Hat Writes Stuff

Hello, I'm Almighty Hat. You may know me from such Dreamwidths as Hat Plays Sims and Hat Plays Dolls. If you're looking for Sims 2 downloads or doll collecting nonsense, try those links. This is where I post fanfiction.

I have no idea what to really put in this introduction beyond an apology-- I'm almost always writing something, but very frequently, I don't finish it (I'm very, very bad at endings), don't post it, or I'm writing in a shared AU set in a not-too-distant future made of so many crossovers we just call it Mashup. I won't be posting everything that I've ever written here, because some of it got heartily Jossed and some of it just isn't as good as I thought it was six years ago.

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( Index of Works )

Title: Fine. Now I'm The Bad Guy.
Author: Almighty Hat
Fandom: Keferon's Transformers ShockOp Isekai AU
Characters: Shockwave
Word Count: 698
Rating: G
Pairing(s): Gen (there was pining but...)
Warnings: Shadowplay, what measure is a fictional character when you're a dead guy in a novel and you've just had your brain edited?

Author's Notes: ( Behind this cut! )

Summary: Shockwave died in his original, peaceful world, and woke up in a favorite dramatic novel, taking the place of the character who shares his name.

The evil senator, doomed to suffer empurata and shadowplay and die trying to destroy the world, who happens to share his name.

Shockwave felt nothing.

It was difficult to consider his situation, given how his actions and thoughts, lately, had so deeply revolved around his emotions.

He can't try to change his role, his place in the story, or he'll undo this whole second chance at life, so he just has to play along and try to ignore how he feels about the main character Orion Pax.

But this isn't all of that.

This is the aftermath of shadowplay.

( In many ways, everything seemed much simpler, afterward. )

Title: Touch Me Not
Author: Almighty Hat
Fandom: Transformers Mystic Tales AU
Characters: Blurr, Shockwave (Mirage, Sentinel, and Damus haunt the narrative)
Word Count: 1,620
Rating: G
Pairing(s): Shockwave/Blurr
Warnings: Standard Spellbound Suicidal Ideation Warning, so so so much negative self-talk, if I need more you tell me

Author's Notes: ( Behind this cut! )

Summary: Keferon, no, I have other things I need to be doing.

Looking back on an older update with some authorial info that made me go, "Yeah but Blurr's rageventing wasn't just about knowing bad news was coming, it was also about whatever his situation with Mirage was, we just didn't know that was haunting the narrative yet."

So now I'm back on my Spellbound bullshit.

( It wasn't eavesdropping. )

Title: Maybe That Will Calm Him Down
Author: Almighty Hat
Fandom: Frankenstein (2025)
Characters: Victor Frankenstein, Fräulein Adelheid Blücher, William Frankenstein
Word Count: 443
Rating: G
Pairing(s): Implied Victor Frankenstein/Fräulein Adelheid Blücher
Warnings: Nothing I can think of!

Author's Notes: Sometimes you don't want to write a whole AU. Sometimes, just the moment that would have caused things to spiral into something else is enough.

Summary: This is a silly little piece of flash fiction where I throw a character from one Frankenstein adaptation into another and giggle while imagining the results.

William makes sure Victor's tower has everything it needs, including, in this story, a housekeeper.

( 'Who is this?' Victor asked, irritable and distracted at being called away from his work. )

Title: Upon The Brink of Becoming Acquainted
Author: Almighty Hat
Fandom: Transformers Mystic Tales AU
Characters: Blurr, Shockwave, Sentinel (no not that one, mine), Lianes
Word Count: 3,123
Rating: G
Pairing(s): Shockwave/Blurr
Warnings: None I can think of?

Author's Notes: ( Behind this cut! )

Summary: So, AnyMoreBrightIdeas read I Am Thy Creature and commented, among other things, "Blurr and Shockwave are getting so much thrown at them. So much." And that is correct, and I had an image of them lying tangled up in bed together, as they do, about 75% of the way through I Am Thy Creature, going, What the frag even was this day?

... So that's what I wrote.

Based, as so often happens, on Keferon's exceptional Spellbound AU.

( They went to bed, eventually. )

First Part
Previous Part
Next Part?

