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redrage71890 · 2 years ago

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I have some AU ideas for you!

Period au: Twisted wonderland only has European culture, while Yuu lives in Asian culture so when they go to Twisted Wonderland. Yuu would be so confused about the culture in Twisted Wonderland and so are the boys with Asian culture

Singing au: Basically, everyone in Twisted Wonderland always sings and so does Yuu

Thank you so much for requesting!

Yuu may be more focused on the Chinese side of culture as I am Chinese and its just easier for me d=====(￣▽￣*)b

I'll see if I can do the singing AU another time

But small WARNING for a little bit of Asian Stereotypes being portrayed, specifically jokes from Youtubers of Steven He, mrnigelng, TwoSetViolin, Jeenie Weenie, Nathan Don and probably more creators, I find them really funny as an Asian person

{Edit: I think I accidentally made this too dramatic for an Asian person, but this is like a mixture of stereotypes and experience I've seen and done before.}

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𝘼𝙨𝙞𝙖𝙣 𝙔𝙪𝙪 𝙑𝙨 𝙏𝙬𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙒𝙤𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙙

Asian! Yuu comes from a strict family that only wants the best from them, which leads them to be strict on careers and work in both school and home.

On a day of normality with studying, cooking, piano practise, violin practise, martial arts practise and etc.

They get sucked into a mirror and ends up in a coffin, slamming the door open and scaring Grim.

Shenanigans ensue and lead back to the Mirror Chamber.

When the Dark Mirror says that Yuu has no magic and is not assigned to any dorm:

'I haven't even been here for an hour and I'm already hearing the yelling of my parents for being a failure at something I never asked for or knew....(┬┬﹏┬┬)'

As soon as they were given the Ramshackle Dorm, they were tired and pissed at its condition. Like why would you not bother to care of a building that's on your campus/property?!

"What?! I'm not helping clean!"

*Summons a pair of slippers out of nowhere with a deadly glare*

Grim immediately starts using a broom to sweep the floor with a terrified look in his eyes.

"Yeah that's what I thought..."

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When they became a student, they're quite different from what Ace, Deuce and Grim to expect.

For starters, they're quite different to how they act around everyone. Putting their head down and head in the books. In a short span of time, they managed to become top of the class with high marks despite being from another world.

This goes without saying that many students go to them for advice and tutoring sessions about the work. They're even getting paid to do so!

Ace and Deuce don't hesitate to ask for help, which Yuu does since they're friends.

Yuu even going as far as asking Trey, Cater and Riddle what's in their curriculums so they could study more. They're clearly taken aback from that but still tell non-the less.

And now people of all years are asking Yuu for help and tutoring.

"Yuu, y-you know you can take a break from all of this right?"

"Ahhh Deuce, yeah I know. Its just force of habit."

"Wait, force of habit?"

"Yeah! I always studied the higher levels in my school, it was a way for me to stay prepared and more understanding of the curriculum."

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*Tears flowing from Yuu's eyes* "AAAAAHAHA RIDDLE!!! I'VE BEEN THROUGH EXACALY WHAT YOU'VE BEEN THROUGH!!!"

Yuu cries hugging Riddle tightly, the other boys give such concerned looks towards Yuu. Even Riddle was taken aback from this outburst of tears from Yuu, but he returned the hug as a way for Yuu to calm down.

"So are your parents like Riddle's?" Ace asks.

"Oh yeah. They came from a foreign country and wanted the best financially for myself in the future, so they got me to do a bunch of hobbies and aim for career paths with high pay. My dad constantly said that he had to swim a river every morning to go to school and that I should be thankful of what I have, but I think he's exaggerating. Though, this goes without saying that they have high expectations for me to the point that anything below an A is an automatic 'I'm on the streets' kind of response."

This goes without saying that Yuu is overworking themselves at hobbies they were forced to do from the Heartslabyul boys perspectives.

In reality they don't wanna be a disappointment to their family. Also cause they don't wanna be thrown on the streets and working at a fast-food chain for the rest of their lives.

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When the Dorm was fully fixed, with the combination of Yuu tutoring students, assisting at Monstro Lounge and doing jobs around the school for money, fixing and cleaning the dorm themselves and Crowley giving money (with the help from the teachers forcing him to help)

Yuu now has become set on keeping some house rules to prevent any dirtiness from all the hard work they've done.

The first years had a sleepover at Ramshackle one night, Yuu did inform them that they imputed some house rules. To which Ace and Epel grown at.

"Welcome guys! Please come in."

The boys greet Yuu as they enter the dorm.

HOWEVER

THEY

HAD

SHOES

INSIDE

"You really fixed up this place Yuu! How did you-"

*Yuu wielding a wooden spatula in their hands with murderous intent*

"TAKE. OFF. YOUR. SHOES!! I JUST CLEANED THE BLOODY FLOOR!!"

Yeah. Ace, Deuce and Epel looked absolutely terrified at Yuu. Even Sebek and Jack looked scared at Yuu.

Yuu did apologise for their outburst and explained that they really hated shoes on inside unless it’s slippers. Taught by their parents.

"My parents raised me..... You can't blame me for acting like this... ╯︿╰"

"And it doesn't help that I agree with what they say because its so damn reasonable to consider and actually helps me... I try not to be like my parents but I may as well be!"

Yuu proceeding to go on a side tangent about themselves and their parents and just straight up sobs on the floor at their own pathetic self.

The boys just awkwardly hold them as they sob at themselves.

#disney twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland au #twst #twst x yuu #twst yuu #twst au #asian yuu

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kimium · 5 months ago

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Saw AU ask time! So, I know you’ve said more than once you’d like to add a bit where Yuu’s university/college friends (the OCs) meet Yuu’s NRC friends and freak out over how famous they are…so I wanna know:

1. Which OC’s would meet which houses?

2. What would their initial reaction be?

3. Is there a point where they sense anything suspicious about the NRC alumni?👀

Oh! What a fun ask! I'm so excited to answer it!

As always to anyone who isn't aware me and @m34gs have a Twisted Wonderland Sort of Saw AU that we're writing together. If you haven't checked out our fics, the link is above!

First, I'm going to leave Leona out of this since I already wrote majority of my OCs meeting him in my Leona focused fic Casino Night.

Next, I'm going to lay out my OCs for everyone. I will admit, there isn't a ton to them. Mostly because I wrote them to be other characters for Yuu to bounce off. So don't expect any deep lore about them. I'm not a big OC making person.

My OCs are as follows:

Professor Robertson - He's the professor that Yuu is working under as a Masters Student. He's friends with Trein and the two enjoy drinking tea/coffee together.

Heather - She's a reliable person. Probably bisexual or lesbian. Unclear. Up to you to decide, I suppose.

Chloe - My favourite one due to her bright personality. She's also a fan of Vil's works.

Riley - Another graduate student.

Pierce - Another graduate student. Dating Nathan.

Nathan - Yet another graduate student. Dating Pierce.

Onto the questions!

