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I reach out, fingers brushing against the petals. They are the colour bruises, blues and purples so vivid they could be painted, every vein too perfect to be natural. I pick up the neat posy from the pillow, frowning at the spray of flowers and the knotted string around the stems. What on earth has Fyodor been up to? He could be the only culprit. He could have left it on behalf of some debutant, some admirer. Or even from himself. I shudder at the thought.

Nikolai wanders into the room, running a hand through his hair as he glances around. He searches the desk for a few moments before he shoots a look in my direction. 'You alright?'

'I've been left a gift.' I lift the posy for his inspection. 'Or you have. I think we're not paying Fyodor enough if he's smuggling gifts from admirers.'

'I'm afraid it wasn't one of your admirers. I saw them in the garden, they're your favourites.' Nikolai shrugs, looking through the drawer at the desk. 'Hyacinth, no? I thought you might like them.'

I tighten my grasp on the stems, trying to ignore the heat rushing to my face as I watch him search. But the little pleasure of the gesture is edged with suspicion. What has he done now?

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[crtalley]

A REINTRODUCTION —

[[ previous wip intro || spotify playlist || taglist ]]

genre → high fantasy market → young adult status → second draft et cetera → fairytale-inspired ; bonding through crisis ; mayfly-december romance ; trauma as far as the eye can see —

“I’m sorry, Father.” “You’re sorry?” A heavy footfall, next to her—she flinched and scrambled back, and Liev stayed where he was, staring down at her. His face was drawn up in a snarl that belonged to a wolf, not a man. “Do you know what you have done?”

Irina would give her heart and soul to hunt a snow bear. The massive, ancient creatures live near the edge of the world, far from where any mortal man may tread. When she finds evidence of one in the woods, she breaks from her family's hunt to chase after it—but spilling a cub's blood across the snow only makes her a murderer.

Then her brother Fedya is stolen from her by a shadow—a stranger in the dusk—and she can't go home without him.

“The price for a life is a life. You will make a fine replacement, I think.”

The palace at the end of the world has stood empty for hundreds of years. Its only living resident, the vindictive Prince of Always Night, plays host to a court of souls within its glowing walls. He's the farthest thing from an arbiter of justice, but when the scales of magic shift in his mother's favor, he must right them as quickly as possible.

The hunter's younger brother plays the part of the bear. The prince plays the part of the witch, offering Irina her solution: If she completes three tasks, he will return Fedya.

If she fails, she will lose him forever.

She was not the hero of this story; she was only Irina Lievna, and Irina Lievna had to find her brother and get home before they both were trapped in this cursed place for eternity.

cast →

irina lievna ; the hunter, desperate for glory malchik ; the faithful hound the prince of always night ; the god of small favors fedya lievsyn ; the witch's only son kseniya sychina ; the lover's ghost liev sun-wolf ; the champion the queen of always sun ; the god of grand ideals sonya green-witch ; the dead god's believer great-grandmother ; the blackcurrant's memory

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[sourrcandy]

WTW SIDE CHARACTER WEEK – DAY #2: RELATIONSHIPS ↳ kane of [redacted] fairytale wip

father figure, mentor, sworn protector — kane is one of the few people who see aurelia as who she is, not who she is destined to be. he will move mountains and go to the ends of the world if it means saving her.

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Word Search Tag Game

Someday I will post something other than these, but for now I am weak and self-indulgent. Thanks for the tag, @the-orangeauthor.

These are all from Giving Up Ghosts.

Table

He felt a little like one of the young mothers that came through the store sometimes, toting an unbalanced toddler and promising a treat if they would stop screeching at the vegetables. It was disconcerting.

Friend

“Yes,” Allocen said, “But I’m not. I’ve been doing this a long time. I know it’s easier if we’re friends.”

“We’re not friends,” Danny said instinctively, but he couldn’t muster up the venom to make it sound angry. Without the hate, it just sounded sad.

Pretty

It wasn’t that he didn’t like Zoey—in fact, he really did. She was kinetic, and funny, and really pretty, but she was also open and outgoing and all the things Danny wasn’t, and it didn’t seem fair that it all seemed so easy for her. Right now, she slipped onto Elias’ lap and wrapped an arm around his neck.

“How are my boys?” she asked, ruffling Elias’ hair. He smiled fondly up at her.

Danny wondered what that was like—both to be able to touch him, run hands through his hair without having to think about it, and to have someone touch you so absentmindedly, like it didn’t have to mean anything more than something deep and warm. He told himself he wasn’t jealous of either of them.

