Stories
Various stories I've written. I'll mark my favorites with a 
to let you know what the best ones to read are.
The Dark Lord Series
These stories are among my favorite I've ever written. They're very personal to me; the only stories I've finished that take place entirely in my own world. Like so many of my stories, the first one started when I had the idea for a joke, and then rather than just telling it, I wrote a whole story around the concept.
- Story 1: The Dark Lord Returns
- Story 2: Lost in the Woods
- Side Story: Rituals
- Story 3:An Education
- Story 4: Reunion
Skybreak
This is the dream that became part of the basis for Reunion.
Floraverse Writings
I wrote a lot for Floraverse, and I want to catalogue all my favorite stories that I wrote for it.
More Complicated Feelings
I definitely owe Floraverse for getting me to really try writing and discover how much I enjoy it. And I do miss writing for it: the world was very easy to write for. Maybe it still is for other people; I found it increasingly difficult to write in, for reasons related both to the setting itself and to external factors. Still, I owe it for getting me started with writing.
I wish it was all good times, but it wasn't. I wrote a lot of stories for Floraverse that never saw the light of day. The reasons varied: some were meant to be exclusive to a Kickstarter that never materialized, some were meant to be Patreon incentives that were never used, some were meant to be part of larger projects that stalled out and died. As a result, most of what I wrote could only be shared in very limited ways.
I would eventually make a Wordpress site so I could post stories to it without having to wait for them to be published officially on the Floraverse website, as well to organize my work and take pride in what I had done. I ended up posting a link to that website in a tiny server, which got me in trouble. It was a problem, apparently, that I was sharing my own creative work that someone else was hoping to monetize for themself. That incident killed my interest to keep developing a website.
Six years later, here we are!
Anyway, I see no reason not to share them now. I'm still proud of the ones listed here. (There are some I'm leaving off for now.)
Charthur Stories
The story that started it all.
There are parts that feel a bit awkward to me now, but the piece as a whole is still something I'm really proud of. If I were to rewrite it today, I'd touch up the intro, and then leave everything else.
This story was originally two jokes, which I then decided to make into a short prose piece, which then turned into a 40-page beast. This things had a habit of getting away from me!
Also available with illustrations on the Floraverse website.
The sequel that continued it all.
This one wasn't named until after I had written a dud first draft, which I then revised. That dud first draft is called "Flight," and the finished piece is called "Fight."
Also available with illustrations on the Floraverse website.
Tangle, Tussle, Tiger: Standoff
The third story in the TTT Trilogy, aka the TTTT.
This one was published to Patreon when Floraverse shut down temporarily. Funny (for a certain defintion of "funny") story: To try to keep me safe, Ash pretended they had written it. It was leaked to a hate server, where everyone unanimously agreed that it was far worse than the previous two entries. They claimed they could tell from the writing style that Ash had written it. Tells you something about how people operate when they're looking for reasons to be spiteful and bitter.
(The first two entries are the best, though.)
Tangle Tussle, Tiger: Final Act
The fourth story in the increasingly misnamed TTTTT.
I thought this would be my final Floraverse story ever. It was supposed to have a sad ending, but I couldn't bear to write it that way. Maybe I still believed Floraverse would return someday.
I don't remember loving this one like I loved some of my other writing, but six years ago I wrote, "I'm really happy with the result," so maybe I can trust my past self on that one.
Warm Welcome
My first time writing Charthur's sister. This story takes place in-between Double Date and Frozen Over.
First Strike
Fun little story. I enjoyed writing Charthur's dad. I know what it's like to be proud of your daughter.
I Will Not Declare WAR?
Some rhyming prose. The fun part here was making sure that Charthur's dialogue rhymed while no one else's did. I intended it to be a birthday present, but maybe it was self-indulgent. Oh well.
A cute story that I still really like. Charthur and Neon were always a really fun pair to write.
I remember feeling good about the pace of this one. I felt like maybe I captured some of the magic of the original TTT. I wanted to take a stab at where Charthur's hangups might have come from in the first place. Some of her trauma here comes from my own life.
A Cat's Hat
I can't remember the exact origins of this story. Someone else came up with the viewpoint character, but I can't remember if they just had an idea for a story or if they wrote a story with him. I loved their concept and wrote my own version. In retrospect, maybe that was a dick move? Oh well.
I got to work in my experience with being thrown by one of the top Aikido practioners in the world. Literally one of the two grandmasters. It was unreal how effortless he threw me; I ended up laughing for the same reason roller coasters make me laugh: because my body did not know what was happening to it.