1. Which OC’s would meet which houses?

Besides Leona, who they all met, here are the houses they'd meet:

Heartslaybul: I want everyone or a majority of them to meet Heartslaybul. I feel it's inevitable given that Yuu hangs around Ace/Deuce all the time.

Octavinelle: I want either Pierce or Nathan to meet them! I want this because I haven't written those two in a long while. Give them a chance to have the spotlight and maybe flesh a bit more out for their characters.

Scarbia: It has to be Riley because (fic spoilers) he's the one who had the issue that Yuu told Jamil and Kalim about which lead to their murder victim.

Pomefiore: Chloe has to meet Pomefiore.

Ignihyde: Bold to assume anyone could meet Idia. JK, I think someone like Heather or Riley would be fun for Idia to meet.

Diasomnia: Everyone will meet Diasomnia.

2. What would their initial reaction be?

Heartslaybul: They'll be mostly excited to meet some of Yuu's other friends! They've heard many stories about Ace/Deuce. Though, I imagine there will be some shock when they realize Yuu is friends with Trey Clover (owner of one of the most popular bakeries in town), Cater (Magicam extraordinaire), and Riddle (one of the youngest CEOs of a law firm).

Octavinelle: I think it depends on who they're meeting. Contextual wise it makes most sense to have them meet at a Monstro Lounge. In which case they'll see the Customer Service Azul, Jade, and Floyd. Well, as best of a customer service Floyd one can hope for. Working hasn't stopped Floyd from running across the restaurant to squeeze Yuu. In any case, I'm certain any OC who meets them will remain on the polite end of "I'm meeting new people".

Scarabia: Extremely shocked and in awe that Yuu is friends with Kalim Al Asim. This shock will only increase when Kalim (in his earnest nature) wants to throw a "small party" to get to know Yuu's other friends. Yuu wants to apologize, but also there is some amusement to watching someone taking in the grandeur of Kalim's wealth first hand.

Pomefiore: Once Chloe is over the shock of Yuu knowing THE Vil Schoenheit she's going to have a huge fan girl moment. She'll be super respectful, of course, but elated at the same time.

Ignihyde: I want anyone who meets Idia unaware of who he is at first. I want them to think he's some weird, pale, shut-in that Yuu somehow befriended. It's only after a while that all the pieces click into place and they realize "That's Idia Shroud of the Shroud Family".

Diasomnia: I don't just want shock. I want disbelief. I want everyone to Blue Screen for at least 5 minutes when they realize Yuu is friends with The Malleus Draconia, Crown Prince to Briar Valley. Sebek will take this as "They're in awe of Malleus-sama... AS THEY SHOULD BE. Bow before my Lord, Mortals" but thankfully Silver is there to assure everyone they do NOT need to start worshipping Malleus.

3. Is there a point where they sense anything suspicious about the NRC alumni?👀

Rapid fire answers here! Savanclaw can be included this time, given I didn't address this part in the fic.

Heartslaybul: I think it depends on the person. Some are easier to excuse than others. For example: Riddle is just too good at covering his tracks and Trey isn't participating in the murders. So, they're off the hook. However, I could see Ace/Deuce and maybe Cater accidentally slipping up a bit from time to time. It's easily fixed though.

Savanaclaw: Yes, but it's easily swept away with a "Well, he's Royalty and there have to be secrets kept from us lay people". Everyone thinks what Leona is hiding are national security/sensitive cases that comes with ruling and politics. Ruggie is not sloppy and Jack would never be that unprofessional.

Octavinelle: Yes. If they're not a little suspicious of Octavinelle there is something wrong. However, Jade and Floyd will "resolve" their suspicions with a red herring. For example, Jade will purposefully make a parcel look suspicious only to reveal it's an expensive mushroom he purchased to try out for a new dish. Thus, their suspicions will be "alleviated" and all will seem fine.

Scarabia: No. Kalim is just too bright and cheerful to suspect. Jamil is a little quieter, but he's good at covering his tracks (see: Book 4). If any suspicions arise it will be similar to Leona's except it will be business focused rather than royalty/politics.

Pomefiore: No, never. Vil has a Reputation to Uphold. He'd never allow himself to be the source of suspicion. Yes, Rook can be a little off putting, but that's chalked up to Rook being... himself. However, Rook would also never allow himself to be the reason why Vil is suspected. He'd rather perish than do that. Epel thinks that Rook is being extremely over-dramatic.

Ignihyde: No, everyone thinks Idia is a harmless gamer/nerd/shut-in. If any suspicions arise, similar to Leona and Kalim, it's chalked up to "STYX sensitive information". The only thing Idia is suspect of is buying all the dakimakura (body pillows) from his favourite slice of life "cute girls do cute things" anime. Sorry, Idia. It's the truth.

Diasomnia: No. This is because of two things. First, like Leona, Malleus is royalty and if he's suspected of hiding things, it's because it's due to that. Also, he's Fae and they operate on different rules/mindsets. What they feel is "normal" is normal to Fae! Besides, being suspect of murder means that jeopardizes Malleus seeing Yuu for tea time. He'd rather burn the world to ashes than risk his relationship with Yuu.

And there you have it friend! I hope you enjoy my answers! Let me know!

#personal #replies #sort of saw au #twisted wonderland

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heavenlyhoundoom · 7 months ago

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We're gonna go further back with the grandparents' childhoods.(next gen fnaf x Willy's Wonderland au)

1.Astra grew up in Syracuse, New York with her mother, Starla, her father, Apollo, and her big brother, Sirius. Their childhood home looks like this.

2.Oswald grew up in Macedon, New York with his Mother, Brooke, his father, Merlin, and his younger identical twin, Harry. Their childhood home looks like this.

3.Skye grew up in Washington, Connecticut with her mother, Madison, her father, Caleb, and her big sister, Ella. Their childhood home looks like this.

4.Jason grew up in Ontario, New York with his mother, Chole, his father, Nathan, his big sister, Riley, and his little brother, Tyler. Their childhood home looks like this.

5.Trisha grew up in Newark, New York with her mother, Nancy, her father, Gabriel, and her big sisters, Lauren and Olivia. Their childhood home looks like this.

6.Leonard grew up as an only child in Waterloo, New York with his mother, Karen, and his father, James. His childhood home looks like this.

7.Maria grew up in Bernal, Mexio with her mother, Isabella, her father, José, her little sister, Camila, and her little brothers, Diego and Luis. Maria inherited her childhood home when her parents decided to move to Mexico City, they gave it to her because she was the first to have kids.

8.Jonathan grew up in Dallas, Texas with his mother Katelin, his father, Anthony, and his big sister, Carol. Their childhood home looks like this.

9.Dixie grew up in Lancaster, New York with her mother, Julia, her father, Gavin, and her big sister, Ava. Their childhood home looks like this.

10.Herbert grew up in Buffalo, New York with his mother, Deborah, his father, Logan, and his little sister, Kayla. Their childhood home looks like this.

