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Creepyfest, or October content, is perhaps my favorite time of year, the point at which I pull out all the stops and write whatever weird, dark concepts come to mind. Sometimes they're horror or darkfic; other times they're just Whump, or Angst, or particularly suspenseful scenarios.

Intense Drama is, after all, one of my strengths as a writer. And some of the darkest scenarios provide for some of the most intimate moments between characters.

In my writing, I typically aim for a Positive Ending (more on that in a minute). If a fic is of any significant length and is aiming at a negative ending, that ending gets pointed out in the tags (Dark Ending or Bittersweet Ending or the like) from the very first chapter. I try to ensure that readers get a clear view of what they're walking into.

But during Creepyfest, all bets are off. My tagging strategy shifts -- I'm far more cagey with the tags and far more careful with the spoilers -- so you really can't tell if the characters are going to walk away sane, intact, or even alive. The lack of guarantees ramps up the suspense, and I crank up the heat for our beloved whumpees.

A Positive Ending

To me, a Positive Ending requires the following aspects:

Good Characters get Positive Endings: At the end of the tale, the good characters are alive, and reasonably whole, sane, and free. Whatever negative circumstances they had to go through, they've survived and escaped.; (This doesn't mean I'll never include a Heroic Sacrifice, or that the trauma won't have lasting effects, but by and large, the characters we're rooting for get to find the light at the end of the tunnel)
Bad Characters get Bad Endings (or Redemption Arcs): The villains I focus on get their comeuppance and are typically removed from power.; (Of course, if the villain's redeemable, I'd much rather write about that)
No Karma Houdinis: Nobody significant gets away with doing nasty things to those who don't deserve it; (But throwaway mooks who are just there to beat up the hero and exit stage left, they're more like scenery -- I'm not gonna track down every random mugger just to show them getting karmic payback)

Systemic Injustice sucks, and we have enough of it in real life; I don't care to write tales where the "good ending" is just that the pool of victims has a few less victims in it. That doesn't feel like a happy ending to me.

Caveat

There are, of course, a few villains who seem more like fixtures and aren't going to get dethroned by the end of the fic. The Grandmaster, for example; it's enough that Loki gets off Sakaar and out of his sphere of influence. The amount of effort it would take to dethrone a being of his power level is more than I care to explore.

Of course, that's why most of my Sakaar fics come out during Creepyfest.

It should be noted that in a lot of cases, I rely on the canon to serve the karmic payback: If the villain gets dealt with in the end, and my fic is set during the middle, I don't need to specifically show that he gets what's coming to him. Or I can explore the nastier side of a character who later gets redeemed in canon.

Note for Screen Readers

I did my best to provide aria-labels and keep the document order relatively consistent. Unfortunately, I can't figure out a way to stick content into a grid and nest sections in a logical manner. So the header hierarchy gets split across adjacent sections: H2 and H3 might be in one section, and the next H3 in the next section.

I hope this isn't too confusing! It's meant to be a two-column layout for any devices wide enough to handle that.

Another excellent chapter. One can't lose with your fics. You always manage to bring a new element to everything you produce.
Now… how long are we gonna have to wait again???

A note on fan comments

I've tried to condense/reword the comments I've gotten in a way that preserves the original meaning/feel. That might mean fixing a typo, altering the punctuation a bit, or rearranging elements of a larger comment (or set of comments by the same reader on the same fic).

Almost all comments are from my main site, AO3; a couple are from FFN, and one's from Twitter.

Also: I've got a bit of a reputation in the AO3 comments section. As encapsulated by the following fan comics: Doctor Zaniida and Types of Readers: (1) Angst Addicts, (2) Slash Addicts, and (3) Zaniida.

Hover over (or press on) spoilers to see the contents.

Early Creepy Fics

Before I got it in my head to make October a primary content month, I wrote a handful of pieces with a similar creepy vibe.

Nanites AU

At some point I got it in my head to make a ficlet implying a much larger AU that made Decima/Samaritan a much creepier threat. Borrowing from the nanites of Schlock Mercenary's Terra forming War (WARNING: creepy, angsty, tragic, and horrifying scenario described in just three pages), I dreamt up a nanite threat that let Samaritan turn humans into its own agents against their will. ...and then I kinda made it worse.

