Idiosynthesize

Title: The Little Things
Fandom: Transformers: Rescue Bots
Rating: G
Word Count: 746
Characters: Heatwave, Chase
Summary: Set after 1x06. Sometimes it's the little things you need help with.

( It was a superficial flaw, a couple of shallow divots that crumpled the edge of the door. )

Title: Paradigm Shift
Fandom: Star Wars: Republic Commando
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 2238
Characters: Laseema, Fixer
Summary: Set before part 4 of Tie a Knife with a Ribbon. Laseema and Fixer and a little needed perspective.

( Do you know if it’s because you don’t like the attention or because you’re not used to it? )

I wanted so very badly to name it after a line in Predator: The Musical but there wasn't one that worked with the fic. So instead the title comes from a track off the Prey soundtrack which is close enough though not as fun.

Title: Thrill of the Chase
Fandom: Star Wars: Republic Commando/Bad Batch
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 1896
Characters: Hunter, Mird, Nulls, Fixer
Summary: Deep in the the forest a beast is on the hunt.

( He managed to get an arm up, the beast’s jaws snapping around that rather than Hunter’s throat. )

OH BOY! Lemme tell ya what I didn't think I'd be writing more of! These two!

Title: Between the Shadow and the Soul
Fandom: Star Wars: Republic Commando/Bad Batch
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 23102
Characters: Hunter, Fixer, Omega, minor appearances by Tech, Delta Squad, and various others from the RepComm books
Summary: Two commandos trying to navigate the traumas between them

Yeesh, apparently I can't write about clone armor without using it as a vessel for deeper clone concerns. What was originally a fun scene involving Delta and some paint turned into Sev projecting his issues onto it. I just have a lot of thoughts about clones and their armor as a form of expression and extension of themselves, okay? Fun fact: the 'pattern' on Sev's design never the same between sources, that certainly didn't complicate things. Title from Trocadero's That Man in Red.

Title: The Hue for Which I'd Been Born and Bred
Fandom: Star Wars: Republic Commando
Rating: PG
Word Count: 2191
Characters: Delta Squad, minor appearances by Jango and Vau
Summary: Commandos being able to paint their armor was a privilege but not one they were all comfortable with.

( Even his brothers, as they twisted to admire their new look, were an intimidating sight.  Sev just felt like a fool. )

Takes place in the nonexistent RepComm sequel where Sev ends up joining the beginnings of the rebellion. I haven't found a detailed explanation for how the inhibitor chips work but I figure there'd be some kind of fail-safe in the event Order 66 is instituted while a clone is unable to take comms, has busted gear or is simply sleeping. I personally imagine once chips are activated they transmit an activation code to any inactive chips nearby and the order stays dormant in the mind until a trigger (Jedi) occurs.

Title from Iron Maiden's Afraid to Shoot Strangers.

Title: Go Now and Finish What's to be Done
Fandom: Star Wars: Republic Commando
Rating: PG
Word Count: 2988
Characters: Sev, original characters
Summary: A year after the fall of the Republic, Sev brushes against Order 66.

( That can’t be a coincidence, right?  That you started thinking about killing Jedi at the same time one’s supposed to come here? )

Some rando: It's been fifteen years and you're still not over Boss breaking Vau's arm?
Me: Are you trying to tell me there are people that are???

Title: Clean Break
Fandom: Star Wars: Republic Commando
Rating: G
Word Count: 746
Characters: Walon Vau, Mij Gilamar
Summary: Some people would've been embarrassed to have their arm broken by a child. Vau was rather proud.

( I’ve broken a number of bones in the past, Gilamar.  This is hardly a novelty. )

I originally wrote this back in August of 2020 in fits and spurts and periods of neglect over the course of a few weeks. Before I could put this up, however, I suffered a personal tragedy that left me in a severely depressed state that I'm still in the process of working through. During that time I ended up in a cycle of forgetting about this, remembering it and then procrastinating until I forgot it again which is why I'm only getting around to posting it now.

At least I've finished one fic last friggin' year.

Just some speculation to deal with a frustratingly hastily dropped plot point. Title from Sonata Arctica's "The Boy Who Wanted to be a Real Puppet". Minor spoilers for early parts of Raven's backstory/The Empty Mask but otherwise ignores it.

Title: This Only Ends with a Sharp Knife
Fandom: Tales of Vesperia
Rating: PG
Word Count: 2888
Characters: Raven/Schwann, Flynn, Yuri
Summary: Pre-game/mid-game. Perhaps the strings on Alexei's puppet weren't as strong as either of them thought.

( Flynn had the makings of someone that could tear down all of Alexei's plans. )

Spent all day at work and forgot that it was Saturday oops.

Title: Sick as a Dog
Fandom: Tales of Vesperia
Rating: PG
Word Count: 1888
In Responds to: Fluri Week 2019: Sick Saturday
Characters: Yuri, Flynn, Repede
Summary: Pre-game. Few things can resolve a rocky relationship like sick family.

( With Flynn, Repede would have a purpose, better care, better food. A better life. )

Title from Damien Rice's Cannonball.

Title: Step a Little Closer to Me
Fandom: Tales of Vesperia
Rating: G
Word Count: 712
In Responds to: Fluri Week 2019: Miss You Monday
Characters: Flynn, minor appearances by Sodia and Witcher
Summary: Flynn's return to Halure was brief but full of surprises.

( Sir, )