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House has been one of my favourite shows for a very long time; it's strange that I've never written more fanfiction for it! Here is my first attempt at House fanfiction in, er, nineteen years.

It's really struck me, on my current House rewatch, that Wilson and Cameron seem to be friends. They get along well; they have some good conversations. In the episode 'The Right Stuff', House doesn't question the idea that Cameron would call Wilson socially. I've always found the interactions between Wilson and Cameron interesting, but somehow I've only just registered that there seems to be a real friendship there; it's endearing!

Anyway, I made them sleep together.


Title: The Unseen Third
Fandom: House MD
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Wilson/Cameron, unrequited Wilson/House and Cameron/House
Wordcount: 1,900
Summary: Wilson and Cameron spend a night together. It’s no secret that they’re both thinking about House.
Warnings: Infidelity, by which I mean Wilson cheating on his wife as per usual.


( The Unseen Third )

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.

My Yugamu/Takumi 'uh-oh, there's only one bed, better cut my own arms off' fic means that The Hundred Line now qualifies!


The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy

Kodaka and Uchikoshi have worked, separately and together, on a lot of stupid videogames I've really enjoyed (Danganronpa, Zero Escape, Somnium Files, Master Detective Archives), so I've eyed The Hundred Line with interest since it was first announced. From the announcement trailer, it looked promisingly full of teenagers suffering, but I was a little uncertain about whether I'd get along with the combat; I often don't have the patience for strategy games.

A demo came out before release day, so I gave it a try. It was absolutely stupid, which was exactly what I wanted from this game, and my fears that I'd find the combat tedious turned out to be unfounded. I was sold. I picked it up as soon as it released.

I played The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy at the age of thirty-six. Or, to be more accurate, I started playing it at the age of thirty-six. Six months and one birthday later, I am still playing it. I'm at a hundred and ninety hours of gameplay, despite skipping most of the battles. This game is ludicrously huge.

The Hundred Line absolutely delivers on its twin promises of a) containing a lot of teenagers suffering and b) being extremely stupid, so I'm having a good time! In many ways, it feels like an effort to create a game and then cram all the possible fanfiction for that game into the game itself. I feel slightly redundant as a fanfiction writer, but apparently that's not going to keep me from writing.

Although I've written a handful of fics for The Hundred Line, I haven't really immersed myself in the fandom. That said, I do poke through the 'yugamu omokage' tag on Tumblr every so often, looking for fanart depicting Yugamu as the wonderful weirdo he is.

Favourite character: I ship a lot of pairings in which one character murders the other, and a fair amount of my fanfiction explores violence and/or murder in a romantic or erotic light, so I'm delighted by the existence of Yugamu Omokage, whose entire character revolves around how horny for murder he is.
Favourite pairing: Yugamu/Takumi. Yugamu's so flirty and creepy; Takumi's unsettled but also genuinely cares about Yugamu as a person; it's a really fun dynamic!
Number of words written: 10,562

Snippet: Most of the time I'm digging up unfinished snippets from years ago for these posts, but here's one I actually scribbled down today! NB: this contains major spoilers for the 2nd Scenario ending.

( The Hundred Line unfinished snippet, Takumi, 2025. )

I've resumed my playthrough of The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy: by far the longest game I've ever played, and also one of the weirdest.

The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy is a game about teenagers being forced onto the front lines of a harrowing war they don't fully understand. At one point you come down with a disease called Super Smartass Syndrome, meaning you can't be a smartass or you'll explode and die.

I was not at all prepared for Moko's wrestling hero to be called Anal Boss.

Everyone canonically falls asleep huddled together in the rec room in one of the routes, because their bedding was destroyed in a fire, and I think that's very important.


( Notes on The Hundred Line. )


In conversation with Rei, the concept of Yugamu/Takumi arranged marriage fic came up. Yugamu goes, 'I know we're married, but I'm afraid I have to be true to my heart; I'm not going to kill someone I'm not in love with,' and Takumi goes 'g... good?' and is then very alarmed when feelings start to blossom.

On Tumblr, I once described The Hundred Line as 'a ludicrous child soldier simulator that feels like what happens when you've almost finished making your game and you accidentally drop it in a barrel of fanfiction', and I don't think I'll ever write anything truer.

I've now reached ninety of the game's hundred endings: only a tenth to go! I have been playing this game for a hundred and eighty-five hours. The developers are threatening to create DLC, because apparently they do not think this is enough.

I mean, they should release DLC, because there needs to be a route in which Yugamu makes out with and/or lovingly disembowels Takumi, but I think that's all we need for this game to be complete.