the art (thank you again!!) was inspired by a fic I wrote for father's day a few years ago: helmer looking out for jr. and gaignun in the aftermath of the miltian conflict
the politics of lonely
archiveofourown.org/works/39888876
#jrgaignun #赤黒・黒赤 #ガイジュニ #Xenosaga #ゼノサーガ
bsky.app/profile/linn...
#Xenotober2025 | #ゼノトーバー2025
Day 31 | 31日
Free day | 何でもOK
#Xenosaga | #ゼノサーガ
this fic is literally called "anything I want" so that's on theme for today
thanks for celebrating xenotober!!!
#jrgaignun #赤黒・黒赤 #ガイジュニ
⚠️ SPOILERS ⚠️ for XS EPIII and also LOTR??
#Xenotober2025 | #ゼノトーバー2025
Day 25 | 25日
Dusk | 黄昏
#Xenosaga | #ゼノサーガ
“Poetry is truer than history.”
NSFW, more dream logic & very soft
two to whisper
archiveofourown.org/works/39971319
#jrgaignun #赤黒・黒赤 #ガイジュニ
AO3 screenshot of an excerpt from sleep alone, by Elendraug. The site skin is Reversi, a dark mode viewing option in storm grey. Behind it, everything is black like a void, like space. In large, crossed-out header text: A.D. 2007—2022 Below it, the musical notation for a caesura, two slash marks which denote "a brief, silent pause, during which metrical time is not counted." (per Wikipedia) Below that, the musical notation for a ghost note, a tiny x. From Wikipedia, it is "a musical note with a rhythmic value, but no discernible pitch when played." At last, again in large header text: T.C. 4740—4768
⚠️ SPOILERS ⚠️ for XS EPIII
#Xenotober2025 | #ゼノトーバー2025
Day 23 | 23日
Anguish | 苦悩
#Xenosaga | #ゼノサーガ
this one's bleak, you have been warned
sleep alone
archiveofourown.org/works/40106214
#jrgaignun #赤黒・黒赤 #ガイジュニ
⚠️ SPOILERS ⚠️ for XS EPIII
#Xenotober2025 | #ゼノトーバー2025
Day 21 | 21日
Eternity | 永遠
#Xenosaga | #ゼノサーガ
NSFW & dream logic as fuck
until the morning
archiveofourown.org/works/37039690
#jrgaignun #赤黒・黒赤 #ガイジュニ
⚠️ SPOILERS ⚠️ for XS EPIII
#Xenotober2025 | #ゼノトーバー2025
Day 20 | 20日
Death knell | 弔鐘
#Xenosaga | #ゼノサーガ
dead letters
archiveofourown.org/works/33466321
💔🖤
#jrgaignun #赤黒・黒赤 #ガイジュニ
⚠️ SPOILERS ⚠️ for XS EPIII
#Xenotober2025 | #ゼノトーバー2025
Day 19 | 19日
Bluffs | 崖
#Xenosaga | #ゼノサーガ
『I’m asking you to take a leap of faith.』
minor chords/major keys
archiveofourown.org/works/361827...
❤️🖤
#jrgaignun #赤黒・黒赤 #ガイジュニ
Xenosaga Episode II screenshot of Jr. standing in a forested area in the summer version of Sakura's subconscious domain. There's a shed in front of him. The area looks peaceful.
