Accidental Nano - Ch. 1

Fandom: FFXIV
Summary: This started out as poking at headcanon and snowballed; Thancred's younger days and how he ended up with the rest of the Archons.
Chapter summary: Trauma! Trauma and the perils of being a street rat of ill repute with a known close buddy of even less repute.
Warnings: Some violence, gore, references to human trafficking.
Also for those not canon familiar, some footnotes in advance: Bells = about an hour. The day's broken up into four cycles of six one-hour segments that're roughly matched to the elemental cycle/Twelve gods. Yalm = a little longer than a yard, malm if that got mentioned is somewhere between a km and a mile. “Hyur” is what humans got called by everyone else when they showed up. Roegadyn are massive (average about 7-feet) and built a little like tanks; Lalafell are at most maybe two and a half to three feet tall, Elezen = vaguely elf-like though they're bad at matching most other world's elves.


( Where level playing fields weren't meant for us to play )

Accidental Nano - Ch. 2

Fandom: FFXIV
Summary: Snowballed headcanon on Thancred's background!
Chapter Summary: Going looking for ... well, he's not really sure what he's doing, but he's making people who sorta worry about him LINEFACE a lot.
Warnings: Not a whole lot for this.

( Though you're dead and gone believe me, your memory will carry on )

Footnote: The days are about twenty four hours, split into four cycles of six. It's set up to match the six elements, and alternates "astral/umbral"; the calendar of months does the same thing, and is labelled by the Twelve, hence being able to use one of their symbols as a signal of a time.
Also for the completely canonblind, Elezen are sort of an elf-analogue, although they're no more or less supernatural than anyone else.

Accidental Nano - Ch. 3

Fandom: FFXIV
Summary: Snowballed headcanon of Thancred's background!
Chapter Summary: Thancred starts researching, runs across one of the murders, and has A BRILLIANT IDEA. And by brilliant we mean "that person who was trying to warn him to not do anything dumb is getting the strange feeling she should be drinking herself into liver failure".
Warnings: Violence, gore, dead children

( Uncanny restlessness - but ask me what I've learned )

The Accidental Nano - Ch. 4

Fandom: FFXIV
Summary: Snowballed headcanon!
Chapter Summary: Thancred wins at refuge in audacity, panics the college, and gets screwed over by dumb luck. Brief guest appearances by Urianger, to whom we deeply apologize.
Warnings: Half-failures at translating Tomes of Forbidden Lore.

( How to navigate through a perilous tide without a safe or sound device )

Accidental Nano - Ch. 5

Fandom: FFXIV
Summary: Snowballed headcanon!
Chapter Summary: Thancred gets his life savedadopted by Louisoix, and does not realize that it is a long-term arrangement, despite a driveby Yda. Also has an opportunity to actually process what's going on for the first time since everything went pear-shaped.
Warnings: Getting hit over the head with "YOU CAN MOURN ALREADY STUPID". Yda. Some swearing that might be recognizable here as such?

( Gods and angels and devils smile - look into our crying eyes )

Accidental Nano - Ch. 6

Fandom: FFXIV
Summary: Snowballed Headcanon!
Chapter Summary: Papalymo is not a diplomat, world politics/dating on the timeline, the first of many times visiting the infirmary's triage ward
Warnings: None really.

( cut text here? )

Accidental Nano - Ch. 7

Fandom: FFXIV
Summary: Snowballed Headcanon!
Chapter Summary: Awkward times, and getting introduced to Urianger, to whom we again apologize deeply and are secretly glad he doesn't end up with a lot of screen time because of his speech patterns, and what happens when a pirate enters law enforcement.
Warnings: None for this!

( I got nothing, chapter here )

Accidental Nano - Ch. 8

Fandom: FFXIV
Summary: Snowballed Headcanon
Chapter Summary: Thancred gets ambushed by the other Archons for questions, then gets the planning meeting he asked for and learns what happens when two strong dominant personalities are stressed, frazzled, and unhappy.
Warnings: Prodding at mental trauma!

( You've got to make a choice if the music drowns you out - and raise your voice )

Accidental Nano - Ch. 9

Fandom: FFXIV
Summary: Snowballed Headcanon
Chapter Summary: Short/may be merged with previous; the aftermath of the meeting, paranoia and a bit of butting heads.
Warnings: Disgruntled prickly people.

( Er, hi I am cut text? )

Accidental Nano - Ch. 10

Fandom: FFXIV
Summary: Snowballed Headcanon!
Chapter Summary: Thancred does his information gathering thing, and then goes and mashes his face into a trap, resulting in Yda getting to show off and Thancred getting re-acquainted with Y'shtola and the infirmary.
Warnings: Violence, body horror

( Through it all, the rise and fall, the bodies in the streets )

Accidental Nano - Ch. 11

Fandom: FFXIV
Summary: Snowballed Headcanon!
Chapter Summary: A lot of 'No seriously what am I getting into' mixed with getting horribly distracted before reality comes crashing back in.
Warnings: References to really bizarre cultist porn. Louisoix speed-chessmastering.

( On and on we carry through the fears )

Accidental Nano - Ch. 12

Fandom: FFXIV
Summary: Snowballed headcanon!
Chapter Summary: The actual mission; Louisoix needs to outfit Thancred with a kiddy leash, a tracking device, and a specialized Aetheryte shard, and maybe lodge a complaint with those of the Twelve that meddle with luck re: Thancred's. Ascians are Not Fun Things to get stuck in a room alone with.
Warnings: Near death experience, violence, emotional trauma

( And while that sends you reeling from decimated dreams - your misery and hate will kill us all )

Accidental Nano - Ch. 13

Fandom: FFXIV
Summary: Snowballed Headcanon!
Chapter Summary: Y'shtola ends up with a lot of work; Thancred finally accepts that he's been adopted. Also metaphysics over medical procedures.
Warnings: Triage ward injuries, some of this was written at 3 am and could use a once-over, sharp objects and a little body-horror ick

( Son when you grow up will you be the savior of the broken, the beaten and the damned? )