it's definitely within a context of "They Both Love Micaiah So Much (Perhaps Unfortunately?)" This was for queenlua for Press Start VII!

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I.( One fine summer morning, Pelleas begins to die. )

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II. ( Micaiah doesn't ask him to go, and he doesn't promise anything. )