#mat answers asks

[matznothere]

Do u ship valgrace

😺👍🏾👍🏾

yep

[thewintersoldierdisaster]

Can you write something where Mat tries this trend with Squeaks ?

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMkf4RmYH/

omg yesss i love this trend so much!!

mat knows you love a smutty book and he’ll tease the shit out of you for it (until you propose testing out different scenes, then he’s all for it)

but you’re also a big fan of booktok and making mat joint you for different videos so he’s game when you drag him into the hallway with your phone already set up

“oh good, you’re already wearing a hat,” you comment, plucking it off his head and turning it so the brim is over his face

mat shakes your hand off and goes to flip the hat back around but scrunches his face up when you shout at him to stop. “literally what are we doing?” he asks, wrinkling his nose at you

“okay, so it’s this trend? like book boyfriends have the move where they flip their hat to be backwards and lean in with their arm like this,” you demonstrate with your own arm on the wall, “and it’s like flirty and sexy”

that captures his interest. “flirty and sexy i can do,” he smirks and then he nudges you back against the wall with a hand on your hip, flipping his hat around smoothly, one little curl of hair poking out over the adjuster band. his lips are curled up softly and he smells so freaking good

you giggle, butterflies churning in your stomach, when he leans in, one hand on the wall over your head. your face flushes and you’re weak at the knees, impossibly turned on my mat even though you’ve been together for years. the eye contact is intense and you can barely maintain it

“good job?” he asks quietly, leaning in so his lips just barely brush yours

“mhm,” you hum, pressed happily to the wall by mat’s hand. “if vibes alone could get me pregnant, i’d be taking a test right now”

mat laughs, kisses you for real, his hand sliding down the wall to cup the back of your neck

“want to see how flirty and sexy i can be in bed?” he teases, hauling you over his shoulder before waiting for an answer

his hands are gripping your ass and you can’t stop laughing, already thinking about what other tik tok trends you can try with him

[kawareo]

Maybe you already answered this but, why is his hair white after the nautiloid?

Like a year of zero sunlight, brain injury, and trauma. A few years after the game it starts to grow back darker again

[markantonys]

While I still don't think the show has done enough to show why the world despises and fears male channelers (since it really should've been embedded into the world building, so far we only know that the Aes Sedai hate and fear them) and it does kinda lessen the impact of the narrative that none of the EF5 had at least an initial gut reaction to Rand being able to channel. I do wonder how they're gonna handle that topic moving forward, cause it kinda has to be addressed now that Rand is actively channeling. I could see it being expanded more deeply as Rand's madness progresses/tie it into his arc.

the show has made it ABUNDANTLY clear that Male Channelers Are Considered Bad News By All. it IS embedded into the worldbuilding. was the king saying that logain's gone mad and trying to kill him not enough for you? was the people of tar valon jeering and throwing fruit at him not enough for you? was rand and mat saying "hey if i'm a male channeler please kill me" not enough for you? was rand's terror the second he realized selene saw him channel not enough for you? was selene's act of how a normal person would react to finding out her boyfriend can channel not enough for you? was his heartbroken yet unsurprised reaction to her rejection not enough for you? was the whole backstory of a male channeler causing the apocalypse not enough for you? do you think that show-onlys are completely incapable of putting all these pieces together along with aes sedai treatment of male channelers and coming to the conclusion that male channelers are probably not very popular with most people and it's going to be very tough for rand that he is one?

literally what else should they have done that would make sense within the very small world and very early story of the first 2 seasons/3 books that they didn't already do? shown emond's fielders sitting around the dinner table talking about how much they hate and fear male channelers when none of them has ever met one and thus it's not relevant to their lives? wasted time doing a whole sidequest for rand in s2 where his abilities are discovered by some Average Citizens and they react badly? shit all over show!mat's characterization and given him a negative reaction to rand in s2 that would not make sense for his current show headspace, just for the sake of furthering rand's randpain? i'm sick of the rand stans who act like rand is the only character who matters and mat's characterization should be sacrificed just so we can go "oh poor rand uwu even his own best friend is mean to him". portraying mat in 2x06 as the sort of person who bullies and kicks his best friend while he's down would've been beneficial because......? what is so wrong with the show making the ef5 feel like mutually loyal friends instead of "rand is the best and most loyal friend in the world but the rest are little shits who abandon him as soon as the going gets tough"? seeing as in the books, mat continues to be an extremely loyal friend to rand throughout the series but most readers are too stupid to see through his unreliable narration and realize he doesn't mean it when he says that rand channeling is like him eating babies, i'm not surprised the show decided to simplify things in order to convey the true heart of mat's character (loyal and caring friend to rand) in a more obvious manner.

