#evfra/female ryder

[thedaselcor]

Twenty Questions for Fanfic Writers

Tagged by @tansyuduri (thanks!) Taggong forward: @cat-in-a-tesseract , @gallows-into-oblivion , @mxkelsifer , @miyriu , @toomanyfanficsbruh

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

Not including unrevealed exchange works I currently have 60 works on Ao3.

2. What’s your total AO3 word count?

135,630

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Dragon Age and Mass Effect (ThedasElcor , ThedasHanar)

Merlin (OAFelcor)

Overwatch (MildBeagle)

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

the hope of a new life (38 kudos)

Mass Effect Andromeda Evfra de Tershaav/Female Ryder | Sara I'm always a bit disappointed about this one because I had a whole subplot involving this Ryder being deaf and specifically preferring hearing aids to corrective surgery but I didn't have time to really perfect it before the exchange deadline so I had to scrap it.

a love that burns like holy fire (32 kudos)

BBC Merlin Arthur/Merlin I just started this one not long ago and it's really been neat to see it take off and have a huge welcome from the Merlin fandom, it's been a really cool community to join. The concept for this one is that Merlin is Transmasc, and that he uses magic as part of his gender affirmation, and somehow that leads to all sorts of dominoes falling that changes the entire outcome of the series starting around the middle of season one.

nights of holy fire (30 kudos)

BBC Merlin Arthur/Merlin So this one's actually the nsfw companion piece for "a love that burns like holy fire", I decided to write the main fic as fade to black and have this separate place for sex scenes and I think it's actually been working really well.

Some Kind of Wonderful (30 kudos)

Dragon Age Female Inquisitor Trevelyan / Josephine Montiliyet This is one of my favourites, I think. I wrote it as an exchange treat and it led to me meeting my fandom friend @sandalinbohemia A funny story with that one is that Rowan as an inquisitor stuck with me so much I thought Sandal had specifically requested the name, but I entirely made up the request and the name and had no idea for over a year. The premise is that Inquisitor Trevelyan finds an old clause that allows her to duel for Josephine's hand using a board game rather than a physical duel, and it's a bit of a fix it for the canon Lord Ortranto situation.

Of Wrath and Wanting (19 Kudos)

Dragon Age Leliana/Morrigan Honestly this is a tiny little flash piece I did for a crackship request back on the bird site. It's really neat, but it's only about 250 words. I have no idea how it did so well.

5. Do you respond to comments?

Definitely, I love comments. the main reason I write most of my longfics like a serial in a newspaper or an old cable tv show where I publish as I go is that I can find writing exceptionally lonely. I love to talk about my work, my blorbos, whatever else.

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

I don't write a lot of angst, and I don't write a lot of endings, but probably Rotten Touch. It's a true drabble (100 words), Overwatch, Reaper/Soldier. Since it's so short I'll include it here.

Jack remembers a time before Overwatch, remembers the love they’d shared, remembers Gabriel’s hands on his body in the dead of night. Dead… Dead… That was the problem, wasn’t it? That past was long since over, and now Jack couldn’t even think of himself as anything but 76. Gabriel Reyes had stopped being Reyes, had stopped being anything, long ago, and the vision in Jack's mind can’t cling to the fantasy. Gabriel’s hands become Reaper’s hands become rotten, foreboding, and cold. Every lover, Reaper, before him, and since, melt into an amalgam of broken promises and rotten touches. Jack’s alone.

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

That's a tough one! I really like fluff, but I also tend to leave stories with an indication that life continues so it's a bit more ambiguous than happy. I guess I'd say my Josephine/Sebastian Dragon Afe epistolary series Vael in Vellum, it really has more of a conclusion than a lot of others and I think it's really cute.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Not that I know of.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

Yep! honestly all kinds. I write sweet things, spicy things, things I'd be mortified for people in the real world to know about, all sorts of pairings. I'm a transmasc guy who is gay married and who spent a good amount of time thinking he was a lesbian AND in what he thought was a hetero live-in thing for a while so I feel like I have a lot of the mechanics covered and I have a pretty good imagination. Idk if it's good or not, but people seem to like it, and I tend to like it when I reread it.

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written?

I don't go out of my way to, but I do write them, especially for exchanges. I think the craziest one was the Commander 'n Chief fShep/The Iron Bull series I wrote for @ferindencadash (Mass Effect/Dragon Age)

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not that I know of.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

No. I started translating Moments Between (Mass Effect Sloane Kelly/enbie Ryder), especially since later chapters that I need to rewrite have Ryder speaking an almost creole-like French dialect, but I got lonely :P If folks were interested, I'd be willing to translate some of my pieces, especially the shorter ones, into French or Spanish.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

I used to do a lot of chat based role playing, but I don't think I ever officially wrote something with someone. I can be really intense when I'm mid hyper-fixation, though, it probably wouldn't be a good time for a co-writer.

