#SLAIN

[intairnwetrust]

If I don't get domestic Riorgail (and Slain) at the end of the series we will have a problem Rebecca Yarros 😾

(Rebecca Yarros mother please have mercy with us and let them have a happy end. Please please please 🥹🙏)

[joyful-lurker]

The redemption arch Rebecca managed to pull off from 'god fucking damn it Dain' to thee magnificent Dain 'eyes here" Aetos is one for the ages. A literary masterstroke

[court-of-secrets]

-sometime early in iron flame-

Sloane’s clone, pointing at Sloane: Stab HER. SHE’S the clone!!

Dain, turning his sword on the clone: WRONG, the REAL Sloane would never pass up an opportunity to die

[skyfallscotland]

This is such a Slain song 💅

[empyreanevents]

Thank you to everyone who participated in Sloane Week! Below is a compiled list of all the works submitted this week. You can also check out the AO3 collection to view some of them there.

Fics:

Empty Space by @slytherin-pen

It Comes In Waves by @slytherin-pen

Rule Breakers by @laursdomain

At Every Table I’ll Save You A Seat by @skyfallscotland

Maybe Redemption Has Stories To Tell by @theoppositequeens

Wingleader’s Orders by @slytherin-pen

Moodboard:

I Am Life by @intairnwetrust

[fancytheoristluminary]

I just realized that Sloane finds it attractive when Dain is doing his Wingleader duties. In Iron Flame, Chapter 43, they were climbing the Cliffs of Drailor. We all know Sloane’s personality—she was like, "What is he doing here?" But the moment she saw him commanding the others, she shut up. My girl was mesmerized.

[intairnwetrust]

I kiss your brain. 🫶 (and congratulation to your first fic it was amazing)

Okay but I need a fanart of Xaden, Dain and Iris (and Dain's daugter too! If we already there) having a teaparty with these giant man sitting at a tiny kids table with tiaras on their head and little flowery tea cups in their hands 😭🥰 Sadly i neither have the skills nor the money RIP LOL

No but Xaden's and Dain's relationship is exactly how I envisioned it in this fic "Unfortunately I care and like you Dain who would have guessed 🙄🫂"

But also ahhh Xaden walking Sloane down the aisle 🥰🫠

But then this paragraph:

"Maybe it shouldn't have, but Iris' approval and preference meant the world to him. [...] he still felt like somewhat of an outsider in their group. [...] Iris saw Dain just as [...] someone she loved, as someone who loved her and would do anything to protect her and make her smile."

Ma'am did you just stab me? Am I just a reblog for you?

Xaden took a deep breath before speaking. "Thanks for coming for Iris. Thanks for being her uncle."

Dain's eyes crinkled as he looked between his niece and her father. "I'll be at every tea party for the rest of her life if she'll have me." And he was.

Okay at least you took the knife out 😀🥰

At Tea Time, Everybody Agrees

Word Count: 826

Summary: Xaden Riorson's daughter is having a tea party and Dain Aetos is invited. Background/mentioned Riorgail and Slain.

A/N: This is my very first fic, but it's something cute I just couldn't get out of my head! Thanks @intairnwetrust for making me think about Dain being the favorite uncle to Xaden's kids and @garricks4thwingqueen for the name inspo. Title from "Anti-Hero."

Iris Riorson was having a tea party. The adorable 4 year old girl with her mother’s eyes and her father’s dark hair had planned this special day thoroughly. She set her toddler-size table with plates, cups, and saucers from her tea set, each piece covered in pink flowers. Three chairs were arranged around the table, awaiting her guests. With her mom’s help, she had invited two of her favorite people in the world: her dad and her uncle Dain.

Xaden Riorson was sitting at a tea party with Dain Aetos. Never in his life did he think he would say that sentence. He’d come around to Aetos over the years, he supposed. The ice started thawing — at a pace slower than molasses — when Dain helped free Violet from Varrish and came to Aretia with many other Fourth Wing riders. Quest Squad passed without a major incident between the two of them. Then Dain and Sloane got together. Xaden wasn’t exactly thrilled to hear about the couple, but he realized as Sloane trembled with anxiety in front of him that he no longer hated Violet’s childhood best friend. Xaden walked Sloane down the aisle on her wedding day, trying to stand in for his foster brother, and the look on Dain’s face as he waited to be joined by his bride had Xaden almost willing to bestow the “brother-in-law” title on the man. Almost.

When Iris was born, the first baby of the squad, everyone immediately fell in love with her. Her aunts and uncles all showered her with affection and gifts and sweet Iris rewarded them with coos and snuggles. But it was Dain who was holding her the first time she smiled. From then on, Iris had Dain, the strict, disciplined former wingleader, wrapped around her little finger. 

As she grew, Iris’ preference for Dain never wavered. When Violet would ask who she wanted to sit next to at a gathering, Iris would always answer “Uncle Dain.” In a room full of family, she’d launch herself into Dain’s arms, content to stay there for hours. Xaden had hoped her favorite uncle would be Garrick or Bodhi; hell, even Ridoc would have been preferable, but Dain it was. And don’t even get Xaden started on the smug on Sloane’s face anytime Iris ran to hug Dain before any of her other relatives. He sometimes wondered if Sloane had bribed Iris. 