11.Lily grew up as an only child in Toronto, Canada with her mother, Susan and her father, Jeffrey. Her childhood home looks like this.

12.Austin grew up in Canandaigua, New York with his mother, Alexis, his father, Cameron, and his big sisters, Sadie and Linda. Their childhood home looks like this.

13.Jasmine grew up as an only child in Newark, New York with her mother, Clover and her father, Ryan. Her childhood home looks like this.

14.Adam grew up in Waterloo, New York with his mother, Barbara, his father, Lincoln, his big sister, Kimberly, and his little brother, Jack. Their childhood home looks like this.

15.Michelle grew up in Naperville, Illinois with her mother, Amelia, her father, Donald, and her older identical twin, Makayla. Their childhood home looks like this.

16.Robert grew up in Chicago, Illinois with his mother, Harper, his father, Benjamin, and his little brother, Lucas. Their childhood home looks like this.

17.Sherry grew up in Brisbane, Australia with her mother, Abigail, her father, Hudson, and her little brother, Warren. Their childhood home looks like this.

18.Daniel grew up as an only child with his mother, Sophia and his father, Gary. His childhood home looks like this.

#Fnaf #willy's wonderland #ocs #alternate universe #Houses

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sweetest-honey-bunny · 5 years ago

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𝓐𝓵𝓲𝓬𝓮 𝓲𝓷 𝓦𝓸𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓻𝓵𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓐𝓾

"𝒮𝒽𝑒 𝓌𝒶𝓈 𝒻𝒶𝓁𝓁𝒾𝓃𝑔

𝒹𝑜𝓌𝓃

𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓇𝒶𝒷𝒷𝒾𝓉 𝒽𝑜𝓁𝑒...."

Y/N - Alice

Mark - White Queen

Dark - Red Queen

Wilford - Mad Hatter

Sean - March Hare

Anti - The Jabberwocky

Nate - White Rabbit

Natemare - Cheshire Cat

Ethan - Blue Caterpillar

𝓦𝓮𝓵𝓬𝓸𝓶𝓮 𝓽𝓸 𝓦𝓸𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓻𝓵𝓪𝓷𝓭:

@spooky-scary-lesbian

@bubblegumbitch36

@semiproeagle23

@fox-face2014 (wasn't able to tag)

@awritingsideblog

@freckled-words

@nerdqueenkat

@bee-wrecker

@smolwash

Little note: I have a few others done from a few months ago, (this is one of them) but I'm not gonna post them till the 5th and 25th of every month starting in February 💕

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persoaprilo · 3 years ago

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I MEAN REALLY SAMUEL IS THE CATERPILLAR OR NO??

LIS Alice AU I shat while I was half conscious in the midst of the night because I am sO HYPED FOR EPISODE 4 and that was the first thing my brain wanted to do in celebration

#velinxi #life is strange #victoria chase #kate marsh #chloe price #max caulfield #warren graham #nathan prescott #fanart #alice in wonderland au #THIS IS HELLA AMAZING

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medleyofswag · 7 years ago

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And the boy who lost his brother, lost his mind but living still-

has lost himself in hunting treasures only for the thrill

Shinedown - Her name is Alice ft Uncharted

Nathan Drake in wonderland au got me like 👏 👏 👏 👏

#It was a joke until it wasn't #Nathan Drake in wonderland #Samuel Drake #Nathan Drake #Uncharted4 #Wonderland #au #Her name is Alice #His name is Nathan #Shinedown #A thief's end #photomode

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blackberry-smiles · 2 years ago

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Creepypasta characters I write for:

Girls:

- Jane the Killer

- Nina the Killer

- Laughing Jill

- Clockwork

- Daisy White

- Lazari (platonic)

- Wendy Wilson (platonic)

- Sally (platonic)

Boys:

- BEN Drowned (platonic)

- Jeff the Killer

- Homicidal Liu

- Laughing Jack

- Eyeless Jack

- Candy Pop

- Bloody Painter

- Hobo Heart

- Jason the Toymaker

- Kagekao

- Lost Silver

- Nathan the Nobody

- Neon

- Sonic.exe

- Puppeteer

- X-Virus/Cody

- Wendell Wilson

- Wilson the Basher

- Dark Link

- Chess Master

Proxies:

- Masky/Tim (Marble Hornets)

- Hoodie/Brian (Marble Hornets)

- Ticci Toby/Tobias

Entities:

- Slenderman

- Offenderman (he bribed me. I promise, there will be nothing disgusting)

- Trenderman

- Splendorman

- Zalgo

Possibles:

- Dr. Smiley

- Nurse Ann

- Glitchy Red

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Twisted Wonderland characters I write for:

Romantic: all boys and staff

Platonic: Grim, Ortho, Cheka, and staff

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Countryhumans characters I write for:

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Sans AU characters I write for:

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Cookie Run characters I write for:

Romantic:

Platonic:

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I will update this list once I somewhat figure out most of what the character(s) background, so stay tuned for them! I may not do much of them compared to the rest of their fandom.

For the countryhumans fandom: I do not support any event that is happening or has happened. I enjoy this fandom purely for the beautiful artwork and funny and wholesome comics created by various artists.

All art is not mine unless I say.

#creepypasta x reader #twisted wonderland x reader #countryhumans x reader #sans au x reader #cookie run x reader

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anijay · 2 years ago

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Hi! Thanks for stopping by here 👋😊

Tags:

* #jay draws stuff - current tag shows all my art

* #my art - former art tag that shows my past art

* #au ask - answered asks for (mostly) my dark deception aus

* #oc: (name) - all the posts about one of my ocs whose name is in the tag

* #drawing requests - all of the art I made through drawing requests

Au List

Dark Deception

*Tabaqui au 🦴❤️‍🩹 - Due to a mishap, Doug's soul is now connected to a begrudged hyena spirit named Taba, who had once served Malak

*Servant Guide au ✨️🧭 - Malak sets up the portals as a test and allows Bierce (who hasn't broken their deal) to be a servant

*Wonderland au 🐰❣️- Alice in Wonderland, but with the characters

*Incubus au 💞 - Doug was born a demi-incubus

*Pet Caretaker au 🏨 - The cast has been turned into animals by an angered god and is now being watched over by an unknown individual

*Anachronism au 🖼 - An unexpected cutscene glitch caused the creation of a new character who seems aware of their coded surroundings

* Cadaver au 🎃 - Upon waking up, Christopher finds himself in a new body and new surroundings all together (however it doesn't help that said body is a bit...off)

AU ASK RULES

✅️

Fanart (I would stare at it with glee for days)

Fanfics/ Writings (As long as you ask for permission first)

Light NSFW (As long as you keep it within guidelines)

Simping (I don’t have any characters that would happen to be attractive, but sure. Just keep it at a minimum)

❌️

Heavy NSFW

Inapproriate Questions

OCs:

Millie & Jay (my sonas)

Nathan & Anna

Tibble & Minx

Skillet & Fizzle

Miles

Hickle & Drace

Drawing Requests:

