#In this au none of them are pirates so most of them have the jobs Oda said they would have if they werent

[that-oracle]

This made me laugh so much harder than it probably should have

[ilikereadingthisiswhatilike]

Sevika

(X) = Smut

Sevika doesn’t like to be touched. @l0vel3tterl0ver Summary: Sevika doesn’t like to be touched. Warnings: None Specials Tags: None

paid undone @l0vel3tterl0ver (X) Summary: working as an owner of a mechanics shop at day and prostitute at night at Zaun's most famous brothel, you expect a quiet night shift after a hard day of work. your expectations go avail and you miserably fail at keeping your identity hidden from Sevika, who has just earlier visited you at your shop that day. Warnings: None Specials Tags: Mutli-Part

ghostface @maneskinwh0re (X) Summary: None Warnings: None Specials Tags: None

Brothel @misswynters (X) Summary: None Warnings: None Specials Tags: None

beyond the breaking point @saga-ordsmed (X) Summary: Sevika has already shattered you, but that's not enough. She pulls you back from the brink, reigniting the fire in your veins and dragging you beyond your limits. Again. Warnings: None Specials Tags: None

Ok brat @playnextdoor Summary: you don't like listening to your girlfriend, no matter how scary she is Warnings: None Specials Tags: None

pass her aroun' like a toy. @autonomyofadeer Summary: you're a brothel worker, planned to have a night with your regular. but your time seems to be cut short as a woman you were terrified of walks in. Warnings: Non-con Specials Tags: Ft, Ambessa

Bleh @reneesghostinthelivingroom Summary: when reader finds herself sick in the morning, Sevika takes care of her. Warnings: None Specials Tags: None

Found family @misswynters Summary: After a fight that resulted in casualties, a child was left alone. Parentless. Seeing yourself in the poor kid you decided to take them in. Sevika however isn’t very keen at first. Warnings: none Specials Tags: None

cherry kiss @shiimmer Summary: sevika found herself in a strip club, only to end up getting a lot more than a simple lap dance. Warnings: none Specials Tags: Striper Au

I hear your call @gravegoer Summary: pirate!sevika x siren!reader Warnings: none Specials Tags: Mermaid AU

Babydoll @thegothicchangeling Summary: Sevika makes a bad call and upsets you while you're in pre heat. You're pissed at her. Warnings: None Specials Tags: Omegavers

Stubborn As A Mule @graciedollie Summary: The harsh weather of Zaun was not something so easy to bare, seriously. Unfortunately your girlfriend caught a cold, but luckily she has you to nurse her back to health—even when shes stubborn. Warnings: None Specials Tags: None

rose moon @hcneymooners (X) Summary: you've always loved sevika, despite the tension between her and your father and their shaky alliance. it was only a matter of time before she loved you back.  Warnings: None Specials Tags: Mafia AU

𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐧, 𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐦𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐛𝐲 @abbyssgf (X) Summary: your wife was exercising in front of you in your living room during your ovulation. she knew perfectly that you are in the middle of your ovulation so she decided to tease you knowing her exercise will end up by fucking you on the couch Warnings: None Specials Tags: None

𝐈 𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮 @abbyssgf (X) Summary: you were dancing in The Last Drop, after a moment your girlfriend join you. Durning the dance you felt sevika's mouth on your neck and the bulge in her pants pressing against your hips... all you could do is to come back to your house and have a fun night with sevika Warnings: None Specials Tags: None

not your job @maneskinwh0re (X) Summary: thinking about having a long-term brothel contract with sevika. Warnings: None Specials Tags: None

Vacation time @kdyq Summary: You had always worried Sevika and Ambessa when you went out alone, besides the company of your guide dog due to the fact you were blind. And when you come back home with a scrap, they were all over you. Warnings: None Specials Tags: Sevika

Intrusion @abbyslovergirlxo (X) Summary: You, the pretty enforcer are tasked with retrieving very important documents from none other than Lead Commander Ambessa Merdarda. Sounds rather easy, until you see Silco’s right hand woman bent over her desk. Warnings: None Specials Tags: Ft. Sevika

[kingsanddragonsandgods]

a/n: this is just the story preface, not yet chapter one. for this fanfic i am keeping mostly the book timeline, but there will be a little bit of show timeline further ahead.

it is a AU which blends aspects of book and show canons but is also a lot of headcanons. i am a bit of a history nerd, so there is bits inspired by real life historical events, i also drawn a lot of inspiration from medieval/renaissence royal courts to write how i imagine life at the Red Keep would be, most numbers i will use in this story are also taken from history (noble households, courtiers, armies, ships and crews etc), as are titles for functions an jobs that are not shown on the show or books. There are a couple of Original Characters that are going to be introduced over time, and a few canon characters that are barely mentioned or not seen at all on the show. additional information: I chose to keep the show's 'ages' for some characters, so, for the sake of the story: Viserys was born in 70 AC, Daemon in 74 AC, Rhaenys in 67 AC, and Aemma and Rhea share the year 76 AC.

word count: 2802

warnings: none for this chapter

“...Princess of Runestone, proved herself in her maiden voyage crossing of the Narrow Sea, six pirate ships gave chase as we crossed through the Stepstones, their inferior ships however were no match for our girl or to our brave crew. We had already sunk three carracks when they choose to surrender the remaining three after sighting Archonei descending upon them. We lock the surviving pirates in the holding cells, and seize their cargo, to my great surprise I was able to ascertain that the cargo on the ships once belonged to none other than the Sea Snake.”  Enya reads aloud the letter she received from Ser Orys, her half-brother, coming all the way from Lys, the first stop on his great voyage. “We intend to sell the cargo in Lys, Maester Aldus believes it will yield a great profit, at least 20-times Mother’s initial investment, it seems almost unbelievable that we are only on the first leg of the journey. Gods willing, my next letter home shall be sent from old Volantis. Tell Mother I miss her advice and our morning rides, as I miss your sweet face, and our daily flights. Send my love to everyone home and make sure that young Willam is dedicating himself to his training. Your loving brother, Ser Orys Stone…”  Her granddaughter finishes reading her the letter, folding it carefully and putting it inside the hard cover of the book she has next to her on the wheelhouse seat.

How the girl manages to read in the bouncing carriage is something that marvels her, she feels nauseous just watching it.

Elys would have much preferred to have made the journey by ship, but the early spring storms that plague the East Coast they didn't allow them to leave the safety of the harbour.

The lady wouldn't be making the trip if she could help it, she had just come out of mourning period for her dear husband, all she wanted was to be able to take the time to visit her daughters and spend time with her grandchildren before returning to Eyrie to resume supervising her niece's upbringing. But the beginning of spring means Visenya's relocation to the royal court in King's Landing, to spend the spring and summer with her father and paternal family.

Last time her granddaughter was at court was four years before the death of the Old King, whom she had served as cupbearer when he still had the mental faculties to attend the Council. She had been just a child then, the king's favourite great-granddaughter.

 Since then, she had blossomed into a stunning beauty, no longer a girl but not yet a woman, striking in that way that only those from the blood of the dragon are.

A beauty worthy of a crown.

A crown she had been promised as a child.

If the gods had been merciful, little Prince Aerion would have survived infancy and today he would be a boy of nearly three and ten, the heir to his father’s throne, betrothed to Visenya by the will of King Jaehaerys. But Aenar died in his cradle, followed by his little brother, Aelor, and two early miscarriages. And her granddaughter lost the her chance at the crown promised to her.

“Do you think Orys can one day surpass the feats of the Sea Snake?” Elys turns her head from the window to look at her granddaughter.

“He might,” Elys candidly admits, “Orys has advantages that Velaryon did not, Archonei being the greatest of them."

Elys had disagreed with her daughter's decision to raise the prince's natural son after the boy's mother died—Orys was, in Elys' opinion, the stain on her daughter's dignity, a bastard child her betrothed fathered on a Royce cousin of lesser consequence, during the feast celebrating the union between Houses Royce and Targaryen—as he grew, the boy proved her wrong in her reservations against him. He was as devoted to Rhea as he was to Visenya, respectfully calling her ‘Mother’ after asking permission to do so, loyal and honourable, dedicating himself to every life opportunity offered by his stepmother.

She would never forget his terror when Visenya's egg hatched in his hands, it was the day he won her over, he had tears in his eyes as he asked Rhea for forgiveness for hatching the dragon as it was not his intention, he went on to say that he had never coveted her sister's egg and that she could have the hatchling. Her daughter just laughed, kissing the boy's head and explaining that the dragon had chosen him.

Jaehaerys was not at all pleased with the accident when Rhea sent a letter informing him of what had happened. Daemon finally took an interest in the dark-haired boy Rowena birthed, flying to the Vale to see the dragon, taking it upon himself to have twenty dragonkeepers sent to Runestones.

“I hope he can accomplish it, for himself and for House Royce." Visenya says looking out the window, pulling back the curtains to get a better look, wrinkling her little nose at the stench that enters the carriage and allowing the curtain to fall closed again. “I had forgotten that the city smells so bad.”

“You better get used to it again." Elys passes a bag of scented salts to the young woman. “Tie it to your wrist, you can smell it when the stench gets too much.”

The slums around the city wall have grown considerably larger than Lady Elys remembered from her last visit so many years before.

People beg with outstretched hands on the road as they see the bronze wheelhouse pass by.

It's a sad sight.

The lady sighs before pulling the small dark wooden chest out from under the bench under Visenya's curious eyes. She takes out a heavy bag of coins and pushes the chest back with her foot, hiding it with her skirt. She signals with her hand for any of the knights escorting them to approach the window. Willam Royce, her nephew by marriage, Gunthor’s youngest boy, and Leofric Corbray squire, is the one to come to her.

She contains a smile as she sees the boy blush when he notices Visenya's curious gaze on him.

It's no secret that the boy is sweet on little Enya—just like half the boys of similar age in Runestone—in another life he would be a good match for the future Lady of Runestone, Willam is handsome, with dark curls and blue eyes, and will probably grow up to be a tall, handsome man, and appease everyone in the family that the next heir would retain the surname Royce without the need for major manoeuvres.

“Lady Aunt." He greets her with a nod, keeping his horse's gallop in sync with the carriage. “My princess.”

Visenya just smiles at him, looking at him from beneath her lashes, which only makes him blush more.

“Willam, my sweet, be a dear and hand out these coins to the people." She passes the heavy bag into his hand.

The squire just nods again, looking once more at the Targaryen princess before doing as his aunt asked of him.

Once he is away and the curtain is closed again, Elys lets out the laugh she forced herself to hold in, lightly slapping her granddaughter's knee in reprimand.

“Shameless flirt!” The Dowager Lady of Runestone pointed her finger at the girl.

“I have to train for court life, don't I?" Visenya says with a naughty tone. “I'm of marriageable age, I have to charm all the beautiful second sons, have them all at my feet asking for my hand, there is no better opportunity than during a season at court.”

A beauty of beauties in all the Seven Kingdoms, if not in all the Known World.

Visenya is slender, nymph-like of body, with very pale white skin dotted with golden freckles—the only inheritance from Rhea in her appearance—, plump lips and pretty pearly teeth, a neat nose, and large eyes of an unusual bluish-lilac shade. Her hair is a beautiful flaxen, a few shades lighter than Elys own, curled and long—she's not sure her granddaughter's hair was ever cut more than a little trim at the ends—now ribboned for practicality during the travel.

Elys remembers vividly the Good Queen Alysanne carrying the baby in her arms during her anointment commenting that little Visenya reminded her of Viserra, the most beautiful of her daughters, in appearance.

“Be careful child, you don't want a reputation, especially in the Red Keep."

“I can be discreet." The girl winks at her grandmother amid giggles.

The wheelhouse takes a while to cross the city from Dragon's Gate to the Red Keep, the guards escorting it thought it better to go around Fleabottom than through it. Especially with the four glitzy wheelhouses carrying the noblewomen and their ladies-in-waiting, and the wagons with their belongings coming right behind, with things that attract the attention of the wrong kind of people.

Their retinue arrives at the Red Keep midday.

There is quite a crowd waiting to receive them. The standard-bearers stop between the carriage and the people waiting, proudly carrying the banners of Houses Targaryen, Royce and Arryn, and the Princess of Runestone personal crest: a pearlescent white dragon with the halved shield with the crests of Royce and Arryn between its claws in a black field with bronze runes around the border.

“Princess Visenya of House Targaryen, heir of Runestone.” The Herald announces her granddaughter, as a guard opens the wheelhouse door for them. “Her Lady Grandmother, Lady Elys of House Arryn, Dowager Lady of Runestone.”

Elys arranges the balzo on top of Visenya's head and centres the small jewel on her forehead, pinching her cheek for a healthy blush before the girl pushes back the linen curtain and leaves with the assistance of a Kingsguard guard.

The lady fixes her own skirt before leaving the wheelhouse behind her granddaughter.

The first person she notices is the Queen, her younger sister, in the light blue silks of her paternal House.

A chill runs down her spine as she looks at her sister.

Despite her Targaryen blood through her mother, Princess Daella, in appearance Aemma is an Arryn, with pale sandy hair, an aquiline nose and light blue eyes. Aemma is only eight and twenty, a few months older than her Rhea, however, she looks like a woman nearly to Elys own age.

She looks emaciated, haggard…sick. The Stranger follows her closely. Her youngest sister would not survive a full-term pregnancy and childbirth, it surprised Elys even that she had lived until this moment, with so many failed pregnancies and increasingly long and painful periods of recovery.

Beside her, giving her his arm for support, is Viserys, the King of the Seven Kingdoms, dressed in silk damask of gold and Tyrosh-purple, his grandfather’s crown upon his brow, looking more youthful and healthier than his younger wife. His silver-gold hair is kept short, following southern fashion which has a great Andal influence, he also sports a silver-gold moustache, so thin and pale it almost disappears on his face.

He is a handsome man, but pales in comparison to his dashing younger brother, especially when the two are side by side.

“Your Graces.” Visenya makes a perfect curtsy to the King and Queen and stands as if the castle belongs to her.

The couple is smiling at the young woman with indulgence.

“You have grown beautiful Visenya.” The king says, his eyes fixed on his niece.

Elys recognizes the expression on his face.

Like any woman who was once young and desired, she recognizes the almost obscene expression when older men look at women young enough to be their daughters and imagine themselves as young as their sons.

