Trabia Garden

It's absolutely horrible fanfiction time!

If anyone prefers to read on AO3, I should mention that you won't currently find this on my AO3 account, because I've posted it anonymously for now; it's over here.

I've chosen to post this anonymously at first because, uh, I was recently interviewed about fanfiction for a newspaper article. I don't know whether I'll actually end up getting mentioned in the final article, but, if I am, I don't want unsuspecting newspaper readers to wander over to my AO3 account and discover this as the most recent fic on it; it's a little intense!

Particularly sharp-eyed readers may note that I've given the first warden a gun, when only the second warden had one in canon. This is because I can do what I want and you can't stop me.


Title: we're not going to do better next time
Fandom: The Coffin of Andy and Leyley
Rating: 16
Pairing: Andrew/Ashley
Wordcount: 2,700
Summary: Andrew is caught in a time loop. Infinite chances to get this right. It doesn't help.
Warnings: Sibling incest, (temporary) suicide, abuse, allusions to sexual assault, generally kind of fucked up.


( we're not going to do better next time )

I have tried so hard to write Mark Scout/Mark S selfcest, but I might have to admit defeat. If I can't get these two to kiss in this situation, I don't know if it's ever going to happen.


Title: Null
Fandom: Severance
Rating: PG-13
Wordcount: 1,700
Summary: Mark has a heart-to-heart with himself.
Warnings: Severance spoilers up to episode 2.06, 'Attila'.


( Null )

This is the sixth Severance fic I've posted in approximately three weeks. I am absolutely losing my mind about this show.


Title: For Someone Else
Fandom: Severance
Rating: PG-13
Wordcount: 3,300
Summary: Helena's loyalties start to shift.
Warnings: Allusions to consent issues. Severance spoilers up to episode 2.04, 'Woe's Hollow'.


( For Someone Else )

Another batch of threesentenceficathon fills! Possibly the last batch of the year, but there are still a few days left in the event, so we'll see.


( Danganronpa V3, Kaede and Shuichi, 350 words, prompt: 'As near as I can tell he wished for this moment to last forever.' )

( Death Note, Light and L, 330 words, prompt: 'You're the mystery that I am solving.' )

( Death Note, Light, 230 words, prompt: 'I just need a little time / To get your face right out of my mind.' )

( Death Note, Light, 270 words, prompt: 'I can't wait to go to your funeral knowing I could have changed that outcome.' )

( Death Note, Light/Aizawa, 400 words, prompt: 'And baby, when it's love, if it's not rough, it isn't fun.' )


A full four of these five fills were prompted by doreyg, who continues to post prompts calculated to harpoon me straight through the heart.

When's the last time I watched a show as it came out, week by week? It must have been over a decade. In the gaps between episodes, I find myself writing Severance fanfiction with a kind of fevered desperation, trying to spend more time with these characters in any way I can.

This is set in the first season and has no spoilers for the second!


Title: Double-Sided
Fandom: Severance
Rating: G
Wordcount: 1,600
Summary: Mark and his outie find a way to communicate.


( Double-Sided )

I've slowed down a little on writing these, but I'm up to twenty fills for the 2025 threesentenceficathon! I'm still having such a blast with this event. You can find the current prompting post here.


( Death Note, Light, 470 words, prompt: antagonist time travels back to the start. )

( Death Note, L/Light, 290 words, prompt: 'Night by night, I let you eat me alive.' )

( Ace Attorney, Apollo/Athena and Apollo/Clay, 540 words, prompt: Clay's spirit gives dating advice. )


And, finally, a Severance ficlet! It's set in the first season and has no spoilers for the second, but please be aware that it contains, uh, severe and malicious misuse of tampons.


( Severance, Helly, 260 words, prompt: within you. )


I was so thrilled to see a prompt for Apollo/Athena specifically! It's my favourite Ace Attorney pairing, and it's a relatively small ship within the fandom, so seeing that really took me by surprise.

Who wants to read some hideous incest? I really hope someone wants to read some hideous incest, because apparently that's what I've written.

The working title for this fic on my laptop was 'andy and leyley don't read this.doc'. I don't usually write anything this intense, and I'm slightly nervous about it!

This fic was inspired by this (extremely NSFW and slightly dark; heads-up for incest and nonconsensual voyeurism) piece of fanart by susperia_- on Reddit.


Title: Excuses
Fandom: The Coffin of Andy and Leyley
Rating: 16
Pairing: Andrew/Ashley
Wordcount: 900
Summary: He probably shouldn’t be getting into the habit of doing this every night, he tells himself, like it’d be normal and fine once a week.
Warnings: Sibling incest, nonconsensual voyeurism.


