Arctic Light

Id Pro Quo author reveals! I wrote some things! First of all, my assignment, which I really enjoyed. (I was absolutely thrilled when I got the assignment that I did, and I wanted to write SO MANY of my recip's awesome prompts, but ended up settling on this one.)

Equal and Opposite Forces (Captain Marvel, Carol/Yon-Rogg, 3200 wds, mature-rated)
Yon-Rogg was waiting for her where he said he'd be, inside the bombed-out shell of an ancient building on the outskirts of town.

My treats, meanwhile, got WILDLY out of control. Like kudzu.

Corpse Soldier of Eskatar (Torchwood, team gen, 27K)
The team encounters a device intended to turn the dead into unstoppable fighting machines. It has somewhat more unpredictable effects on Owen.

Bodyguard (Iron Fist, mostly Ward & Colleen gen, 29K)
Canon-divergent AU: the Hand assigns Colleen as Ward's bodyguard pre-season-one.

And there are also a couple of things I wrote recently but didn't mention here yet:

Snow Day (Iron Fist, Ward & Danny gen, 3900 wds)
One of the things Ward hasn't quite learned how to do in the post-Harold era is have fun. Luckily Danny is there to help. For Gen Freeform Exchange. Set between seasons one and two.

Medicinal (Iron Fist, Ward & Danny gen, 800 wds)
Trying to get Danny to take medicine hasn't really gotten any easier since he was six years old. AO3 repost of a fan-flashworks prompt fic.

I can finally talk about this!

So this is what I wrote for the Heart Attack (10K+) exchange:

Balance of Trust (Captain Marvel, Maria & Monica & Yon-Rogg, 35K)
It's not the first time Maria Rambeau has had an alien in her living room, but it's definitely the most awkward. Yon-Rogg is seeking sanctuary. Maria just wants to stop having to deal with this kind of crap.

I added this to my offers because I saw that someone had requested Maria & Yon-Rogg, and was really intrigued by that potential team-up, even though I've never written either of them before. So of course that's what I got, and I ended up not only really liking it but actually falling into a bit of a mini-fandom-obsession that I, for obvious reasons, couldn't talk about.

(Also, yes, that was 35K in two weeks. Actually, for the most part, it was written in just four days of almost nonstop writing, though it required a ton of editing because it really read like it was written in four days; I also added almost 10K in revisions because so many scenes were essentially just the scaffolding for what should actually be there.)

This is actually the longest fanfic I've written all year. In fact, I just checked my stats and the last time I posted anything 35K or longer on AO3, aside from ficlet collections, was back in *2017*. So yeah, the bug really bit me, and I ended up completely falling back in love with ... well, with my AU, mainly, but also with this particular corner of the cosmic MCU. I went looking to see if anyone else had requested Captain Marvel that I could treat, and found someone who was looking for Carol/Yon-Rogg. Their letter mentioned that they liked daemon AUs and I decided to give it a try.

I wrote:

Firebird (Captain Marvel, daemon AU, Carol/Yon-Rogg, 3K)
They had called her Vers because it was all they had of her name, but her daemon had always known its name, even when it didn't know its shape.

So yeah, basically my tiny Jude Law crush from the 90s has not yet run its course. I doubt if there's even the slightest chance I'll ever get the Yon-Rogg redemption arc of my dreams in the movies, but, I mean, he's still alive, so there's always a chance he could come back as an antagonist, at least. And Maria and Carol are both fantastic. A+ experience, would write again.