 The look on a man's face when he lusts after a woman old enough to be his daughter, and who he knows he shouldn't desire.

“Thank you, Your Grace."

“Just stating the truth my dear." In a gallant gesture, the king kisses his niece's hand.

“Brother, stop holding up the line!” The prince’s impatient voice interrupts, causing the King to take his covetous eyes away from his young niece.

Prince Daemon is a tall man, only a few centimetres shorter than his older brother, he keeps his silvery hair long, following the fashion of Old Valyria.

Unlike Viserys's ostentatious clothes, Elys good son is dressed in all black leather, well cut and elegant, but infinitely more subtle than the rest of the court. He carries Dark Sister around his waist, and his only ornament is the livery collar that marks him. as a member of the Small Council and Master of Coin.

Visenya smiles and turns to her father making a new curtsy. “Lord Father.”

“Little dragoness.” There is a smile on the prince's face, he has his hands on his only daughter's shoulders, despite being considered a tall young woman, Visenya looks small next to her father. He puts his forehead to hers, saying something that only she hears, and then kisses her cheek.

“Sister." Elys takes her eyes off the reunion between father and daughter and approaches her sister with her hand outstretched.

“My queen." In a gesture of deference, Elys kisses her sister's pale hand and offers a profound curtsy. “Your Grace.” She bows her head to her good brother.

“Lady Elys, it is good to have you at court again." Viserys says amiable. “I am sure your sisters missed you dearly." He looks at Aemma with a smile and at Lady Amanda Redfort born Arryn, standing next to the queen. “Let's give them time to rest from the road, later we shall have a welcome feast.” The king announces to the court members present, taking the queen's hand in his and guiding her into the castle.

Prince Damon follows them, his arm around his daughter's shoulders, and head tilted toward her as they continue their private conversation. One by one the courtiers follow them, even her ladies and her granddaughter's, Elys nods for them to enter, until only Amanda and her remain in the courtyard.

“How bad is she?"

Amanda approaches until the two are face to face, she looks to the side for a moment, making sure there is no one else around.

Her younger sister, like herself, maintains a youthful appearance, even as they have both now seeing past their forty years of age. It comes with their Upcliff blood, their mother died young, not even thirty years old, yet she still had the appearance of a woman half her age.

Amanda inherited her colouring, beautiful red-gold hair, and blueish grey eyes like a stormy sea.  

“The Maestre has already recommended that she not try to get pregnant again after the last miscarriage, she had a difficult time recovering, almost a year," Amanda informs her, there is concern in her eyes “now she is once again with child, and it is taking a toll on her. I don’t believe she will live to see the child.”

“The child will not be born." Lady Elys declares it like a sentence. She can feel it.

 “There is more." Amanda says. “The Small Council has been hinting that he should set her aside, that he should marry a queen who can bear him heirs.” She lowers her tone, tilting her head toward her sister. “There are rumours that His Grace had a bastard boy with a courtesan, and he might be discreet, but I know for sure that there are mistresses.”

“Does Aemma knows?”

“I believe so.” She nods. “They are, however, ladies of little consequence, barely noble, daughters of second and third sons, some not even that, daughters of knights and rich merchants,” Amanda explains, “His Grace has a king’s an appetite and a queen constantly bedridden who clearly does not meet his needs.”

“Hm.” It's the only reaction Elys gives.

A tale old as time, men will be men, even the best of them.

Viserys may be gentle and amiable, but he was always a man of appetites, and pious Aemma was never an ardent lover.

Elys blames the Good Queen for her precocious marriage and sheltered upbring, Aemma was just a girl, still playing with dolls.

The marriage was not consummated before her four and tenth nameday, and until then Viserys would entertain himself with whores and courtesans usually in the company of his brother and half a dozen favourites.

“We shall have to stay alert to whom he takes to bed." Elys says, linking her arm with her sister's and directing her into the castle.

“What happens if she dies or is put aside?"

Then perhaps Visenya will have the crown she was promised. And we might yet have a king of our blood on the Iron Throne.

[zarvasace]

1931 Vampire AU!

For those unaware, I wrote a bit of a neat Linked Universe setting AU last year that I haven't done much with, but I really like it and want to share a bit more about it! Links to the existing fics where relevant.

The series on AO3 is here!

(It would also be fun to develop this AU a little more, and I'd like to draw some stuff for it, so if you send in an ask about it, I might answer with a doodle. ;) )

AU basics: a hidden magic world in America, the year 1931 after WWI. None of the boys are human (except Twilight, at least at first), but they all think they're hiding magic from everyone else, at least for a time. :) There are a lot of magical peoples in this world, organized in their own ways, e.g. merfolk kingdoms, fae courts, the vampire councils, entire hidden cults, and hunter organizations. Ganon exists, but he's a hidden threat that they've all faced in one way or another.

Character summaries!

Wind: the focus of this AU. (The original fic was an excuse to make him very cool.) He was born 1696 in Florida ish, at the height of the golden age of piracy. He was turned into a vampire by Tetra in about 1710 and is eternally physically 14. He sailed with her crew (all pirates) for a few decades. She was invited to the western vampire council in Spain in 1750 as the vampire pirate queen, but... stuff went down. (fic: Body and Soul Marooned) She and her whole crew died, along with a lot of vampires. Wind survived, getting a nice angsty scene in there where they said wedding vows as she died, and went on to try and warn other councils about the upcoming massacres. Because most vampires died during that time, Wind is one of the oldest vampires still alive, and most who survived that time owe their lives to him.

Warriors: the secondary focus of this AU. He was a legitimate soldier during WWI, proper age and everything. When Wind enlisted, Wars took it upon himself to guide this seemingly young kid, and got killed doing so. Wind turned him into a vampire, not wanting him to die. (fic: In the Chill of Battle) He has a fun relationship with Wind, both of them taking the big-brother role in turns. Wars is a younger vampire, but his brain and body was able to mature more, so. Before Wars knew Wind, he was also captain of a division with Time, not that Time remembers that right off. Wars acts the responsible adult, so he gets them both hired as part of Time's team.

Time: he's Twilight and Wild's uncle. When he was a kid, he was whisked away to Faerie and replaced by a changeling for a few years. He fought his way back to find that time had passed differently for him, so he's mentally older than he appears. He didn't get out without being touched by the fae, and is beholden to some of their rules. He's the only one old enough to have enlisted in the military at a legal age, and used his status as a veteran to get a job at a local police station as a sort of detective. That's how he collects all the boys. :)

Wild: half-vampire. He's aging slowly, but still aging. He's close to Twilight, but always felt like he didn't exactly belong. Vampires as an organization don't believe there are many dhampirs out there, and don't like them, but a few underground cells have been organizing. Wild had a few run-ins with them. He's aware of a lot more magic than people think he is, having networked out to several kinds of magical peoples. The Yiga are a cult of shapeshifters that are out for his blood. (fic: Caged) He joined the team when the existing members came to save him and Twilight from them, later in the "story." Wild is one of those in the group willing to do Mad Science. :)

Twilight: is human. He dealt with Wild his whole life, so he's aware of vampires, but not much else. Over the course of the "story," he gets turned into a werewolf, so all of the boys get to deal with that.

Sky: he's a lynchpin of the team! Without Sky, not everyone would be there. He's an air elemental by birth, fairly important in those familial circles but mostly separated from them these days. His natural form is not exactly... physical. He knows Time from the war (he enlisted at too young an age near the end, and didn't see much combat, but made connections), Legend from some of what Legend did (aka everything, but specifically some merchant connections in this case), and found Four on his own. Sky doesn't count as fae at all, but he's in-tune with the environment and flow of magic around him. (He's not happy about the dust bowl.) He is pretty oblivious to the others being magical, though.

Four: he's rather disconnected from the others, in terms of backstory. To understand him, you have to know that there are six courts of the fae: one for each season in the wheel, with a light and a dark in the center and outside. Four grew up in the Light Court, full fae. One of the princess's Minish advisors betrayed the Light Court and gave power to the Dark (hi Vaati), and Four helped to restore balance. In the process, he had to change. The courts didnt generally trust each other, so Four split into four fae with the help of magic, one for each seasonal court. More magic and betrayal happened, and Four is semi-stuck as a Dark fae now. He can become a shadow and hide in other shadows, but he's vulnerable to light in general. When he left Faerie for the mortal world, he found Sky, who pretty much adopted him as a little brother. He's very protective of Sky.

Legend: is a prince of one of the merfolk kingdoms. He saved each of the underwater kingdoms at least once, then ventured to the surface to find more wrongs that needed righting. He isn't obvious about it, but he has a good heart. He's kind of sort of employed as a spy and informant, but he focuses on supernatural issues. He's more of a special ops agent than anything, though he does like to find people who'll pay him for doing what he wants to do anyway. He's been practically everywhere and done practically everything. He definitely heard of Wind, but didn't connect the dots right off. Merfolk aren't considered fae, but his particular family line made contracts with fae long ago, and he has some of their geases in a lightened form. He figured out pretty quickly that everyone was magic and trying to hide it.

Hyrule: is full fae, like Four, but of the Spring Court. He lived in the human world his whole life, a street kid who had to keep his fae nature tightly under wraps, which could get difficult around the promises and names and iron of daily life. He moved around a lot. He was captured for a year or two by unscrupulous scientists and rescued by Legend, who took him to Sky and Time. (fic: EPISODE SEVEN: Lost and Found) He's the resident healer and mad scientist.

Other Fics

More Than You Can Chew: the beginning of the "story." Starts with Wars confessing he's a vampire, and then they go rescue Wind, who's been captured by wannabe hunters.

Council: sort-of ongoing fic about Wind taking the rest of the Chain to the latest vampire council meeting. >:)

[madebysoupy]

100 years later I finally drew all of my AU Links

Say hello to my lads! They're going to be in a comic I've been scripting and planning for about a year now I think? I'm calling it Link and the Links, latl for short!

More info under the cut :]

(this is the old post, consider checking out the new version!)

(please don't tag as LU/Linked Universe!!)

The Plot

The Links find themselves in a mysterious forest that seems somewhat familiar to all of them yet none of them know where they are. Now they have to work together to find their way home. On the way they'll discover a thing or two about each other and grow closer!

The Cast

I could talk about these guys for hours, but to keep it digestible I'll make it short

A bit of info before I get into it - all of them are taken from different points in time after the end of their adventure(s)!

Birdie (Skyward Sword)

18

Roughly 6 hours after defeating Demise

The start of it all. Unbeknownst to himself and the others, the space they find themselves in was created out of his desire to meet the heroes after him. He feels terribly guilty about the curse and very much blames himself for the possible suffering of future heroes. His main goal is to check up on everyone and help where he can!

Grasshopper (Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask)

10

4 days after leaving Termina

Somewhat disoriented after his journey still, he tags along simply because he thinks Birdie is an idiot who would get lost without him. He doesn't talk a whole lot but he likes listening to other people's stories

Seagull (Wind Waker and Phantom Hourglass)

13

6 months after leaving the domain for the ocean King

He's a real genuine pirate, yarr!! Or so he'd like you to believe. He talks a great deal about his strength and bravery, but really is just afraid and terribly homesick most of the time. He wants to fit in with Tetra's and her crew's toughness so much he might go a little overboard on the act in a way that may or may not end up biting him in the butt.

Choo (Spirit Tracks)

14

6 months after peace returned to new Hyrule

He wouldn't call himself a hero, in fact he'd say it's a miracle he made it out alive. Self-esteem and confidence really aren't his strong suits, he often finds himself dragged along and unable to say no. He is very friendly however, and if you just give him a little space he might even open up to you.

Wolfie (Twilight Princess)

21

4 years after defeating Ganondorf

Left Ordon after intrusive thoughts convinced him he was a danger to his village, now works at Telma's bar as a waiter in exchange for a room. He's responsible well liked, though he's not too fond of himself. He has some complicated feelings about the whole turning into a wolf thing

Apple (A Link to the Past, Oracle of Ages/Seasons and Link's Awakening)

20

Just a few seconds after Koholint disappeared

From one dream right into the next (sorta?) he's understandably disoriented at first. He pushes that aside pretty much immediately though, much more interested in getting to know everyone. He's a kind and soft spoken, weirdly wise sort of guy and near instantly becomes the heart of the team

Wallflower (A Link Between Worlds)

19

4 years after wishing upon the triforce with Zelda

Bitter doesn't even begin to describe this uh.. Pleasant fella. After being bossed around for the better part of his life he doesn't take orders from anybody and is this close to quitting his job as a blacksmith. He hates being stuck here, he hates these strange people, really there's not much he doesn't hate. But that can't be all there is to him...

Puzzle (The Legend of Zelda and Adventure of Link)

18

1,5 years after waking Zelda II

Confused, disoriented, but still happy to help and ready for adventure. Though some of the others don't really like him around he's still just as friendly to everyone. Since he struggles to communicate he tends to stay quiet. He appears to be simple minded on first glance, but he'll prove to be a valuable member of the team.

Sprout (Minish Cap)

23

13 years after defeating Vaati

After his grandfather died he retreated into his house and dedicated himself to improving his blacksmithing skills to live up to his grandfather's name, he was quickly forgotten by his community and faded into obscurity. Now he may be the best blacksmith in Hyrule, so good that even the royal guard hires him, but among the general castletown population he's nothing more than a forest cryptid. He only leaves the house when he has to, carefully avoiding people. Not because they disgust him, he just has a major case of social anxiety!

Squire (Breath of the Wild)

14

3 years pre calamity

This absolute rascal couldn't be happier about his current circumstances. These unknown woods are his playground and all of these weirdos are his friends now! Though everyone's pretty sure he's a knight trainee, he insists that he's just a stable hand for the guard. His chaotic and carefree nature surprisingly doesn't get in the way of things as he's eager to help out wherever he can, seeing the whole journey as an impromptu camping trip.

Some funfacts :]

Most of them are neurodivergent in some way!

Birdie and Seagull have ADHD, Grasshopper and Choo are autistic, Squire gets the combo platter AuDHD and Wolfie has OCD

Additionally, Birdie has auditory processing disorder and dyscalculia, and Squire has dyslexia

A few of them also have speech disorders

Choo stutters and Puzzle has cluttering speech disorder

Apple has a weak voice, so after a while his voice gets tired and gets hoarse

Choo enjoys drawings and cartography, two skills that will be very important!