✅️:OCs, Anthros, Humans, Feral

❌️:NSFW, Inapporiate, Advanced Mechs, Hate Speech

Other Stuff:

📖🖋AO3 (I usually just write stuff based off my DD aus)

Other than that, please enjoy this weird space :) 💫💫

#blog intro #pinned post

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saraiisstanky · 2 years ago

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Just gonna share this concept wip for a Neil in wonderland au

Roles:

Alice - Neil

Cheshire Cat - Andrew

Queen of hearts - Nathan

King of hearts - Lola

Cards - Patrick/Romero/Jackson

Caterpillar - Seth

Duchess - Allison

Dormouse - Renee

Hatter - Dan

Hare - Matt

Red queen (king) - Riko

Red pawn - Jean

White queen - Kevin

Mouse - Nicky

White Rabbit - Aaron

I had other versions of this au where Andrew was the hatter and Riko was the queen of hearts but my sister helped me decide these roles so I could Include more ppl

Other roles I didnt draw but are part of the au:

White knight - Jeremy Knox

Knave of hearts - Mary Hatford

The lizard - Katelyn (just cuz lol)

Ravens - red chess pieces

Troians - white chess pieces

#I’m too lazy to tag #art #doodles #fanart #aftg #wip #concept art #Alice in wonderland au #sketchbook #all for the wonderland

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cursed-critters · 3 years ago

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Stop! Read this, or not.

Hey, anyone who happens to be here! I’m Rowan (he/they/it) , some non-binary creature who found their way to this app. I tend to hyperfixate on things for extended periods of time. I am not the best artist, but I try my best. I consider myself a fairly good writer who would like to publish one day. I find myself more focused on specific characters sometimes as opposed to the entire creation (be it a book, game, show, movie, etc.) I headcannon everything about whatever I’m into, no matter how pointless. I like to share things I think about, so please feel free to ask me about my headcannons! Ask me to write or draw things too! I also enjoy making AUs from time to time.

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My biggest fixations

•Batim (mostly Sammy)

•Fnaf (mostly William)

•Fnaf Novels (mostly Dave)

•Sally Face (mostly Larry and Travis)

•Little Nightmares (mostly Mono)

•Deltarune (mostly Rouxls)

•Undertale (mostly Burgerpants)

•Splatoon (mostly Marina)

•Pokémon (mostly James)

•Supernatural (mostly Cass and Dean)

•Dexter (mostly Dexter)

•Criminal Minds (mostly Spencer Reid)

•Steven Universe (mostly Garnet)

•Spooky Month (mostly Kevin)

•Kid Vampire (most Count Papa and Kid Vampire)

•Lord of the Flies (mostly Simon and Jack)

•Detroit Become Human (mostly Connor and Hank)

•The Owl House (mostly Phillip)

•Gravity Falls (just in general)

•Ddlc (mostly Yuri)

•DuckTales (mostly Gyro)

•Tender is the Flesh (just in general)

•Penpal (just in general)

•Borrasca (just in general)

•Dayshift at Freddy’s (mostly Dave)

•Dialtown (mostly Randy)

•The Song of Achilles (just in general)

•Moral Orel (mostly Clay)

•Venom (mostly Eddie and Venom)

•Prisoners (mostly Alex / Barry)

•Freaky (just in general)

•Nimona (mostly Nimona and Ballister)

•Alice in Wonderland (mostly Cheshire Cat and Mad Hatter)

•Little Miss Sunshine (mostly Dwayne and Frank)

•Life is Strange (mostly Nathan and Kate)

•Life is Strange 2 (mostly Finn)

•Life is Strange True Colors (mostly Steph)

•Batman: The Telltale Series (mostly Oswald)

•Batman: The Enemy Within (mostly John)

•Barry (mostly NoHo Hank)

•Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (just in general)

•Imposters (mostly Richard and Jules)

•Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (mostly Rahzar)

•Zombieland (mostly Tallahassee)

•Loki (mostly Loki and Mobius)

•The Shawshank Redemption (just in general)

•A Hat in Time (mostly Snatcher)

•Baldur’s Gate 3 (mostly Astarion)

•The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog (mostly Shadow)

•Sonic Prime (mostly Nine and Shadow)

•Sonic Forces (mostly Infinite and Ian Jr.)

•Sonic the Hedgehog Games (mostly Shadow)

•Beastars (mostly Jack)

•How to Train Your Dragon (mostly Dagur)

•The Batman (mostly Riddler)

•Gotham (mostly Penguin)

•Harley Quinn (just in general)

•DC (just in general)

•Monster High (mostly Toralei, Clawdeen, and Kieran)

•The Umbrella Academy (mostly Klaus)

•Adventure Time (mostly Ice King and Mr. Fox)

•Fionna and Cake (mostly Simon)

•Clone High (mostly JFK and Ponce)

•Smiling Friends (mostly Allan and Glep)

•Rabbit Doubt (just in general)

•Late Night with the Devil (mostly Jack)

•Kid Vampire (just in general)

•Carmilla (just in general)

Tagging information

-Most things will be tagged with specific fandoms or Oc

-My thoughts/rants will be tagged with Rowan Rants

-My art will be tagged with Cinnamon Creates

-My writing will be tagged with Rowan Writes

-My replies will be tagged with Rowan Replies

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fandom-writer642 · 5 years ago

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Important about other Stories on Wattpad

Hello! This isn’t a story but I do have many stories on Wattpad that are drafts and some that are just in my head. I was wondering if some of you wanted to hear the stories I have planned already. In parentheses is either time period or crossover between. Below are what I have in planned in general.

Note: Nothing in this is published, just ideas in the works

Harry Potter:

Characters

- Thalia Black (Golden Trio Era)

-Calyspo Black (Golden Trio Era)

-Alice Granger (Before and During the Folden Trio Era)

-Pandora Lodge (Golden Trio Era)

-Vega Malfoy (Golden Trio Era)

-Logan Lockwood (Golden Trio Era)

-Naomi Lockwood (Golden Trio Era)

-Roy Lockwood (Golden Trio Era)

-Eden Potter (Marauders Era)

-Ruby Weasley (Between Marauders and Golden Trio Eras)

-Owen Gail (Between Marauders and Golden Trio Eras)

-Bianca North (Between Marauders and Golden Trio Eras)

-Aquila Black (Maraulders Era)

Stories

• Tick of Time

• Hidden Truth

• Logical

• Flying High

• Potions of Secrets

Maze Runner:

Characters

- Lee

- Sophie

Stories

• Group X: The Runaways

Percy Jackson:

Characters

- Penelope Jackson (PJO and HoO)

- Sonya Blake (PJO and HoO)

- Karson Weldon (Brief in PJO, HoO)

- Cameron Sky (PJO and HoO)

- Natalie Maxton (PJO and HoO)

- Nathan Maxton (PJO and HoO)

- Sami Samos (PJO and HoO)

