let's gather feathers.

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Main Watchmen Zombie!AU Storyline, with everything in the right(ish) order. Anything with a *** infront of it was written by the author whose name follows it; I lay no claim to them, but include them because I consider them part of AU canon.

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Now, As Before - In which everything begins.
Perspectives - The same things, from other angles.
***Thanatophobia - kovacsisdead - Rorschach's not afraid of dying. The first few days of the outbreak from Ror's POV.
***Untitled Hollis story - slipstreamborne  - Dan isn't the only one with his hands full the night of the attack.
Shakes - Rorschach + caffeine wheee.
Solidarity - Rorschach would not make a good child counselor.
All Souls - Rorschach, death, and middle grounds.
Luck - In which there is much to be thankful for.
Susperstition - captcha fic, wandering at New Years and repaying debts.
Shoes at the Door - Introspective fluff on the nature of belonging.
'quarter stickups' - captcha microficlet, ROR STOPS SOME CRIME.
'learned appetites' - captcha microficlet, there is cooking.
Salty/Sweet - Rorschach's birthday and bacon cupcakes.
Breeding Lilacs (Adult) - Realizations, Ror's Pile Of Issues, and zombie smut.
Little Things (Adult) - Fluff and smut. And coasters.
(New) Columba carnivora - Zombie pigeons!
***Breathless (Adult) - steals_thyme - Rorschach can hold his breath for a long time.
Visions and Revisions - Laurie joins Ror on a drug bust; shenanigans ensue.
***Teratophilia - brancher - in which Dan and Laurie have beer and discuss Important Things. After Visions and Revisions.
***Hold Still (Adult) - brancher - Direct followup to Teratophilia, in which Dan engages in some Teratophilia.
Untitled movie-watching fluff - (IN PLANNING)
'red sniff' - captcha ficlet, Ror can smell communism.
'doves 44c' - captcha microficlet, it's hot out and Ror offers snarky commentary.
Nite Dove silliness - continuation of the above.
***Convection - steals_thyme - it's hot out and Ror offers 'help'.
'6-1/2-79 overheat' - captcha ficlet, it's hot out and Ror offers actual help.
Killing Time - In a bank vault, doing what it says on the tin.
Of Cats and Lizards - Fluff, Ror basks and Dan humors him.
'conning 20' - captcha ficlet, Ror wins a bet.
'overrule 1,630,000' - captcha microficlet, there are politics and Ror ignores them.
***Iron String - steals_thyme - "Trust thyself. Every heart vibrates to that iron string."
The Hunted (Adult) - Coping comes in many forms.
The Way A Crow Shook Down on Me (Quasi-adult) - commentfic; Rorschach doesn't like snow; Dan changes his mind.
Frostbite (Adult) - Temperature play porn and the usual h/c.
Spoons - Ror and Laurie snarkfluff, idek.
'devalved doctors' - captcha ficlet, Dan ends up in the hospital after patrol goes badly.
False Prophets - (IN PLANNING)
Unnamed Big Important Sequel - (IN PLANNING)
Thermodynamic Miracles - (IN PROGRESS)
As Time Goes By - captcha ficlet: on aging and mortality and happiness.

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AU AU's - things that did not happen, but could have.

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'serum 11' - captcha ficlet, Mid-NaB - Ror goes to the hospital instead.
***'and infected' - steals_thyme - AU of NaB, chapter 8.
Dissolution (Adult) - post-Lilacs - There's another outbreak.
***Golden - daylilymoon  - AU of Dissolution, so AU of an AU of an AU oh my. Unofficial fixit.
***untitled deathfic - anonymous - Ror loses his shit.
***untitled fluff - anonymous - Ror doesn't burn the house down! (only AU because I dono exactly where to fit it in)
***untitled angst - runninglonely - Ror has depressing thoughts.
***Eventually, as Before - radishface - "The years go by, and Dan wants to make sure that everything will be all right."
***Darkness, You are Gentler - radishface - "Rorschach travels from New York to California"; sequel to the above.

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AU Mashups - things that could not have happened, but were fun to write about.

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***Testing on Live Subjects - toofpaste - Z!Ror and HS!AU Dan
***Three Centuries - daylilymoon - Z!Ror and just about every other AU in existence at the time, all in Dan's living room.
Synchronicity - Z!hoboschach, canon!Dan, canon!Ror meet on the street.
Tales from the Twilight Zone Corner - Z!Ror and ever supernatural/weird AU at the time, stuck in a corner.
Mismatched - Z!Ror and PoorHand!Dan

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OMFG, Zombie Cowboys

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***Still - daylilymoon - Dan meets zombie!cowboy!Walter on the cattle trail. :D
Carrefour - Co-written with daylilymoon - Origin of zombie!cowboy!Walter.
By Fire (Adult) - On the road back to New Orleans for a reckoning, Dan and Walter make their offerings.

