Roads Diverged

Title: Flip
Author: karanguni
Fandom: Final Fantasy VII: Tseng
Characters: Tseng, Kadaj; Veld and Rufus cameos
Rating: PG13
Warnings: Set during AC, when Kadaj does the mysterious "torture thing" to Tseng and Elena. Weird style, too.
Theme: 38: torturer
Summary: You take torture, and turn it in on itself.

2392 and super-experimental writing styles, go!


( And there was the first time they ever put him in solitary. )

Title: Restorations, Interlude I
Author: karanguni
Fandom: Final Fantasy VII - Tseng
Characters: Tseng, Rufus, Reeve, Wutai, Midgar, everyone. Tseng/Rufus focus for this part.
Rating: PG
Warnings: Second part of the multiparter push-along for my claim; first part here. Canon AU. "What happens after Midgar". Gen, with slash when you squint.
Theme: 3: canon what-if
Summary: And Shinra said, we are going to save the world, and then said, but let us start with restorations. Even in the aftermath of everything, few men would tell Rufus Shinra what to do with his life.

2657 words and Tseng playing a side role, for a change, as Rufus takes the stage.

( Dying, to Rufus, was a concept seen in relative terms. )

Title: Restorations I
Author: karanguni
Fandom: Final Fantasy VII - Tseng
Characters: Tseng, Rufus, Reeve, Wutai, Midgar, everyone.
Rating: PG
Warnings: This doesn't help my claim "along", but it... kind of pushes it around horizontally. *BEAMS* First part of a multiparter - one or two more chapters planned. Canon AU. "What happens after Midgar". Gen, with slash when you squint. You may have to squint less in other chapters. Rufus Shinra is in the god damned house.
Theme: 3: canon what-if
Summary: And Shinra said, we are going to save the world, and then said, but let us start with restorations.

2410 words, and Rufus would like you to know that he is perfectly harmless, thank you.

( They sent him into Wutai because it was the predictable thing to do, and these days it paid to do things predictably. )

Title: Outward From Midgar
Author: karanguni
Fandom: Final Fantasy VII: Tseng; crossed-over with Lucifer (comic)
Characters: Tseng, Lucifer cameo
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Crossover. Midgar AU. Smashee-crashee of various real cultures. The Devil.
Theme: 26. small town
Summary: Sometimes you just got to get bored with life before you remember to start living it.

5141 words and the loosest ever interpretation of a theme. Oh, and the most desperate crossover ever, too! You really, really don't need to know Lucifer. At all.

( The first impression it left on him was this: roads leading everywhere and nowhere, too much sky, too much land, too few people. )

Title: Beyond Good, Or: Evil
Author: karanguni
Fandom: Final Fantasy VII
Characters: Tseng; Rufus and Reno
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Middle-sized Midgar AU. Bad religious overtones. Bad overtones!
Theme: 45. battling the Devil
Summary: Sometimes you need something more than a little morality.

4899 words; this is one of those which just don't budge no matter how much you pick at it or feel that it isn't right. I apologise on its behalf; it turned out more a mood piece than a plotty one.

( It's dangerous, thinking in Midgar. )

Title: Empery
Author: karanguni
Fandom: Final Fantasy VII
Characters: Tseng; Veld cameo
Rating: Hard R (non-explicit sex, swearing)
Warnings: Massive AU. Massive culture abuse. Massive abuse in general.
Theme: 15. empire
Summary: He was taught that Wutai was the centre of the universe; he could not understand the empire stirring in the East until it was upon him, until it destroyed him, until it changed him, until it gave him empery.

6756 words and oh god I am so proud of this baby. This is my justification for Wutai versus Midgar in the original game, transplanted so that it makes sense.

( They said: Empire is coming. By the time he understood what they meant, it was already too late. )

I wish I had an excuse for this, but I really, really don't. *beams*

Title: Survivor: Icicle Inn
Author: karanguni
Fandom: Final Fantasy VII
Pairing: Tseng in an implied Tseng/Rufus; Reno and Rufus cameo
Rating: PG (swearing)
Warnings: Uh, blatant Survivor rip off? I thank this site for the application form.
Theme: 7. reality show
Summary: Tseng is going to have to outwit, outplay and outlast whether he likes it or not.

3139 words and a cunning, cunning plan. [edit:] corrected a few things; I somehow managed to kill all the formatting inside the fic when I first posted.

( They signed him up for it as prank; well, sort of. )

Title: School Days (Are The Best Days Of Your Life)
Author: karanguni
Fandom: Final Fantasy VII: Tseng
Pairing: Tseng, Rufus, Reeve cameo
Rating: PG
Warnings: This one's a lighthearted jaunt through the woods; don't expect anything too serious from the boys. *g* Set in a quasi-Midgar universe, contorted and then spat out again. 2393 words.
Summary: Tseng's brilliant, but bored; Rufus is bored, but brilliant; Reeve just wants to build things and teach his classes in peace, damn it, so count him out of the Junon University ratrace, and he wouldn't mind them leaving off the world domination either.
Theme: 31, college students

( 'Oh, no, Rufus, if you want to do any recruiting, do it on your own turf - leave my kids alone.' )