#cauthor fic

[satashiiwrites]

Promise Me You Won’t Let Me, Chapter 9 of 10

I s2g this fic is getting finished in February.  

Title: Promise Me You Won’t Let Me, Chapter 9 of 10

Fandom: Wheel of Time 

Pairing: Mat Cauthon/Rand al’thor aka Cauthor, Rand al’Thor/Egwene al’Vere

Fic Summary:

Mat can feel that his time is limited but he’s got one thing he needs to do before he lets the darkness that is eating him bit by bit take him. Rand is desperate to help his best friend who is fading right before his eyes—he’s been cut off from everything else but he can’t lose Mat.

The wheel may weave as it wills and sometimes two threads become tangled and inseparable. Or maybe they were always meant to twine together to make a new pattern.

Chapter summary:

Mat is left and his heart shatters.

It seems that promises mean nothing.

Tags/warnings: angst.  All the angst.  This is ending in tragedy (because canon).  Season 2 can get here and we’ll think about a sequel. 

Read chapter 9 here on AO3. 

[markantonys]

ishy including mat as an integral part of rand's family life in rand's dream temptation world:

ishy engineering a cauthor reunion in cairhien:

ishy engineering the cauthor stabbening:

[butterflydm]

Chapters: 2/15 Fandom: The Wheel of Time (TV), Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Rand al'Thor/Mat Cauthon, Rand al'Thor/Aviendha/Mat Cauthon/Elayne Trakand Characters: Ishamael | Moridin Additional Tags: spoilers through book 9: winter’s heart, for the majority of the fic, spoilers through book 12: the gathering storm, for one major spoiler, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe - Fate swap, Perrin blew the Horn of Valere AU, mat defended the two rivers AU, Mat is Rand's Warder AU, rand is a dreamer AU Series: Part 15 of voice in the back of my head Summary: Rand and his companions organize to deal with the Seanchan on the West Coast, the Dark One's touch on the weather, and the corruption that taints the One Power -- hoping to strike before the Shadow's forces can learn their plans.

 “Four deaths,” Moridin said, with no acknowledgment on his face or in his voice that he had been one of them. Sitting behind her illusion of nothing, she had to admire his poise.

 She wondered who had chosen the setting that was being used tonight. The ruins of an old garden. It seemed an overwrought and maudlin choice. She didn't recognize the place, but it must mean a great deal to whoever had formed it for the use of this meeting. It was clearly from the Age before this one, with architecture of form and grace beyond anything created by the people who lived now, fallen into ruin, with its beauty overgrown by vines and shattered by time.

 Asmodean, she decided. He probably believed it was poetic.

[essie007]

6 sentences tag game

tagged by @butterflydm - kind of, there were some technical difficulties. I still appreciate the thought! A tag game that's straight-forward enough that I can answer it right away instead of putting it aside, planning to do it later, and then completely forgetting about it!

Post 6 sentences from a WIP and then tag 6 people-

This might technically be 7 or more sentences but I've got a bunch of fragments so I only counted clauses that ended with a period or a question mark.

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“I love you,” Mat smiled against his lips, words soft. A laugh bubbled out of Rand’s mouth entirely on its own, a bright happy sound buoyed by the overwhelming golden feeling that grew from Rand’s chest and spilled over, too big for his body to contain. He felt giddy, hysterical even. His body was vibrating with the high of what they had just done, with the power of Mat’s words, but his mind couldn’t seem to catch up, skipping helplessly ten steps behind. Was he in love with Mat? But that wasn’t- How could-

“But I love Egwene.”

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From my Wheel of Time Showverse Cauthor Warder!Mat fic. I really want to return to this and finish it now that we have season 2. I know exactly where I want to take it now.

tagging @rainbownomja, @avelera, @anyboli, @the-best-bibliophile, @teejaystumbles and @jswander and anyone else who wants to participate.

[asha-mage]

I've made substantial progress on Sworn for the first time in months. That is how powerful the Cauthor reunion scene was.

(Also as an aside public libraries rule and make a fantastic work space for writing fic, as a pro tip to my fellow struggling fic writers.)

[olderthannetfic]

Couple of weeks ago someone posted a "call out post" to ask WoT show only fans to stop shipping cauthor, aka Rand x Mat. Went on to say that they could not do anything about book readers as many had been shipping it for a while etc. However, they wanted show only fans to not ship it. Expressly forbidden from shipping it because of the reunion scene that was in that weeks episode. Because, show only fans had to respect "male platonic friendship" and stop queering everything. There was also something about the patriarchy and such.

A day or so later, the original call out post was gone. All that remains now are a handful of posts calling out that other person and defending the ship and refuting the accusations. You gotta love the internet.

