[ID copied from alt text: A stylized geometric digital drawing of Ingot (he/they), Saube (she/they), Whitlock (he/him), and Kempa (she/her) set against a light green background. Each character is contained within a triangle piece, a line art sickle between each piece. Up top is Ingot, a gray tiefling with long dark blue hair and a pair of large wings. He is wearing a white shirt, dark red pants, and brown boots. He has his longbow in hand and has a neutral, if somewhat grumpy, look on his face. Next is Saube, a red tiefling with short purple hair. She is wearing a green, purple and gold dress and has gold cuffs on her horns. She is sitting with her knees to her chest and a pensive smile on her face.
Next is Whitlock, a brown complexion Gnome with dark brown hair pulled up into a bun and shaved on the sides. He is wearing a shirt, pants and boots, all in shades of brown, and has his greataxe at his side and his cane in hand. He is looking back over his shoulder with a confident smile. Last is Kempa, a large bronze Dragonborn. She is shirtless and wearing only green shorts. She has one clawed finger head up to her chin and has a curious smile on her face. End description.]
A commission from the awesome @crayfishcoffee of the party formally known as SICL! It's been a little over three wonderful years with this group of goofs and I love them so dearly and wholly. Happy (late) anniversary y'all!!
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💕 self-love time! talk about which ones of YOUR creations (edits, artworks, fanfics) you like the most then send to other creators to do the same 💕
Thank you so much @kohnnor!! 🥰
I posted about Val as the creation I like the most for the first ask I got, but by god I'm gonna answer every one of these because I'm really proud of all the stuff I've made in the last few years!
My longfic No One's Gonna Love You is right behind Val as far as creations I love. As I mentioned in that post and in others, I hadn't felt compelled to write in a long time. I have a couple of WIPs from DA:I and ME2 that I would pull out to work on whenever I had inspiration, but that wasn't often. I wouldn't say that I missed writing so much as the idea of being a writer.
When I started Cyberpunk, I had no preconceptions about the NPCs or romances, and I certainly didn't expect to fall for a minor NPC with not much screen time. (This is the first time it's happened to me, actually.) Initially I was captivated by Goro like so many others, but I fell in love with Mitch when V woke up in Pan's truck during The Star ending, and he was waiting for V to wake up. Any thoughts of writing a Pride & Prejudice inspired fic between Goro and V flew out the window because of those beautiful blue eyes.
For months Val and Mitch consumed my brain. I stayed up late every night to write, pouring more and more of myself into the story, learning more about both Val and Mitch as I went. At the time, I felt it was some of my best prose, like the intervening years that I hadn't been writing but was still consuming other media didn't matter. As if I was able to translate the years of experience I'd accumulated into words that could evoke feelings. What was meant to be a fun, smutty romp turned into a study of grief and loss.
And I found a new freedom to play like I hadn't experienced before. I experimented with the narrative; used repetition in different ways; played with flashbacks and dialogue; left room for characters to breathe and tell the story their own way. I had more fun writing that story than just about anything else I'd written to that point in my life.
More than that, I also learned how to create for myself. It didn't matter that I ended up in rare pair hell with few people there to cheer me on, because I was the target audience for the fic. It's the most self-indulgent thing I've written, because I wrote it for me.
If you've made it this far, thanks for reading. Words aren't as exciting or captivating as pictures, but words are my life, and these words in particular are some of the best words I've ever put together.
Chapters: 7/7
Fandom: Cyberpunk 2077 (Video Game)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Mitch Anderson/V (Cyberpunk 2077), Female V/Mitch Anderson, Referenced Mitch Anderson/Scorpion, Mitch Anderson (Cyberpunk 2077)/Original Character(s)
Characters: V (Cyberpunk 2077), Mitch Anderson (Cyberpunk 2077), Streetkid V - Character, Panam Palmer, Carol Emeka, Cassidy Righter
Additional Tags: Friends to Lovers, Hurt/Comfort, Mental Health Issues, Spoilers, The Star Ending (Cyberpunk 2077), Angst, Angst and Feels, Porn with Feelings, Porn With Plot, Canon-Typical Violence, Canonical Character Death, Gratuitous Smut, Shameless Smut, like a ridiculous amount of it, Bisexual Female Character, Bisexual Male Character, Bisexual Character, Stand Alone
Series: Part 2 of Into My Arms
Summary:
V studies his face, half shadow, half moonlit. He is handsome, now that she’s looking for it—once broken Roman nose, full, expressive lips, slate blue eyes now full of concern, the scar exaggerated by the shadows. How could she have missed this, missed him? So much time wasted.
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