14. What’s your all time favourite ship?

Honestly, whatever one I'm writing at the time. I'm absolutely in love with Sloane/Ryder (Mass Effect), writing fCadash/Varric Tethras for the Tethras n' Trouble series and , HardAssi (Krem/Lace Harding) for Her Safeword is Apples (and she smells like blossoms in the rain) (Dragon Age) both felt absolutely world altering. Now that I'm writing Merthur (Merlin/Arthur from BBC Merlin) for the Elements of Albion series, that's everything. I love ships... all the ships. Give them to Ziiiiimmmmmm.. ahem...

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

I think that I'll keep writing all my pieces as the fixations shift, honestly. Eventually I'll finish more and start more. I guess the most precarious right now is probably A Perfect Fit (HardAssi), but I don't think any work is really doomed. Sometimes I hyperfixate and write over 20k in a weekend, sometimes it takes me weeks to get 500 words out... I think it's more of a lifestyle at this point.

16. What are your writing strengths?

Probably portraying emotions and emulating cadence and mannerisms.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Commas, run on sentences, an absolute gay audacity and disregard for all the rules of grammar...

But seriously probably angst, hurt/comfort, I'm really very "meta" in my writing and I go through all the emotions the characters are going through, very, very vividly, to get it all right, so it can be really difficult for me to finish works that hit the really hard spots for long periods.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

I enjoy it! I like it better when the text lends itself to having the translation right there or having the narrator tell us. I've got a few works that use extensive footnotes that are all neatly linked back and forth and stuff and it's just a lot of work to format.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

No idea. The first fandom I published is Dragon Age, I keep a bookmark to the Ao3 import of the fic (I orphaned the account a long long time ago) and it reminds me that I was never as bad as I thought, but that I've also gotten a lot better. In terms of ever written, including role playing days and just loose leaf notebooks I started almost 25 years ago, so I really have no idea.

20. Favorite fic you’ve written?

In terms of complete works only probably either The Writer and the Racketeer (fCadash/Varric) or Antivan Coffee (Josephine Montiliyet/Zevran Arainai), both Dragon Age. I did a lot of Dragon Age exchanges so a lot of my finished works are in that fandom. I would say right now, though, that I'm really enjoying writing a love that burns like holy fire, it's inspiring a bunch of spinoffs and it's been super great to more actively join the Merlin fandom.

Thank you so much to @tansyuduri for tagging me for this, it was so much fun. Thanks to anyone who read through all this, it felt really neat to do a little interview of myself. Hopefully some people I tagged forward have fun with this (no pressure as always), and I really look forward to writing for you all in the future!

[fornaxexchange]

Sign-Ups are Live!

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Upon opening the form you will have three boxes. You may, at the bottom of the request section, add more up to ten. You may put three relationships in each box, up to a grand total of 30. You must request and offer at least three relationships. These are the relationships you are offering to create content for.

Relationships: Please put at least one relationship in each box and up to three. AO3 will suggest approved pairing in the tag set. If your pairing does NOT autofill - this is a known AO3 bug. Please enter your relationship as it appears in the tag set. You may also choose to offer for ANY relationship in the tag set. Any means any relationship, but you may specify which content you will not create.

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Your assignment will include at least one match between your offer and the other person’s request, but you may not match on all of them. You are also not beholden to complete the request you matched on, although you must complete at least one of the requests.

IE: You offered Female Ryder/Jaal Ama Darav, but see the participant also requested Male Ryder/Evfra de Tershaav and decide to do that one instead even if you did not offer it. You are encouraged to incorporate the prompts/likes if possible, but you MUST respect the DNWs listed.

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[natsora]

Writer’s game: first sentences!

Rules: post the first sentence of your last ten fics. If you haven’t written ten fics, share as many first-sentences as you have. Thank you for tagging me @fogsblue!

Tagging @wickedwitchofthewilds @hardcore-like-eezo @tungstenb @crackinglamb No obligations

Lodestone - A Cassandra Pentaghast / Female Inquisitor fic Cassandra bowed her head low, panting hard, as she sheathed her blade.

The Candidate - an original fiction set in my FML world So, before I’ve worked as an agent, I was a broke student, trying to make ends meet.

14 Days of DA Lovers 2021- 2023 - A series of prompt fills featuring Cassandra Pentaghast / Female Inquisitor “Maker give me strength,” Cassandra hissed as she spurred her horse to go faster.

Only Beggars, No Choosers - A Mass Effect and Arcane crossover gen fic featuring femshep and fRyder “Why are they after us?” Shepard shouted.

With a Bang - A Evfra / fRyder fic A red dress draped over Ryder’s frame — a body honed over years of combat training and active duty.