So it shouldn’t have been shocking to Xaden when the third seat at Iris’ tea party wasn’t for his wife, but for Dain. “My favorite boys,” Iris announced, clapping her hands with glee. And that’s how Xaden ended up in a chair that was comically tiny for his large frame, holding a miniature teacup with his pinky up, next to a tiara-clad Dain Aetos. Dain, too, was struggling in the pint-sized chair but no inconvenience could wipe the smile off his face that his niece — the most precious thing in the world to him besides Sloane — wanted him at her tea party. 

Maybe it shouldn’t have, but Iris’ approval and preference meant the world to him. While he’d worked hard to regain Violet’s trust and earn the respect of her and Xaden’s friends, he still felt like somewhat of an outsider in their group. But Iris didn’t know any of that. Iris didn’t know that he’d once been blamed for Liam’s death, that he’d struggled to learn the difference between protecting someone and stifling their growth, that everyone in their group had been petrified that he’d touch them, steal their memories, and reveal their secrets. Iris saw Dain just as she saw Bodhi, Garrick, Imogen, Brennan, and the rest of them — as family, as someone she loved, as someone who loved her and would do anything to protect her and make her smile. The fact that she always wanted to be next to him, to sit in his lap, to give him hugs, and draw him pictures made it even sweeter. He’d wear that pink tiara like the badge of honor it was.

“More tea, Uncle Dain?” Iris asked. 

“Yes, my princess.” Xaden’s eyes narrowed at Dain.

”More tea, Daddy?” 

“Yes, my princess.” 

“Silly, Daddy, I’m both of your princess! And I’m Mommy’s and Aunt Sloane’s and Uncle Gare’s and Aunt Rhi’s and Uncle Sawyer’s and Uncle Brennan’s and…” Iris skipped around the table, tending to her dolls’ teacups as she listed off her aunts and uncles. She was right, of course, she was everyone’s little princess. And Xaden and Dain realized that they were lucky to share her. 

“Hey, Aetos.” 

“Hm?” Dain looked up from his tea to meet Xaden’s eyes, finding they had softened a bit.

Xaden took a deep breath before speaking. “Thanks for coming for Iris. Thanks for being her uncle.”

Dain’s eyes crinkled as he looked between his niece and her father. “I’ll be at every tea party for the rest of her life if she’ll have me.” And he was. 

[violentdelightshavevioletends]

[xadensbiceps2]

Everyone talking about “eyes here” but the actual moment when Dain became hot was definitely when he let Sloane punch him

[rabidbatboy]

SLASHERVAL: a neogender umbrella term that can be used as a gender in itself, an identity system, or in connection with other genders. it connects to classic 80s slasher movies and enjoyment of them, fake gore, knives and machetes, and horror dvds

under the cut will include common experiences and terminology

slasherval genders and individuals may or may not have/experience:

- connection and/or enjoyment of the horror genre particularly the slasher genre and slasher movies from the 70s, 80s and 90s

- connection to slasher killers themselves, particularly masked, and the concept of final girls and final boys

- may connect to gore, but mainly fake gore, blood and over the top practical effects

- connection to knives, saws and machetes

- connection to camcorders, videotapes, cameras and grainy footage in the context of horror movies

- connection to horror movie tropes and stereotypes and “bad” horror movies

- connection to phones (particularly rotary phones), people speaking on phones, and their connection to the horror genre

- connection to metalcore and possibly ice nine kills and the ‘cringer’ side of being a horror fan, collecting bad merch and horror dvds

SLASHERVAL TERMINOLOGY

SLAIN/SLAINgender - slasherval-in-nature (gender)

slasherine (shortens to slash) - masculine/feminine equivalent

slasherinity - masculinity/femininity equivalent

translasherine/translash - transitioning to a slasherval identity (as opposed/as well as a masc/fem etc one)

deadmeat - slasherval man/woman equivalent

potential suffixes/prefixes for SLAINgenders: slashic, slashvic, slash, slarval, slaval, slainic

ATTRACTION TERMS

myersic / SLS - slasherval loving slasherval

screamfest or ghostduo - slasherval/myersic relationship (to reflect stu/billy as a slasher duo in scream. screamfest is used more often as a general term/for polyam and ghostduo refers specifically to two people)

victim - slasherval/myersic crush

stabner - slasherval/myersic partner

killmate - slasherval/myersic spouse

TAGGING: @radiomogai @io-archival @horrormogai @kirugorture

🧼 ——— COINED BY ME

[intairnwetrust]

Their future daughter: Mom, dad over what did you bond?

"Take one step toward Violet, and I'll throw you off this fucking cliff myself," [...] "Unlike Riorson, I don't give a shit who your uncle is."

"I'll do it just for fun,"

Sloane and Dain: Well...

[theseinfernalangels]

something something sloane and dain both end up dying in the end because RY loves to emotionally torture us something something as sloane slowly bleeds out she looks up and sees liam peering down at her whispering how proud he is of her and that he won’t leave her like how he appeared to vi in Iron Flame something something

[court-of-secrets]

I just know sloane slaps dain’s ass.

[likethewillowfic]

i’m also stoney bologna thinking about dain watching sloane all the time, literally unable to stop himself. something something strong thighs and toned arms on the sparring mat, sweaty blonde hair stuck to her forehead

[slainmaitos]

might sit down and write the iconic ‘train. your. signet.’ scene from sloane’s perspective tonight 👀

edit: link here

[intairnwetrust]

Giggled and kicked my feet the whole time reading it

https://www.reddit.com/r/fourthwing/s/PkriVA5d5q somebody did a compilation of all the Sloane and Dain hints/forshadowing/ interactions IM GIGGLING