Written to explain why Charthur only showed up at the end of the 25-hour WAR?. Still crazy to think we had an RP event that lasted for 25 straight hours of non-stop action. The ending of that RP was meaningful to me...
Eastar Charthur Trilogy
A trilogy of stories written to establish Eastar Charthur. It was really lovely getting to distinguish her from Owel Charthur.
The first of these was adapted to a set of VN panels, which I may still have saved somewhere. The other two were never used. There were plans to have Eastar Charthur show up at the Library, this big vocal point of the RP but -- surprise! -- interest in the Library died before she ended up getting there, which ended up religating the 2nd and 3rd stories to the vault, never to be shared.
Let It Breathe is definitely the best of the bunch, I think. The titular puppeteer of Puppeteer is the same one from Puppeteers, just in Eastar. And also was going to be Eastar Biff.
Quill Stories
Rough one. Really rough one. Extremely personal. Extremely painful.
What strikes me is that I don't remember who I shared this with, if anyone. I feel like I should remember that. I feel like I should remember how they responded.
Written after I managed to get one of my characters ignored during a big RP session. Very fitting for me. I had the worst time speaking up. I was always better at just going off and writing something than trying to RP.
Still, this came out real good. Maybe it was for the best.
Where is Quarrel?
This was me trying to get Quarrel over to Eastar. It's okay, I guess, although then it got overwritten by Quarrel needing to be elsewhere, and then... I don't know. It's surprising, making this website, seeing how much I produced that never went anywhere and could never be shared. I get that making a big project means being willing to put in effort that ends up not being used directly, but... I'm not sure. It's one thing when you put in work that you then realize isn't right for the project. This feels more like stuff that was ignored until it could go away.
Maybe it was the quality of the writing. Maybe it was trying to write something to try to keep up with the plot, rather than what came naturally.
Zeromy Stories
Daybreak
My first Zeromy story. A chance to write about magic. I enjoy being a bit mysterious with magic sometimes!
Model Tiger
My second Zeromy story, but chronologically this one comes first. I enjoyed writing Shizu for this.
Still really love the characters in this one! I had to bend the pacing a bit to include some plot-relevant details, but I'm still really, really pleased with how the characters came together. Getting to write uma's Haworth was a delight. Pity Wishbone never went anywhere.
Other Floraverse Stories
Puppeteers
A very personal piece. Painful.
The same puppeteer would get a second life (appropriately, for a necropossum) in the 2nd story of my Eastar Charthur trilogy, Puppeteer.
Step in Time
An attempt to start writing Tempo, trying to make an OC from scratch. I would later adopt "Tem" from their name. This piece is mostly fluff, but it's worth preserving.
Maybe some of my best writing. I had a dear friend and wanted to capture their struggles with chronic fatigue syndrome. I wanted them to feel seen. I think I managed it.
I also really like the goofy interactions at the end. Just... writing three really close friends. It's something I miss.
These stories were written as part of an Inktober Prompt, which is where the subheadings come, indicating the prompt and what day of October it was for. I definitely ended up spending most of my writing time on these, though.
Neon Trilogy [Temporarily Removed]
- Advice
- Sisters
- Concerns
A Duel with Lightning
Fluff for Eastar Thorn, establishing some of his personality, situation and gimmicks.
I wish I had written more for him. Especially his love life. I had some good starts, but I had lost my motivation to complete things by this point.
Parable of the Cagroo
This was written in-universe by a character of mine. It's alright, nothing special. It's propaganda.
It was weird because it was sent directly to another character, but then the person playing that character never acknowledged it at all. I was assuming that they would react to it during an RP because the two characters did have an important relationship, but it never came up. This was a recurring theme, with one of my characters being ignored in ways I didn't understand, and was too anxious to ask about. It happened with each event, in one way or another. I should have asked. Still weird, though.
Other Stories
No Choice
Fanfiction for a collectible card game. No really! Eternal has some really fun lore. This piece is written about the game's equivalent of slivers: There are several cycles of units called "Strangers" which all buff every other Stranger in play, yours or your opponents. A story about building an army of people who just had the worst day of their lives.
GARBAGE.
No really, I wrote this when I was 16, and it shows. This my oldest surviving story, and I think the first story I wrote for myself, outside of schoolwork. It was never meant to be good. It's a parody that is built on top of in-jokes from the alt.fan.sonic-hedgehog newsgroup. If there's anything of quality in there, you'll have to be the one to look for it; I'm not subjecting myself to reading it.