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liltaz-asatreat · 2 years ago

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Characters Out of Context

➥ Include one character quote — of your choosing ⁠— from each chapter of your WIP (or as many chapters as you'd like).

➥ Give absolutely no context, save for what's between two parts of an interrupted sentence, should that occur. You may mention who said it.

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Thank you for the tag!! :D

So I now have. Two multi-chapter fics going lskghsdlkgha I don’t have much written for the second one which is called Double Troubles, and I can talk more about that for anyone interested, but it’s basically an eighth bird AU except the eighth bird is an OC named Meadow, and they have a body in the Material Plane and a body in the Plane of Logic, and the two bodies share one consciousness that switches between the two when one body goes to sleep and the other wakes up.

Just thought I’d give that little bit of context because I’ve literally never talked about it even existing with anyone except Sunny lol

Also, most of the stuff I have written in the Julia AU is still random pieces of different points in the campaign, so I’m just going to pick a quote from each individual file I have saved lol

And this is all going under a read more because it’s gonna get long

Julia Burnsides vs Canon Lore

Prologue Memory: Steven Waxmen: “I want you to know that no matter what you decide, whether you're ready to do this or not, I'm always going to be here waiting for you.”

Chapter 1: Yeemick: “We got attacked by these four idiots who came to take back our captive. We managed to chase them off, but they said something about wanting to kill you, sir.”

Klaarg: “Oh, that's so weird because four of the loveliest people I have ever met came here, also looking for Barry Bluejeans, and they told me that you sent them to kill me!”

(I know I know, but I had to add Klaarg’s line too because that exchange is really funny slkghsdlgkh)

Chapter 2: Julia: “One, what is electronic dance music? And two, Kenny Chesney isn't that bad. My dad used to be a big fan too, but as far as I know, he wasn't a big enough fan to actually get him tattooed on his ass!”

Taking the Gauntlet and Going to the Moon: Taako: “I did a traveling cooking show called Sizzle it Up with Taako,” Taako says proudly. “And a TV, Julia, is...” His gaze gets a little unfocused as he scrunches his face up in confusion. “It's like... um... I remember there's moving pictures. It lets people see what people are doing from far away I think. That's why I say I'm from TV.”

Killian: “Are you talking about a telescope?”

Julia: “It kind of sounds like those video james Magnus talks about sometimes from his dreams. Doesn't it, babe?”

Meeting the Director: (this isn’t really dialogue, but it is a thought Julia has, so I’m counting it lol) Julia: Oh to be able to be slightly irritated at his ego again instead of full on wanting to murder him, it truly is a blessing.

Lunch Conversation with the Director: Julia: “It's a long time ago now. I just...” She sighs. “I just wish I knew sooner, you know? I understand why everything had to be erased, but it makes it harder knowing in retrospect. Now I'm mourning them again, but it hits a little harder this time around.”

Briefing Before Rockport: Julia: “If she thinks I'm gettin' dress for this, she's sorely mistaken.”

Petals to the Metal Elevator Incident: Julia: “Don't worry, it is plenty impressive for me, babe.” She smirks at the way Magnus' face goes even redder and ignores the other boys cackling behind her. “Should we go up to the vault now?”

Julia’s First Conversation with Leon: Leon: “I don't think it's supposed to make sense to people like us. If it did, we probably wouldn't be here trying to do our part to save the world.”

Lucretia Confronts Them about RR Crystal Kingdom: Julia: “We have the Stones, Merle. And Director, I– I'm sorry, but even if we did try to run away, there weren't many options of places for us to go. He stopped time, or at least, he stopped Lucas and Killian and Carey and Noelle from moving and perceiving time while he was there, so there wasn't anyone we could turn to for help, and our other option was to run out of the room to a crystallized central hallway with almost all of the airlocks shut down. We couldn't go anywhere, and even if we did have a place to hide, it would have been a waste of time to wait for him to leave, and we might not have been able to stop the crystal from spreading.”

Julia Catches Taako Crying After Refuge: Taako: “When I was with the Chalice, some parts of the memories of my childhood looked like static, and I can't help but wonder if the dreams really aren't just another aspect of myself that I've projected as being another person and they actually are something or someone missing. So I started writing a letter to them. Or me. Or whoever or whatever this dream person is.”

Magnus and Julia Talk to Fisher: Julia: “We're going to find out what happened to it. I promise.”

Julia Talks to the Red Robe: Barry: “There's a thing coming. The thing I've been warning you guys about. The hunger of all living things. It'll be here soon, and our only hope of stopping it lies with, well...” The Red Robe looks uncomfortable for a moment. “You were never supposed to get caught up in the equation, Julia, and I am truly sorry for that. None of this was even supposed to happen. But we're here now, and this is happening, so I guess we have to make do with the cards we're dealt with.”

Julia Talks to Magnus About [redacted]: Merle: “You just admitted that you put ketchup on spaghetti when you don't have immediate access to any form of tomato sauce or don't feel like making it.”

Magnus: “I've seen you eat dirt, Merle, so you're one to talk!”

Wonderland Catwalk Scene: Julia: “Leave Taako alone,” Julia says with a shake of her head. She glares at the stupid mannequins and the stupid catwalk with its stupid spotlight shining down on it. “I'll get up there and strut.”

Julia Hears the Story and Song: Julia: “You literally know way more than I do, Merle. You know who the lich that came out of Taako's umbrella is who is apparently his sister I'm assuming?” Magnus nods, so she continues. “I'm assuming you know what's in the sky and currently destroying the world–”

Magnus: “Yup, it's called the Hunger.”

Julia: “According to the Director, you... you're... all of you are from a different reality?” Julia exclaims, and Magnus hums in agreement. “And, what is hap–”

Julia Talks With Leon After S&S: Leon: “You know, your husband is like a roach, you know that right?”

Julia’s Conversation with Taako After S&S: Taako: “I grew up with Lup. Yes. But where the fuck was she for the past twelve years, Julia? Because it certainly wasn't with me!” Taako tries to stand angrily, but as he puts weight on his legs, he curses before sitting back down. “And everyone else! Where were they? Spread all across Faerûn because someone couldn't fucking handle being wrong! Because that person couldn't fucking handle holding a conversation!”

Double Troubles

Chapter 1: Taako: "Fine, if you don't want them, then Merle and I will eat them, and you can just have the stale ass bread."

Chapter 2: Meadow: "Um, yeah actually. I uh– I got back into contact with some old friends in the past couple of days, and just yesterday, I actually got back into contact with a friend I have been trying to reach for a really long time.”

Chapter 3: Merle: “Gundren could be dead by the time we get there, but that's just my opinion.”

Chalice Scene: June/Chalice: “This lead to your fateful argument where you failed to convince her to take off the Amulet, and she used it against you to completely take over your will.”

Tagging

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and if you don’t want to do it, no pressure :)

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liltaz-asatreat · 2 years ago

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I was tagged by @yaboyspodcastpalace to find some words in my wips!! :D

Thank you!!! <3

Also, this is really long, so I’m putting it under a readmore lol

So for “heart”, I’ve got something from my Kravitz fic about his origin story lol >:3

“Jaclyn and Kravitz, by order of the Raven Queen, I charge you both with multiple accounts of various necromancy crimes including the ritual you are doing right now. Please step out of the circle, now.”

