amatara: (Vir Cotto - growth)
To Walk Away (1266 words) by Amatara
Fandom: Babylon 5
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Vir Cotto & Londo Mollari
Characters: Londo Mollari, Vir Cotto
Additional Tags: Missing Scene, Season/Series 03, Friendship, Betrayal, Reconciliation
Summary: Vir has principles. Episode tag to "And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place".
amatara: (Londo and G'Kar - armies cannot stand)

My Graceless Heart (5763 words) by Amatara
Fandom: Babylon 5
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Category: Gen
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Londo Mollari, G'Kar, Vir Cotto, Timov, Delenn
Additional Tags: Angst, Friendship, Hurt/Comfort, Heart Attacks, Guilt, Destiny
Summary: Five conversations Londo had in the days before his heart attack, without seeing the warning signs.
Author's Notes: Set in the time frame starting from late season 4's Rising Star (following John and Delenn's wedding and Londo receiving the news they want him to be Emperor) and ending after Sheridan's inauguration as President in early season 5's No Compromises. Many thanks to my wonderful beta Kangeiko!

amatara: (Londo and G'Kar - armies cannot stand)
My other contribution to [livejournal.com profile] babylon5_love was something different altogether: for once, I made something that wasn't fic or something fanarty/crafty, but took a chance on music instead! Not an original song, but I did set new, B5-themed lyrics to an existing song, and recorded my own version of it to a karaoke track (as I lack the needed skill on acoustic guitar, woe). I ended up making a Londo and G'Kar version of "Hey There Delilah" by Plain White T's. The title, unsurprisingly, is "Hey There, Mollari", and the song is basically G'Kar writing a letter to Emperor Londo while traveling with Lyta. (The sound quality isn't great, but I did my best with the tools I had.) Hope you enjoy!

Hey There, Mollari: listen or download on Soundcloud.

Lyrics behind the cut )
amatara: (Timov and Londo)
Currently [livejournal.com profile] ruuger is hosting the annual Babylon 5 Love Month on livejournal: a month-long fannish celebration of all things related to B5 and Crusade! A bunch of lovely things have been posted already, with many more to follow, so don't forget to stop by [livejournal.com profile] babylon5_love and have a look if you'd like to join in the squee. 

This year I made two contributions, one of them a short Londo/Timov missing scene fic. I'd actually been planning on writing smut for this pairing, but the characters just kept talking and talking and refused to shut up - which, knowing it's Londo and Timov we're talking about, honestly shouldn't have surprised me - so I didn't actually reach the smut part, though I might remedy that in the future. Hope you enjoy this nonetheless!

Et Amo (2737 words) by Amatara
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Babylon 5
Summary: With Cartagia dead and the Shadows and Vorlons gone, Londo and Vir visit Timov just before their return to Babylon 5. Missing scene for the season 4 episode Into the Fire
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Londo Mollari/Timov
Characters: Londo Mollari, Timov, Vir Cotto
Additional Tags: Missing Scene, Angst, Snark
amatara: (Londo and G'Kar - armies cannot stand)

So at one point during the past weeks I wrote this little snippet at the request of a tumblr friend, after which we got to discussing Londo’s issues with choking and asphyxiation and she pointed out that there should be Londo/G’Kar breathplay fic because omg yes, painful and screwed up and perfect. And I agreed wholeheartedly, and one thing led to another and… well, I wrote the thing! :) And I can honestly say it's both the hottest and one of the darkest things I ever wrote, and somehow I’m irrationally proud of it, so... I hope you’ll all enjoy it. *beams*

Undertow (4101 words) by Amatara
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Babylon 5
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: G’Kar/Londo Mollari
Characters: Londo Mollari, G’Kar
Additional Tags: Angst, Snark, Marsupial Sex, Tentacle Sex, Breathplay, Dreams, Death Fantasy, Asphyxiation, Revelations, Alcohol
Summary: After watching a performance in the Dark Star, G'Kar makes a request that sets Londo's teeth on edge. Set sometime between the season 5 episodes The Ragged Edge and Darkness Ascending.

amatara: (Vir Cotto - growth)
So this is the last “real” chapter, with only an epilogue to follow and one final plot point to resolve, and it feels… so very strange. I still need to write the epilogue itself, which I’ll do in the next couple of days; by that time I’ll hopefully have gathered my thoughts about this story and how intense writing it has been for me. (In one word: very. *nervous chuckle*). In the meantime, I hope you’ll all enjoy this chapter, which brings the story back to our dear and brave Vir.

