19 Works by NikNaks
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Nothing Small by NikNaks
Fandoms: Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses
30 Oct 2019
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The first memories Lysithea has are of pain, and of rules.
Do not talk back when the people in dark robes, with their strange masks and bright eyes, call for you. When they touch you, stand very still. Bite your tongue when they take your wrist, twist your arm, and push something dark and pulsing and foreign into your veins. Do not show your fear, and do not show your hurt. Use your magic only when asked, and only as they see fit.
Keep the other children in line, make sure they do the same. Behaving is the surest way to surviving another day.
This is what it means to grow up an Ordelia.
(Or, in which Lysithea von Ordelia goes through hell, stumbles out the other side, charges into a war, and enacts a little revenge—and, somewhere along the line, accidentally builds herself a family.)
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Of the Dead and the Wicked by NikNaks
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
07 Aug 2019
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When it comes to having joined up with Hell, Crowley would say he more sauntered down than Fell. It reflects an element of choice, and that’s rather the point.
The thing is, it was less of a fall and more of a headfirst dive—and it was not from Heaven, but rather off the cliff face of a garden.
It goes like this, you see: When Woman was told she was made for Man, she decided she’d be better off not being a woman at all. This was not part of the Great Plan, of course, but it rather happened anyway.
Never let it be said Crowley was good at listening to directions.
(In which Crowley isn’t quite a demon, but was certainly never an angel, either, and—in a garden now long, long gone—his name was Lilith, once.)
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It’s just a ribbon.
Just a plain red ribbon, absolutely nothing special about it.
At least, that’s what Sans tries to tell himself as Frisk stares up at him, their expectant look slowly morphing into confusion while he sits there frozen.
(Or, the story of the Underground as it was and as it will become, spanning thirteen years, various timelines, multitudes of lives, and one very tired skeleton that just wants very desperately to go home.
In which Frisk isn't the first human child Sans meets, nor the first he befriends, nor the first he kills—and being Sans in general is complicated as all fuck.)
Act 1: Your Best Friend (The Integrity of Promises) — Chapters 1-9
Act 2: Two-Monster Resistance — Chapters 10- -
Waiting For You (To Become Something To Come Back To) by NikNaks
Fandoms: Voltron: Legendary Defender
09 Jun 2018
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Pidge doesn’t consider communication about her feelings her strong suit, and Lance isn’t good at talking about his own problems to the people that matter, especially when he can solve someone else’s instead—but together, they might just have to learn to try.
(Or, five times Lance and Pidge try to voice the hard things that need to be said, with varying levels of success, and one time they don’t need to.)
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When Pidge is offered the spot as communications officer for the Kerberos Mission, to accompany her father, and her friend and former classmate Shiro, she’s expecting eight months of quiet, beautiful cosmos, ice samples, and—if she’s lucky—some broadcast signals to support her alien life theories.
She is not expecting to end up the prisoner of a fascistic race of alien cat-lizards hellbent on apparently reenacting the ugliest parts of the Roman Empire, down to the massive enslavement and expansion effort and the gladiators as entertainment shtick.
But, if she’s going down, she figures she might as well go down swinging.
(Or, in which Pidge is the third Kerberos member, is decidedly not a damsel in distress who needs protection—thank you very much Shiro—is very much done with this crap, and fully intends to make it home to her little brother, no matter what it takes.)
Written for the Pidge Big Bang.
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In the wake of Shiro’s disappearance, Hunk reflects, not only on what it means to be a part of Voltron, but what it means to be a part of this Voltron, and his place in it.
Understanding Lance, trusting Lance, is easy. The others? Not so much.
And while Hunk has somewhat made his peace with the fact that he likely will die out here on some Galra battlefield, the idea of losing Lance, physically or mentally, is…terrifying.
(Or, Shiro goes missing, team Voltron freaks out, and Hunk and Lance learn that coping is best done together.)
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Lance Alexander Rafael McClain is born in the middle of a summer storm, thunder cracking and rain slamming onto the roof of an old ramshackle house that had seen more than its fair share of children.
The miracle baby, that’s what the family had called Lance. The unexpected son to a mother of five daughters.
(In which family is always complicated, Lance's life hasn't been all sunshine and rainbows, and he and Keith are really emotionally constipated for each other.)
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“Really?” She looks to him in askance, the odd edges of nerves leaving her expecting more. “That’s it?” He shrugs, looking bemused, and she snorts. “…Did you seriously have no idea that entire time?”
Lance throws up his hands, waving them about in a dramatic fashion. “I mean I knew something was up with you, but I didn’t necessarily think it was a gender thing! A person can have like...multiple things going on at once. And I was right! There was something—I just didn’t expect it to be as big as your family being kidnapped by aliens and you faking your entire identity, y’know?”
Pidge rolls her eyes, ignoring the panging clangs that never quite go away of your family, your family, where is your family, Katie? “Yeah, alright. Fair enough.”