( Excuses )

Some more fills for the 2025 threesentenceficathon, now on its second prompt post!


( Kingdom Hearts, Kairi and Riku, 200 words, prompt: sidelined from the action. )

( Danganronpa 2, Hinata and Kuzuryuu, 160 words, prompt: 'Looking back, my past / It all seems stranger than a stranger.' )

( Severance, Mark S, 210 words, prompt: talking to the mirror. )

( Uncharted, Nate and Elena, 140 words, prompt: a different kind of treasure. )

( The Coffin of Andy and Leyley, Andrew and Ashley, 120 words, prompt: you slept in my bed. )

( The Coffin of Andy and Leyley, Andrew and Ashley, 280 words, prompt: cultivating codependency. )


I'm slightly embarrassed by the 'buries his face in her shoulder'/'buries his face in her hair' repetition across the two Andy and Leyley fills. Look, these two do a lot of weird bedsharing, and 'buries' is so thematically appropriate that I genuinely could not bring myself to write 'presses his face into her hair' instead.

I never expected to write one Clive/Joshua fic, let alone two! But, when I posted Regrets last year, the Roscest fans were just so lovely and passionate that it really made me want to write more for them.


Title: Where It Leaves Us
Fandom: Final Fantasy XVI
Rating: 14
Pairing: Joshua/Clive
Wordcount: 2,100
Summary: Clive and Joshua, trapped forever in the interdimensional rift.
Warnings: Incest.


( Where It Leaves Us )

For each of my major fandoms, I do a short writeup talking about how it fits into my fandom history. A fandom qualifies as 'major' if I've written five fics for it, or ten thousand words across at least three fics.


Nemlei visual novels

'Riona, this is not a fandom. You can't just throw six different visual novels together and call them a fandom because they share a creator and some thematic and tonal similarities.'

I can and I will.

I first became aware of Nemlei's work in April 2023, when a friend recommended The Coffin of Andy and Leyley to me on Discord. 'If you like two siblings stuck in a house, this is ur game,' she said. I liked the look of the artwork, and 'two siblings stuck in a house' is exactly my sort of thing, so I really let myself down by not checking it out straight away!

Six months later, in October 2023, cardboardpapercuts messaged me on Dreamwidth to say, 'I was wondering if you've played The Coffin of Andy and Leyley? I'd love to hear your thoughts on the game if you have, or if you do in the future!'

The fact that two people had now independently recommended this game to me really made it stick in my mind; it was now firmly on my 'I should probably check this out at some point' list. A year later, cardboardpapercuts made the incredibly generous offer to buy me a copy; I declined the offer, but the fact that someone had gone 'I believe so strongly this is Riona's thing that I'd be willing to buy it for her' made me go 'okay, I am definitely going to check this out now.'

I played The Coffin of Andy and Leyley at the age of thirty-six and fell in love with it immediately. It's fucked-up, funny and fascinating in exactly the right balance. I started writing fanfiction when I was only an hour in. Perhaps I should be concerned that multiple people went 'I know exactly who needs to play this incest and cannibalism game!' and came straight to me, but I'm just grateful that they did.

I promptly tore my way through the rest of Nemlei's work and had a great time. An absolute treasure trove of dark comedy and messed-up character dynamics. The Coffin of Andy and Leyley remains my favourite, but I also really enjoyed Better Half.

Will I learn from this experience to check out recommendations earlier? Let's be honest: probably not. But I'm very glad I managed to get around to this one.

Favourite character: Oh, hmm, maybe Andrew? He's so interestingly broken in ways that might not be apparent at first glance, and his feelings about his sister are such a complicated, fascinating tangle.
Favourite pairing: Andrew/Ashley is a hideous, awful mess that I want to examine under a microscope. I really like the touch that, even in the midst of their absolute trainwreck of a relationship, they're very physically affectionate (perhaps too physically affectionate) and often make each other laugh. Thiu/Thiu is in second place. Nemlei's games are great for pairings that are a weird blend of cute and messed-up.
Number of words written: 9,634 across five fics: one for Better Half, one for Divilethion and three for The Coffin of Andy and Leyley.

Snippet: Here's a tiny Coffin of Andy and Leyley snippet I scribbled down on a train.

( Coffin of Andy and Leyley unfinished snippet, Ashley and Andrew, 2024. )

My notes after this snippet read '(cue some sort of sexy stabbing education, Andrew standing against her back and guiding her hands to cut someone's throat?? I probably won't actually write this.)'