One of Seagull's hobbies is photography! He takes his pictobox everywhere

Wolfie also does entertainment at the bar from time to time! He sings or does card tricks

Sprout knows HSL (hylian sign language) because his grandfather was deaf

Seagull's piratey way of talking is 100% for show and painfully inconsistent

Wolfie speaks in a thick southern (in universe ordonian) accent but he's trying hard to mask it since he moved to castletown

Wallflower absolutely hates Puzzle

Squire's special interest is horses

Birdie is a bit of a doormat so he has the ideas but Wolfie is the one to actually get them through

A number of them are blood related (has nothing to do with the colours of their names in this post, I had to reuse some because there weren't enough orz)

That's all I have for you today! Thank you so much for reading, I hope you enjoyed! :]

If any of you have any questions about my Links or AU you'd like answered, my inbox is open!

Have a lovely day everyone!

[bubuslutty]

pirate!captain Price au

word count: 1.2k

warnings: none. pretty sfw

a/n: im so in love with him it's pathetic. that's all I have to say

I need pirate!Captain Price.

I need him smoking with his foot propped up on the edge of his ship, the wind making his long coat dance in the wind.

I need him to stroke his beard while listening to whatever poor excuse someone gives him while owing him money before he orders his boys to tie them up and throw them to the sharks.

I need him to be ruthless with a soft spot for the misfits and orphans, more than often giving money to the beggars when he thinks no one is looking.

I need him to be a huge tease and start trimming his beard with his knife, or sword when someone’s boring him with loads of bullshit.

I need him to kiss a Lady breathless right before he jumps out of her window after he and his boys just robbed them of their riches.

I need him to place his hat on his face and take a nap on his hammock, snoring loudly away while his boys are daring each other to jump naked in the cold sea.

I need him to be so confident in himself and his skills, but not feel the need to prove it to anyone. He can take up anyone in a fight and win. He could have chugged 4 pints and was a bit wobbly on his feet, but as soon as he has his gun or sword in his hand, he never misses. Or heck, even his own fists could kill a man even if he was drunk, with pink cheeks, glassy eyes and all.

He’s fast, rude and absolutely despised by the Royal Navy. He’s been caught a couple of times and thrown in prison so he could be hung for his crimes, but he managed to escape every time. And when he didn’t, he would be standing in the middle of a clearing, waiting to be hung when his boys come out of nowhere, raining bullets and fire on the Navy, rescuing their Captain like they’ve done it a million times before. And the only reason he allowed himself to stay in the hands of the Navy for that long is because his boys begged him to let them rescue him, because according to their words, “It’d be fun."

I need pirate!Captain Price to be loved by pub owners and whores. Because not only is he generous when it comes to paying for everyone’s food and drinks, he’s generous in giving out as many orgasms as his partner for the night wants. He would treat the whores like Ladies, even though they won’t consider themselves anything close to high-class proper Lady. And when everyone’s satiated and drowsy, Price makes sure to leave a hefty amount of money under their pillow before he leaves.

Pirate!Captain Price who wouldn’t want to settle down any time soon, who feels more comfortable in constantly moving around and being surrounded by his boys, who’re practically his family. He feels like he’s meant to be some sort of shepherd to those who the streets treat unkindly. He’d rather offer a job to someone than see them lost in the streets, with no one to rely on. So he’s some sort of Robin Hood in his own ways.

And when fate finally slaps him across the face with love, it happens in the most unexpected ways. It happens on a random Monday, Gaz shouts that there’s another ship not far off on the East and everyone gets ready to attack it. When they do attack the ship, swinging abroad and scaring the crewmate shitless, John finds himself in the middle of a wedding, a bride, groom, guests and the priest about to make them say their vows.

And everyone is obviously terrified, but John’s no cruel man, he can’t ruin a poor couple’s special day, so he thinks about leaving until he meets the bride’s eyes. She was pretty, oh so pretty all dressed in white lace and pearls, but she also looked terrified, hands trembling on her sides and he understands, she was scared for her life. John glances at his boys and tells them to leave without saying a word, and then he notices the tables with wine and champagne, and John has to have a sip or bottle, doesn’t matter.

And that’s how he makes the biggest mistake ever, he walks to the front, where the couple was frozen along with the priest with the table to their left, and really, why put the drinks at the front? Why not at the back? But John doesn’t care to think too much of it, he ignores an old woman flinching and slapping a hand over her mouth and he hums, picks a flute of champagne, and their biggest, most expensive bottle of wine.

Right as his lips were about to touch the edge of the flute, he sees a blur of ivory white in the corner of his eyesight, and everything happens so fast that he failed to stop the bride from grabbing his sword right under his nose. John meets her eyes and it was the first time he truly felt scared for his life, her eyes were dark and absolutely furious and he thought that was it, he was about to die by the feet of a priest and groom, stabbed to death by the prettiest bride he’s ever seen, truly an Angel sent down to pierce his heart and make him bleed for all of his sins.

But she doesn’t stab him.

Instead, she buries the sword in her groom’s heart and the ship erupts in horrified gasps and screams. John watches in real time how the priest faints and how the groom meets his bride’s eyes, unable to breathe while his clothes are getting soaked in pure red at a concerning speed. He curses her out and John is so lost, what the fuck did just happen?

And it seemed like that was not all because the bride is panting and had a wild look on her face, and she turns to someone in the crowd, screaming at the top of her lungs, “I TRUSTED YOU!”

John looks at the crowd and quickly sees an older woman with a guilty and terrified look on her face, hm, must be her mother, same eyes and hair. Then the click of a gun somehow reaches John’s ears in the chaos and he sees a man lift his gun, pointing it towards the bride, and John realises it’s the poor bloke’s father who the bride just killed. John’s hands drop the bottle, the liquid staining his clothes and he grabs the bride without thinking, he throws her over his shoulder and snatches back his sword and jumps out of the window, landing on his ship.

And he doesn’t have to say anything before his boys steer his ship away and they sail as fast and as far as the wind carries them, away from the mess the bride left behind. Well, she wasn't a bride anymore, was she?

When John’s senses catch up with his reality, he finds himself hovering over the bride, her see-through veil still draped over her angelic face, doing nothing to hide her wild eyes as she stared at John, chest heaving up and down. And he was still clutching onto his sword, the blade bloody and warm, matching the same colour of the wine that was now staining his trousers.

What did I just do?

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Sci-fi Section | Among The Stars

Group: ATEEZ

Pairing: Yunho x Fem!Reader

Word Count: 3.4k

Rating: 18-21+

Genres + AUs: Non-Idol AU, Space AU, Aliens, Smut

Content & Trigger Warnings: Alien!Yunho, Space Pirate!Reader, explosions, injuries, reader & crew are presumed dead, unprotected sex(wrap that shit up kids), size kink, pet names, dirty talk, fisting, oral sex(f receiving), double penetration, orgasm denial

Summary: You just wanted this job to go down without a hitch so you could take a long overdue vacation. You weren't planning to end up in bed with a hot alien dead-set on making you scream his name for the whole planet to hear.

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When you entered the Sci-fi section you were surprised to find the glowing book right away. Taking a moment to collect yourself, you pulled the book from the shelf and opened it. White light filled your vision before fading to black.

"Y/N, wake up! We're here!"

Sitting up with a start, it took you a moment to remember that you were in the captain's quarters of your beloved little ship Desire. You'd been having a strange dream about a library and some kind of trial you were supposed to complete. Shaking your head to clear it, you dressed and exited your room.

Yeonjun was waiting for you in the cockpit with the rest of your crew. You smiled at them, a sense of relief filling you as you gazed at the large blue planet Azerulas. Once this shipment was delivered, you would have the money to expand both your clientele and the reach of your travels. All six of you were praying to whomever might be listening that everything would go over without a hitch.

Taking your place in the pilot's seat, you turned off the autopilot and expertly steered the ship into the queue to await your turn at the security gate that hovered above the planet.

You'd never been to this planet, but many of the foods and drinks you enjoyed on Earth originated from here, so you hoped you'd have time to enjoy the sights and tastes.

When you reached the gate, you were surprised to see a human officer instead of an Azerulan. The exhausted-looking female gave your phoney information a mere cursory glance after discovering the credits embedded in the code of the documents. A quick tap had the money landing in her personal account without trace and she waved you on through.

The grin on your face was wide as you docked in the designated hangar and turned to your crew.

"We've been planning this for months now, everyone knows where they're going and what they're doing. Don't forget, if things look suspicious, say the codeword through our private comm line and we'll retreat back here. Any questions?"

Five pairs of eager eyes watched you excitedly, but none voiced any concerns.

"Alright, let's get this show on the road."

As you disembarked the bright silver of Azerulas' three moons lit the hangar bay like it was daytime. Gazing around in awe, it took mere seconds for you to realise that most of the things you'd heard about this planet's inhabitants were the results of misinformation.

The Azerulans were far less humanoid than you'd been told, each alien bearing two extra arms and glowing multi-coloured eyes. They sported a variety of different skin colours and wore minimal clothing. Mouthfuls of sharp needle-like teeth flashed around you in conversation or laughter, and long forked tongues darted out to moisten dry lips. They were also incredibly tall, the shortest in your immediate sight measuring a good seven feet.

Taking a deep breath, you locked down your ship and activated the theft alarms. Then you set out, your crew falling in behind you as you exited the hangar bay and entered the city.

Your senses were immediately assailed with bright flashing lights and an overwhelming mix of smells that made your eyes water. This had not been at all what you were expecting of the calm-looking blue planet, and it caught you off guard slightly.

Recovering quickly, you turned and spoke to the others in a low voice.

"This place is far busier than we were planning for, so make sure you stay with your partner at all times. We can't afford for anyone to get lost, especially if we have to make a hasty retreat. Got it?"

Everyone nodded and you smiled. "Now, let's get this show on the road!"

The others dispersed as blonde-haired Soobin fell in beside you. You smiled at him but neither of you spoke, fully focused on the task at hand.

After a good half-mile trek through the massive city, you reached your destination: a bar named Star 1117. Taking a deep breath, you pushed the door open and stepped inside.

The bar was surprisingly empty for this hour of the evening, you'd thought the place would be bustling. Perhaps your client was rich enough to buy the place out for the night and keep your transaction completely private.

You could almost feel the tension radiating off of Soobin and knew that he was just as uneasy as you. Something about all this just didn't feel right, like you were walking into a trap. So you both kept a hand on your guns, ready to pull them out at a moment's notice.

"There you are!" A familiar voice declared as you stepped into the bar's expansive storage room. "I was wondering if you were actually going to show up."

The masked face of your client, who had only ever given his name as JK, greeted you with a sharp smile. His dark eyes glittered with some indiscernible emotion.

"My apologies." You and Soobin bowed smoothly in greeting. "There was quite a line at the security gate."

JK chuckled. "Understandable. Azerulas is approaching peak tourist season, so traffic is picking up. Now, do you have what I asked for?"

You nodded. "I do. My crew has it ready to bring in as soon as I see you've brought the money."

"Pretty AND smart! I'm looking forward to doing more business with you."

JK motioned to one of the men behind him who stepped forward and opened the digipak on the table. The pak's holoscreen lit up, showing that it did indeed hold the promised three thousand credits.

"Satisfied?" JK asked, running a hand through his vivid purple hair.

You smiled. "I am." Tapping the watch on your wrist, you opened the private comm line and called for Yeonjun and Huening Kai to bring the package.

A few moments later the duo arrived, a large steel crate swinging between them.

"Two shock guns, a dozen untraceable bombs, and a sniper laser gun. It's all here, just as you requested."

"Very good. You've given me such good service, I almost hate to do this…." JK's voice trailed off as a metal door slid down in front of him.

Before any of you could even think of moving, an explosion sounded immediately in front of you, followed by another to your left, a third to your right, and a fourth from behind you. Heat blossomed everywhere, rapidly filling the room with fire, and you dazedly felt yourself fall to the concrete. Your ears rang as the flames steadily grew, and smoke began to gather in your lungs. You coughed dryly, trying to find your crew as you felt your consciousness begin to fade. You saw Soobin and Yeonjun lying together in a heap, with an arm sticking out from beneath them that you desperately hoped belonged to Huening Kai. Spots danced before your eyes, blending together into a dark curtain that shrouded your vision as you passed out.

You were brought back to wakefulness by a hand pressing gently against your forehead. Your eyes slowly fluttered open, vision blurry until you blinked a few times. You were greeted by the startling sight of an Azerulan male’s face mere inches from your own and jerked back slightly, a hoarse cry scraping your raw throat. The male looked at you apologetically, leaning back to give you space.

“Wh-Where am I?” You asked, afraid that the alien was an associate of JK. “Where’s my crew?”

"They are safe. Do not worry, my friends are tending them as we speak." The Azerulan smiled and continued. "My name is Yunho. My friends and I saw you go in before the explosions, so when they went off and none of you had come back out we grew concerned and ran to see if you needed assistance."

Gratitude filled you as you smiled back at him. "Thank you Yunho. My name is Y/N, and it seems my crew and I owe our lives to you and your friends."

Yunho stood from his seat, all four hands raised in protest. "Nonsense, we were simply doing what any respectable citizens would do. Though I will say, it's not every day I get to rescue a pretty little human."

You blushed, not used to such compliments. Yunho excused himself to go see how his friends were faring with your crew, leaving you alone to process the recent chain of events.

It was clear now JK had set you up from the start, probably itching to get his hands on the bounties for the six of you. Space pirates were a scourge across all the universes, but you and your crew were the most notorious ones to ever exist. This was mainly due to the fact that the government could never catch you no matter how hard they tried, and so the rewards for proof of your death had skyrocketed the longer you evaded capture.

Unbidden, your thoughts suddenly turned to Yunho, and you wondered if his friends were as attractive as he was. You'd be lying if you said you hadn't fleetingly considered jumping his bones once you got over your initial shock of seeing him.

At six feet tall Yunho was the shortest Azerulan you'd seen so far, but he was by far the best looking in your opinion. His skin was a rich forest green with lighter green undertones and hints of brown in shadowed places. His eyes were a mix of blue and yellow with slit pupils and he wore only a long moss-green loincloth, leaving his sculpted torso bare. Elegant gold tattoos sprawled across his chest, arms and legs; an indicator that he held a fairly high position in Azerulas' society.

