The Smoking Mirror

Title: The Art of Restoration (1/1)
Series: 100 Original Fics
Character: Fox Maharassa
Author: Avarice
Prompt: 059 - Food
Rating: PG
Pairing: Fox/Collin
Spoilers: post FH strips
Summary: The 3rd of Fox's articles/blog posts about his birthday trip to Hawaii.
Word Count: 1261
Date First Posted: 15-06-12
Date Revised: -
Beta: -
Awards: -
Notes: Hmm. Trundling along :)
Feedback: always welcome, as is constructive criticism.
Also Archived At: LJ

Title: Agony Aunt
Author: Avarice
Rating: PG
Pairing: Egoist
Spoilers: later volumes of manga (vol 12 onwards)
Summary: Hiroki gets stuck being the sounding board for what he deems to be the world's problems.
Word Count: 2672
Date First Posted: 09-10-11
Date Revised: -
Beta: Eike
Awards: -
Notes: Happy return to some awesome characters! Inspired by re-watching the series.
Feedback: always welcome, as is constructive criticism.
Also Archived At: LJ

Title: Dead Reckoning
Series: 100 Original Fics
Character: Fox Maharassa
Author: Avarice
Prompt: 003 - Ends
Rating: PG
Pairing: Fox/Collin, Padma/Nefertari
Spoilers: the end of FH
Summary: Nefertari and her family pull together to help Fox after he and Collin finally call it quits.
Word Count: 14142
Date First Posted: 11-07-2011
Date Revised: 17-10-2011
Beta: Eike, Fantisci, Dino.
Awards: -
Notes: If you're familiar with my work (or with me!) you know that I wasn't happy with how FH ended for my favourite characters. According to the post-script of the series, you can either go with the idea that Fox and Collin split, which would lead into the other comic OPB, or they were able to stay together. I am in the latter's camp, but recently I got to thinking about them breaking up. If I entertained the notion of them breaking up... this is how I think it would've happened. I think their characters weren't as tight or as consistently portrayed in the last year or so, but I've done my best to keep the line of story that had been happening, reconciling the old and new characterisations and doing my best to be objective about it, not subjective. To that end, this is a third person limited fic, and it follows Nefertari's experiences with the events. Many thanks to my 3 very talented betas, who put up with me pasting things to them, haranguing them, and emailing rewrites at odd hours. It was important that this fic got a really good going-over, because I wanted it to be good. I think it's about as good as I can make it right now. I hope you enjoy. :)

I had trouble naming this piece, but it came to me as I thought about Fox losing Collin becomes a directionless compass. I looked up some navigation terms and came across 'dead reckoning', which is a way to calculate one's current position using previously determined positions, then extrapolating future positions based on that data. The part I liked the best about it, however, was this: A disadvantage of dead reckoning is that since new values are calculated solely from previous values, the errors and uncertainties of the process are cumulative, so the error and uncertainty in the value grow with time. To me, this is very indicative of what's happening with Fox right at this time, and what will happen to him in the near future.
Feedback: always welcome, as is constructive criticism.
Also Archived At: LJ

Title: Red Fox Invents...
Series: 100 Original Fics
Character: Fox Maharassa
Author: Avarice
Prompt: 081 - How?
Rating: PG
Pairing: Fox/Collin
Spoilers: -
Summary: Fox has a wild imagination, including (but not limited to) a witchdoctor and a caveman that may or may not bear a striking resemblance to...
Word Count: 408
Date First Posted: 2009
Date Revised: 02-06-2011
Beta: -
Awards: -
Notes: written probably around 2006, it never actually got posted to LJ, just put straight up on my old fic site. This fic is another little in-joke to myself about original fic. I have a work in progress original fic on my hard drive called Alternative Medicine starring Sula the caveman. Sula was adapted from Red Fox, who is a stupid invention of Fox's. Because he's odd. While no actual parts of AltMeds are up (yet!), you can read about Sula causing all manner of drama in these other fic crossovers.
Feedback: always welcome, as is constructive criticism.

 

Title: Regime!
Series: 100 Original Fics
Character: Fox Maharassa
Author: Avarice
Prompt: 021 - Friends
Rating: G
Pairing: Fox/Collin
Spoilers: -
Summary: Wherever Collin goes, so goes Fox's nation. Sometimes literally.
Word Count: 316
Date First Posted: 08-05-2003
Date Revised: 02-06-2011
Beta: -
Awards: -
Notes: Crack-like AU. Basically... Collin becomes dictator of a South American country. Fox becomes his general (this was before they were together in the comics). He had lots of sex with Fox, and made him call him 'sir'. Fox was known as the Generalisimo, and got to wear a cool hat, and an eyepatch, because he thought it made him look dangerous. Sometimes he wore two on both eyes, though. that was just dumb. They lived in a very nice presidential palace. And Fox got to pick his own staff purely on the basis of how sexy they were. Oh, he slept with some of them, too, but saved all the good stuff for Collin. (Collin knew about this, I should point out, it wasn't a secret adultery thing).
And Collin liked it when he got banged when Fox was wearing his hat.
It was posted in 2003, but my info tells me it was actually written on 15-09-2002! As you can see, Regime! as a ridiculously odd AU never got written, but elements of it crept into the comics, most notably 2004's Halloween.
Feedback: always welcome, as is constructive criticism.
Also Archived At: LJ

Title: Bruised
Series: 100 Original Fics
Character: Fox Maharassa
Author: Avarice
Prompt: 016 - Purple
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Fox/Collin
Spoilers: -
Summary: Collin gets turned on by the weirdest things.
Word Count:
Date First Posted: 06-06-2009
Date Revised: 02-06-2011
Beta: -
Awards: -
Notes: Ok, so this strip is a great example of a bizarre kink that Collin possessed -- he loved it when Fox had to fight through East Telnetcomm, and come home all bloody and bruised. He was very turned on by this. I wrote fic detailing. :) It was started not long after this strip (2006), but didn't get completed until the posting date. I actually really like this fic. I like it when Collin gets uber-sexy-demanding.
Feedback: always welcome, as is constructive criticism.
Also Archived At: LJ