garden of the ancients

Title: that trembled and reel’d beneath me
Fandom: Final Fantasy XVI
Characters/pairing: Dion/Terence
Rating: explicit
Word Count: 11,780

Notes: This fic includes sex pollen, fuck or die, dubious consent, repression, and sexual dysfunction (blah blah blah). Set pre-game and a month pre-confession. Dion wants that which he should not have, but Terence doesn't make it easy to turn away. Title from a Walt Whitman poem. "...A thick gloom fell through the sunshine and darken'd me; Must I change my triumphant songs? said I to my- self; Must I indeed learn to chant the cold dirges of the baf- fled? And sullen hymns of defeat?"

( The embankment is slick under Terence’s boots and he steps sideways through plaited fields to watch the sky lighten. )

Title: Undertow
Fandom: Final Fantasy XVI
Characters/pairing: Dion & Jill
Rating: gen
Word Count: 1654

Notes: More Dion and Jill interactions, written for ffprompts . Can additionally be read as a follow up piece to Visiting Statues.

Title: Endurance Mechanics
Fandom: Final Fantasy XVI
Characters/pairing: Dion & Mid
Rating: gen
Word Count: 2022

Notes: Inspired by Mid's final questline and this dialogue in question. I think Mid would very much like to put Dion under a microscope and poke him a little.

( Dion understands why the children who have flown past him during his solemn and lonely watch had called it a dungeon. It's not where one would go to visit without wanting something first. )

Title: A Given Thing
Fandom: Final Fantasy XVI
Characters/pairing: Dion/Terence
Rating: Explicit
Word Count: 3177
Notes: Written for a prompt that I liked on the ffxvi_kink_meme. It really played with what I like about their dynamic.
Edits: 5.11.24. Title change, a few typo fixes.

( It hasn't been uncommon in Valisthean history for dominants to pursue each other. )

Title: Nothing Owed
Fandom: Final Fantasy XVI
Characters/pairing: Dion/Terence (implied), Kihel
Rating: gen
Word Count: 1067

Notes: Gift fic written for trickortreatex !

( Dion flees Bennumere and returns to Twinside. He’d thought only to see if the horror Bahamut had wrought was true. )

Title: Visiting Statues
Fandom: Final Fantasy XVI
Characters/pairing: Dion & Jill
Rating: gen
Word Count: 1580

Notes: Been trying to wrangle a fic for these two for a while. I would have loved to have seen them actually exchange some dialogue in canon. Aboard the Enterprise, Dion and Jill meet again.

( He had never been this far out on the open water, so far from Sanbreque’s borders, and terribly alone. )

Title: Arrival of the Ward
Fandom: FFXVI
Characters/pairing: Dion/Terence
Rating: T
Word Count: 1066

Notes: 1. my god i can't believe Terence has his hands on the nuclear war codes!!!
2. i love that after Joshua and Dion finished their discussion in the audience chamber in-game, it's revealed that he and Terence have already discussed Dion's intentions, and all Dion needs is a simple confirmation of support to go berserker mode on the palace.
3. i spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to write this dynamic with what little is seen of Terence, and i think i conveyed what i wanted. Dion's priority is his nation, Terence's is Dion.

( Dion's gauntleted hand went to the back of his head and slid through the fine, combed hairs. )