Kravitz and his mom, Jaclyn, look over at the skeletal figure in the flowing black robe that had just stepped out of a tear in space. They're holding a scythe raised in the air, ready to strike, and their eyes are glowing red with anger.

“What do you mean the ritual we're doing right now?” Kravitz asks in confusion. “We were just–” Then he stops himself as his heart sinks. He should've seen this coming. He had seen this coming, but he faltered in his judgment again when he knows. He knows it always ends this way with his mom.

He drops the basket of bleached chicken bones as he rounds on the old woman standing next to him. He clenches and unclenches his fists as he fights back tears. “What ritual did you drag me into doing this time?!” he demands.

“I promise it's just a religious ceremony to bless my body and prepare me for death,” Jaclyn says in her cracked and sickly voice. “I have no idea what they are talking about.”

Kravitz clenches his fists again and holds them tight. “You're lying. I knew you were lying to me.” He steps closer to her, and his figure looms over her frail and withering frame. “What ritual did you drag me into doing?”

The skeletal figure laughs sourly. “Are you telling me you really don't know, Kravitz?”

Kravitz rounds on them again, and he blinks angry tears out of his eyes. “No, I don't,” he spits. “She used to drag me into doing this shit all of the time, but I never actually studied it because I hated it! I thought I had finally gotten away from it! I thought–” His voice cracks, and his breath catches in his throat.

“You thought what?” the skeletal figure asks forcefully, but there is a waver in their voice.

Kravitz tries to get a hold of his breathing. “She told me she was dying. She told me she was just getting ready for burial when she finally did kick it.”

The figure lowers their scythe a little. “She is preparing her body for death, Kravitz. You're helping your mom turn into a lich.”

I’m probably going to go back and add some more descriptors of the ritual circle because I have new ideas of what it looks like and what the ritual involves even though it’s basically not really shown lol

For “Moon”, I’ve got a bit from the scene where Julia and the gang destroy the Gauntlet! (Also, sorry it’s such a long passage, but I wanted to include the part where they present the umbrella to Lucretia lol >:3

Julia, Magnus, Taako, and Merle are shown into the foyer of the biggest dome on the moon, and on the ground, there's a carpeted runway leading into a throne room and up to a dais. On the dais is a throne, and as the four of them walk closer, they can see the person sitting on the throne is a dark skinned human woman, probably in her early to mid fifties, dressed in a very ornate blue and white robe. She's holding a plain looking white oak staff that Julia side eyes for a second. It's got a weird vibe too. Or maybe it's just residual weird vibes from the gauntlet. It could also be that she's paranoid. Yeah, it's probably the last two now that she thinks about it.

She takes her eyes off it to look back up at the woman as they reach the dais, and the woman smiles and says, “Welcome, the four of you, to the Bureau of Balance. Uh, it's a pleasure to have you. I've– I've heard a lot of great things about your performance from Killian. Um– Before we go any further, I'm– I'm going to need you to hand over the gauntlet so we can destroy it promptly.”

The thing that's annoying Julia the most about this whole gauntlet business is that she can no longer trust her gut feelings. The gauntlet's got her gut in a choke hold, and she can't tell if her immediate panic and distrust of this woman has to do with the valid fear of if she's lying to them and what she could do with it if they give it to her or if it has to do with the gauntlet trying to reach her from Taako's bag. She squeezes Magnus' hand slightly, and he squeezes hers back.

“Really,” Magnus says. “Well for one, it's our gauntlet–”

“Yeah,” Merle cuts in. “You see, that's the kind of business we're in. You know, we kind of get stuff, and people pay us for it.”

Is payment really the first thing they should be concerned about? Julia sighs a little. She would do anything to get rid of the stupid thing as soon as possible as long as the director's on the level, but considering how low her and Magnus' funds are currently, it would be really great if they could wiggle their way into payment she relents.

“Oh you will be paid,” the director says. “You will be paid very very handsomely. Um–”

“That's the kind of thing people say when by 'paying us' they mean 'kill us',” Taako says.

“Yeah, can we get some kind of guarantee that you're not going to do that?” Julia asks.

“Yeah, no that's not how the Bureau operates. I'm not going to kill you. Uh, just give me a moment.” She claps her hands and looks to the side of the room. “Davenport!”

A very finely dressed gnome walks out of a doorway, holding a tray with a coin purse sitting on it. “Davenport!”

The director smiles at him and says, “Go ahead and pay them, Davenport.”

Davenport nods and walks over to them. Magnus grabs the coin purse, and Julia says, “Thank you.”

Davenport smiles and nods before walking away and back through the doorway he came from.

“Thank you,” Magnus says, looking back up at the director. “And secondly– wait, what's your name, madam?”

“That's actually classified, but–”

“Then how should we address you?” Magnus asks, cutting her off.

“Uh, the Director is fine. Or Madam Director is fine also.” The Director says.

“Right, uh, Madam Director, I'm happy to destroy the gauntlet, but I would like to be present while it is destroyed, so I can confirm–”

“Oh yes, I imagine you would. It'll be quite spectacular.” The Director says.

“One moment, could you – could you maybe, tell us about the organization first? Like, why should we trust you? Anything?” Julia says.

“Yeah, we did just see it destroy an entire town. I'd rather know more about who we're giving it over to before we just do that.” Taako says with his arms crossed.

“Right, I can see why you'd be trepidatious. Um, the– the Bureau of Balance is a sort of disarmament organization whose sole purpose is to make the world safer by collecting and destroying certain destructive, powerful artifacts we call the Grand Relics. Artifacts such as the gauntlet in your possession right now.” The Director explains.

“Gotcha,” Magnus says.

“Sounds good to me!” Taako exclaims.

“Since this is a really powerful artifact, how exactly do you plan on destroying it?” Julia asks with an eyebrow raised.

The Director waves her hand toward the side of the room where there's a long curtain drawn across the wall. A guard walks over and draws back the curtain to reveal a large window overlooking an enormous chamber with a raised platform. “We're going to put the gauntlet in a large ball and wheel it in there, and then we'll turn on the lasers built into the walls. The lasers will be beamed into the ball, and when the process is finished, the gauntlet will be destroyed.”

Julia glances over at Taako. “Does that sound solid? I don't know much about magic.”

“Hell yeah! Let's get this thing destroyed!” Taako says.

Another guard walks to the back wall the dais is up against and walks through a door. Then they come back out with a cart and a heavy looking lead sphere with a glass window door that they pop open. “Plop that bad boy right in there!”

Taako snorts, but he pulls out the gauntlet and puts it in the ball. The guard wheels the ball into the chamber before picking it up and placing it on the platform. When they leave the chamber, the Director takes her staff and walks over to the window, gesturing for the other four to follow. They walk up to the window, and the Director taps her staff against the glass. The ball starts to float in the air, and bright pillars of light shoot out from the walls, stabbing into the sphere. After about a minute or so, the beams shut off, and the sphere lowers slowly to the ground. As that happens, Julia feels an immense weight get lifted from her chest. The residual nausea from being around the gauntlet is gone, and she can feel her whole body relax for the first time in hours. Thank fuck.

The guard wheels the cart back in and places the ball onto it before wheeling it back out. The guard winks at them and says, “That's one spicy meatball!”