You shook your head, trying to clear it of the not-so-innocent thoughts floating through it. Yunho had saved you and your crew from death, tended your injuries and given you a place to stay. It would be incredibly inappropriate to repay those kindnesses by trying to get with him. Besides, he probably already had a girlfriend. There was no way a hottie like him was still single.

The next day Yeonjun and Huening Kai both woke up, and you were able to go visit them. That same morning Taehyun and Beomgyu had run into one of Yunho's friends and were brought back to the place you were staying. You were beyond thrilled to see them, relieved that they'd been unharmed. It was during reunion visit that Yunho came to inform you what was going on in the aftermath of the explosions.

JK had slipped from the burning building unseen, then went around telling everyone he'd dispatched the most infamous pirates. He'd even somehow managed to come up with some convincing photographic proof and ran off to some distant planet with the reward money.

You weren't quite sure how you felt, being presumed dead and all. None of you were actually, and it seemed Yunho could tell this, as he said the six of you could stay until you figured out what was next.

You never imagined you'd want to give up pirating so easily, but all of you had just been handed fresh starts on a golden platter and you would all be fools not to take them. So when Soobin woke up a few days later, you all sat down to figure out what to do.

Huening Kai had never gotten to fulfil his dream of going to college, so he decided that he'd like to finally go through with it. Beomgyu liked this idea as well, and said that he'd tag along.

Yeonjun and Soobin, who'd been dancing around their feelings for each other for an unbearably long time, finally decided to take the plunge and start dating. They weren't quite sure where they would go, but said they'd figure it out together.

Taehyun wanted to go back and visit his family, then travel to some of the places he'd always wanted to see.

As for you, you had no clue at all what you wanted to do with your life. You had no family to speak of, and no real ambitions that had been put on hold. Yunho, ever the gracious host, allowed you to continue staying even after the boys had all left.

In the silent days that followed, your initial attraction to Yunho grew stronger. And though you were no expert on alien behaviours, you started seeing some signs that maybe he was starting to feel something for you too.

It all came to a head one day when you accidentally left the bathroom door unlocked while you were taking a shower. You were taking your time under the steamy water, letting your thoughts run wild, when you heard a gasp from the doorway.

Your head whipped around, realising your mistake as soon as you saw Yunho frozen in surprise, a dark blush colouring his cheeks. Your hands flew to cover your private areas, silently cursing yourself for not double-checking that the door was locked.

You could clearly see the conflicting emotions in Yunho's eyes as he tried to figure out how to handle the situation. From somewhere deep inside of you came the mental image of him taking you in the shower, and it had your thighs pressing together.

Movement pulled your attention back to Yunho and you felt your heart lurch at the sight of him stalking towards you, yellow-blue eyes darkened with lust. He ripped his loincloth off in one smooth motion, the action sending a wave of heat straight to your core.

He flung the shower door open so violently it snapped off its hinges and clattered to the floor. Yunho's bulk filled the shower, pressing you against the back wall. You looked up, feeling incredibly small as he towered over you. One hand came up to caress your cheek as he began to speak.

"I've tried to hold back my feelings, you are a guest in my house and I do not wish to disrespect you. It became harder when it seemed that you reciprocated those feelings. But this…this was the final straw. If you are amenable, allow me to express my feelings to you."

You could feel your body practically vibrating with want. You'd never craved for anyone as much as you did for Yunho in this moment. And so you spoke the words he waited to hear.

"Please, Yunho, make me yours."

The Azerulan needed no further provocation, two of his arms immediately lifting you off your feet so he could claim your mouth in a searing kiss. Your arms wrapped around his neck as you kissed back, a thrill fluttering through you when his sharp teeth grazed your lower lip.

"The shower is not an appropriate place for such activities, little one. You will get sick when the water turns cold. Come, let me take you somewhere more suitable."

You nodded your assent, and he began to carry you out of the bathroom. As he walked, his other two hands began exploring your body. One cupped your breast, tweaking and pinching your nipple. The other slipped two fingers inside you, punching a moan from your lungs as your head flew back.

Yunho chuckled. "Your moans are as cute as the rest of you. Don't hold back, let me hear all of them."

His mouth found yours again as he pushed into his room and laid you on the bed. A forked tongue poked at your lips and you parted them, allowing him in.

After a bit you had to part for air, a string of saliva extending between the two of you.

"May I taste you, sweet one?"

"Yes, p-please!" You begged, desperate to know how his tongue would feel.

A smirk crossed his face and two hands gripped your thighs, spreading your legs and kneeling on the floor. As you looked on, you saw him do something you'd had no idea he could do: His tongue, which was far longer than any human's, suddenly split down its centre, effectively creating two tongues.

A gasp fell from your lips as you felt one slip into each of your holes, going further than any fingers ever could. You could feel your high rapidly approaching and choked out a warning to Yunho, who immediately stopped eating you out.

You opened your mouth to complain, but he shushed you.

"Surely you're stronger than that. You can be a good human and hold out till I cum, can't you?"

You'd never held back your orgasm before, but for Yunho you would catch the moon if he asked, so you were certainly going to try.

"Yes, I'll h-hold it! Please I need you inside me!"

"As you wish, little one."

Without further preamble, Yunho began to slowly slide into you. The cry that left you was akin to a scream, his girth bigger than anything you'd taken before. The skin of his length was covered with bumps and ridges that offered extra pleasure as he began to thrust into you at a steady pace.

"Oh g-god, you're so big, gonna break me."

Yunho leaned over, engulfing your smaller frame as he did so. One half of his tongue slid out to curl around the shell of your ear.

"You love being stuffed full like this, don't you? You'd love to be split open on my dick, wouldn't you?"

Goosebumps rose all over your body and you felt your high rushing forward once more.

"Harder Yunho, please. Want you to ruin me!"

At your words Yunho let out a growl that would have been utterly terrifying in any other situation, but in this instance only served to pull a loud moan from you as he began pounding into you so hard the bed started to bang against the wall.

In the midst of all this, you felt something prodding your other hole and realised it was one of his hands slipping inside. One finger went in, then another and another, until finally his entire fist was shoved inside you and began to move. At this you did scream, eyes rolling back as your mind went blank and all remaining thoughts turned fuzzy.

By the time Yunho's hips began to stutter, you had been reduced to a babbling mess incapable of producing any kind of coherent sentence. Once more he leaned over you and whispered into your ear.

"You can cum now, little one. Cum all over my cock for me."

Your mouth stretched wide in a silent scream, your body locking up as the world went white and the most intense orgasm you'd ever had washed over you. You barely registered the sound of Yunho cursing and the feeling of his seed spreading inside you, too lost in the post-orgasmic bliss.

When you came back to yourself you found Yunho lying beside you, gently rubbing your side where a strange mark now rested.

"Wha's that?" You asked, words slurring as though you were drunk.

Yunho smiled softly. "It is a special symbol among our people, a sign of our love-bond to each other. It is very similar to the human concept of marriage, though we do not hold such grand ceremonies to celebrate it."

Your smile mirrored his as you curled into him and felt all four arms wrap around you.

"I think I like this better." You murmured sleepily. "Who needs some expensive ceremony anyway?"

Yunho laughed quietly, pressing a kiss to the top of your head before joining you in blissful slumber.

Jolting awake you bolted into a sitting position, eyes darting about wildly. Where were you? What had happened to Yunho? Why were you in a library?

Then reality came rushing back and the fear left your body. Seonghwa had spoken rightly when he said you would forget what was real the deeper you went. Even now, a part of you wanted to dive right back into the book and find Yunho.

Shaking your head, you lifted the key that had appeared in your palm. It was gold, decorated with deep green emeralds. It joined the first two and you stood, catching your breath as you pondered your next move.

Perhaps it would be best to get the worst over with before you were fully sucked into the false realities. Yes, you decided, the Horror section would be next.

Let's get this over with.

[fruit-salad-ship]

The chained peach pirate AU, maybe peach gave herself up to a powerful enemy that was threatening the crew and more specifically plum, forced to be chained up for all eternity at whatever whims this person had. But then plum comes along and wrecks their shit, before freeing peach and carrying her into the sunset, with the bonus of showing Peach how powerful plum has become in this form

I had to do this on my phones tiny screen but had to do it none the less!

This was suppose to be another flawless pillage of a rich merchants coastal retreat. Grey had found this lead, Plum had staked it out with a couple of other crew mates, and finally they ran the place through.

Or so they’d planned.

Peach watched, stood beside a grand chandelier that had fallen, crashed to the floor, the crystal under foot crunching as soldiers filed in one by one. Their bayonet fronted rifles were poised on the crew, they’d not been as sneaky as they should have, and certainly had not anticipated a trap.

A middle aged looking man in a very formal naval officers outfit stood, no gun, just a sword. He’d been exchanging blows with peach up until now, and had been losing sorely. His pride damaged. This woman before him a clear superior at something he was hailed the best at. The blood in his veins boiled.

No matter. The pirates were surrounded, he’d been smarter than them, stayed one step ahead. Plum watched from across the room as her men were being herded back to her, bad towards the entrance they’d initially stormed. All her crew bar one. A line of armed guards separated peach from the others, she saw this, saw the rising concern on plums face but stayed calm.

“Surrender. Just you. Do this and your crew can leave this place with their lives.” The arrogant military man who peach has been duelling mistook her as captain, perhaps luck, or maybe he was aware of what she was. His home was adorned with trophies of the rarest of kills, the most mythical hunts known to man. Was he aware of what she was? Peach glanced back to her people, her captain shook her head subtly.

There was no way out, surrounded, out numbered, peach saw herself the only one to survive this nightmare. She could not lose her own. It was her job to keep the crew safe, and here she had a chance to do just that.

Her sword is slowly lowered, as she does this a few of the crew shout to her not to do it, cries that go ignored. One in particular stands out, peach is directly disobeying her captain. Plums voice shouts, angry, furious even that peach is not even looking at her. Truth is she can’t. Won’t bring herself to do it.

“Fine. You let them get back to the ship unharmed, give them a day to leave the area, and… I stay.” A deal the man would not pass up. He too lowered his weapon and encroached on peach’s personal space, an act that didn’t evoke an attack from her, just a fierce sneer. His hand gestured and the guards around the crew stepped away, a gap opening for them to escape.

Grey had to drag plum away, this was not the time to fight, they couldn’t handle this. And so the captain had to accept that leaving behind one in favour of keeping many alive was the best option. Peach wouldn’t look at her, not when she shouted, not when she said her name, not once as the outlaws were ushered out at gunpoint. Somehow that hurt worse than if she’d been gifted even a moment of eye contact.

The crew were escorted out, their ship already riddled with foe, they really had got the drop on them. Grey bared teeth and stood between the smaller members of their family and those with weaponry, able to glance back up to the mansion they’d been evicted from. Finally Peach was looking at them, watching, making sure they were able to leave safely, occasionally exchanging words he couldn’t hear with her captor. He saw her willingly offer her wrists with a seething rage filled expression, shackles secured. Plum was trying to keep everyone else on track, calm, together, you could see her anger however. Her tentacles seemed to squeeze things with a fierceness, wringing around each other in tight knots as she gave orders to get the ship out of this bay.

Peach stood beside her captor and watched that ship sail out. Seeing the small figure on deck barking orders, just thankful the crew were safe, that Plum was safe. This was a fair trade, her for them, she could sit in her isolation and not hate herself for this decision.

It was weeks of planning, scouting, bribery, every card that could be pulled. Plum was not alone in this quest. The whole ship rallied to get their second in command back. Peach had become the protective if not grouchy figure they relied on. Though she never ate, she made sure they did, though she never slept she understood they still needed to, took up shifts of those caught up late at night. Boa was especially distraught, her undead human was on land where she could not venture. Plum did everything she could to comfort the monster, her writing body always just under the surface, as if she stayed close to watch over them. It was a very difficult time to walk the decks, and every member of the crew became use to Plums pacing day and night.

Knowing they’d moved peach further inland was their bane, she was an ocean creature, at her weakest away from the waves.

Sadly for peach, no matter who discovered her skills, her immortal soul, body that’d heal in seconds, they always wanted to test the theory. This man was not the first to try to push her to breaking point. He played head games, tried to manipulate her into all manner of behaviours. Physically there was very little that could be done about his torment. This far inland meant Boa was not an option for rescue, her energy waned faster, no time to regenerate well between his tests, if you could even call them that. Sadistic was closer to how this felt. Every waking moment was painful, her immortality did not end the suffering brought with injury, she was not impervious to feeling a knife in her side, or a bullet in the head. It’d still riddle her with agony, but soon after pass, no matter what peach felt some comfort in knowing she was the cockroach of the ocean, unkillable, this human would not end her, she would outlive this.

Some days were worse than others, but there was still peace in knowing her crew and most of all her captain lived on, they would not survive this.

Days blurred into each other, locked away until her presence was required. She was washed, dressed up in ridiculous clothes, painted with makeup, pulled out for guests as a party trick, objectified and reduced to a toy, a trinket to entertain. People were encouraged to “do their worst” and yet, she would not die. The laughter, the jovial nature each twisted individual took over their abuse was inhuman. Yet they dared to call her the monster. There was irony there, somewhere, and perhaps peach would find it once she was free of the need to grit her teeth and bare with this.

She had become so numb to them coming and going from her cell, so indifferent to whoever would arrive to prolong her suffering that she stopped looking up when the cage door creaked. Today was no different. She just waited, an instinctual tenseness in her jaw, in her back, readying for what was to come.

But it didn’t. Something soft and gentle touched her cheek, ran down to under her chin and forced her head up. She knew this feeling, from a lifetime ago, from the present day, perhaps this was a trick of the mind to keep her sane, or maybe she’d finally taken enough pain to become truly unhinged.

Feet moved around, distant sound, swords clashing in another room, but in the here and now, the low light of a lantern somewhere, peach could pick out the form of someone familiar, just her, keys jingling in her hand as she kneeled down.

“Captain?” Unsure if she was seeing this woman before her, now close enough to reach the shackles and unlock them. Each tentacle that was able reached out and touched this woman, ran along her neck, caressed her face, brushed her arm. It was gentle, it was kind, the first feeling that wasn’t pain or discomfort in a long time.