Diamond

Tagging some people I haven't met yet: @emelkae @judelilje @twoseeds @focsle @pomegranatewife Your words are touch, brittle, green, lurch and frost. No pressure, of course :)

[inky-duchess]

Thanks @ashen-crest for the tag 💜

1. Which of your characters have some romantic chemistry?

Nikolai and Misha certainly do, it's very soft. Marina and Katya has budding romantic chemistry. Alekks wants romantic chemistry with Erika but they have a lot of stuff to work through.

2. Which of your characters do you think readers will ship?

I think Misha and Nikolai will be the main ship but weirdly enough I get the vibe that somebody will end up shipping Ilsa and Sascha.

3. Which of your characters are slated to be an endgame relationship?

Misha and Nikolai

4. Are there any established relationships in your WIPs? If so, how did they meet?

Art and Hadrien are THE established relationship at the beginning of the story. They met in the gang, not long after Art and Nikolai broke up.

5. What’s your dream love confession scene between your characters?

They've gotten it and it left me broken

Tagging @trapped-inadystopianovel @sunaora @mayawritesbooks @veneritia @judelilje

valentine questions game

Thanks for tagging me, @ladydawnxx! I have been tasked with answering these questions:

1. Which of your characters have some romantic chemistry?

oh gosh, I sure hope Emry & Cal and Eli & Ambrose, otherwise, I’m screwed.

2. Which of your characters do you think readers will ship?

other than the above? you know what, I’m hoping someone ships Georgie and Damir. It’d never work between them in the long run, but they’d have fun.

3. Which of your characters are slated to be an endgame relationship?

lol I’m incapable of my main relationships NOT being endgame, so…EmCal and Elrose

4. Are there any established relationships in your WIPs? If so, how did they meet?

Emry and Cal met through Marko, when Emry was new in town and was looking to make friends.

Ambrose and Eli…well. It’s the focus of the book, but Eli opens a potion shop across the street from Ambrose’s potion shop. Good start, guys, good start.

5. What’s your dream love confession scene between your characters?

honestly? kinda how Ambrose does it. the reserved one shouting his feelings in the street, not caring who else hears or what they think of him.

Tagging, with zero pressure: @akindofmagictoo, @zmlorenz, and @inky-duchess!

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The town square had been neat and pretty in the postcards and childhood photos that Sascha had shown us, surrounded on all sides by the palace. Compared to Kuzgrad, Daecia and the Marchioness’s palace in Ansevpol, it had small more comfortable than stately. Now, it has been repurposed, half demolished in the name of some administration building. In place of the fountains overflowing with clear water and flowers, stands bronze statues. I recognise their likenesses from the scraps of posters plastered over Ansevpol. 

Dmitry moves at my side, brushing my shoulder as he turns. He shakes his head wordlessly when I look at him. 

Opposite the row of statues, stands all manner of instruments. There is a gallows erected at the heart of the square flanked either side by tall spires of wood corded with lengths of hempen rope. Whipping posts. The sight turns my stomach. Every so often they had shown us such posts while at school as a reminder of what a life of crime and disobedience would bring. Whipping had long been outlawed in Heim. From the fraying of the ropes and the fresh marks in the wood, there is little doubt that it is very much the opposite here. But that is not what has Dmitry enraptured, it is the topmost windows of the palace. 

Flung from their heights are bodies in all forms of decay, swinging on rope as the gentle sea breeze rustles past them. Their hands are bound behind their backs, their faces hidden under cloth sacks only distinguishable from one another by their clothing and the placques slung around their necks. Never having learned to read in Vastian, I have no clue of what they have been killed for.

Dmitry and Katya gaze up at every slate. Their expressions are clear enough answers to what the bodies have been strung up for.

‘I don’t understand.’ I admit when they look to me. 'What are they hanging for?’ I ask under my breath, looking back up at the bodies.

‘Dissent.’ Katya’s breath turns the word to silver in the cold. ‘Civil disobedience. Treason.’

How does a child commit treason? I turn my eyes to the statues, wondering how such tall, sturdy men could quiver so much at a child’s crimes enough to issue a warrant for their death. 

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The Lost Prince | Character Introduction | Lev

'These are impossible odds, I get that. But we...' Alekks frowns at Lev's raised hand. 'Yes?'

'These aren't impossible odds.' Lev affirms.

That almost perks me up out of my fog. At least somebody believes this can work.

'I think you mean improbable, sir. Anything is possible even our success but its improbable. It could happen but it won't.'

I restrain a smile. Honesty at last.

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Nikolai sits quietly for the journey, watching the world whip by outside in the gold of the setting sun. He rests his elbow on the ledge of the door, the edge of his jaw resting on his fingers. The sun makes his skin glow, almost transparent at the edges as if any moment he might vanish before my eyes. ‘Say it.’

I run my hand across the wheel, drumming my fingers. ‘What would you like me to say, Nikolai?’