They laugh as the guard opens the sphere's door, and inside it's empty. As the guard starts rolling it away again, Julia swears she can hear Taako mutter under his breath, “Spicy meat?” She looks over at him, and he seems a little lost in thought.

The Director turns to them and says, “The Phoenix Fire Gauntlet you just destroyed is responsible for some of the worst atrocities this world has ever known. You should be very proud of yourselves.”

“Oh, speaking of magic items, do you know anything about the umbrella Taako has?” Magnus asks.

They all look over at Taako who shakes his head and says, “Oh yeah! Here.” He pulls out the umbrella from his bag and hands it over to the Director.

The Director's eyes go wide for a split second, and her face seems to go through about a half dozen different emotions at once before settling on neutral professionalism. “Um, no, unfortunately I don't know anything about this umbrella. Our artificer, Leon, might though. Out of curiosity, where did you get this?”

“We found it on a dead guy in a cave. The same cave we found that gauntlet actually. Seems like Gundren was kind of right. Maybe the vault didn't have all of the magical armaments and artifacts that was supposed to be there, but there were the two things.” Taako says in kind of an amused way. He takes the umbrella back and puts it in his bag.

The Director looks down for a second and mutters something that sounds a lot like of course she would, but Julia can't be certain. She takes a breath to prepare to ask her about it and if she's sure she doesn't recognize the umbrella, but Merle speaks up first.

“So you called the gauntlet a 'Grand Relic', right? What's that about?”

For “Dream”, I’ve got a little bit of Suffering Game angst from Julia Burnsides vs Canon Lore lol >:3 (I’m gonna rewrite this a little bit eventually though because I used a lot of direct quotes since it’s mostly just a place holder scene for what I actually want to write. I just wrote it because the idea of how Julia would react wouldn’t let me go lol)

They all make it into the room, and Julia looks behind her to see the worm about to smash into the door when the door slams shut and disappears. She slumps against Magnus, shaking slightly as she breathes heavily, and Magnus puts an arm around her comfortingly. “We're almost out,” he murmurs. “We just need to figure out how to get out of... here.”

Julia turns slightly to look around the room. It's another circular chamber, but it's way bigger than the rooms they've been in before. Magnus steps further into the room, and she hesitantly follows. Looking back behind her again as she gets further away from the wall separating the previous room with this one, she can tell that it's actually a featureless cylinder. One of many wrapping around a huge central staircase, with the only thing on it being a label that reads Merle, Taako, Magnus, Julia, Cam.

“Come on, guys, I think... I think this is where we need to go next.” Julia looks at Magnus as he gestures to the circular staircase. It climbs about twenty feet up to a circular platform in the center of the chamber. A perfect spot for a final fight in one of those video james Magnus talks about sometimes from his dreams.

Taako and Merle walk a bit closer to him and the stairs. “You think the bell would be up there?” Taako asks.

“Well, it's not down here,” Magnus says with a shrug.

Cam floats a little further away from all of them and clears his throat. “Uh, listen, guys. It looks like you all are going to get out of here, and I hope you find what you're looking for before you do, but I uh... I think I'm going to part ways with you now.”

“What?” Magnus asks in disbelief as they all turn to stare at him.

“It's... It's like I said, Magnus, I'm a living disembodied head. I'm pretty sure the only reason why I'm alive is because Wonderland is keeping me alive eternally just to pump more suffering out of me, so if I leave with you all, I'm toast.”

Julia laughs a little unhumorously, and Magnus takes a few steps toward him, eyes narrowed. “Wait, so you'd rather– let me get this straight– you'd rather stay in here, as a head, forever, in a place that feeds on suffering, rather than go with us and be free from this.”

Cam bites his lip. “To be free from this place that's keeping me alive. Yeah, that doesn't sound good either, Magnus.”

Julia feels anger building in her chest and behind her eyes as Taako asks, “Why did you come with us then and make us take all those extra punishments?”

“I thought I could help y'all get out of here, and I did!” Cam says in an attempt at a self congratulatory voice. “Gooo Cam!”

“I mean, you cast a spell!” Taako says indignantly. “Two!”

“Yeah, I provided some sage guidance! Let's not split hairs–”

“All the sage guidance you gave us was back when we first met you!” Julia seethes. “And most of it we either already pretty much figured out or we could have figured out on our own!”

“Again, that's splitting hairs–” Cam tries, but that only makes her angrier.

“It's not splitting hairs when you had us under the assumption that we were helping each other! We didn't need to take you with us! If you wanted to just stay here, why on earth did you ask for us to suffer more for you?” she demands.

She takes a few more steps toward him as he floats backward away from her, but then she feels Magnus' arms wrap around her and stop her from cornering him. “Jules, it doesn't matter,” he says quietly. “The damage has already been done.”

“Okay, I see that this conversation isn't going to go down well, so I'm going to go hide out somewhere, I guess,” Cam says nervously. “Thanks for trying to rescue me and all that, and when you see Lucretia–”

Magnus stiffens and straightens up. “Now, hold on, Cam! I'm just going to stop you there, we successfully rescued you. You're refusing to be rescued. This is not a failure on our part.”

“Yeah, fuck it. Put him in your Pocket Workshop, Maggie.” Merle says with his arms crossed.

“Please don't throw me back in your Pocket Workshop,” Cam says quickly. “When you see Lucretia, tell her... I don't know. Make up something... heroic for me I guess.”

“Nope!” Merle says.

“Are you–” Julia tries to fight her way forward, but Magnus holds her fast. “The audacity–”

“Hey, Tam?” Taako says, cutting her off.

“It's Cam,” Cam says.

“Right, Cam? I'll make you a deal!” Taako says in a little singsong voice.

Cam laughs nervously. “Alright, but it's gonna have to be a pretty sweet one.”

Taako snorts. “If you let me kill you, you can live in my waaaand!”

That breaks Julia out of her building rage enough to make her snort.

“No, no I don't want that at all!” Cam says, laughing nervously again as he begins to back away some more.

Taako and Merle step closer to him as Taako says, “My umbrella will eat you–”

Merle laughs as he finishes Taako's sentence: “And you'll live forever!”

“You'll live forever in service to meeee!” Taako shakes his umbrastaff at Cam. “Imagine the possibilities!”

“No, I'm good. Thanks though.” Cam says, backing up even more.

“No wait, Cam?” Julia says, and he turns to look at her.

She pauses for a second to consider. Somewhere deep down under the turbulent ocean of her darkest fears and deepest anger, she does feel some sympathy toward Cam and his situation.

Unfortunately, she decides, she's not in the mood to listen to that part of herself.

Somewhere to the left of that place is her usually strong sense of morality. Forcing Cam to die instead of letting him make his own decision, no matter what he did or did not do, is wrong on a lot of levels.

Even more unfortunately, she decides that in this moment, she doesn't care about that either.

“Taako,” she says coldly while keeping eye contact with Cam. “You're going to need all of the magical potency you can get if we're going to really make it out of here. Just fucking kill him.”

“Taako, don't,” Magnus says quickly as he pulls her back a couple of paces. “Your staff already ate Wankins' wand. We should just focus on getting out of here.”

Julia glances at Taako, and he looks at Cam long and hard. Cam squirms a little under the scrutiny of his gaze.

