June Extra! (Patreon)

Alright folks! This post is for the 'Extra' for this month :-). I actually had a couple of options on what I could flesh out to post (another of which I'm already working on for next month's extra), but decided on this one due to several people asking if I'd ever considered writing original works. Of course, I told them when they asked they I actually wrote original fiction FIRST and only came to Fanfiction much later ;-).

The Chronicles of Henry Harper and Magical Misfits and Outer Space Oddities are both my work under the Jacen Aster pen name. For that matter so is Freedom in the Sky under the Jaylee Coglin penname, which I kept separate because it's erotica :-p. I've also, of course, written a few million original words for various games, most recently Left Hand Magic.

Anyway, the books were all written years ago, and I'm a better writer now than I was then, so I actually have been toying with another original story. In point of fact, some of you might remember me mentioning it back when I first put out Why Was There No Truck!?. I admitted to being extremely surprised how well liked that was, in part because it wasn't a serious attempt at a fic at the time (though obviously that changed with its popularity). It was, in fact, actually me messing around with a few things I hadn't tried before. Such as a setting that was a bit more grim, a futa protagonist, and the general vibe of a cyberpunk/superhero setting mashup.

The reason I was messing around with those bits is that I'd hit on the idea of writing a Cyberpunk/Superhero novel, but it was sufficiently out of my existing experience that I'd run into problems. Why Was There No Truck!? was a way to experiment with solving those, even if it turned into more than that after patrons responded with wild enthusiasm.

Now, I've been busy enough since then, that I haven't actually been able to do much writing on the original idea. But 'not much' isn't 'none,' and I actually had about 7k of this already sitting around in a file. I went back, cleaned it up, and added another 2.5k to make it the extra for this month. Note that the title, while descriptive, is mostly a placeholder.

Anyway, hopefully you enjoy the idea :-). As always, files in various formats are attached!

(P.S. Images are placeholders. The first is a AI generation I did just as a reference for Kira. The second is the image I used as an inspiration for her professor, the character is from Genshin Impact, I think).