I would first explore this in a simple Drabble, expanded to two Drabble Chapters, in Man, on the Inside (200 words). By October, I had expanded the idea into a longer piece (I don't want this body to hurt anyone, 900 words), a subtle variation on the AU I'd established in the first piece. Both are dark, both involve a character being permanently subverted (one to the point of identity death), and I would love to see someone explore the AU in greater detail.

The Only Escape Is Murder

It seems that astolat has a hotline to my Muse: She's the one who triggered my entry into both major fandoms (with Dangerous If Unbound and Chaos War, respectively), she inspired my first major fic (On the Other Side of the Mirror) and my first major MCU fic (Acceptable Loss), and she also inspired my Harold Would Have Thanked Him (three Drabble Chapters) with her A Really Private Person.

See, she likes laying out dark scenarios and then pulling back and saving the characters so they don't have to go through the scenario she laid out. In A Really Private Person she accomplished this through a literal Deus Ex Machina -- though in fairness, the Person of Interest fandom is the only fandom I know of where that's actually part of the premise, so I'll cheerfully give that a pass.

But just like Chaos War set up a scenario where Loki would have to die to save the universe (and I wound up writing that scenario), A Really Private Person set up a scenario where as soon as Harold was done saving the world, John would have to kill him to prevent the government from capturing and torturing him. And where astolat spared them, I went ahead and wrote the scene where John had to do just that.

...two months later, I wrote Harold's perspective as he got killed.

...then, at the end of the year, I wrote the Machine's perspective. I'm actually a teeny bit salty about that, because it changes the premise of the fic so dang much that I almost wish it wasn't there. But it does sorta fix things. Again.

Deaf and Blind

I'd whumped Harold enough that it felt like a good time to whump John, I guess, so I wrote a scenario where John's been hit with a chemical explosion that has temporarily knocked out his sight and hearing, leaving him in silent darkness while the team (having rendered what first aid they can) has to figure out how to communicate with him. Also, they had to tie him up to keep him from fighting their efforts, so he initially thinks he's in enemy hands.

That's Best-Case Scenario (2k). I plan to write more eventually, but at present it's complete enough that it's extremely low priority (the first fic I termed "Hiatus Fic").

Kinda Similar Vibe

There's also a small collection from this timeframe that don't lean so hard on the creepy vibe, but still feel like they might fit in for reasons of being angsty or intense, so have a quick list of possibilities:

Not Exactly Creepy, But...

On the Other Side of the Mirror (42k WIP): An intense scenario and my first Rapefic.; Still my most subscribed POI fic (out of over 110 posts), and secondmost for bookmarks, comment threads, kudos, and hits.
Strip Search (15k): My first completed chapterfic, an intense confrontation between Finch and Reese.
Harold's Nightmare (2k): Episode Perspective for when Harold's debating about killing the congressman.
A Better Way (5k): Canon Divergence for when Root tries to knock Finch out so she can kill his new lady friend.
Three Minutes (400): My first birthday prompt, setting up a scenario where a scared Finch knows he's about to get kidnapped.
The Great Mistake (10k): An intense and angsty discussion about the boundaries of consent.
Strange Bedfellas (7k WIP): An Omegaverse fic that starts out kinda creepy.
Bargains (20k WIP): Elias drives Finch to some intense, dark-seeming scenarios.

There's also a creepy setup in the Fan Appreciation Fic I wrote, but I won't link to that directly because it's mostly relevant to my earliest supporters.

Creepyfest 2017

I think this was before I started calling it "Creepyfest", but I still started some significant fics here, and eventually stuck them in a Creepyfest series.

A Suitably Creepy Fic

On October 1st, I came out of the gate strong with Bespoke (6k), wherein I tried to channel some Lovecraftian horror despite never having actually read such books. (My initial aim was to make a different sort of horror story each year. Ah, the plans I set for myself.)

Sensitive Readers should tread carefully; the scenario is one that's likely to stick in your head.

Undoing the Finale?

Two weeks into the month, I posted the first chapter of To Be There in Time (16k WIP), wherein Finch, still reeling from the series finale, seeks out Root -- a magic-user in this AU -- to change the past and save John's life.

