#For the want of a jewel @formlessvoidbeast

[curious-trickster]

Please help a Reader find new content!

Hey there. I recently finished reading 'for the want of a jewel', an original work written by @formlessvoidbeast and I absolutely loved it!

Just like I loved the 'Accidental Warlord' series, a AU based on the Witcher, by @inexplicifics.

Those fics are both an absolute delight to read and they have a few things in common which kind of caused a want of more in me.

Please help me find fics/original work/books/shows... with these tropes (they do not have all the things I mentioned but it would be nice to have them meet several):

Character gets traded for peace to a most likely hostile party (warlord, king, pirates, bandits, just something they expect to be bad or different)

The trade-in-character expects to be hurt/killed/abused/hated/...

The second party they are given too is not aware of the circumstances of the way the trade-in-character had to leave their home

The second party which the trade-in-character expects to be hostile turns out to be not so bad

The trade-in-character finds true home with the party they were given to

The trade-in-character finds true friends/family not made by blood/love/their way of life/... with the people they were given too

Shenanigans (optional as the rest of them, but they would be greatly appreciated)

If you can think of something which has some or even better all of these tropes, pls comment/send a message! I would be very grateful and you'd help my adhd brain by feeding it with its new hyperfixation!

Feel free to drop the number of the trope(s) your recommendation has, or don't it's up to you!

A big thanks to @formlessvoidbeast and @inexplicifics for writing these amazing stories and allowing me to mention you in this post!

[artcake]

a gift of a jewel for @formlessvoidbeast

I truly recommend their amazing story on AO3, for the want of a jewel. It has everything! Warlord Barbarian, Sorcery, Beauty as a Weapon (but not the way you think!), Sex and Ace Positivity, and just a wonderful world full of rich and interesting characters.

I haven't read OG works in a very long time and I'm so glad to have ftwoaj as the one that broke my streak!

Cannot rec it enough especially for anyone who enjoys @inexplicifics Warlord AU!

[inexplicifics]

🥤and 🛼 for the ask meme!

Solo cup: recommend an author or fanfic you love

How about the wonderful @formlessvoidbeast's For Want of a Jewel? Absolutely stunning worldbuilding, glorious characters, delightful enemies-to-friends-to-lovers, and all wrapped in utterly beautiful imagery!

Rollerskate: describe your latest wip with five emojis

Hm, let me pick another: 🐉🐱🍆 - you know, I may only need three!

[roncheg]

For the story I am currently reading- For the want of a jewel by @formlessvoidbeast - Damian dancing♥️

[formlessvoidbeast]

for the want of a jewel (86,043 words) by FormlessVoidbeast Chapters: 27/27 Fandom: Original Work Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Conquering Warlord/His Right-Hand Warlock/Prince of Conquered Land, Prince & his loyal manservant Characters: it’s OC’s all the way down Additional Tags: sword and sorcery, Threesome m/m/m, Fish out of Water, Inspired by The Accidental Warlord and His Pack Series - inexplicifics, traded away to the Terrible Barbarians!, but it turns out the barbarians are ok actually?, credible fear of sexual assault, fear of execution, (neither happens), Vanity, Large Age Gap Relationship, Age Difference, Size Difference, Fealty, way too much talking, Astronomy, Friendship, accidentally catching feelings, domesticated reptiles, tea culture, Poetry, Slow Burn, Cultural Differences, Culture Shock, warrior culture vs strong pacifism, Additional Warnings in Chapter Notes, virginity as a concept makes no sense, Polyamory, Asexual Character, Explicit Consent, Oral Sex, Intercrural Sex, Frottage, Hand Jobs, Prophesies, Visions, Happy Ending, Complete

With his country fallen to the unstoppable tide of the Dread Warlord, a terrified king sends a peace offering of his own flesh and blood in the hopes of buying leniency.

When Prince Damian of Miska is accepted as the symbol of his country’s surrender and immediately wedded to the Warlord, he expects his fate to be both painful and humiliating, and his death inevitable. To his confusion, the Warlord and his terrible Warlock seem to have no interest in abusing that which they have claimed as their own. As Damian finds his feet and gains friends in a new land, he begins to question everything he once thought was true.

