this gun's for hire

i've been sitting on this for years and never actually used it; livejournal has finally imploded enough that trying to link entries off of it is occasionally impossible, depending on the theme; i got frustrated this morning over not having one specific place where all of my character vignettes/scenelets were gathered AND not having any of them easily shared other than via email. so, in a fit of pique and stubbornness i posted the specific piece i was trying to share, then the companion piece (written a good eight years prior.)

which is when i realized: oh. that's. actually not a bad idea, or a bad place to do it. so now i'm digging through my email, from there i'm going to rummage through character journals, etc. it's going to be fairly xmm heavy to begin with, fairly nadia-heavy at the beginning of that, but i know there's definitely some ht-saji and teya stuff that will end up in here, too.

not all of it's good. a lot of it is largely unedited; i've tweaked a few words here or some punctuation there, but nothing major. any overhaul-level reworking of anything will get a new post, with links between the original and the revision. that's getting ahead of myself, though.