and i guarantee you that no show-only is going "oh, it's only aes sedai who have a problem with male channelers, everyone else thinks they're cool". that's not happening. show-onlys are not stupid, and they understand that male channelers are considered bad news by all; or maybe they haven't thought much yet about how male channelers are viewed by the average public, but in future seasons once we see rand getting shit from the average public, they are not going to be surprised or confused or go "but i thought it was only aes sedai who had a problem with them and everyone else thinks they're cool?", they're going to go "oh, well we've seen how much aes sedai hate them, so it makes sense that everyone else does too". stop. think for 2 seconds about "have i actually seen a large number* of show-onlys misunderstanding X and/or do i think it's plausible that a large number of show-onlys would be likely to misunderstand X, or do show-onlys have enough context clues to figure out X for themselves or to be unsurprised when X is expanded on and made more explicit in future seasons and i'm working myself up into a state over a non-issue?"

*there are always going to be a handful of people incapable of critical thinking who willfully misunderstand what the show is showing us, just like there are readers like that with the books, hence unless a LARGE number of general-population show-onlys are misunderstanding X, as opposed to just 20 idiots on twitter, i do not consider it a failure by the show in portraying X.

[masterfuldoodler]

I love your sketches omg 🫶🫶

Aaaaaah thank you!!!! <3

[lam-ila]

happy 300!! 🦋 could i request a moodboard of a soft, lazy morning with mat barzal?? thank you!!

hi my love!! of course!

all images from pinterest

Maleeha’s 300 Follower Celebration!!

[not-poignant]

I didn't understand how it was possible to be doing so much work, and I'm glad you're finally taking a break ❤️

To be fair, I am lucky that I type very fast! I've had an awful lot of practice writing and so I'm faster at it than someone who is starting out or even someone who is 5 years into a writing career.

That being said, I have no idea how I was doing so much work as well. Prior to 2023 it was normal for me to only be working on 2-3 stories at a time (with around 5-8 chapters a week max, and my main story updated only once every 2 weeks). Not the amount I'm doing now. Things exploded with Underline the Black and my lack of impulse control (as well as the appeal of offering side stories) meant I started up two more stories alongside it. Then calm Palmarosa and Constellations and suddenly I had a lot on my plate that I felt like I had to be regularly committed to.

I was pretty burnt out prior to getting Toby (our puppy), so on that side of things, I was a little too ambitious in thinking I'd be able to juggle everything.

I have known that like, once certain side stories finish, my schedule quietens down and I think what I've been hoping for is like 'just hold out until this finishes, and then this finishes, and then this finishes. Just hold out.' But my stories take some time to complete, and 'just holding out' means sometimes waiting 1-2 years.

So yeah instead of doing that I'm going to try something sooner. I was doing the week break from Underline the Black in 2024 but it just hasn't been enough.

So like, I am very lucky I type fast! When I'm comfortable, I'll always be prolific to the point that at least some people will be like 'I don't know how you do that' - a lot of that is just experience. My typing speed is around 120-140 words per minute and I can comfortably finish a 3,000 word chapter in about 2 hours (with room to think / imagine what is coming next etc. and pausing to reread sections for clarity). Sometimes faster. Sometimes slower if the chapter is challenging. On very good days, I can write 2 chapters in a day. The last time I had a day like that was March 11th.

Editing takes me a lot longer though, and weirdly so do things like the Birthday Spotlights. I think I really underestimated how much time each one would take to do in terms of the graphics + hyperlinks + finding quotes etc.

I'm still going to be writing here and there over the next two months. But even just an update/posting hiatus and a slow down will help an indescribably amount. The reality is I haven't actually done very much at all this April and I still feel very overwhelmed (even more so because I knew I was running down my buffer of chapters for May/June), so taking the next step, and hope that's enough!