But some jewels were never meant to be sold, and the consequences of Damian’s sacrifice are more far-reaching than anyone expected.

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Summary: With his country fallen to the unstoppable tide of the Dread Warlord, a terrified king sends a peace offering of his own flesh and blood in the hopes of buying leniency. When Prince Damian of Miska is accepted as the symbol of his country's surrender and immediately wedded to the Warlord, he expects his fate to be both painful and humiliating, and his death inevitable. To his confusion, the Warlord and his terrible Warlock seem to have no interest in abusing that which they have claimed as their own. As Damian finds his feet and gains friends in a new land, he begins to question everything he once thought was true. But some jewels were never meant to be sold, and the consequences of Damian's sacrifice are more far-reaching than anyone expected.

Author: @formlessvoidbeast

[inthebrainofalamb]

little goofs based on @formlessvoidbeast ‘s story For The Want Of A Jewel because it’s the only thing i can thing about lmao and i need more people to giggle about these with me

[moorishflower]

Trope Game

Thanks for tagging me @sleepsonfutons! :D

There's honestly not TONS of tropes that I'm an extremely hard 'no' on but let's see

Rules: How much do these tropes affect your decision to click on a fic?

-10 -> very dissuaded

0 - don't care either way

+10 -> very enticed

nope -> if it's a hard no and you'd never click on a fic with that tag or or you even have the tag blocked or you'd insta click out of the fic if it wasn't tagged

Bonus points for explaining the rating and whether it's conditional.

Age gap: +2

It depends on the fic, honestly. I rather like the sugar daddy dynamic sometimes, but it's not something that I go out of my way to look for. And you have to be careful about where the line is. A 22 y/o and a 45 y/o is acceptable (everyone is a consenting adult), but a 16 y/o and a 25 y/o isn't. Like, even in places where 16 is the age of consent, there's fundamental differences in expectations of the relationship, in brain development, in power dynamics, etc.

Codependency: +1

Meh. I like my characters in each others' pockets, but capable of LEAVING said pockets, you know?

Obsession/Possessiveness, jealousy: +10*

With the caveat that the possessiveness is ENJOYABLE to one or both partners.

Opposites (grumpy/sunshine etc): +10

Listen I'm a simple person with simple desires and it becomes infinitely better when the sunshiney one is the one who's fucking INSANE and feral and dangerous

Enemies to lovers, Enemies with benefits: +5

I used to like this trope a lot more when I was younger, but these days I prefer the chemistry to start out in a positive light! Still a good, solid trope though.

Friends with benefits: +4

I don't seek it out specifically, but I've seen it written VERY well. Especially combined with...

Sex to feelings: +4

...this one!

Fake dating/relationship: +10

Absolutely. Yes. Give me 5000 fics where the characters have to meet each others' parents because they lied and said they were engaged. Give me all the oneshots where they're both in a club and pretend to be together to avoid being hit on. YES.

Friends to lovers: +5

A good, dependable trope. I'm less interested in childhood friends to lovers, just because I find the way it's presented sometimes boring? But whatever insane shit Neil Gaiman is doing with the characters who are "friends" for centuries, I am ALWAYS there for it.

Found Family: +10

I mean I'm a queer millennial how could I NOT like found family stuff.

Hurt/Comfort: +7

I enjoy a good hurt/comfort fic BUT I am picky about the ratio of hurt to comfort. I...actually get bored if there is TOO MUCH comfort, lol. They have to be equal, or very slightly more one than the other.

Love Triangle: 0/+8

Like for so many others, it's a 0 if the love triangle resolves with only two of the three getting together, but becomes a solid positive if it resolves with poly.

Poly, open relationships: +8/0

I like a good poly fic, I just read for the want of a jewel by @formlessvoidbeast and REALLY enjoyed it. I'm neutral on open relationships, though! Read some good smutty oneshots, haven't really read as many like, plotty long things with that dynamic.

Mistaken/hidden identity: 0

Neutral! Could go either way.

