A Second Chance

A Second Chance

I got inspired by the Kisame Birthday Bash 2023, and it spiraled, as fics are wont to do. 

Rating T (for now)

Prompt: Sea Monsters

Hoshigaki Kisame centric

Summary: Kisame has a talk with the great lady of the sea, Isonade, after and before his death. That's how it starts.

Kisame is determined to hold to truth on his second chance, but even a small pebble thrown in the ocean will make a change. He's just not a small pebble. Things don't go as expected, but when do they ever? He can't begin to guess how it will end (this time) anymore.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/45811153/chapters/115287730

My fic specifically! I can’t wait until posting starts so everyone can see the finished fic.

This is Round Three of the Artist Claims for the 2023 round of WIPBB. You may claim as many fics as you want this round. If you want only one fic, please fill out the form once with your top choices. If you want two fics, fill out the form twice with your first choice in the first form submission with one unique ID and the second choice in another submission with a different unique ID. If you want to claim three or more, fill out the form each time with a unique ID.

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Round three of the art claims will go on until July 8th.

Voltron: Legendary Defender

#180

Title: The Rites of Courtship

Pairing/Characters: Keith/Thace

Rating Explicit | E

Warnings/Tags: Graphic Violence, Non-con/Rape

(Past) attempted/threatened rape, imprisonment, mildly dubious consent(only at beginning of relationship), canon Galra-bigotry,

Additional tags: AU. Alien biology/genitalia for Keith, Keith believes he's intersex, alien culture/courtship rituals, alien gender/sexuality, alien sex, possible/eventual mpreg (that is totally normal by alien standards), Keith and Shiro are adopted siblings, Allura's Galra-related traumas get aggravated but the Paladins and Coran help her through them, Keith has three parents, quad-sexed ovoviviparous marsupial Galra, Thace is a very devoted and loving consort/husband.

Summary: During the raid on the Galactic Hub, Keith is captured alongside Allura. Trapped amid a multitude of Galra who think Keith smells like sex and have every intention of forcibly taking what they want, Keith has to rely on the one Galra soldier who seems to want to help him. Choosing a consort through an ancient Galran rite is much better than the alternative, but it still means sex with a virtual stranger that Keith isn't sure he can trust. This is just a temporary thing until his friends can arrive to help him escape; Keith can do this. (He's really not sure he can do this.)

Additional spoilerific tldr summary: Keith gets captured, not knowing he's a Galra-hybrid that is currently fertile. Enemy Galra can smell it, and a bunch of the worst assholes in the bunch are all for raping the enemy they just captured. Thace desperately searches for a way to save Keith without blowing his cover as a spy, and hits upon the idea of an ancient Galra courtship/marriage rite(s) that will make sure Keith is protected until complete, thus stalling for time until Voltron can rescue him.

Except, Voltron doesn't show up when Thace was hoping. Keith asks Thace to be involved in the rites because Thace is at least trying to help. They end up completing the rites, becoming consorts, and even after more stalling for time Voltron hasn't shown up. Faced with worse than death, they discuss things together and decide to consummate, partly because they've already started to catch feelings for each other.

Voltron is still MIA, and Keith stumbles on Thace being a rebel spy, so while navigating Keith's new situation in the Galra fleet as Thace's consort they start planning Keith's and Allura's (and Thace's, because Keith isn't leaving without him damn it!) eventual escape.

On the eve of said escape, Voltron shows up, of course, and so begins Keith and Thace trying to figure out how to fit in with Voltron as Paladin and Consort, (and Galra rebel-spy and Galra-hybrid,) and with Allura having been traumatized by her time in captivity, to help her heal. Oh, and they still have to make allies and save the universe from a very angry Zarkon (and deliver a very final 'fuck you' to a would-have-been rapist), while navigating a new relationship, meeting new (and old) family, and team bonding. Oh and face a potential pregnancy somewhere in there too.

Oh man. I really want to write something like this? This sounds like so much fun and is so up my alley. (I am that slightly unhinged dude risking all of time to bring back the extinct birds. It is me.) 

...subplot of the wildlife photographer who is dead set on personally documenting mid-pliocene Brazil or something and tries to do everything by the book! But repeatedly ends up needing to get slightly rescued because they totally forget in the rush of getting That Shot that sometimes stepping on that twig will have effects down the timeline...

here is a concept: time travel cop, fish & wildlife division

most of their job is dealing with the kinds of assholes who think black market tiger cubs are a great idea right up until someone gets mauled, except these are even bigger assholes with black market Smilodon cubs that they are even less equipped to care for

this is the most straightforward and therefore relatively headache-free part of their job, because it’s the same “put that thing back where it came from or so help me” song and dance every time

it’s also significantly less depressing than the trophy hunters who don’t even want an alive extinct animal. those are extra annoying because you have to undo the time travel that let them kill that poor Megatherium or thylacine or anklyosaur or whatever, and it’s always so much extra paperwork.

and those people suck, definitely, and have fully earned a stint in Time Jail. no question. but they still do not create anywhere near as much work as the obsessive hobbyists with their exhaustively careful best practices and worryingly good track-covering. also, weirdly, it’s almost always birds with them?

like. the guys who will flagrantly abuse Time Law to bird-nap breeding pairs just long enough to raise one clutch of eggs apiece, and return them seamlessly to their spots on the timeline. who are so determined to keep their pet (ha) projects going that no one even realizes what they’re doing until they have an entire stable breeding population of passenger pigeons up and running. who are now the reason that reps from six different zoos are about to start throwing hands right in front of you over who gets dibs.

those guys cause the most paperwork. and half the time they’re snapped up by the same zoo or wildlife preserve that gets their colony of ivory-billed woodpeckers or Carolina parakeets or — once, very memorably — giant fucking South Island moa, and they never even spend a day in Time Jail.

Oh I love Otyken! They’re so neat. My brain (which is a picky picky thing and does not listen to rhyme or reason) also likes them! Happy brain music!

Round One Of The WIPBB 2023 Art Claims Is Open!

We currently have 174 fic summaries ready to choose from! More information is at https://wipbigbang.dreamwidth.org/171689.html.

Claims are open until June 24th, then we start a new round of claims. A partial list of the fandom is as follows:

Once Upon A Time

One Piece

Only Murders in the Building

Original Work

Pacific Rim

Power Rangers

Pyre

Rules of Engagement/Teen Wolf

RWBY

Spider-Man

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Star Trek: Discovery

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Star Trek: Voyager/Star Trek: Prodigy

Star Wars

Star Wars Original Trilogy

Star Wars Prequel Trilogy

Star Wars Sequel Trilogy

Star Wars: Legends

Star Wars: Rogue One

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Stargate

Stranger Things

Supernatural

Supernatural/Black Mirror

Ted Lasso

Teen Wolf

The 100

The Hobbit

The Hunger Games

The Last Binding (Freya Marske)

The Mandalorian

The Old Guard

The Sandman (TV 2022)

The Silmarillion

The Untamed/MDZS

Torchwood/The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)

Transformers: Bayverse

Voltron: Legendary Defender

Wheel of Time

White Collar

Word of Honor

World of the Five Gods (Bujold)

Yuri On Ice!!

炎炎ノ消防隊 | Enen no Shouboutai | Fire Force (Manga)

老九门 | Old Nine Gates (TV)

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Wait what's a buildings fire evacuation plan if you aren't supposed to use the elevator to get down