rocks and shoals, please! 👀
This is my baaaaaaaby, oh man, okay, oh man. I love that you asked about this one for the WIP titles game.
And also, sorry for being horrendously late in answering this ask, lol. I’m also answering this one for the anon that asked about ‘Rocks and Shoals’, too.
So, ‘Rocks and Shoals’ is actually a Koliana (or Oriana/Kolyat) fic for Mass Effect. Probably one of my top three favorite fics I ever wrote for that fandom, and certainly one of my top three ships (which is saying something considering how much of a multi-shipper I am in that fandom and also how much of a rarepair it is).
It takes place in the aftermath of the Reaper War, while everyone is in recovery mode. Handles a crapload of PTSD, post-war living, daddy issues, sister issues, family issues in general, grief, anger, the whole ugly mess of living through the kind of shit they each lived through (if you’re sensing a pattern in my themes at this point, well, you’re not wrong). It’s a romance, eventually, but I hadn’t even gotten to the romantic bits by the time I put that one on hiatus, just because there’s so much shit they wade through - individually - before they can even get to a romantic stage. And it’s definitely my best enemies to lovers fic. Also probably my grittiest fic. They’re my little shits and I love them. So fucking much.
I hate that I lost the drive for that fic. It’s a story that means a lot to me, and it has a lot still to come that I never got to post. I think I’ll be able to return to it one day, but I’m not sure when. It’s hard for me to get back into the right mindset for a fandom once I’ve wondered out of it.