Are you looking for shorter stories? Goodness knows I am! But I also write a lot of shorter stories so if that's what you're looking for, I've got what you need!
In fact, here's many of them!
SVtember Drabble Collection has 31 stories of only 100 words each! (more or less. Me and the word counter sometimes disagree as to what constitutes a word) All of them are about Scarlet and Violet, most of them about the base game. Some of them are canon compliant, some are AUs, some are just me freewheeling, but I hope that all of them are fun reads. MOST of them are standalones, but some tie together. You'll know which ones those are.
Reunion of a Divergent Timeline probably takes longer to say the title than it does to read. Another 100 word story about SV, following two characters after their respective endings.
Compared to these,
All The Time In The World clocking in at 7.1k words is downright girthy! This is, yes, another SV fic but it takes place years before canon and can be read without knowledge of SV itself because of it. In it, two young scientists travel to Wyndon for a conference and get to know each other a little better.
Double that at 14k, is, yes, another SV fic.
The Future Between Us focuses on Arven as he tries to fix one of his father's mistakes and offer another of his father's victims a new chance. This won Best Fanfic at Kumoricon 2023 and was praised for its depiction of the grieving process (so, content warning I suppose, for grief and loss, but the loss has already happened). This was written before the DLC came out so some things in it make it an AU
By this point you may be thinking "is SV all Blackjack writes?" And no! Here's my most popular fic, about XY!
Answering Machine is under 600 words and focuses on Sycamore calling Lysandre.
But yes lately my thoughts have been taken up by SV and if you've noticed a common thread between the SV fics so far is that I really like the AIs. But how do you write a character like that without making up an entire timeline for them to exist in? Well heck you bring them back to the present. That's the Gakutensoku series, named after a peaceful automaton. I'm still working on this series and I expect it to last quite a while, but as of right now it consists of four stories:
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Safe Passage, where AI Turo reconnects with Arven, who thought he had put the past behind him
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All Together Now, where Arven's friends are brought in and help out in their own ways (this one has fanart! You get to see my Juliana design!)
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Cultivate The Vine, where Clavell meets with the AI
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A Little Something Extra, where Penny works on the AI, Nemona works on a new project, and Arven and Juliana work on their issues (and YOU YES YOU could be the first review on this!)
Juliana is a semi-self insert in this, my first attempt at one, though rather than being "me", they're written as how I played the game, reflecting the choices I made and how I felt about the characters.
But is this really the only "save the AI" fic I could possibly have written? Absolutely not because here's
Time All At Once, a Pokemon Masters fic focusing on Penny as she and the other Gadgeteers have a mission! This one is introspective on Penny's part and gets into her thoughts about the multiverse, her friends, and her relationship with her family.
And let's wrap things up with another not-so-short fic,
The Devil You Know. Do you like when Pokemon gets dark? Do you like when it explores more mature themes? Well here's a Team Galactic fic that explores the cultlike and terrorist elements of the gang, especially under Charon's leadership in the later volumes. Because this fic takes place in the Diamond and Pearl Adventure! continuity! It can mostly be read canon-blind since I know most of you haven't read that manga, just know that things don't happen the same way they do in the game. 32k, the result of two years of work, so please enjoy!
