Gunnm Fanfiction


Kitty Cornered - link
finished, 1999
Content: NC-17 (male masturbation; implied virtual-cat-tonguejob)
Summary: Set in the "Ouroborous" storyline of the final manga volume. While time passes inside the virtual dreamworld he's trapped Alita within, Desty Nova finds himself starting to get anxious. He can't recall ever writing in a program for the black cat that's been wandering around...
Author's Notes: Of all the fanfics I've done for this series, this is the one I'd recommend reading. For something written in 1999, it's aged rather well. Unlike... [coughs, glancing down at the last of this page's list] ...others I could mention.
 
 
 
The Scrapyard Chronicles
 
 
From the Diary of Desty Nova
 
Part 1 link - Part 3 link
unfinished; project abandoned as of 2000
Content: PG (One: creepy imagery), NC-17 (Three: rather clinically-described Nova/Eelai hetero sex)
Summary: A selection of "journal" notes from Professor Nova's POV, theorizing about what went on before Alita crossed paths with the mad doctor.
Author's Notes: I didn't notice how badly Nova's revelation hearkened to Neo's in The Matrix when I wrote it. Honest. I'm sorry.
   This was planned to be a series, but procrastination and the then-brand-new canon rewrite of Kishiro-san's Last Order series put this one on pause for so long, I'll be shocked if I ever finish parts Two and Three, much less all five of the chapters I'd planned out.
   Quick tour of what might have been, according to the notes I scribbled down years ago: Nova would've started out Part Two generally angsting in Scrapyard bars at first, cursing how he didn't think to barter around for his posh Tipharean cufflinks and such before grabbing the first offer of a crusty apartment shelter he could find. He learns he could make a fair pile of chips by getting to emergency patients before the streets' borg-doctors show up, but the idea of dirtying Tiphares' medical genius with machine parts is so disgustingly contrary to what he'd been taught all his life that when he finally scrapes enough equipment together to open up a roving surgery service, he takes a twisted joy in warping the requests of his customers to their literal meaning, shaping them into monsters for profit.
   Balzard, as one of the chapter's subplots would have it, was originally just a nameless ninety-pound weakling whose dream was "to be strong, more strong than anything else!" Nova happily performed the operation, giving the guy all the brute strength and muscle a human frame could fit, at the expense of both his brains and, when his superpowered idiocy landed him on the bounty lists, his freedom, hidden from the law in exchange for becoming Nova's own bodyguard and servant.
   The sexpot Eelai was first found by the Professor as a heap of bloody body parts dumped in an alley-- remnants from some unreported crime, apparently from some young girl. Nova brought the remains back with him, using them as the first subject in a plan he formulated as soon as he could manage the chips to carry it out: becoming a wish-granter to the world, regenerating random corpses to give whatever battered souls he happens to come across a second chance... much as he himself was given, for whatever it was worth. And the regenerated facial tissue of his experiment's request, once its vocal cords grew into place? "I want to be beautiful. Like nobody ever laid a hand on me. Or ever would." Nova feels generous at his success, and carries out her wish without his usual "careful what you wish for" spin on it.
   There would've been later chapters in which "Lily," Eelai's more docile early self, had her obsessions and temptations gradually twist her into a self-absorbed dominatrix, as told through Nova's bewildered, lovesick POV, but... ah, well. Would've been nice to flesh out, no pun intended, but other things happened, as things tend to do. (Not that this didn't stop me from snitching a few choice lines to use for stuff written years later, as observant readers can see.)
   Just as a random sidenote: you can see the last lingering, vestigial nubs of my heterosexuality flailing all through Part 3's lengthy sex scenes. The main seduction premise was stolen from trashy softcore TV porn to begin with, but looking back on it, there's an eerie connection I ended up writing in with Lily's situation. Feeling threatened by the very idea of sex with a guy, only wanting it to prove it wouldn't be a nightmare to go through... Hmmmm, the gerbil says while stroking chin with ponderous hand.
 
 
 
Data Entry - link
finished, 1998
Content: NC-17 (Nova/Eelai: generic heterosexual nookie)
Summary: Eelai devotes herself to a new line of study: Operation Get Back Her Boss's Sex Drive.
Author's Notes: ...Crap. I knew I'd have to stop bullshitting notes for that last fanfic and get this one over with eventually, but... there's a reason this one's last in the list. URRGH.
   My very first ever lemon. You can just tell I was spending fifteen minutes worrying before I could bring myself to type out the word "penis". Cliched, nauseatingly so... I only suggest reading it if you're curious to see how I started out.
   I have to admit, though-- all the basics for my future style were already here. That is, awkward sex that usually ends up having horrible-yet-somehow-amusing consequences. I just moved on from having it happen between actual humans so often.
   (PENIS PENIS PENIS. See, I can do it now.)
 
 
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