But all deep magic has a Cost, and Harold might find that it is one he's unwilling to pay.

If you'd like to explore the many different ways their lives could have gone, had Harold made slightly different decisions along the way, this is the fic to absolutely wallow in Consequences. Including what happens when Harold goes off the deep end.

Vampire Elias

The deal Elias makes with Finch caught my interest, and I wrote a few variations where Elias asks for things other than a chess partner. (Original Title: One Bargain Harold Could Not Agree to (and Five He Could))

Then I made the supernatural version, Nippitaty (22k WIP). Actually, I'd intended to make five supernatural bargains, of which To Be There in Time is the one Harold could not agree to; Unseen Things is another one of the "supernatural bargains" set. Offhand I forget which other fics were in the works and whether I made progress on any of them.

Nanites v2

Following up on the idea I coined in Man, on the Inside, I put together a somewhat longer ficlet called I don't want this body to hurt anyone (900), in which Harold is free and aware when he gets infected with nanites, and has just enough time to make one last, angsty phone call.

My nephew, who is pretty good with voices, recorded a podfic version for me, in which Harold is played by GLaDOS from Portal.

2018: Unseen Things

October 2018 was the year I arranged a crowdsourced project where I let anyone who was interested create part of the backstory for the main fic. I attracted around a dozen authors, and worked with each one to ensure that I could consider their work to be canon to my own. I also secured a cover artist, and got my favorite podfic creator to record two audio files (one of which is waiting for me to release the key chapter before the audio can see the light of day).

The fic was supposed to take place over the course of a single month, which failed spectacularly. This was a bit before I came to the awareness (in my forties) that I likely have ADHD (it explains so much!). Five planned chapters ballooned up into over a dozen, and it's still ongoing as of 2024 (I expect to update it, but not finish it, this year).

Understandably, that project took up my entire month (and the bulk of my productivity for a while beforehand); the only other thing I posted that month was October Feels Odd (aka Post-Surgery Pronoia) (3k).

The Main Fic

Imagine a world where the supernatural is commonplace (and weird and random, and dangerous), but some powerful groups are taking great pains to ensure that the general public doesn't find out. This is the world of the SCP Foundation, kind of a modern take on campfire ghost stories except that it's all in the format "so we found this thing that does weird things, and these are the steps we're taking to ensure that it can't do the weird things." In official-looking paperwork for this fictitious agency.

Now imagine: In a worldbuild where such things exist, how might this affect the backstories of every single member of the cast?

Cast Shifts

Harold Finch: Ran into a supernatural force that erased all memory of him, and gave him the ability to intuitively know the effects of supernatural ("anomalous") objects. Thus he's the most wanted man in the entire world.
John Reese: Agent for the Foundation until a disastrous event made him stop trusting them and flee their influence.
The Machine: An anomalous Book that can give cryptic warnings about the future.
Root: Became partly machine.
Shaw: Literally had her emotions eaten as a child.
Elias: Dealer in black-market anomalous goods.
Zoe: An ancient entity kinda like a vampire.
Leon Tao: Finds out that he's actually a changeling.
Nathan: Got turned into a living chalk drawing and then a living rag doll who communicates in rudimentary sign language.

For the most part, I allowed the authors of the side stories to define the details for their chosen characters -- that is, for example, how Leon Tao's nature got decided (which proved to be useful to the plot in an unexpected way early on). I'm also open to new authors adding to the AU; various details are still up in the air, including Shaw's ordeal, Carter's fate, Fusco's fate, Bear's perspective, etc.

Anyway. So, that's the worldbuild. The plot, however, is inspired by the concept of Antimemetics, or self-censoring information.

Supplementary Material

An Apology in Advance

Knowing that I was about to do something kinda mean to Bear, I decided that I didn't want my first Bear fic to be so mean, so I wrote a fluffier tale that I released the day before it all started: Unbearably Fluffy (2k).

