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THE ULTIMATE VIVS' ZERO ESCAPE FIC TOP 10

Tue, 16 Feb 2021 22:25:18 GMT

It's official: All my Zero Escape WIPs are discontinued and I've left the fandom. There was no drama or big reason, it's just that after 10ish years...I'm done. Told all the stories I feel like telling, made all the friends I'm going to make. I won't lie and say my personal reasons don't run deeper than this, but I have no desire to be a sourpuss here.

THAT SAID, I've posted 36 ZE fics on AO3 and thought I'd do a little Top 10 of my personal favorites, what I'd love for you to read if you dove into my own personal madness. Not including WIPs because that just seems unfair.

1. "Daffodil Like Yourself:" "When the Fields left SOIS, they left the esper cloak and dagger life behind. Three years later, Crash Keys drags them back in cursing and swinging. Hongou’s out of prison, First Nonary game players have all but vanished, and when Aoi and Light are the next ones kidnapped everyone has no choice but to cooperate in order to survive and foil a fatal plan." Aoi/Light, Seven+Junpei, Akane+Clover. What I consider to be the best fic I've ever written for this fandom.

2. "Man of three fears: integrity, faith, and crocodile tears:" "Junpei solves a murder and leans on his wife in the meantime." Junpei/Akane. Junpei solving a locked room mystery is good and I'm proud I managed to write this in drabbles.

3. "Leave It Unmapped:" "Phi asks Junpei for a big favor: To help her interrogate her mother about her past with Free the Soul. When they dig, they reveal something Phi can’t walk away from unchanged." Phi and Junpei gen. I LOVE PHI+JUNPEI, my headcanon duo forever and ever, and I love Phi Sr. and my and Lex's headcanon for her. This one got a really positive response and I'm very proud of it.

4. Splinter from the headboard in my eye:" "In one world, Carlos gets dragged into helping Aoi investigate a string of incendiary attacks on Crash Keys’ property, and stumbles across a larger mystery when he realizes he’s never meeting the same Aoi twice. In another world, Aoi just wants to stop constantly SHIFTing through time and space, protect his family, and resist falling for Carlos. These worlds intertwine and everything goes up in flames. A story told up, down, and sideways through time." Carlos/Aoi. My love of fire science and my love of Carlos/Aoi and time travel combined. I have a massive soft spot for this fic and how I told their surprise love story. Carlos/Aoi is my Aoi OTP after all!

5. "Seven Tricks Or Higher!": "While Akane is out of the country on official business, Aoi and Junpei are climbing up the walls. They try to kill time with sex, card games, musing on other histories, and ruining a perfectly good karaoke night. (Note: Aoi would like to apologize to Courtney Love for that last one.)" Aoi/Junpei. A present for a friend and a really fun story of Aoi and Junpei doing nothing in particular.

6. "I Can Be Your Long Lost Pal:" "It’s a long way from SOIS’ base to LAX, and Lotus and Seven decide to carpool. Along the way Seven proves he’s an expert at dodging questions about himself, but Lotus is persistent." Seven/Lotus. Originally written for a zine that never came to fruition, but I still love this one. I once got a compliment that I wrote Lotus really well and that stuck with me.

7. "Smoke, Mirrors:" "Junpei and Phi have a private investigation firm and no clients until one day they get two separate calls from newlyweds Aoi and Light, each asking them to spy on the other. Of course, neither party is one hundred-percent telling the truth about their reasons. Junpei and Phi would question the ethics of the situation, but if they did there would be fewer free steak dinners and less trust fund money." Aoi/Light, Phi and Junpei gen. This one is just fuckin' fun.

8. "eastbound, petrified forest:" "Diana and Carlos are given a car and a simple mission: Transport Crash Keys’ cargo from Point A to Point B, and don't get caught. "Falling in like" wasn't part of mission parameters, but it's welcome." Carlos/Diana. I LOVE CARDI AND I LOVE THIS FIC. I wanted to write something set in proper canon that didn't malign Sigma, and I think I did it here.

9. "Waltz of the Flowers:" "In a future where Dio succeeded, a young Left clone befriends the leftover relic of his conquest as she challenges his notion of happiness." Luna and Left Clone gen(?) I still feel like this one was slept on just saying.

10. "Starving for the Kind We Need:" "Akane and Phi will celebrate their anniversary come hell or high water." Phi/Akane. Because how can I not include Phi/Akane here???

