#ii. ( arc ) — the boughs of our family tree

[unexceptional-broken]

                “YOU’RE MORE BARNES than you are brains these days,” she muttered, putting the finishing touches on John’s bandage. “You do know that I’ve got a weak heart, right? One of these days you or your uncle are going to put me into a hole in the ground if you don’t quit it with this shit.” 

                          ( @battletrio​ ) « you didn’t ask for this but Jack did

[lambs-rest]

Granye Timeline

A Realm Reborn

Into the Beast’s Maw - Meeting

Shadow of Darkness - Misconceptions

Foot in the Door -> Terror at Fallgourd - Intermission

Skeletons In Her Closet - Sword and Staff

Loathing (bonus image)

All Good Things…

…Come to an End

The Warden Works in Mysterious Ways - Silence

In Pursuit of the Past - Oh Darlin’!

Escape from Castrum Centri - Unbearable

The Black Wolf’s Ultimatum - Little Doubts

The Ultimate Weapon I - Into the Wolf’s Den

The Ultimate Weapon II - Unleash Ultima!

The Ultimate Weapon III - Bringer of Light

The Ultimate Weapon IV - The Light of the Crystal

Post ARR

The Gifted - Sweet-cream

CTC (Crystal Tower Chronicles): Legacy of Allag

CTC: Labyrinth of the Ancients I

CTC: Labyrinth of the Ancients II - Bones, Bhoots, Bombs and Behemoths, Oh My! I

CTC: Labyrinth of the Ancients III - Bones, Bhoots, Bombs and Behemoths, Oh My! II

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Shock and Awe - Resolve

Reap the Whirlwind - Soldier, Warrior, Fool

Stories We Tell - Ele

What Little Gods Are Made Of - Unburden

The Intercession of Saints - Pariah Queen

The Path of the Righteous - For the Greater Good

Instruments of Our Deliverance  - O Saint Shiva

An Uninvited Ascian I - Fear

An Uninvited Ascian II - Run Rabbit

An Uninvited Ascian III - Mourning

Mask of Grief - Make Your Peace

Heavensward

Divine Intervention I - Wanderer’s Embrace

Divine Intervention II - Trial by Combat

Disclosure - Haunted

Keeping the Flame Alive

To Seige or Not to Seige

Purple Flame, Purple Flame - First Steps

The Trine Towers

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Post HW

Washing Day

WTT (Warring Triad Tales): Gods of Eld - Old New Threats

WTT: When the Bough Wakes

WTT: The Fate of Stars I - The Blue Tiger

WTT: The Fate of Stars II - Past

WTT: Balance Unto All - Irreverence

WTT: The Last Pillar to Fall I

WTT: The Last Pillar to Fall II - ad infinitum

WTT: The Last Pillar to Fall III - One Step

WoD arc

New Bones, Old Farce

From Scratch

Ascian’s First Job (rewrite of this)

Learning Curve

Hard Truths

Avoidance

Gingersnap

Bitter Pills

Zero Tolerance

Some Adjustment Required

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Phoenix Down

Stormblood

Post Reach breach - image set

Feb Prompt - Silk

Post SB

Dear Keiko

Under the Moonlight - A Grave Discovery

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Feb Prompt - Trope

Feb Prompt - Together or not at all

Sweet Struggles - Valentiones Day 2020

Feb Prompt - You know it when you feel it

Dec Prompt - Books

Dec Prompt - Mulled Wine

Shadowbringers

Emergent Splendour - Not-so-little Shop of Horrors

The Burden of Knowledge

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Only a Light Fever

The Ladder

Shadowbringers - An Exchanging of Words

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Feb Prompt - I told you to be careful

Cookie Thief Zenos (ask prompt)

Post SHB

Dec Prompt - Starry Night

Dec Prompt - Hot Chocolate

Dec Prompt - Stars 

Vows of Virtue, Deeds of Cruelty

An Old Friend - Struggles

Beneath the Surface - Wayward Echoes

Echoes of a Fallen Star

Heroic Dreams - The Burden of Hope

Sleep Now in Sapphire

Faded Memories I - Hard to Swallow

Faded Memories II - Retrace

Faded Memories III - Smoke Underwater

Etched in the Stars

The Converging Light

Hope’s Confluence

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Dec Prompt - Music

Dec Prompt - Secrets

Feb Prompt - At Your Fingertips

Feb Prompt - Hate is too great a burden to bear

Dec Prompt - Christmas Starlight Tree

Dec Prompt - Snowball Fight

Dec Prompt - Family (Images)

Dec Prompt - Coming Home

Fluff

Non ‘Canon’ Compliant aka. AU-less oneshots

Dec Prompt - Cookies

Gonna pick up the roegadyn!

[unexceptional-broken]

               IT WAS A bit of a calculated risk, admittedly. Becky didn’t know if he was going to make things feel so damned awkward by calling her Nana again; no matter how many times she kept asking him not to, it seemed like it was hardwired into the complicated young man. 

— Well, he was older than her, by all accounts, but if he kept insisting on calling her NANA she could think of him as a young man, couldn’t she? Because despite everything else — the rough exterior and the webbed wrinkles right next to his eyes and the fact that he towered over her ( but who didn’t, regardless of their age? ) — there was something so young about him, just under the surface. Like he’d never been taught how to grow up all the way, not really, and someone had just painted grown-up lessons overtop of a too-fragile center without waiting for that paint to dry. She’d heard him use coarse words, though she figured he’d tried not to let her hear that ( as though she was some sort of moral voice for propriety in any sense of the word ), and she’d heard — and even seen — some of the less-than-stellar choices he’d made. But just under all of that was someone so, so young who was just looking for a piece of something missing everywhere he went. And, lo and behold... he’d picked her to stop his search. 

Becky tried to follow the impulse instead of tamping it down, letting her hand rest on his cheek for a moment; him sitting and her standing was the only way this would have been possible, so perhaps she was just taking advantage of the moment of being just barely taller than him. The misty eyes that he’s doing a horrible job of hiding make her chest feel tight in a way that doesn’t feel like it fits quite right... not quite yet. She’d never been given the chance to be a mother; suddenly being expected to know what to do with this living testament of a person’s whole life she hadn’t been there for was still difficult for Becky to embrace, but for the first time, she just gave John a tight smile that seemed to whisper I’m trying; give me a little more time, okay? 

“Yeah, yeah,” she replied. “Now, finish up that water before I dump it on you, okay? You look like you haven’t hydrated in a week.” 

                                             ( @battletrio ) « con’t