Wow, I haven't updated this blog in a while, huh? Well, that has to be rectified post-haste, so here's one of two stories I worked on this past season, specifically a collab with a friend from DeviantArt and Discord! The other will be up shortly as well, so keep an eye out for that, too!
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This is a long-overdue collaborative fanfic I wrote alongside my good friend, @WernchOfTheTeam - whom I offer her my deepest apologies for being so late on finishing this up! Hopefully the result is enough to make up for it. Anyway, Jack-O Valentine from Guilty Gear is one of Wernch's favorite fictional characters and a very lovely choice of ticklee, but while I'm not familiar with the franchise as a whole - about the only familiarity I have with it being Ninomae Ina'nis' gameplay practice streams - it was ironically me rather than Wernch who suggested a fic with Jack-O, and in particular a scenario based on the infamous memetic crouch of hers that made the rounds on Twitter and elsewhere last year. What can I say, I'm an opportunist when it comes to potential tickle scenarios! XD There's a bunch of foot fetish pics I know of based on that pose including at least one with Jack-O herself, but not anything related to tickles, so I just had to fix that! Wernch loved the idea, and we eventually managed to get a story done with her getting tickled by Sin, Elphelt, and Ramlethal. I at first wanted to use StarPermafrost's work linked above as the cover illustration, but couldn't get the permission to, so ultimately I commissioned the wonderful @NekoEmerald to create a custom pic just for this story. Wernch and Neko both did a wonderful job on their respective ends, and I seriously can't thank them both enough. Go check out and support their work, will you? :)
Hope you enjoy this, Wernch, and I hope I can get the chance to write with you again in the future!
Want to commission a story like this? Send me a note, Discord message, or e-mail, and I'd be happy to discuss ideas with you - as long as you take a look at my commission rules first, of course! :)
Cover illustration: [COMMISSION] Jack-O's Crouch With A Twist by @NekoEmerald
Guilty Gear -Strive- (c) Arc System Works
DeviantArt version: https://www.deviantart.com/skaeadaimonion/art/Guilty-Gear-Jack-O-s-Ticklish-Challenge-MFF-F-910441309
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Jack-O's Ticklish Challenge
by Skaea and WernchOfTheTeam
Contains: FFM/F tickling, concentrating on foot tickling but with some upper-body tickling. SFW.
Word Count: 4,440
Cover Illustration by @NekoEmerald
The afternoon sun filtered through the windows of Illyria Castle, filling each room with light colored by many a translucent curtain. This landmark of the capital of the United Kingdoms of Illyria also happened to be the home of more than a few fabled figures who had taken part in the defeat of I-No. For one such figure, however, this borderline decadent utopia would never truly feel like a proper home — though to be fair, there was no place in the world that could.
Many thoughts rushed through the head of Jack-O Valentine. The redhead clad in white, halo overhead, was cycling through many different thoughts about what had happened to her and everyone else at this moment, but the feeling that she couldn’t truly belong came to her more often than the rest of them. It had been a couple of months since the defeat of I-No at the white house, and both before and after that, so much had happened to her in this weird “life” she had. Even her origin was extraordinary, having been created by That Man to be some sort of human vessel for Aria — and as he had used fragments of Aria’s memory in the process, this would make Jack-O a sort of half-Aria.
As she reflected on the fact that Aria was still within her, her mind now turned to how it wasn’t going to awaken like she had previously thought. After being awakened by I No, she had gone on to form a bit of a truce with Sol and That Man to stop Ariel from ending humanity. She did end up fusing with Aria’s soul and restoring her, but still Aria wouldn’t awaken.
Her legs spread wide apart, her chest on the floor of her room with a large book in front of her, Jack-O paid her current surroundings little heed as she remembered that her companions had still tried to awaken her consciousness. She had tried putting her halo back on, thinking it would work, but still, it hadn’t. She had done it for Sol because she’d thought all he wanted was to have Aria back, but it was then that she found out that Sol loved her because of herself, and not because she was Aria. That, to her and to the world as a whole, was pivotal. Stopping her from sacrificing herself to defeat I-No had given her what she had wanted all along: a second chance.
Jack-O smiled at this, thinking about how the retired Sol was now known as Frederick. Now they happily lived together at Iseo, though they occasionally made visits to Ky and his family, as well as the other Valentines. She did technically have to force Frederick to do it, and he would always cave in.
For the time being, she was currently in a guestroom staying in Illyria Castle while Ky and Sol were off doing something. Most likely beating each other up, she thought aloud. Her thoughts then turned to his family: his wife Dizzy, their son Sin, and the other Valentines, Ramlethal and Elphelt. In spite of everything, the group had treated her with nothing but kindness, which was all she had ever wanted. She had a family, a loving home, everything. And yet… something still felt incomplete. But what?
After a while, three of the other residents walked into the guest room where the redhead had resigned herself to. She already had these three on her mind, incidentally. Elphelt, Ramlethal and Sin all paused to look down at her as soon as they’d entered.
“Uhhh Jack? Hello?” Sin examined the redhead crouching on the floor.
“Oh, hey, Sin,” Jack-O replied, barely turning her head to acknowledge him. The fact that she was barefooted, her high-heeled shoes lay off to the side, only briefly crossed his mind.
“You seem… bothered. Aren’t you going to use the bed?”
She shrugged. “Eh? Haven’t had a reason to use it. How come?”
“Common courtesy, maybe?” said Ramlethal, raising an eyebrow. “Surely you can just lie down on your back like a normal person, can you?”
“Define normal, and I’ll get back to you.”
