Music Monday & WIP Wednesday

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Music Monday for two The UnTitledverse WIPs and one from A Radioactive Calamity of Love, Bombs & Gore and a WIP Wednesday for the The Silver Chronicles. For the next three-and-a-half weeks I'll be posting on Music Monday's songs traditionally about Five Nights At Freddy's and how I try to justify how they fit into my wacky little worlds (even the non-FNAF ones). Enjoy listening and reading below the cut:

Music Monday, WIP Wednesday & OC Speech Mannerisms

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Music for The UnTitledverse WIP, aka another for my Walking Fate series, a WIP for The Silver Chronicles and OC speech mannerisms for A Radioactive Calamity Of Love, Bombs & Gore. Listen and read under the cut, plus the template near the end below:

Music Monday, WIP Wednesday & Last Line

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Got songs for The UnTitledverse, Wings And Horns and A Radioactive Calamity Of Love, Bombs & Gore, with a snippet for a new FC5 The Silver Chronicles WIP as well as a last line for You Make My Heart Go Doki Doki Literature Club!. You can listen to the songs and read the WIPs snippets below:

Those exist???

Okay, after a little research, I think I got this! I'm not entirely sure though, but throwing it out here.

That's as best as I can come up with for a Fairytale AU that I didn't know existed until today! I hope you liked it!

Certainly!

A Truce, As Null And Void As Yourself is the official name of the FC5 Arranged/Forced marriage AU I've been kicking myself to find a name for. Essentially, the plot is, Silva and the Resistance leaders meet with the Seeds to negotiate a truce/peaceful resolution, but Joseph will only give it if Silva is handed over to them and marries a suitor he's chosen... that being Jacob (much to the guy's dismay) because "the Voice said so". This doesn't work for Silva for many reasons (incompatible orientation, she hates Jacob plus the cult's guts and also the fact Joseph didn't even say anything about compensating the Hope County residents for the deaths and destruction they've brought being amongst those reasons), nor does it for Kamski and the Resistance so they decline... until Silva is given time think back on all the things that had lead her to this life, and a visit to Carmina and her parents reminding her of what she lost due to her past hotheadedness and thirst for vengeful justice, and her own guilt over multiple things push her to take the deal with Joseph with a few altercations; she will join Eden's Gate and marry Jacob if he can acknowledge that the marriage is purely tactical and does not at all require her and Jacob to do things that both would find uncomfortable or would be downright impossible for either to commit to, and she wants him to agree to whatever reparations the county wants back for all the trouble and terror Eden's Gate caused them.

By this point, in most fics like this, Eden's Gate and the Resistance would co-exist, and the deputy would slowly live assimilate in the lifestyle of the cult, and find it "not that bad".

Here though? I argue differently. I agree that if an alliance was required, Eden's Gate and the Resistance would team up to deal with the third party. But this isn't an alliance; it's a call for a truce/peaceful resolution to the violence.

I absolutely agree that Joseph views the Seals opening as a bad thing, and would hope to avoid it. He does not want any of his siblings to die, and hopes that his guidance can keep them to the visions where they do survive to see Eden (as his voicemail to John also implies) which the Voice showed him. However, while Joseph believes he can prevent the deaths, he is unaware that the Voice is capable of deceiving him, showing him visions it itself does not intend on following through with.

Joseph doesn't want the Seals to break... but what he doesn't know is that the Voice absolutely does, because that's how the Collapse happens; through sacrifices. It had designed things so that either Joseph loses his family again, or the deputy fails everyone and loses themself + everyone they've come to care for in the process. And in FC5, the Voice got a two-in-one package deal.

In this fic, the truce is exactly as it says on the title... null and void. It's a ploy. The Voice does not care for honor, or human concepts such as trust... it will ensure the Collapse happens, by either pushing its Muse (Silva) to the edge of distress til she fights back and breaks the rest of the Seals and taking all Joseph had, OR the Prophet (Joseph) pushes Silva til she breaks down after losing everything; the life she wanted to live, her independence, her community (again) and herself. The 'As Yourself' part of the title is up to interpretation... either it refers to the Voice, who is hollow inside except for its (preset) sadism and without any humanity whatsoever, or Joseph for literally sacrificing human values just to appease the Voice's demands despite how much damage it does and how much he may not personally like it, making him essentially a puppet, null and void.

As soon as the Voice gives the word, Joseph will break the truce and Eden's Gate will catch the Resistance unaware. At least... that's what the Voice expects to happen anyway.

Silva absolutely does not have a good time. After all, she's stuck in another cult that restricts her freedom and choices, plans on betraying her conditions, seeks to use very manipulation in the book to keep her with them while being unable to make contact with her friends and allies, is surrounded by people who either detest her or she feels absolute guilt for even being in the presence of (due to killing a lot of the followers) and being afraid to fight back in the off-chance that the truce is on.

Nadi and Alexander are the most sympathetic towards her. Faith isn't very sympathetic at first until she spends enough time with Silva that she jealously finds it unfair that Jacob gets to be married to someone who can rail her is such an ideal partner for her (which might lead to do something, le gasp... daring). John gets sympathetic when Nadi leaves him and he stumbles upon Silva in a very vulnerable state of mind. Jacob and Joseph though are the least sympathetic, with the Voice absolutely thriving in her misery.

Does this fic end happily, bittersweet or depressingly? I haven't decided, but it's one hell of a rollercoaster of emotions, that's for sure. This fic (not excluding The True Sinners) is the closest to a "Silva joins Eden's Gate" as you're going to get without completely changing her core values and beliefs.

