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Title: A Promise to Keep
Fandoms: luceti, Tales of Legendia, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Final Fantasy IV, Final Fantasy VIII, Final Fantasy IV: The After Years, Tales of Phantasia, Vampires: Los Muertos
Genre: Gen/Angst? Not really sure how to classify this one.
Rating: PG-13
Words: 2306
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the above fandoms.
Summary: When Giles starts acting very strangely, when he hurts her friends, Grune must keep the promise of their friendship in one of the most difficult ways of all.
Author's Notes: In a nutshell, my take on one of the ways the Vampire!Giles plot in Luceti could have run. I harbour no illusions that this is actually how things would have turned out--but it was fun to write anyway. Ceodore and Selphie's roles were determined by their position on the sign-up lists; everything else came from my brain.

A note for those unfamiliar with Tales of Legendia's canon: The deity of Melfes is Nerifes, which is also the ocean of that world. Thus, any water-element spells also have the dual element of light.

Thank you very much to hickumu for helping me with details of the Los Muertos variety of vampires and how Vampire!Giles would have reacted. Any mistakes are most definitely my own.

( 'Hello, Grune.' )

Title: Five Brief Moments Between Ceodore Harvey and Grune
Fandoms: luceti, Tales of Legendia, Final Fantasy IV: The After Years, Final Fantasy IV, Final Fantasy VIII
Genre: Gen
Rating: PG
Words: 1578
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the above fandoms.
Summary: One way the friendship between Ceodore Harvey and Grune might have developed.
Author's Notes: You know you're behind in posting fic when the character you wrote a tribute fic for comes back to the RP before you can post it. :D;;

This wound up a fair bit sadder than I had intended it, since, um, now Ceodore and Selphie don't remember each other. W-Whoops? So much for my fluff.

#1 and #2 are based on threads that we didn't get to finish, due to health complications on Althea's side and slowness on mine. #3 was written long before the True!Grune plot, so I'd expected way more people to be awkward with Grune afterwards. XD;; #4 is, uh.... So, you know, when you write fics and then don't post them for months? Sometimes you write the same idea twice without realising it.

So yes, while I did change things around somewhat, #4 is awfully similar to a scene between Grune and Ginia I wrote second but posted first. I considered writing something else to replace it, but in the end, I figured the set-up was generic enough that it could stand. So, well, yup.

And that's enough talking. Enjoy?

( He never can quite decide if her complete, unshakable belief in him is her oddest trait of all. )

Title: Letters From a Goddess
Fandoms: luceti, Tales of Legendia, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, original works, Tales of Phantasia, Final Fantasy IV: The After Years, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Black Butler, Sherlock
Genre: Angst/Gen/Romance (depends on the letter)
Rating: PG
Words: 5322
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the above fandoms.
Summary: The letters Grune wrote to her dearest friends before her memories faded.
Author's Notes: I am so, so sorry this took so long--but that wordcount should hopefully speak for itself. Even with Yosie typing a good chunk of these for me, it was a long, slow process.

I wound up deciding to post them all in a batch here, since Sora expressed interest in seeing them all, and it seemed fairer that way. Footnotes on certain letters are included at the bottom.

I didn't get to triple-proofread these as I usually do--I just went over them about once--so I really hope there aren't any errors. Let me know if there are, please!

( Ginia: Business )

( Ginia: Personal )

( Alice )

( Dhaos: Business )

( Dhaos: Personal )

( Fenimore )

( Norma )

( Sophie: For now )

( Sophie: For later )

( Jay )

( Link )

( Cecil )

( Walter )

( Giles )

( Footnotes )

Title: 21 Could-Have-Been Years in the Life of Cecil Harvey
Fandoms: luceti, Tales of Legendia, Final Fantasy IV
Genre: Gen
Rating: This part G; PG overall
Words: 334, ?? overall
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the above media.
Summary: Grune and Cecil settle in to their new life together.
Author's Notes: A short one, as these all were originally intended to be. I'm finding that as Cecil gets older (and Rosa and Kain come into the picture), though, that brevity is increasingly difficult....