"Episode Guide"

POI Episode Guide (700) (10/23/2020)

Getting to Know the Library

Adjustments (2k WIP) (10/26/2020)

Canon Prequels

What Fools These Mortals Be by Tamuril2 (5k) (10/8/2018): Leon Tao learns his true nature.
The Devil You Don't by Triss_Hawkeye (3k) (10/13/2018): Elias loses Marconi in a rather more horrifying way.
Ignition Point by tenaya (7k) (10/17/2018): Detective Carter learns about the supernatural side -- with guest stars from another fandom.
If only by Lisagarland (600) (10/18/2018): Harold and Nathan argue over a few things, including the fate of young Will (with art!).
Сердце не камень (The Heart is Not a Stone) by Fringuello (4k) (10/19/2018): Shaw protects Genrika, and explains why she lacks emotions.
Day of Memories. by bliphany (3500) (11/1/2018): Jessica Arndt is stuck inside a video of what should have been her happiest moment.

At least one such prequel has since gone missing -- the one by PreachingToTheQuire, about the detective and the jewel thief.

Author's Prequel

The Kitten Lady (1k) (10/8/2023)

Concurrent Sidefics

Crimson Silk by Tipsylex (7k) (2/14/2019): After one character "goes missing" from the main storyline, this tale explains what happened to them.

Canon-Divergent Sidefics

Gestures by Stingalingaling (600) (10/27/2018)

Reunion by MulaSaWala (400) (2/15/2021)

Creepyfest 2019

2019 was the year I finally got pulled into the MCU fandom -- despite my protests -- and I posted my first fic on March 29th and picked up an instant following.

So of course my Creepyfest for that year was all MCU

Before the Norns

I started the year's festivities with my own take on an old Norsekink prompt I'd run across -- because out of the four versions people had written, none of them had taken what seemed to me a fairly obvious route.

Before the Norns got posted on the first, updated on Halloween, and then again on the next year's Halloween (2020). Since then, it's been waiting around for me to pull together the focus to complete it.

Tremble and Serve(update)

Not only did I update my Loki Slavefic during 2019's Creepyfest, but the Author's Note goes into what all I'd been planning for that year and how Tremble actually derailed a good chunk of it. The chapter's name was "Discussing Options" and it's not really all that creepy, except insofar as the loss of autonomy is creepy, but that's what my Muse got fixated on that year.

Reforming

On the tenth, I posted my first fic set on Sakaar, Reforming, wherein the Grandmaster finds an incapacitated Loki and carries him off to a very different fate from his canonical role in that film. I updated it ten days later, and since then it's been waiting on the shelf.

A glance over my MCU fics says it's one of only two fics wherein I explore Sakaar -- the other being Solace on Sakaar, showcasing a growing friendship between Loki and the Valkyrie -- which is a bit odd, given how much Sakaar features in my notes for upcoming fics. No idea if I'll get there or not, but there's a Tantalizing Preview Drabble set on Sakaar, with a variety of links to fics I've drawn inspiration from.

Pepper's Flashback

On the 17th, I posted Pepper's Flashback in To the Victor. I'm actually really tickled that she managed to do damage to Loki, despite being completely unpowered at the time.

Creepyfest 2020

The turn of the decade saw a good strong mix of fandoms, with three MCU, four POI, an SCP Foundation piece, and a random Screen Rant Pitch Meetings idea that wouldn't leave my brain until I wrote it down. Total-wise, it amounted to over 10,000 words in nine fics.

Torturing Loki

I started the month with Crawl (1600 words), a particularly harrowing torture session with Thanos; mind the tags.

Thanos Caught Half the Avengers

At the end of the month, I released A Torrent Carving Inexorably at a Stone (900 words, 1/2 chps), wherein Tony, Steve, Nat, and Clint have been caught by Thanos, along with Loki, and they're about to learn the factor that broke even a god.

Darcy Meets Loki During a Storm

At the end of the month, I also released Storms and Shadows (1900, 1/?), wherein Darcy bows out of that initial stormchasing session in Thor, and while she's back at base waiting for Jane and Selvig, Loki shows up to take shelter from the storm. Played up to be quite creepy, in a "strange guy acting weird and I'm all alone" way.

Steve's Flashback

Halfway through the month, I updated To the Victor, giving Steve his first flashback. That one is mostly a bunch of banter and then a big fight (thanks to Godzillarex for a better view into Steve's fighting style), but the tail end and the continuation (two chapters later) go to some truly disturbing territory that scares even Steve.