Privacy Mode - A Evfra/Jaal/Akksul/fRyder smut fic Somehow, being stuck in a room, forced to sit through hours and hours of Tann shooting down all Ryder’s plans and initiatives for the coming financial year, had planted his voice into her brain.

The Warforged and Her Dwarf - an original fiction featuring ace main characters Time turns all to dust and worm food.

Tiny Cuts - Whump Prompt Fills - a series of TAT whump prompt fills Broken! Trev grits her teeth.

Fragile Hearts - A Cassandra Pentaghast / Female Inquisitor fic “Do it again,” Trev laughed.

Locked In - an original fiction set in the far future where people volunteer to be turned into super soldiers. Fei would sighed if he could, if his breathing wasn’t controlled by a tube down his throat, if he wasn’t fucking bedridden and unable to bat even a fucking eyelid — because his eyes were taped shut.

[seigephoenix]

Kinktober 2024

Since we only have technically 2 more days until Kinktober starts, I wanted to go ahead and get everything out.

I changed one of the prompts. Consensual noncon was taken off as I just couldn't get into the right headspace for it. Instead we have: monster fucking.

The fandoms are: Destiny 2, Cyberpunk, Dragon Age, Mass Effect OT/Andromeda, Fallout, and Skyrim. Edit: I forgot I do have 1 BG3 fic.

Skyrim - Aurelia Tullius x Farkas Cyberpunk - Evie "V" x Vik, Veronika "V" x Judy, Veronika "V" x Johnny Mass Effect OT - Marlowe Shepard x Zaeed, Jane Shepard x Garrus Mass Effect Andromeda - Celeste Ryder x Reyes Vidal, Cerise Ryder x Evfra, Aurelia Ryder x James Vega (AU) Fallout - Hancock x Georgia (female Sole Survivor) Destiny 2 - Siobhan x Crow (and their past selves too) Dragon Age: Alissa Trevelyan x Garrett Hawke (and an additional person for the threesome prompt)

Block the following tags if you don't wish to see any of my Kinktober stuff: kinktober2024, kinktober 2024, seige kinktober

If you'd like to be tagged in any specific work, drop me an Ask. I'll put you down for that post.

[ao3feed-kandros]

Stars and Skies Light Our Way

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/kOo8Ald

by Gefionne

Evfra is a soldier—he belongs on the battlefield, not in banquet halls—but it is Moshae Sjefa’s will that he attend a party in her honor on the Nexus as she takes her post as ambassador. He is dreading the whole affair, but thankfully his old friend Jaal offers to stick by his side to get him through the formalities. Perhaps fine attire, food, and dancing will afford Evfra the opportunity to confess, at last, the feelings he has for Jaal.

For heavenlyeros

Words: 4112, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Mass Effect: Andromeda

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Evfra de Tershaav, Jaal Ama Darav, Moshae Sjefa, Female Ryder | Sara, Jarun Tann, Nakmor Kesh, Tiran Kandros

Relationships: Jaal Ama Darav/Evfra de Tershaav

Additional Tags: Friends to Lovers, Pining, Unrequited Love Becomes Requited Love

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/kOo8Ald

[tigereyes45]

Dear Fellow Creator (Spectre Requisitions 2023)

Hello there. Thank you for checking out this letter. I’m afraid it won’t be too detailed unlike other ones since I’m pretty laidback when it comes to these things. I’m really going to be happy with any gifts. So....here we go! Haha. Everything is below the cut. I put the actual prompts at the bottom and all treats of any kind are welcomed! If you have a question my inbox has anon on and I will tag every responded ask with the Spectre Requisitions 2023 tag.

Likes:

I love angst! It’s my favorite thing. The catharsis that comes out in angst is so good.

Friends to lovers is so good

Characters protecting their loved ones is one of my favorite tropes.

While I want the main focus of these stories to be on the relationships, I really enjoy it when people add in the main character(s) friends and families. After all the characters aren’t without connections outside of romantic.( Vetra and Sidera’s sibling dynamic is so fun. Sara and Scott’s feel as if it could be so complicated too. Grunt is Shepard’s kid! So if you want to throw such things in there, then go ahead.)

Dislikes:

I’m not the biggest fan of enemies/rivals to lovers (when violence is involved. If they were rivals/enemies on a mission and one of them beat the other to the goal, but it never got physical then that’s fine.) Some people do enemies/rivals to lovers well. So it’s not a complete no for me.

No non-con anything please.

Ratings:

I’m good with any ratings. The reason why I didn’t click Explicit is because I’m uninterested in smut. If you want to include graphical depictions of violence that’s fine.

Character Appearances:

For F!Shepard I always just play with default F!Shepard. If you want to use your version of Shepard for one of the prompts then go ahead. 