Stories

• Sea Magic

• The Inbetween

Newsies:

Characters

- Mints Miles

- Ace O’Conell

- Ghost Jenkins

- Sketch Henry

Stories

• Rivals

• Stories of Brooklyn

DC Comics

Characters

- Mackenzie Kyle

- Morgan Kyle

Stories

- Twin Fighters

Marvel

Characters

- Irene Shields (During the whole series)

- Lydia Stark (AU after Endgame)

- Jack Stark (AU after Endgame)

- James Rogers (AU after Endgame)

- Rita Thorsdottir (AU after Endgame)

Stories

• Little Ward

• They are Starks

Star Wars

Characters

- Rosalie Esme (Cline Wars)

- Nick Veer (Clone Wars)

- Pepsi (Clone Wars)

Stories

• Calm in the Storm

Star Trek

Characters

- Vanessa Weber

Stories

• Star Date

• The Rules

Descendants

Characters

- Charlotte Cat

- Connor Cat

- Abe Wonderland

- Quinn Heart

Stories

• Smile

Crossovers

Characters

- Theadora Stark (Tranformers x Marvel)

- Hermione Hargreeves; Note, this is Hermione Granger (Who I don’t own) Altered (Harry Potter x TUA)

- Cole Hargreeves (Harry Potter x TUA)

- Ella Hills (Harry Potter x PJO/HoO)

- Hazel Potter (Narnia x Harry Potter)

- Elyse Wayne (DC Comics x Artemis Fowl)

Stories

• Stark (Transformers x Marvel)

• Dark Lights (Harry Potter x TUA)

• Legends (Harry Potter x PJO/HoO)

• Charmed (Narnia x Harry Potter)

• Masterminds (DC Comics x Artemis Fowl)

Original Stories

Chronicles of Hestela: The Lost World

- Willow Quincy

- Gem Quincy

- Owen Robinson

- Serenity Robinson

- Florence Bishop

- Louis Bishop

Destiny’s Price

- Emily Harper

- Lila Harper

-Dylan Grace

- Lilith Newton

- Edmund Darwin

- Alina

-Abnus

Specials

- Diana Smith

- Autumn Rivers

The Otherside

- Leah

- Blake

Solar Cities

- Rhea Sterling

- Atal Lorcan

- Belle Lorcan

- Hermes Bane

Aegean School of Sorcery (This is more of what the place is because I haven’t come up with students or professors yet)

#my stories #wattpad #oc #fanfiction #crossovers

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chasholidays · 6 years ago

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Hello! I would love to read a Bellarke "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" AU. There are extensive plot synopsis in Wikipedia for both the book (absolutely delightful and hilarious, but very obscure epistolary historical novel) and the film (it was released about a month ago, I haven't seen it yet, but it looks interesting). Regardless of whether my prompt gets picked, I look forward to reading your holiday fics, thank you for doing them.

also in space! I love space

new fic will be up when I wake up around 6 am EST

When Clarke’s data pad informs her she has a new message from an unfamiliar contact, she almost swipes it into her reader mail folder without looking. It’s usually the right choice; Clarke gets a lot of messages from fans who just want to tell her how much they enjoyed a piece she did or how much they appreciated her writing about wherever they live. Once a week, she’ll grab some alcohol and go through and respond to them or not, depending on the specific message and how long she has, but they aren’t a priority. Most of the time she doesn’t know what to say.

But before she can do the same thing to Bellamy Blake’s message, the subject catches her eye: Library inquiry.

It could be a speaking engagement, but even the word library is jarring; she’s not sure when she last saw it outside of historical texts. Archives are still common, of course, but even as a term for a personal collection of literature, library is archaic.

If it is from a reader, she can always move it back to the correct folder later; for now, she clicks to read it.

Dear M. Griffin,

My name is Bellamy Blake and I’m writing on behalf of the Geurnsey Society for the Preservation of Print. We recently acquired several books with your name on their nameplates, apparently from your collection (see attached). I was hoping you might be able to give me more information about how the books came to you. Also, if you have any other print books that you’re willing to part with for our library, we would be interested in those as well.

Thank you in advance for your assistance.

Bellamy BlakePresident, Guernsey Society for the Preservation of Print

Clarke reads the message over several times, trying to put together the pieces. M. Blake has books of hers, but not any of the books she’s written. Somehow, he’s gotten his hands on some of the print texts she had as a child, the ones that were sold off with the rest of the family estate after her father died. She’s held onto a few, her favorites, but print texts just aren’t practical. No one wants them, nowadays.

“Beca?” she says.

The computer lights flick to attention. “Yes?”

“What can you tell me about Guernsey?”

There’s a second of mechanical humming, and then she returns, “Guernsey is the second moon of Argonia V, diameter 3011 kilometers, population 532 at last census. Thirty-four percent of the planet is habitable by humans. Terraforming in progress for additional habitable land was halted in 347 SE due to the planet’s occupation during the Argon/Praxis War. Rebuilding is still in process. Guernsey is self-sufficient with no notable exports. Does that answer your question?”

It answers parts of her question, namely what it is and why she hasn’t heard of it. “Yes,” she says, absent. “Do you have any information about a Guernsey Society for the Preservation of Print?”

“You have an email from its president, but you’re aware of that.”

She smiles. “That’s why I’m asking.”

“I don’t find any information on a surface scan. Do you want me to do a deep dive?”

“Yeah, see if you can find anything. Thanks.”

She pulls the message back up, scanning it again. There’s no harm in sending M. Blake a message back, letting xem know about the books, maybe asking a couple questions. She’s not so famous as a writer that she really thinks this is a ploy to gain her favor, and even if it is, it’s a good ploy. Xe deserves to be rewarded for xyr efforts.

Dear M. Blake,

I’m amazed my books came to you. They’re from my family’s collection, which was sold in 340 after my father’s death. I’m attaching information about the broker who handled the sale, I hope she’s able to help you with where the others might have gotten to.

Which books did you get that were mine? The nameplate doesn’t include titles. Also, would you mind telling me more about your society? What print are you preserving and how? Why are you starting a library?

Let me know if there are any other questions I can help with.

Clarke Griffin(she/her/hers)

She proofs the message once before sending, and then she puts it out of her head. Beca confirms the society has no real presence in the greater galaxy, but that Guernsey is also fairly isolated with spotty connections to the informational hubs, so it’s not surprising. And it’s going to take a while for M. Blake to get her message, and once xe does, xe’ll either write back and tell her more or be done, and either way, it doesn’t matter much.

Clarke has more pressing things to worry about; it’s not a big deal.

M. Blake’s reply arrives six standard days later, when Clarke is on Ganymede, meeting with Nathan Miller about her next project.

“I’m your agent, not your boss,” he says. “I can’t tell you what to do. Hell, you don’t need to do anything. You want to be done, you can be done. But this thing where I give you ideas and you tell me no but don’t have any better ideas isn’t working for me.”