The Imposter Kidnaps Finch

At the end of the month, I posted the first chapter of The Imposter (3100, 1/?), wherein the villain from Proteus kidnaps Finch and reveals a rather more disturbing detail about his life.

John's Nightmares

On the 12th, I posted the first chapter of Improved Response Training (2690, 1/3), wherein John seeks help for his nightmares regarding Finch.

Unseen Things: Sidefics

Nathan's a Chalk Drawing

Near the end of the month (on the 26th), I posted the first chapter of Adjustments (1906, 2/?), where Nathan, newly turned into a living chalk drawing, gets to learn more about the Library's capabilities. This takes place a while before he becomes a living ragdoll.

POI Episode Guide: Supernatural Edition

Also near the end of the month (on the 23rd), I posted the POI Episode Guide (700), imagining a POI series with supernatural plots.

Creepyfest 2021

For 2021, I posted a smattering, including a double drabble, a pagefic, a notfic, and half a chapter of a podfic; I also added a very late entry -- my first Girl Genius fic. It's a landmark in my podficcing history, but not particularly notable in the history of these events.

Series link here.

Major Podfic ProjectThe Reorg

It took me until Creepyfest 2024 to actually post the first chapter of The Reorg, but I posted the first half of the fifth chapter (as a sort of preview) to start off Creepyfest 2021. (I'd actually posted a proof-of-concept version on March 2nd, but mostly for the author's sake, so October 1st was the official release.)

The Reorg by I Am Your Spy has long been my favorite Welcome to Night Vale fic, filled to bursting with drama and suspense and self-sacrifice and psychological horror and just generally an intense roller coaster ride across 53,000 words.

Which means it's a Gigantic Project for me to record, and it's going to take me many years to get it together, and that's assuming I ever do. But I intend to try. The tale is worth the effort.

Amnesiac Nathan

In 2018 I posted the first piece of September Lets Go (1700, 2/2), a Criminal Minds Notfic (just an idea I'd had a long time ago that I never wrote), wherein I encouraged people to use my comments section to let go of ideas they knew they'd never write (in the hopes that someone else might pick up the idea and run with it).

On October 17th, 2021, I finally made the fic earn its POI fandom tag, by posting a Notfic wherein Elias happens across an amnesiac Nathan, and even winds up connecting him with Will. It's an interesting, heart-wrenching little concept piece, and I'd love to see someone else write it up.

Loki vs. The Whip

On Halloween I posted Lashes (500), wherein Loki gets Hela to spare the peasants of Asgard by taking her wrath upon his own shoulders. It's a whumpy little pagefic with a more positive ending.

Exact Words Angst

And since it's not a proper Creepyfest until there's Major Character Death in play, I also posted Not Exactly Lying (200), wherein Finch is trapped and tells Reese to go help Shaw first.

Latest Creepyfest Entry Ever

On December 19th, I posted the first chapter of Razor's Edge (2550, 2/?; updated on August 31st, 2022), and I still counted it under my Creepyfest series for the year, with the following justification:

Okay, so it's a late Creepyfest entry, but I was working on this piece back in (checks) July, and just because it didn't come together in a timely manner doesn't mean it's not aimed at that Creepyfest vibe.

Possibly that's because the pickings were so sparse that year. I mean I can't even blame the kittens, as it wasn't until 2022 that they showed up to dismantle our household equilibrium. But I imagine if I'd had more Creepyfest entries that year, I wouldn't have counted a piece posted a month and a half late.

Creepyfest 2022

2022 was mostly Lokiwhump (and Thorwhump by means of Loki's death), though I added some Clint Whump and also concluded a significant sidefic for one of my key Person of Interest fics.

Series link here.

Sole Survivor

I started off strong with Blood on the Ice (400), a pagefic wherein Thor wins the battle on Jotunheim but realizes, belatedly, that he is literally the only one left.

Wingfic: Clint

On the last day of 2021, I posted two chapters of Cygnet (1500, 3/?), a fic where Clint has wings; on the 6th of October, I posted the third chapter.