Monsterfucking: +10 +10 +10 +10 +10

Listen I don't know what you want me to say here

Pregnancy: -5/0

Yeah this is such a weird one for me. A few years ago this would've been a solid 'nope' no matter what. Biological pregnancy is VERY weird to me. I'm not against children or babies! I don't care if other people wanna get pregnant! But I am very much not mentally wired for it. Even mpreg or other forms of like otherwise fantastical pregnancy makes me feel a little off. On the other hand, non-biological methods of baby acquisition are pretty neutral to me, and to go with found family, I love when characters ADOPT kids.

Breeding kink is totally separate from actual pregnancy don't @ me

Second Chance: -4

Breakups and divorce make me sad so I don't tend to read fics that use them as a plot hook.

Slowburn: +10

Looking at my AO3 account, I also don't know what you want me to say here like

I have simple needs

Soulmates: +8

I really like when the soulmates trope does some absolutely wild shit. Whoever invented the soulmate goose was on my level. Give me more fic where they don't have their soulmate's name on them but they have like, their soulmate's scars or they share tattoos and so there's a whole culture built up around having unique tattoos in obvious places in the hopes that someone will recognize it. I like the worldbuilding okay?

I'll tag anyone who sees this and feels like interacting! Always fun to see what people are into most <3

[inexplicifics]

@freudensteins-monster thanks for the tag!

Last song: I have Olomana’s Ku’u Home O Kahalu’u stuck in my head at the moment. It’s very pretty.

Currently watching: ...Nothing, I don’t watch TV. I think the last thing I saw was the final season of the Owl House, because my husband wanted me to see it with him.

Currently reading: Quite a lot of fanfic, a book of breakfast recipes called Sunny Side Up, and Bill Bryson’s At Home. (Ooh, I have to mention especially for want of a jewel by @formlessvoidbeast​, an all-OCs warlord fic, which has riding tortoises and fascinating worldbuilding and I want to cuddle the protagonist very much.)

Latest obsession: Oooh, um. Trying to find recipes so I don’t rely so heavily on prepared foods, I think. Also the AWAU but that one’s not new.

No pressure tags: @heronfem, @ruffboijuliaburnsides​, @formlessvoidbeast​ and anyone else who wants to play?

Nine or so people you want to get to know better!

Last song: Don’t Blame Me- Taylor Swift

Currently Watching: I started the movie Run Rabbit Run on Netflix, no shows at the moment though

Currently Reading: Happy Place by Emily Henry

Latest obsession: Yellowjackets (the show NOT the bug) and making my own milk foam for iced coffee

no pressure tags! @intrepidacious @joaquinwhorres @x-lulu @jellyfishbeansontoast and anyone else who wants to do this

[inexplicifics]

For those of you who enjoy my Warlord AU, I have a fic rec: the marvelous @formlessvoidbeast has just finished an absolutely stunning original fic, for the want of a jewel. The worldbuilding is brilliantly imaginative, the emotional arc is entirely enthralling, and the characterizations are gloriously complex. I want to roll around in this fic like a cat in a patch of high-grade catnip. I cannot recommend it highly enough.

[inexplicifics]

Galway city, Ireland, for your fan-map! I got into your stuff after I read For the Want of a Jewel by FormlessVoidbeast and realised it was based off AW. I’m you’ve officially gotten me into The Witcher as a whole

Hello in Galway! For Want of a Jewel is an amazing fic and I am delighted it led you to my work! Welcome to the fandom!

[formlessvoidbeast]

Damian appreciated that, while the servants in the kitchen were clearly curious about him, they did not stare at or crowd him. Possibly that was because he was with Frida. She was asked to taste everything and advise on everything and (from her seat with her feet up and a mug of tea in hand) set to organizing everything with a brisk efficiency. She was clearly well respected as the... Lady Seneschal of the Keep? The Seneschal of a King would be a minor noble, at the least, in any other court in the land. Damian had no idea if that was true, here.

Chapter 3 - the morning after

Damian, prince of a conquered land sent as a peace offering and wedded to the Dread Warlord, did not expect to survive his wedding night. Now, entirely unharmed, he must begin to find his feet in a new land.

Enjoy!