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mrsluigivargasDay 1 of Rec-Cember! 🥳 Starting things off with the Xenoblade Chronicles series! It’s such a good game series. XC1 has a strong plot, XC2 has strong characters, and XC3 has a strong plot and characters all the way up until the middle of chapter 6! :D
Xenoblade Chronicles 1
ephemera by novalotypo
General Audiences | Gen
Shulk, Alvis, Zanza
Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Xenoblade Chronicles Spoilers
8,495 words | One-shot
Shulk stood between the meeting of two worlds. Something rippled beneath his feet, rumbling deep along the scars of an unsteady reality. The empty above shone blue, then red, then black. One star burned brighter than the rest.
There was a dead god, some ways away. He was silent. He was still. He would speak, given time to think and grieve.
But in that short reprieve, one star streaked down from the sky.
“Good morning,” it said, and suddenly Shulk knew: Alvis. We were friends, once. “We have a great deal of work ahead of us.”
In which Shulk navigates a world of his own creation, between an end and a beginning.
Fruit by Corovera
General Audiences | Gen
Riki, Melia Antiqua
Mid-Canon, Canon-Typical Violence
2,194 words | One-shot
An errand in Makna Forest brings back painful memories for Riki.
Home Is Where The Heart Is by MachineryField
General Audiences | Gen
Riki & Shulk
Post-Canon
890 words | One-shot
Riki notices Shulk struggling, and decides to do something about it.
lights that show the way by tenshinoakuma
General Audiences | Gen
Xenoblade Chronicles 1 Ensemble
Post-Canon
15,635 words | 2 chapters
In the wake of the battle that ended the cycle of destruction, a world without gods was born. With no more battles to fight, it's time for everyone to decide their future in the new world.
A post-canon look at the party's plans for their future after the defeat of the final boss.
on the way home by jellijeans
General Audiences | F/M, Gen
Melia Antiqua & Xenoblade Chronicles 1 Ensemble Cast
Canon Compliant, Spoilers, Introspection, Light Angst, Light Fluff, Found Family
2,051 words | One-shot
Melia cannot help but feel, when she sees Fiora run to Dunban, that there is a long story behind these two.
She cannot help but feel like there is so much she did not know before that she suddenly knows when Dunban’s lip quivers, when he wraps his arm around his sister and leans his head overtop hers, when Reyn and Shulk share a nod and a gaze and a laugh, that there is a part of their common Homs lives that she will never understand, a deep sense of longing and belonging and loss and life that she will never be a part of.
(Melia, and a series of moments.)
Xenoblade Chronicles 2
Another Round by Vargras
Teen And Up Audiences | Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings | Gen
Mòrag Ladair & Rex, Zeke von Genbu & Rex
Friendship
2,220 words | One-shot
Seeking advice, Rex asks Mòrag to spar with him.
Depend and Be Dependable by yoshizora
Teen And Up Audiences | Gen
Mòrag Ladair & Tora
Spoilers (Chapter 8)
4,350 words | One-shot
Mòrag refuses to die. Tora struggles with his relative lack of strength. Together, they might be able to get through this.
Drifts Through the Looking Glass by Iniora_Nackatori
Teen And Up Audiences | Gen
Torna
Fluff, Family Feels, AU - Canon Divergence
25,392 words | 15 chapters
A compilation of snippets from a world where the Architect decided maybe he should have stopped that man after all.
pasta by rarsneezes
General Audiences | Gen
Alvis & Mythra & Pyra & Malos
Siblings
778 words | One-shot
Malos makes pasta. Pyra makes a cake. They bond, a little.
The Infant and the Maelstrom by Iniora_Nackatori
Teen And Up Audiences | Gen
Original Character & Malos, Torna
Family Feels, Spoilers, Fluff and Angst, Alternate Universe
127,288 words | 25 chapters
Father decided to do something special for his children. His children are of mixed opinion on Father’s gift. Especially Malos.
Xenoblade Chronicles 3
deathly loneliness attacks by Lyre (Lyrecho)
General Audiences | Gen
Eunie & Taion, Eunie & Lanz & Noah
Set Early Chapter 5
4,751 words | One-shot
the weight of gold is a shining scam
(eunie and her boys talk it out)
folded between hopes and fears by roxasthatsastick
Teen And Up Audiences | Gen
Eunie & Taion, Mio & Taion
Chapter 6 Spoilers
1,322 words | One-shot
The City's shops sell all sorts of books, if you go looking. Taion is happy to peruse them. Books about bunnits or heroes, or even origami.
(or; they say if you fold one thousand cranes, your wish will come true.)
Fourth, to be exact by ZeldaWolf11
General Audiences | No category
Eunie & Taion | Angst
444 words | One-shot
Taion finds something left behind.
