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I just remember someone somewhere asking to see Aaravos with a bun and just the thought of it has held me in a chokehold ever since. So here we are ✨

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Ruthari sketches, from when they first started courting

Inspired by this wonderful post by @ask-runaan-anything :

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Opal

"Rest assured, my loyalty to money makes me rather predictable and quite transparent. Make sure you are always the highest bidder, and we’ll get along swimmingly.”

Look at this artwork of OC Opal, cousin to Opulence, beautifully crafted by @artbyamara!! Isn't she adorable and fun??

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I’m so biased over himmm let me tell you 😭

Closeup ⬇️

Aaand sketch ⬇️ I’m done promise

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Style study

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😱 look at this gorgeouness that @artbyamara created for the first chapter of Boundless As The Sea!! (Check it out to see what they're arguing about, haha)

🤩🤩 I'm obsessed with Oleander's sassiness, lol. And check out the Moon Court library; isn't it so dreamy and romantic??

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Hello all, I apologize for not being around much lately! Please feast your eyes on the stunning, gorgeous, heartless Ella and her heartbroken Kieran as created by @artbyamara!! I'm in love with her soft curls, her sparkly details, her pointy ear jewelry, the distant look in her eyes...and Kieran's lovelorn expression!

Scene from Ch 7 of A Heavy Burden to Bear.

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Ella forced to marry her true love to her enemy. (or is she??)

I'm OBSESSED with this gorgeousness from @artbyamara, it makes me wish Opulence wasn't unredeemable because she's oh so very pretty - and even when Opulence tries to make Ella homely, she's still stunning. (also Kieran's soft expression?? The background colors??)

LOVE

(This is to accompany chapter 5 of A Heavy Burden to Bear but it's more or less canon too)

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Check out @artbyamara's latest masterpiec, Cursed!Ella battling Opulence from chapter 5 of my Cursed Heart fic A Heavy Burden to Bear!! I'm speechless

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A Heavy Burden To Bear Chapter 4

As always, this beautiful art by @artbyamara!

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I forgot to mention, chapter 3 is posted! And now with art by @artbyamara!

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May I please request a fic with f!Kieran & Ella? Any prompt, wherever your mind may take you!

Of course! I'll start brainstorming 😁

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Quotes from Kieran that straight-up sound like Shakespearean love poetry: a comprehensive list

‘None may touch me. None but you.’

‘What is left of my heart belongs to you. When you leave, it will shatter anew.’

‘Tell me I did not hurt you.’

‘How am I expected to pass another century without the taste of you on my tongue?’

‘After so many decades spent hating each sunset, knowing nightfall would take my freedom from me... I began to yearn for the moonrise instead of cursing it. Because dreams of you might be waiting on the other side.’

‘I would rather be cursed to roam the wilds as a beast every night than live endless lifetimes without you.’

‘Wherever it is that souls may go, you will find mine waiting for you at the end of all things.’

‘You shall pay dearly for every spilled drop of her blood.’

‘I was not lying. Were you?’

‘Just this once, beloved... I wish you could not lie.’

‘You hold all of my heart, beloved. Now, and always.’

‘I would make and unmake the world for you, beloved.’

‘Believe me when I say I want every part of you. Every version. Now and future.’

‘Look, beloved. Your skin is a canvas covered in stars.’

‘If I were you, I would begin by thanking her and throw yourself on her continued mercy. Because you’ll get none from me.’

‘What would be the point of immortality without you?’

‘No magic. Like an everyday mortal.’

‘Insult her again, and I will carve my refusal into your flesh, so that you may never forget it.’

‘I don’t care what your title is. Every breath, every beat of my heart belongs to you. You are mine for life.’

‘Thank you… for sharing the sky with me.’

‘If you lay a single hand on her, there will be nothing left of this place but a hole in the ground.’

‘Let us live in this moment long enough that I may love you the way you deserve.’

‘I will let nothing separate us… I shall always find you. Your heart calls to mine in a language beyond words.’

‘For you I would set worlds aflame, tear the sun and moon from the sky. I did not live before I met you.’

‘Perhaps you are the most courageous of all, for choosing to live among us. A mortal among gods.’

‘Welcome home, beloved.’

‘You helped me find peace in my grief. I will always help you find peace in yours.’

‘You sacrifice too much for me, beloved.’

‘I cannot give you my heart. It already belongs to someone else.’

‘There will always be tasks vying for our attention. But you are more important to me than any of them.’

‘I like being in here. I always want you to have the freedom of a place to call your own… and it means everything, that you welcome me in.’

(And finally, BONUS: Quotes from *other* characters in The Cursed Heart that straight-up sound like Shakespearean poetry, because the writers of this book just do. not. rest.)

‘I know you. I’m not afraid.’

‘I love him so terribly, it hurts.’

‘You are so much stronger than you know. And a love as strong as this is worth fighting for.’

‘Even if you kill me, I’m glad I met you. Because you deserve to be happy. You deserve to be loved. And I will love you until my very last breath.’

‘The world is rarely gentle to those who are so kind. It is you who must be the strongest of all.’

‘What do you want with that cursed thing?’ / ‘To cut the Sun and the Moon from the sky.’

‘Anything here that wishes to eat me had best prepare to choke.’

‘I know you. And I love you. Both your darkness and your light.’

‘You are everything I want. Just you. Just like this.’

‘If love could forestall death, we would all be immortal.’

‘All stories end. Even ours. That’s what makes them beautiful.’

‘I don’t care where I sleep, so long as it’s beside you.’

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Title: A Heavy Burden to Bear

Rating: T

Summary: Kieran isn't able to break Ella's curse as easily as he'd hoped. After they use her powers to defeat Opulence and regain balance in the realm, he is plagued with guilt and despair at seeing his love live without a heart. They embark on a quest to discover how to break her curse. And in so doing, find secrets long hidden that might at last grant him a way to never live a day without her again.

My attempt to give The Cursed Heart series a more satisfactory ending. This will pick up during Chapter 15 and diverge from there.

Artwork by the amazing @artbyamara, who has awesomely volunteered to create art to accompany this fic!!

Read the first two chapters on Ao3!

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We’re a love story for the ages, remember, and love stories don’t end.

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Me after reading WEH for the third time: