Fated Flames

Word Count: 3,995

Summary: Following her induction into Scepter 4, Nova receives her first official assignment as an apprentice to the organization’s third-in-command. Despite a rocky introduction, their meeting has a greater impact on them than they ever could have anticipated.

*Author’s Note*: The first of a number of prompts I plan to do that have been plucked off of this prompt list. I’ve been dying to write some stuff for this selfship because it’s my favorite thing right now, but there has been a LOT of stuff going on irl, this month is just gonna be so busy and crazy and. Ugh. Anyway I’m taking refuge in Fushimi but I needed some prompts to stir my creative juices, so here’s my “official” version of our first meeting. I hope you enjoy.

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Finally, Nova’s processing as a new recruit was complete; she was officially inducted as a Blue Clansman, a fresh face joining the ranks of Scepter 4. She was grateful, nervous, curious, excited…so many emotions churned inside her she couldn’t settle on just one. She’d been granted a week of leave by the Captain in order to get her bearings, starting with the necessities of learning the headquarters’ layout, getting accustomed to her new schedule, receiving her uniform and her saber, and acclimating to her dorm. 

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Intro to the Metaverse (pt. 1)

Word Count: 2,245

Summary: Nova stumbles into the Metaverse, unaware of the danger that lurks within.

*Author’s Note* (Updated): Okay final one of these, I guess I lied :P I'm not going to update the original notes, so they'll make references to things like reblogs and stuff because everything was originally posted on Tumblr, but I don't see a reason to/have the energy to make them make sense now fjilesjges but I want to keep them because they are part of the original works.

*Author’s Note* (Previous): *EDITED* I reread this one shot a couple days ago and aside from loving it I realized it wasn’t really at it’s best. I went back and edited some aesthetic and grammar things and now I’m reblogging it as an updated piece. It’s still the same premise of a part 1 for Nova’s first meeting w/ Ren. The monster is supposed to be an ambiguous Shadow that was just there for me to play off of. The voice Nova hears is a good thing though. I hope you enjoy!

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The Metaverse is a strange, fantastical place. A parallel universe, a foundational building block within the framework of infinite interdimensional space. Nova didn’t have any experience with the Metaverse, nor would she have recognized the word if she casually heard it in passing. Well, that wasn’t entirely true, considering she had heard plenty of rumors about it back during the height of the Phantom Thieves drama. A group of mysterious, rebellious youths from Japan had somehow managed to refine a method of stealing the hearts of particularly nasty individuals who would subsequently repent and turn from their wicked ways. The Thieves unique actions ended up garnering international attention. Nova had been entranced by them at the time, inspired by their heroism and obsessed with learning everything she could about their ability to freely pass between the barrier separating reality from the unknown.

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A Fated Promise (pt. 2)

Word Count: 8,046

Summary: After waking up from her exciting experience in the other reality, Nova finds herself drawn by some unseen force to understand more about the nature of that place, and the role she’s been fated to fulfill in it.

*Author’s Note*: This technically counts towards the First Meeting prompt for F/O February, but I don’t think I’m going to tag it because I didn’t write it with that in mind. It is a direct follow up to this fic. This is one of the most beautiful things I’ve written in probably over a year. It’s over 8,000 words, and I can’t remember the last time I wrote a single drabble/fic chapter or anything that was this long. I poured my heart and soul into this piece, wrote it in a day, edited it over the course of a week, reread it multiple times throughout that period. I know this isn’t going to get many notes, but I don’t care. If you can, please just read it. Or even just part of it. You don’t even have to comment, but I’m really proud of this, and I would love if people just gave it a look. I enjoyed writing and reading this immensely, and I hope it’s able to bring at least one other person some happiness, or encourage them to create something that means a lot to them, too.

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Nova awoke the morning after her strange, otherworldly experience safe and sound in the comfort of her hotel room. It felt like an eternity had passed. She slowly peeled her eyes open, squinting a bit at the bright sunlight streaming through the windows. How had she gotten back here? No, she remembered that. She could remember everything from that nightmarish episode, right down to the feel and smell of the man that had rescued her from certain doom. She sat up, rubbing her eyes before slowly lowering her hands and examining them. They were trembling; her heart was pounding. She still hadn’t recovered from the incident, and as more memories started to resurface with uncomfortable clarity, she tucked her knees against her chest.

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Crossed Paths

Word Count: 7,176

Summary: A chance encounter in a new city presents Nova with the opportunity, and the heart attack, of a lifetime.

*Author’s Note*: Bad summary I just hate writing them and putting character names in them it makes me feel bad. Like at this point I don’t even want people to know who the story’s about. Anyway, happy Octopath Traveler release day, I’m obsessed w/ this man and would die for him just like the other two. Also there’s some water/fish related puns that I had in here before I’d seen Tressa’s intro, and then it turned out ppl from her town do talk like that, so. Meant to be I guess lol. Also this turned out way longer than I planned/expected it to be but oh well. I hope you enjoy.

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“Welcome to Atlasdam, the great city of riches and royals!”

“Keep your voice down, you’ll offend the locals shouting stuff like that.”

“I get the feeling it wouldn’t take much to offend the people here.”

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Interruption

Word Count: 1,023

Summary: It’s nothing more than a short interruption, but to both of them, even exchanges like these feel monumental.

*Author’s Note*: First proper original fic I’m posting on this page! I’ve been…all over the place lately. Emotionally, physically, mentally, just…ugh. I made a New Year’s Resolution to give some more attention to my lesser known—and lesser interacted with—F/Os in my fics this year…and proceeded to careen away from that option like an off-course comet orz idk if I’ll change my tune any time soon, but for now my main 3 make me really happy, and I’m going to focus on that happiness while I can. ANYWAY, long intro to say: this is a Mordecai piece, I wrote another small one like this to try and inspire myself to write more Mordecai stuff, and even if it ends up not working, I’m glad I was able to do these two and the New Year’s one at least. I hope you enjoy!

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“I hope I’m not interrupting…”

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