Esperance
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since: 07-06-08, id: 1626359, Profile Updated: 03-28-13
country: USA
Author has written 27 stories for Kingdom Hearts, Fruits Basket, Death Note, and Switch/スイッチ.

(formerly parkingLOTinTHEidiot)

College kid of the female persuasion, English major with eyes set on a Master's in Library and Information Science. Short enough to be frequently mistaken for a fourteen year old and possessing hair that refuses to stay one color thanks to an unfortunate red hair dying incident.

The fanfiction love affair started during the infamous Phantom of the Opera phase of '05 and is STILL a better love story than Twilight. Fluff and mild angst over tragedies. AUs can come too, but OC and OOC characters will be left behind. Pretty iffy on any kind of kink (especially any variation on BDSM). And correct grammar and spelling is kind of a big deal, too.

Notorious lurker, rare to comment or favorite. (Especially since I've, erm, migrated to AO3.) Writing schedule is always on hiatus even when not on hiatus. Reviews and PMs will usually be responded to. Everyone (with the exception of future employers and my parents) is welcome to check out my tumblr mrgoodnews, which I update with all sorts of random nonsense (and a lot of hockey pictures) pretty much every day.

Other accounts: jackedUPonDRpepper on deviantART (now defunct). esper_kay on LJ (rarely used). mr_good_news on AO3 and mr_goodnews on twitter (I intend to start using them...soon).

And lastly, for your own sake, stay away from everything written before 2010.


Currently In the Works

Death Note

It's One for the Dagger - Junior Hockey League!AU set somewhere in Canada during the NHL lockout, in which Mello is the Russian prodigy whose biggest challenge is the English language, Matt is confused on whether he wants to be Sidney Crosby or do him, Near has a 19-0 hockey brawl record this season (none of which he initiated), and L and Light are both gunning for the C inbetween their incessant hateflirting and excellent on-ice chemistry. Also in a stunning turn of events, Matsuda is the most badass goalie in the whole league. M/M, L/L, Near/Tim Hortons

Kingdom Hearts

All This Hope You Sent Into the Sky - Life was beautiful, in its brevity. Carpe diem. Akuroku, (wayyyyy past due) for 8/13. T