Finally, he sighs and flips his umbrastaff over his back. “Can I have my wand back?”

Cam sighs in relief. “Yeah, hang on.” He wiggles around a little to get the wand to fall from his ear and into his mouth before he flings it at Taako.

Taako catches it and puts it in his bag. “Thanks.”

“Yeah, good luck!” Cam floats away and skulks behind the cylinder that they all came out of.

Merle sighs as Magnus hesitantly lets go of Julia. “We're never picking up another hitch hiker.”

“Agreed,” Taako and Julia say at the same time.

“Yeah, let's just find the bell and get out of here,” Magnus says.

Okay! I’m gonna tag @holdmecloser-gandydancer, @barry-j-blupjeans, @institute-of-planar-shitposts, @noodyl-blasstal, and anyone else who wants to do it! :D and your words are stars, light, and dark lol

#Thank you again for the tag; Tania!!#I love showing my wips :3 #tag game #written works of Gab #Julia Burnsides vs Canon Lore

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liltaz-asatreat · 2 years ago

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Finished chapter 4 of Julia Burnsides vs Canon Lore!!!

I can't wait until I get to start posting, but I'm literally not even done with Moonlighting dhskfhalfhaldhal :3

I might reblog a word finding ask game soon, so I can share what I've written so far lol

#Gab gabs #Julia Burnsides vs Canon Lore

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🌹🌹 I'm excited!

Barry crosses his arms and taps his foot impatiently. “Can you... cut more? Can we do more holes? I thought you guys were like big brave heroes, and you're just like, it's like a child getting a booster shot over here.”

“Yeah, eat me, Barry,” Merle says irritatedly.

“He's got a point, and you were the one who offered up your own blood,” Magnus says.

“I don't want to cut anymore of my hand, Magnus! I need my hands to cast spells and shit.” Merle says.

“Then do an arm or something! Clearly your finger isn't enou–” Taako says, but Merle cuts him off.

“Fine! Pan damn it!” Merle stabs at the top of his hand with the fork in anger. “Ow! Son of a–”

“I've got one order of pancakes right here for you, and– oh my gods! Are you okay?”

The five of them look up to see the waitress standing by their table with plates of food stacked up on her arm. She's looking at Merle with concern, and he just glares at her.

“Yeah, yeah, I'm fine.” He smears his hand over the parchment before letting Barry move it aside and out of sight. “Just a little hangry, I guess.”

“Right. Do you... need a napkin?” the waitress asks tentatively.

“I've got bandages, don't worry,” Julia says. She puts her bag in her lap and rifles through it as the waitress puts their food down on the table.

“Um, the breakfast sampler will be out in just a few minutes,” the waitress says, and Magnus nods at her.

“Thanks.”

#Another section of chapter 2 because I almost forgot I wrote this sldkghsldkgh #Thank you!! I'm really excited about this one too :3 #ask game #written works of Gab #sort of #Julia Burnsides vs Canon Lore

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liltaz-asatreat · 2 years ago

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Baked Or baking appearing in any wip?

You can find the ask game here! :D (Feel free to send something in if you want!!)

I have exactly one "baked" in all of my files for all of my wips lol

Unfortunately it's part of a scene I've already shared before, but idk if you've read it, so this might be a new one for you!! :D

From Julia Burnsides vs Canon Lore:

Leon tilts his head in thought for a second. “I'm not too sure of something that could be made to dampen the effects of the Relic's power directly, but...” He pauses to think some more. “To take over someone's will, that falls under enchantment magic, so all of them must have that baked into them as well. I don't think I can make something quite strong enough to cancel out the thrall completely, the Relics are just too powerful, but since you and the boys are already somewhat resistant to their power for what ever reason, I think I might be able to make something that can dampen enchantment magic in general. That should make it easier to collect them without you all losing your heads.”

#Thank you for sending this in!! :D #Gab gabs #ask game #written works of Gab #Julia Burnsides vs Canon Lore

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“Maybe you should go ask your tattoo artist if you ever gave them an explanation, or– and this may be an even better idea– ask them why they decided that giving black out drunk people extremely specific and detailed tattoos is a good idea!” Taako says before cackling.

Magnus and Julia laugh too, and Merle's eyes get a little unfocused. “Good questions, but I think I got these tattoos done years ago. I don't even remember who did them.”

“Well that sucks,” Julia says, and Merle shrugs.

“I'm not complaining, they're really good tattoos. Whoever did them is a really good artist. It's just weird.” Merle shakes his head and then smiles. “I haven't even told you all about my favorite tattoos!”

“What's your favorite?” Magnus asks.

“Is it something of another board game you don't play?” Taako teases, and Merle laughs.

“No! I've got one on my left butt cheek that is of Kenny Chesney's face, and on my right butt cheek is one that says 'She thinks my', and then there's a picture of a tractor and an apostrophe and an s, and then the word 'sexy'.”

Merle looks up at the other three with a proud smile on his face as they all look at him in stunned silence. Then they all burst out laughing, and Merle frowns. “What?”

#Merle has a lot of tattoos :3 #Thank you!!#ask game #written works of Gab #sort of #Julia Burnsides vs Canon Lore

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:D!!

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These are both from Chapter 2 of Julia Burnsides vs Canon Lore :D

1. “I also have a willow tree with the colors of a sunset in the background on my thigh,” he slaps his left thigh with a large grin on his face. “That's for my family and my home after I decided to leave and explore the world and spread the word of Pan. The weird thing though is that the color of the sunset is a blue-green color with some light purple in the mix?” He laughs again and shakes his head. “Guy must have been color blind or somethin'. Either way, it's still a fantastic piece of art.”

(The different color sunset is from the minimal research I did about the colors of sunsets on other planets with different colored skies and came to the conclusion it would probably be the color of light frequencies a little bit above the regular purple which could honestly be completely wrong, but it's a fantasy world so shh lol)

2. “Magnus, what are you–?”

Before she can finish her sentence, he whips the chain around the spider's left legs, and he trips it, causing it to fall onto its side.

“Babe, you didn't have to deal with this!” Julia says as Magnus raises his ax. “You could have gone for Magic Brian!”

“But I had this idea to keep it from attacking you, and no amount of fear is going to stop me from protecting you.” He carves out some of its eyes, and the spider hisses in pain.

“Magnus, I love you so much, but you are an absolute idiot sometimes.”

(This moment was born brought to you by the fact that if Magnus attacked Magic Brian, Magic Brian wouldn't have attacked Taako, and he wouldn't have nearly killed him, leading to him not being able to discover cheese lol Or have his abracafuckyou moment)

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liltaz-asatreat · 2 years ago

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They move to the left side of the entrance a few seconds before they hear footsteps coming up the stairs. The three gerblins from the stage room, including Yeemick, walk into the room, and Klaarg smiles for a second before it morphs to a look of shock and concern. “Oh my gods, Yeemick! What happened to you?”

Yeemick eyes him warily. “We got attacked by these four idiots who came to take back our captive. We managed to chase them off, but they said something about wanting to kill you, sir.”

“Oh, that's so weird because four of the loveliest people I have ever met came here, also looking for Barry Bluejeans, and they told me that you sent them to kill me!” Klaarg says, and then he laughs.

Yeemick scowls. “I would never do such a thing, sir!”

