Between the good and bad, that's where you'll find me, Reaching for Heaven

So! I'm planning to do the 12_daysofficmas challenge this year, like I did last year, and so I'm opening up to prompts for those 12 fics. The fandoms I'm happy to write for are (but not necessarily limited to:

A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
Firefly/Serenity
The Matrix series
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Gormenghast
Yami no Matsuei
Kyou Kara Maoh
The Sandman Comics
American Gods

I'm looking for twelve prompts, but if there's extras and time permits, I'm willing to write any extras.

Also, I'm hung up a fandom_stocking over at: http://community.livejournal.com/fandom_stocking/119132.html

The first of the two Yami no Matsuei fics I promised for the last day of Christmas. And proof that I can write a gen/het fic set in the YnM universe: a Christmas romance for a usually devious fellow and his basically normal ladyfriend.

On the Twelfth Day of Christmas, the Matrix Refugee fanficced for ye:

Energy vampires and death gods in a snowstorm,
An Evangelion snowball fight,
Midnight Mass in the Trinity Blood-verse,
Doctor Hobby wracking Joe's brain,
One Meifu Christmas office party,
A drunken Evangelion New Year's party,
Redpills stealing a Christmas tree,
Harry Dresden for the holidays,
Frank Sweitz adopting a David unit,
One Chateau Christmas party,
One Christmas spirit in the American Gods 'verse,
and An A.I. fic with David decorating his first Christmas tree.

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"White Out"

by "Matrix Refugee"

Disclaimer: I do not own Yami no Matsuei, aka Descendants of Darkness, it’s characters, concepts and other indicia, which are the intellectual property of Yoko Matsushita, Hiroko Tokita, Manga Entertainment, Viz Media, Hakusensha, Central Park Media, et al.

Author's Note: This fic grew out of a rather absurd comment I made; in describing something as difficult, I said something was "as easy as finding a Hollywood albino dressed in white in a blizzard". Of course that made me think of a certain anime Evil Albino/White-Haired Pretty Boy, and who would or wouldn't want to find him in a blizzard. There is one who wouldn't want to lose him in those weather conditions and this fic features her...

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( Walking back to Ukyou's apartment after Christmas dinner with her parents... )

Three fanfics to go: I realized that if you count Christmas Day as one of the days of Christmas, you end up with the 13 Days of Christmas, so you'll be getting the last three on the last day of Christmas. I'll be posting one in the morning when I first check my email, one in the afternoon after I come back from running errands, and the last will turn up tomorrow evening, probably at or just after midnight.

After this: I'll be taking a mini-break from fanfic writing and posting -- perhaps for a couple of days, since I just wrote thirteen fics in thirteen crazy days -- and then I'll be turning my attention to the prompt challenges I have sitting waiting for me to take them up. I'd taken the fanfic100 challenge when I started writing "Neon Enoch Evangelion" and I'll be aiming to finish one or two of those a week; same goes for the 30_kisses challenge I'd taken on, with Muraki and Ukyou, from the manga continuity of Yami no Matsuei as the pairing of choice. And then there's the Vampire Author Auction, which I'm in the process of signing up for. Lots to do, but I've been on such a creativity craze lately, it doesn't seem like a lot of work at all.

As promised earlier this evening, for crowdog66, who asked for "Professor Hobby and Joe (any way you can put those two together is fine by me, and no, it doesn't have to be in a "One Degree of Separation" sense!)". I'm nowhere worthy of even trying to mimic your masterful fic, but I hope this offering is just as good in its own way.

On the Ninth Day of Christmas, the Matrix Refugee fanficced for ye:

Doctor Hobby wracking Joe's brain,
One Meifu Christmas office party,
A drunken Evangelion New Year's party,
Redpills stealing a Christmas tree,
Harry Dresden for the holidays,
Frank Sweitz adopting a David unit,
One Chateau Christmas party,
One Christmas spirit in the American Gods 'verse,
and An A.I. fic with David decorating his first Christmas tree.

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"Joe as Foster-Father"

by "Matrix Refugee"

DISCLAIMER: I do not own “A.I., Artificial Intelligence”, its characters, settings, concepts or other indicia, which are the property of the late, great Stanley Kubrick, of DreamWorks SKG, Steven Spielberg, Warner Brothers, Amblin Entertainment, et al, based on characters and concepts created by Brian Aldiss.

Author's Note: Set after Joe's capture and David's descent into the ocean. Okay, it's not specifically a Christmas fic, but it has to do with fatherhood, and I've always pointed out that Joe is, in a sense, the foster-father to David, much like another Joseph so long ago. Hence the title....

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( The sunlight glinted on the thin coating of ice )

At long last, I return to the infamous Neon Enoch Evangelion series with today's offering. I had every intention of posting this just after midnight on December 31st, 2009, since this is a New Year's fic, but I had to turn in early due to work the next morning. Let's hope I can catch up later today, since I'm now behind a fic or two.

EDITED due to a hiccup in either LJ or my 'Net connection...

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On the Seventh Day of Christmas, the Matrix Refugee fanficced for ye:

A drunken Evangelion New Year's party,
Redpills stealing a Christmas tree,
Harry Dresden for the holidays,
Frank Sweitz adopting a David unit,
One Chateau Christmas party,
One Christmas spirit in the American Gods 'verse,
and An A.I. fic with David decorating his first Christmas tree.

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"Winter Wine-Cup"

by "Matrix Refugee"

Disclaimer: I do not own Neon Genesis Evangelion, it's characters, concepts or other indicia, which are the property of Hideaki Anno, Project Eva-Gainax/khara, et al.

