Fic: Strange Meetings
Nov. 7th, 2024 10:25 amA rare New Fic appears, after all these back-catalogue bits! Since Fall Into Horror 2024 has had author reveals, here is the thing wot I wrote for it. ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
sholio put up an absolutely phenomenal prompt for Cursed von Stalhein, and you know I cannot resist an opportunity to make Erich suffer, often at considerable length.
Strange Meetings - c.19k, rated Teen and Up on AO3 primarily for creepiness. No major character deaths, quite a few minor character deaths; I've tagged it for death, suicidal thoughts, grief/mourning, illness and scars. Possibly should also have tagged for claustrophobia and Ancient Horrors From The Dark Forests Of The North, I guess. Angst with a happy ending. Focussing on von Stalhein and Biggles, with a small side-order of Bertie because the plot of 'Looks Back' demands I have him sitting in like a lemon in a couple of crucial scenes. Sorry, Bertie, I love you, and I did my best.
The first time Erich von Stalhein should have died was, as far as he could tell later, when he was eight years old.
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This reveal comes much to absolutely nobody's surprise, I'm sure, especially as I talked about this concept waaaaay back at the start of September in ysande's journal. I had an awful lot of fun prodding von Stalhein in this, especially in the opening section, which was just. Pure October creepy-pasta entertainment. Thanks are due as ever togatty for ongoing encouragement and advice, to my partner T for helping me fix up the last section, and especially to T's father who loaned me some books about U-boats at extremely short notice and told me to give up on the concept I had about torpedoes. Probably for the best.
sholio put up an absolutely phenomenal prompt for Cursed von Stalhein, and you know I cannot resist an opportunity to make Erich suffer, often at considerable length. Strange Meetings - c.19k, rated Teen and Up on AO3 primarily for creepiness. No major character deaths, quite a few minor character deaths; I've tagged it for death, suicidal thoughts, grief/mourning, illness and scars. Possibly should also have tagged for claustrophobia and Ancient Horrors From The Dark Forests Of The North, I guess. Angst with a happy ending. Focussing on von Stalhein and Biggles, with a small side-order of Bertie because the plot of 'Looks Back' demands I have him sitting in like a lemon in a couple of crucial scenes. Sorry, Bertie, I love you, and I did my best.
The first time Erich von Stalhein should have died was, as far as he could tell later, when he was eight years old.
* * *
This reveal comes much to absolutely nobody's surprise, I'm sure, especially as I talked about this concept waaaaay back at the start of September in ysande's journal. I had an awful lot of fun prodding von Stalhein in this, especially in the opening section, which was just. Pure October creepy-pasta entertainment. Thanks are due as ever to
gatty for ongoing encouragement and advice, to my partner T for helping me fix up the last section, and especially to T's father who loaned me some books about U-boats at extremely short notice and told me to give up on the concept I had about torpedoes. Probably for the best.