For the Ryders these are the faces I used for them in my canon run:

The scars they got from an incident when they were kids, where Sara tried to protect Scott’s face, but they both still got burned. As for the tattoos, when they grew up they both got a tattoo where their twin had been injured in their twin’s favorite color. Now they serve as a sign of how close they are. With Sara looking more like their father and Scott looking like their mom. If you want to go with the default appearances for them, that’s fine too. (Yeah I just use all the default names for all three characters too.) Usually I play Sara as the more logical, gets excited about discovering new things, and new tech. She saw their father brush people off so she tries to be patient with others while Scott is more about the adventure itself and upfront about his emotions/opinions.

The list of Prompts

#1 Ship - Jaal Ama Darav/Vetra Nyx/Female Ryder | Sara and/or David Anderson/Nihlus Kryik

Prompt: I would love anything that includes Ryder and Vetra hanging out with Jaal and his family. Maybe they are sitting at a meal with everyone, awkwardly or no. Or perhaps they're learning more about angaran culture. It could even include Scott and Sidera tagging along. Really anything is fine.

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I love the idea that Nihlus disagreed with the unfairness Saren treated Anderson's chance of becoming a spectre with. Maybe he was on the mission two and treated Anderson with kindness, and understood how determined he was. Or perhaps after becoming a spectre in his own right, Nihlus reaches out to Anderson. He could have just wanted to meet the human who almost changed history, or to work with him and give humanity another chance.

Or the two of them could just be sitting in a bar having a drink (young or as themselves after death.)

#2 Ship - Evfra de Tershaav/Tiran Kandros or Bain Massani/Female Ryder|Sara/Reyes Vidal

Prompt:  Evfra and Tiran both have difficult jobs. I feel like that is something they would bond over. However I think the amount of reluctance Tiran has involving everything about his job would annoy Evfra. I would love something about the two of them arguing about that, before eventually making up. (Or not if you'd prefer an angsty break up end.)

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I would also be down for something that shows Ryder being considered as an upstanding person due to her being the pathfinder that has done so many wonderful things. Then cue Reyes and Bain hanging around her intimidating others.

This could be an art prompt where the two of them stand behind her, scaring people as she smiles at them.

If you do writing I would love to see a story where people question why she hangs out with those two, and from Ryder's point of view they are very loving and have good sides to them that others don't see because they don't look for the good.

#3 Ship - Cora Harper/Liam Kosta or Cora Harper/Liam Kosta/Female Ryder | Sara

Prompt: Anything that involves Liam and Cora hanging out when everyone else is preoccupied.

Examples (You don't have to do these exact scenarios): Liam getting Cora to laugh as Ryder is stuck dealing with the politics of the station, or the two of them sharing ammo/a snack in the middle of a firefight. 

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Life keeps the pathfinder team busy, but Cora, Ryder, and Liam still manage to find moment to spend as just them.

#4 Ship - Female Shepard/Urdnot Wrex/Garrus Vakarian or Kirrahe & Thane Krios

Prompt: These three doing what they do best, fighting. Maybe it's a playful match between the three of them, or a team match between the three of them against another team. Perhaps krogans have regular wrestling matches that Wrex takes the two of them to, and they inevitably join in.

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Kirrahe has been searching for Shepard. He finds Thane instead.

#5 Ship -  Tiran Kandros/Avitus Rix or Kaetus/Avitus Rix

Prompt: Anything showing these two getting to know each other over time, and confiding in each other before ending up together would be great. I love how they both didn't want the jobs they end up having, because there were people they knew who were supposed to be there instead.

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Kaetus is a skilled individual. It would be a tragedy to waste his skills, Ryder insisted. Eventually convincing Reyes. However Kaetus can't be entirely trusted after Sloane's death so they hand him over to Avitus.

Maybe they bond over both having lost loved ones recently, or something.

#6 Ship - Tiran Kandros/Vetra Nyx/Female Ryder | Sara or Alec Ryder/Ellen Ryder

Prompt: I like the idea of the three of them having a date night to get away from work. It's interrupted as they each keep getting calls, emails, and messages about work stuff (and friends and family interrupting too if ya want to throw that in there). Maybe they have to keep each other off their tech so they can enjoy the night off.

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Ellen tries to talk to Alec about how distant he is with their children. It turns into an argument, and Ellen fears that the twins will never know their father.

#7 Ship - Tiran Kandros/Female Ryder | Sara or Kaetus/Sloane Kelly

Prompt: Tiran and Ryder hiding out from work together, or the two of them making fun of their co-workers as they vent about the latest problem, fight, or ridiculous request.

OR

Scott has grown close to Tiran since he could start working again. He's been inviting him more often to the ship, under the guise of wanting to hang out. However he knows that Sara has a crush on Tiran, so he makes sure they talk at least once everytime TIran comes aboard.

---- Kaetus mourning Solane would be awesome. I want the angstiest of angst.