Author's Note: Inspired in part by a hysterical discussion on (yep!) the EvaGeeks forum, in which some of us speculated what Professor Fuyutsuki would be like on a gaudy night, up to and including him getting into a drunken argument with Gendo -- over Yui, of course. This is set in my ambitious and infamous Neon Enoch Evangelion series in which I speculated that the Grigori, a race of Angels in human form, might be hiding behind the scenes, pulling the strings of SEELE; one of these Grigori, Penemue, who knew herself only as Sabia Valiant, was sent to NERV headquarters to serve as an interpreter, in the process crossing paths with NERV's vice Commander Kozou Fuyutsuki. The two begin a somewhat at-arms-length relationship, neither one really sure what to make of each other or their growing fondness for each other, until after Third Impact and the failure of Instrumentality. On emerging from Instrumentality, along with several other NERV employees, they manage to slowly start to rebuild the world.

Considering that Third Impact went down on New Year's Eve (what a time for the apocalypse to take place and so much for the world ending in 2012...), no one was in any state to celebrate, but that doesn't stop them, a week after the date, from gathering in the bar of an abandoned hotel, with what scraps they can pull together, to celebrate new beginnings...

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( The candles along the shelf behind the bar now seemed to have fuzzy halos about them.... )

One of the fics I wrote because I wanted to see it written and because I love the deep brotherly love between Harry and Thomas...

On the Fifth Day of Christmas, the Matrix Refugee fanficced for ye:

Harry Dresden for the holidays,
Frank Sweitz adopting a David unit,
One Chateau Christmas party,
One American Gods fic,
and An A.I. fic with David decorating his first Christmas tree.

"Moving Pictures"

by "Matrix Refugee"

Disclaimer: The Dresden Files do not belong to me, I'm just playing in the universe and shying snowballs at Jim Butcher's fanfic-phobic rules-lawyers.

Author's Note: One of these days I will write a Dresden Files fic that isn't set at the holidays, but this one begged to be written. Christmas is a time for families to be together and I thought I'd show a certain generally snarky wizard enjoying some family time with what family he has. I've also combined elements of the TV series with the book continuity; don't shoot me: I found both about the same time, so my heart likes to weave the two together. Mild spoilers for "Blood Rites" and "It's My Birthday, Too."

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( Christmas time tends to bring with it a small rush of nit-picky cases... )

It's been a while since I wrote anything set in the DegSep universe, but it's still one that's dear to my heart, so when crowdog66 requested something from this alternate version of the Matrix 'verse, involving Neo and the Merovingian, I was at one in the same time fumbling for an idea and yet delighted for the chance to write about the One and the Red King of the Exiles. Then I was listening to Transsiberian Orchestra's song "Find Our Way Home", and this one came to mind...

On the Third Day of Christmas, the Matrix Refugee fanficced for ye:

One Chateau Christmas party,
One American Gods fic,
and An A.I. fic with David decorating his first Christmas tree.

"Desires of Christmas Past and Present"

by "Matrix Refugee"

Author's Note: Before I started playing the Matrix Online MMORPG, I was deeply involved in a fan-created Matrix RPG based on the "Degrees of Separation" series of Neo/Smith fics written by the incomparable Laure E. Smith. This series set off an intricate and quirky series of storylines bringing a wide range of epic fantastical elements and complex relationship geometries. This fic is set six months after the end of the Descent into Hell arc, in which the Merovingian was captured by demonic programs and hauled into the Matrix's equivalent of the Recycle Bin, from which he was rescued by a team of operatives, led by Neo and Smith, which included Blaise de Merovee, the Merovingian's almost grown half-human son and heir. Text in brackets [Like this] imply a mind to mind conversation.

Disclaimer: I don't own the "Matrix" series, its characters, concepts or other indicia, which belong to the Wachowski Brothers, Paul Chadwick, Warner Brothers, Village Roadshow Pictures, Joel Silver Productions, Burlyman Entertainment, Monolith, Sony Online Entertainment, etc.

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( Neo attended the Christmas party at the Chateau as a courtesy to the Merovingian... )

Requested by ladyneferankh who wanted "one for A.I. Artificial Intelligence, something involving Christmas cheer, Teddy, David and Joe."

On the First Day of Christmas, the Matrix Refugee fanficced for ye:

An A.I. fic with David decorating his first Christmas tree.

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"David's First Christmas"

by "Matrix Refugee"

DISCLAIMER: I do not own “A.I., Artificial Intelligence”, its characters, settings, concepts or other indicia, which are the property of the late, great Stanley Kubrick, of DreamWorks SKG, Steven Spielberg, Warner Brothers, Amblin Entertainment, et al, based on characters and concepts created by Brian Aldiss

Author's Note: Very much an AU. David has clearly been rescued from his watery grave in Coney Island and has been returned to his family. Cute Christmas fluff and WAFF aplenty (though not without it's oddness: I seem to write WAFF tempered with darker elements). Also set features the trio who appear in more than a few of my Cecie Martin fics.

( A week before December 25th... )

...Though I did manage to get some plotting and drafting done on some of the fic ideas I have swirling around: I still have six slots open on the 12 Days of Fanfic, though I maaay tuck some surprises in there, unless someone throws a few more prompts my way...

Today was a day to chill out, and I'm going to need that as I have work in the morning and Thursdays are the start of the weekend rush when one works in grocery retail, as I do.