“I’m here, it’s ok, we’re getting you out.”

Peach felt her restraints open, arms heavy as they fell, the damage from rubbing against the metal healing after a few seconds, scrapes and scratches returning to a pristine state.

“You shouldn’t be here, they’ll kill you for thi-” a kiss shut the immortal being up, the fear that swelled thinking of what would happen to the woman she’d come to love fading, mind struggling to think of that, think of anything else besides the soft lips on hers that were a million miles away from the hurt she’d endured.

Plum pulled away, commotion outside the doors feeling unimportant for this one second.

“Can you stand?” Asked as plum got to her feet, an extended hand offered. A moments hesitation passed before peach took it, being pulled up to her feet, the once human captain may have been physically weak before, but now she was a totally different woman. Pulling the heavyweight up was no effort, the dress she’d been put in falling gracefully. Plum unhooked a sword from her belt, not hers, peach’s, retrieved from the lockup here. It felt good to hold it again, to have a blade back in her hands.

“Let’s go home.” The last thing Plum uttered, the battle to leave would be mighty, but now everyone had a reason to fight hard, their family was reunited, they had each other back, in one piece.

[critter-rarepair-reccs]

Hey all, hope everyone's having a good Wednesday! Today we have eight whump fics for your enjoyment! Some are on the lighter side, some are much heavier, so don't forget to mind the warnings! As always, you can find them below the cut and if you check any of them out, I encourage you to leave kudoes and comments to spread the rarepair love 🩷

if you must falter, be wise by mabarihound (3,546 words, Explicit) Pairing: Eadwulf Grieve/Essek Thelyss (Esswulf) Warnings: Graphic Depictions of Violence, Major Character Death, Unhappy Ending, Dubious Consent, Cannibalism, Body Horror

Wulf dies but Essek brings him back as a vampire, a la the Briarwoods.

Reccer Says: unhappy ending TO YOU. I'm built different. Essek is so fucking insane in this, Wulf is barely human, there's so much blood and bad sex, it's gruesome and sad and amazing. Love doesn't fix anything but it makes a thrilling story!

The Self in the Other by fjorests_of_wildemount (1,010 words, Teen) Pairing: Astrid Beck/Eadwulf Grieve (Blumenduo) Warnings: None

After killing some of Trent’s loyalists, Astrid and Wulf head home to tend their wounds.

Reccer Says: It’s a delicious glimpse into what post-C2 might look like for these two and I love it. Their dynamic oozes of the decade and a half of history between them and it’s so good.

Crowned Teeth (or, an Offering Revoked) by fruitzbat (130,570 words, Mature) Pairing: Kingsley Tealeaf/Original Female Character Warnings: Graphic Depictions of Violence, Slavery, Mentioned but Not Depicted Sexual Violence

Kingsley escapes being kidnapped by pirates after being mutinied against. Finding himself a long way from home, Kingsley then resorts to hunting the people responsible down with the help of a new ragtag bunch of misfits that call him captain.

Reccer Says: With respect to the rarepair, I think it's a fun dynamic. fruitzbat does a really good job of capturing all of those weird, uncomfortable nooks and crannies that come with new relationships. And I think most importantly, Kingsley really stretches his wings as his own person. There is such a clear vision of what he's like and how that's distinct from Molly and Lucien, and that clearness really carries throughout both this piece and the rest of the series.

which is a tenderness. by redhoods (5,724 words, Mature) Pairing: Fjord/Caleb Widogast (Widofjord) Warnings: Fjord-typical Self Harm, Fantasy Racism

Caleb returns to the tavern and learns Fjord has gotten hurt in a bar fight then locked himself in their room, refusing healing.

Reccer Says: Fjord angst and tender wound care *chef's kiss* (and also just a touch of trans Fjord)

i feel you, your precious soul by glossolali (6009 words, Mature) Pairing: Mollymauk Tealeaf/Essek Thelyss (Shadowmauk) Warnings: Offscreen Past Non-Consensual Body Modification, Mentions of Limb Loss & Amputation, Mentions of Disordered Eating, Selective Mutism, Panic Attacks

Essek, a cyberware expert, medical technician and researcher, helps his friends save Mollymauk’s life using what he knows best. What he didn't count on, was the connection that would develop between them, and his own misgivings about it.

Reccer Says: Cyberpunk/cybernetics AU, Essek has mixed feelings about fixing up Molly, and about initiating a relationship (established shadowgast, established widomauk, but Essek hasn't said anything to Molly about them yet). Its great <3 mollymauk's half cybernetic/prosthetics, and the malfunctioning is pretty oof

fell in love with the fire long ago by BananasofThorns (2,501 words, Teen) Pairing: Fjord/Caleb Widogast (Widofjord) Warnings: Mind Control, Burns

Caleb has been mind controlled and is attacking the party with deadly intent. Fjord has a ring of fire resistance and a bad plan.

Reccer Says: What's not to love about a person being forced to hurt those they care about and then blaming themself for it? I've rearead this 3 times.

by the water by nonbinarywithaknife (578 words, Teen) Pairing: Veth Brenatto/Yeza Brenatto Warnings: Graphic Depictions of Violence, Major Character Death, Canonical Character Death, Nott-Typical Alcoholism

In Felderwin, Nott sits by the river and remembers.

Reccer Says: Mostly sad, briefly sweet. She's really been going through it😢

Peace At Last by HyperKid (4,770 words, Mature) Pairing: Jester Lavorre/Mollymauk Tealeaf (Jestermauk) Warnings: Graphic Depictions of Violence, Mentioned Past Character Death

After Cognouza, Jester takes some quiet time to herself in the Blooming Grove. Molly finds her and they cuddle and talk through some difficult emotions.

Reccer Says: It's heartaching and sweet in equal measures. The atmosphere is beautiful and suits it so well. Molly and Jester fit together so well, like the softest of puzzle pieces, if that makes sense. Their relationship feels natural and you can sense the strength of their bond in each moment. It's got some wonderful mentions of Jester's struggle with being the Happy One and Molly having lost so much time while his friends have grown as well, on top of all of the other deliciously angsty feelings the two of them are coping with.

Thank you for joining us this week's recc list! All the love to everyone who submitted a fic 🩷 All enclosed recommendations were submitted by the community via our submissions form, which you can find here. All fic information is as it was provided by the reccer, so it may not be accurate to the author’s intent or the precise contents of the fic itself. Please assume good intent from all parties 🩷

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[mamamittens]

Fun little AU Nikia ideas while I pretend like it's not 2 AM and I should be asleep 😃

Just for clarification, OG Nikia right now is a very introverted elite ranger who lives in a cabin on a mountain in perpetual winter with giant ass wings by nature and a devil fruit to alter her size (whole or in parts).

Summer Isle AU, Nikia is a life guard beach babe who talks to no one because the only change here is she prefers summer and is okay existing around other people lol (Thatch suffers because there's only so many times he can pretend to drown well enough to fool her before he gets slapped clear to Impel Down and he's not scoundrel enough to do it but really wants to be personally saved by an 'angel'). No devil fruit because how you gonna rescue people in the ocean if you're a drowning risk yourself???

Spa AU Nikia where she's got a different devil fruit and doesn't hate the thought of touching strangers so much. So she works in the spas with her 'dream sheep' devil fruit that puts people to sleep with weird (occasionally prophetic) dreams. Hair is a fluffy, curly cloud when active and she kicks like a mule. Still has her wings but they put off cloud vapor like crazy. Very easily blends with clouds when flying.

Mermaid AU Nikia where shes basically half mermaid. Unsure what her wings would be... Either more like fins or covered in feathery filaments. As much as I like moon jellyfish (not sure how I'd accomplish that one specifically), as well as tetras, there's simply no funnier option than flying fish. Though I'd be tempted to do an eel or octopus as well just for shenanigans like stealing things when someone looks away or excessive cuddling for fluff. Preferably something venomous for added danger lol (Thatch would face many fishy allegations and beat none of them in this au).

Star fruit AU where she's still antisocial on the mountain but with a devil fruit that enables her to make stars. Enjoys casting them into the night sky and making her own light, not fond of the dark in this AU. Her eyes have stars in them that glow and she doesn't tell anyone but she can make wishing stars. Sometimes little stars get stuck in her hair and wings cause they don't wash out, they have to be physically removed by hand. For fun, she'll give herself freckles. Thatch gets to suffer from how cute it all is but will not be complaining, most agree with him.

Marine AU where the job market of her island (not the sister Summer and Winter Isles) is so bad the only real paying jobs are civilian contractor for the marine base nearby. Too out of the way to get 'real' Marines but still too close to an important trade route to go unguarded. There's a volcano on the island that's getting closer to blowing every year as the inhabitants scramble to earn enough money to live elsewhere, the government no help at all. Due to the shitty economy and frequent earthquakes, most buildings are especially vulnerable to strong forces, making everyone very nervous when the only real marine on base manages to catch and imprison a pirate. A Whitebeard Commander specifically. Nikia ends up as his guard and openly admits she's just waiting for his crew to arrive before he 'escapes' so her home can remain standing a little longer. Of course, things go awry and she ends up getting pretty badly injured protecting Thatch from the worst of the building falling apart. He can't just let that go, so it looks like she gets to leave sooner than expected. Not sure if she still has wings in this one. I want her to though...

Obligatory O/B/A. She doesn't have a devil fruit in this one, and I run wild with some less porn-specific ideas for how dynamics work. She's an omega but effectively lives as a beta with what I call 'puppy heats' every few months. It's the urge to nest, hoard resources, and occasionally cuddle people she's close to without any real need for sex. So none of that 'slick' or mindless lusting (as fun as it is to read, I'll fully admit). Less severe than full blown heats, hence the odd term. Her cabin is effectively her nest, and she's a bit... Brutal defending it from outside threats, particularly around her heat. Tends to molt before her heat and knows how bad it's going to be by how the molting goes. Lots of sleepy cuddles in this one. And yes, I imagine Thatch has at least strong alpha tendencies if he's not an alpha. I have a type and I'm only a little ashamed about that.

[alighieri-donquixote]

*ೃ◟♡››｡eustass kid relationship hcs (+modern!au)

›› tw: none!

›› gender neutral!reader › generally sfw, only a very few hand-in-booty mentioning › not proofread!

›› requested by anon: "Hi! Your headcanons are amazing, may I request relationship modern au and original universe headcanons for Kid? I hope it is not too much to ask for both universes. Thank you if you will do it!"

›› author notes: Hello dear! I'm so so glad you liked the format I proposed on Law&Killer hcs post and decided to ask one for Kid. I love this crazy bastard and I truly hope you appreciate these ideas I wrote. Btw, I'm so sorry for taking so long to write this :') My job is killing me.

Eustass Captain Kid

ORIGINAL UNIVERSE / GENERAL

Kid isn't able to demonstrate love conventionally. Due to his uncontrollable chaotic personality, the way he's found to show you how much he loves your presence is to annoy the shit out of you every time he can. The more Kid pokes you repeatedly to get your attention or taunts you about the most insignificant things ever, the more you understand that's just his way to tell you that he's comfortable with your relationship and wants you always beside him.

When Kid is not irritating you — affectionately —, he likes to have your skin under his touch without really caring if you have other people around. The Captain of Kid Pirates doesn't seem to be ashamed of letting everyone know who his partner is by having you on his lap with his hand on your hips, waist, or thighs. You rarely kiss in public though, since Kid finds it way too personal for other people to see, especially his crew. The best Kid can do about it is to just give you a small peck on your head as a greeting or a brief love demonstration act as he keeps that mischievous smirk on his lips.

Speaking about his touch, it's important to recognize how tough and harsh it can be most of the time. Kid would never have any intention to hurt you, but you already know how hard it is for him to control himself generally speaking. He squeezes and holds you tight a lot which makes some soft red marks left on your skin. They won't hurt you, but the intensity Kid exhales in your relationship can still surprise you sometimes. It isn't like you're bothered about it though.

Kid constantly shows off his strength to you, doing it by telling all the incredibly strong and important enemies he has defeated throughout his journey or promising you spoils from all the islands his future enemies have as their territories. You're always the first person to know about his victories as you're taken to the tavern with the crew to celebrate them.

If Eustass has left defeated from an important fight, however, be prepared to deal with the grumpiest man you've ever met in your life. Be sure to carefully hold his face, kiss his lips and scratch his head as he complains against your body in bed. Kid is still going to be irritated by his defeat, but he can at least try to forget about his frustration when he's with you. He thinks you're gonna hate him if he doesn't demonstrate he can protect you, so all this attention and cuddling will give him a little bit more calmness to his heart.

MODERN!AU

His favorite position to sleep with you is when he keeps you on top of him resting your head on his chest as he lays his hands on your back or even on your booty. If Kid chooses the second option, you’ll be able to feel him randomly squeezing your asscheeks during the night. Kid’s justification is that it works as a stress ball for him, which helps him to relax and then sleep.

Kid will approach you from behind out of nowhere to hug you firmly, squeezing your waist and pressing your body against his just to let it go a second after. It usually happens when you're studying or doing the dishes, and it's his way to tell you he's home or that he wants your attention. When he gets to the point of slightly biting your shoulder as he grunts something like “hey dear, c'mon”, it means that Kid is feeling upset and wants to be with you to forget about it.

People see Kid as an uncontrollable loud jerk who does nothing but what he wants. He gets pissed off easily, which means that people would see Eustass involved in a not-so-polite argument or even a fistfight quite often. Everything about him is completely different when you're around though. Kid visibly holds back his angry impulses when you're close to him, and whenever he's about to lose his mind over a meaningless taunt or anything like that, you're there to hold his hand and kindly ask him to calm down. He gets grumpy, of course, but still obeys you like a good dog on a leash.

Do you want to guarantee that Kid is going to get up in a good mood? Brush his hair or simply scratch his scalp as you gently wake him up by whispering and kissing the lobe of his ear, he just loves it so much when you cuddle with him like that. If he's just getting out of a bath, offer yourself to dry and brush his messy red locks and Kid will waste no time accepting it. When the two of you are cuddling before sleep or just during spare time, put your hands through the locks of his hair on his nape and kiss him. You'll have Kid nuzzling you like a kitten, bringing you even closer to feel more of your touch and deepen the kiss. Bonus points if you pull his hair mid-kissing.

