Announcement/End Notes

Announcements

I'm going to do as many one shots involving Celes/Locke plus Rydia/Edge (FF IV) as I can, starting in Spring of 2018. This is in addition to the one shots for Sice/Seven and Lightning/Fang that will start this fall. For prompts/requests, you can PM me here on FFNet with ideas (mind you, with my work schedule and stuff outside of work, which includes me beta-reading works from anyone who requests my services, I won't be able to tackle them as often). I also accept e-mails with requests (virginiakrhunt at gmail dot com). I'll be sure to at least try to incorporate a poem into each…some tales might be JUST a poem. To be on the safe side, both sets will be rated M (I plan on having some smut in each set, along with Futa! Fang and Futa! Lightning in separate chapters in their set with Seven and Sice). I'll be sure to include a brief note in each chapter of both sets the exact setting, pairing, etc. - that way no one is confused as to what is going on and who is paired with whom.

As for future FLight tales that I have coming up– I am mentally planning a new one. The premise behind it is a "what if" scenario, but this time around it'll be "what if Lightning became the new goddess of death instead of Caius and Yeul", and it'll be in the LR/ToM realm (mainly because it'll involve Bhunivelze). The rating for this one will be M, for themes that aren't meant for minors to read plus heavy use of foul language. As for the chapters…in a way it's a multichapter tale but not a true multichapter tale – what I'm going to do is write a series of one-three part one shots about each character in the new world (Fang and Serah will have more than one part to their story) and how they're going to help Fang and Serah reunite with and make Lightning mortal again. The final chapters will be the actual tale (three-part one shot plus epilogue). All I can tell you is that it'll end with Fang and Lightning as a couple in the main tale, and the epilogue will be very happy. The category for this is Angst/Hurt and Comfort/Romance.

Besides that, I am moving at the end of the month (that's a separate PM). Outside the FLight tale I'm currently planning (there'll be a poem at the very end of that one) I'll very likely have a crossover tale involving Metroid and Samurai Shodown, along with a crossover tale in the Soul Calibur/Tekken realms I'm starting to mentally plan out each. Neither tale will have romance but will have Friendship as part of the tales. These two are to be taken with a grain of salt as it'll be at least awhile before I write either of them. When I do write them they'll both be one-shot tales.

End Notes for "Rising from the Ashes"

For the Epilogue from "Out of the Darkness, Into the Light" – the out of character stuff is all on purpose, mainly because it was in AU for Rosa, Sice, Seven and others that are not from the FF XIII games/novellas. Also, in the epilogue for "Out of the Darkness, Into the Light", Noel and Yeul are married. In addition, I made Sice closer to Seven in age (two months younger in the story as opposed to 14 months younger in FF Type-0). You couldn't tell from the time frame between the second half of the main tale to the epilogue but Sice and Seven are sleeping in Vanille's old room. In the end of the main tale, Fang and Lightning sleep in Lightning's room. I left the fate of Fang's old room open. Sice did give Seven the poem she wrote for her, and as for the camcorder – that is up to the reader in what Seven and Sice do with it.

All four tales weren't the easiest for me to write emotionally - although "An Ode to my Soulmate" was the easiest for me to write overall. Remixing elements from the Tracer of Memories novella for both "An Ode to my Soulmate" and "Out of the Darkness, into the Light" was loads of fun for me to tackle, although I'm a poet much more so than a prose writer by any means necessary. "My Love...From a Distance" was a royal pain for me to write (I used to take singing lessons a few years ago, and I tend to write my poems like songs) and the title one shot was quite difficult for me to write for many reasons, although I'm thankful for my interest in reading true crime tales and watching true crime television shows made the world of difference in how I was able to write 3/4 of the tales here. I'm officially done with this batch of one shots...will write again soon. Cheers!