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[fic wip] ghostlands (inktober 2024, wintersberg dark fantasy AU)

Mon, 25 Nov 2024 04:03:48 GMT

finally remembered to post this here lol. the bulk of this wip was written earlier this year & then i added an additional scene for like...i think it was day three of inktober? prompt was 'boots.' the original inspo for this AU is...not something anyone will ever guess lmao, not unless i were to tell you outright; there's really not much in common beyond uhhhh swords.

the fun thing about writing this one has been the worldbuilding, which i honestly wasn't expecting to have to do much of and then i ended up 1) writing poetry and 2) coming up with a folktale on the fly. was having fun with it tho :p

quick warning for: gross bugs (parasites)

( The caravan stopped for the night some ways past the walled city of Eversdin )

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we are so not winning the Nice Award this week

Mon, 01 Jul 2024 09:06:25 GMT

way too tired and in too much pain currently to be engaging with this on tumblr so i'm tackling it here.

re: this post and Heisenberg's purported Nazi paraphernalia

the main thing to note here if this person really wanted to push for this argument is that Sturm is lifted directly from the film Frankenstein's Army where he's a Nazi creation. and by lifted i mean that literally, Capcom just straight up plagiarized the film.

they do that a lot, actually. in fact Heisenberg's entire design is stolen from the short film Rakka.

there's also the big obvious Nazi connections the real life Karl Heisenberg had. like genuinely you can draw these connections without pretending to be fucking sherlock holmes (lol).

now, i haven't looked into the tank and weaponry you see around his factory, but i HAVE looked into the plane turbine that's attached to Sturm and it's an American sea plane, so like 100% not going to put any stock into even the barest scrap of anything from the environment being attributable to character building (in a RE game? hah!), but i saw other ppl replying to this person saying that there's a mixture of German and American weaponry in and around the factory, and i'm willing to take them at their word considering that Capcom's design philosophy when it comes to the RE games is "does this spark joy? does it rock? is it capital C Cool?"

like friend, it's really not that deep. if they wanted Heisenberg to be a Nazi he would OVERTLY be a Nazi. i think what's more likely is that they're picking up influences from things that do lean heavily in that direction (once again: Sturm) and just dumping them wholesale into the game bc that's just how the RE devs make these games. typically tho it's just B movie action schlock.

i'm about to get real mean now and definitely lose the Nice Award for this week tho so let's put the rest behind a cut.

( i'd blame the meanness on the pain but lbr i do have Hater Tendencies )

anyway, all this to say that i think the fixation OP has on the flashlight is based in some sort of paranoia & that if they really wanted to prove Heisenberg was a Nazi they honestly could have done a much better job. this shit is like when my students would try to cheat but they'd be REALLY BAD at it so i just ended up more insulted than anything.

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[fic] RE8: fish food

Mon, 24 Jun 2024 19:21:33 GMT

here's a little quadruple drabble i wrote for lightmod, who wanted "a drabble of what the fuck happens to chris after he is hit full force by a giant fish." my first thought was "Hound Wolf gathers around him with blow dryers so he's all dried out in time for his next cutscene" but i ended up going with something serious instead :p

( also featuring Dion bc he was also slapped with fish )

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[fic] RE8, Wintersberg: nobody's poet [spirit hat extra]

Sun, 21 Apr 2024 03:02:22 GMT

written for the April 20th prompt "a lot of boxes" for spring_renewal. takes place during 'all i need is some sunshine' sometime after ch12 and before ch18. listened to my own fanmix on repeat while writing this, and the title does in fact come from the Pina Colada song lmao.

the prompt of course reminded me of Karl cleaning out the shed in ch12, and Karl harassing Ethan with mixed tapes he found there is something i'd been wanting to write for a while c:

Title: nobody's poet
Fandom: Resident Evil Village
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Ethan Winters/Karl Heisenberg
Content Notes: none (spoilers for the rest of 'all i need is some sunshine')
Prompt Being Filled: Any, Any, a lot of boxes [April 20th]

also available here on squidgeworld

( He found the box of cassettes first )

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[fic] RE8, Wintersberg: let the bindweed grow

Sat, 13 Apr 2024 03:58:27 GMT

written for the April 12th prompt for spring_renewal, "the same thing that grows in the garden, flows in me and you," which pretty much immediately reminded me of post-game stuck-in-the-megamycete nonsense.

the title is from the song Garden Grow by Our Broken Garden, which is such a huge inspo for this (and also just a beautiful song).

Title: let the bindweed grow
Fandom: Resident Evil Village
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Ethan Winters/Karl Heisenberg
Content Notes: Graphic Depictions of Violence (canon-typical gore)
Prompt Being Filled: the same thing that grows in the garden, flows in me and you [April 12th]

also available here on squidgeworld

( it separates like a scab )

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[fic wip] inktober 2023, wintersberg necromancy au

Fri, 26 Jan 2024 08:33:54 GMT

another one i completely forgot about lmao. i do remember talking with Caro about this one a bit tho; couldn't decide if i wanted to continue it as a wintersberg au or just do something original instead. was heavily inspired by this song tho; big fan of the lyrics. had more planned out i didn't get to but it was gonna be gross! :D prompt for this one was "spider" and there sure is a gross spider in it, so warning for that.

anyway, don't get to any actual necromancy here, just another opening in media res.

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[fic wip] inktober 2023, RE8/wintersberg

Fri, 26 Jan 2024 08:15:51 GMT

trying to motivate myself to work on something by going through and posting some wips, including this rather short inktober attempt from last year, which i had completely forgotten about. not gonna reveal what the au inspo is (pls feel to guess tho c:), but the prompt was "dream."

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[fic wip] in the spirit reverse au

Sat, 22 Apr 2023 06:08:24 GMT

aight so this one is super self-indulgent. it comes from me thinking about how the relationship that karl and ethan end up with at the end of my fic "in the spirit that i crave" would only be possible as long as ethan lost his memory, that if their roles were flipped and ethan found a karl with memory loss in a karl megamycete brain construct he'd basically go thru the whole thing all press X to doubt. he'd never trust him.

so then i thought "well, what would get him to trust/help karl?" and then thought "if he didn't recognize it was karl," which meant kid!karl, which meant i was then seriously thinking about a reverse au for my own fic. self-indulgent, as i said.

anyway here's what i have of that c:

( There was a man he saw sometimes... )

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[fic wip] wintersberg time loop au

Sat, 22 Apr 2023 04:41:45 GMT

i unfortunately have like 4 time loop fic ideas for wintersberg alone but here's the only one i've written anything for. the first bit is from inktober 2021 (the prompt was "crystal") and the second is from inktober 2022 (prompt was "bat").

( 25000 lei. )

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inktober2022 wip: "radio" [wintersberg]

Sat, 22 Apr 2023 02:47:00 GMT

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... )

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inktober2022 wip: "scurry" [wintersberg]

Sat, 22 Apr 2023 02:06:46 GMT

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... )

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inktober2022 wip: "gargoyle" [wintersberg]

Sat, 22 Apr 2023 01:53:56 GMT

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... )

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