And, well, close the curtain? I'm out, but I did have fun! Thank you all.

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Some fics

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 22:19:33 GMT

Four fics I posted during the last two months of 2020:

Waking the Witch (16846 words) by morphogenesis
Chapters: 4/5
Fandom: Life Is Strange (Video Game)
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Maxine "Max" Caulfield/Chloe Price, Victoria Chase/Taylor Christensen
Characters: Maxine "Max" Caulfield, Chloe Price (Life Is Strange), Kate Marsh, Victoria Chase (Life is Strange), Warren Graham, Mark Jefferson, Nathan Prescott
Additional Tags: Implied/Referenced Suicide, Witchcraft, Crossovers & Fandom Fusions, Mental Health Issues
Summary:

Witches awaken in Arcadia Bay, learn the mysterious suicide of a classmate isn't what it seems, and are forced to solve the mystery themselves. If only they could stop bickering long enough to do so.

[Engelsfors fusion]

Hideaway (13441 words) by morphogenesis
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Zero Escape (Video Games)
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Kurashiki Akane/Kurashiki Aoi/Tenmyouji Junpei
Characters: Kurashiki Akane | June, Kurashiki Aoi | Santa, Tenmyouji Junpei
Additional Tags: Incest, My motives are complex, Polyamory Big Bang, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, No VLR, No ZTD
Summary:

Akane and Aoi are living a quiet life in the suburbs when Junpei shows up, looking for reconciliation. It's complicated from there.

Rend (2021 words) by morphogenesis
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Exist-Archive
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Myoji Ema/Kiriya Tokihisa
Characters: Myoji Ema, Kiriya Tokihisa, Himuro Suzaku
Additional Tags: Post Curse of Immortality Ending
Summary:

Kiriya and Ema go for a stroll and end up with a stabbing and a love hotel.

The Utpala Hell (13207 words) by morphogenesis
Chapters: 4/?
Fandom: NG (Visual Novel)
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Amanome Seiji/Kijima Akira
Characters: Kijima Akira, Amanome Seiji, Hazuki Kaoru, Kijima Ami, Yashiki Kazuo | Kujou Masamune
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Case Fic, Future Fic, Mutual Pining bc they're dumb
Summary:

Winter, 2009. Teenage boys are disappearing all over the city, and rumors abound. Akira assumes it has nothing to do with him until Hazuki contacts him with some interesting information and a terrible reminder: It has been ten years since the NG Days. And so Akira's everyday life comes to an end yet again, with his old friends along for the ride.

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[FIC] Give Me Pieces, Zero Escape

Sat, 19 Sep 2020 07:28:05 GMT

Give Me Pieces (4497 words) by morphogenesis
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Zero Escape (Video Games)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Kurashiki Akane/Tenmyouji Junpei
Characters: Kurashiki Akane | June, Tenmyouji Junpei
Additional Tags: Loss of Virginity, First Time, Blow Jobs, Cunnilingus, Vaginal Sex
Summary:

Akane just wants to have sex with her fiance. Junpei is hesitant. Akane tries to figure out why, with patience, love, and Carlos' advice.

You (didn't) ask for Junepei porn. I delivered.

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[FIC] Carbon and Bluebird, Zero Escape

Tue, 25 Aug 2020 07:28:42 GMT

Carbon and Bluebird (6117 words) by morphogenesis
Chapters: 1/9
Fandom: Zero Escape (Video Games)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Light Field/Kurashiki Aoi, Kurashiki Akane/Tenmyouji Junpei, Clover Field & Kurashiki Akane | June
Characters: Light Field | Snake, Kurashiki Aoi | Santa, Tenmyouji Junpei, Clover Field, Kurashiki Akane | June, Seven (Zero Escape), Phi (Zero Escape)
Additional Tags: Background Seven/Lotus, Background Phi/Alice, Mystery, Implied Sexual Content
Series: Part 2 of Daffodil Verse
Summary:

Sequel to Daffodil Like Yourself.

Ten months after the catastrophe in Baltimore, the newly-formed Bluebird organization struggles to save the missing players of the First Nonary Game, find Alice, and keep themselves together.