[hermitdrabbles56]

Welcome to the Spaghetti Bowl

After staring at this blank post for TWELVE HOURS let's get this show on the road.

I go by many names but for the sake of simplicity and sanity just call me Hermit or some iteration of that. I go by they/them. and I am essentially a gremlin with so many thoughts that there are no thoughts.

My Ao3 is: HermitDrabbles56

because let's be honest I'm not going to remember to update this every time I post a fic..

Linked Universe AU's

At least the active ones:

The X-Files Boys

BNA Chain

Friendly Fire

Divine Beast (Nothing posted yet)

Monster Fight

Monkey!Twilight

Tender Betrayal

Porcupine!Time (Warning with this tag is some of sonicasura's wereporcupine au may be in there???)

Turtle!Wars

Witcher AU's

Active(ish): Note none of these are posted or talked about....yet..

Sky Pirate Eskel

Witchers and their Dragons (Eskel and Dragon Jaskier)

Depth of a Witcher (Eskel and Jaskier finally meet fic)

A dragon, 2 witchers and a baby

5 & 1 of Eskel having the brain cell

Drinking Songs for the Socially Anxious (Modern AU)

Others

Trollhunters Again

Fandoms And Chaos I Enjoy

This is just...a big cursed list of things that I am good at talking about.....I don't know why I'm doing this but here we fuckin go. Some of these I have binge watched into oblivion some of these I just greatly enjoy.

HTTYD and the subsequent tv shows

Treasure Planet (DreamWorks movie)

Rise of the guardians

Owl house

Tales of Arcadia

Linked Universe

Detroit Become Human

The Witcher (Game/Netflix)

Danny Phantom

Okami

Brand New Animal

Demon slayer

My Hero Acadamia

Godzilla Singular Point

Seven Deadly Sins (Netflix anime but Have not caught up since the third season)

Multiple cop shows just ask and I may know

X - Files

BBC Merlin

BBC Sherlock

Studio Ghibli (theres a handful I haven't seen but I know most..?)

Vox Machina

D&D and Pathfinder

Firefly

VARIOUS ANIMES I'm not a guru or anything but the list is long enough not even I have the time or patience to sort through and input them all

Flight Rising (even if my account is el deado right now)

Love Death & Robots

Stray (still need to finish)

Skyrim

Hellblade: Senuas sacrifice (still need to finish)

Inside job (I'm completely normal about this)

Disenchantment

Pyschonuauts

Dishonored

Good Omens (TV show)

Razias shadow, Hades Town and several other musicals

ANd God Knows What else

[genshinology]

i want to say that royalty au with prince kaeya and the reader is a female knight lives rent free inside my mind nowadays 😗

A PRINCE'S KNIGHT. kaeya

pairing; kaeya x fem!reader

genre; royalty au, maybe modern au too?

summary; when the crown prince always had his eyes on you since day one.

word count; 1.4k

content; pince!kaeya, reader!knight, mentions of other characters and reader is one of a kind (cliché? i know), basically these two are oblivious with each other.

notes; at first, this was a really long piece because the idea of prince kaeya seems muah, chef's kiss but... i had to cut it short since writer's block about the details really got me :')

the moment you decided to join the knights, none of the people surrounded you were delightful to hear the news.

in fact, they even thought you were such an embarrassment for them, coming from the small fishing village near the vast ocean, and even before you came to the capital for the selection of the knights, you always helped your brother ran his business inside his tavern, and sometimes you would help him warding off the pirates docking nearby.

which was quiet a tough job for a woman.

the kids and females around you back in your town seemed to always look down at you and your job of repairing wooden boats that had gotten unfortunate because of the storms.

sometimes, they would laugh seeing you drenched in sweats under the sunlight for all day, saying that you were such a weird girl for doing a supposedly man's job.

men was stronger in term of strength than women in nature, but that didn't hold you back from searching any source of incomes to support you and your family.

so when the news of the failed assassination attempt of the crown prince spreading throughout the whole kingdom like a wildfire with the suspect flee from the scene before the prince and his guards could take him down, and hearing that the royal family wanted to recruit more people around your age to become the knights, your family knew it would be a great opportunity for you, and for the medical expenses of your father's.

your brother convinced you days and nights for you to try, because you were scared of staining your already bad image in front of the girls and there was no way you would take the chance, you weren't guaranteed to get in the knights in the first place.

the stereotype of those things weighed heavily inside your mind, that a girl should be more elegant, and not doing what you were currently doing at your place.

your family and friends managed to convinced you at the end, saying that if you did get in, you would prove the villagers wrong and that your salary would be way more worthy than your entire life.

and surprisingly, among hundreds of people, ranging from all kind of men and women your age from all around the kingdom, with five phases for you to pass, you succeeded.

you succeeded along with fifteen other recruits, and the letter of joy you received from your family was still under your pillow, inside the dormitory of the knights.

recalling one of the significant memories you made along the way, you couldn't help but smile.

you met amber and eula, another two girls who were surprisingly from the city yet so humble in helping you with your bow lessons and etiquette classes.

and the most unforgettable memory would definitely be the first time you met the crown prince, not only it would be controversial but without your curiosity and carelessness that fateful night, you wouldn't even think that you would be friends with him up until now.

even you cringed at the words prince and friend in a sentence, how ironic.

"oh? what are you smiling at?" the soothing yet teasing tone of prince kaeya nearly startled you, how long had he observed you?

"y-your highness," you bowed down, couldn't help but felt shy when you knew he saw you smiling like an idiot just now and scared that he might have gotten a wrong idea of you slacking off instead of doing your night shift around the east wing.

"didn't i already say there would be no need of this silly hierarchal title when there was only the two of us?" he said calmly, even claimed his spot beside you and you quickly looked around the palace garden, panicking that others would see and questioning what you were doing with the crown prince before he calmed you down, his palm behind your back, "relax. you are my personal knight, the court wouldn't dare to do anything at you."

he palmed your cheeks in between his warm hands despite the cold night, turning your face to look at him in the eyes and your mind wandered back to his last sentence. yeah, his current action would be super controversial for anyone who saw you.

you scoffed, pulling his hands away from your flushed face and the prince was slightly amused at your cautious actions, "kaeya," his name rolled off your tongue awkwardly, getting used to calling his first name was hard, but if that what he insisted, then you should practice saying that from now on.

"uhm?" he hummed, and you slightly cursed at yourself for finding his voice attractive with the effects he gave to you.

"what.." you couldn't talk casually with him, but you should try, because you were going to be by his side more often, "why did you choose me to be your personal guard?"

his eyebrows raised, amused at how different you were the moment his eyes landed on you, you looked like an independent woman, sometimes did exceptionally well in training as his chest swelled up with pride seeing you passed all the stages yet here you were, shying away from his gaze and he could see how erratic your breathing was.

something about you made his heart tugged, and he knew you would bring a bad news for him and his feelings the moment you and him first met at his study in the big library at the middle of the night.

a fragile woman, clothes too weary, almost made a contact with the floor when you saw the literal crown prince in front of you before he pulled you towards him, and you freaked out seeing him in his pajamas, because you shouldn't be in the library, it was way past the curfew for you and all participants yet he shrugged your legally wrong action off.

since then, he was looking forward for you to sneak around again, but you didn't, because you were scared of someone knowing your relationship with him. sometimes kaeya seemed to do the opposite, he would be the one casually strolling around the palace to see the determination in your eyes from afar, and he was content to see you again.

"kaeya?" your voice brought him back to the reality, and he smiled seeing you all doe eyes, wanting to know his answer, "well, i might be biased," he casually answered, and your mouth left hanging open, "what do you mean? what if i couldn't protect you—

he hushed you, "princess, calm down," you knew kaeya had a way too flirty attitude for someone who was a higher-up than you, but that didn't stop you from widening your eyes and looked anywhere but his face, the audacity he had of calling you with those names wasn't helping to make you less nervous, "i chose you because i believe in you since that day i caught you in my arms," he recalled the moment both of your first met smoothly, the way you almost fell but just like a cliché story, he saved you from getting your kiss with the floor.

just why did he have to come up with that embarrassing moment and just why did his words of choosing brought heat to your face?

yet you couldn't help but chuckle when remembering the same thing, mentally telling yourself to behave and not getting too caught up with his attitude towards you.

"you're my first friend outside of the palace, so maybe you are special to me."

friends, of course you were friends.

"thank you, your highness," you decided to not indulge yourself at the foreign, dangerous emotions that was starting to tingle inside you, "for giving me the opportunity to be in this place."

the prince gave you a small smile, you couldn't read his expressions but kaeya thought you shouldn't know the thoughts running at the back of his mind, seeing you all doe eyes and thanked him made him questioning himself, did this relationship was platonic, or was this had morphed into something more?

the urge of feeling your lips on his was so overwhelming, you were so innocent and different and he was too weak to handle you, friends shouldn't even think of that kind of actions yet here you were, proved his mindset wrong way more than one.

there was no way he didn't have feelings for you and he knew, you felt the same too.

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[tangent101]

They screwed up on the timeline. Oh, I understand why. It was very deliberate... because they wanted to make David and Joyce less detestable. So having David NOT being married to Joyce let them claim Chloe was being a bit unreasonable.

Mind you, it is canon to the original game that David and Joyce married prior to Chloe's 16th birthday as the "timeline of events" for the William Lives timeline starts with Chloe running away compared to alt-Chloe eating a lollypop, David and Joyce's marriage compared to alt-Chloe in Paris, and Chloe's Shitty 16th Birthday compared to alt-Chloe getting a truck for her birthday gift. Finally you have a photo of Chloe and Rachel being happy together... and alt-Chloe's accident that left her unable to walk.

We know it is her 16th birthday because when alt-Chloe was talking to Max about the accident she commented on her "Sweet 16" birthday and getting the truck.

David flirted with Joyce within two months of William's death. He didn't know. But Joyce didn't shut it down. And then she married David probably a little after the first anniversary of Wiliam's death... with a man she'd likely only known for a year.

Rather than push up Rachel's first encounter with Chloe, by having her be a new student at Blackwell that she gets to know, they had to make David look "nice" and continue the theme of Joyce, the suffering Saint of Arcadia Bay, forced to have an unreasonable daughter who treats her and her husband like shit. And you know? They could have even had all of this happen in September of 2009. The big news is David proposes to Joyce. This happens after David hit Chloe and Joyce blamed Chloe for it, for trying to drive David and Joyce apart.

Oh, and there's Rachel. Who was the writer who didn't think through the thought of Rachel's father being a District Attorney? I don't care if he loses his job because of corruption and stealing evidence. Cops watch out for their own (especially the corrupt ones). There is no way that the police wouldn't be still looking for the daughter of a (potentially former) District Attorney.

No. You want Rachel to have a reason for wanting to flee? She has homophobic parents. Chloe is used to abuse and controlling parents so she shrugs it off. After all, Rachel's parents don't actually hit Rachel so they're not bad. And if you want Rachel's parents to still be well-to-do? Have her dad be a dentist. Makes decent money, can have an office near Arcadia Bay, it might even be that most of the people in Arcadia Bay never even see the man because they have a dentist already.

So. Even with all of this, we could have salvaged an ending. But Deck Nine decided that this girl, who is designated a "human lie detector," does not realize that Chloe is lying to her about Sera. You want a proper ending, show that if Chloe lied about Sera that Rachel and she slowly drift apart with Rachel having plans or the like. James Amber likes this girl who kept his secrets but Rachel figures shit out. And if it's the other way around? The cops are harassing Chloe all the time, James Amber tells Chloe to get out of his house, and things are more hostile. Not a Happily Amberprice Ever After no matter what... until the Dark Room, which was a goddamn slap in the face to Amberprice fans which said "doesn't matter though, none of your choices matter because this is a dead girl."

No. You want an ending for this obvious AU setting? Have it end with a letter of application for Blackwell Academy, a photo of Max and Chloe in pirate outfits, and Max's name on the application. And Max's voice (done by Hannah Telle) says "I'll see you soon, Chloe." Or in other words, this was a world created by Max to save Arcadia Bay and Chloe Price, a No Sacrifice ending. The dread coming up isn't Jefferson murdering girls, no, maybe even have in the news about Jefferson's arrest. No. The big threat is the return of Max "The Fucking Timelord" Caulfield, who has done everything to make Chloe's life happier and now it's time for Max's return.

Because Before the Storm is not a prequel to Life is Strange. It's an AU. It's a fanfic that didn't think things through. It was crafted by someone who wanted to create an ideal Rachel Amber for Chloe to fall in love with. Someone who would never cheat on Chloe. It's no more the legit timeline than the comic books.

Before the Storm is literally a bad Life is Strange fanfiction.

Its so rough how did it get past all of the editing stages??

[arielxlazarus]

I almost forgot about that fanfic appreciation week, but I wanted to at least do something for it! So here's a rec list for some of my favorite fics in the one piece fandom!

This list is not at all exhaustive btw (there's still loads of other fics in the fandom that I love), so please don't feel bad if you weren't included! Also if anyone wants more recommendations from me, you can check out my bookmarks on my ao3!

Who Knows (what could happen) by Chromi

Rating: T

Pairing: Masked Deuce/Portgas D. Ace

Summary: For as long as he could remember, he had wanted to set out to sea as an adventurer. His father, unfortunately, dictated that he was to follow the family tradition and become a doctor instead.

Following a lifetime of hurt and sorrow at the hands of his family, he eventually breaks free and takes to the sea alone - determined to keep it that way. Fate has other ideas in store for him; fate crosses his path with Portgas D. Ace's, a brand new pirate.

And what does he hate more than pirates?

Nothing.

Or: from Sixis to the Moby Dick - the lives of the Spade pirates.

First Time by Chromi

Rating: E

Pairing: Masked Deuce/Portgas D. Ace

Summary: "Because it is Ace, and it will only ever be Ace, that he wants to see like this, and he wants to be responsible for unravelling him down to his core and loving him to his very center."

In which Ace and Deuce go all the way for the first time.

@chromiwrites

Seabound by AnkhPosts

Rating: T

Pairing: Masked Deuce/Portgas D. Ace

Summary: Ace is a selkie, making one of his periodic stops on land to catch a breather and get some ridiculously tasty human food, maybe see some sights if there are any. His pelt is safely hidden, he'll stay a day or two at most and be on his way.