( No one had expected Grune to stay as long as she has. )

Title: 21 Could-Have-Been Years in the Life of Cecil Harvey
Fandoms: luceti, Tales of Legendia, Final Fantasy IV
Genre: Gen
Rating: This part G; PG overall
Words: 744, ?? overall
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the above media.
Summary: One day, the King of Baron finds a newborn and a woman under a tree outside the city walls.
Author's Notes: The first in a series of twenty-one fics (damn you, Hecate!) covering the first twenty years of Cecil's life in an AU where Grune was found alongside him when he was rescued as a newborn by the King of Baron. She then became like a mother to him and spoiled him absolutely rotten.

I am kind of excessively fond of this AU, so expect lots of this in the next while. :|b

( With a yawn and a stretch and a smile, a woman wakes up under a tree. )

Title: Pink Is For Your Best Friend
Fandoms: luceti, Tales of Legendia, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Final Fantasy VII, Tiger & Bunny, Tales of Phantasia, original works,
Genre: Fluff/Gen
Rating: G
Words: 2453
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the above media.
Summary: Being one woman's quest to obtain a proper explanation of exactly what Valentine's Day is all about.
Author's Notes: It's still February I win!! /...cough Anyway. This is the platonic companion to hickumu's lovely "Pink Is For Your Special Someone." I actually started writing it before she posted the fic, so there aren't really...all that many similarities. Oh well.

( 'Fenimore, what's Valentine's Day?' )

Title: Green Is For the Goddess
Fandoms: luceti, Tales of Legendia, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Tales of Phantasia, original works
Genre: Angst/Gen
Rating: PG
Words: 1178
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the above media.
Summary: A second funeral and a second farewell. There will not be a third.
Author's Notes: This one was written in I believe early November--I can't exactly remember. It took quite a bit of editing, but I'm pretty pleased with how it came out. I certainly can't say this is how things are going to end, but...it's a possibility.

This is the sequel to "White Is For Remembrance" and makes far more sense if you read it second, so anyone who hasn't read that one yet probably will want to first.

( It's rare to attend the same man's funeral twice, even when you are the companion of the Weaver of Time. )

Title: Second Men
Fandoms: luceti, Tales of Legendia, Tales of Phantasia, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Black Butler
Genre: Gen (romance if you squint)
Rating: PG
Words: 1742
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the above media.
Summary: Neither Dhaos nor Giles understands what Grune sees in the other--but they understand the danger in each other all too well.
Author's Notes: So I, um, wrote this in...late September. Or possibly early October. Pretty much the same time as "The Importance of Honest, Direct Communication," back when the whole "Dhaos mind controls Giles" plot first came up. I thought I'd write a possible way things could have come to a head; too bad I didn't post it in anything remotely like a timely manner. Oh well.

( The second man who observes from behind the eyes of the one that Grune sees—he unsettles Dhaos. He wonders what it would take to bring that man to the fore, to display his heart's weakness. )

Title: 1sentence: 02. I just want to flee from this nightmare and never return. (Link)
Fandoms: luceti, Tales of Legendia, The Legend of Zelda
Genre: Gen
Rating: G
Words: 606
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the above fandoms.
Summary: Some people never want to go home.
Author's Notes: Not a lot to say about this one. It's short, but I think I managed to get the right idea across all the same. I know a number of you were looking forward to reading this one, so I hope I've managed to deliver!

( 'If you could go home from Luceti right now, would you?' )

Title: 1sentence: Gamma
Fandoms: luceti, Tales of Legendia, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Genre: Gen
Rating: PG if you squint
Words: appr. 1166
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the above fandoms.
Summary: The sweet and simple friendship of Link and Grune in fifty moments.
Author's Notes: Strangely enough, for someone who's been playing games in the Zelda series for over a decade now, these were the hardest set for me yet. I'm not quite sure why, but yeah. So, well, I'm not as happy with them as I could be, but oh well. Hopefully they're decent enough.

Oh yeah, also, I borrowed a couple of times from Majora's Mask, which I know isn't strictly Link's canon, but anything can happen in Luceti, right?

( 12. Temptation: 'Would you like another cookie?' she asks, and the answer is never 'no.' )