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Title: The Heretics' Story
Author: Andrea (

mullenkamp)
Spoilers: Vague when possible, slight character background spoilers
Personal Website: Altistic

In the bizarre murder mystery that is the game Vagrant Story, the outlaw cultists of Müllenkamp are the primary antagonists. They're heretics, believed to have attempted assassination and stirred up rebellion against the monarchy, and have recently taken control of Duke Bardorba's manor for some unknown purpose. After the siege fails due to the intervention of the authorities, Müllenkamp is both the pursued and the pursuer. Running out of options, soldiers, and time, they flee to the haunted ruins of Leá Monde.

The two men responsible for Müllenkamp's activities have seen and done things that no normal person is capable of. Living such a strange life, misunderstood and hunted, riddled with psionics and sorcery, one can't trust just anyone...

In the midst of someone else's story, in bleak surroundings that bleed wonder and horror at a moment's notice, a tale can be found of two men who have absolute faith not only in the powers they serve, but in one another.

( The Heretics' Story )

Title: Long Hard Road
Author: Nagia
Pairing: Ashley Riot/Callo Merlose (Vagrant Story)
Spoilers: The game. The whole game. Nothing but the game.

Vagrant Story is a small fandom. An extremely small fandom. We have fewer than a hundred fics on The Pit of Voles, and probably between 100-150, with my best WAG at 125, in total. Those are only counting the English-language fics, because I don't look at non-English pages. But for such a tiny, tiny fandom, there are sharp divisions. The VS fandom has drawn as many lines in the sand as there are traceries in the Rood Inverse. Okay, there are only three (Ashley/Sydney, Sydney/Hardin, and The Family: Real or False).
I propose something a little different. Something rare.

( It's A Long Hard Road, Even if You Believe in Fairy Tales )

*Edited to add the only outright A/C fic on the web. By myself.