veryroundbirdfics | Jun. 22nd, 2023

Jun. 22nd, 2023

Rating: Mild
Words: 664
Characters: Matoimaru, Click
Summary: Click interviews Matoimaru about her hobbies for a Rhodes Island promotional video; it gets philosophical.
Notes: Written for an anon from my Pride Month 2021 requests.

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veryroundbird

Rating: Spicy
Words: 987
Characters: Glaucus, Blue Poison
Relationships: Glaucus/Blue Poison
Summary: Blue Poison says she wants to be touched more; Glaucus takes this with utmost seriousness.
Notes: Written for Pride Month 2021 requests!

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veryroundbird

Rating: Mild
Words: 764
Characters: Sussuro, Click
Relationships: Gen
Summary: Click interviews Sussurro about what brought her to Rhodes Island.
Notes: Request for Pride Month 2021!

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veryroundbird

Rating: Spicy
Words: 1738
Characters: Blaze, GreyThroat
Relationships: Blaze/GreyThroat
Summary: Blaze notices GreyThroat acting weird even for her, and tries to find out what the matter is; in the end, it all comes down to very simple needs that Blaze is enthusiastically willing to help out with.
Or: a study in bird mating behavior.
Notes: Pride Month 2021 Request fic; this one was for knifingale.

Content Notes:

Mating cycles/heat sex, fingering

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veryroundbird

Rating: Mild
Words: 1464
Characters: Andreana, Skadi, Specter mentioned
Relationships: Andreana/Skadi, Skadi/Specter in background but important
Summary: When Andreana notices Skadi spending a lot of time waiting for Specter's visiting hours in the medical wing, she tries to introduce Skadi to video games to pass the time. The results are surprising.
Notes: Request from Pride Month 2021!

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veryroundbird

Rating: Spicy
Words: 1672
Characters: Texas, Lappland
Relationships: Texas/Lappland
Summary: Lappland isn't doing well. For just one night, Texas lets her guard down, and has to confront the reality of what she actually feels.
Notes: Pride Month 2021 request from

tuberose!

Content Notes:

Bloodplay, terminal illness, oral sex, everyone is into it and it fixes nothing, no one dies but the shadow of death looms large

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veryroundbird

Rating: Mild
Words: 1176
Characters: Frostleaf, Cutter
Relationships: Frostleaf/Cutter
Summary: Frostleaf and Cutter are both having trouble adjusting to Rhodes Island life in different ways, but neither of them can sleep.
Notes: Pride Month 2021 request for SIverfanweedo!

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veryroundbird

Rating: Spicy
Words: 2729
Characters: Doctor (F), Kal'tsit, cameos by Blaze and Hoshiguma
Relationships: Doctor/Kal'tsit
Summary: Dr. Lau not going in for her checkups prior to her reinstatement to Rhodes Island means she's surprised by a few things that were never logged in her chart, and Kal'tsit finds herself having a surprising reaction to the idea that other operators might want to... help with that.
Notes: Request from Pride Month 2021—this was, hilariously, submitted by TWO different anons

Content Notes:

Mating cycles/heatsex, vague ABO dynamics, weird animal girl biology, cat dicks specifically

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veryroundbird

Rating: Piquant
Words: 1953
Characters: Ch'en, Talulah, Koschei, Wei Yenwu, Fumizuki, Swire, Lin Yüshia
Relationships: Gen
Summary: Koschei doesn't kidnap Talulah; Talulah and Hui-chieh grow up together. Sometimes, discovering the crimes of your forefathers on your own is worse.
Notes: Pride Month 2021 request for Friend Tara

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veryroundbird

Rating: Mild
Words: 1508
Characters: Silence, Saria, Ifrit
Relationships: Silence/Saria
Summary: Ifrit's sick and has a very specific request that Silence fulfills, reluctantly.
Notes: Request for Pride Month 2021!

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veryroundbird

Rating: Spicy
Words: 1472
Characters: Rope, Utage
Relationships: Rope/Utage
Summary: Rope isn't used to having options in her life and finds herself getting hung up on the details; Utage coaxes her into asking for a little bit more.
Notes: Pride Month 2021 request for VividValkyrie! (you know that hayley kiyoko song?)