⚠️ SPOILERS ⚠️ for XS EPII
#Xenotober2025 | #ゼノトーバー2025
Day 17 | 17日
Delicate | 微妙
#Xenosaga | #ゼノサーガ
resolution
archiveofourown.org/works/36540847
"light and fleeting, a low-gravity landing for only an instant, the featherweight of six insect feet balancing on petals"
#jrgaignun #赤黒・黒赤 #ガイジュニ
AO3 screenshot of an excerpt from "of infinite space" by Elendraug. Reddish text on a greyish background, ringed with a green glow. “It took us twenty years.” Gaignun closes his eyes and kisses the impression of his fingerprints and exhales over his skin before blinking back to the unreal reality of sunken soil and neutron stars, of the one and only willing to forever wait. “To die. To sleep.” “To weave and unweave.” Jr. holds his hands at the gates of hell, passing the bullet-trained shuttle through everything looming over their heads, reworking and pulling at plot threads as long as it takes, the patterns acquiring slight variance each time until there are radical departures in continuity, coursing their navigation to where they need to be, one ray-traced path at a time, still unmade as soon as another someone glances away and the events are no longer actively observed, as a recreated record of love in an instance of their own Ithaca. “To write and rewrite.”
⚠️ SPOILERS ⚠️ for XS EPIII
#Xenotober2025 | #ゼノトーバー2025
Day 16 | 16日
Myth | 神話
#Xenosaga | #ゼノサーガ
of infinite space
archiveofourown.org/works/39413460
“The universe may change but not me, I thought with a certain sad vanity.”
—The Aleph, Jorge Luis Borges
#jrgaignun #赤黒・黒赤 #ガイジュニ
#Xenotober2025 | #ゼノトーバー2025
Day 15 | 15日
Tempest | テンペスト（嵐）
#Xenosaga | #ゼノサーガ
under thunderstorms
archiveofourown.org/works/37958056
#jrgaignun #赤黒・黒赤 #ガイジュニ
AO3 screenshot. the sex number by Elendraug Summary: “This was so much easier before you got so tall.” Translation into 日本語 available: ザ・セックス・ナンバー by Elendraug Notes: happy 6/9, the most 69 ships to exist are jr./gaignun, karkat/kankri, and die/stitch sex is good and fun and I love writing about people enjoying having super hot queer sex with each other
actually I lied, I didn't translate "number reversal" into Japanese because it was too long and complicated lmao, but I did attempt to translate this one, which was posted on June 9th
#jrgaignun also obviously NSFW, also 69ing
the sex number
archiveofourown.org/works/39534885
here's the fic in English
#jrgaignun NSFW, they indeed are 69ing and I went all-in on the "they are telepaths" theme
number reversal
archiveofourown.org/works/33977434
Share your couples art! ❤️🖤
カップリング作品を共有しましょう！
@linnaealyn.bsky.social shared her OTP, so I will also share my OTP
赤黒赤が一番好きなカップリング！！
#jrgaignun
AO3 screenshot of an excerpt from gimme sympathy, by Elendraug. A matching set of red and black heart emoji separate the title from the text. The site skin is Reversi, a dark mode viewing option in storm grey. Ink and tattooed are both visited links. “We were waiting for this moment.” Jr. finds Gaignun’s left hand and holds it, following the movements of his right as he stirs the ashes into their tea with the quill. “I waited a lonely lifetime.” “You know I love you still.” Gaignun raises the feather by the rachis and upturns Jr.’s palm to trace the tea over the rightmost-aligned numeral, the ink of a nine overlaid with reclaimed blackened ash and ginger steeped alongside the burnt sienna of oxidized leaves. “When we’re together and apart.” “Forever and forever,” Jr. quotes, as the record follows his wishes and advances to the track they’ve had in mind, as he feels the same and does the same with the red, handwritten six tattooed on Gaignun’s skin at the edge of his hand, as a renewal of their handmade handfasting. “With all my heart.”
