#ilexworks

He sips a cat-themed coffee and contemplates it all. His fingerprints, left on a world he’s never seen before. His eyes reflected in a stranger’s; his voice chopped up and interspersed with words not his own. (Spamton has been restored to default settings, which is to say that he's lost his memories of the last 20 years. Tenna presents a fascinating dilemma - how do you cope with the fumble of the century when you can't even remember what you did to break his heart?)

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48 HOUR EXTREME TIMED CHALLENGE EXCHANGE CREATION PERIOD

which is now COMPLETE! and i made EIGHT WORKS! and you can read them HERE! we have:

deltarune: amicably divorced spamtenna & tenna's new chronic pain (568 words)

deltarune again: noelle's thoughts on queen, between chapters 2 and 4 (1026 words)

undertale: flowey refusing to leave the underground post-canon (333 words)

severance: devon and mark s. bonding at the cabin (1784 words)

life series: collab with venus haemalhart about ren getting hella stabbed (4524 words)

empires: katherine and shelby set out to win pearl's hand in marriage (5083 words)

gravity falls: what if. stick with me here. robbie transgender woman (1675 words)

life series again: double life pearl, and insomnia (300 words)

During a visit home from Khura'in, Apollo finds out unexpectedly that Trucy has been visiting Kristoph Gavin in jail and talking to him. With which he's fine, of course.

aa1 entente; narumitsu. the fey clan are vampire hunters, phoenix has anemia, and edgeworth leaves a voicemail in between the events of 1-4 and 1-5.

aa2 compound accession; phoenix & fey sisters. after the engarde debacle, everyone is tired, and author makes a really bad call about discrediting the advice "a lawyer should keep smiling until it's over" due to lack of foresight about the rest of the series.

aa3 shrieve me, holy man; feenris. iris, and her boyfriend, and the rime of the ancient mariner.

aa123 bonus lower branch; phoenix & maya & larry. au where the trip to hazakura temple happens in between the events of 1-3 and 1-4 instead of during 2019.

aai duology pinhole eye; narumitsu pre-slash. in the tiny window between the end of aai2 and phoenix's disbarment, narumitsu meet for coffee and don't tell each other very much.

aa4 on occam's razor; klavier & vongole, and kristoph-in-absentia. character study that spans the whole game, regarding klav's assertion that he likes to keep things simple in a world full of complication.

She grins, those crazy-sharp teeth glinting off the halogen lights of the Holiday home, and Noelle finds herself thinking, Dess would've loved you.

It's not the kind of thing she expects from herself. Dess usually sits on this holy, high pedestal, beyond comparison, a perfect preservation of the coolest girl in the world. Memories of warm sleeves and buried charcoal pizza - she never intersects with now.

It must be something about Susie, though. Susie, somehow faithfully reflected in her dreams, like they've known each other all this time already. And, like, yeah, okay, they have, but...

She strums something off-key, discordant. "Oops."

It makes Noelle laugh, spooked out of introspection. Dess' guitar and the claws that rest gentle on its strings. She's never conceptualised Susie as someone who could be gentle, but... of course she can. She took good care of Noelle on that ferris wheel, didn't she?

"You sure you wanna hear this?"

"Huh? Yeah, of course! I..."

Dess would've really liked Susie. And maybe taught her some chords.

In which a nineteen-year-old Kristoph Gavin is unintentionally introduced to a twenty-year-old Phoenix Wright, and does not like what he sees.

It takes about fifteen minutes of shock and smiles and pleasantries exchanged about the layover in Zheng Fa for Apollo to scratch out his planned lunch break and replace it with the afternoon off. (Or, Klavier's first impromptu visit to Khura'in presents an unexpected stumbling block.)