Title: Love And Fear
Author: Almighty Hat
Fandom: Transformers Mystic Tales AU
Characters: Shockwave, Blurr, Shockwave, Blurr
Word Count: 10,331
Rating: G
Pairing(s): Shockwave/Blurr
Warnings: Graphic depictions of violence, deliberately confusing naming

Author's Notes: ( Behind this cut! )

Summary: He is only half a demon, with little experiential memory of his own, but he's tied to his summoner and a mech he doesn't know, yet, was once held in his own core. But they're suddenly not together, and he can only choose one mech to check on.

Or, in which the giant demon baby I came up with saw a recent Spellbound update and wouldn't stop growling.

( Chapter One )

( Chapter Two )

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Title: Double, Double
Author: Almighty Hat
Fandom: Transformers Mystic Tales AU
Characters: Shockwave, Blurr, Mirage, Sentinel
Word Count: 902
Rating: G
Pairing(s): Shockwave/Blurr
Warnings: A little violence, a little body horror, a little fear of being replaced

Author's Notes: ( Behind this cut! )

Summary: Keferon: *updates Spellbound*
Hat: ... How do I get a ficlet out of the hour-or-two I just spent tracking down proof of my observations...

Five wild ideas as to just who that might be, and where I suspect we might find Blurr, if we looked.

( It's a Five-And-One! )

Title: Indulgence
Author: Almighty Hat
Fandom: Transformers Mystic Tales AU
Characters: Shockwave, Blurr
Word Count: 10,401
Rating: Explicit (here there be robots fucking)
Pairing(s): Shockwave/Blurr
Warnings: Standard Spellbound Suicidal Ideation Warning, also, valveplug/sticky, also also, sex pollen (but not fuck-or-die about it)

Author's Notes: ( Behind this cut! )


Summary: I was working on a five-and-one for Keferon's Spellbound AU and, uh, overestimated my ability to finish six whole fics before the plot progressed enough to make me need to scream about other things. But Keferon expressed interest anyway, so I offered a choice of things that were finished or finished-enough.

Keferon chose the smut.

So!

While wandering around the wilds of Cybertron, Blurr and Shockwave tumble into some puffball mushrooms whose spores have... interesting effects. They proceed to take ages to do anything about it, because when one of you has all the power in the relationship and the other has enough self-image issues to count as self-image volumes, a surprising amount of negotiation is required.

( The forest was beautiful, its colors vibrant, and the view from the trail down into the... gentle ravine or sharp valley, Blurr wasn't sure which to call it, was pretty spectacular. )

Title: Spirits Of Another Sort
Author: Almighty Hat
Fandom: Transformers Mystic Tales AU
Characters: Shockwave, Blurr
Word Count: 3,740
Rating: Everybody?
Pairing(s): Shockwave/Blurr
Warnings: The Usual Spellbound Suicidal Ideation Warnings, body horror (mild by my standards)

Author's Notes: ( Behind this cut! )

Summary: Shockwave is out of time.

Blurr has been keeping a secret.

This is a canon-divergence AU for Keferon's Spellbound AU wherein Blurr is a fae/fairy with his wings removed. This one has an actual hopeful/happy-for-now ending!

( Blurr was uncharacteristically quiet, for much of the trip out of town. )

Title: Sympathetic Magic
Author: Almighty Hat
Fandom: Transformers Mystic Tales AU
Characters: Blurr, Shockwave
Word Count: 1,863
Rating: G?
Pairing(s): Shockwave/Blurr
Warnings: On-screen arguable attempted suicide (if it doesn't save Shockwave, it'll kill him, and I wasn't sure which it would do while writing it)

Author's Notes: ( Behind this cut! )

Summary: Almost from the very moment Blurr agreed to help the enslaved demon Shockwave end his existence (as his life had ended long ago), Blurr has been trying to get Shockwave to reconsider, gently, without making it an order the demon is bound and compelled to obey. (He also accidentally managed to fall in love with the demon he summoned. Whoops.)

They're out of time. Shockwave's first, worst master wants him back, and complete destruction seems like the only possible escape.

Blurr has one idea left to try, a twist to the spellwork necessary to destroy a demon that should, if Blurr is very, very lucky, succeed in nothing more and nothing less than the complete destruction of the demon Shockwave.

( The shrine is covered in touch-me-nots. )