Your stairway lies on the whispering wind

I DID THE THING?? This is the Overwatch AU that I have with renshai for our Saints Row bosses, because we're huge fucking nerds. The 'verse centers on former Overwatch brats Lena McCarroll and Max Eshkibog, daughters of decorated Blackwatch operatives Maddie McCarroll and Lilah Eshkibog. After their moms are reported killed in action, the girls are sent away to a US Marines boot camp and a Canadian military academy, respectively. The Recall happens when they're about 24-25.

Fandom: Overwatch, mostly
Characters in this bit: Lena McCarroll, Ana Amari
Word count: 1608
Rating: Very soft teen for lots of swearing and abandonment issues

Summary: Lena is trying and failing to get comfortable in New Overwatch (TM), and gets her second visit from a ghost.

Also here @ AO3, here @ tumblr.

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The sun is just rising, orange light filling the cracks in the windows of the new Overwatch’s HQ, or more accurately, its hide-out. Likely abandoned since shortly after the Omnic crisis, it’s only marginally worse than the Saints’ base of operations, low-profile and generally low-tech except for the few amenities that Winston has managed to repair or install himself. The old dormitory’s doors don’t lock, and the beds are worse than the granite slab of a mattress she’d had in boot camp. There’s a kitchenette with an unreliable oven and no dishwasher, and the only furniture in the adjacent rec room is Winston’s tire swing and a musty couch with a persistent odor of stale coffee.

( And thank fuck for coffee )

Posted a while back on tumblr, finally posted here/on AO3 after totally failing to edit (just made a few tiny changes). Pretty wholly an exercise in non-human perspective, and also the result of lots of robot feelings.

Fandom: Mass Effect (2)
Characters: Commander Shepard, Legion, Tali'zorah
Word Count: 1343
Rating: T for some wound depiction

( Shepard-Commander is organic, and the geth consider this unfortunate )

(Well, I've only been working on this for about nine months--that might be a record for me. Grazie mille to backinblack who so kindly looked it over, fixed the most troublesome spots, and provided much reassurance.)

Fandom: Dragon Age
Characters: Lyna Mahariel/Taliesin Mahariel
Word Count: 1330
Rating: T

(Also on AO3 here.)

( The aravel floor was solid under her feet, the air fresh, the outside light warm and rich )

Fandom: Dragon Age
Word count: 1171
Characters: Alistair/Lyna Mahariel
Rating: G
Summary: The answer to the question of when Alistair first realized he was attracted to Lyna. The prodigiously self-indulgent answer.

( Alistair caught himself watching Lyna as they walked—more than that, he realized, he couldn't take his eyes from her. )

Nightmares
Fandom: Dragon Age II
Word count: 1,216
Characters: Marie Hawke (warrior, sarcastic with a soft side), Anders
Rating: PG
Summary: Anders needs someone to talk to--and Hawke can't ignore a friend in need.

( 'Hawke?' )