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veryroundbird

Rating: Mild
Words: 1090
Characters: Amiya, Rosmontis, Projekt Red
Relationships: Amiya/Rosmontis/Projekt Red (~vaguely pre-romance)
Summary: Amiya, Rosmontis, and Red have been packed off to Siesta to make them stop working for once, and all three discover that they're not sure what to do outside of the daily grind—but that maybe that they can help each other figure that out.
Notes: Pride Month 2021 request for MirrorMystic!

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veryroundbird

Rating: Mild
Words: 761
Characters: Ceylon, Schwarz
Relationships: Ceylon/Schwarz
Summary: Schwarz appreciates the regular ritual of making tea for Ceylon—but Ceylon has some unusual things to bring up in conversation, today.
Notes: Written for Day 1 of 2021 Arknights WLW Week. Somehow this got me my first weird "you can't ship that" twitter DM

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veryroundbird

Rating: Mild
Words: 1310
Characters: Ambriel, Mostima, (+ cameo Fiammetta)
Relationships: Ambriel/Mostima
Summary: On shore leave, Ambriel runs into someone surprising while shopping, and none of it is remotely what she expected.
Notes: For Arknights WLW Week 2021, Day 2. I decided to try and write as many rarepairs as humanly possible, to see if I could

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veryroundbird

Rating: Mild
Words: 859
Characters: Kroos, Beagle, Fang
Relationships: Kroos/Beagle/Fang (you know, Krangle)
Summary: After the garrison Kroos, Beagle, and Fang are assigned to becomes intolerable, Kroos makes a promise.
Notes: For Arknights WLW Week 2021 day 3.

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veryroundbird

Rating: Mild
Words: 1621
Characters: Texas, Lappland, Sora, Croissant, Exusiai, Mostima
Relationships: Texas/Lappland, Texas/Sora
Summary: After burning out of a high-powered law career, Texas has settled into daily life as a barista at Penguin Coffee—only to run into a familiar face from the past.
Notes: For 2021 Arknights WLW Week day 3. I think the prompt was either "coffee-shop AU" or "other setting AU" and having come off of reading Harrow the Ninth relatively recently I knew what I had to do. Also please imagine this turning into a TV legal drama about Lappland's Kalinda Sharma-esque gig

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veryroundbird

Rating: Mild
Words: 967
Characters: Tomimi, Sora
Relationships: Tomimi/Sora (one-sided)
Summary: Tomimi finds a new musical obsession after coming to Rhodes Island, but she doesn't expect to meet her in person.
Notes: For 2021 Arknights WLW Week day 5.

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veryroundbird

Rating: Mild
Words: 919
Characters: W, Theresa
Relationships: Theresa/W
Summary: W has never quite understood what Theresa wants from her, but that's by design.
Notes: For 2021 Arknights WLW Week day 6.

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veryroundbird

Rating: Mild
Words: 958
Characters: Nightingale, Shining, Nearl
Relationships: Shining/Nightingale/Nearl
Summary: Nightingale remembers the sun, a cage, and a new light.
Notes: For 2021 Arknights WLW Week, day 7. (This is kind of deuterocanonical now but I still think it turned out nice.)

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veryroundbird

Rating: Mild
Words: 862
Characters: Texas, Sora
Relationships: Texas/Sora
Summary: It's the little things that keep Texas holding together—like the right music after a tense mission.
Notes: Request from Pride Month 2021; T4T texsora for Every1sNo1Fangirl. (i want youuuuuuu, i need youuuuuuu—)

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veryroundbird

Rating: Mild
Words: 915
Characters: Eunectes, cameos by Vulcan, Blemishine, and Gavial
Relationships: Gen
Summary: Eunectes is determined to see all there is to see in a mobile city, but finds that it's very different from home.
Notes: 2021 Pride Month request for Carrogath!

