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. )

A collection of FFXVI ficlets below for threesentenceficathon. There will definitely be more, these are so pleasant to write.

Characters/pairing: Anabella, Dion/Terence, Jill/Clive/Cid, Clive/Joshua, and Dion & Olivier.
Rating(s) and warning(s): gen, canon-typical violence, and incest.

( Joshua does not know if he wants Clive, or if he wants to be him. )

Title: her held eye did turn
Fandom: Final Fantasy XVI
Characters/pairing: Pre-Jill/Clive, Cid
Rating: gen
Word Count: 1000

Notes: A rewrite of an earlier summer work. I like this much more now. Old version left for funsies. Jill tries to understand that desire which is hard to name.

( Cid, their modest hero in all but name, only fiddles with his smokes. )

Title: to meet my destiny
Fandom: Final Fantasy XVI
Characters/pairing: Terence
Fanmix! Listen here.

Notes: Some tunes for a loyal servant turned knight and love.

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: Curses
Fandom: Final Fantasy XVI
Characters/pairing: Clive/Charon
Rating: gen
Word Count: 702

Notes: Prompt fill for this FF Kiss Battle prompt.

Title: This Shame Should Not Be Mine
Fandom: Final Fantasy XVI
Characters/pairing: Jill Warrick
Fanmix! Listen here.

Notes: A character mix for Jill, with a focus on female vocalists and melodic tunes.

Annotations and tracklist below the cut.

( tunes )

Title: Unraveling
Fandom: Final Fantasy XVI
Characters/pairing: Dion/Terence
Rating: gen, canon-typical violence
Word Count: 2423

Notes: During Belenus Tor and Bahamut's first clash with Odin, Terence keeps his priorities in line, even if he would like to do otherwise. Pining, mentions of death in wartime, and a brief foray into the Ultimania confession scene. A bit of a character study.

( His enemies belong to spectacle, and Terence’s strength is elsewhere. He is human, and Dion is — magnificent. And he knows greater pain. But still: Terence aches. )

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: Pink Horizon
Fandom: Final Fantasy XVI
Characters/pairing: Dion/Terence
Rating: T
Word Count: 3043
Notes: Written for RustyCactuar on AO3 for the Teredio Brainrot Secret Santa Exchange on Discord. Dion celebrates his new position as commander of the Holy Knights Dragoon with those who matter most.

( In the center of the congregation Dion is warm. )