Carter Meets a Vampire

On January 10th, I posted the first chapter of Shadow of the Angel's Share (4900, 3/3), a sidefic to Nippitaty. In the main fic, Finch discovers that Elias is a vampire, and makes a bargain with him; in this sidefic, Carter learns about Elias's nature as well. I updated the fic on October 11th and concluded it on Halloween.

Mind Your Wording

On the 19th I posted the first chapter of Hands Off, a truly horrific scenario in which Loki regrets the way he initially speaks to Thanos.

For Every Life You've Taken

Dead Dove: Do Not Eat: Contains non-consensual and mutual non-con sex.

On the 21st, I posted the first chapter of Restoring the Balance / A Life Debt, Thrice Owed, one of my darkest fics so far. As a friend noted, the fic "starts with a dead Thor -- and gets worse."

Laufey gets his hands on Loki, and treats him by the strict rules of their law (notably: if you kill a fellow Jotun, you replace them thrice over). Some revelations happen at inopportune times, and nobody's happy about what's happening.

Creepyfest 2023

Apparently I didn't make a series for 2023, but this is what comes up (8 fics) if I search for that time period. Mostly short Person of Interest pieces, with a Dark Sif piece, a Mordecai piece, and my second Girl Genius fic (focused again on Tarvek and the topic of mind control).

Person of Interest Fics

Touch-Starved Fusco

On the 5th I posted Slug Slime (600 words), showcasing Fusco's relationship with physical affection, and how much negative touch he's had lately (and how little positive touch).

Harold's Childhood with Mrs. Gladstone

On the 8th, I posted a little prequel for Unseen Things: The Kitten Lady (1100, 1/?), exploring what it might have been like for Harold to have grown up being babysat by Mrs. Gladstone.

Grace in Mourning

On the 16th, I posted Drawing a Blank (300), where Grace finds her creative output stymied by her grief.

Nathan and the Library(update)

Another Unseen Things prequel got updated on the 25th: Adjustments (1900, 2/5), originally posted during Creepyfest 2020 (on the 26th of that year).

Sent Back in Time

Bit "Crack Taken Seriously" but a bunch of characters get sent back to the 1880s (roughly the birth of the pay telephone) in Displacement (500), posted on the 28th.

Other Fics

A handful of non-POI fics made it into the mix:

Dark Sif vs. Loki

On the start of the month I updated Exotic Travails (1600, 2/?), originally posted in 2022. I'd decided that rather than following an overarching storyline, I'd just be posted whatever snapshots came to mind of a particularly dark Sif being horrible to Loki.

Born to Be Hers

On the 5th, I posted the first chapter of Thoroughly Obliged (900, 1/2), a fic discussing a mutual non-con scenario where Tarvek's family designed him to follow the Heir's orders -- and to hide his nature from everyone, including her. It's a particularly chilling scenario, even if the portrayal is relatively tame. Mind the tags.

Mordecai FMI

On Halloween, I posted the first two chapters of Far from the Typical Intimacies (1700, 2/5), an FMI where Mordecai's Neurodivergence and particular aversions set him apart from basic societal norms.

Mood Whiplash: The first chapter is a cheerful, quirky little exchange where Rocky tries to find a new sandwich for Mordecai to enjoy. The second chapter is Mordecai's odd reaction to the canonical death of his baby sister.

2024: Critical Role

On April 18th, a discussion with a friend about preferences in mind control plots led to a clip of The Legend of Vox Machina -- specifically the scene where Sylas Briarwood bites Vax. From that point, it didn't take much to get me Heavily Invested in the series, as my I can't like things in a chill way brain dove straight into the fandom.

After reading a few dozen fics -- starting with variations on that initial scene -- I fixated on the character of Percival de Rolo (with Vax as a secondary but still prominent interest), soon got enthralled with their voice actors as well, and, well, there was no turning back at that point. By now I've watched the first two seasons of the animated show and probably a couple dozen episodes of the streamed campaign, I've read the Origins Comics through to the latest full series, and I've started on Campaign 2 thanks to an epic cosplay rap battle between Mollymauk and Caleb Widogast.

My first interactions with my fellow fans on AO3 were... awkward and cringey, but I weathered it, and found some people to make gift fics for. Then, on July 3rd, I posted the first chapter of Enchanté, a dark, creepy, Dead Dove: Do Not Eat scenario wherein Percy surrenders to the Briarwoods to protect the rest of the team.