Full Metal Relationship Counselor by SuperNerd92
Teen And Up Audiences | Gen
Gray, Eunie, Lanz
Crack Treated Seriously, Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Spoilers
2,227 words | One-shot
“How’s that work?” Eunie says, in the same tone of voice as when she’d asked about babies, eyes burning with poorly concealed interest.
(The members of Ouroboros have questions about this 'relationship' stuff. For some reason, they think Gray has the answers).
Guess We Got a Choice by
General Audiences | Gen
Eunie & Taion
Chapter 6 Spoilers, Transgender Taion
5,056 words | One-shot
"Can you imagine being born without your headwings, for example? What it'd be like to not have them? Or how strange it'd feel for someone like me to have them?"
love me soon by paopuleaf
Teen And Up Audiences | Multi
Ouroboros Gang (Pre-Polycule)
Fluff and Humor
1,028 words | One-shot
“so, that whole kissin’ thing, huh?”
taion sighs, pushing up his glasses to give eunie a look. “is that really what’s most important, right now?”
“aw, c’mon! you can’t blame a girl for thinkin’ about it, can you?” eunie scoffs. one of her wings flicks out in irritation, and taion leans back to avoid getting a feather to the face. “‘s much easier to think about than all the other stuff we learned today, anyway. it’s all so sparkin’ complicated…”
“i kinda wanna try it,” mio admits, her face slightly pink. “it seemed… interesting, that’s all.”
(during their first night in the city, the members of ouroboros try something new.)
morning sun by revelationwing
General Audiences | Gen
Isurd & Taion & Nimue
Families of Choice, Slice of Life, Spoilers
3,365 words | One-shot
Taion attempts to understand his feelings.
Odd Ones by MachineryField
Teen And Up Audiences | Gen
Zeon, Mwamba, Eunie, Noah, Lanz
Pre-Canon, Developing Friendships
2,003 words | One-shot
When Colony 14 was attacked, Zeon knows that new recruits were bound to show up soon.
Quickdraw by SuperNerd92
Teen And Up Audiences | Major Character Death | Gen
Gray, Eunie, Taion
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Spoilers
1,611 words | One-shot
“Exactly how many terms are you?” The Agnus soldier’s eyes burn with curiosity behind his glasses. (And isn’t that an amusing quirk? Perfect little soldiers, born and bred only to fight and die, yet a physical imperfection is allowed to remain. Or are his eyes actually perfect? Are they a mere affectation on his part?)
It’s Gray’s first time actually speaking to one of them. He hopes it’s the last.
Spousal Ice Cream by ThatWindingPath
Teen And Up Audiences | Gen
Ouroboros Gang
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Spoilers, Aromantic Characters, Queerplatonic Relationships
544 words | One-shot
"Monica. What was that word you used? 'Spouse'?"
"A partner in romance."
"Rom—?"
"The feeling of having someone very precious to you... That'd be one way of putting it."
"So," Noah said, "the others are all my 'spouses' then?"
We Are Free, The Two Of Us by LunarMelodia
General Audiences | F/M
Ethel/Cammuravi
Chapter 4 Spoilers, Friendship
1,111 words | One-shot
The feeling is foreign to the both of them. It burns within them, a yearning.Brief though it was, none could deny… they were masterless and free.
write it down or you'll forget by Starcrossedsky
Teen And Up Audiences | Gen
Mio, Taion, M, Eunie
Spoilers to mid-chapter 6, Missing Scene
2,122 words | One-shot
If there's no record of it, how does anyone know what's real and what's not?
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What if Taion knew about Mio and M from the beginning?
Xenoblade Chronicles (Cross-Series)
drifting soul by orpheus_under_starlight
General Audiences | Gen
Malos, Noah, Melia Antiqua, Nia, Dunban, Ethel
Post-Canon, Grief/Mourning, Recovery
7,376 words | One-shot
A haunting, somber melody calls Malos to wakefulness. At the edge of the world, he finds its source: one small boy named Noah Antiqua, sending off a world that never should have been.
His perspective begins to change.
(in)complete circuit by rarsneezes
General Audiences | Gen
Alvis & Malos & Mythra & Pyra
3,310 words | One-shot
At the dawn of a united world, their eldest brother waits for them.
It Was Right On The Tip Of My Tongue by SuperNerd92
Teen And Up Audiences | Gen
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Ensemble Cast
Post-Canon, Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Spoilers, Eventual Happy Ending
23,703 words | 11 chapters
Taion blinks at him, then decides to just ignore this statement completely, which, fair. Zeke opens his mouth to reply something heroic and then -
Something happens.
Or rather, something doesn’t happen.
All of the something (whether or not it happened) occurs in the space of a second. If Zeke wasn’t a Blade Eater with unusual sensitivity to ether, he probably wouldn’t have noticed. Even so, it’s hard to describe. It’s like - a momentary surge in the air around him that’s gone as soon as it appeared. Leaving him with the fainest sense of deja vu. Like he’s been here before. Or as if he’s forgotten something important.