“I know! It sounded so ridiculous when they said it, but they were insistent that it was true!” Klaarg says.

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liltaz-asatreat · 3 years ago

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📝 & "love" :)

Another one from the Julia survived Raven’s Roost AU!! Which you can find here!!

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As Julia drifts between semi-consciousness and sleep, she feels the bed move slightly, and the warmth of Magnus' arm around her waist leaves her. She turns over and reaches for her husband only to find empty air as the bed creaks again which is enough to wake her up a little more. She opens her eyes and squints in the darkness to find Magnus creeping toward their bedroom door. “Honey, where you going?” She asks, slurring her words.

Magnus freezes before turning to face her. “I'm just going for a walk, Jules. I'll be back soon.”

There's a waver in his voice. Something's wrong. Something's been wrong since Refuge, and maybe if she wakes up enough, she'll actually be able to finally get something from him.

Julia sits up in bed and rubs her eyes tiredly. “Magnus, I know something's been eating at you since Refuge. What's going on? You hardly sleep or eat, and you've been quieter than usual. Please, let me help.”

Magnus hesitates. Then he folds his arms over his chest and leans against the wall by the door. “Julia...” His voice trails off, and he looks down at his feet. “Do you... do you think I'm a bad person?”

Now Julia is wide awake. What could have brought up something like this? “No, of course not, babe! Is this about the loops we went through in Refuge?”

Magnus shakes his head. “No, and... I don't mean now currently... I guess. But... do you think I'm capable of being a bad person? In the past?”

Julia thinks for a minute. “Everyone is capable of being a bad person, Magnus. It just depends on the choices you make. You generally make a lot of choices that help people and have saved lives. I wouldn't necessarily say that some of those choices were good choices because you definitely put yourself in a lot of dangerous positions needlessly.”

Magnus chuckles at that.

“But most of the time you make choices to do good, and you've done that since the day I've met you. I can't imagine that wouldn't be true of the choices you've made before then.” Julia continues softly.

Magnus stays silent for a moment. “What about choices that I don't remember making? Do you...” He trails off again before trying again. “Do you think I'm capable of making decisions that might hurt people that I forgot later?”

His voice cracks a little at that, and Julia leans over to turn on the lamp on her nightstand. She blinks a little at the sudden light before looking back up at her husband. Magnus has tears slowly falling down his face. “Magnus, love, come here.” She opens her arms wide, and Magnus moves away from the door to sit down next to her. She wraps her arms around him, and he leans into her as he wraps his arms around her too. “Is this about the static the Chalice showed you?” She asks as she rubs circles into his back.

He stiffens slightly. “No– Well... yes? It is sort of about that, but...” He pulls away from her to look at her properly, and she can see the anxiety bordering on actual fear in his eyes. “If... If I show you something, will you keep it secret?”

“Yeah, of course I will,” Julia says automatically. What could be so bad that he's this afraid of it?

“And...” Magnus pauses again. “I– I don't want you to think less of me.”

“Magnus, there's nothing you can show me that will make me think less of you,” she assures him.

He nods stiffly before standing up. He walks around to the other side of the bed and opens his nightstand before pulling out a tube. He walks back over to her and sits down, looking at the tube in his hands. He takes a shaky breath, still without looking at her, and he opens the tube, pulling out the two pieces of paper inside. He hands them both to Julia who takes them and unfurls them. “June gave me this after the big bubble went down. I went to go check up on her, and... I swear I don't know anything about this or what this is supposed to even mean. But before I opened it, I heard the Red Robe's voice in my head, and he told me not to open it because if I did, he wouldn't be able to protect me.”

Julia snorts at that, but she's mostly preoccupied by the pictures of the statue designs of the Red Robe that brought Jack and June to Refuge. Her eyes swim over the page with Magnus on it, and her brain gets a little foggy. She tries to push past it, but the harder she tries, the more her brain hurts. “Is this why you didn't want to tell the Director about our encounter with him?” She asks gently.

She looks up to see Magnus nod. “I didn't... I don't...” He shakes his head. “I need to find out what this means, if I can, and I need to find out why the Red Robe thinks he's protecting me and who he's trying to protect me from. My first guess is the Director, and even though I still think there's things she's hiding from us, she's never been a danger to any of us. My next guess is... maybe it has something to do with that long period of static?” He looks at her, and she nods to let him continue. “This definitely feels like– like...” He struggles for a moment to find words. “Like how when Killian or Magic Brian talked to us about the relics and the Bureau before we got inoculated. And you know, the long period of static is literally static, but... it– it shouldn't be like that, right?”

“Right,” Julia affirms. “We should be able to understand everything. The Voidfish can't suppress anything if we've drank its water.”

Magnus nods. “So I was– I was going to go down to see it. Every time I've gone to visit it, it seems to really like me, and I kind of feel like it's been trying to communicate something to me too?”

Julia thinks about that for a minute. “Ooookay. But– hmm...” She pauses. “How do you think you're going to be able to have a conversation with it? As far as I'm aware, it doesn't speak Common or Elvish or any humanoid language.”

Magnus shrugs. “I know it's a long shot, but it wouldn't hurt to try, right?” He asks uncertainly.

“Yeah, I suppose you're right.” Julia glances down at the statue designs again before rolling them up and handing them to Magnus who slides them back into the tube. “Do you want me to come with you?”

Magnus hesitates for a second. “Would you? Please?” He adds a little quieter.

Julia nods and wraps her arms around him again before placing a gentle kiss on his temple. “Of course.”

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liltaz-asatreat · 3 years ago

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📝 and the word "sweet" :O? n if you dont have that, then "brother" :O?? -ise

My long fic idea that I’m working on: Anyone want a Julia went with Magnus to the competition in Neverwinter, and now she’s adventuring with him AU? :3

(This is what I need to completely rewrite because I adapted direct quotes way too much instead of just summarizing while adding in Julia’s bits, so the first half of this is probably going to change, not too drastically, but enough lol)

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Klaarg shouts a curse far off in the distance as the four adventurers make it out of the cave and back to the cart they left on the side of the road with Barry Bluejeans in tow. Merle climbs into the cart to make sure nothing's been tampered with as the other three turn to face Barry. Taako crosses his arms and leans against the cart as he says, “Barry, what the hell happened?”

Barry runs a hand through his hair and sighs. “A lot of shit. And it was all really terrible, and if given the option, I wouldn't do it again.” Julia makes a continue on gesture with her hand, and Barry sighs again. “Okay, how much do you guys already know?”

“We know Gundren was taken by the Black Spider,” Taako says.

Merle pops his head out of the cart to glare at Barry. “Yeah, in other words, you lied to us.”

“I–” begins Barry, but Magnus cuts him off.

“We found your map.”

Barry looks at him in shock. “You found the map?”

Julia nods. “Yeah, sure did.”

“So what's really going on, Barry?” Taako asks. He looks a little irritated, but his voice is still gentle. Gentler than he's been with the other two boys and a lot gentler than he's been with Julia. It didn't look like he recognized his name when Gundren brought him up at the bar, but he seems at least somewhat familiar with him now that they've actually met the dude. Does Taako know him? Julia is broken out of her thoughts as Barry begins to explain.

