Master Post for Children of the Gun [sprawling killjoy 'verse]
This is the Master Post for all fics contained within Children of the Gun, my killjoy 'verse (subtitle: my life's work).
THANKS TIMES A MILLION to my cheerleader/beta/idea-figuring-outers:
restlesslikeme, inabathrobe and kazzbot. Without them, none of this would be outside of my head/as good as it is.
Seriously though.
PLEASE NOTE that I AM following the (questionable) plot laid out by MCR in their music videos (for the unfamiliar: "Na Na Na", and "SING").
This means that there is some fairly substantial character death. At the end of every video and consequently in the fanfiction as well. So be warned! If you cannot stomach character death, be warned that it happens.
Twice. (Or more, in a few cases.)
How does that work? If you want to find out, then I'd suggest you read on, killjoy.
EDIT 10.6.2014: Updating again, only on AO3. Click here to read on.
NOTE: Instead of uploading my own PDFs (which was time consuming), I'm uploading all fics to Archive Of Our Own, where there is a handy "Download PDF" button built in, so hopefully everyone's okay with that!
RUNNING WORD COUNT: 204,162 (108,655/86,357/9,150)
PART 1: DESERT HEAT
Livejournal | AO3
Summary: Frank Iero has spent the majority of his life in and under Battery City. When he meets the notorious gang of outlaws that call themselves "The Fabulous Killjoys", his life is turned on its head. But much like Frank, the Killjoys are not what they seem. Through the roaring roads of the desert, and the winding tunnels of underground life that eat at the base of Battery City, Frank (Fun Ghoul), Ray (Jet Star), Grace, Mikey (Kobra Kid), and Gerard (Party Poison) find that they have a place, nestled out in the zones, that they can call home. When their way of life is threatened by Battery City's government, the Better Living Industries, the Fabulous Killjoys put everything they have on the line to protect the place they have fought so hard to call their own.
Pairings: Frank(Fun Ghoul)/Gerard(Party Poison), Pete(Thriller)/Mikey(Kobra Kid) (background Gabe(Cobra)/Vicky-T(Glitter), Butcher(Butcher)/Sisky(Business))
Overall Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 108,655
WARNINGS: Violence, Super Gay Sex, Major Character Death (see above notes)
Beta: restlesslikeme
Chapters (in order of writing chronology)
Colour: Livejournal | AO3
Rating: R
Warnings: Violence.
Summary: Frank has lived in Battery City all his life, rebelling in little ways like painting walls and refusing to take his medication. When his rebellion catches the eyes of the wrong people, he has to fight for his life. What if those people are the most notorious criminals the City has ever seen?
Grace: Livejournal | AO3
Rating: R
Warnings: Suicidal thoughts, violence.
Summary: Everything Ray once had has been taken away from him by Better Living Industries. He only has one thing left: his daughter, Grace. He'll do anything to protect her, even if it means losing himself in the process.
Awake: Livejournal | AO3
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Implied violence.
Summary: Gerard's mouth is caked with dust when he wakes up.
Static: Livejournal | AO3
Rating: R
Pairing: Pete/Mikey
Warnings: Implied suicidal thoughts.
Summary: Mikey Way lives with his brother Gerard in the bustling metropolis of Battery City. Among the blank-faced buildings that they call home, and just below them, lie a mysterious world full of lights and colour. Faced with a challenge unlike any he's encountered before, Mikey struggles to face what he comes to realize is reality. Everything he does has been to find a cure for his brother, but what happens when the City itself is the disease?
(sub)conscious: Livejournal | AO3
Rating: PG
Warnings: Implied violence.
Summary: Gerard's mouth is caked with dust when he wakes up.
Overcast (chapters 1-3): Livejournal | AO3
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Frank/Gerard, Pete/Mikey
Warnings: Violence.
Summary: With new security measures in place, Thriller's operation promises to be airtight and raid free. If it proved to be anything less, the Killjoys would be there within hours. But what happens when everything goes horribly wrong?
Art: (non-spoilery) Frank hugging Mikey by darkravenkiki
Breach: Livejournal | AO3
Rating: light R
Warnings: Implied violence.
Summary: Gerard's mouth is caked with dust when he wakes up.