EVERY TIME I SAY I'M DONE WITH AOILIGHT, I SWEAR. I started writing this in Fall 2019, abandoned it, and then picked it back up again after realizing, "Hey, this isn't bad." It's for me because I don't expect anyone to read this because it's a sequel but!!!

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Mon, 24 Aug 2020 11:08:47 GMT

Unpublished first draft of a snippet of "Fire Sermon" that I don't wanna post on Tumblr yet:

“You could be a hero!” Akane exclaimed. “Why would you give that up?” Softer, “Give me up.”

“I love you,” Aoi said gently, “but they don’t. Love doesn’t hurt like this.”

Junpei looked between them, dazed and not sure who to go to. He remembered something: he didn’t belong here, and where he came from there were two people on this Earth who would never hurt him.

“Junpei,” Akane pleaded, “you want to come with me, right?”

Junpei stepped towards her, his mind spinning, and he felt Akane trying to take control of it, control of him. His brain screamed to let her.

“Of course I do,” he said, and then thrust the taser out in front of him and pulled the trigger.

Yes I adapted Luther's "Love shouldn't hurt this much" quote from Umbrella Academy and what of it.

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[FIC] One to Shake You Down, Zero Escape

Wed, 05 Aug 2020 09:14:28 GMT

One to Shake You Down (2363 words) by morphogenesis
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Zero Escape (Video Games)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Carlos/Kurashiki Akane | June/Tenmyouji Junpei
Characters: Carlos (Zero Escape), Kurashiki Akane | June, Tenmyouji Junpei
Additional Tags: Loss of Virginity, Threesome - F/M/M, My motives are complex
Summary:

“I don’t believe you’re a virgin,” Junpei slurred.

“I do,” Akane said in her blunt but not unkind way. “But that sounds like somebody I knew before he got engaged.”

“What’s wrong with that?” Carlos said.

“Nothing,” Junpei said, licking the inside of his shot glass. “But do you wanna change it?”

Did you want C-Team having a threesome? Yes? Here you go.

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[FIC] Crashing in the Name of Science, Zero Escape

Mon, 27 Jul 2020 22:08:09 GMT

Crashing in the Name of Science (70959 words) by morphogenesis
Chapters: 30/30
Fandom: Zero Escape (Video Games), Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma - Fandom
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Kurashiki Akane/Tenmyouji Junpei, Kurashiki Akane/Phi, Light Field/Kurashiki Aoi, Carlos/Diana
Characters: Kurashiki Akane | June, Tenmyouji Junpei, Phi (Zero Escape), Sigma Klim, Diana (Zero Escape), Carlos (Zero Escape), Kurashiki Aoi | Santa, Light Field | Snake, Clover Field
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Post-Apocalypse, Survival, Slow Burn
Summary:

A game of chance at Dcom results in nine espers frozen and waking 45 years in the future to begin a new experiment. To earn freedom, they must survive one year while struggling with psychic powers gone haywire, space maladies, few resources, and one another. Welcome to the Rhizome-9 Cohabitation Project.

IT'S DONE. MY BABY OF FOUR YEARS IS DONE! raises my arms above my head, i am so proud of myself.

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[FIC] The Fire Sermon, Zero Escape (Akane/Junpei, Kurashikis gen)

Wed, 27 May 2020 19:27:57 GMT

New fic! WIP AU ft. Detectives Junpei/Akane and cultist Aoi who puts the "E" in Extra. Have an impulsive idfic on me, if you knew me in 2013 this is basically diluted Ark AU.

The Fire Sermon (3037 words) by morphogenesis
Chapters: 1/?
Fandom: Zero Escape (Video Games)
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Kurashiki Akane/Tenmyouji Junpei, Kurashiki Akane & Kurashiki Aoi
Characters: Kurashiki Akane | June, Tenmyouji Junpei, Seven (Zero Escape), Kurashiki Aoi | Santa, Diana (Zero Escape)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Detectives, No Nonary Games, Alternate Universe - Cults, Idfic, Established Relationship, Seven Is Shaped Like A Dad
Summary:

After escaping a cult as children, Junpei and Akane have carved out a living as detectives, though they’ve never forgotten the one they left behind: Aoi. When Aoi contacts them through an intermediary, looking to reunite, they go to him only to discover he’s not the person they left behind, and his involvement with their former captors hasn’t ended.

And now he wants their help.

