Title: The Last Blessing
Fandom: Vagrant Story
Characters/Pairing: Müllenkamp, Sydney, Ashley (briefly), implied Sydney/Hardin
Rating: G
Length: 900ish words
Summary: The priest, as is customary, offers a prayer before his final offering. His dark patron offers something in return: reassurance.
Notes: ...I would say there are spoilers/unhappy content here, but only if you know the context for this conversation taking place just before the last scene of the ending of the game.

( 'Though the path was not of my own choosing, I cannot say I did not willingly choose to walk it.' )

Title: Home, Home Again
Fandom: Vagrant Story
Characters/Pairing: Sydney Losstarot/John Hardin
Rating: T
Length: 900ish words
Summary: Hardin has become very familiar with Sydney's private room - familiar enough that he notices at once when something is different.

( 'Home' was a yearning that had been very much on Hardin's mind of late... )

Title: Affinity
Fandom: Vagrant Story
Characters/Pairing: Sydney Losstarot/John Hardin
Rating: G
Length: 1100ish words
Summary: The composition of Hardin's soul, the balance of its energy, means that healing magic will never come easily to him. Sydney explains, and ponders why.
Notes: The battle/magic system in this game plays a LOT with elemental affinities and their counterparts, and I do so love integrating game mechanics into worldbuilding via fanfic. ;)

( 'You are a creature of earth and fire and darkness, dear Hardin.' )

Title: Look to the Skies
Fandom: Tiger & Bunny
Characters/Pairing: Yuri Petrov/Keith Goodman
Rating: T
Length: 1200ish words
Summary: Yuri has learned to keep his eyes down on warm, sunny days; even a certain hue in the afternoon sky can cause the memories to return. Perhaps he can find something better to associate that color with.
Notes: Flashbacks involving domestic violence and childhood trauma. I was always struck by how the animated sequence starts off looking like such a beautiful day... and PTSD is a sneaky, persistent bastard.

( He recalled that it had been a beautiful day, the warm sunlight shining and bringing forth the brightest of colors in everything beyond the open garage door... )

Title: Ordinary Men
Fandom: Vagrant Story
Rating: G
Length: 950 words
Summary: The high priest of the Müllenkamp sect tends to embrace pleasure rather than deny it, but there are other temptations that may whisper in his ear.

( Temptation for one such as Sydney did not come in the darkest nights, as it oft did for those who followed a stricter doctrine. )

Title: Rehearsal
Fandom: Vagrant Story
Rating: PG-13/T
Length: 1800ish words
Author notes: This was one of those challenges where as soon as I saw the prompt I just started laughing. "Okay boys, fine, now I have an excuse to write something like that for you."
Summary: When you observe a religion founded by a belly dancer, preparing for holiday rituals can be... a mite strange.

( He had seen dances of this sort before, in taverns and inns of ill repute. )

Title: Requiem at Dawn
Fandom: Vagrant Story
Rating: G
Length: 340 words
Author's notes: The setting of this game is practically a character in the story... Which ends at daybreak after a very difficult night.
Summary: She whom they seek to conquer will not allow herself to be taken.

( Her mother had perished in the flames, but this was not to be her end. )

Title: And I Am the Dead Man's Son
Fandom: Vagrant Story
Rating: PG
Length: 735 words
Content notes: Dark themes, SERIOUS end-game spoilers if you read into it a little bit. Works on its own as a vignette - but I may wind up including this scene in another longer story I'd already been meaning to write.
Summary: The day Sydney's prophecies broke over the horizon.

( The visions he had seen for so many years had been gathering at the duke's words, appearing upon the horizon of time like a storm blowing inland from the sea. )

Title: A Draught of Bittersweet Memory
Fandom: Vagrant Story
Rating: PG13ish?
Length: 8300ish words
Content notes: Physical and magical battle, and the aftermath thereof.
Author's notes: I had two ideas immediately upon seeing this prompt. And then I had an idea that would let me combine them, though it would take... some set-up. Thus we have a lengthy sword-and-sorcery action sequence too - but it should be abundantly obvious where the prompt comes in. ;)
Presumably this is another one that takes place early in the timeline of the stories I've written for these two, since otherwise Hardin would be used to this by now, if still disapproving.
Summary: After a battle more intense than expected, amidst a haze of potions and delirium, Sydney dreams a dream that is not his own.

( 'Even I have my limits, Hardin, when it comes to the Dark. Yet it is of no concern. The powers I serve are able to sustain me well past the ability of mortal man.' )

Title: A Pillow of Winds
Fandom: Vagrant Story
Rating: PG
Length: 3100ish words
Content notes: None
Author notes: Veered off into different themes than the prompt, and got much longer than expected, but there is still a lot of holding going on. Hope that's still okay...?
References back to scenes in the first story in the series I've been writing about Sydney and Hardin pre-canon... for twenty years... since this is still set in their early days. Probably will become the new #4 story when I can upload.
And while we're at it, whytf does Pink Floyd go so well with these two? Title shamelessly borrowed yet again.
Summary: Revelations come in the night, and also in the morning.

( Some of Sydney's revelations, he recalled, came whether Sydney sought them or not. )