Prose Alchemist

Title: Instinct (Part One) [5/5]
Author: jordannamorgan
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Rating/Warnings: PG for fantasy violence.
Characters: Cheng Xiaoshi, Lu Guang, Xiao Li, original characters.
Setting: Post-season two, after our heroes have had enough time to make a full recovery. (While leaving aside any possible Lu-loop drama for now. My heart can’t take it.)
Summary: Hired to solve a wealthy client’s personal mystery, Cheng Xiaoshi and Lu Guang discover there are even darker powers in the world than they realized… and the damage left in the fallout will not be easily fixed for anyone.
Disclaimer: They belong to Li Haoling, LAN Studio, and Haoliners Animation League. I’m just playing with them.

( V: Restitution )

Title: Instinct (Part One) [3/5]
Author: jordannamorgan
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Rating/Warnings: PG for fantasy violence.
Characters: Cheng Xiaoshi, Lu Guang, Xiao Li, original characters.
Setting: Post-season two, after our heroes have had enough time to make a full recovery. (While leaving aside any possible Lu-loop drama for now. My heart can’t take it.)
Summary: Hired to solve a wealthy client’s personal mystery, Cheng Xiaoshi and Lu Guang discover there are even darker powers in the world than they realized… and the damage left in the fallout will not be easily fixed for anyone.
Disclaimer: They belong to Li Haoling, LAN Studio, and Haoliners Animation League. I’m just playing with them.

( III: Abnegation )

Title: Instinct (Part One) [1/5]
Author: jordannamorgan
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Rating/Warnings: PG for fantasy violence.
Characters: Cheng Xiaoshi, Lu Guang, Xiao Li, original characters.
Setting: Post-season two, after our heroes have had enough time to make a full recovery. (While leaving aside any possible Lu-loop drama for now. My heart can’t take it.)
Summary: Hired to solve a wealthy client’s personal mystery, Cheng Xiaoshi and Lu Guang discover there are even darker powers in the world than they realized… and the damage left in the fallout will not be easily fixed for anyone.
Disclaimer: They belong to Li Haoling, LAN Studio, and Haoliners Animation League. I’m just playing with them.
Notes: Written for the “Werewolf” monster prompt at @http://spook_me 2023, this is my first work of “Link Click” fanfiction.

( I: Inception )

Title: …For We Are Many
Author: jordannamorgan
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Rating/Warnings: PG for low-key body horror.
Characters: Lena, Shin, and…?
Setting: Canon-divergent followup to episode 11 of the anime. (Remember how they massively trolled a lot of viewers at the end of the half-season split? Well…)
Summary: Things changed after Spearhead Squadron disappeared. Lena sets out to understand why… and must face the difficult answers.
Disclaimer: They belong to Asato Asato and A-1 Pictures. I’m just playing with them.
Notes: Written as a “Robots” entry for the 2021 spook_me challenge, and for the prompt word “Change” at fan_flashworks.

( When I’m part of the Legion… whose name will I call out? )

Title: Stronger Than Fear
Author: jordannamorgan
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Rating/Warnings: PG for zombie action.
Characters: Takumi and Ikoma.
Setting: During the Kabane invasion of Aragane.
Summary: If Ikoma couldn’t pick locks, things might have unfolded very differently.
Disclaimer: They belong to Kabaneri Committee and other relevant parties. I’m just playing with them.
Notes: Written for the prompts of “Zombie” at spook_me, “It’s A Trap” at fan_flashworks, and “Best Friends” at genprompt_bingo.

( Takumi had never been so terrified in his life. )

Title: Dog of the Military
Author: jordannamorgan
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Rating/Warnings: PG for somewhat graphic horror.
Characters: Roy Mustang, with a cameo appearance by two unfortunates.
Setting: Pre-canon AU, set during the Ishbal conflict.
Summary: The Ishbalan desert holds something more terrible for Mustang than the sins he has already committed.
Disclaimer: They belong to Hiromu Arakawa. I’m just playing with them.
Notes: This “Things That Never Happened” tale was written for the 2015 spook_me fic challenge, as well as filling the prompt of werewolves at genprompt_bingo. The story is based on a prompt image I chose from the Spook Me community gallery. The artwork featured a certain type of monster brandishing fireballs in his hands… and from that, with a convenient element of first-anime canon to tie into, the leap of inspiration was pretty easy to make. Actually writing this story turned out to be like pulling teeth, but I managed to conquer it just in time for Halloween night!
If anyone is curious, the Ishbalan name I invented for the indigenous wild dog species is a mashup of the Japanese words for desert (sabaku) and dog (inu).

( Roy Mustang could have sworn the ominous scarlet gem on his finger was still glowing faintly. )