Two fics for
auexchange, two general series updates.
So, my AU Exchange assignment was Black Panther, Shuri-focused. I picked Shuri & M'Baku after the snap, in an AU where Shuri survived and mourned her brother. Wrote the story, finishing up on a Saturday morning...and not half an hour later heard that Chadwick Boseman had died.
I felt awful. Not just for Chadwick's death, but also for my recip who might have been okay with grieving/mourning fic at a time other than in the wake of the man's death... But I didn't have anything to rewrite the story with.
I could touch up a couple of other stories that had been sitting around for months (if not years) and post them, but I didn't have another Black Panther story in me before the deadline. So I submitted the fic and apologised in the note.
It's been generally well-taken. Elegiac, perhaps.
The Coming Future (2561 words) by
tielanChapters: 1/1
Fandom:
Black Panther (2018),
Marvel Cinematic Universe,
The Avengers (Marvel Movies)Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: M'Baku & Shuri (Marvel)
Characters: Shuri (Marvel), M'Baku (Marvel), Okoye - cameo
Summary:
In the chaos after the moment - that moment - Shuri has but one thought: to assure herself that T'Challa has survived.
*sigh*
I really did want to write something else - I tried to start on a 'Shuri goes to the realm of the ancestors and speaks with Eric Killmonger, the better to understand him' story, but...couldn't get my wheels in.
What I could do was touch up a few stories that have been lingering around for far too long in the 'not yet done' folder. So I did.
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I have a soft spot for "Stark-Hill siblings" and this has been lingering in one of my folders for forever. There are also multiple half-written scenes from a largely female Avengers core, although I think they were 'all-female Avengers' teams, not 'five women and Steve'.
This is also not the sequel where Tony and Maria meet on the steps of a Boston brownstone that Peggy and Angie are living together in. That has its own storyline that will not likely ever be done.
Another Suitcase In Another Hall (1373 words) by
tielanChapters: 1/1
Fandom:
Marvel Cinematic UniverseRating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Maria Hill & Steve Rogers, Maria Hill & Tony Stark
Characters: Steve Rogers, Tony Stark, Maria Hill
Summary:
The last time Steve saw her was driving off from Central Park with Ms. Potts in a sleek gunmetal grey Lamborghini with the numberplate MAR1A. Then, she was in jeans and a black-t-shirt with a denim jacket over the top – street casual. Now, she’s in a sleeveless dress in deep green that probably cost more than Steve’s ma made in a year back home, and which makes her look every inch the business heiress she is.
Then there's the next in the Meeting Halfway series, which, having stayed mostly in my own lane of fanon, abruptly went straight to canon.
Hell Hath No Fury Like A Hero Scorned (3720 words) by
tielanChapters: 1/1
Fandom:
Marvel Cinematic UniverseRating: General Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Maria Hill/Steve Rogers, Nick Fury & Maria Hill
Additional Tags: 30 Day OTP Challenge, Arguing, Relationship Issues, Avengers: Infinity War Part 1 (Movie) Compliant, Unhappy Ending
Series: Part 24 of
Meeting HalfwaySummary:
Hill has no Fury, just a hero scorned...
And finally, the next chapter of the Psy-Changeling AU which I've been slowly herding along for what feels like years.
The Gathering Clouds (14193 words) by
tielanChapters: 5/?
Fandom:
The Avengers (2012),
Marvel Cinematic UniverseRating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Phil Coulson & Maria Hill, Steve Rogers & Thor, Steve Rogers & Tony Stark, Bruce Banner & Steve Rogers, Maria Hill/Steve Rogers, Steve Rogers & Janet Van Dyne
Characters: Maria Hill, Phil Coulson, Steve Rogers, Thor, Tony Stark, Bruce Banner, Janet Van Dyne, Pepper Potts, Morgan Stark (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Fusion, Psy-Changelings, Alternate Universe - Psychics/Psionics, Alternate Universe - Werecreatures, Drama, Escape, Alternate Universe - Psy-Changeling (Nalini Singh)
Series: Part 1 of
Wolf & Arrow: MCU-Psy/Changeling AUSummary:
Maria had always known that someday that the shambling, soulless creature that returned from Rehabilitation would be her – used one too many times, broken beyond fixing. She’d accepted the eventuality of that end for herself. But for Phil and these children, whose crime was merely to challenge the Psy Council’s preconceptions? No. Not while she had breath.
I feel like I haven't been productive at all. I think the previous fic I posted was back in February. And yeah, there are Reasons, but I've had a lot of time and done a lot of writing and I feel like I have't actually achieved all that much at all in all that time.