you can't take the firmament from me

Title: Halcyon
Fandom: Bandom (My Chemical Romance)
Rating: NC-17
Length: About 12k.
Characters/Pairings: Mikey/Frank, secondary Ray/Gerard.

Summary: It started, as it often did, as a favor for Gerard. Gerard was the reason Mikey was a supermodel who wore both suits and dresses for work, and Gerard was the reason that Mikey helped out a budding designer named Frank Iero.

But falling in love...that was all Mikey and Frank, really.

Notes: For bandombigbang 2015. Be sure to check out the wonderful complementary art by chibifukurou!

This story includes references to depression, addiction, and mild gender dysphoria (Mikey is genderqueer). The non-binary stuff riffs off my personal experience and isn't meant to represent a greater whole. (Also, I'm DFAB and Mikey's DMAB, which means some of it was speculation by necessity.) Thanks to the mods of this lovely challenge (I can't believe I've been doing it for four years now!). This story is in tribute to the great people I've met through bandom, many of whom helped me sort through gender identity stuff through example or direct conversation or both.

Also on AO3.

( Halcyon )

Title: Well, I Changed For Good
Fandom: Bandom (My Chemical Romance)
Rating: NC-17
Length: ~33k.
Characters/Pairings: Frank/Gerard.

Content notes: ( Includes spoilers. )

Summary:

2003: Frank's a werewolf that changes when it's too cold outside, and Gerard isn't. But considering Frank saved Gerard when he got partially eaten by starving werewolves, Gerard should be. Gerard, for his part, is too busy getting sober after the loss of his band to remember that the attack actually happened.

2012: They reunite in Southern California while both are struggling to cope. They've both lived lives full of disasters apart; how much of a disaster can it be if they spend some time together before Frank leaves the country?

It's only when a cold snap hits LA that everyone finds out what disaster really is.

Author's notes: Also on AO3.

This story was written for Wave One of bandombigbang 2013, and it's an AU of Maggie Stiefvater's novel Shiver. (Appropriately, the title of this story is based on a lyric from Coldplay's song Shiver.) I took liberties with the Shiver story/canon, and even though I intended this to be a fork-in-the-road AU (with werewolves), I also played with the factual MCR canon that made it into the story. That means it's as made up as all of my bandom fics! Fiction, yay!

I also consider this to be the third part in an informal Frank/Gerard werewolf trilogy. They don't share universes or anything; I've just written a Frank/Gerard werewolf story every year I've been writing bandom fic. The first, A Lesser Disaster, was actually my first bandom story ever posted. The second, Strays, was written for Werewolf Big Bang 2012. I got this idea, and I figured it was time to bring the werewolves to the main fandom stage, as it were. (I think this is going to be the last part, but then, I never really intended to write the other two. Maybe I'll try writing Ray/Mikey werewolves instead.)

All the thanks in the world to tuesdaysgone for the beta (all remaining errors are mine, believe me), to my younger sister for insisting I read Shiver at the beginning of the year, to the wonderful BBB mods for juggling everything, and to everyone in my sphere for putting up with me giving support and encouragement during yet another Big Bang cycle. See you all again for Wave Three!

Fanart:
Two pieces by chimneythunder (Note: one image contains blood.)

Fanmix:
Shake It Off (Run With Wolves) by truthismusic

( Well, I Changed For Good )

Title: Giving Up the Ghost
Fandom: My Chemical Romance (with appearances from members of Black Cards, Fall Out Boy, and Cobra Starship)
Rating: NC-17
Length: ~26,300 words.
Characters/Pairings: Bob/Gerard, secondary Pete/Mikey
Disclaimer: Look up the word "fiction" in the dictionary.

Content notes: (unspoilery) (skip) Major character death, self-harm, drinking and drunkenness, depictions of pill use and medical situations (both forced and voluntary), depictions of addiction, depictions of mental health disorders, violence, bad words, bumping uglies.
Content notes: (spoilery) (skip) Only background characters stay dead. The self-harm's in the form of attempted suicide, but it stays an attempt.

Summary: Bob Bryar - also known as Spit Fire, the fifth Killjoy - should've died in the desert after Korse shot him in the head. But death isn't permanent in the zones, and rescue's nearly as ugly. When the fate of the resistance rides on Bob's shoulders, can Bob stop the mysterious enemies who anticipate his every move and cope with the mess Better Living Industries made of his life?

Bonus Tracks/Enhanced Content

Fanart:
Art by clandestine_fey

Fanmix:
Mix by desfinado

Author's notes:
For bandombigbang 2011, Wave Two. (This is my second story for this challenge; the first was Crash.) I wrote and posted this before the third Killjoys video release, but well after SING.

Because I always love playing around with presentation (particularly where Big Bangs are concerned), each site gives a different reading experience: LiveJournal has each part in its own post, Dreamwidth has the master post and all parts of the fic in one entry, and AO3 gives the option between chaptered reading and a single page. And then, because the story has special formatting and AO3 can screw that up in their premade ebooks, I made my own: .mobi, .epub, and .pdf.

If that seems like too much? Just pick your favorite site and go. Or stick with the LJ version: I really like the way it looks.

( Thanks. )

( Giving Up the Ghost )