#8 Ship - Nyreen Kandros/Vetra Nyx or Kolyat Krios & Thane Krios

Prompt: Vetra can get her hands on anything she wants. Nyreen heard of the skilled turian living outside of turian culture, and hires her. Mostly out of curiosity, and in the hopes that her skills turn out to be true. She never expected to find a kindred spirit. How will it turn out?

OR

Nyreen and Vetra on a job together.

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Kolyat and Thane's trip to Earth while Shepard is imprisoned elsewhere.

#9 Ship - Vetra Nyx/Female Ryder | Sara or Zevin Raeka/Female Ruder | Sara

Prompt: Being the eldest sibling is tough, but it's a little bit easier with someone who understands.

OR

Vetra and Sara end up trapped on a new planet together. The two try to survive as they await a rescue. (Bonus points if Vetra is stressed because she doesn't know this planet or how to get anything they'll need to survive.)

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Ryder and Raeka had met only a handful of times before everyone left for Andromeda. Now it's to her face that Raeka wakes up, and it's her who saves Raeka before running back for the krogan scouts, alone, accepting death but not failure.

#10 Ship - Jaal Ama Darav/Liam Kosta/Female Ryder | Sara or Jaal Ama Darav/Evfra de Tershaav/Male Ryder | Scott

Prompt: The three of them cuddling on Liam's couch would be cute.

OR

Jaal has recently become very interested in the Andromeda Initiative's talks regarding children. Liam and Sara are taken by surprise.

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When grabbed by the kett, Scott, Jaal, and Evfra must find a way out of their bindings and away from their enemy's control. Alive or dead.

[hotwing-sauce]

I don’t know what I’m doing anymore. 

This fic is rated  T for Teen

Ryder thought her parents were kidding, when they said that twins ran in the family--heavily pregnant with her own, she enjoys some down time with Evfra

ko-fi

[fromathelastoveritaserum]

PK_Chu’s Fanfiction Masterlist

✨ A quick list of my current fanfictions ✨ ٩(⁎❛ヮ❛⁎)۶ 

[WHEN JOY RETURNED]  AO3 (HERE) Far Cry 5 story involving original Deputy and the Seeds with a childhood twist ~ Story Summary: Born and raised in Hope County, Joy Owens never thought she would return. When she was young, her family moved to the big city, cutting off all ties, and never looking back. ‘It was because of that Seed family,’ the rumor mill whispered. But, that was a long time ago…a time Joy has trouble recalling and has simply let be. Now, she has finally achieved the role of Junior Deputy in the city where the large white signs on the hills spell out ‘Hollywood.’ But, when a U.S. Marshal suddenly arrives at the station to drag her back to Hope County, Joy has no choice but to confront the past. Back to the wilds of Montana, where old wounds had been left to fester, heartache had never healed, and memories once cherished lay forgotten. Joy will soon remember the Seed family; and as she does something reawakens deep within her, a darkness, the reason she had to leave. Can the secrets that lay hidden in her memories save the Seed Family from themselves or will it tear Joy apart, bringing the Resistance crashing down with her? 

[MY BELOVED PROFESSOR]  AO3 (HERE) or Fanfiction.net (HERE) Fire Emblem Three Houses fanfic involving Dimitri x Byleth  ~ Story Summary:  Byleth was never one for emotions; even in the heat of battle her heart is still and her face is stoic like a mask. So, no one could fault Dimitri for his uncertainty when Byleth is offered a position as a professor. But, once he sees her smile, Dimitri's fate is sealed. Fate that would lead him to one day call the Ashen Demon, his beloved. (Spoilers! Currently on Ashen Wolves DLC - More Papa Jeralt and Sassy Sothis too!)

[IN SICKNESS & IN HEALTH]  AO3 (HERE) or Fanfiction.net (HERE) Mass Effect Andromeda fancifc involving Sara Ryder and Evfra de Tershaav. ~ Story Summary: Evfra de Tershaav, the venerate Resistance leader, is stricken with the Angaran flu. Forced to stay at home under quarantine, Evfra would have been taken care of by family and close friends. Without either, he suffers alone, until Sara Ryder, Pathfinder extraordinaire, shows up at his doorstep as his self proclaimed caretaker. Soon long forgotten feelings begin to stir awake for this free spirited little human. // Evfra has accepted the fact that he is smitten for an alien, and not just any alien, but Sara Ryder the Human Pathfinder and leader of her people. However, having been so long out of the dating scene his wooing skills are practically non-existent, and what is worse, he isn’t the only angaran who has set sights on Ryder. Meanwhile, Sara is completely oblivious as to what certain angarans are vying for. The Pathfinder finds herself stumbling through the intricate art of angaran courtship, realizing that only one ever grouchy angaran had her heart all along.

