Het Challenge

Whew! Here we are -- the master list of completed works for the May 2008 round. Thank you so much to everyone who participated!

( Master List )

If I'm missing something, please let me know -- and if you still have a piece to post, please feel free to do so, and I'll add it to the list. ^_^

Recipients, please make sure you comment to the people who wrote/drew for you, at the very least; everyone likes to feel like their hard work is appreciated.

Thank you again to everyone who participated! We're probably going to take a short hiatus now, and let people's batteries recharge (or let people spend energy on all the other challenges running right now, whichever); look for information about the next round later this summer. ♥

Title: Perfect likeness
Artist: mahokiwi
Fandom: FFXII
Pairing: Gabranth/Drace
Rating: worksafe
Request:Final Fantasy XII, Gabranth/Drace - something playful, out of armour? Maybe a festival or the beach or something - playing in the ocean? :)
Notes: oh gosh, I'm so sorry this is so late. I had a hard time with it! But I'm happy with the final product, and hope the idea is clear enough ^^;

( looks just like Ghis! )

Simple Measures
Title: Simple Measures
Author: Invaderhime
Fandom: Final Fantasy VII
Pairing: Rufus/Elena
Rating: Work Safe!
Request: Final Fantasy 7 - Rufus/Elena - Elena helping look after Rufus while he has geostigma. I really like seeing them end up together in a way that isn't an abuse of power.
A/N: TA-DA! Fluffyness ahoy! A little tardy, but worth waiting for ^_^
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Title: Time Enough
Author: Laylah
Fandom: Digital Devil Saga
Pairing: David/Jenna
Rating: worksafe
Request: David/Jenna – Rain, deadlines, and how the two of them hate being beholden to anyone. Things lost and true.
A/N: I'm sorry you had to wait so long for this! I didn't realize until the last minute that you would need somebody to pinch-hit for you. I hope you like this despite the belated-ness. ^^;

( Time Enough )

Title: Bored now
Artist: elanor_pam
Fandom: Final Fantasy VII
Pairing: Rufus/Elena
Rating: PG
Request: I would really love to see a RufusXElena from Final Fantasy VII picture...
I'd really like it to be a little fluffy and cute. Something involving Rufus and Elena in their uniforms , kissing or hugging or something like that, with Dark Nation at their feet.
Notes: ( They aren't kissing or hugging now... )

Title: Gentleman's Game
Artist: Ponderosa
Fandom: Baccano!
Pairing: Luck/Ennis, with Firo implied
Rating: R
Warnings: NSFW.
Request: Baccano! - Luck/Ennis, substitution, Ennis in Firo's outfit. Sex on the bar, a pool table, or a desk would be a plus :3
Notes: I psyched myself out a few times over since I really hadn't drawn anything anime in a long while, and it's not very smutty but I like to think there are implications stamped all over the place. Hope the pic was worth the wait. ^^;

( Gentleman's Game (NSFW) )

Title: Almost a Match
Author: cadence
Fandom: Baccano!
Pairing: Claire/Chane
Rating: PG
Request: Baccano!—Claire/Chane. Finding Chane in Manhattan—banter through body language, UST, building trust. Bonus for a very gradual development of a sexual relationship. Extra bonus for rooftops, railings, knives, misuse of windows, doors, curtains.
A/N: This is definitely anime-canon, and I tried to walk a line in including stuff from episodes 14 and 15. The eventual outcome: This contains some references to events from episode 15, but I think is readable without knowing it. However, it is also potentially inconsistent with episode 15 (and definitely 16) due to the fact that translations aren't available. ^^;

( Almost a Match )

Title: filling in the blank
Author/Artist: shiegra
Fandom: Baccano!
Pairing: Ennis/Firo
Rating: R
Warnings: Mild suggestions, etc
Request: Baccano! - Firo/Ennis -- Something that explores Ennis's struggles to be fully human, and to understand what it's like to be independent, with a lot of cute firo-and-ennis adventures in every day things that ennis might not have had to think about before. Smut is secondary to adorable domestic antics, but if you wanted to put some in there, something about how Ennis's instinct is to read firo's advances as orders, and firo wanting to approach their relationship from common ground would be super plus awesome. Basically I'm hoping for something where Firo and his adorable smile cancels out any potential angst that Ennis might be trying to experience :)

A/N: Pinch hitting. It's a bit late, and I hope the requester isn't too unhappy with it.

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Title: None
Author: Lassarina Aoibhell (ficjournal: angharad)
Pairing: Rufus/Elena
Rating: PG
Warnings: Ending spoilers for FF7, and spoilers for Advent Children
Request: Final Fantasy 7 - Rufus/Elena - Elena helping look after Rufus while he has geostigma. I really like seeing them end up together in a way that isn't an abuse of power.