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veryroundbird

Rating: Mild
Words: 1503
Characters: Ch'en, Talulah, Alina, Hoshiguma
Relationships: Ch'en/Hoshiguma, Talulah/Alina
Summary: If things happened a little differently: when Rhodes Island makes a contract with the city of Lungmen, Ch'en finds a surprising face among their delegation, and sisters get a little time to catch up.
Notes: 2021 Pride Month request for gaymr!

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veryroundbird

Rating: Mild
Words: 884
Characters: Jackie, Click
Relationships: Gen
Summary: Click interviews new recruit Jackie about some Rhodes Island operators she admires.
Notes: 2021 Pride Month request fic!

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veryroundbird

Rating: Spicy
Words: 3012
Characters: Talulah, FrostNova, Amiya, Yeti Squadron
Relationships: Talulah/FrostNova
Summary: Talulah, having joined Rhodes Island, is determined to find and aid the legendary Yeti Squadron; Yelena wishes she was a little less determined, probably. But aboard Rhodes Island, Yelena finds that life is comfortable—if prone to springing some surprises on her.
Notes: 2021 Pride Month request for Friend Tara who gave me some funny rabbit biology facts. Same continuity as "Ouroborous," approximately a year before the "canon" start date

Content Notes:

Funky biology, heatsex, there's a cloaca in this. You're going to have to deal with that. Also FrostNova is trans

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veryroundbird

Rating: Piquant
Words: 1650
Characters: Frill, Acca, Ura-acca, Himari
Relationships: Gen (Frill/Himari if you squint)
Summary: Acca and Ura-acca made a girl who could laugh through anything, who had flaws, insecurities, fears. God made a tree that bore the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil and said not to eat it. What did they think would happen?
Notes: No, I didn't watch the last episode. A fix-it fic of sorts.

Content Notes:

Suicidal ideation/attempt, implied suicide, physical child abuse, murder, Wonder Egg Priority being Wonder Egg Priority

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veryroundbird

Rating: Spicy
Words: 903
Characters: Platinum, Blemishine
Relationships: Blemishine/Platinum
Summary: Platinum has to admit that her Armorless Union assignment to keep an eye on the Nearls has its upsides. She just doesn't have to tell them that she's dating Maria Nearl, right?
Notes: 2021 Pride Month request from TheShinySword.

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veryroundbird

Rating: Mild
Words: 876
Characters: Folinic, Mudrock
Relationships: Folinic/Mudrock
Summary: Louisa intends to take Mudrock out on the perfect date, now that they have time and opportunity; however, life has other plans.
Notes: 2021 Pride Month request!

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veryroundbird

Rating: Mild
Words: 926
Characters: Magallan, Mayer
Relationships: Mayer/Magallan
Summary: In the last week of their undergrad terms, Magallan asks Mayer to help her with one small thing.
Notes: 2021 Pride Month request!

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veryroundbird

Rating: Mild
Words: 678
Characters: Asbestos, Magallan
Relationships: Asbestos/Magallan
Summary: On their own individual expeditions, Magallan and Asbestos exchange... cute animal photos? For a given value of cute.
Notes: 2021 Pride Month request!

Content Notes:

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veryroundbird

Rating: Piquant
Words: 2660
Characters: Jaina Proudmoore, Sylvanas Windrunner
Relationships: Sylvanas/Jaina
Summary: Working as each others' counterparts in leading missions into Icecrown Citadel, Sylvanas Windrunner and Jaina Proudmoore strike up an unlikely rapport. There must always be bastards, but maybe dealing with them is better with... friends?
Notes: Canon divergence AU where they let the girls talk

Content Notes:

Suicidal ideation, averted suicide attempt

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veryroundbird

Rating: Spicy
Words: 1114
Characters: Weedy, Whisperain
Relationships: Weedy/Whisperain
Summary: Whisperain finds herself needing to distract Weedy from a date night movie that doesn't quite hit the mark for both of them.
Notes: 2021 Pride Month request! Also they're watching Arknights Crimson Peak.