Deuce is a mer, alone on the sea and traveling as he pleases for the first time in his life, and while he might not be terribly interested in actually interacting with humans it's hard not to see them as fascinating.

Ace meets Deuce. Deuce meets Ace. Neither knows the other isn't human.

@ankhposts

Death is only the beginning by Chizyk

Rating: T

Pairing: Marco the Phoenix/Portgas D. Ace

Summary: “Ankhreshet?” he whipped his head round at the sound of a raspy voice so fast he almost got whiplash. He could feel his body going completely cold as he saw the mummy’s empty eye sockets staring right at him.

@chizyk

I'm Still Here (part of a series) by theprodigypenguin

Rating: M

Pairing: Masked Deuce/Portgas D. Ace (also Izou/Sabo later in the series)

Summary: "When I do die, don't bother burying me in that empty grave. Put my body in a boat and set me out to sea. Let me sleep eternal on the ocean that my father loved so much; because before everything else in this world, I am a child of the sea, and when I die, I want to return to it. Put me in a boat and set it aflame so I can go down in the same fire I lived."

Forget-Me-Not Fall by theprodigypenguin

Rating: M

Pairing: Izou/Sabo

Summary: “Most of the nobles I’ve met tonight look meticulously put together. They look like they were built to portray a certain image paralleled a hundred times over. People who were copied and pasted. Flawless clothes, flawless faces, flawless makeup, flawless hair.”

“Not me though,” Sabo stated, and Izou hummed.

“It’s comforting.”

“Huh?”

Izou met Sabo’s eye. “Everyone else in this place hides their worst attributes with a mask they modified to fit their faces. They don’t seem to comprehend that those perfect masks only make their worst characteristics more pronounced and defined.” His expression was terribly gentle as his eyes wandered across Sabo’s face. “It’s comforting to be approached by someone not trying to be something else.”

Sabo tilted his head. “How do you know I’m not manipulating you like some common Goa aristocrat?”

Izou smiled. “There are a few reasons.”

@theprodigypenguin

A Light To Guide You Home by TheSkyIsMyHome

Rating: T

Pairing: Marco the Phoenix/Portgas D. Ace

Summary: In a world that despises mutants, Ace lives purely to protect his little brother.

Until the flames inside him find their perfect match and opposite, and he doesn't know what to feel anymore.

The Phoenix's Mate by TheSkyIsMyHome

Rating: E

Pairing: Marco the Phoenix/Portgas D. Ace

Summary: Marco is a handsome man. Ace really can't be blamed for being attracted to him. Nobody minds, either.

But Marco isn't always a man. Ace still loves him regardless, and his sexual urges are catching up to that fact.

Marco indulges him, but he might just find himself enjoying it more than he thought he would.

@evvazi

ASL in Red (series) by Kereea

Rating: G-T

Pairing: Marco the Phoenix/Portgas D. Ace, Monkey D. Luffy/Trafalgar D. Water Law (both asexual), Koala/Sabo, Akagami no Shanks | Red-Haired Shanks/Benn Beckman, Donquixote "Corazon" Rosinante/Aokiji | Kuzan, Roronoa Zoro/Sanji, and several other minor ones

Summary: In an alternate universe, forces conspired to put Ace, Sabo, and Luffy in the care of the Red Hair pirates as children.

The Grand Line would never know what hit it.

Mates (part of a series) by Deubatty

Rating: E

Pairing: Masked Deuce/Portgas D. Ace

Summary: Deuce just wanted to go searching for plants! A nice walk in the woods. Except, he ends up becoming the mate to a very persistent naga

His First Mate The Mermaid (part of a series) by Deubatty

Rating: T

Pairing: Masked Deuce/Portgas D. Ace

Summary: Instead of finding another person on Sixis, Ace finds a mermaid

@masked-writer

Being Human by MaiKusakabe

Rating: E (no smut)

Pairing: None (heavy focus on the platonic relationships between Marco, Whitebeard, and the rest of the crew as they form)

Summary: The line that differentiates human from object appears to be clear, but sometimes it blurs to the point where it is impossible to tell where one ends and the other begins.

The Unknown Devil by MaiKusakabe

Rating: E

Pairing: Marco the Phoenix/Portgas D. Ace

Summary: Ace hadn’t expected his last week of imprisonment before his execution to be any different from all the years preceding it. Then again, he hadn’t expected to have Marco the Phoenix as a cellmate for that week, or that Marco’s presence would shake his bleak world so much.

Ripple Effect by MaiKusakabe

Rating: E

Pairing: Marco the Phoenix/Portgas D. Ace

Summary: After the incident with Shanks, Garp didn't take Luffy to Dadan's, unaware of how much that would change the life of his other grandson.

@maisstories

To Build a Home by endlessblankpages

Rating: G

Pairing: None (heavy focus on the platonic relationships between the ASL bros and the Whitebeard Pirates)

Summary: The ASL pirates are used to being accused of crimes they didn't commit. But when they're accused of destroying a small village in the New World, it sends them hurtling toward a deadly confrontation with the strongest man in the world, Whitebeard. The results are not what they were expecting.

Persistence & The Impossible (part of a series) by dragonsfall

Rating: T

Pairing: Marco the Phoenix/Portgas D. Ace

Summary: In order to keep himself from losing his job, Ace takes on an impossible story. Get an interview with the ever-elusive Phoenix. Guess he might as well kiss his job goodbye.

Self Discovery (part of a series) by dragonsfall

Rating: E

Pairing: Izou/Sabo (sort of, it's technically masturbation)

Summary: Sabo has been waiting for a day like this for a while but it doesn’t go quite how he planned it.

@clockworkpanic

A Breach of Intention by Depths

Rating: T

Pairing: Marco the Phoenix/Portgas D. Ace

Summary: It was unspoken, but some pirate crews and mermaids had an unspoken solidarity. Pirates throw their enemies overboard, and the merfolk will take care of them.

mer!ace au

@leviathiane

Running on All Sixes by lunarshores

Rating: E

Pairing: Marco the Phoenix/Portgas D. Ace, minor Izou/Thatch

Summary: The Whitebeard gang might be one of the most influential in the city, but to Marco they're just his family. Though he sometimes wishes they'd just leave him alone, especially when Izo's playing matchmaker, and Ace is his usual oblivious self. When a brother betrays them, they'll have to fight to show why no one ever messes with their family.

nothing is impossible with you by lunarshores

Rating: T

Pairing: Marco the Phoenix/Portgas D. Ace

Summary: Five times Ace and Marco accidentally mixed their flames on accident and one time that was entirely on purpose.

@lunarshores

I Want You to Look at Me by shockandlock

Rating: E

Pairing: Marco the Phoenix/Portgas D. Ace

Summary: One night, Marco is missing from dinner, so Ace decides to bring dinner to him. He's surprised to see Marco wearing glasses and now he can't stop thinking about the way he looks. Now with additional chapter(s) including more miscellaneous MarcoAce PWP!

To My Dear Fire (part of a series) by shockandlock

Rating: T

Pairing: Marco the Phoenix/Portgas D. Ace

Summary: Living in the city is a new thing for Ace. After being raised near a cozy coastal mountain town through his childhood, it's definitely a change of pace, but it doesn't help when he loses his new job after an unfortunate encounter with actor Marco Newgate. He just wants to live-- and meet his long time pen pal, Phoenix.

Marco knows that being an actor is hard, so he takes the little things when he can: writing his pen pal (and honestly one of his best friends) Fire Fist, flirting with the cute new waiter at his favorite café-- not that he has a chance after a disaster on social media. But maybe fate really does give him a second chance when Ace shows up at Four Emperor Studios...

@shockandlock

Uncharted Territory by silverwolf_fox

Rating: E

Pairing: Masked Deuce/Portgas D. Ace

Summary: This was by far one of Ace's most ridiculous ideas.

When Deuce keeps getting flustered everytime he tries to dominate Ace, they created an opportunity where he didn't have to be afraid of messing up.

Now he's free to do and try whatever he wants...

...so long as Ace doesn't wake up.

Watching the Sunrise (part of a series) by silverwolf_fox

Rating: T

Pairing: Marco the Phoenix/Portgas D. Ace

Summary: Many years have passed since Rouge gave up her life for her son’s...except she didn’t die, but she thinks Ace did. Living her life on Baterilla, she’s mourned each and every day until the morning she receives his bounty poster. She sets off immediately to find him, but finds their meeting isn’t as easy as she’d imagined.

@the-devil-fruit-tree

never shall i forget, how you climbed out of a dream by siojo

Rating: T

Pairing: Marco the Phoenix/Portgas D. Ace

Summary: “Kaido,” Ace smirks, flames burning around his feet as he shifts in preparation for Kaido’s next attack, already trying to decide what he’s going to do in response. “It’s been a while, hasn’t it? You’ve seemed to have been enjoying yourself here.”

“I thought you would be smarter than this, Portgas. You’ve never tried to fight another Yonko before, your bounty won’t matter much when you lose.”

Ace barks a laugh, his teeth bared in a facsimile of a grin, “You must have missed out on the brawl I had with Big Mom after she sent two of her daughters and a son for me to consider marrying. This is a bit more personal than that.”

@wordsdrippinginink

Reborn in Fire by aerle

Rating: M

Pairing: Marco the Phoenix/Portgas D. Ace

Summary: Fireman Marco has earned the nickname 'the Phoenix' by saving numerous people from a certain death. After an accident however, he has to relearn to walk and gets a new job as arson inspector at a different fire station. There he gets confronted with a boy from his past, now all grown up and gorgeous.

Three's a Crowd, Four's a Double Date by aerle

Rating: M

Pairing: Marco the Phoenix/Portgas D. Ace (main), Izou/Thatch (secondary)

Summary: "We're not dating," Marco said definitively. "That we're sharing a bed tonight is a total coincidence."

@aerle

Universal Dive by EmpressKira

Rating: M

Pairing: Marco the Phoenix/Portgas D. Ace

Summary: Ace had been making his way through the city to go to one of his favorite cafes. Well, that was until this hole ripped in the sky and some pirate fell out with the flaming bird guy following. Getting targeted, he is dragged into a different world with pirates and everything defying the reality he is used to. Will he make it home? Will he go back when the time comes?

@empresskira

Blue moon (series) by de_Winter

Rating: T-M

Pairing: Marco the Phoenix/Portgas D. Ace

Summary: Urban fantasy AU, werewolf Marco and witch Ace

Red Velvet by de_Winter

Rating: E

Pairing: Marco the Phoenix/Portgas D. Ace

Summary: Ace already knew their routine by heart, just from observing them for a couple of mornings when he had early delivery, and from Izou’s daily long winded—and probably sexually frustrated—rants. Big Blond would come out of the bakery wearing a shirt too tight for him and too thin for the weather as soon as he was done setting up the tables inside the storefront, holding a take out cup and a small box in his big hands. They looked really, pleasantly big from where Ace was standing, and he honestly wished he wasn't standing that far away.

@dee-de-winter

We'll Look Back and Laugh at Ourselves by JuHuaTai

Rating: M

Pairing: Marco the Phoenix/Portgas D. Ace, minor Gol D. Roger/Portgas D. Rouge

Summary: Between his new boyfriend and his workaholic boss, Marco felt like he was surrounded by family issues of the father and son dispute variety. Maybe it was just a coincidence.

Or maybe he should've listened to the office gossip more. Maybe then he'd figure it out sooner.

Gratitude of the Phoenix (part of a series) by JuHuaTai

Rating: M

Pairing: Marco the Phoenix/Portgas D. Ace

Summary: [Based on 'The Crane Wife' Folklore]

One day, he saved a bird from freezing to death in a trap. Then, a stranger saved him from suffering the same fate, and a request to stay for one night turned into having someone to fill the void left in the small cottage and in his heart ever since his brothers left.

These two incident doesn’t seem to be related to one another, but they both changed Ace’s life in ways he could never have imagined.

Watashitachi wa Roger kaizoku desu (we still stand proud) by stereden

Rating: T

Pairing: None (heavy focus on Buggy, Shanks, and Crocus)

Summary: The Roger Pirates disappeared after their Captain's death, and were happy enough to let the Marines forget about them.

Until the Marines decide to execute their Captain's son, that is.

@stereden

This Bites! by Xomniac

Rating: M

Pairing: None (heavy focus on a main character oc and the strawhat pirates)

Summary: Sea Kings, sea-sickness, sunburns, a 95% genocidal Navy and more than a million and one other assorted ways to die. It's official: Being inserted into an anime sucks ass... Buuut I guess it could be worse. I mean, look on the bright side: At least I'm sailing with the future king of the pirates.

A Fortune that Never Grows Old by imperialmint

Rating: E

Pairing: Marco the Phoenix/Portgas D. Ace

Summary: It's one thing to get butterflies in your stomach when you seen an attractive person but it's another thing entirely for Marco to want to stomp out a courtship ritual and lay foundations for a nest when he meets the navy's new (hot) secret weapon.

@imperialmint

Most of the authors on this list have many other excellent one piece fics I'd definitely suggest checking out! Enjoy your reading and try to show them all some love if you can!

[foolish-clown]

Chapter 1: The Noble

A/N: I’ve done it, I’ve finally snapped after being inspired countless times by @neon-city-dreams and @kingmaker-a. I was slightly clueless on what kind of AU to go for, but then looked up and noticed Pirates of the Caribbean was on TV and it all clicked.  

Warnings: Mentions of class discrimination, historical inaccuracy

You had been sent by your father to work for a noble family in the hopes of earning income that would aid your own impoverished one. The entire prospect something you were none too happy about. 

That is, until you stumbled upon one of its humble residents. 

When you first learnt that your father had found you a job working with nobility, you had been far more than just ‘sceptical.’

The idea of having pompous entitled brats scrutinising your every move and dismissing your worth simply because of your standing wasn’t exactly how you fancied spending your time. Especially from one of the most respected families on the island.

Alas, your family needed the money, and it was also a way to get out of the plague-ridden hut you have for a home. Your mother’s constant nagging and fretting hard to ignore as she even whispers them in the throes of slumber.

When you had first entered the extravagant household that you would now be attending, the other staff members were quick to introduce themselves and even quicker to throw you into the chores you would be partaking in. The routine of cleaning, cooking and retrieving becoming almost instinctive as the weeks passed.