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Sun, 17 May 2020 14:34:52 GMT

I'm busy writing ahead for Crashing in the Name of Science, my long ZE WIP where a bunch of the cast is stuck in Rhizome-9 in the future, and I've written about five chapters ahead for now? Finished Act 2 and now into Act 3. I'm excited about that part but less excited about what I've written so far. I'm struggling with the ending of Act 2 as so much has to happen in the last two chapters and I hope it all makes sense.

Either way I just had to share that? I kinda want to switch and make it my WIP BB but then I'd finally have to say my weekly posting schedule is a farce and damn it we try in this house. It's pretty lonely writing in a dead small fandom and writing away without any feedback can get draining, but I said I'll finish this fic so I will! And then I don't know.

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[FIC] Leave It Unmapped, Zero Escape, Junpei+Phi gen

Tue, 28 Apr 2020 13:28:36 GMT

Title: Leave It Unmapped
Author: handmaid | morphogenesis
Artist: N/A
Fandom: Zero Escape
Characters/Pairings: Junpei Tenmyouji, Phi, Canon OC, Phi and Junpei gen, background Junpei/Akane
Rating/Category: T
Genre: Mystery, Family/Gen
Word Count: 10,194
Warnings No Archive Warnings Apply, but mentions of parental death
Summary: Phi asks Junpei for a big favor: To help her interrogate her mother about her past with Free the Soul. When they dig, they reveal something Phi can’t walk away from unchanged.

Link to fic master post: ---
Link to art master post: N/A

For Small Fandoms Bang. Thanks D for your support and thanks to the mods for all of your hard work. Title from "May You Never" by Land of Talk.

( you were my sister )

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[FIC] "Splinter from the headboard in my eye," Zero Escape, Carlos/Aoi

Mon, 27 Apr 2020 10:55:53 GMT

Hey look what I finished:

Splinter from the headboard in my eye (30146 words) by morphogenesis
Chapters: 12/12
Fandom: Zero Escape (Video Games), Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma - Fandom
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Carlos/Aoi Kurashiki
Characters: Carlos (Zero Escape), Kurashiki Aoi | Santa, Tenmyouji Junpei, Kurashiki Akane | June, Phi (Zero Escape), Maria (Zero Escape)
Additional Tags: Non-Linear Narrative, Background Junepei, Background Phiria, Arson
Series: Part 1 of Loschmidt's Paradox
Summary:

In one world, Carlos gets dragged into helping Aoi investigate a string of incendiary attacks on Crash Keys’ property, and stumbles across a larger mystery when he realizes he’s never meeting the same Aoi twice.

In another world, Aoi just wants to stop constantly SHIFTing through time and space, protect his family, and resist falling for Carlos.

These worlds intertwine and everything goes up in flames. A story told up, down, and sideways through time.

Written March 2017 - April 2020! It's done! I am free!

A tiny post-mortem below:

( Finishing something is always both under- and overwhelming )

So now I'm down to only 2 WIPs on AO3 and then I can, like, take a break? From fandom? It's what I'm pondering. I feel like I've got a few more ZE fics in me but I'm unsure if I want to keep dumping energy into this fandom, but idk where else I'd write.

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Fri, 24 Apr 2020 11:39:03 GMT

I'm almost 2k into a Carlos/Diana road trip fic, this is who I am Mom and it's not a phase.

I love them so much and, like, I get WHY there isn't more content besides my stuff and another lovely fic I'll grab the link to later ("So Close, So Far" by Riona @ AO3) but I'm still sad lol. Come to my lonely world.

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Mon, 20 Apr 2020 16:56:00 GMT

I finished the rough draft of "Splinter from the headboard in my eye"!!! Chapters 1-9 are on AO3, Chapters 10, 11, and 12 are done, just in desperate need of editing. I've been writing this since March 2017 so I'm so excited to be almost done.

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Fri, 18 Mar 2016 19:42:37 GMT

why did i think an ensemble mystery suspense au was a good idea

why

i am so frustrated with writing this right now i could scream because i know i have some good ideas, people are interested and responsive to them, so why is it all so BORING when i write it down!!!!!

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ze3 spoilers!!!

Thu, 17 Mar 2016 03:39:30 GMT

WE HAVE THE ZE3 TRAILER. Link is the Kotaku article because it's got relevant demo info too.

SPOILEERRSSSS BELOW:

( overall i'm super excited )

Someone sedate me until June 28th.

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