Overcast (chapters 4-7): Livejournal | AO3
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Frank/Gerard, Pete/Mikey
Warnings: Violence.
Summary: With new security measures in place, Thriller's operation promises to be airtight and raid free. If it proved to be anything less, the Killjoys would be there within hours. But what happens when everything goes horribly wrong?
Death/Victory: Livejournal | AO3
Rating: R
Pairing: Frank/Gerard
Warnings: Major Character Death, violence.
Summary: Stranded in the middle of the Zones with a madman on their tail, the Killjoys come to face with the most important decisions of their lives.
PART 2: RUNAWAY SCARS
Livejournal | AO3
Summary: Waking up after you're killed is never easy. In fact, it's usually considered to be an impossible feat, but Frank (Fun Ghoul), Gerard (Party Poison), Mikey (Kobra Kid) and Ray (Jet Star) are out to spit in the Better Living Industries' faces and teach them that they can't just take what they want and expect that nobody will fight back.
Oh, and also, that Killjoys never die.
Pairings: Frank(Fun Ghoul)/Gerard(Party Poison), Pete(Thriller)/Mikey(Kobra Kid) (background Gabe(Cobra)/Vicky-T(Glitter))
Overall Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 86,357
WARNINGS: Violence, Super Gay Sex, Major Character Death (see above notes)
Beta: kazzbot
Chapters (in order of writing chronology)
Whitewash: Livejournal | AO3
Rating: R
Warnings: Violence. And creepy Beckett.
Summary: Frank wakes up. It's good to wake up.
Blind (chapters 1-3): Livejournal | AO3
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Graphic descriptions of previous violence.
Summary: Frank wakes up in the middle of the bloodstained desert among three not-quite unfamiliar people who have lost more than they seem to remember.
See: Livejournal | AO3
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Creep-factor.
Summary: Please remember to take your pills, citizen.
Blind (chapters 4-6): Livejournal | AO3
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Graphic descriptions of previous violence, sexytimes.
Summary: Frank wakes up in the middle of the bloodstained desert among three not-quite unfamiliar people who have lost more than they seem to remember.
A: Livejournal | AO3
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Creep-factor.
Summary: Thank you for your continued cooperation, citizen. Unfortunately, your existence is no longer necessary.
Killjoy: Livejournal | AO3
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Sexytimes, graphic violence, creepy classical conditioning.
Summary: The Killjoys are back.
Bee: Livejournal | AO3
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: General creepitude.
Summary: Pull the trigger or prepare to die.
PRODUCT/(white+dream): Livejournal | AO3
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Major Character Death, Sing.
Summary: The Killjoys would cross the desert a hundred times over to save Grace.
PART 3: NIGHT DUST
Livejournal | AO3
Three: Livejournal | AO3
Rating: PG
Summary: The faded past.
Two: Livejournal | AO3
Rating: PG
Summary: The faded past.
One: Livejournal | AO3
Rating: PG
Summary: The faded past.
Zero: Livejournal | AO3
Rating: PG
Summary: Blink twice for
GHOSTED: Livejournal | AO3
Rating: PG-13
Summary: It isn't the first time Grace has been left with the Radio Crew in the Desert, but with the memory of Party Poison, Kobra Kid, Jet Star and Fun Ghoul dying fresh in her mind it's the first time she's ever really felt alone. In order to save her friends, she has to find out who she is as a zonerunner: a task much more easily completed when the armies of the Better Living Industries are not hot on your tail.
Interludes are grouped as follows, and can be read as whole fics or as interludes between others:
Mystery Cabin: Awake, (sub)conscious, Breach
Buildings: See, A, Bee
Art 'n Stuff
This Is Not A Playlist
Songs for each of the most important characters in Children of the Gun.
Generation Nothing
A playlist for the events surrounding Sing (on both sides) so as a writer I would remember the general atmosphere of the different Events.