The good news is I've taken hiatuses before and I've always come back afterwards raring to go, and I'm hoping that's the case now too. :)

[lazarus-harp]

matthew will always be the most complex character in escape the night no matter what. his emotions are always at 0 or 100 there is no in between for that man. he tries to cover up how intensely emotionally attached to people he's only known for a couple of hours by being passive aggressive and overly sarcastic then gives them devoted attention 5 minutes later. he admits in a confessional in episode 4 that choosing between voting in rosanna, safiya or teala is hard and that he's scared. why would he level rosanna who he's known for years with safiya and teala who he's only known for a few hours? he holds someones hand, shoulder or waist as a form of affection then randomly stops and shelters himself pretending that he doesn't want to talk to anyone but the second someone speaks to him or shows him any form of attention hes overwhelmed by it and goes 100 miles by constantly following them around, he either always gives a nickname (like ro for rosanna/darling for nikita) or says their name like he's known them for his entire life (softly and slowly) he's attached at the hip to the person of the episode who gives him the most attention and love (and yes i will be calling this man an attention whore bc he is one, don't deny it) he treats his love like a toy in which if you even leave the slightest scratch on it, he'll take it away until he paint over the scratch, gives in to his urges and gives it back almost like a second chance but he gives you unlimited chances bc he can not help himself. he is the only person in this so who is 100% willing to beat or even kill for someone he loves. like in episode seven you can see by the look in his eyes he wants nikita gone bc she expressed her feelings in a way that wasn't right in his mind. he paints pictures of everyone in is head and becomes unsatisfied and irrational when they aren't what he imagined them to be which is why in episode 8 when he tells nikita that he "doesn't like this side of her" i think he's not saying he dislikes how mean she's becoming, he's disliking the fact that she isn't the person he wanted her to be. he loves hard and hates hard then tries to take it all back, and though we as a fandom should hate someone who is a short-tempered attention whore who has severe attachment issues. we can't, he's almost everyone's favourite and if not, he's always in someones top 3 or top 5. and honestly i don't think there is a rational explanation for this he just captivates us because he has the characteristics of a golden boy who we root for but other than that i don't know why our favourite detective is so beloved when he has the most hate-able traits ever.... but my god do i love that man <3

i am soooo in love with this holy hell! i'm like, ugh, this is just such a well worded take on the detective and i always get this second wind of love for him when other people see him in a similar vein to how i've always viewed him. there's so many characters in etn, many of which who are complex and astonishingly human in the most interesting of ways, yet i keep coming back to matthew constantly. as you said in the end, he just has this undescribable pull on everyone around him that can't be understood or logically reasoned with. his traits are beyond hate-able and his wishy-washy nature should, by all means, make people hate him and distrust him. this is a death game! the last person you want to devote yourself to and bend over backwards for is a guy like mat ... but nobody in the show hates him, and neither do the fans of the show. the way he wraps people around his finger? the way he makes people want to do anything for him, makes even the most selfish of people want to be better? all while not trying that hard? it's insane. has he ever considered starting a cult? because he'd kill it. ahem! back on track, however!

'there is no in-between with that man' is exactly what makes his love for others ( his attachment ) so devastatingly intense and extreme. it's also why he has the capacity for cruelty that even the most 'mean' people in his season hasn't done nor thought of ... his sudden apathy and pettiness towards nikita and manny in ep9's death challenge comes out of nowhere, and joey of all people is completely taken aback and borderline appalled by his behavior in that moment. but in a split second, he's back to loving those two with a fierceness and, after being so clearly hurt by manny's passing, goes right into comfort and protect mode with nikita -- someone who, mind you, he just casually admitted to wanting her to die over manny not even minutes prior. it's this bizarre sense of wishy-washy behavior except it isn't, not really, since all those emotions don't come from a real place of apathy. there's not a part of the detective that can be described as uncaring because his entire problem, the crux of his character, is that he cares too much. in the best ways, the worst ways, and the selfish ways. most people in etn have this moment where you see them switch off so to speak, where they take a step back from others because they acknowledge there's either a.) no time for emotions or personal opinions, or b.) caring about these strangers will only make things harder, so there's no point. mat is a character who never has that moment and actively goes against these 'rules' at every turn, and honestly, he's probably a big part of why s3's group seems to care more about each other then the two groups before them. he just loves people so much! it's like this thing he can't help but do. and you're totally right with the fact he tries covering it up -- where he says mean things or does something specifically to someone with the intent to hurt, like he's trying to burn his barely formed bridges and be this perfect uneffected leader ... but he can't commit to it. it's like he either gets attention from that person again and just flings himself into them full force, or he misses them. which is crazy! how can you miss someone you don't know that well? but mat does, all the time.

