#fw the state of rider-flier relations

[skyfallscotland]

Mira Sorrengail is the type of badass woman who absolutely does not have a praise kink...until Drake Cordella calls her a ‘good girl’.

[justallihere]

what are your 5-7 favorite FW fics at the moment?

Oooh good question!

Violet Sorrengail’s Guide to Spinning a Scandal by @caeli0306

one night, and then another (and the prequel of course) by @widebrimmedhatsblog

Where Does the Good Go by @sarahydeart

The State of Rider-Flier Relations by @skyfallscotland

just this once by feder_fuchs (on ao3, I don’t know their tumblr sorry!!)

Also, unashamedly come together, come apart by me. Because I love my own fics more than anyone else does 🫶🏻

[skyfallscotland]

Not me taking a smutty little prompt and building a whole damn world around it—very on brand. The prompt was: "I’ll take good care of you, I promise." from @nightprompts and let me tell you, he does, in fact, take good care of her 😉

“So you’re the one who gave me that scar.” I stare, uncomprehending. “What?” I manage to bite out. He lifts a hand, tapping his finger over the scar trailing from his ear to his collarbone, a match for the one I’d had clawed into me by a gryphon just like his. I bite down on my tongue as I think about the mirror of a burn long-since healed, that mars the skin of my torso. A scar that every man or woman I’ve ever taken to bed since has commented on. And he’s worried about a line on the side of his neck? My blood boils.

— The State of Rider-Flier Relations, now up on AO3, xf

[skyfallscotland]

hello,

I am coming over here to respectfully yell at you and this entire godforsaken fandom for making me have brain rot of Drake and Mira. Your most recent fic has unlocked Pandora's box and now I can't stop thinking about them 😭 I think I've re-read it like 5 times at this rate. They have officially taken over Vi and X place which is crazy to me. I have all these ideas of what Drake and Mira would be like but I'm too scared to write them down so I'm over here complaining to tumblr friends

respectfully,

a tired FW fan who can't stop thinking about side characters who don't have enough screen time

ps.

Now I have questions about fliers and their dynamic with gryphons??? like are they as sassy and snarky as dragons??? I HAVE TOO MANY QUESTIONS AND NO GODAMN ANSWERS

Please, please write them?????

And like, here’s the thing, I’d love to write a 150k word epic of them, but we just know NOTHING. And it would drive me crazy trying to think of what the hell they’re doing and where the hell they’re going and it’s all just a lot, you know?

It’s one thing to flesh out characters who don’t get a lot of screen time and quite another to have to build a whole world to house them in, because the worldbuilding so far has been so lacking (iron flame wise anyway), all hints and no substance as of yet.

Who is Maraya? Where is she? Why is she leaving the failing defence of her nation to her stuck up cousin? Nobody knows

Why do half the gryphons have names ending in -air but a bunch don’t??? We don’t know??? It’s too much, my friend 😭

I definitely think they’re snarky as fuck though.

[skyfallscotland]

Please continue your mira/drake fic i am obssessed!!! I want to see brennans reaction, also what if they saw the rider who helped mira make the dragon scale armour… please please please

I’ll definitely consider it but I don’t know how much more inspo I have just yet plot-wise! I was actually planning a Violet/Xaden instalment of it 😅