‘Anything. Shout at me if you want. Call me every name in every language we know. But talk to me.'

'You act as if I haven't been speaking to you.'

'You're avoiding what you want to say. You listened to my explanation last night but you didn't say anything about it. Let it off your chest before you choke on the questions. Ask anything and I will tell you.’

‘Will you? You don’t have a very good track record of that recently.’ I tighten my fingers around the wheel, keeping my eyes pinned on the road before us. After a few miles, I relent in my silence. ‘Nikolai…'

‘You’re right and I know it.’

‘I want you to write that down and have it framed.’

‘Very funny. But I mean it. I will be honest with you.’

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The Lost Prince | Character Introduction | General Dehn

Dehn says nothing for the longest while, staring at me in total silence. He turns his head to his men. ‘You may step outside.’

If the soldiers have any qualms about the order, they do not dare show it. They step back through the door, closing it behind them. They flank the door, their outlines like shadows against the stained glass.

‘You have sent your men away, it is only fair I meet you on fair ground.’ Dehn informs me, voice mild in the emptiness of the house. ‘Is that not better?’

‘Whatever puts you at ease.’

General Dehn is one of the leaders of Government of Vastia, a reformed General from the Royal army who switched sides during the Revolution. Though he remains a mouthpiece for the fundamental virtues and aims of the Revolution, he still retains his taste for the luxurious and ostentatious.

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The Lost Prince | Character Introduction | Wanda

‘Ignore him a moment,’ Wanda says to the boy, running a thumb over his cheekbone. The movement draws his gaze back to her, earning him a smile. I can’t blame him for being distracted. The smile makes her face light up, a ray of sun in a summer’s day. ‘Now. Wait here until I get the salve, hmm?’

I stand aside to let her pass, following her a few steps from the bed. ‘How is he?’

Wanda shakes her head. She has a terrific head of soft platinum curls, pinned up under her linen cap. She is a dainty little thing, only coming up to my shoulder. But she is tough from years on the ward, able to subdue even the hardest soldier to compliance and obedience. ‘Upset. As they all get when this happens. Poor boy, they really did a number on him.'

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[seasteading]

valentine questions tag

tagged by pris @judelilje ILY

which of your characters have some romantic chemistry? 

most of them 💀 what is an ensemble cast but a group of people a little bit in love with each other

which of your characters do you think readers will ship? 

ezra with literally anyone except for jerry d. the fandom bicycle bc everyone gets a ride

which of your characters are slated to be an endgame relationship?

rhie and ruvaen <3

are there any established relationships in your wips? if so, how did they meet? 

ezra and florizel’s dad + stepmom ! they met when she was sent by his father to kill his wife except his wife abandoned him first so they had a fun road trip through a burgeoning war zone as their courtship

what’s your dream love confession scene between your characters? 

something something i refuse to let you make yourself a martyr something something

tagging @veneritia, @wordsbynathan, @sourrcandy !!

[sourrcandy]

WTW SIDE CHARACTER WEEK – DAY #5: RELEVANT TROPES ↳ kane of [redacted] fairytale wip

knight in sour armour; forbidden love; blood knight; unwitting father figure; found family; beware the nice ones; jack of hearts; deadpan snarker; one-man army; loveable rogue; punch-clock villain

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[crtalley]

valentine questions tag! →

tagged by @judelilje thanks so much ♥♥ i'll do this for my much beloved Unchosen because that wip rocks so hard

→ which of your characters have some romantic chemistry?

they're all dumbasses with repressed emotions so. everyone.

→ which of your characters do you think readers will ship?

cadeyrn/maris is a favorite, of course, and one of my rapidly growing favorites is cadwen/branach because those two are a recipe for disaster. other than that, maris is a fmc in a sword and sorcery high fantasy world, i'm sure people will ship her with literally any other named character.

→ which of your characters are slated to be an endgame relationship?

maris/rhys ♥ my murderous twits. and cadeyrn/rhonwen though that's a bit more complicated.

→ are there any established relationships in your wips? if so, how did they meet?

cadeyrn and estel have been traveling together for four years/romantically involved for three at the start of the wip! they met when estel nearly killed him in a royal tournament and his demi ass fell head over heels for her. rhonwen and estel have been romantically involved for seven years at the start of the wip but that's puppy love from when they met as kids and the weight of the expectations they share.

→ what’s your dream love confession scene between your characters?

for me it's when, after rhys poisons maris to keep her from doing anything about the big bad's evil plans, after he's been lying to her for months and is actively the thing she's been fighting against, after he causes the death of a friend and threatens the death of another, he stumbles over a confession of his feelings and she still agrees to marry him on the spot

tagging with no pressure @hottubraccoon @cheshawrites @socialmediasocrates and anyone else who'd like to do this!