Clarke sighs. She made her name as a writer doing front-line reporting on the war, and once it was over, she turned her experience into a series about a battlefield medic who slowly became more and more involved with the actual combat. The series finished a few months ago to near-universal praise, and it’s time for her to find a new project.

Miller’s not wrong that, so far, all she’s doing is saying no.

“I don’t have to do anything,” she points out.

“You? Not doing anything? No way.”

“Maybe I just need to wait for inspiration.”

“So, you’re firing me and going off alone on your ship?” He sounds more resigned than surprised.

Her data band pings on her wrist, and she glances down to see the message received from Bellamy Blake. “I have some ideas I’m working on,” she says, even though it’s barely an idea yet. Just a curiosity. There are all sorts of things M. Blake could tell her about xyr society that would lose her interest, too. “Maybe going back to some of the places I went in the war, writing about how they’re doing a few years out. What recovery looks like. Checking back in.”

“Huh. That could work, actually. I could probably find you some speaking engagements while you’re out there. You’re pretty popular on the Argon front lines.”

Speaking still isn’t her favorite thing, but money and visibility are good, and it’ll make Miller feel better.

Thanks for the broker’s contact, she sees, scanning M. Blake’s message covertly, so Miller won’t notice. Communications are slow out of Guernsey, but I’ve sent her a message.

“Yeah, take full advantage. Give me a month or two to get ready? And I want to visit Guernsey.”

“Where now?”

“One of Argonia V’s moons. Small population, but it was one of the Praxis-occupied territories during the war, and they’re still not recovered enough to resume terraforming. I think it would be an interesting place to focus on.”

“Never heard of it,” says Miller. He holds his wrist up to his mouth, speaking into his data band. “Reminder, research Guernsey, schedule for Clarke’s front line tour.”

The data band beeps its agreement, and Clarke says, “So, we’re good?”

“You in a hurry?”

“Messages to read.”

He gestures with his mug. “Go ahead. I’ll still buy you lunch even if you ignore me.”

“This is why you’re the best agent.”

The society is relatively new, but we’re working on taking advantage of some of Guernsey’s climate features to preserve more texts. As you said, print books are difficult to store, especially older ones, and they’re going out of style. Your father’s collection isn’t the only one that’s been broken up in the last few decades, and there are fewer and fewer buyers. Our goal is to obtain, restore, and house as many texts as we can. We’ll be calling the collection the Guernsey Library.

The texts we got of yours are Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass, and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. I also got a few other texts from the same seller, but they didn’t have nameplates so I don’t know if they’re from your collection. I’m attaching an image; if you want any of them back, let me know and we can try to work something out. I don’t know how involved you were in sales of the estate.

Thanks again for your help.

Bellamy BlakePresident, Guernsey Society for the Preservation of Print (he/him/his)

It’s not a message that requires Clarke’s response. Some of the books in M. Blake’s image are from the family collection, but it’s not as if she wants them back. She took five print books with her when she left home and made sure she had the rest in digital, but even that had felt like an indulgence. Like her father, she loves the feel of paper, the weight of texts in her hands, but it’s been hard finding room for even those five books over the years, with all the places she’s gone. With her own ship, she might be able to take more, but she doesn’t want to take them away from a library.

Mostly, she just wants to know more.

So she asks M. Blake what kind of climate Guernsey has that he’s taking advantage of, how he goes about finding books, if they take all books or there’s a requirement for a certain edition or quality level they require.

And M. Blake doesn’t seem to mind the questions. He explains the natural cave structures that lace the surface of the moon, how the humidity and heat levels are perfect for preserving paper. In addition to whatever other duties he has, he has a facility where he can print and bind his own books, as well as repair damaged ones, so if he finds something in poor condition on his weekly searches for new materials, he can always obtain it and fix it up himself.

She asks Miller to make Guernsey her first stop on the tour, but he points out that she’s passing two planets interested in having her speak on her way there, so she might as well stop, and it’s hard to argue with that, even if she really wants to.

She gets a message from M. Blake after the second event, which isn’t noteworthy in and of itself–he has to go to Argonia V to send and receive messages, which he does twice a week, and while the time it takes for the messages to get to her shortens as she gets closer to the planet, the schedule is still fairly predictable.

The content is disappointing, though: I saw that journalist and author Clarke Griffin is touring the planets that were the front lines of the war and has a speaking engagement on Argonia V in a few weeks. Any relation?

Obviously, she was going to tell him, but the fact that he hadn’t found out about her yet gave her hope that he might not find out about her until she actually got to him and could tell him in person.

Surprise, she writes back. I’m planning to spend a few weeks in Guernsey doing research. So I hope I’ll see you soon.

His reply comes in a few days later, and she tries not to let herself read into it: It’s a small town, I’m hard to miss.

Not exactly a red carpet. But she’ll take it.

There’s a shuttle port on Guernsey, but no dock, so Clarke has to leave her ship on Argonia V and take the single shuttle that goes out to Guernsey daily. It’s about a third of the way full, but Clarke gets the sense that she’s the odd one out, the only tourist on the whole shuttle. She definitely catches sidelong glances and soft conversations surrounding her, but none of the men there show any particular interest, so she has to assume M. Blake isn’t among their number. He probably found a picture of her; she would have found one of him, if she could.

“So, where are you going?” asks a woman who falls into step with her as they leave the ship. She’s pretty, dark hair, sharp eyes, with a slight limp from what Clarke assumes is a war wound on her leg. “We don’t get a lot of visitors here.”

“I’m a journalist,” she says, although it feels like a lie. She might write about Guernsey and she might not, but she’s not really coming as a journalist. She’s coming as a woman at loose ends who thinks this will make her feel less lost.

But that sounds silly.

“Oh,” says the other woman. “The one who’s been writing to Bellamy?”

Clarke can’t read her tone, but it makes something warm curl in her belly that this woman knows about her, that M. Blake has mentioned her. Given she’s never talked about him to Miller, she wouldn’t be offended if she was a secret, but he’s been telling people about her, and that’s nice.

Hopefully he’s been saying good things.

“Clarke,” she says, with a nod. “Is M. Blake happy I’m coming?”

The woman snorts. “Raven Reyes. He’s freaking out. But in a good way, so I think yeah. You think there’s something worth writing about here?”

“You don’t?”

“I guess it depends on what you’re trying to write about,” she says with a shrug. “And how popular you want it to be.”

“In theory, I’m looking at how frontline planets are doing after the war.”

Raven’s eyes flick to her. “What about not in theory?”

“I needed a break and I wanted to see M. Blake’s library.”

“Well, that’s one thing to write about. You staying at the hotel?”

“That’s the plan.”

“If you want to drop your stuff off, I can take you to meet Bellamy after.”

Her heart flip flops and then starts beating too fast, and she wishes she could blame the slight change in gravity, but she knows it’s not that.

Still, Raven is offering, so she smiles. “I’d like that.”