and it's such a selfless thing, initially, if you're labeled as someone who loves so much and cares too deeply. when you're someone who's helpless to this nature. except, again, the detective's love isn't exactly unconditional. it is, but it isn't. he'll always come back to someone and dote on them, yet there are consequences to being someone he cares about. with mortimer and the town of everlock, matthew is consistent. nobody's ever 'punished' and he overall doesn't care for how these people act because he has no love for them whatsoever. this man even has the audacity to be like “you're welcome.” in this plain ass tone to maria in ep8 when she's gushing about how she's gotten her life back, because it wasn't worth the price of rosanna's. sure, he joins in on that group hug and eases himself onto manny's shoulder after -- but while the other three rejoice about how they're actually saving people, about how their deaths won't be meaningless, the detective is oddly quiet despite the smile on his face. he might love fiercely and hate twice as hard with his group, but like you said! he'd be willing to fight or kill anyone, including burning all of everlock to the ground with the residents inside it, if it meant the people he loves would stop dying. he stays gloomy and cynical about this by the end of the episode and at the start of the next. like he's waving this massive sign around that reads “hey! noticed you guys are falling into the belief that these randos' lives are worth more than yours! so i'll remember how stupid and awful and not true this is since i guess you guys forgot to.” which is ironic since these people are just as innocent as them, and just as foreign to matthew as a majority of his so called 'loved ones' tonight ... he just can't see that and so passionately distrusts everyone else's intentions and character besides his group. he's totally willing to forgive joey, but saving some poor guy tied up and begging for help? yeah, fuck him. mat's gonna drag his feet to help and keep trying to convince manny, nikita, ro, and joey to leave the bastard for dead. there's only one thing he wouldn't do for who he loves and that's die for them, but that's genuinely the only thing ; he has no boundaries, no reservations, no things he wouldn't share or do or forgive them for, it's just that he's not willing to get himself killed. crazy behavior, if you think about it.

also, thank you, thank you, thank you for the nikita comment, because that's exactly the thing isn't it? these claims that he doesn't like this side of her that he's seeing, that she's darker and more competitive, are flimsy at best and false at worst. matthew has always known who nikita is since the jump, has labeled her as someone who stirs the pot and is well versed in being mean. basically admits he sees her as just her title and nothing more since, when he votes her in come ep3, his reasoning is “we don't need troublemakers in the group.” to him, nikita is dramatic, troublesome, and someone who's willing to do anything for herself. she's a person who doesn't care for others, much less someone who experiences grief to any degree. it's a shallow read of her character but it's a conclusion we see mat come to because of all he's witnessed from her early on : demeaning roi until he sacrifices himself ( for mat, funnily enough ), belittling teala, and even cheering for manny during the challenge that gets matthew killed. it's a nature he struggles with hating yet it's one he loves nikita in spite of and one he loves her for. you see his hatred for this in early episodes, but his adoration for it shows just as much in later parts of their journey together. he almost drowns her in praise in ep9 because of how effortlessly she's won ( only to condemn her for this later, oh mat ) and actively tries engaging in this 'competitive' side of hers in s4, where he's all smiles and playful with her. he wasn't 'surprised' by nikita's behavior in ep7 as much as he was probably blindsighted by it. mat, fresh and high off his revival and the love he was shown, had probably forgotten this was how these people were normally. maybe he painted nikita as some secretive major softie in his head and when that didn't add up, he became unsatisfied and irrational and began changing this view to claim she was becoming someone she wasn't ... despite her being that way all along. you see this sorta behavior from him, this like, i decide how you really are and what you think, because when nikita tries apologizing and explaining herself he so rudely cuts her off and hammers down on his view of things. again, nikita most likely was trying to get mat to grasp that he's never been in a challenge with his best friend before, that this was what he wouldn't get, but mat angrily assumes she's stupid enough to think he doesn't get what being in a challenge and almost dying is like. eventually nikita stops trying with him, but this isn't because of her, it's entirely due to him retreating down a road where he's not letting anyone reach him anymore, for a while. it's also so telling how loved he is because almost every etn fan came out of ep7 hating nikita and believing mat's warped and untrue view of her. despite us seeing physical proof of nikita saying safiya's death saddens her, we fall for mat's claims that she delighted in safiya's death.