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Title: A Warmer Welcome
Author: Lassarina Aoibhell (ficjournal: angharad)
Fandom: Final Fantasy XII
Pairing: Balthier/Ashe
Rating: PG
Warnings: Ending spoilers
Request: Final Fantasy XII, Ashe/Balthier - Something a few years post-game, where he has something she wants (an artifact? his services?). Negotations, where all the power should be on her side but it isn't, quite. Sex is great if you're up for it. :-)
Summary: She has need of a pirate, for this sort of errand; it is her particular curse that the one best-suited for it is so gods-cursedly difficult.

( A Warmer Welcome )

Title: In Cleansing Fire
Author: Lassarina Aoibhell (ficjournal: angharad)
Fandom: Final Fantasy Tactics
Pairing: Delita Heiral/Ovelia Aktascha
Rating: PG
Warnings: Spoilers for the ending.
Request: Final Fantasy Tactics -- Delita/Ovelia. "He passes for a man, if only because his brilliance is engulfed in its own shadow." The marriage crumbling as the realm is rebuilt.
Summary: He has bathed the world entire in flame, that new growth might rise from the ashes.

( In Cleansing Fire )

Title: Stolen Moment
Artist: elanor_pam
Pairing: Zack/Aeris
Rating: Mature
A/N: There are like 5 versions of this pic, because it kept looking good in all the layer calculations I'd put it in...
Request: Art where they're trying to steal a little privacy, somewhere unlikely. Her mother doesn't approve, and he lives in a barracks -- where do they go when they want to mess around?

( God probably doesn't approve )

Hey there, guys! I hope it's going well. We are now one week from deadline on this round of Het Challenge.

If you think you may need to drop out, or to drop any requests you received, please let me know now so I have time to find pinch hitters as necessary. Most participants are covered at this point, but not all, so please be in touch!

Good luck finishing up!

Title: Nova
Author: puella_nerdii
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Spoilers through Chapter 58/Episode 25. Dysfunction.
Wordcount: 2310
Prompt: dysfunctional as hell. Misa knowing that Light is using her but not caring, Light expending the minimum effort necessary to keep it that way. And then there is sex?
Summary: “This is different,” Misa says. “People are watching us because they love us.”

( Nova )

Author: sheffiesharpe
Title: as a solution, it seems too simple
Pairing: Fran/Gabranth
Rating: NSFW (so very not)
Length: 3100
Warnings: Blood play.
A/N: Roughly 10 years pre-game, not canon-contrary. Riddle referenced is this one, from the Exeter Book.
Request: Final Fantasy XII - Fran/Gabranth - His night off and her (k)night out, and really, what's a girl supposed to do? She has to entertain herself somehow, yeah. Bonus points for knife-play.

( as a solution, it seems so simple )

Title: Caught
Author/Artist: shiegra
Fandom: Baccano!
Pairing: Claire/Chane
Rating: PG13
Warnings: Placement of arm, implications. Very mild. sorry.
Request: Baccano!, Claire/Chane. Meetings in unexpected places. Any level of explicitness is fine, though a bit of good-natured debauchery wouldn't be amiss.
A/N: This thing was--stressful. I hope it's better than nothing. Again, scanner wiped out some stuff.

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Title: A Pleasant Surprise
Author/Artist: shiegra
Fandom: Baccano!
Pairing: Firo/Ennis
Rating: PG13/R
Warnings: Itty bitty of partial nudity?
Request: Baccano!, Firo/Ennis - How suspenders look on someone with curves. Happy-cute with clothes somewhat discheveled?
A/N: There used to be shading and a very little coloring, um, a mouth but my scanner is crap and I spent so much time cleaning up the mess that it got from the details that I didn't have the energy. Since I'm pinch-hitting I hoped something was better than nothing. And the scanner killed anything I colored in originally, so the blush wasn't so sloppy.

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Title: forget the goddamned title, just—just get out of my head
Author: Mithrigil
Fandom: Princess Tutu
Pairing: Fakir/Ahiru
Rating: PG

Prompt: desire that burns and cannot be expressed as itself –
I want to know what he's writing about –



( Because this sort of thing can happen in stories, it began with an answer instead of a question. )

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Title: Quintessence of Dust
Author: puella_nerdii
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: language, meta meta meta
Wordcount: 5050
Prompt: Argilla/Roland. "'What a piece of work is man', and all that--I don't expect you to know the rest, but the first thing humanity did was wonder what the fuck it was."
Summary: Our deeds make us who we are. Roland, Argilla, and the kind of late-night discussion of Hamlet that can only happen when it's the end of the world.

( Quintessence of Dust )

Hey there, guys!

How are your het_challenge assignments going? Do you need to drop any requests you took? Do you want to pick up any that you didn't? I'm planning to offer up the unclaimed prompts to interested parties in a few days -- probably on Wednesday night, April 23.

Comments to this post are screened -- please comment here if:

a) you want to change the assignments you accepted, either to add or to drop.

b) you want to be on the mailing list for the unclaimed prompts (you can do this whether or not you signed up). make sure you leave me an email address!

Good luck with your pieces!