And as for the noble family you were doing these things for? Well, they were kind of. . . odd.

They didn’t really even notice your presence until about a week after your arrival. You had been on your knees scrubbing the floor when a gentle voice caught your attention.

“Oh, hello there. Are you new?”

You hadn’t been expecting anyone to address you, and when you snapped your head up in shock, you couldn’t halt the gasp that forced itself out of your lungs when your eyes met the most beautiful woman you had ever seen.

Kim Minji.

You had caught glances of her in passing, but she was very elusive. Some of the gossipers threw out that she had a secret lover, a stable girl that tends to the families’ horses. And as interesting as the ‘news’ was, you also knew not to take anything that comes out of their mouths too seriously.

“Hello?”

You blink for a second before it finally kicks in that you haven’t only responded, but also not addressed her properly. The joints in your knees clicking with how fast you rushed to stand on your feet. “I’m so sorry miss,” you bow hurriedly and awkwardly, “Yes, I’m new. My name is L/N Y/N.”

Since you stay bowed in hopes to not further your unintended rudeness, you fail to notice the mirth shining in her eyes, or how her hand raises to her mouth in a failed attempt to stop her joyful laughter.

The noise filters through your ears, its contagious tingle bringing forth goose-bumps against your heated skin. It soothes you, beckons you to hear more, and you hesitantly lift your gaze and watch in awe as she takes a single step closer before reaching out a hand and placing it on your shoulder.

“Well, Y/N, it is a pleasure to meet you.”

Your skin burns from her touch, and yet you find yourself unexpectedly yearning for more. “It is an honour to serve you, my Lady.”

Minji’s smile shifts into something you can’t quite distinguish before footsteps halt whatever it was she was about to say. Her father rounding a corner before eyeing to two of you curiously. “Minji,” he speaks, his soft voice very much like his daughter’s, “your piano tutor is waiting. I’m hoping you weren’t trying to sneak off again?”

You watch as she beams silently back at her father, her response bringing on a sigh that was exasperated, but fond. “Of course not, father. I was just making friends with the new staff.”

The sentence shocks your back to straighten, even more so when the man's eyes turn back to you in silent question. “Very well,” he relents after a beat, “but don’t keep him waiting any longer.”

“Of course, father.”

You didn’t think such a simple interaction between father and daughter would be enough for you to reconsider your entire idea of a noble family, and yet that was exactly what was going through your mind during that very moment.

“I apologize for cutting our conversation short, Y/N.” Minji turns to you with the same sparkle in her eyes that had you faltering when she first spoke to you. Its effects on you are still as strong as it was a few moments ago.

“There is no need to apologise, miss,” you say with a tentative smile, your shy attempt only making hers grow even wider.

You don’t even register that she had called you by your name until she is already gone

- - - - - - - - - - ☆ - - - - - - - - - -

You weren’t quite sure what to expect on the following days as you returned to work, but you knew that you wanted to speak to Minji again. To hear her bright laughter trickle into your eyes and shake your very existence.

But the young noble was back to aloof ways, and the only occupants of the household you would stumble across were other staff or family members.

By the third day, you had given up the hope that she will come and talk to you. Once again putting all of your focus on the routine of your labour. Today was busier than usual; important guests would be arriving for dinner due evening and so you were working in overdrive to make sure everything was to the highest standard.

The muscles in your limbs ached with each step you took or with each object that you lifted, but it needed to be done. You had, after all, managed to keep your record clean with the Kim family, and even after the slightly confusing first meeting with its patriarch, you didn’t want to step over any boundaries.

And so with that being said, you soldiered on towards the music room. Steps heavy with each foot moved forwards as you willed your tired body to keep together for that last few hours that remained.

You had only been in this particular room once before, and it was one of your favourites among the many within the spacious building. The piano sat towards the window was well-worn, the keys rubbed raw from the constant use they undergo. 

You had heard its music a few times before as you passed, each time bringing forth a different emotion as its conductor played out their feelings through sombre melodies or upbeat tunes. 

There were other instruments lying about of course -- some you knew and others not so much, but you had only ever heard the gentle ways of the piano being played whenever music filtered through the halls. 

It was a nice distraction whenever you were cleaning, and even though you didn’t know the pieces being played, you enjoyed them all the same. 

“Oh, hello again.” 

Whether through concentration from your task or tiredness; Minji’s sudden presence is unknown to you until she is already inside the room. The bright smile you had last seen her with still proudly adorning her features. 

You’re proud of yourself for not jolting in shock, but it does take a second for you to collect yourself enough to answer her back. “Hello, Miss,” you smile -- a small shy thing. 

“Forgive me,” she says while walking closer, her long fingers gliding against some of the uncovered piano keys before focusing all of her attention back to you, “but I realised we never did get to finish our conversation.” 

Your eyes follow the movement of her fingers before snapping them back to hers when the words sink in. “There is nothing to forgive, my lady,” you reassure, having never felt a single bit of offence when your first meeting was interrupted. 

In fact, you’re still in awe that she is talking to you in the very first place. 

Her smile softens slightly, and she looks back down at the piano. “Have you ever played?” 

You shake your head at the question, “no, my lady, we’ve never been able to afford such luxuries.” 

Your family had never been desperate for money, but you certainly didn't earn enough to save up for such things, either. And it wasn’t until you first stood within this noble family’s home did you realise how extremely far apart the wealth was from the poor. 

It did make you sick, at times. 

“Would you like to try?” 

Your eyes grow comically wide at her question, instinctively taking a step away as you frantically reply, “oh no -- I couldn’t, my lady.” 

It seems Minji understands your sudden fear before even you do, her entire demeaning softening in the hopes she won't spook you any further. “You have nothing to fear from me, Y/N,” she smiles, taking a seat on the piano bench before turning back to you and patting the small empty space beside her. 

Even with those words hanging in the air, you’re tentative. This wasn’t your home, you were not nobility, and this woman was not your friend. The rough fabric of the cleaning cloth still in your grasp reminding you of why you were there in the first place. 

“Forgive me, my lady,” you shyly mutter out, your eyes dropping to the floor. You have no idea why refusing to be what a seemingly friendly request is making shame well up within your chest. “But I must get back to cleaning.” 

Minji doesn't respond right away, her eyes taking you in before she speaks. "As you wish."

You do a quick bow, your eyes never once lifting to meet her gaze as you once again begin cleaning the room like you had been. Minji's presence welling up an uncomfortable amount of insecurity.

Were you not doing a good job? Was she displeased with your earlier refusal?

You don't have the nerve to ask, trying to ignore the feeling of her eyes on your back as you begin cleaning the windowsill that lies right next to the piano.

And then. . . Music.

You don't turn, but your hand does stop its frantic motion when a sweet melody begins filtering through your ears and settling as warmth within the confines of your chest.

It wasn't sad, or melancholic, but it was slow. Like what you imagined a tender caress from a lover to feel like.

Your eyes instinctively close, enjoying the raw emotion Minji's playing was evoking with each note.

When you do find the courage to turn back to her, she's already looking back at you with a soft expression. Her eyes were bright as if they were the night sky itself, smile tender as she gazes at you while playing.

You find yourself entranced by her, your hand reaching up to your chest as if you could physically calm your racing heart that was threatening to break free from its confines.

It might be because you've only spoken twice for as long as you've worked here, but you really didn't know how to take Kim Minji. Was she doing this to be genuinely friendly? Or was there some kind of trick up her sleeve?

Your mind screams one thing and yet desire shouts for another. You want to get closer to her, want to know more about her as a person rather than a member of the family that you work for. But you were unsure if you should -- could -- let alone how.

But fear is a very powerful thing, and with a very large threat of losing much-needed income looming right over your head, you push away your desire for friendship and continue to clean.

Minji doesn't finish the song, and she leaves without another word.

- - - - - - - - - - ☆ - - - - - - - - - -

Your shift ends before the guests arrive, and you leave the Kim household and make a very slow trek home.

There are staff quarters in the mansion, but as you live within walking distance of your family home you choose to make the trip home each night.

And tonight was a peaceful one.

You can no longer see the top curve of the sun peeking above the horizon, but its orange and pink hues still paint the sky with an arrangement of beauty and spender.

The sea in the distance seems to also be calm tonight, and you take in its salty air before forcing your tired legs to increase their pace so you can make it home before the darkness of night distracts you with its many dangers and beauties alike.

Your mother is setting up dinner just as you arrive, and you're quick to set the table before you're scolded otherwise.

"How was your day?" Your mother asks as you busy yourselves, and you hum tiredly in response.

Your parents were an odd pair, both loving and strict all at once. They were the type to let you learn from your own mistakes, but be there for support should you need it.

And while they sometimes weren't quite sure how to convey their love for you, you knew it was there from the moments they did.

Your mother arrived with like many others on the island, hoping the "newly discovered" land could provide opportunities for her that she couldn't grasp back home.

As for your father? You had no idea, as he refuses to talk about it.

You don't contribute your exchange with Minji during dinner, your parents taking your silence to be of exhaustion. And while that is partly true, you still can't get the soft music out of your mind; the way it caressed your heart and made you feel warmth blossom as if you were walking in the morning sun.

It embraced you, urged you to relax under its guide. And you were helpless but to dream of it as you slept, your mind filled with the stars shining in Minji's eyes.

And when you awaken in the darkness of your home, your parents’ soft snores emanating from the bed not too far from your own, you can’t erase the images from your mind. Bright smiles and contagious laughter haunting you even as you begin the morning routine before once again beginning the trek back to work for another day.

Deciding to make your way through the markets as you walk, the lively atmosphere is like a boost that energizes you. Your limited knowledge means you don’t even know what half of the things lying on the table actually are, but they intrigue you all the same.

Most of the settlement you live on is situated around the coast. With only farms and fortifications spreading out further into the jungle. It was a small island, but your father once mentioned that it was ‘tactically important’ for the military. Whatever that meant.

You’d never been passed its borders, the familiar stone and woodwork you see on a day-to-day basis all you’ve ever encountered on your reasonably short life. And, while you have asked about your mother’s home country in the past, she has always been rather vague when talking about it, and you were smart enough to drop a subject when it was clear someone didn’t want to talk about it.

The wealthy part, like the Kim household, lived just out of the way from the rest of the hustle and bustle. Because of the landscape of the island they were situated on top of the slope the leads away from the coast, large houses and their lush green gardens a true sight to see.

You weren’t sure about the other families, but you knew that the Kims’ come from a line of doctors. With Lord Kim owning many of his own private clinics that are highly respected for their skill and healing advancements.

You honestly didn’t look far into it, as you were only there to earn a living before retiring back at home with your family.

When you finally reach the staff entrance to the building, you had been expecting your superior to be giving your orders for the day. Not Kim Minji, standing there with the same look in her eyes that you had been dreaming about only a few hours prior.

“Y/N! You finally made it!” She beams, and you’re stunned silent by her excitement. “I need your assistance today, and before you ask, I’ve already made sure that it was alright to steal you away.”

You flounder for a moment, thinking that maybe you were still at home, dreaming the night away. But as the seconds' tick by reality is quick to wash over you like a bucket of ice-cold water. “. . . Oh? Oh! Yes, of course, my lady, whatever it is you need help with.”

Minji laughs at your blunder, and you're once again rendered silent when she takes your arm and begins guiding you back outside. “Splendid, the carriage is already waiting, let us go, shall we?”

Just like the first time, her touch burns your skin like a wildfire, her grip gentle but insistent as she urges you to keep pace.

You are unsure of what was currently happening, or what kind of errand that could involve the both of you, but the prospect of spending more time with the elusive noblewoman is as pleasant as it is terrifying.

You’ve never sat in a carriage before, and when it begins moving you are quick to spread out your arms to steady yourself. Minji’s bright laughter doing very little to ease the embarrassed burn glowing against your skin.

“If I may be so bold,” you question after a moment, and you are proud of yourself for being able to speak without the stutter that only appears when talking to the other occupant beside you, “what is it that you need me for?”

Even though she has never given a clear indication of it before, Minji was still of noble birth, and you were still nervous about stepping over her very blurry boundaries.

“My brother somehow broke a wire to our harp when trying to impress another of his. . . suitors,” she grimaces slightly, “and we have run out of spare.”

Despite having the explanation out in the air, you were still confused on your part to play in all of this. “And why exactly do we both need to go and get some more?”

You weren’t quite sure where the boldness to ask the question came from, but if Minji was bothered by it, she surely didn’t show it. “Truth be told, I haven’t stepped too far away from my home,” her smile saddens for a moment, but it was quick to perk up when she looks back to you with excitement. “Since I am the only one who knows of the particular material we need, I jumped at the opportunity to actually be able to see more of the island.”

Her gaze shoots forward for a split second, eyeing the carriage driver before leaning closer to you so she could whisper into your ear, “and I meant what I said that day, I truly wish to become your friend.”

You’re not sure why she needed to whisper it, but you also fail to care when you catch the intoxicating aroma of the perfume she was wearing.

The rest of the ride is a blur to you after that, Minji’s words echoing in your mind like the ocean waves. It caused so many questions that you needed an answer for, so many uncertainties that you didn’t want to entertain.

But when she gabbed your hand, it was all erased until nothing but her smile filled your mind once again.

Minji, it would seem, was truly a generous soul. She was friendly and greeted each merchant with grace and kindness, eyes bright with mirth as she did so.

Your day spent with her was truly joyful, and bit by bit you found your confidence growing each time you spoke with her. But, then again, she made it so easy.

However, upon arriving back at the Kim household, her smile dimmed when she noticed the captain of the royal guard talking with her father, their hushed words too low for you to hear.

“Father?”

Lord Kim looks at his daughter with a tight smile, and you can see the beginnings of a crease form against her eyebrow.

“Minji,” he greets, nodding to the captain as he bows at them both before taking his abrupt leave, “I forgot to ask before you left, but I need someone to pick up something from the Blacksmith.”

“I can go, sir,” you pipe up before you can stop yourself, the confidence from talking to Minji all day seeming to be in your system.

His eyes snap to you when you speak up, and for a moment you’re worried that you’re going to be reprimanded. “That would be very helpful, thank you.”

“Is everything all right?” You hear Minji inquire after you bow and begin to leave, but whatever answer he gives is lost when you exit the room.