Fic Excerpts: "When Mila Walked the Land"

I don’t give up on WIPs easily. Things may go on hiatus but are never discontinued, and I dust off and cannibalize one-shots months or even years later. So it killed a part of me to neglect a serious-business FE2/3/8 crossover after I’d written 12,000 words of it, even if I’d decided it had absolutely no target audience.

So, here are some selections from the story of the prince and princess of Magi Varl, who crash-land in a foreign realm with some striking similarities to their home. The amount of meta I generated for this that has leaked into my standard interpretation of 2, 3, and 8 is kind of jaw-dropping. Clearly, I spent waaaaay too much time on this piece.

Synopsis: the prince of Valencia travels to Archanea to marry its princess. Dark creatures spoil the party. Then things really get weird.  Excerpts of each unpublished chapter follow.

I do not own Fire Emblem or any of its characters.

( Really, really, fricking long. )

Reasons for neglecting this included 1) the joys of writing two OCs and 2) a triple dose of no1curr on account of the subject matter.  For something that'd be close to 20K words in the end, complete lack of audience appeal was something of a buzzkill.  But for those tired of crazy!Marth, he was cold sane and 100% competent in this one.  And also was not married to Caeda.

One-Word Meme

OK.  Since everybody else is writing such neat stuff, including neat stuff for me, I guess I'll do the one-word meme drabble thingy too.  Even if I can't do drabbles.

Comment on this and I'll attempt a 500-word drabble for FE 1/3, 2, 7, 8, or 11/12.  Or Gundam Wing or Utena if you want to get crazy..

And I promise that if the prompt is something like "kittens" that I won't write about a kitten massacre or anything like that.