The funny thing is that the show is what turned many book fans into cauthor fans. Many book fans forgot how close they were in the first book, cause things happen.... Also most of the fanfic out there is post-show release because discounting any past purges and lost fics. Fans seem to have respected Robert Jordan's wishes of not writing fanfics.

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Truly, platonic male friendship is the most oppressed. Never has there been any media devoted to it in the history of any culture ever.

[xylodemon]

this Cauthor fic i started on a whim is already 6,000 words and they just got to the Ways, i really tricked myself into writing a whole-ass longform story

[kevin-sedai]

Do you ever read or write fanfiction? Any particular fandoms if you do? Or alternatively, if you don't, are there any particular fandoms that would appeal to an alternate timeline Kevin who did read/write fic?

Not really. I used to read Hunger Games fanfic back in the day. I'll read fanfic if I happen upon it when I'm scrolling here, but I don't go looking for it like I used to.

I would probably write Wheel of Time fanfic if I were to write any. That's the kind that I would want to read, anyway. Particularly fanfic about cauthor lol. And Realm of the Elderlings fanfic. I feel like there's a lot that can be done with that world too!

[satashiiwrites]

Promise Me You Won’t Let Me, Chapter XII and Epilogue—COMPLETE

Title: Promise Me You Won’t Let Me, Chapter XII and epilogue

Fandom: Wheel of Time (mostly Tv series but borrows from books)

Pairing: Cauthor (Rand al’Thor/Mat Cauthon), prior Egwene al’Vere/Rand al’Thor, implied pre-Egwene al’Vere/Perrin Aybara

Fic summary:

Mat can feel that his time is limited but he’s got one thing he needs to do before he lets the darkness that is eating him bit by bit take him. Rand is desperate to help his best friend who is fading right before his eyes—he’s been cut off from everything else but he can’t lose Mat.

The wheel may weave as it wills and sometimes two threads become tangled and inseparable. Or maybe they were always meant to twine together to make a new pattern.

Warnings/tags: sad ending—will continue into season 2 with sequel. Rand is an angsty mess like always.

Read chapter XII here and Epilogue here on AO3

Or 

The complete fic

[markantonys]

relationship: rand/mat rating: explicit length: 9.8k, complete summary: “You’ve been wearing those clothes for a year, Mat,” Rand said. “Why don’t you want new ones?”

“None of your business.”

“Of course it’s my business. You’re my friend, and I want to look after you.”

The words slipped out before Rand thought about them, and he felt his cheeks heat up. Mat looked pink too as he finally lifted his eyes to Rand’s. For a moment there was something so open and vulnerable in his expression, but it quickly shifted into an eyeroll.

“Fine, if you’re going to be so bloody annoying about it,” he said. “Let’s get this over with.”

[butterflydm]

Chapters: 1/5 Fandom: The Wheel of Time (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Rape/Non-Con Relationships: Rand al'Thor/Mat Cauthon, Rand al'Thor/Mat Cauthon/Lanfear | Selene Characters: Rand al'Thor, Lanfear | Selene, Mat Cauthon Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, show canon, Canon-Typical Violence, spoilers through s2e8: what was meant to be, Hurt/Comfort, the hurt includes:, Manipulative Relationship, Unnegotiated Kink, No Safeword, Compulsion, Dream Manipulation, the comfort includes:, Bonding Through Shared Trauma, Friends to Lovers, Kink Negotiation, Additional Warnings In Author's Note Summary: After parting ways with Min Farshaw, Mat Cauthon drinks and gambles alone in a tavern until he runs across a familiar face with an unfamiliar companion: Rand al'Thor and his new ladylove, a woman named Selene.

Mat had to stare for a long moment, just to begin to wrap his head around it all. Despite Perrin’s letters, despite Liandrin's words, Rand was alive.

Rand was alive.

“What in the Light's name are you doing here?” he found himself asking, but Rand was already pulling him into a hug. Rand felt blessedly real under his fingertips, not disappearing at a touch, like he might if this were some kind of strange delusion. Mat tightened the hug, pressing his mouth against Rand's shoulder so that it wouldn't tremble.

[essie007]

Being in a small fandom is so weird. Saw someone hating on shippers in the Cauthor tag and in my larger fandoms that's just a bit of scum on an ocean current. Dust on the wind. But this fandom is so small my first response was "hey why are you hating on me and my five friends specifically?" We're in our corner not bothering anyone, why you gotta come at us personally?

[transkholins]

okay. episode six thoughts.