“Uh, okay. Let's start from the beginning. Gundren and his two brothers–”

“My cousins,” Merle says. He's clambered out of the cart now to stand next to Taako.

“Oh, right. Cousins, I forgot about that.” Barry says sheepishly. “Anyway, the three of them have a claim to the lost mine of Phandalin, and they managed to find out where it is.”

Merle puts his hands on his hips. “So why didn't he tell us that right up at the front?”

Barry folds his arms over his chest. “Because he didn't trust you guys, why the hell would he?”

“I'm his cousin!” Merle says indignantly.

“You're like fourth cousins. Dwarves have like eight hundred cousins, so you're basically perfect strangers.”

“Not true, but okay,” Merle says irritatedly.

“That's what Gundren told me,” Barry says, and Merle rolls his eyes.

“Well that bastard lied to you. We spent every Candlenights together at our aunt's house before she died.” Merle says.

“Okay,” Julia cuts in, “so I'm guessing the Black Spider, whoever they are, found out that Gundren knew where the mine was and had him kidnapped to try and get the location from him?”

“That sounds about right. I don't know who they are, but I would love to give them a piece of my mind!” Barry looks angry for a second before a wave of weariness seems to settle over him like a blanket. “After I rest for a little while. Or a long while. Listen– I've partied pretty hard before in my life, I'm going to need to sleep this one off.”

“Yeah, if we have no leads on the Black Spider, we should head back to town. Maybe drop off the supplies in the wagon.” Magnus says.

Barry looks at him appraisingly. “Listen, it's not my first gods damn time at the bodyguard rodeo is it, Magnus?”

Magnus shrugs. “How the hell am I supposed to know? I just met you.”

Barry rolls his eyes. “I should have a way to track Gundren down, but I would like to go back to town first and rest up a little bit. Sound good with you four?”

The adventurers look at each other before shrugging and nodding. “Yeah, I wouldn't mind getting some sleep myself,” Magnus says. Julia puts an arm around him, careful to avoid the wounds that are still there.

“We could go window shopping while you two sleep!” Taako says with a mischievous smile. Right. "Window shopping.” Julia shakes her head at the thought. If he steals anything, that’s not her problem.

Merle looks toward the sun starting to set in the sky. “Fine. Yeah, let's go to town. We won't find Gundren tonight, so might as well rest up.”

The rest of the trip to Phandalin is quiet and uneventful. By the time they make it into town, eat dinner, and unload the supplies to the various shops and stores they belonged to, it's late, and the two moons have already risen high in the sky. They find an inn and spend some of their pocket change to get a couple of rooms. Magnus immediately crashes onto the bed when he and Julia make it into their room, fully clothed and armored up, and she laughs.

“Honey, you should at least take your armor off. That can't be comfortable.” Julia says with a soft smile. Magnus makes a soft, disgruntled noise that's muffled by the blankets, but he doesn't move. Julia sighs. She focuses on getting her own armor off first and slipping into more comfortable and clean clothes before she sits down on the bed next to him. “Let me help you out of that,” she says gently.

Magnus groans again but sits up. “I've got it,” he mumbles, but he lets her help him out of the armor anyway. He gets up to change into more comfortable clothing too and to put his armor away before crawling back into bed with her. They get comfortable under the covers, and Julia turns off the table lamp before snuggling up against him. She lays her head on his chest and mumbles, “I love you.”

All she hears back is a loud snore, and she smiles to herself. She'll take that as an extremely sleepy I love you too. She closes her eyes and drifts off to sleep.

#Thank you!!! :D #I accidentally wrote Julia as going head to head with Taako but it kind of feels right with how Taako is especially in the beginning #but they will warm up to each other eventually :)#taz #taz balance #taz fanfic #julia burnsides #magnus burnsides #taako #merle highchurch #barry bluejeans #taz au #written works of Gab #taz taako #Julia Burnsides vs Canon Lore

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liltaz-asatreat · 2 years ago

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9, 15, 20 for ao3 asks?

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9. Favorite pairing you wrote for this year?

Romantic pairing? Blupjeans lol I think I wrote a lot more of them this year too than I did any other romantic pairing considering blupjeans week lol But like, other types of relationships, I think I've had the most fun this year writing Taako and Lup, Julia and Merle, and Julia and Taako

15. What WIP are you taking into next year with you?

I'm taking Julia Burnsides vs Canon Lore (a Julia survives Raven's Roost AU) and Double Troubles (an OC 8th bird AU) with me into next year and also the Kravitz origin story one lol That one isn't a chapter fic, but it is really really long lol I'm only two thirds through I think and it's a little over 10k words long

I'm also done with Here There Be Gerblins and Moonlighting for Julia Burnsides vs Canon Lore, and I'm halfway through the scenes I want to do for the interlude between those arcs and Murder on the Rockport Limited, so I'm really excited about that and that it's getting moving again! lol

20. Which work of yours have you reread the most?

That's hard to say because I generally reread a work a lot right after I post it and as people are reblogging it/commenting on it/leaving kudos/interacting with it in general, and then I don't really come back to it except on occasion lol I think the ones though that I'm particularly fond of from this year that I still go back to read fairly often are A Witness of Corruption, Broken Trust, One Last Dance, No Aliens on the Moon, Strength All Spent, and The Man Who Became the Hunger

#Thank you for sending this in!! :D #idk if you know my ao3 because I'm pretty sure you only followed me very recently #but I'm writtenfanworksofGab on there; there's also a link in my pinned post; and you can find everything I've ever written for taz on #there! :D Also; I have everything I've shared about the Julia Burnsides AU and the Double Troubles AU under the tags #Julia Burnsides vs Canon Lore #and #Double Troubles #if you want to check those out too!! :D #ask game

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liltaz-asatreat · 2 years ago

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Julia lore and 3/8 from the prompt list?

I am very here for the WIP and the little nuggets of info you've dropped us so far!

:3 Thank you!!! I'm really excited about this one, and I'm so glad you're enjoying the stuff I've shared so far!!!

Anyone can send in questions from this ask game here! :3 Or really any other questions you can think of, I like talking about this stuff lol

3. What’s your favorite line of narration?

I think so far my favorite line of narration/one of my favorite scenes in general is the scene where Julia hears the Story and Song for the first time. I had to reread it again because that's one of the first scenes I wrote, and I forgot how much I feel like I crushed it as a first pass on it lol Because this was one of the scenes I first wrote though before writing literally the entire rest of the story, it might change a little bit in the end result, but I'm really happy with it for right now. I can't pick a part of it that I like the most, and it's three and a half pages long, so I'm going to add that at the end under a read more lol

8. Did any real people or events inspire any part of it?

Not really this time lol The closest I can think of of any of this being inspired by real people or events is that I based some of the characterization of Julia on myself in that I gave her anxiety which makes sense to me for someone who had basically their whole life taken from them along with most of the people she had ever met and was close to, and I gave her stubbornness, and that makes sense to me because of how hard headed Magnus could be sometimes lol I feel like he would have really appreciated someone else who was hard headed and would have been a good reason for him to fall in love with her, and she just felt like a hard headed individual. I also gave her a lot of my basic morals like being kind and compassionate when possible and valuing life, etc. I also kind of based her reaction to trauma and anxiety a little bit on my mom. She tends to turn her anxiety into anger and bitterness, and while anger doesn't overpower her actions most of the time, there are times where she takes it out on people whether they deserve it or not. Mostly on people who she feels deserve it though because they hurt people she cares about. Most of the time, she's like me though in that she tries to stuff it down.

