[fic][Tales of Vesperia, Raven/Schwann, Flynn, Yuri, PG] This Only Ends with a Sharp Knife

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. )

[fic][Star Wars, Cody, Obi-wan, Delta Squad, G] Kicking It

Been back in clone commando hell for the last couple weeks and a couple videos I'd been watching reminded me that, in Legends-era at least, a lot of the Mandalorian words and customs that spread through the regular troopers were mainly from commandos and ARCs and my mind kind of went on a tangent from there.

I guess clones play hacky sack now.

Title: Kicking It
Fandom: Star Wars: Clone Wars/Republic Commando
Rating: G
Word Count: 1217
Characters: Cody, Obi-Wan, Delta Squad, various minor appearances
Summary: In which clones play a game except for when it's not a game.

( Whenever a new trend went through the troops, it tended to be started by either commandos or Jedi and Jedi trends were generally less… raucous. )