It all started with my most recent post to FanFiction.net: Chapter 9 of my story The Great Revival for the Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles fandom. The chapter is titled "Raem's Waking," and what happens here is the great demon Raem comes to Mount Vellenge to discover that the Meteor Parasite (the source of the miasma) has been destroyed. He wants to catch the meddling fools responsible (my motley Tipa caravan) and make them pay, but they're all dead except for one who hid in a moogle nest--they knew Raem would be coming and plunged into the miasma, hoping it would kill them before Raem caught anybody. To the demon's greater anger, all of the bodies of the Tipa caravanners are under a protective spell that prevents further harm to the bodies until the souls return--the handiwork of Lady Mio, Queen of Memories (the good deity in this realm).

As Raem's gaze falls on one of those who died--my Selkie caravanner, Anais Nin (named for the French novelist)--he remembers a previous effort to kill her before the motley caravan ever reached Vellenge, an effort that failed because he underestimated her. Because he realizes how determined Mio is that Anais Nin will get the happily-ever-after she longs for (to marry the man she's loved almost since they first met years ago shortly after she's brought back to life with Life magicite), Raem lays the following curse on Anais Nin, a curse against which Mio might not have had the forethought to shield her:

Rumble and erupt as Mount Kilanda may--and I know full well it will if Lady Mio has her way--no life, no life at all, will e'er take root upon that isle: Future bleak it follows ahead, all th' eternal while.

The curse caught the attention of my fellow writer SasukeBlade, who asked this question in her review of the chapter: "I'm not sure I understand Raem's curse. Is he cursing the actual Mount Kilanda or is he metaphorically cursing Anais Nin, making her infertile?" SasukeBlade guessed the nature of the curse correctly the second time: I had used Mount Kilanda as a metaphoric reference for the curse. Why, you ask? Well, Kilanda is a volcano and a very active one at that, and volcanic activity sometimes symbolizes passion. ;3 However, Kilanda is also utterly barren except for the monsters that roam (no plant life or whatever), so it only makes sense that a "curse of Mount Kilanda" is an infertility curse. Then it occurred to me, as I told SasukeBlade in my reply to the review, that if I wrote a wedding-night scene for the couple (keeping within FF.net's rating guidelines), I could warn readers of sexual content by writing "rated M for Mount Kilanda" in the summary when I got around to posting that particular chapter. This apparently gave my fellow writer this idea: "Think about it, we could start an innuendo revolution here."

Although I find it kind of surprising that I, of all people, am the one who thinks the idea up in the first place...