Title: Vigil
Fandom: Watchmen
Characters: Dan, Rorschach, Hollis cameo, misc bad guys.
Date written: 2010-2014 hahaha wow I SUCK
Summary: The most important skill a masked vigilante can cultivate is how to fall and come right back up. When Nite Owl and Rorschach run into a trigger-happy gang, Nite Owl finds he's able to push that skill to the extreme--even if he has no idea how or why. AKA, the one where Dan just won't stay dead and Rorschach is Freaking Out.
Notes: Originally for a KM prompt asking for 'Highlander-style immortality', though I didn't actually make it a crossover. No swords and shit here, just a very confused owl.
Ratings/Warnings: PG-13 I think. A lot of blood and injuries and deaaaattthhhhhh. Some of it's temporary, some of it's not. Language, some offensive dialogue.

Chapter 6: Sacrificial Creatures
( It's just enough time to hone in on the man holding the knife before he lurches out of the shadows. It's not enough time to actually dodge.  )

Title: Vigil
Fandom: Watchmen
Characters: Dan, Rorschach, Hollis cameo, misc bad guys.
Date written: 2010-2014 hahaha wow I SUCK
Summary: The most important skill a masked vigilante can cultivate is how to fall and come right back up. When Nite Owl and Rorschach run into a trigger-happy gang, Nite Owl finds he's able to push that skill to the extreme--even if he has no idea how or why. AKA, the one where Dan just won't stay dead and Rorschach is Freaking Out.
Notes: Originally for a KM prompt asking for 'Highlander-style immortality', though I didn't actually make it a crossover. No swords and shit here, just a very confused owl.
Ratings/Warnings: PG-13 I think. A lot of blood and injuries and deaaaattthhhhhh. Some of it's temporary, some of it's not. Language, some offensive dialogue.

Chapter 4: Periculous mortum
( "I promise you," Daniel says, forceful, and it disgusts Rorschach how willing he is to believe whatever comes next. "It'll be okay." ) 

Title: Vigil
Fandom: Watchmen
Characters: Dan, Rorschach, Hollis cameo, misc bad guys.
Date written: 2010-2014 hahaha wow I SUCK
Summary: The most important skill a masked vigilante can cultivate is how to fall and come right back up. When Nite Owl and Rorschach run into a trigger-happy gang, Nite Owl finds he's able to push that skill to the extreme--even if he has no idea how or why. AKA, the one where Dan just won't stay dead and Rorschach is Freaking Out.
Notes: Originally for a KM prompt asking for 'Highlander-style immortality', though I didn't actually make it a crossover. No swords and shit here, just a very confused owl.
Ratings/Warnings: PG-13 I think. A lot of blood and injuries and deaaaattthhhhhh. Some of it's temporary, some of it's not. Language, some offensive dialogue.

Chapter 2: From the Ashes
( It must have all been a dream. That's the only thing that makes sense, the only idea with enough reality-roughened edges for him to get a handhold on. )

A random prompt on Tumblr asked for Minutemen zombies; I wrote the promised vignette but there seems to have been interest for more? So I started writing more, and wow, I am having so much fun. But I'd like to keep this informal, so, see the comment section below for pieces of this as I finish them!

Title: Night of the Living Street Pizza
Fandom: Watchmen
Characters/Pairings: Rorschach, Dan, from the Possumschach AU
Date Written: 2012
Summary: Why am I using a full formal header for this crap? It's just possumschach being a zombie, idk idk.
Rating/Warnings: PG-13 for disgustingness and ridiculousness.
Notes: KM AU-mashup. Possumschach AU belongs to the anon who writes it (who may not be anon anymore, but I'm playing it safe here). This fic is completely pointless.

( Oh god, he looks like roadkill. )

Title: The Center Only Holds
Fandom: Watchmen/Homestuck
Characters/Pairings: Rorschach, Spades Slick. 
Date Written: 2012
Summary: Hold onto your memories, they say, because eventually they're all you have and they're yours, inalterable. Until they aren't. Or: two short, violent, irritable, noir-styled grumpasses meet in the afterlife.
Rating/Warnings: R for stabby stabbings and language, though not so much in this part. This part is most just deathbubble!Rorschach having existential issues.
Notes: FML, FML. Also: Art by liodain, gorgeous as always.

( Rorschach doesn't expect anything in particular to happen to him, once Manhattan's hand comes down. )

Just complete silliness. Credit to slipstreamborne for Walter's freakout. XD


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>Walter: Moon over flushcrush for a while.