#also zarlie content? on this blog? it's more likely than u think

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anyways zarlie earth & sky au

the  basic set up - the earth clan (shifters, who can shift between human and animal forms) and the sky clan (fallen, winged creatures who might also lowkey be vampires? i’m still rereading the novel) have been at war for like. as far as anyone can remember. the conflict has basically been going so long that no one remembers why they’re fighting, but it involves the assassination of some royal (which side depends on who’s telling the story)

actual plot under the read more ayyy cuz it’s gonna get kinda long whoops

so enter charlie. part of the earth clan royal family, wolf shifter

them n their twin sister amaya are both technically in line to become the head of the earth clan but charlie basically says ‘fuck this shit i don’t wanna be queen’ and leaves with mona (also wolf shifter, different noble family)

the two of them are just trying to get to some human village when oh shit they’re in fallen territory

they run into nora (half fallen who can pretty much pass as human) and behrad (fallen prince who can absolutely not pass as human)

behrad, disney prince of the sky clan apparently is like ‘hey guys uh what’s up’

nora: what are you DOING they’re shifters

charlie here just like ‘we denounce the earth clan’ as mona in the bg is like ‘yea i guess i’m going along with this??’

also mona is charlie’s willing but unwilling partner in crime in this whole endeavor thinking this is a finding ourselves thing and then charlie says that and she’s like. oh okay so it’s not a finding ourselves thing

so behrad ends up taking them back to the castle and trying to sneak them in which. surprise surprise. fucking fails

sara, general and also just voice of common sense, is not fooled by his attempt to sneak them in. she doesn’t get paid enough for this

there’s a whole lot of chaos in which nora STRONGLY protests that she had nothing to do with this and literally was just trying to do her job (aka picking up sweets from a human village in town which is a very important job for a lady in waiting)

in all of this chaos zari, tired and recently appointed empress, shows up like HEY WHAT THE FUCK

charlie has five seconds of gay panic b4 announcing they’re no longer with the earth clan 

zari does not trust this bc there’s two shifters of nobility and literally ROYALTY saying that they’ve just. fucked off from the earth clan. 

by some combination of persuasion and puppy dog eyes behrad convinces her it’s a good idea and sara sees an oppurtunity so she’s like ‘yea let’s keep them’

see sara has a plan. a very good plan which involves a marriage alliance if she can read this right. 

chaos, as it always does, ensues. and that’s the fic. 

will i write/post this? maybe? possibly? hopefully i’ll wait until i finish my other fic lol