Title: No Burden of Proof
Fandom: Final Fantasy VII
Characters: Tifa, her father and step-mother, Denzel, Vincent, mention of Yuffie
Rated: PG

Summary: Family can mean a lot of things, especially to someone who realizes how important it is. For my step-father, on his birthday. [ff.net link]

( I don't think I would have been as patient as you. )

 

Chapter 12

Chapter 12 was a pain in the ass to write, and also got the least response. I don't know if any of it has to do with FFnet's constant downtime, or if it was just too laborious a read. But I suppose that's life.

It seems like most of the readers out there are looking for fluff and romance, and poor attempts at forced humor, and oh, the list could go on and on and on. I think the older fans are fading away, and as I see all these new fics coming out repeating the same ideas over and over again, I shake my head. I'd almost feel bad for the authors, if so many of them hadn't copied a bunch of my once-original concepts, not to mention turned them to cheese.

I haven't forgotten about the lemon challenge I received from Jack of Spades. I'm still going to do it. Yup, trying my hand at adult stuffs now (harhar, wordplay).

Even though "adult" doesn't always translate into "mature," I'm aiming for an older crowd all around, even with the cleaner pieces. I just don't have it in me to fill my stories up with OOC-ness and fluff (unless the fluff has other, more profound layers to it). I'm a dark, angsty person, and that's just the way my writing tends to turn. I have a lot of dark, angsty experience, and I write what I know, and so does anyone else who isn't forcing their words.

I have a lot of gems hidden away, and a lot of pieces on my hard-drive that a lot of readers don't know about. Some of my constant contacts don't even know about them. A lot of these are unprecedented ideas, and might not be popular, but they will make me feel like I did a good job, and I will be satisfied. And dammit, I guess that means I'll be calling myself a niche writer, doesn't it?

Two more VinTif multi-chaps, but I think I'm going to either combine those, or take the one in the crazy direction that frightens me, but is awesome to the max. If I do, you're all going to get a lesson in ethics and personal space through this very unfluffy and invasive tale (that sounds pr0nny, but it's not). A warning about baggage, if you will, but told in a way you might not have imagined. The other...will also be a quite interesting concept. I'm going to mess with Vincent's character some more, but I think it'll be truer.

Had an idea about their daughter, depending on whether or not I feel like touching on that sort of dynamic.

A few lemons, to be posted on the Adult Fanfiction site.

Many, many giftfics I owe.

I'm going to keep a lot of this to myself until it develops into something more profound, because that's what it's going to take to keep me satisfied with my writing now. No more pointless stories. Unless they involve chainsaws. Because darkfic is fun.

Either way, I have enough ideas to thumb through and develop, so there won't be any shortage. I don't know if you guys can really handle more VinTif, what with the over-abundance of it all lately, but if it turns out to be something good, then that's worth it, in my opinion.

Gonna go jot, mess with my site, write and organize now.

'Tis the way the ball bounces.

♥ Darknightdestiny

Agapé, chapter eleven is finally up.

It was hard for me to concentrate on this for an entire month. I could never seem to get the transitions between scenes right. I could never seem to get the dialogue to seem sincere enough. But finally, it's posted.

At first I didn't want to look at it, and promised myself I would wait an entire day to check my inbox for responses. That didn't last. But some people told me it was the best chapter yet in the story. That made me feel pretty good.

But I've gotten a significantly lower response to this one. I'm not quite sure what caused this. Maybe my month's absence. Maybe the subject matter. Or maybe people are just sick of the VinTifa. Well I am too, to be honest. Just a little. But it's not like I can shut my brain off. I have to write what's there, or it will explode. And I can't concentrate on anything else until I clean house.

Plus I want everything I write to be the best it can be.

The responses all stopped rather abruptly after a day and a half. It's gotten about half as much attention as the rest of them. Perhaps it's the season. Perhaps I should wait a bit longer. But it didn't stave off the strange sense of disappointment I got from an empty inbox. And I keep reminding myself that I'm writing for ME. But I have to wonder still, after all the work I put into it, what went wrong.

On the upside, I've been able to concentrate better on the giftfics. I hope people will read them. Getting close and all that.

~Darknightdestiny~

Title: Beneath the Stitching
Fandom: Final Fantasy VII
Characters: Vincent x Tifa x Hellmasker
Rated: PG-13

Summary: Did this one for Bleuwyn, after I started talking about Vincent as Hellmasker with her and his demon forms, and she encouraged me to run with the Tifa X Hellmasker bit, after writing so much VinTif over time.

I'm quickly becoming obsessed with this Helly's crazy head and the way he would interact with Tifa, considering my affinity for the VincentxTifa. Very interested in the way a psycho would express his sexual attraction toward a teammate who is friendly with his flip-side personality.

In this fic, I decided to go with a telekinetic approach as far as his means of communication goes, and I also gave him a face beneath the mask - Vincent's, to be exact. Only covered in the scars he refuses to let go of. The spitting image of what he presumes himself to be. And Tifa, upon seeing this, interprets it for what it really is, and instead of repelling her, it draws her closer to Vincent. [ff.net link]

( A darker sort of fascination. )

 

Title: Crestfallen
Fandom: Final Fantasy VII
Characters: Vincent, Lucrecia
Rated: PG

Summary: Vincent's first trip to the cave. Closure is a funny thing. [ff.net link]

( Who am I, to need you when I'm down? )