Clarke knew that M. Blake must do something besides restore old books, but she hadn’t really know what that something might be. She assumes most of the residents of Guernsey are former terraformers who are now at loose ends since the company that sent them has apparently decided it’s not worth restarting the project, but if M. Blake is among them, he’s never mentioned it.

The place Raven takes her is a small farm on the edge of the terraformed land, surrounded on all sides by bamboo groves. There are a few animals outside snacking on ground cover, and while she doesn’t know what they are, they look domesticated and mammalian, so she assumes they produce either meat or milk, possibly both.

The door opens and her heart skips, but it’s a girl, probably five or six, with long brown hair and a bright smile. “Aunt Raven!”

Raven sweeps her up in a hug. “Hey, Madi, where’s your dad?”

It’s as if someone dumped a bucket of cold water on her. Clarke and M. Blake have never discussed personal lives; she had no idea how old he was or what kind of a family he had, but there had been a flicker of interest in her stomach, this small, curious thing. She liked him, from his letters, and she thought that if he was–

But he’s not. He has a family, and he’s not for her.

“At the press,” says Madi. “Who are you?”

“Clarke.”

“From the books!” She beams. “I love Alice. Dad’s read it to me a thousand times.”

“I’m so glad,” says Clarke, a little surprised. “I liked it a lot too, when I was your age.”

“You don’t know how old I am,” Madi points out. She’s slid out of Raven’s arms now, but she’s still following as they make their way around the back of the farmhouse. There’s a steady, repetitive noise that’s getting louder as they get closer, and Clarke’s mood recovers some when she realizes it’s probably the printing press. She’s almost as excited for it as she is for M. Blake.

“How old are you?” she asks.

“Five.”

“I liked it when I was five too.”

“And you had more books? Paper ones?”

“I did.” She hesitates, feeling a little strange telling Madi before her father even knows, but she doubts M. Blake will be offended. “I brought some with me.”

Madi’s eyes go huge. “Really?”

“Just a couple. I couldn’t take many of them when I left home, just my favorites.”

“Donation for the library?” Raven asks.

“Depends on how much I like the library.”

That makes her laugh. She knocks twice on the door to what must be the press, calls, “Bellamy! Get out here!” when there’s no response.

The sound stops, and a second later the door opens and M. Blake’s head sticks out.

Clarke’s first thought is that his hair is a mess, but it’s not a bad thought. He has the kind of disheveled hair that makes her fingers itch to sink into it, all thick and black and curly.

The rest of his features fill in after that, dark eyes, freckles, broad shoulders, a confused expression that clears after a second, when he realizes, inevitably, who she must be. They clearly don’t get a lot of visitors out here.

“M. Griffin,” he says, eyes sweeping over her quickly. His voice is deep and a little rough, and it suits him. She’s going to read all his letters in his voice now. “I didn’t know you were coming today.”

“I didn’t tell you. Sorry to show up unannounced, but Raven offered to bring me over.”

“No problem,” he says, but there’s tension in his shoulders that suggests it is something of a problem.

Maybe she shouldn’t have come.

“She brought more books!” says Madi, which at least breaks the ice. M. Blake’s eyes cut to her.

“You did?”

“I saved a few from my personal collection, I thought you’d want to see them.” She pauses. “And I want to see your library too. I thought I might need to barter.”

He laughs, surprised, the smile lighting up his whole face. He’s partnered, she reminds herself. His daughter is right here. It doesn’t matter what you think of his looks.

“That’s not really how libraries work,” he teases. “Anyone can look around. But maybe not today, dark comes on pretty quickly here.” He glances around, clears his throat. “You’re at the hotel?”

“Yeah.”

“Well, you can stay for dinner. Raven, you staying too?”

“I never say no to your cooking. You need me to do anything?”

It feels like code, so it’s not a surprise when M. Blake says, “Can you and Madi go get some water?”

Raven nods and takes Madi, leaving Clarke to follow M. Blake inside. It’s a small, cozy space, warm and surprisingly lived in, given how short the history of habitation on Guernsey is. It’s a home.

“Why didn’t you tell me?” he asks, back to her as he leads her in.

“Which part?”

“That you were coming.”

“I didn’t want you to tell me not to.”

He snorts. “I would have told you it’s not worth coming. It’s not much of a library yet.”

“But it’s growing, right?”

“Slowly but surely.” He glances at her sidelong. “Did you really bring more books?”

“I did. I might not give them to you, though.”

He lets out a soft huff of a laugh. “So you just brought them here to brag about them?”

“I don’t know anyone else who appreciates print books.” She bites the corner of her mouth, watching him as he starts to pull things down for dinner. “Tell me the truth: is there anyone else in your society but you?”

“A few, yeah. But no one else thought it would last.”

“Last?”

His hand pauses on the door of the preserver. “We formed during the occupation. You weren’t allowed to meet in groups of more than three unless it was an official organization. So we made an organization.”

“And you’re still going?”

“More or less. Can you grab the big bowl on your right?” She does, and he starts scooping stew from a pot into it. “I already had the printing press. We grow bamboo for oxygen, I was already making it into fabric. But I had more, so I make pulp too. And once I had that, I figured I might as well print books.”

“And buy them.”

“That’s new. But yeah, they’re junk to most people. Not worth the space they take up. But we have more space than we need here.”

“You don’t think they’ll come back to terraform it?”

“They say that Eligius shut down the project because of the occupation, but it’s not true.”

“No?”

“The way they operate is that they send a crew in, terraform a little, and then sell more land once buyers see what the area looks like. Guernsey wasn’t getting any buyers. Too remote, climate wasn’t right, and then an occupation before it was even a real settlement. Eligius cut their losses and left.”

“And abandoned you here?”

“They would have sent us to another site if we wanted, but most of us like it here.”

“And it would be hard to move with Madi,” she observes.

“Yeah, I grew up planet-hopping. I don’t want her to.”

“Is it just the two of you?” she asks. It’s a small place, without much sign of other occupants. There could be another adult in the picture, but it doesn’t feel like it.

“Yeah.”

It doesn’t make any difference, obviously. She’s here for a few weeks and the she’ll be gone, so M. Blake’s relationship status is of no interest to her, nor is the broadness of his shoulders or the warmth of his smile.

None of that matters at all.

The library is amazing.

It takes almost a week for Clarke to make it there, but she doesn’t mind. Despite M. Blake’s warnings (which are echoed, in one way or another, by almost everyone she meets, none of whom can believe she really wants to be there), she likes Guernsey. The lack of connection to the greater galaxy is frustrating, but the shuttle to Argonia V leaves in the morning and returns in the evening, making it an easy day trip, and Clarke doesn’t really want to see Miller’s polite-but-firm requests for the pieces she’s supposed to be writing more than once a week or so anyway.

M. Blake shows her how the printing press works on her second day, and he doesn’t mind it she comes by to see what he’s working on so long as she knocks. Madi is bright and enthusiastic and happy to show Clarke everything about her home too, so Clarke learns to take care of their animals–kungoats, apparently, native to Argonia V and brought to its moon when the terraforming started–and tend to the bamboo and other crops and also learns about Madi.