1. A Conquering Hero reviews
Saix is in the room when Xemnas summons Axel for the last time and orders him to go destroy Roxas. Early KHII canon, with some Saix introspection and heavily implied AkuRoku.
Kingdom Hearts - Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,527 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 8-12-12 - Saïx & Axel - Complete
2. All Your Sad and Lost Apostles
If he wasn't good enough to go with Mello, then he was going to make the most out of being left behind. Matt's coming-of-age after the losses of his supposed childhood hero and his best friend, with all the ups and downs along the way. Gen.
Death Note - Rated: T - English - Angst/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 11,972 - Published: 8-6-12 - Matt - Complete
3. Was Here reviews
"You know what I'm going to do after we pull this off tomorrow?" Matt, Mello, and wishful thinking on the normal lives they could have had after the Takada kidnapping. Genfic.
Death Note - Rated: K - English - Angst/Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,193 - Reviews: 8 - Published: 7-19-12 - Mello & Matt - Complete
4. Burning reviews
Roxas knows the pain of a sunburn; Axel cannot. 358/2 Days timeline, one-sided Axel/Roxas.
Kingdom Hearts - Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,181 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 6-30-12 - Axel & Roxas - Complete
5. Prove a Villain reviews
What felt like a bomb detonation to Axel may have just been the end of a separation they'd been hurtling towards since day one. Axel/Roxas, KHII.
Kingdom Hearts - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,056 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 6-25-12 - Axel & Roxas - Complete
6. The Dream is Ended
Neverland, Narnia, and other things the Wammy boys stopped believing in after L's death. Near-centric, implied M/M and unrequited N/M.
Death Note - Rated: K - English - Angst/Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,348 - Published: 5-18-12 - Near & Matt - Complete
7. By Your Hand Is the Only End I Foresee reviews
To anyone that cares, Matt actually did die a virgin. Onesided Matt/Ace!Mello.
Death Note - Rated: T - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,546 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 4-28-12 - Matt & Mello - Complete
8. Whisper Something Fragile reviews
He feels the connection between them slowly slipping away, as colors seeping out of a painting. For somehow Hal has colored Kai's world, and now removing himself from it leaves everything dull and empty. The end of volume 13 and beyond. Hal/Kai
Switch/スイッチ - Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,254 - Reviews: 15 - Published: 7-1-11 - Complete
9. The Organization Trail reviews
A wise man once said, "Go west, young man, and grow up with the country." This is the story of the group of Nobodies who made him regret these words. Organization XIII hits the Oregon Trail; madness and dysentery ensue. Complete crack.
Kingdom Hearts - Rated: T - English - Humor/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 5,368 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 5-2-11 - Xemnas - Complete
10. Stay with Me » reviews
Nobody needs to keep a bunch of memories that aren't real. Anybody would want to remember all the people who are really important to them. But he isn't Nobody, and he isn't Anybody. Semi-AU: Sora chooses to keep his false memories at the end of Re:CoM.
Kingdom Hearts - Rated: K - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 5 - Words: 15,404 - Reviews: 29 - Updated: 5-1-11 - Published: 3-31-11 - Sora & Naminé
11. I'm Still Here
The victim, the villain, the witch, the castoff, the outsider. The one who will never belong-to him-, no matter how much she wishes it. Naminé-centric drabble, post Chain of Memories. Unrequited Sorminé.
Kingdom Hearts - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,278 - Published: 1-18-11 - Naminé - Complete
12. Actuality reviews
Her company looks deep in thought for quite a time, finally piercing her with an unshakable gaze as he asks, "How do you know when there is love?" Fluffy Roxiné, pre-KHII.
Kingdom Hearts - Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,137 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 1-12-11 - Roxas & Naminé - Complete
13. Fairweather Friend reviews
They close their eyes, both imagining someone else behind their eye lids. And it's almost enough. It'll have to be. Post KHII. Hints of past AkuRoku and unrequited Sorminé.
Kingdom Hearts - Rated: K - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 849 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 1-12-11 - Roxas & Naminé - Complete
14. Restoration reviews
All in the beat of the heart, the ping indicating the increase by one percent. Drabble. Twilight Town at the beginning of KHII. Squint to see pairings.
Kingdom Hearts - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 633 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 1-12-11 - Sora - Complete
15. Twelve Miles Out of Midgar reviews
Zack Fair wants to be, more than anything else in all the worlds, a hero. Birth By Sleep timeline.
Kingdom Hearts - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 936 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 1-12-11 - Zack - Complete
16. It's Understood reviews
The only thing Matt likes about the city are those rare early mornings where he can go smoke on the rusty fire escape of their apartment and halfway hear himself think. Matt-centric, onesided MattMello, oneshot.
Death Note - Rated: T - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,410 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 11-18-10 - Matt & Mello - Complete
17. Gravity reviews
Being like this-a boy waiting outside of a bedroom window to catch a glimpse of her-makes him think of that one story, the one with the boy and his stories and his Never Never land and his Wendy. RikuKairi, oneshot, pre-KHII.
Kingdom Hearts - Rated: K - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,627 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 11-18-10 - Riku & Kairi - Complete
18. And So It Is reviews
I wish I could tell you that I know you won't remember me, but that's okay, and try to make you believe I'm telling the truth. 358/2 Days ending. Drabble, Xion POV. RokuXion friendship/unrequited love depending on reader's interpretation.
Kingdom Hearts - Rated: K - English - Hurt/Comfort/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 732 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 10-19-10 - Xion & Roxas - Complete
19. Redemption reviews
"You never got it, did you Mello?" The half-chuckle was equal parts amusement and disbelief. "You were so smart, but you couldn't ever figure out such a simple, little thing." Mello reflects and Matt listens as the church burns. Oneshot. M/M
Death Note - Rated: K+ - English - Supernatural/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,703 - Reviews: 7 - Published: 10-19-10 - Matt & Mello - Complete
20. Counting reviews
They didn't need that next life after all. AkuRoku.
Kingdom Hearts - Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 8,310 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 10-18-10 - Axel & Roxas - Complete
21. Death and All His Friends reviews
It's funny with these humans, how life goes on. How they can take the worst string of mass murders in their history, even the deaths of their husbands and sons and best friends, and piece together a new life out of what remains. Multiple POVs, post-canon.
Death Note - Rated: K - English - Drama/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 5,242 - Reviews: 7 - Published: 10-17-10 - Near - Complete
22. Mattil reviews
The life story of Mail Jeevas isn't really about Mail Jeevas. It's about reading between the lines, the words within the words...It's about Matt. Mello POV moments from death, hinted onesided MxM. For Matt's 20th birthday.
Death Note - Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,259 - Reviews: 9 - Published: 2-1-10 - Matt & Mello - Complete
23. Numbers reviews
It snaps into place, and it's with one part surrender and one part dread that he thinks back to that first day and what had drawn B's fascination. Matt-centric, mentions of Matt/Mello. In honor of 1/26/10.
Death Note - Rated: K+ - English - Tragedy/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,134 - Reviews: 7 - Published: 1-26-10 - Matt & BB - Complete
24. Organization Nonsense » reviews
A collection of loosely-related stories featuring various members of the Organization, mainly interactions between numbers VIII and XIII and their current "victim" of cruelly unusual intentions. Mild Larxel and Roxiné. Discontinued.
Kingdom Hearts - Rated: K+ - English - Humor/Adventure - Chapters: 10 - Words: 28,670 - Reviews: 32 - Updated: 1-3-09 - Published: 7-21-08 - Axel & Roxas
25. Watch Her reviews
The only reason why he spoke those words of finality-"take care of her"-and felt absolutely nothing when he saw the other boy nod with complete understanding...Mid- and post-KH1 reflections from Riku. Onesided RikuKairi. Oneshot.
Kingdom Hearts - Rated: K+ - English - Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,568 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 9-5-08 - Riku & Kairi - Complete
26. No Pain You Feel reviews
In a few months he'll just be one less at the crosswalk, the missing shopper with the strange orange hair. They, like so many others, won't miss him, won't give him a second thought. Kyo contemplates changing his fate and Tohru is there to help.
Fruits Basket - Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,429 - Reviews: 6 - Published: 9-5-08 - Tohru H. & Kyo S. - Complete
27. Drawing Lessons reviews
There's something about it, he thinks as he takes a good first appraisal at her sketch, that makes it stand out from her other work. Maybe it's because this is the first picture of her where she's not alone.
Kingdom Hearts - Rated: K - English - Friendship/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 815 - Reviews: 7 - Published: 7-24-08 - Naminé & Riku - Complete