[FALLING FOR YOU]  AO3 (HERE) Mass Effect Andromeda fanfic involving Tiran Kandros and Sara Ryder ~ Story Summary:  A collection of drabbles celebrating the developing relationship between Kandros and Ryder, for which we were bereft of in the game. Adding my own twist and fun side plots. Slightly loose in the timeline sequence in the game 

[OF TACTICS AND KNIGHTHOOD]  AO3 (HERE) or Fanfiction.net (HERE) Fire Emblem Awakening fanfic involving Frederick and Robin with a Pride and Prejudice twist ~ Story Summary: Frederick had no idea he would later be eating his own words and chasing the heart of the very tactician whom he had been ever wary of. Yet Robin, overhearing the slight from Frederick at the Ylisse Harvest Ball, will not be won over so easily. It doesn’t help that the two so easily rile the other up.A Fire Emblem Awakening slight AU with a strong hint of Pride and Prejudice. For if you squint your eyes and tilt your head, one might get away with Fredrick as Mr. Darcy, Chrom as Mr. Bingly, and Robin as Miss Elizabeth Bennett. This idea struck me and Naga help me, I’m running with it!

[THE HERALD’S COMMANDER]  AO3 (HERE) or Fanfiction.net (HERE) Dragon Age Inquisition fanfic involving Cullen and Inquisitor Trevelyan with a twist ~Story Summary: Go to the Chantry conclave they said, it will be fun they said. Oh, how wrong they were! Now, Evelyn Trevelyan finds herself in the thick of the Inquisition with a bizarre glowing mark upon her hand, and hailed as the Herald of Andraste. Follow along as the novice fighter, and ‘menace on two legs’ as Cassandra calls her, tries to patch back up the hole in the sky along with the oddest rag-tag group of companions in all of Thedas. And to make matters more interesting, Evelyn is dealing with conflicting emotions and awkward encounters with Cullen; for his first love, the mage, was Evelyn’s sister…

[THE DRUNKEN TEXT] AO3 (HERE) or Fanfiction.net (HERE) ~ Story Summary: On a drunken dare prompted by a hiccuping Sylvain, a rosy cheeked Dimitri texts his old college professor, asking her out for a cup of coffee. Before he returns to his senses, and recovers from his hangover, the young man is plunged into a series of events as he reconnects with Professor Byleth Eisner.

Dimitri realizes he never stopped loving her...Byleth finally learns how to express her love to him.

...will Sylvain get any credit in the end?? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[kittenbluestudios]

more art for my fanfic series found here: https://archiveofourown.org/series/1250435

[elenachatnoir]

Tiran Kandros, Evfra de Tershaav and Cerise Ryder for @seigephoenix​, the gift I made as secret santa for the Mass Effect Writer Circle gift exchange ♥ It was so much fun, I eagerly await for the next one! ♥♥♥

Go check her story on AO3 about this OT3 ♥ https://archiveofourown.org/works/12262194

[qwib]

Olivia Ryder

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@badthingshappenbingo Prompt fill for Setting a Broken Bone Fandom: Mass Effect / Mass Effect Andromeda

The Sky Comes Down

An Evfra and fRyder story.  Chapter 1: Shit Start to the Day

It took a miracle to get Evfra’s and Ryder’s schedule to match up. Of course, disaster has to strike.

Shore leave on Havarl is rudely interrupted when Old Pelavv explodes in the middle of a rather steamy situation.

The Leader of the Resistance and the Pathfinder never rest, not even during shore leave.

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Mission: Havarl

Mass effect Andromeda fandom.

Evfra/Female Ryder.

M rating - although it might change.

Summary: what looked like a simple artefact recovery mission on Havarl goes sideways.

The buzzing murmur of the shuttle was more than enough to take her far away. It was hypnotic at the best. And then there were the lights: the sporadical glowing of the trees when the wind blew, the lightened up shrubs on ground level and the mushrooms. Those mesmerising mushrooms that gleamed like millions of little neon lights in the partial darkness of the rainforest

Purples, blues, pinks…

Havarl was stunning.

And dangerous in equal parts.

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[cousinslavellan-archive]

Starbursts Part 2: Jaal

600 years away, Jaal Ama Darav was born with a scar across his hip and a weak Soul Sense.

While Aria was sleeping, Jaal was waiting, wondering; when would his Soul Mate appear?

Jaal x Ryder, Soulmate AU, Definitely no longer a oneshot. Oops. You guys win.

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Jaal Ama Darav was born with a scar across his hip and a weak Soul Sense.

The scar was what his Mothers focused on, at first; it seemed strange, that a newborn would already have a Soul Scar, as though his Destined One had been in a great battle while very young.

Sahuna especially had fretted, concerned at what could leave such a mark on her future daughter-in-law; how could a baby already have such a scar?

Soul Scars only formed when the Soul Mate had been critically injured, after all; minor injuries did not replicate physically, only as a ghost of pain felt by the Mate.