Hope this is satisfactory!

Sure can @g0dspeeed!

You're Almost Like Family is a Far Cry 5 time-loop/"Groundhog" day AU fic, with only the Seeds being stuck in this perpetual cycle that takes them right back to when my deputy, Silva Omar, arrests Joseph Seed.

For a bit-oh context, the Seeds has Silva surrounded, and just refusing no for an answer when telling her to outright join them there and then. The time loop begins as soon as Silva is shot dead, unprompted, and the Seeds pretty much "awaken" at the moment Silva put the cuffs on Joseph that fateful night. None of the Seeds know that they all are in the loop together until much later, they believe they're in this individually. Joseph can't really communicate with the Voice (and vice versa), unless the Voice uses the lines it told Joseph before the loop reset (essentially the Voice only has a certain amount of dialogue available to say to Joseph and none of it is very helpful), so the Voice just kind of sits back from the outside and observes, to its frustration. Anyway, what the Seeds do know so far is that every time either one of them or Silva herself dies, time resets back to the moment Silva put the cuffs on Joseph. One of them dying from either Silva or an enemy has always been a plausibility but one they can all prevent now while stuck in this loop. However, what should be impossible is Silva dying, considering Joseph's orders of capturing her alive. But someone else has entered the county and is actively going out of their way to kill Silva, which makes this whole thing a lot more difficult for the Seeds, since they can't go to her too early cause she'll kill them and they can't be too late to meet her because she'll get killed. Throughout these loops, they learn things about Silva, things that both bring context to why she fights them so hard and allows both them and her to empathize with each other in ways they never could beforehand. Not only that, but this also gives the Seeds an opportunity to notice things about the Project and its members (such as John and Jacob's SIC's, Nadi Sinclair and Alexander Khaos respectively) that they would have never have noticed originally.

I don't have any more snippets available to share at the moment, so I hope this was good.

Late WIP Wednesday & Last Line (Paragraph)

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Here's 3 WIPs and a Last Line Paragraph (from The UnTitledverse, Far Cry The Silver Chronicles and Life, Despair & Monsters) to make up for the lack of activity (I've been a little preoccupied but I'm all good now). NOTE: I'm still ironing out these scenes, so some changes might happen in the future of publication. Anyway, enjoy!

Late WIP Wednesday + Last Sentence

Sharing a snippet of The True Sinners. As well as a last sentence of What Are The Chances, in which John and Jacob get lost while going to have a meeting with Joseph and Faith in the woods.

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WIP snippets under the cut.

WIP Last Line (a little late though)

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Here's the last line of a FC5 WIP called What Are The Chances?

It is part of an alternate storyline (or rather AU) of my Far Cry The Silver Chronicles called Far Cry The Judge's Duty (where Silva was a version of the Judge in 2018). Enjoy some extremely minor Seed content:

Jacob looked calm, but John knew his brother was seething at the fact they were, indeed, lost. “C’mon, we can’t be out here any longer," Jacob called back, looking up at the darkening clouds, "Especially not with the Sinner's Resistance running around and a storm brewing.”

Of course! Here's a snippet of two sentences from another small FC5 WIP I call You're Almost Like Family.

Oh! And it's a "character stuck in a groundhog loop" scenario. Here's a hint: It's not Deputy Silva Omar who's stuck.

Now have some tiny snippets of John's POV below:

He did hope that Joseph wasn’t planning on having the Deputy replace their current Faith. The older of the two women hardly seemed like flower girl material, nor the type to play the submissive and docile role. She was quite serious, never obnoxiously carefree and unnecessarily joyful. She was smart, in patience and strategy, always quick on her feet and ready to use the environment to her advantage. She masked her emotions well, but never for the purpose of adhering to a performance.

Her intentions, however misguided, were always clear. Much like Joseph and Jacob. And a bit of himself too, the longer John thought about it. It was almost eery just how similar yet so different she was to the family. He could even say their paths were always meant to cross. The coming of the Collapse and her divine role in the prophecy only ensured the inevitable.

Here’s a missed Far Cry 5 opportunity for ya!

Imagine being able to actually explore and liberate the Veteran’s Centre. But it’s special.

Unlike other outposts, this one is the highest difficulty and one that is also creative. Like it’s a BOSS base guys. Jacob’s base!

(Kind of like Pagan and his governors' bases in Far Cry 4)

Chosen! Judges! Flamethrowers! Stealth! Explosions!

What happens if you're spotted while sneaking around? "ONLY YOU!" (Better take out those speakers!)

Hell, you could have given this treatment to any of the other Seed's "main" bases (Seed Ranch for John, either Jessop Conservatory or Eden's Convent for Faith). I would have included Joseph's Compound (for obvious reasons) but given it's the last location you go back to at the end of the game for Joseph's boss fight, probably not.

Additional add-on: John actually trying to get his Ranch back, or the Seeds actually trying to get their outposts back just like in Far Cry 4 (I LOVED THAT GAME MECHANIC! It was just realistic)

I don't know, I just think it would be pretty neat.

Far Cry El Industrial's Reign AU Post #6

[NOTE: I wish I could have made a more refined version of this, but this is the best I'm gonna post]

You know, the relationship between the Seeds and the Tumultite Distraction Team (Silva (kind of?), Azriel, Alexander Khaos and Nadi Sinclair) is something that gets me chuckling.

Mostly because by how much an outside-context foe the Tumultite inner circle is to the Seeds. Like, really, who could have guessed that this reserved group of business owners who run a diner are kind of unhinged and scary tactical?