Makes great fuel for when she finds out Magnus is a Red Robe and has time to process everything after Story and Song :) Prepare for at least light angst if not more after the whole main story >:3

Also, the anxiety also makes her overprotective of Magnus, especially in the beginning, but she gets better at that as time goes on, and she becomes protective of other people she gets close to too. She's terrified of having everything ripped away from again.

Which also poses an interesting conundrum for when she has to deal with her anger and her fear and her want for community when she inevitably has to talk to Magnus about it and decide what's more important to her after Story and Song >:3

Also, what inspired me to actually take on this endeavor in the first place was, I had recently wrote A Surprise Announcement (a ficlet that's canon compliant and is about Julia telling Magnus she's pregnant while he's working on the rocking chair), and I was really happy with it and the reactions everyone was having about it, and then I think I read a ficlet either by Ise or Reese or two ficlets, one from both of them, or something that was also about Magnus dealing with the loss of Julia or a canon compliant story about right before Julia dies or something like that, and I suddenly got really sad and heart broken and was like okay, I had my fun, but now I'm sad :( and I need to fix this. Thus, Julia Burnsides vs Canon Lore was born lol

Besides that though, everything else is based on taz balance itself and trying to figure out how it would be different if Julia was there and what kind of connections she would have had previously before the campaign or even before the Relic Wars started and what kind of connections she would make throughout the course of the story. Hence, she had two best friends who disappeared/died during the Relic Wars, and all of the characters plus extra that I added as being residents of Raven's Roost in other ficlets are also going to be characters referenced in this fic. Also, I really can't wait to write her relationship with Merle and Taako. Especially Taako, because I feel like they would butt heads the most, but I already wrote a scene in Chapter with her bonding a little with Merle and a scene that might happen after Story and Song with Taako that was actually inspired by another ficlet Ise wrote that I read recently, and they are so choice 👌🏽 lol

Okay! Now for the scene where Julia finds out about the birds' story! :D

Edit: Whoops! Didn’t realize it said line of narration and not bit of narration 😅 Ah well; I was super excited about this scene anyway so hopefully it’s not too much? (I say as I dump three and a half pages worth of content)

The doors to the elevator open, and the lights inside it flicker a little bit. It's a bit ominous, but so is literally everything that's happened pretty much since they stepped foot in Wonderland. Julia has about had it up to here with the danger, the weird shit, and the apocalypse, but at least the elevator music is still playing softly and invitingly. It's the little comforts in a world gone absolutely wild.

She, Magnus, and Merle step into the elevator, and the doors slide shut. She takes a moment to breathe as Merle starts humming along with the music before she turns to Magnus. “Hey, babe?”

Magnus looks over at her as he opens the tank to let the baby voidfish out. “Yeah?”

The voidfish doesn't need– you know what, whatever. Not important. She shakes her head. “Now that we're not in immediate danger and are somewhat alone, what. The fuck. Is happening?”

Merle glances over at her and shrugs with a little laugh. “If you figure it out, let me know, kid because I have no idea either.”

Julia stares blankly at him. “You literally know way more than I do, Merle. You know who the lich that came out of Taako's umbrella is who is apparently his sister I'm assuming?” Magnus nods, so she continues. “I'm assuming you know what's in the sky and currently destroying the world–”

“Yup, it's called the Hunger,” Magnus supplies.

“According to the Director, you... you're... all of you are from a different reality?” Julia exclaims, and Magnus hums in agreement. “And, what is hap–”

She's cut off by the lights flickering more erratically and the music becoming more distorted until finally, the lights and music cut out completely. Then she gets the weird feeling that there's someone or something else in this elevator with them, but it's gone in a flash of a second. The lights come back on, and at this point, it doesn't even surprise her to see that Merle's gone. She rolls her eyes and leans against the back wall of the elevator with her arms folded across her chest. “Do you know where he went?�� She asks Magnus dully.

Magnus sighs and shakes his head. “Nope, but–” He cuts himself as he looks to his left before cursing under his breath. Now that she's paying closer attention, she can see that the place where Merle used to be is covered in smoke in the shape of the dwarf. “Is now the best time, Merle?” Magnus asks in exasperation.

“The best time for what?” Julia asks in confusion.

“Parlay,” Magnus grumbles.

Before she can ask what that's supposed to mean, the elevator stops, and the doors open with a pleasant ding. They step out into the hallway, and Julia's blood runs cold. The lights are flickering in here too, but the hallway is empty. The door to the Voidfish's chamber is half open and nearly smashed down though, and through the cracks in the door, she can see more of those shadowy figures laying motionless on the ground that's flooded with water. She quietly pulls out her sword at the same time as Magnus draws the Flaming Poisoning Raging Sword of Doom and lights it on fire. Julia positions herself closer to him and in front of the baby voidfish as they walk toward the door. She pushes the door open slowly and gasps.

The Voidfish is hurt. Badly. Several of its tentacles are severed and lying on the ground. Others are wrapped around the throat of some of the many fallen, half-ash bodies littering the ground. Deep cuts run up its body, and the lights inside it are going a little dim.

“Oh, buddy,” Magnus says quietly.

It hums weakly, and the baby voidfish responds with a brighter and more energetic hum. It floats over to it, but then it hangs back a little bit, looking kind of scared.

“No, it's okay!” Magnus extinguishes his sword and puts it away before taking one of the baby voidfish's tendrils and walking it over to its parent.

The parent Voidfish lifts one tendril up to nestle its baby against its body, and the baby voidfish relaxes and sings a happy song. It's cute and sad, and Julia is finding it hard to breathe.

“Fisher, buddy, I... I told you I'd bring it back.” Magnus says shakily, and the parent Voidfish hums at him. His breath hitches slightly, and Julia sheathes her sword before walking up next to him and taking his hand. She squeezes it slightly, and he squeezes hers back. “I'm so sorry I forgot you, buddy. I'm so sorry.”

It lifts up one of its tendrils and puts it on his shoulder. Magnus immediately leans his head against its tendril and hums a song. The colors inside of the Voidfish– Fisher's bell float a little bit.

“Is there anything we can do?” Julia whispers.

Fisher hums weakly.

Magnus nuzzles its tendril. “Fisher, you tell me what you need, okay? And I'll do anything. Anything, and I'll do it, okay?”

Fisher nudges a body with one of its tendrils, and that's when Julia sees him. A lump forms in her throat as her hand slips from Magnus', and she rushes to Johann's side. She places her fingers on his neck, but Magnus quietly says, “He's gone, Jules. I...” She looks up to see him shake his head slightly. “He's gone.”

Julia swallows hard as she looks down at the half elf in front of her. The last time she saw him was a week ago when she asked him if he had any plans for the Summer Solstice since the Bureau wasn't doing anything this year. She was planning on throwing a small party together before the Director dashed that idea with the Wonderland mission, and at the time, Johann had gotten pulled away before they could finish their conversation.

She never got the chance to say goodbye.

