"The Queen of White Lies" (I'm strongly considering changing the title as I'm aware one of the singers of the song it was named after did some awful things, and I feel it isn't super representative of the fic's themes anymore. But for now that's what it is)

Relationships: Erika/Dlanor, minor Cornelia/Gertrude, minor Amakusa/Virgilius (yes I'm serious)

Characters: Erika, Dlanor, Ange, Amakusa, Cornelia, Gertrude, Virgilius, "Nomura" (Higurashi but you don't need context), OCs, et al.

Status:

Tags: [just a few:] Canon Divergence, Angst, Magical Perspectives, Colored Text, Eventual Romance

Summary:

When the seagulls cry, there are but two survivors. With the death of one, the other washes ashore on Niijima. Returning from the brink of oblivion, the girl presumed missing but revived as a detective and witch for the many forgeries of the Rokkenjima Massacre comes to tell her story of what happened on that fateful day of the explosion. After 12 years, the girl with almost no love brings back the only ones she could 'love:' Her beloved Inquisitor of Heresy, and her two assistant priestesses. The Ushiromiya who was not permitted to go to Rokkenjima on that certain October 4th is notified of her return, and continues her pursuit of truth by seeking out this girl. The two Witches of Truth are destined to meet.

tl;dr Erika survived and washed ashore Niijima, and people scramble to find out what her personal account of the Rokkenjima accident is, including Ange, but she just wants to be gay with Dlanor and write /j

However, this story is kinda hard to summarize from there. It has magic, blue and red truths, gay feelings, culprits and suspects, a writer!Erika... but it isn't a murder mystery. I wonder if you could classify it as a forgery at all? Well, that's for you to decide. In some parts, it's just a fictionalization of maybe 3/4 of my thoughts on Erika.

If you do decide to read, I hope you'll enjoy it, whether you're gazing at it with Love or tearing out its guts :3