(Or, in which Pidge is trans, damn well knows she's trans, Lance has no idea what he is, and they both learn to handle the complexities of gender identity, friendship, and each other, in that order.)
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It is a dark, terrible thing that only crawls to the surface, like frost over metal, when she is alone. When she feels her paladin go with one of her siblings somewhere far away enough that her hold over the bond fuzzes and fades out, flat-lining into the barest of sensations, and she is left with only herself.
And she must be broken, she decides, to feel this way—because she is a leg, meant to be stable and secure and strong, as she has known from the beginning of her creation.
Legs do not get paranoid, or frightened, or…or lonely.
But she does. When her paladin leaves, the cold sets in. And the cold, it is nothing but lonely.
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When the mission crew of Shirogane, Holt, Holt, and McClain doesn't come back from Kerberos, the world decides their ship crashed.
Pidge decides it's all bullshit.
She's not the only one.
(In which Pidge lives inside her own head, Lance's older sister was the fourth Kerberos crew member, everyone has something to lose, and no one is handling this well.)
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In the wake of the Balmera's liberation from the rule of the Galra Empire, Shay finds herself rather stuck on two things— The question of what role she is meant to play in the bigger picture in the fight against Zarkon, and exactly what it is Hunk means to her.
(Or, five times Hunk makes, and fulfills, a promise to return to Shay's Balmera over the course of the war, and one time he doesn't need to.)
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By circumstance and happenstance, Red finds herself in situations requiring she change paladins twice in her life.
To say it's a learning curve each time would be something of a simplification.
(Or, the aftermath of the fight with Zarkon requires some adjustments, and Red is left to reflect on what this war has cost her, and what she stands to still lose.)
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Allura had told them once that Voltron was their destiny.
If anything, Keith thinks, Lance had proven that while finding the lions might have been on the dime of some greater plan, compliance to their supposed fate was not strictly required in any remote sense of the word.
In fact, by Lance's standard of doing things it was all rather bullshit.
(Or: The story of the destruction of Earth and its aftermath, feat. questionable science in regards to weapons of mass destruction, gratuitous Star Wars references, theoretical chess games with the emperor of most of the known universe, explosions, the greatest bromance of all time, the worst romance of all time, far too many guns, concussions, extreme misuse of the French language, awkward flirting, and Lance in an overly-dramatic trench coat.)
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- Part 1 of Castle and Crown
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At the time when Allura is roughly around six cycles old, she firmly believes that the world is perfect.
After all, why wouldn’t she? She’s the princess of an advanced, cultured race with, as far as she’s concerned, the universe’s best festivals and the most beautiful planet across all the galaxies, lush with fields of juniberries, and she lives in a castle that can literally fly through space if the need arises.
Nothing has gone wrong in her life, and nothing ever will.
(Or, Allura remembers the paladins of old, and then tries to forget.)
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What Would You Know (About What I've Been Through) by NikNaks
Fandoms: Voltron: Legendary Defender
22 Feb 2017
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Lance isn’t sure when exactly it is he falls into the unofficial role of team patch-up man for self-inflicted injuries… And wow, is that a mouthful.
Honestly, Lance would like to say they don’t have near enough self-caused injury, accidental or purposeful, to need a person in charge of the aftermath.
Well. He’d like to say that
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They were not, astonishingly enough, as a whole the sums of how they seemed those initial first couple weeks aboard the Castle of Lions.
Shiro, of course, hadn’t held too many surprises for Keith beyond the habits his time with the Galra had caused him to develop— Already knowing a person for years beforehand would allow that. But the others… The others were where Keith had stood to be surprised.
Pidge was more than a face illuminated by a computer screen and vengeance for their missing family. Hunk was more than oddly specific knowledge about food and tech babble. Coran was more than odd statements and inexplicable but extremely useful skill sets. Allura was more than barked orders and icy, regal grace.
And Lance?
Lance was… complicated. For all that Keith has slowly begun to figure out the others aboard the ship, Lance remains much of a mystery to him.
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“You want to release a group of the world’s worst criminals, complete with weapons, and try to get them to work for us.” Idly, Shiro wonders if he’d accidentally ingested a hallucinogen earlier in the day. It wouldn’t be the first time.
“No,” Allura’s voice is disturbingly calm. “I want to temporarily let out a group of incarcerated people I think could be useful for us, under heavy supervision.”
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Asgore dies.
The human and him fight, at the place where the Underground is separated from the surface, and Asgore is not the one who wins. He dies. The human is victorious, the first of their fellow fallen to be so.
The human leaves.
And so you must look for a way to begin again.
(Or, the human never resets, but also never returns, and Alphys, Sans, and Undyne are left to pick up the pieces.)
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Armor: +10 Defense
Weapon: +7 AttackA girl falls down into the heart of Mt. Ebott with a tutu stuffed in a backpack and a pair of ballet shoes hanging from her neck.
(A little side-piece on Integrity from Not As Simple As A Happy Ending.)