EGWENE.

look. the only wot book i’ve read in full since 2018-2019 was the eye of the world. when i think of wot i tend to think more of late-series wot. coincidentally, while early-series wot shows you first hand how awful the seanchan are, late-series wot veers hard into apologia/“negotiating and making concessions for the greater good.” i forgot how hard the egwene povs in the great hunt were to get through. this episode reminded me. in graphic detail.

madeleine madden did a fucking fantastic job and i cannot wait to see her in later seasons as egwene grows and develops as a character. her scenes were so tough to watch. she deserves an award.

i do love how the show is portraying the seanchan. all of the suroth and renna scenes were deeply uncomfortable and upsetting, which is really how the seanchan ought to make viewers feel. (right, brandon sanderson? right?). using loial’s treesinging like a party trick. the flowy/frilly da’covale outfits. renna saying “oh, i’m nicer than other sul’dam, i want to be your friend” but trying to break egwene down. ugh.

there’s also something in here about “southern hospitality” and the us’s history of slavery and rj being from the south but it’s too late at night for me to get into that.

also, like, not to be matbrained, but the sheer delicacy/fanciness of the da’covale clothing makes me very afraid for the extended tylin-tuon plotline. i’m sure that if the show does it they’ll do it well (the show has already done a lot of course-correcting), so it’s not that kind of afraid, but more I Know What’s Coming afraid.

every time they mention The Seanchan Empress i get filled with a little bit more dread. god, i hope they handle tuon’s Everything well.

and siuan’s back!! finally!! i’m hoping they don’t sideline her in these last few episodes, because god knows they’ve done her dirty this season.

i really love ishamael and lanfear’s clothing. like, ishamael’s looks have been so faux-corporate, and i’m obsessed with lanfear’s leather and lace-up boots. it really does feel like an extended/future version of modern (first age?) fashion. i like what they’ve done with the age of legends’s aesthetic in general.

knowing which characters turn out to be darkfriends makes literally everything funnier.

if we must have gawyn and galad in the show. i need them to have the same vibes as barthanes. golden boys who are so so so punchable. sycophantic, even.

mat and min friendship truthers, we continue to lose. i’m hopeful that they’ll get to be friends again eventually.

ugh. mat telling rand he’ll come with him because he needs someone to keep him from becoming an arrogant prick. through the lens of wotshow i catch glimpses of hit amol chapter older, more weathered.

if i had a nickel for every time this season they’ve had a shot in a character’s dream or vision of mat lying dead with his left eye cut out, i would have two nickels. which isn’t a lot but it’s kind of weird that it’s happened twice. evil smile.

rand monologuing about how he thought him going away would protect people at mat, who is generally acknowledged as the king of the whole "being away from rand will protect me" line of reasoning. i have to laugh.

“if you love him, stay away” “[mat stays away]” i hate it when the wheel of time on amazon prime makes me feel nostalgic for the period of time where i was super invested in cauthor. like, circa 2018-2019. do you guys remember when there were only two fics and they were both from like 2013. there are now (i just checked) one hundred and sixty-one. it is such a shame i don’t ship them anymore because it’s genuinely kind of fun to have gay subtext in the gay actual-text show.

but also like. a true testament to the power of casting homoerotic besties as two white men. a loss for me (draws them both as men of color).

relatedly, i am so pleased that the top relationship tag for both the books and the show is siuaraine. quite possibly the only time i’ve ever seen a series that isn’t near-exclusively female characters (madoka magica, the locked tomb, etc.) have an f/f ship at the top. and they’re even canon… i cannot wait to see them next week.

what can i say about the wondergirls that has not already been said. i love nynaeve forever and ever. i love elayne being super into ter’angreal. i love that they both love egwene. i love that they bicker with each other. wondergirls 5ever.

also like… nynaeve getting to hang out with a yellow sister a little bit… delightful.

i’ve said this before but i’m trying to put everything in one place. i think ryma and basan’s actress and actor did an excellent job. but it’s really disappointing that the show continues to veer into anti-Blackness and colorism in its casting. it’s a pattern in both seasons and it isn’t good.

anyways. the wheel of time. i don’t think i have anything more to say right now.

[insomnia-productions]

Your WoT Cauthor fics have sustained me in these trying times, thank you for your contributions to society

Thank you! I’m glad you liked them :]

[clearancecreedwatersurvival]

And a big thank you to the anon who sent a thanzag prompt (nice) as well as the anon who sent a genderbend cauthor prompt (also nice). And thank you to my wonderful friend @draconiclore for the additional hq fic idea, a very good trans kenma prompt, and to my lovely partner @folatefangirl for the other wot min shenanigans prompt!!!

Thank you to everyone who has sent me something to write so far!!!!

Thank youuuuu to the person who sent me a namivivi request much appreciated.

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