Around a week later, I posted two crossovers: a Fix-It Fic with The Sandman (the Endless making Vax's fate a bit less horrifying) and a "mood clash crossover" with Recettear (as one of my tags puts it, Cute Child-Friendly Game meets Decidedly Adult-Aimed Animation). By the end of the month, I'd started a fic based on Percy's first impressions of the group, pulling from the Origin Comics backstory (I'd post five chapters in short succession, the latest in mid-September).

Then Creepyfest 2024 rolled around...

Vox Machina Fics

It's not a good Creepyfest until we've hit Major Character Death, right?

"Did I hurt anyone?"

I kicked off the month with Dispirited (1300 words), with Percy waking up after the battle with Orthax (animated version) to learn just how much damage he's done. It's not a good Creepyfest until we've hit Major Character Death, right?

Mute Percy

Deciding that I hadn't traumatized Percy enough, and that the Origins Comics could use some iterations, I posted the start of Let My Bullets Do the Talking (3400), where Percy's time in the hands of Ripley led to Selective Mutism, and the team's first encounter with him leaves them wondering what to make of this terrified young man.

What Dark Fates Might Have Befallen Him...

Again pulling from that same moment, I started Cell Divergence (900, 1/3 chps), my showcase of the fates that could have befallen Percy had the team not happened across him when they did. First Variation: He is in the hands of a cult that uses human sacrifice...

Sightless Experience

Coming in literally Last Minute -- I hit post at 11:59 without having completed all the Author's Notes -- I posted the first chapter of my first Audiofic, Escaping the Darkness. This is designed as an audio experience first, and I plan to upload the text version of a chapter each time I upload the audio version of the next chapter. No idea how quickly I'll update it, though; audio files are substantially more work (and less engagement/feedback) than text fanfics are.

Lackadaisy One-Shots

Besides the VM fics, my Muse was also eager to post some creepy fics featuring Mordecai. I didn't get to all the ones I'd planned on, but I did manage a couple satisfying one-shots, one darker and more dramatic than the other.

Mordecai Has OCD

What happens when a neurotic hitman gets a bit distracted while waiting on his assignment? Askew (1900), where Mordecai's OCD tendencies get the better of him.

This literally happened because I started role-playing Mordecai as a way to make kitchen duties less onerous, and then I started thinking about how Mordecai would react to a particularly messy kitchen, and the whole scenario kinda played out in full form pretty much that same night, right down to the ending.

Mordecai Goes Off the Deep End

In Bloodlost (2000), Mordecai takes the news of Viktor's near-death experience a bit differently, though it's not immediately apparent what's going on in his head. The tale isn't that long, but I got some rave reviews:

If I ever start printing fics to keep with my personal library, this would be one of the first I print. It's just so fucking good.

Creepyfest Podfics

Besides the Audiofic, I managed five audio files across three podfics: Person of Interest, Welcome to Night Vale, and Marvel.

little blobs of death (POI): Zombie Apocalypse ficlet, Major Character Death.
The Reorg (WtNV): For Creepyfest 2021, I posted the first half of the fifth chapter as kind of a proof of concept; in 2024, I finally put together the first and second chapters, bringing the total of files up to four (1, 2a, 2b, 5a). This is the largest podfic project I've ever worked on, and I truly hope to complete the entire fic someday, although at 53,000 words it is long enough to be a NaNoWriMo winner.
Battle Memories (Marvel): Panic Attack, but Loki has Weaponmaster Tyr (his new foster-father) there to help talk him down and give him context for how trauma works -- I truly enjoyed being able to bring this heartfelt scene to life.

Other Creepy Fare

Basically anything that didn't fit into a Creepyfest event/collection.

Bound to Fall (800) (Jan 1, 2018)
The Toll (14k WIP) (3/26/2018)
Leonardo's Fears (2500) (4/21/2018)
Numb Too Long (41k) (6/1/2018)
June Unexpectedly Arises (800) (6/1/2018)
Festering (2300) (April 29, 2019)
Breaking Point (1900) (5/21/2019)
Pain Is Inevitable (800) (8/19/2019)
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