Title: Though I Walk Through the Valley (14/15)
Fandom: Babylon 5
Category/Rating: gen-ish (with some background pairings), PG-13
Story summary: What really happened during those sixteen long years in which Londo waited for the prophecies to come true? A multi-chapter story, intended to bridge the gap between Londo’s ascension to the throne and Centauri Prime’s eventual liberation from the Drakh.

(In which Vir learns the truth and, for once, doesn’t wait for the fight to come to him.)
amatara: (g'kar)
Even though this isn't the last chapter yet, it almost feels like it is, because so much happens in this one. And that's only the abridged version - if I'd put everything in this chapter that I originally wanted to, I'm pretty sure I'd have been writing forever. That said, I hope I didn’t rush things too much; at one point, it felt like I was just racing from plot point to plot point trying to tie it all up without losing momentum, and I’m still not quite sure if I managed to avoid that trap. Also, because I was fretting so much about not turning this chapter into a huge melodrama, I might have overcompensated and made it too clinical instead. But chances are if I’d have gone for more drama, I would have ended up being just as worried that I took it too far, because that's me as well. :)

Anyway, after this chapter there’s one more, and then an epilogue, but I have good hopes (fingers crossed) that, now the toughest bit is done, it’s just gonna be riding the rollercoaster all the way down!

Title:
Though I Walk Through the Valley (13/15)
Fandom: Babylon 5
Category/Rating: gen-ish (with some background pairings), PG-13
Story summary: What really happened during those sixteen long years in which Londo waited for the prophecies to come true? A multi-chapter story, intended to bridge the gap between Londo’s ascension to the throne and Centauri Prime’s eventual liberation from the Drakh.

(In which Vir is shocked; Timov has the last word; G’Kar makes a promise; and Londo prepares in the only way he can.)
amatara: (Vir Cotto - growth)
Aaannd we're here with a new installment of our Centauri Prime saga.

This chapter got away from me a little - at first, I had a hard time getting into the flow of writing it, and then once I did I couldn't make myself stop. But anyway, this is where the plot slowly starts to thicken, and for the first time while writing this story I really felt that storyteller's thrill of seeing some of the pieces begin to come together. I have everything plotted out pretty tightly, in the sense that I have a decent idea of what should happen in each chapter, who will be the narrator, when certain characters will have to do certain things to serve the plot and how to get them into a position where they can do it. I've never written longfic before so this is a whole new experience for me, but I'm amazed at how satisfying I'm finding it. Exhausting too - I'm going to sleep and waking up with this story - but so far it's been very much worth it. I also think I've passed the halfway mark where the number of chapters, and I'm loving that nervous thrill of hoping I can get it all tied together. *crosses fingers it will stay that way*

Anyway, hope you all enjoy this! By the way, the chapter after this one will be Londo again, for anyone who wonders. :)

Title: Though I Walk Through the Valley (8/?)
Fandom: Babylon 5
Category/Rating: gen-ish (with some background pairings), PG-13
Story summary: What really happened during those sixteen long years in which Londo waited for the prophecies to come true? A multi-chapter story, intended to bridge the gap between Londo's ascension to the throne and Centauri Prime's eventual liberation from the Drakh.

(In which Earth is in shock, and so is Vir, though not quite for the same reasons.)
amatara: (starstuff - black and white)
Because [personal profile] selenak guessed the B5 fic I wrote for Yuletide, I wrote her a ficlet! She asked for something exploring Regent Virini, so here goes. (Did you know, by the way, there wasn't even a character tag for the poor Regent on AO3? How sad is that?)

Title: The Quiet Ones
Fandom: Babylon 5
Characters: Regent Milo Virini, Londo Mollari
Summary: The life and death of Regent Virini - one of the quiet ones history is bound to forget.
Rating: G
Word Count: 900


Ficlet: The Quiet Ones )

 

Or read it on AO3.