Tracklisting:
1 - On the Floor (feat. Pitbull)
2 - Midnight Land
3 - Buckets For Bullet Wounds
4 - TL;DR
5 - Suffocation Keep
6 - Voodooized
7 - Invincible
8 - Shut Me Up
9 - Spoons
10 - Gold Guns Girls
11 - All These Things That I've Done
12 - String
13 - Remains
THANKS TIMES A MILLION to my cheerleader/beta/idea-figuring-outers:
restlesslikeme, inabathrobe and kazzbot. Without them, none of this would be outside of my head/as good as it is.
Seriously though.
PLEASE NOTE that I AM following the (questionable) plot laid out by MCR in their music videos (for the unfamiliar: "Na Na Na", and "SING").
This means that there is some fairly substantial character death. At the end of every video and consequently in the fanfiction as well. So be warned! If you cannot stomach character death, be warned that it happens.
Twice. (Or more, in a few cases.)
How does that work? If you want to find out, then I'd suggest you read on, killjoy.
EDIT 10.6.2014: Updating again, only on AO3. Click here to read on.
NOTE: Instead of uploading my own PDFs (which was time consuming), I'm uploading all fics to Archive Of Our Own, where there is a handy "Download PDF" button built in, so hopefully everyone's okay with that!
RUNNING WORD COUNT: 204,162 (108,655/86,357/9,150)
PART 1: DESERT HEAT
Livejournal | AO3
Summary: Frank Iero has spent the majority of his life in and under Battery City. When he meets the notorious gang of outlaws that call themselves "The Fabulous Killjoys", his life is turned on its head. But much like Frank, the Killjoys are not what they seem. Through the roaring roads of the desert, and the winding tunnels of underground life that eat at the base of Battery City, Frank (Fun Ghoul), Ray (Jet Star), Grace, Mikey (Kobra Kid), and Gerard (Party Poison) find that they have a place, nestled out in the zones, that they can call home. When their way of life is threatened by Battery City's government, the Better Living Industries, the Fabulous Killjoys put everything they have on the line to protect the place they have fought so hard to call their own.
Pairings: Frank(Fun Ghoul)/Gerard(Party Poison), Pete(Thriller)/Mikey(Kobra Kid) (background Gabe(Cobra)/Vicky-T(Glitter), Butcher(Butcher)/Sisky(Business))
Overall Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 108,655
WARNINGS: Violence, Super Gay Sex, Major Character Death (see above notes)
Beta: restlesslikeme
Chapters (in order of writing chronology)
Colour: Livejournal | AO3
Rating: R
Warnings: Violence.
Summary: Frank has lived in Battery City all his life, rebelling in little ways like painting walls and refusing to take his medication. When his rebellion catches the eyes of the wrong people, he has to fight for his life. What if those people are the most notorious criminals the City has ever seen?
Grace: Livejournal | AO3
Rating: R
Warnings: Suicidal thoughts, violence.
Summary: Everything Ray once had has been taken away from him by Better Living Industries. He only has one thing left: his daughter, Grace. He'll do anything to protect her, even if it means losing himself in the process.
Awake: Livejournal | AO3
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Implied violence.
Summary: Gerard's mouth is caked with dust when he wakes up.
Static: Livejournal | AO3
Rating: R
Pairing: Pete/Mikey
Warnings: Implied suicidal thoughts.
Summary: Mikey Way lives with his brother Gerard in the bustling metropolis of Battery City. Among the blank-faced buildings that they call home, and just below them, lie a mysterious world full of lights and colour. Faced with a challenge unlike any he's encountered before, Mikey struggles to face what he comes to realize is reality. Everything he does has been to find a cure for his brother, but what happens when the City itself is the disease?
(sub)conscious: Livejournal | AO3
Rating: PG
Warnings: Implied violence.
Summary: Gerard's mouth is caked with dust when he wakes up.
Overcast (chapters 1-3): Livejournal | AO3
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Frank/Gerard, Pete/Mikey
Warnings: Violence.
Summary: With new security measures in place, Thriller's operation promises to be airtight and raid free. If it proved to be anything less, the Killjoys would be there within hours. But what happens when everything goes horribly wrong?
Art: (non-spoilery) Frank hugging Mikey by darkravenkiki
Breach: Livejournal | AO3
Rating: light R
Warnings: Implied violence.
Summary: Gerard's mouth is caked with dust when he wakes up.
