I’m not going to say we all wrote (or write) fanfiction. Sure, we’ve all had headcanons about the characters we love. That’s natural, and a lot of the time subconscious. But when it comes to writing fanfiction, I know it’s not for everyone. Even I haven’t written lots of it, and most of it when I was a child. Frankly, I’ve forgotten most of it.
But I do remember some of them. And yes, I cringe to look back on them. I was proud of them at the time, but have you ever looked back at something you made and felt unimaginable discomfort? That’s how I feel even having to write this. My entire body is filled with cringe. So just imagine how the characters I wrote about must feel if they had to read them.
And before you ask, I will not be providing the links to these fics. They’re either in my own journals physically written, or hidden in the depths of AO3. You can find that one yourself.
Fextralife Wiki
I have no shame in admitting thatI view Prompto and Noctis as boyfriends. It does not matter that one has a canonical love interest, and the other chases every girl he comes across. Have you ever heard of comp het? It’s on full display here. And you can bet I wrote a tasty fanfic about it. In fact, it’s actually the most recent one I even wrote.
I, um, shall refrain from being too explicit about what I depicted. They’re a very loving and open couple in my mind. Love is to be shared after all. I even planned out whole chapters in the vein of an anthology roadtrip to fit the game’s vibes! I was very proud of it, even if it was very amateurish in terms of actual quality.
Now, how would Noctis and Prompto feel about this relationship? I mean, Prompto would probably be happy to even be there since he has such an inferiority complex, let alone getting personal attention from the Crown Prince. Noctis is a lot more secluded by nature, which I also tried to depict. So it’s a little harder to say how he’d feel. Being honest, I do think he’d probably be a little uncomfortable having to read it, though I think everyone else would goad him about it. Which is a good thing, right?
Did you know Prompto and Noctis have a ship name? Promptis. The more you know!
Being honest here, I don’t recall this stuff super explicitly, and it mainly came about in literal headcanons from drawing I made as a child. I do think having to answer a quiz that assigned you as a Pokemon had a profound effect on me as a child that would take like a decade to unravel. Like the first crack in a Pokemon egg that kept being canceled.
I got Mudkip, which has made them a permanent favourite in my life. IamMudkip, in a way. At least that’s kind of the perspective of fanfic, anyway. Pikachu was my companion in the fanfics too. Man, I really grew to love them. The fanfics were, thankfully, of a much tamer variety than the typical Pokemon stuff you see online. Going on extra adventures, picking up letters from the Pelipper Post Office, recruiting new friends. Just basically extra missions, but with a bit more insight from me.
Honestly, I think they’d have liked it. I mean, I liked it, and Mudkip was me based on my choices, so I feel like that one is a given. Pikachu was my best friend though, and everyone else was super nice in the game. It would be like picking up a newspaper and hearing about your own great exploits. I like to think it would be a great morale boost. Really makes me wish I did write down those stories though.
I also had a Tauros in Pokemon Mystery Dungeon that I named ‘Horny’ because of the distinctive bull horns. My friends told me that it was inappropriate. Tauros never came on a rescue mission with me again.
In a similar fashion to Pokemon above, I didn’t quite write down any of my Minecraft fanfiction. I mean, what does one even write to articulate the actions of a Minecraft character? So I didn’t even try. Instead, I built elaborate headcanons based on the actions I actually took in the game. In a sense,I became a narrator over the gameI was playing, rather than placing myself in the starring role.
Which, you know, was kinda fun. Injecting personality and depth to something that has none. I first played Minecraft with the Xbox 360 port. I made my first ever home out of dirt blocks to survive the night. Then I carved my way into a mountain, building a dank little residence. I eventually scaled the mountain I buiilt into, making a grand manor at the top. Every new build was a page in my character’s legacy.
They were an adventurer. They traveled the land in search of nothing more than a new journey. Each new map I made was the same adventurer. Like an anthology of stories across various worlds, but all of them another feather in their cap rather than a brand-new beginning. It’s a very humbling format. Builds a legend around them. But also they are a Minecraft character. I can’t really say they would like it or dislike it. They are shockingly unresponsive to the world they are in. So since I wrote them like that, I’m going to say they would modestly accept.
I did build a whole castle for them later, though, with a smaller manor in a far away village too, so maybe they have a bit more ego than that.
2M&M’s
They Seem Like A Pretty Chill Group
So this is cheating a little bit, but it’s also the earliest fanfic I ever wrote that I still have access to. And yes, it was about the M&M’s. I cannot give you a reason for why I chose the M&M’s other than childlike whimsy won. I mean I even recruited my cousin to write it with me. We had a plot outline, and then drew the story parallel from each other to see what the other would make.
So it’s not related to any particular M&M’s advert or game. But it was set at the very top of a snowy mountain, so that picture from the M&M’s kart racing game is the best I could find. They were all seeking some mystical magical door at the top of a mountain. Why were confectionery treats seeking out ancient secret doors in the mountain? I didn’t write that part down, so the mystery will remain unanswered. Seriously, it ended on a cliffhanger with them opening the door and being so shocked they went mad. My cousin and I were masters of click-bait back in the early 2000’s, apparently.
How would the crew of the M&M’s feel about it? It might shock you to hear I am not actually deep in M&M lore, even after writing fanfic for them, so I have no idea how they would feel. Though anytime I see them on TV they seem like a fairly jovial bunch with some tongue-in-cheek humour, so I’m sure they’d find it flattering. I even think they’d probably be quite invested and ask me to write even more.
Though in my cousin’s version of the story some of them do straight up explode when the door opens, so maybe they wouldn’t be quite so keen on that rendition of the ending.
There is not a hint of irony when I say that my terrible Skyrim fanfiction is why I got into writing. Myteachersused to read it. They urged me to enter writing competitions. It wasterrible, but they at least saw the spark of interest in my writing. I never won those competitions, but it did urge me to keep writing. And here I am now, writing about how I am still writing because of my bad Skyrim fanfic writing.
Where do I even begin with this? When I first played Skyrim, I chose a Khajiit. No beating a more literal cat boy. I don’t know what happened, but I was struck by inspiration. My character for no reason crossed the border and was captured. I needed to commit it to writing, he needed a backstory. And so one was conjured into existence. He had friends, enemies, lovers, and plenty more. It was strikingly edgy, though that probably made sense for a 12-year-old to be writing.
I still have all the hardback notebooks it filled. Hundreds of pages.I even wrote a prequel to his backstory! I added characters from the story into Skyrim. There were characters from the game who were put into his backstory. It was an ambitious project. Those notebooks were falling apart. I spent like 2 years doing it all. It was a manic obsession. I did not have time to spend with friends. I’m being serious. So how much would my own OC from Skyrim feel about their backstory? Imadethem, they damn well better like it.
I also named my Khajiit after another game I played on the PS2, Legend of Kay. No real reason; I just couldn’t think of a name.