She’s never had anyone but M. Blake, apparently, no parent who died in the war or left for greener pastures, but Clarke can’t believe she’s a clone. Her skin is so much paler than her father’s, and M. Blake doesn’t seem like the type. Especially since she would have been made during the war, and Guernsey doesn’t have the facilities. No one would let him leave an occupied planet to go and make himself a child. And there does seem to be some unspoken secret lurking around the two of them, something no one in the settlement is saying, something everyone but Clarke knows. There’s more to M. Blake and his child, but it’s not a story, not the kind she would write up for Miller and sell to the newsfeeds.

She just wants to know.

“Do you want to see my favorite room?” the child in question asks Clarke, pulling her back to reality. She’s joined the library tour because she loves it here as much as he father does, and Clarke’s grateful for the company. She thinks she should probably try to avoid being alone with M. Blake as much as possible.

“I do,” she tells Madi.

As M. Blake said, the library is in the planet’s caves, which are cool, dark, and dry. Guernsey’s atmosphere has always contained oxygen, but not enough to sustain human life, so they have respirators, but the books are fine with the native conditions.

It’s something of a miracle.

“There’s bamboo growing outside, with no people around I’m hoping it’ll slowly raise the oxygen levels,” M. Blake explains as Madi leads them out of the main chamber and into a smaller cave. There aren’t many books yet, but the cave is ready for more, empty metal shelves waiting for something to fill them.

There might not be enough books left to fill this cave. But that’s probably why M. Blake is making more.

“And here’s Alice, see?” Madi says, skipping into the chamber. “And your other book.”

“The children’s section,” M. Blake explains, with a wry smile. “I’ve got some picture books coming for it too, from the Sol galaxy.”

“How do you afford them?”

“I sell clothes on Argonia V,” he says. “I get more wool and bamboo fiber than we need for the colony, and I’m a decent tailor.” He shrugs. “I’ll never get rich from it, but I don’t need to be rich yet.”

“Yet?” Clarke asks.

“I’m collecting books that no one wants,” he admits, running his hand up the spine of Through the Looking-Glass. “But someday we might want to start getting the valuable ones. We need money for that.”

“I’m going to write about this, you know,” she says. “It might not do much good, but–once you start getting publicity, you might start getting donations, too.”

“You think anyone wants to read about the library?”

“I’ll wrap it up in a story about a community recovering after the war,” she teases. “Trick them into it.”

He laughs. “That should do it, yeah.”

“Do you want to shelve your other books too?” Madi asks. “I like shelving.”

It doesn’t take long, but Madi is very firm about putting the books up herself, sounding out last names of authors, figuring out the correct alphabetical order while M. Blake watches, face warm with pride.

Clarke wants with a tug that’s almost painful, wants in a way she hasn’t in a long time, maybe not ever. She’s fallen in love before, but always with people, and while M. Blake–Bellamy–is the focal point here, it’s like falling in love with a life as well. She wants him, but she also wants to be a part of this place.

She wants to belong, and she wants to belong with him.

Madi insists on taking Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban–the only one in the series Clarke brought with her–out of the library, following a checkout protocol she apparently made up herself, and they take it back to the Blake farm with them. Bellamy cooks while Clarke reads to Madi, and after dinner, he joins them for a few more chapters before sending Madi up to bed.

It’s the natural time for Clarke to leave, but she lingers, the air feeling heavy. A conversation has been coming for a while about why she came and what she’s still doing here, and now feels like the time for it.

Bellamy pours two glasses of his friend Monty’s homebrewed alcohol, gives her one. “So, you’re really going to write about Guernsey?”

“Do you not want me to?”

“I’m not used to people being interested in us.”

“You’re interesting.” She takes a sip of her drink, letting the taste burn down her throat. “Can I ask you something that has nothing to do with my story?”

“Sure.”

“Where did Madi come from?”

He considers her. “Why?”

“Because I’m curious. You don’t feel like–I don’t think you would have asked for a daughter, and I want to know what happened so I don’t put my foot in my mouth. Did her parents–did something happen to them? In the war?”

“Yeah, something did.” He takes a much longer drink. “She’s my niece, not my daughter. I started working for Eligius to support me and my sister after our mom died. I was pretty young, nineteen, I think? We just hopped around planets until we got here. Octavia started working for them too once she was old enough, but she never liked it. And when the war hit–” He sighs. “She fell in love with a Praxian officer. She didn’t mean to get pregnant, and we didn’t have facilities to get rid of it. She kept it secret, had the baby, and we just figured we’d hide her until the war was over, say she was someone else’s if we had to.”

“So what happened to your sister?”

“Honestly? I have no idea. She disappeared a few months before the end of the war, I never got a straight answer what happened to her. Some people think she defected, went to join the Praxians, some people think she got taken, some people think she just managed to escape.”

“What do you think?”

He wets his lips. “I think if she escaped, she would have told me she was okay. Honestly, I hope she joined the Praxians. Argon never treated her that great, we had to leave Argonia II when she was born because she violated the one-child law. Praxis were assholes during the war, but everyone was. So if she defected and doesn’t want to tell me because she thinks I’ll be disappointed–I have to believe that’s what happened.”

“I’m sorry.”

He smiles a little. “She’s the one who came up with the preservation society. I’d been telling her about how I wanted to start printing books, so when we needed an excuse to be out in a group, she just blurted it out. So–at least she left me that. Without the society and Madi, I don’t know if I would have made it through losing her.”

Clarke reaches over, puts her hand on his. He startles, but his eyes soften, and he puts his other hand over hers, squeezes.

“I feel kind of bad now,” she says, careful.

“Yeah, it’s a downer of a story, sorry.”

“No, not that.” He cocks his head, and she smiles. It’s a downer of a story, but it’s not new for him. He seems–content. He can live with this. “I was asking because I wanted to know if you were single.”

He laughs, bright and surprised. “You could have just asked that.”

“I didn’t want to be obvious.”

“You weren’t, trust me. I had no idea. And I didn’t have any good way to ask you.”

“Well, I am. Single.”

“And you’re leaving soon.”

“I am. I promised Miller I’d finish my tour. But I don’t have anywhere I’m going home to. Not yet.”

“You have a ship.”

“I could keep it here. Besides, I want to see what happens with the library.”

He looks down, his smile small and warm and perfect. “Then I guess you had better stay.”

“Yeah,” she says. “I think I will.”

Recovering the Front comes out two years later, a collection of Clarke’s essays from her tour, including the one about Guernsey and the library. As soon as Miller sends her the text, Clarke passes it along to Bellamy, and he prints it off, binds it, and Madi brings it to the library, shelves it in the non-fiction room, one of only three texts there so far.

“It looks a little lonely there,” Clarke observes, and Bellamy puts his arm around her, kisses her hair.

“So we’d better get some more.”

She leans into him. “Yeah, I guess we better.”

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