Overcast (chapters 4-7): Livejournal | AO3
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Frank/Gerard, Pete/Mikey
Warnings: Violence.
Summary: With new security measures in place, Thriller's operation promises to be airtight and raid free. If it proved to be anything less, the Killjoys would be there within hours. But what happens when everything goes horribly wrong?
Death/Victory: Livejournal | AO3
Rating: R
Pairing: Frank/Gerard
Warnings: Major Character Death, violence.
Summary: Stranded in the middle of the Zones with a madman on their tail, the Killjoys come to face with the most important decisions of their lives.
PART 2: RUNAWAY SCARS
Livejournal | AO3
Summary: Waking up after you're killed is never easy. In fact, it's usually considered to be an impossible feat, but Frank (Fun Ghoul), Gerard (Party Poison), Mikey (Kobra Kid) and Ray (Jet Star) are out to spit in the Better Living Industries' faces and teach them that they can't just take what they want and expect that nobody will fight back.
Oh, and also, that Killjoys never die.
Pairings: Frank(Fun Ghoul)/Gerard(Party Poison), Pete(Thriller)/Mikey(Kobra Kid) (background Gabe(Cobra)/Vicky-T(Glitter))
Overall Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 86,357
WARNINGS: Violence, Super Gay Sex, Major Character Death (see above notes)
Beta: kazzbot
Chapters (in order of writing chronology)
Whitewash: Livejournal | AO3
Rating: R
Warnings: Violence. And creepy Beckett.
Summary: Frank wakes up. It's good to wake up.
Blind (chapters 1-3): Livejournal | AO3
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Graphic descriptions of previous violence.
Summary: Frank wakes up in the middle of the bloodstained desert among three not-quite unfamiliar people who have lost more than they seem to remember.
See: Livejournal | AO3
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Creep-factor.
Summary: Please remember to take your pills, citizen.
Blind (chapters 4-6): Livejournal | AO3
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Graphic descriptions of previous violence, sexytimes.
Summary: Frank wakes up in the middle of the bloodstained desert among three not-quite unfamiliar people who have lost more than they seem to remember.
A: Livejournal | AO3
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Creep-factor.
Summary: Thank you for your continued cooperation, citizen. Unfortunately, your existence is no longer necessary.
Killjoy: Livejournal | AO3
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Sexytimes, graphic violence, creepy classical conditioning.
Summary: The Killjoys are back.
Bee: Livejournal | AO3
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: General creepitude.
Summary: Pull the trigger or prepare to die.
PRODUCT/(white+dream): Livejournal | AO3
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Major Character Death, Sing.
Summary: The Killjoys would cross the desert a hundred times over to save Grace.
PART 3: NIGHT DUST
Livejournal | AO3
Three: Livejournal | AO3
Rating: PG
Summary: The faded past.
Two: Livejournal | AO3
Rating: PG
Summary: The faded past.
One: Livejournal | AO3
Rating: PG
Summary: The faded past.
Zero: Livejournal | AO3
Rating: PG
Summary: Blink twice for
GHOSTED: Livejournal | AO3
Rating: PG-13
Summary: It isn't the first time Grace has been left with the Radio Crew in the Desert, but with the memory of Party Poison, Kobra Kid, Jet Star and Fun Ghoul dying fresh in her mind it's the first time she's ever really felt alone. In order to save her friends, she has to find out who she is as a zonerunner: a task much more easily completed when the armies of the Better Living Industries are not hot on your tail.
Interludes are grouped as follows, and can be read as whole fics or as interludes between others:
Mystery Cabin: Awake, (sub)conscious, Breach
Buildings: See, A, Bee
Art 'n Stuff
This Is Not A Playlist
Songs for each of the most important characters in Children of the Gun.
Generation Nothing
A playlist for the events surrounding Sing (on both sides) so as a writer I would remember the general atmosphere of the different Events.
Tracklisting:
1 - On the Floor (feat. Pitbull)
2 - Midnight Land
3 - Buckets For Bullet Wounds
4 - TL;DR
5 - Suffocation Keep
6 - Voodooized
7 - Invincible
8 - Shut Me Up
9 - Spoons
10 - Gold Guns Girls
11 - All These Things That I've Done
12 - String
13 - Remains