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Here's Bingo baby!

fourormore is a great community if you like constantly having to do head counts in every scene you write, which apparently I do because here I am again playing dolls in FourorMore's house. I did a rec list earlier this month, and contributed 3!!! fics to the challenge. And since I don't really celebrate Valentine's Day, none of them are focused on romance.

I love Lito, I really do, but he is exhausting to write and somehow I ended up with two Lito-centric fics as part of this challenge. And to my surprise, I also got Riley Blue in there. Also, with these three I'm officially at 50 FICS on AO3!!!! How the hell did that happen?

Iberian Drama
The cluster and their loved ones tackle their biggest crisis since defeating BPO: Lito getting a bad review
Teen 1551 words

I've been working on this fic for MONTHS. I had most if it complete, I just kept setting it aside and working on other things. But since most of my previous contributions to Fourormore were part of my ongoing Further Adventures in Mumbai series, and this challenge included anonymous submissions, I wanted to do something more standalone. Once I actually got to working on it and let my mind fall into the gutter with Dani, things came together and here we are. Lito being extra as per usual, with the cluster and their friends/family coming to his aid.

Los Horrores
The cluster supports Lito through a traumatic nightmare
Teen 1081 words

Also Lito focused though not in his POV. There are a lot of nightmare comfort fics out there and this one is mine. Since it's Lito, you know it'll be dramatic.

Built Like a Safe
To keep Sun out of prison, the cluster has to face the thing Riley fears the most.
Teen 908 words

I wasn't planning on writing this fic. I've never written Riley's POV before but as I was rewatching episode 2.11 it occurred to me that there was something really interesting to explore for her. Putting this under a spoiler tag since I have a mutual who's not finished watching season two. :)
Riley gets a lot of shit in fandom about not being as "helpful" to the cluster since she doesn't fight or hack or blow things up with science etc. But not only is she the one that connects them all, the amount of character growth between seasons is INSANE. At the end of season one she's reliving her accident and in such a state of trauma that her cluster can't even reach her, and then at the end of season two she is literally in a car accident and as everyone is scrambling to help Sun, she's the one who pulls herself together and reaches out. And that's basically the fic.