inktober2022 wip: "gargoyle" [wintersberg]

 WIP from inktober 2022. prompt was "gargoyle" so i decided to lean into the story of St Romaine and Rouen a little bit. just a bit. i took a tremendous amount of liberties. intended to be eventual wintersberg or potentially chris/ethan/heisenberg, i haven't decided yet.

( Ethan stood right where Chris had left him... )

inktober2022 wip: "scurry" [wintersberg]

 another inktober prompt, this one "scurry," and i was pretty shamelessly using it to write a scene from a reverse AU i'd like to do. the premise being: entirely human/unMiranda'd karl heisenberg tracks the signal of a robot he loaned the connections out to the middle-of-nowhere louisiana and the baker house. mostly though i just like writing about swamps :V

eventual wintersberg.

( The signal was still coming through strong... )

inktober2022 wip: "radio" [wintersberg]

 so the actual 2022 inktober prompt was "scallop" but i didn't like it so i grabbed "radio" from the 2020 prompt list instead. it's just a coincidence that it perfectly works with another au idea i had which was based off an article i read about re8 A BILLION YEARS AGO. don't have it on hand but it was pure speculation based on trailers/game footage released before the game itself was out and it posited that heisenberg might be an ally, and furthermore than he might be the one to have brought ethan to the village for help (this was before there was knowledge of rose i believe).

anyway that stuck with me for obvious reasons and i've wanted to do a "heisenberg pulls a castiel and harasses ethan thru electronics in order to get him to be his vessel the village" au and used this prompt as an excuse to write the opening.

this au is set very early after ethan and mia arrive in romania, before rose was born. eventual wintersberg.

( The first time he could distinctly remember it happening... )

blades au wip [wintersberg]

sometime between middle and high school i read Dave Duncan's Sky of Swords and the concept of the king's blades have lived rent free in my head ever since. if you've never read any of the books it's basically a magically bound group of swordsmen sworn to protect their lord with their lives. the bond makes them want to stick very, very close, it's a compulsion, and though it will gradually wear off in time blades who have lost their lord will still sometimes go insane due to the bond/compulsion freaking out. the ritual binding blades to their lord is also pretty rad tbqh.

so anyway of course i wanted to do a knight/lord wintersberg au using blades. i have a very extensive outline for this fic but only a few excerpts; two from inktobers (2021, 2022) and one that i churned out as if possessed. they're all below the cut, in chronological order as they would appear in the fic. heisenberg's characterization in this is very much not what i typically go with. ethan's isn't really either for that matter. some dubcon elements that are not explicit/emphasized in the excerpts below but which would become very much so in the fic itself.

 

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