( which is something he quickly forgives her for all things considered lol. also, i love nikita because she and mat are two sides of the same coin. she's different to mat in a way that makes them exactly the same. mat is portrayed as selfless individual, a good person, a leader, when he's genuinely the most selfish guy around who picks favorites and would let innocents die simply because of biased views and reasoning. nikita, on the other hand, is portrayed as selfish and vain and inherently bad ; when she's the only one continuously pushing the group forward like a true leader, when she's willing to stick her hands into places where she could lose them because no one else wants to, and helps people without a second thought and does, quietly, feel devastated when people die. there's truth to these surface level reads of them both but that is not all they are. these are mainly fronts, purposefully put on or not, with elements of truth. like, nikita and mat are so similar they even have green and yellow-coded best friends who are their better and more sympathetic halves. nobody's doing it like them! )

the detective is short tempered, he's an attention whore, and has severe attachment issues and i adore him to bits and pieces haha. and love the little bit where you say he 'tries to take it all back' when he loves and hates because i think guilt and regret are huge parts of him too. it's another thing that pushes him into doing dangerous missions and dedicating himself to a bad way of life just as much as his love. he wants a do-over with jc, he wants to save roi who he let die for him, he wants to not vote in teala despite the cost, he wants to be able to have the guts to tell safiya she was secretly one of his favorites, and he wishes he wasn't a coward and that he would've tried to save rosanna rather than just talk to her, etc etc. probably would give almost anything to see manny again and take back how he acted in the ep9 death challenge, because the record producer was someone he was so fond of and consistently treated well, and then he let one petty moment be the last thing they'll ever have together. mat is someone founded on this guilt, regret, love, and he proves you can adore someone with your whole being and still treat them unfairly. there's so many layers to him and if he wasn't as crazy, needy, destructive, and charming as he was i wouldn't have fallen for etn as much as i did. he is the moment and if he comes back in s5 i hope people remember these things about him because i find the fanon detective so boring. let him be his messy, hypocritical, judgemental self! it's so much more fun.

[supernaturalkickparty]

Oh I love the wrestling fans headcanon! I can see Dean getting disillusioned with WWE in the late 2000s and ending up dragging Sammy to indie death matches in backyards and warehouses

They're wrestling fans and I love it,

Dean

Sam

John's favorite wrestler was called the hangman and it gave me brain worms of Dean being a huge hangman adam page fan and I'm like yes please.

John took them to small shows and when John was out of town they'd go to backyard shows or parking lot brawls and hang out with other kids and do dumb kid shit.

They went to a few death matches, they did an open challenge amateur fight, tag teams of course.

Spn gave us canon wrestling fans Winchesters and I love it.

My headcanon is they watch ROH, AEW, TNA, and GCW.

But Dean is definitely a hangman and mox fan while Sam is a Kenny and young bucks fan.

[matznothere]

Me entering your inbox to annoy you

STOP NO NOT CHIKORITA

[thewintersoldierdisaster]

Sorry you’re feeling icky right now :( maybe some Mat and squeaks domestic fluff will help!

these two are my comfort place 🥹 i love them so much and def needed to write some fluff since their long fics lately have been v angsty!

but anyway, you’ve been living together for a bit, but once you get engaged, you and mat buy a house

(a few blocks from bo and holly which mat and squeaks both love because they’re literally walking distance from their best friends!)

the house is new-ish, built in the late nineties and updated over the years so there’s not too much work to do. but it definitely needs painting and since mat still has a couple of weeks before camp starts up, squeaks plans on putting him to work

you’re at home depot a frankly ridiculous amount, picking up paint samples until you decide on the perfect color for each room. the trunk of mat’s defender is loaded up with paint cans and rollers and plastic sheeting and then everything’s ready to go

you’re both in casual clothes, stuff you don’t mind getting dirty, and mat’s in charge of laying down the plastic sheeting and taping everything off. you’re is in charge of opening and pouring the paint, but you gets splatters on her shirt and mat teases you

“you’re so messy, how do you think you’ll be able to paint a room?” he smirks and you rolls her eyes at him, swiping your finger through the paint before wiping it off on his shirt

“now we’re even,” you tease, dancing away from him when he lunges to grab you around the waist

you laugh and tease and get half the room painted with minimal fuss, there’s paint droplets on the plastic sheets and on their skin because you’re both halfway useless

mat distracts you, hands on your hip and mouth on your neck, hot kisses to your skin that make you giggle from the ticklish scrape of his stubble. mat’s hands wander up your sides, cupping your breasts and squeezing, thumbing at your nipples until they’re pebbled under your sports bra