It was something they all debated, eventually concluding that his Mate must have been slightly older, perhaps not even an infant.

Perhaps they are a teenager, already battle scarred!

Or even a child injured during the war; we’re no strangers to those.

They left it at that until Jaal was old enough to understand, vaguely, what he should be feeling, what a Soul Sense should be like.

But while he had felt the vaguest brushes of pain, Jaal felt nothing like what was described by teachers and familiar adults.

A tug at your very being, pulling you in one specific direction. An urgent need to find someone and never let them go. A need to take, to touch, to bond and be one, to reunite the two half’s of the soul. An all-encompassing desire, an instinct that cannot be swayed.

As a child he would only feel the pull, of course, not the desire that would come as an adult.

Yet Jaal felt neither. Not as strongly as he should have, in any case.

“I feel a small tug.” he’d quietly told Sahuna, looking down and upset - a look she did not like on her normally vibrant son’s little face, “I can’t tell where it’s going. Space.”

“Is something wrong with my Soul Mate, mother?”

I don’t know, she couldn’t say, hugging him close to her chest and making gentle shushing noises, unable to school her expressions in the face of his despair - because the thought hurt her, to.

“No, little one, I’m sure they’re fine,” Sahuna did her best to believe the words, to force them to be true, “Just far away, I believe. On another planet, perhaps.”

“Will I still get to meet them?”

“Of course, Jaal. Someday. When the time is right.”

Except the right time never seemed to come. Jaal grew up with no more tug then he’d felt as a child, still a vague pull towards space.

There was a brief period during his first Vesaal when Jaal believed he had found her, somehow.

The pull still came from the sky above, from space, but Allia’s scent drew him in, enticed him, and he fell hard and fast.

The fantasy was broken when his older brother arrived on Aya and Allia was immediately entranced, the scars on their right shoulders and necks matching perfectly. The scent Jaal had been drawn to turned out to be the lotion she used, one his brother asked her to stop using in respect for the confusion it had caused.

Jaal was happy to return to Havarl, once more left with his vague pull towards space and the frail hope that, somewhere, his Soul Mate was on her way.

He was less happy when his brother and Allia also returned to Havarl, with her officially joining the family as one of the Mother’s; he congratulated them nonetheless, knowing it had been his own fault for being so foolish.

Jaal mourned them alongside his family when they were taken by the Kett.

He joined the Resistance once he was old enough, fought his way as high in the ranks as he was able, busied himself with missions and tactics and his family.

Because that pull never changed; never weakened or strengthened, just remained a vague feeling in the back of his mind.

So Jaal threw himself into the War with the Kett, and waited.

And waited.

And waited.

 There was no warning. Just sudden, searing pain, making him shout in surprise and drop his rifle in the middle of the meeting, hand clasped over his right forearm.

The pain was followed by a sudden knowing, a clear longing to go, to follow this new feeling, this suddenly intense pull.

Jaal was grinning as he righted himself, lowering his hand as the pain faded into a tingle, expression telling Evfra exactly what had happened.

She was close. His Soul Mate was finally close enough for him to sense, she was near, she was alive - and while she’d been in pain, it hadn’t been anything life threatening, going by how quickly it had faded.

Finally, Jaal grinned wider, determination filling him, Finally, she is near! I must tell Mother-

His destined had to be one of the aliens now inhabiting the nearby station, he realized, and Evfra agreed with this belief, the two men staying in the command room to discuss Jaal’s situation.

“Has another ship arrived?” he asked, absently running his hand over his forearm - he hadn’t taken off his armor to inspect the area yet, but he suspected there was at least a burn - “Surely if she had been on the station from the beginning, I would have felt her before now.”

“Not at the station, no, but scouts did report seeing a non-Kett vessel further out in the Eriksson System.”

“When was this?!” Jaal demanded, the pull strengthening at the prospect of a lead, a starting point.

“A couple of hours ago, now-”

Jall sucked in a breath as pain seemed to splash against his body, holding out a hand to still his Commander’s approach, “I’m fine. Felt… like an impact, of some sort. No serious wounds.”

“Alright. We’d best plan, then. You’re not going anywhere without a plan.”

Much as he wanted to argue, Jaal knew better, and the two talked for over an hour, debating on how best to approach these strange new aliens - hoping, desperately, that they were not like the Kett.

Jaal had been just about to leave, intending to email Sahuna, when pain suddenly exploded in his skull, vision going blank and collapsing to the ground in agony.

He could vaguely hear Evfra shouting, registered a sharp jab at the back of his neck, and then it felt as though his heart stopped. Just for a moment - a terrifying, blinding moment - before he gasped and shot upright, vision returning and pain receding, staring up at a team of Resistance Doctors.

