Fic post: the dream of a waking man

In addition to my assignment fic, I wrote one treat this Chocolate Box, for amovingtarget.

I didn't mean to -- I was hoping to write at least one treat this time around, but I thought if I managed it, it would at least be for a fandom I'm in. Except then I was skimming her prompts and vaguely regretting I couldn't write for any of them, and suddenly I couldn't sleep for the opening paragraphs assembling themselves in my head.

For the record, I have never played Dishonored myself, but I have watched cut scenes from all the games, entirely due to amovingtarget's influence. And Billie was always a favorite of mine, and the series does end on an intriguing note, and, well...

Title: the dream of a waking man
Fandom: Dishonored
Characters: Billie Lurk & the Outsider
Rating: Teen
Contains: Bone-weariness, fragile hope, and series spoilers all the way through DotO.
Word count: 676
Summary: "Old habits," Billie said, "go down fighting."

( He looked like a body pulled from the river, pale and soft-skinned from time underwater. )

Chocolate Box reveals!

I still can't believe what a consistently awesome time I have with this exchange. Not only did I get two awesome gifts, but it turns out that the fantastic POI f/f rarepair treat was by st_aurafina, who recced one of the only other fics for said rarepair back when I posted my Dear Chocolatier letter. st_aurafina, I can't believe you! Or maybe I mean that I can't believe I didn't guess it was you! OMG!

*ahem*

Meanwhile, my other gorgeous gift, the Imperial Radch AI gen with such lovely Radchaai touches, turns out to have been LadyGwenllian's first fic in that fandom, but I've been glad to see it getting attention from other fans of the series, so maybe it won't be the last. ♥

On the writing side of the exchange, I wrote 2k for the music video "Genghis Khan", plus a little 600 word treat for one of amovingtarget's Dishonored prompts, both of which were really interesting and fun to work on in different ways.

I'm a little sad that I didn't manage more treats, but this is the highest total wordcount I've managed for any Chocolate Box so far, so... maybe next year!