“lets take a break,” mat huffs a breath against your neck, your arms slipping as he distracts you. a freak of paint goes sideways on the wall and you wrinkle your nose

“lets finish the room first,” you whine, trying to wiggle out of mat’s grip. but all that does is press your ass against his crotch harder, the heat of his cock evident through his shorts and yours

mat lazily bucks his hips and works at your breasts and you accidentally drop the paint roller right back into the tray, splattering paint everywhere. it gets all over your front and on your face and you blink stupidly for a moment, mat completely frozen behind you

he bursts into a cackled laugh and you join in, wiping at the paint on your face and smudging it everywhere

“winter mint is your color,” mat teases, turning you in his arms and kissing you properly, pressing you up against the freshly painting wall

you let out a muffled shriek, already feeling the cold paint against the backs of your legs, but mat ignores you in favor of kissing you deeper

you give in, wrapping yourself around him, legs around his waist and paint covered hands in his hair. he hoists you up against the wall, cock hard against your core. you grind down over him and he groans into your mouth, the noise turning into a whine when you tug at his hair

mat thrusts his hips up into yours and you’re so keyed up for him that you come just from that friction and grinding against him. he’s delighted, smirking against your mouth and neck

“i think we made a mess,” he laughs, tugging at your shorts to dip his hand into your panties and swipe his fingers through the wet, creamy mess between your legs.

there’s paint all over your back and in his hair too, the pair of you completely debauched

mat’s cock is still hard, the outline of him visible through his pants. you palm him and grin wickedly before squeezing him tightly. he grunts, his fingers flexing against your cunt

“i don’t think we’re messy enough,” you chirp, rubbing your hand over his cock until he’s whining and coming in his pants, a wet splotch forming almost immediately

mat groans and drops his head to your shoulder, laughing through panted breaths

you giggle, shifting and pressing your thighs together with his hand still in your pants. “we’re going to have to repaint this room,” you sigh

mat looks over your shoulder at the smudged outline of your body on the wall. he shrugs, “i think this is pretty representative of us, y’know?”

and while you’re sleeping, after mat’s knocked you out with another mind blowing orgasm, he gets up and repaints the room as a surprise for you to wake up to 🥰

[karizard-ao3]

what do you think about fictional boys who are like "i want her to step on me"? 👀

I think that these fictional boys are correct to feel that way and should be encouraged and rewarded for their behavior.

[hunter-sylvester]

Imagine Kevin writing Hunter notes 🤭

From your amazing fic 🥰

Oh my god, seeing that line handwritten out sure is something 😖💀 Not in a bad way!! Just...I really went ahead and put that in a fic, didn't I? lmao

I definitely held back less with Candy Apples ^-^" which was admittedly really fun, I should hold back less in my writing going forward.

But...if Kevin started leaving Hunter notes like that...boyo would 404 every time. I don't think Hunter deals well with affection that direct. His brain would disconnect for a few seconds. If Kevin winked at him on stage he'd fuck up his guitar playing every single time without fail. Fans would post compilation vids of him doing it if when Skullflower got big. At least that is now my headcanon lol

[hxans]

Mat Cauthon, 12

What's a headcanon I have for this character?

Oh man, I mean, I find it so easy to adopt other's headcanons for him --he's dyslexic, he's ADHD, what if he had the untapped potential to learn to channel-- what's something I have come up with independently, let me think...

I suppose, if he never became the Prince if Ravens, he would be destined to be Elayne's First Prince of the Sword. In the books, he challenges and defeats both her brothers in a duel, before going on to try and save her life from a Forsaken's kill order. He also has the charisma and tactical knowledge that leads to building his own army. I don't doubt Elayne's sweet-talking skills that she couldn't convince him to take Gawyn's spot by her side as Gawyn becomes busy being Egwene's warder-husband.

Plus, he and her warder Birgitte are natural bffs. Now whether or not Mat would accept or even volunteer to let Elayne bond him as a warder also, well, I'll leave that up to a toss of the dice.

[barzal-mat]

There was this fic a long time ago where the readers married to Crosby but cheats on him with barzal & barzal catches her in Pitt with Crosby. I can’t think for the life of my what or who that fic is from

this one?? I found it today when I was compiling my fic recs and was so sad to realize they deactivated :(