Content Notes:

Handjobs, clothed sex

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veryroundbird

Rating: Mild
Words: 1435
Characters: Click, SilverAsh
Relationships: Gen
Summary: Click has a long-standing nervousness around felines but a burning desire to wring all the exclusive details out of Enciodes Silverash; Silverash doesn't want to discuss family matters whatsoever. They are both stuck in the Doctor's reception office.
Notes: Request fic for 2021 Pride Month!

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veryroundbird

Rating: Mild
Words: 1473
Characters: Dusk, Dawn, Artistic Commentator
Relationships: Dusk/Dawn
Summary: Artistic commentary on a series of paintings by an unknown Yenese artist, recently uncovered.
Notes: you ever wanna make people really sad

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veryroundbird

Rating: Piquant
Words: 1637
Characters: Kroos, Dusk
Relationships: Gen
Summary: Kroos has a very particular end in mind when she asks Dusk to teach her how to paint, but the process of learning leads her to question what she's actually trying to memorialize.
Notes: I came out to hurt people and I'm having a great time

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veryroundbird

Rating: Mild
Words: 1608
Characters: Blue Poison, Glaucus
Relationships: Blue Poison/Glaucus
Summary: Blue Poison returns from a modeling gig with some ideas about outfits—but not for her.
Notes: Anon request for 2021 Pride Month!

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veryroundbird

Rating: Piquant
Words: 1225
Characters: Dur-nar, Frostleaf
Relationships: Gen
Summary: Frostleaf requests newer Rhodes Island recruit Dur-nar go on a mission with her, to clear the air between them; Dur-nar gets a chance to ask a question that's been on her mind for a while.
Notes: 2021 Pride Month request for themaskedtaquito!

Content Notes:

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veryroundbird

Rating: Piquant
Words: 3649
Characters: Harrowhark Nonagesimus, Palamedes Sextus, Gideon Nav, Camilla Hect
Relationships: Gen
Summary: Harrowhark Nonagesimus is horrified to discover after inviting the Sixth to visit on a whim that Palamedes Sextus has taken their arguments about necromantic theorems on the net for friendship. Worse, she's less and less sure that he's wrong.
Notes: For sigalit in the Locked Tomb Exchange.
Today, I feel an alien. If I could disappear.
Not a danger, not in danger. Belonging here. If I could
be the shape of your breath in the cold. What camouflage
have we. How we bury our living
within us. This precious ache I cradle, my treasure
My dread. What barren, what beauty it makes of me.
— from "Contact," Camille Rankine

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veryroundbird

Rating: Piquant
Words: 1113
Characters: Original Character, Leih Aliapoh
Relationships: OC/Leih Aliapoh
Summary: Mae Shiratori is done with heroism and done with attachment, and is mostly ready to wash her hands of Gridania—but one of her fellow archers might undo all her carefully-constructed walls.
Notes: This is theoretically my Warrior of Light but also she's not really the WoL she's just a guy

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veryroundbird

Rating: Piquant
Words: 3245
Characters: GreyThroat, Mudrock
Relationships: GreyThroat/Mudrock
Summary: GreyThroat hoped for Mudrock to join Rhodes Island. What she didn't expect was that Mudrock's presence would force her to confront a few things from Wolumonde and from Lungmen that she hadn't quite processed.
Notes: This is my rarepair Mudrock OTP. I don't know why no one else writes this. I am a brain genius

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veryroundbird

Rating: Mild
Words: 2044
Characters: Original Characters, Wizards
Relationships: Original Female Character/Original Female Character
Summary: Mandy prefers the weird life inside the wizard maze, picking up scraps of magic from the weird little pointy-hatted critters, but she’s never met another person who stuck around.
Notes: If you’re wondering what the fuck this is please turn this way for the wizard maze

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veryroundbird

Rating: Spicy
Words: 1509
Characters: Silence, Ptilopsis
Relationships: Silence/Ptilopsis, past Silence/Saria, past Ptilopsis/Dellareed
Summary: Dr. Silence is irritable, touch-starved, both angry at her ex and pining for her, and deeply concerned about Ptilopsis's well-being. Ptilopsis is pretty sure she knows how to fix all of this at once.
Notes: Request for 2021 Pride Month!

Content Notes:

Non-penetrative sex, brief dream body horror

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