⚠️ SPOILERS ⚠️ for XS EPIII
#Xenotober2025 | #ゼノトーバー2025
Day 8 | 8日
Ashen | 灰色
#Xenosaga | #ゼノサーガ
gimme sympathy
archiveofourown.org/works/37089844
I was a guest in the kingdom of doom
making the best of what I never wanted
#jrgaignun #赤黒・黒赤 #ガイジュニ
AO3 screenshot of an excerpt from heliophilia, by Elendraug. A magenta border surrounds a background of U-DO's waves, inverted to be yellow like the sun, aglow behind the glowing text. Sunset is a link that has been clicked; paper is a link, but only displays hover text in the fic, without directing to any URL. The site skin is Reversi, a dark mode viewing option in storm grey. The unicode symbol for the sun, U+2609 ☉︎, notes where there are breaks in the text. ☉︎ Gaignun closes his eyes and basks in the affection like radiant warmth from a star. “We worked it out together, and that’s what mattered to me.” With his hands holding his face, Jr. closes his eyes, too, and leans in to kiss Gaignun’s forehead, as his bangs fall over his features, gilded with the rays of some otherworldly sunset, forever his true north. He takes Gaignun’s hands in his own, and feels Gaignun still smiling across their link with their extra senses a moment before he sees his expression again. “All I want is for us to be together.” Jr. squeezes his hands and kisses the bridge of Gaignun’s nose before sitting up. “No matter what it takes.” “I need you in my life.” Gaignun looks up at him, his irises graced by their intrinsic green glow. “And always.” “You’ll have me, if you’ll have me.” Jr. smiles back at him, beaming softly like light through paper-thin leaves. ☉︎
⚠️ SPOILERS ⚠️ for XS EPIII
#Xenotober2025 | #ゼノトーバー2025
Day 5 | 5日
Sun-dappled | 木漏れ日
#Xenosaga | #ゼノサーガ
heliophilia
archiveofourown.org/works/47229334
#jrgaignun #赤黒・黒赤 #ガイジュニ
AO3 screenshot of an excerpt from a house united, by Elendraug. A matching set of red and black heart emoji separate the title from the text. "I fucking missed you." Jr.'s breathing falters as he chokes out the words, and he lifts himself with his knees on the chair to get leverage enough to wrap his arms around Gaignun's shoulders, as the cards finally flutter in graceful descent to the table, scattered haphazard aside from the six and nine resting together, upturned, supporting all else. "So much." "I would never leave you." Gaignun finds his hands again to keep him grounded, to keep him present, as Jr. struggles to embrace the intangibility of a shadow. "Not for long."
⚠️ SPOILERS ⚠️ for XS EPIII
#Xenotober2025 | #ゼノトーバー2025
Day 4 | 4日
Longing | 憧れ
#Xenosaga | #ゼノサーガ
a house united
archiveofourown.org/works/39168255
#jrgaignun #赤黒・黒赤 #ガイジュニ
I have posted ~90% of the #jrgaignun works on AO3
AO3 screenshot. Characters: Jr. (Xenosaga), Gaignun Kukai, Jin Uzuki, Dr. Hirad (Xenosaga) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Fix-It, Fix-It of Sorts, Anesthesia, Chronic Pain, Disability, Hospitals, Life Partners, Medical Procedures, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Surgery, albedo DNI Language: English Stats: Published: 2021-11-07 Words: 4,853 Chapters: 1/1 Comments: 6 Kudos: 4 Hits: 81 excerption by Elendraug Summary: (song lyrics italicized and some with strikethrough, some without) (crossed out) I forgot my twin That’s when I knew they never got me (not crossed out) I summon my love back to me That’s when I knew they never got you
part 2 featuring #jrgaignun , more Gaignun in general, Jin's curry, and an ascended extra NPC from Second Miltia
excerption
[ Jr./Gaignun + other gen relationships | T | ~5k ]
archiveofourown.org/works/34995373
AO3 screenshot. empty by Elendraug Summary: ZIGGY: What do we do, Jr.? There's no end to this. When there's no way out, the only way out is to give in
SPOILERS for XS EPIII
happy 9/6, I finally wrote a fic I've been brainstorming since like 2023
empty
[ Jr./Gaignun | M | ~2k ]
"what if Jr. has Ziggy put Yuriev in a chokehold and kisses him until Gaignun wakes back up" (also chaos helps)
#xenosaga #jrgaignun
archiveofourown.org/works/70440196