Julia feels movement dart around her in the air, and she looks up to see the baby voidfish flying around the room before moving toward the back corner with Johann's desk. Magnus follows it and looks at the desk. The baby voidfish points emphatically on something on the desk and grabs his fingers with a few of its tendrils, and he takes a sharp intake of breath before saying, “Junior, I get it. Alright?” He sighs and picks up a piece of paper. He looks it over before glancing back at Fisher.

“Is that... is that a new one?” Julia asks softly.

Magnus nods and starts walking toward her and Fisher, and Fisher's lights start to ignite. He stops when he reaches her, and he holds up a finger and says, “Hold on one second Fish– one second.” He kneels down next to her and places a hand on Johann's chest. “I will remember this. And I will make sure everyone else does too. What you have done and what you have given will not be forgotten.” He slowly stands up, but Julia grabs onto his wrist.

“Are you going to feed it to– to Fisher?”

Magnus nods. “Fisher said he needs it.”

Julia bites her lip. “Is feeding him going to heal him? Because...” She looks down and closes her eyes tight for a second. “If this is Johann's last work... we can't erase that.”

Magnus looks down for a second before looking back at her. “I know. But hopefully Fisher will understand that too.”

He takes a deep breath and gives the scroll to Fisher. Fisher weakly grasps it and raises it up into its body. Magnus holds his breath, and Julia does too though she doesn't know what they're waiting for. Then the lights in Fisher's bell begin to swirl again, and it spreads throughout its body. Bright blue light surrounds its tendrils and coursing out of its body like ink through water. It picks itself up and starts floating above the ground, its tendrils swirling around it, and it looks vital again. Then Junior's body is filled with bright green light which disperses from its body and fills the room with bright light. Too bright to see the voidfish clearly, and then she hears it.

Julia's eyes widen, and she gasps as an incredible, impossible story plays out in her mind. She hears it and sees it all. Orientation at the Institute of Planar Research and Exploration on a two-sunned world. The Starblaster's first flight and the panic of seeing that force, the Hunger, for the first time. The animal planet where they learned a new language and Magnus trained with a huge royal bear. The mushroom planet where Taako made a fake Light of Creation, Merle started a church, and Magnus, Davenport, Lup, and Barry led an expedition to find the Light. The robots Lup stopped them from wiping out. The beach year. Tesseralia. Parlay. The Legato Conservatory where Magnus met Fisher. The Judge's world where Lucretia had to survive a year by herself. The empty world where Barry and Lup became liches. The Hanging Arcaneum. The argument between Lup and Barry's plan and Lucretia's plan. The relics. The war. Lup's disappearance. Lucretia's decision to erase everything. And the Hunger. The running, the hiding, the fighting, the dying, the struggle to stay one step ahead from a force that consumes entire planes. It's here now, and this is it. It's not just the end of this world but the end of this entire plane, and then the Hunger will move on and–

The blue light washes over Julia, and this time, she hears a song. Johann and Fisher's duet. It starts off soothing with the basic melody running over his harp, and it calms her nerves. She closes her eyes and focuses on the notes as they dip and change. She starts to move her head slightly to the beat of the drums. Then the violin and some other stringed instrument comes in, and the music feels kind and understanding. It feels loving and reassuring, like everything is going to be okay. Then the high wind and brass instruments come in, and it's building up to something. It's giving her strength and will power to stand up and get ready to fight. Fight for love, for hope, and for kindness. Then the beat drops with a decisive hit of the chimes, and she can see Johann playing his heart out on his violin. It's like he's here with her right now, saying she can do this. The world can do this. We can fight. And we will win.

Then the music calms a little and begins to fade, but the song sticks with her, as does the story. She opens her eyes and watches as the lights swirl around her before moving on out of the room to touch more people. To make the world know and understand.

“Hey uh... Jules? Babe, are you good?”

Julia looks up at Magnus who's standing over her worried. She just nods, and he holds out his hand to her which she takes to help stand up. She takes a deep, shaky breath and just stares at him. What do you say after learning your husband's epic one hundred year long story for the first time from a weird space jellyfish that– wait. Where are they? She looks around the room, but it's empty except for her and Magnus. “So uh... I'm all caught up now, and I'm still... still processing that, but where... where's Fisher and Junior?”

Magnus looks around the room too and bites his lip. “I don't know. They disappeared when the lights faded. I hope they're okay.” Julia just nods and continues to stare at him. “What?”

“You...” She laughs a little. “Kravitz was right, you did die nineteen times.”

Magnus bursts into laughter, and Julia laughs too. “I still stand by what I said about getting turned into stone being the most interesting way to die.”

Julia shakes her head with a large smile spread across her face. “You'd think after the first few deaths you would have learned to stop rushing head long into things.”

“Are you kidding? I had the chance to do everything I can to protect who I needed to and act stupid and fuck up and still be able to come back the next year like nothing happened. Besides needing to take care of Fisher, which I did become more cautious after finding Fisher, why wouldn't I throw caution to the wind?” Magnus says.

“Because dying sucks?” Julia laughs. “Then again, I've only done it one way over and over again by being blown up in Refuge, but I can't imagine any other way to be killed is any less pleasant.”

“You get used to it after a while.” The smile doesn't quite reach Magnus' eyes anymore at that.

Julia's smile turns soft. “I'm sure.” She squeezes his hand, and he squeezes back. “So what do we– oh.”

Oh.

The wind gets knocked out of her in a way she's only felt once before in her life: the moment she and Magnus crested the incline to the outskirts of Raven's Roost and saw the city destroyed and empty.

This isn't fair.

“Jules?”

She swallows hard, but her mouth is dry, and it feels like she's trying to swallow sand. She takes a deep, steadying breath and tries for a small smile. “That's what Davenport meant, isn't it?”

“Wha–”

“You have to go, don't you?”

Magnus sets his jaw and shakes his head emphatically. “No. Listen, Jules–”

“Magnus I– I heard your story. I heard what happened one hundred times before. It's too late. The Hunger's here now, and if you don't go–”

Magnus takes both of her hands in his own and squeezes them as he looks her in the eyes. “Julia, we're going to fix this. It's not too late, we'll figure out another way, and I promise you, I am not going to leave you.”

Julia's breath hitches. “Magnus... I want to believe you. I really do, but... the world is dying. If you all get caught up here, it'll be the end of not only this world, but of everything. And if Lucretia puts up her barrier, Lup and Barry said that would be the end of the world too, and they know more about how bonds work than anyone I'd reckon.”

“No no no–”

“You have the Light–”

“No.”

“This world will be okay.”

“No.”

“Babe–” Julia gasps and swallows hard again, forcing the lump in her throat to go down and willing the tears to recede from her tear ducts. Why does she have to be the rational one this time? This isn't fair!

“I will find another way.” Magnus' voice shakes with emotion, and she can see him fighting tears too. “I'm not going to lose you. We can figure this out. I'll talk with the others. There has to be another way.”

Julia cups his face and pulls him in for a kiss. It's desperate, needy, and wet with tears, and if this is one of the last kisses she's ever going to get to share with him before making him understand that she's not going to be a reason why existence ends, she's going to make it count and show him how much she loves him.

A loud rumble sounds from the surface of the moon base, and the two of them pull away and lean their foreheads against each other. “We'll talk more about this later. We should probably go check that out.” Julia says, panting slightly.

“Right, okay.”

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