[FIC][Okami] Thirteen Facts (for thirteen gods)

Tomorrow, SUPERLONG CROSSOVER FIC!

For now, this.

Thirteen Facts (for thirteen gods)
Okami -- full game spoilers
702 words

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[FIC][Shounen Onmyouji/Tactics] and all come to ash

Riiiiiight, so. Holy crap this is huge?

A while ago, I did a "give me crossover prompts!" post, in which sjen asked me for Shounen Onmyouji/Tactics, and encouraged me to expand it to a full-fledged fic. I ... don't think she was expecting it to be as gigantieffinhuge as it turned out to be, but here you've got it -- it's a nicely palindromic wordcout, but holy gods and little fishes, it's long. For my canon, I borrowed bits and pieces from the manga, anime, novels, and dramas, and pieced them together in what (I hope) is a fairly consistent whole. For the record, the story takes place after the Tsugumi storyline in tactics, and as an AU departing from the end of the Kazane arc of Shounen Onmyouji (for those of you following the anime, it would be an AU from the anime ending).

Highlight for SPOILER EXPLANATIONS:

Tactics: A client asks Kantarou to investigate a village where it's rumored the dead are being brought back to life. It turns out to be the work of a nue named Tsugumi -- who happens to "belong" to Raikou. He tries to use her power as a bargaining tool, offering to revive Kantarou's dead mother in exchange for releasing Haruka's name. Kantarou refuses (and quite coldly), Haruka confesses his love says outright he's happy living with Kantarou, and Raikou ends up killing Tsugumi and eating her "heart," which is apparently the source of her powers; it's vaguely implied that now Raikou can do as she did. Shounen Onmyouji: At the end of the Kazane-Hen, Masahiro ends up killing Guren to prevent the Yomi no Shiki from using his body any more, but then trades his life (deliberately) for Guren's. We see that he requested of Seimei to have him erase all traces and memories of Masahiro's presence from the world. However, at the side of the Sanzu no Kawa, Masahiro meets a young woman -- whom he finds out only at the very end is his dead grandmother, Wakana -- who helps him return to the world of the living (though Guren still doesn't remember him for a good while afterwards, due to the spell Masahiro used to exchange their lives; his memories are sealed by a silver circlet, instead of the gold one he wears in the series). The fic assumes that Wakana somehow was detained, and Masahiro never did make it back to life.

THAT SAID AND DONE-- the fic! Which has been broken into two parts by sheer necessity, I'm sorry! ToT

OH MY GOD PEOPLE, PET ME OR SHOOT ME, WHICHEVER SEEMS MORE APPROPRIATE. DDDD:

and all come to ash [part 1]
Shounen Onmyouji/Tactics -- some Haruka/Kantarou, Guren/Masahiro if you squint, but mostly gen(!)
Spoilers for the Tsugumi storyline (tactics) and AU for the Kazane-Hen ending (Shounen Onmyouji)
14141 words
In which Minamoto Raikou makes a gamble, Kantarou meets several gods, and Touda gets badtouched a lot.

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[FIC][Shounen Onmyouji/Tactics] and all come to ash, part 2

and all come to ash [part 2]
Shounen Onmyouji/Tactics -- some Haruka/Kantarou, Guren/Masahiro if you squint, but mostly gen(!)
Spoilers for the Tsugumi storyline (tactics) and AU for the Kazane-Hen ending (Shounen Onmyouji)
14141 words
In which Minamoto Raikou makes a gamble, Kantarou meets several gods, and Touda gets badtouched a lot.

See part 1 for notes/spoiler explanations.

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