“She… she almost died.” Jaal managed to choke, forcing himself to his feet and swatting away the arms that reached for him, staggering towards the doors, “She’s alive, but… weak, so very weak. I need to go, I need to find her-”

“You need to rest, Jaal.” Evfra was quick to cut him off, motioning to the doctors, “Whatever happened to her clearly took a toll on you. You’re not going anywhere tonight.”

He wanted to protest - his other half was finally in reach! How could he keep him from going?! - but when another attempt to move forwards led to Jaal nearly collapsing once more, he was forced to agree.

At least, finally, she was near.

 A month later found Jaal incredibly irritable and frustrated, stuck on Aya and unable to do anything.

A month of feeling the brush of ghost bullets and scratches, minor things compared to the near death he’d experienced when his Soul Mate had first appeared.

His right arm now bore a burn scar in a rough line, and Sahuna had confirmed he had a new scar on the back of his neck - both gained from whatever had happened to his other half in her short time in Heleus.

They’d been trying to decide how best to approach the ‘humans’, keeping an eye on their movements - currently focused on their station and Eos - and debating how likely they would be to attack first and talk later.

Then Evfra had gotten an urgent message from the docks and Jaal had been struck by a sudden wave of feeling, an urgent yank followed by need and excitement.

“There’s a human ship at the docks - they were on fire, but they don’t appear hostile-”

“She’s here.” Jaal all but hissed, cutting Evfra off, eyes darting between his Commander and the door. Every instinct was screaming at him to go, find her, protect her, take her-

Knowing arguing wasn’t an option, Evfra only stepped aside, grimacing, “Fine, go. But I want to see whoever’s in charge of that ship.”

Jaal didn’t acknowledge him, to distracted by the pull and the nearby, go go go-

Paaran had things under control, but his focus was entirely on the human female standing before her, the one it’s her take her-

“Jaal, I have this under control-”

“Evfra sent me to see what’s going on.” Jaal forced himself to move slow, nearly stalking down the steps to loom over the woman, holding himself back even as he crowded her, “Aya is hidden, protected… what do you want?”

Pride swelled as he watched her - clearly uncomfortable and intimidated but standing her ground, expression set into one of remorseful determination. She was no Angara - bright amber eyes, pale skin, red hair - and yet she was beautiful, stunning, perfect.

“I’m sorry. The way we arrived - unannounced, and on fire - was not part of the plan.”

Her voice is higher than an Angara’s, yet sweet, full of apologies. How would she sound if…?

“Good, because that would be a very bad plan.”

Jaal has to wrench himself away from her before he loses control, returning to the headquarters to give an air of formality, fighting every instinct he has.

She is a Pathfinder, Paaran had said, a leader. How fitting.

It’s not long before she arrives as well, and the first thing he notices is that she’s now keeping a hand over a space on her right forearm.

Right over the area where he has a burn scar.

“I am Jaal Ama Darav,” he introduces, realizing names are an important first step in what might be a much different approach to things as her own.

“Aria Ryder.” she returns, and already he likes her name, rolling it around in his mind as they walk, keeping his words curt and concise in an attempt to keep control.

Ryder doesn’t seem as affected by the Bond as he is, but maybe humans experience it differently - he does spot her swaying towards him at one point during their talk with Evfra, though she quickly catches herself and stands stiffly beside him.

He doesn’t need to say anything for Evfra to know; the look the other man is wearing says it all.

“Go, if you wish.” Evfra finally says, giving Jaal his official ‘leave’, “But be prepared when she tries to kill you.”

Jaal might have taken offense, had he been able to focus on anything but keeping control. As it stands, he can only return her stare, trying to open his mouth, to broach the subject, Do you know who I am? What we are to each other? Can you feel it as I can?

Why did you almost die? What happened?

After what feels like forever Aria suddenly swings her right hand out towards him, as though in a greeting gesture, “Welcome aboard, I guess.”

Jaal automatically goes to re-correct her stance, gripping her right wrist unthinkingly - and freezing when she gasps, seeming to shiver, heat flaring beneath his own skin from the simple touch.

Its that same spot.

He’s moving on instinct then; shifting his grip to yank her arm closer, baring the top of her right arm and staring at the intricate writing that seems etched into her skin.

Jaal Ama Darav, it reads, in his own precise hand, a language she could not have even known.

“Pathfinder…” he drawls, enjoying her surprised expression perhaps more than he should, “You have my name on your arm.”

“It’s…” He can see her swallow, eyes a bit wide and cheeks a bit pink, “It’s my Soul Mark.”

Soul Mark. A brand, almost, a declaration of who she was bound to, who she was meant for.

His name. His Mate. His.

“We Angara do not have such Marks, but there are other ways…” Jaal draws his words out, filled with elation and curiosity and something rather carnal, watching her expression, “I can, however, assume the purpose behind this. It… would seem, that we are…”

Aria sucks in a breath, voice barely a whisper, “Soul Mates.”

Finally.