#obsidian: ash and moonbeams

[lilyhargrave]

Posting Announcement!

Get ready for new people joining our cast, more action, more romance, more world-building, more of everything! Oh, we're really in it now!

Obsidian: Ash and Moonbeams will start posting:

On Patreon: Wed., 19th of July (that’s next week! Sign up is pay what you want, from 1 €/$/£)

On House Draculesti: Wed., 16th of August – free to read!

On AO3: Wed., 13th of September

Initial schedule will be 2 chapters of roughly 4k words a week, updating Wednesdays and Fridays.

We are deep in the writing and editing, and ecstatic to get back to sharing it all with you!

Newcomers, join the story here:

Anyone who needs a refresher on this arc, we started here:

Woot!

About House Draculesti:

Do you need more queer in your life? More found family? Do you need more vampires, more weres, more fog-wreathed streets of Victorian London? More castles and mountains and dragons? Then you're in the right place! House Draculesti is a fiction web serial written by author team Lily Hargrave and Devan Dacian, following Darcy Seward, child of Dr Jack Seward and Lucy Westenra (yes, like from Dracula) and Arthur Lancaster, mage, accidental demon-summoner, as they pick their way through politics and family and life among humans and supernaturals alike.

[wrenofgold]

His words find their mark as his mouth twists something boyish, and she thinks for the stitch of a second how cruelty is so divine when it comes from something godly. His syllables are a prod at the creature she houses flush to her lungs - jealousy writhes in response, and she hums, “and?” her chin tilts upwards, peering up at the darkness overhead before looking over at him, her gaze lifting from the coiled sinew of his arms to the slope of his jaw, cerulean irises blazing a path her tongue had countless times prior, and she swallows thickly. That was all they had now, wasn’t it? What once was now a palpable haunt between them. Her syllables are a tender birdsong, ash in her mouth, “did fucking her make you feel something, Huddy?”      

She moves towards him, then - or rather, the half empty bottle of bourbon discarded to damp sod, likely snagged from the Hearst patriarch’s favoured collection. Thin digits find it’s neck and she brings it to her mouth, tilting it back until flames lick at her throat and her mouth tastes like the first time they kissed - in the back of a bar somewhere, his jersey slipping off the tilt of her shoulder and her hand beneath his going up and up and up - a palm pressed to the swelter of his torso, digits a ghost at the notches of his throat. Her keeper. Nausea spurs abruptly, stirring her from a time of reverent worship to the god stood there before her - Wren takes another swig of the bottle before allowing it to hang loosely from digits, “right where I left him, I imagine. Dreaming about being the highest bidder for a child bride and soon to be brood mare,” her syllables come out something sharp and sting the half-moon of her mouth, and she wasn’t sure if she wanted to laugh or cry at the reality of it: they would move on, and she would be stuck there on the sidelines to bare witness, her heart caught in her teeth. Fate laughs at this, she’s certain. 

She follows the golfball as it sinks beneath the surface, slipping into the obsidian without a trace. “Play a game with me, Huddy,” her words are a dulcet murmur, saccharine on her tongue - a birdsong to beckon those that lurk in the darkness. Wren moves towards him, then - him and him alone, the bourbon coaxing her half brave and entirely heedless. “Truth or dare,” fair features lit lustrous by the tender graze of moonbeams tilt as she peers up at him, the closest they’ve been in months, surely - but still too much distance was between them, “but the person asking gets to choose, and your only cop-out is to drink.” Digits lift, and she tucks a stray ivory tress behind her ear, “I’ll go first,” she averts her gaze then, mulling it over, only returning when something comes to her, a marble plucked from the rot of envy, “do you look at them when you fuck? Or if you close your eyes and cover their mouth just right, do they sound enough like me?”   

He would know that velvet voice anywhere— in this world, and whichever lay beyond. No matter how angry, how heartbroken, he would still search for the sound to the ends of the earth. The sensuality of her lilt, the mellifluous laugh that tilts her angelic mien to the heavens, the way she says his name. He can never forget it. Now, that was a curse more than a blessing— haunting, more than a joy.

Hudson turns, and his prismatic gaze of green and blue is met with its owner— a seraph on earth, reminding him that he had tasted heaven once; reminding him, that, he likely never would again. But she is wraithlike, adorned in the opal satin of her nightgown, faultless eyes of juniper giving away sleepless nights. Her anguish turns his blood algid with sorrow, and he wishes to reach out, crowd her in his arms, and hold her until his knees give out. His best friend. But he cannot. Not anymore.

The acid in her tone was met with his signature lopsided, lazy grin, that he desperately tries to make look unaffected, but can't manage to make it reach his eyes. "Taking a well deserved break. I worked her out too much," The nonchalance of his cadence is anything but, and he turns back for his next swing, unable to watch the bite land its teeth.

"Where's your keeper?" his voice splinters with the same licks of venom, the words acrid on his tongue, and he wishes he can take them back the moment he's said them. He can no longer discern who he is trying to hurt anymore— her, or himself.

[sasorikigai]

Touch Hanzo’s Hair || @enenraed || accepting

The looming sleep brings with it moments, half-hidden in the darkness of his mind; Hanzo remains here nor there, as he only focuses on deep breathing and the approaching cascade of dream weaving through his subconscious as he sits almost in trance, present, yet away from the palpable reality. His thoughts travel on the moonbeams, glowing from under hooded lids as he sinks deeper into the inky night. He will live in this dream void, waltzing among the star-struck yesterdays that burn across the sky and in the moonlit stillness when whispers haunt the break of day when all the heart-jabbing traumas of the past become unbearable. 

Hanzo is not drowning - he never does, despite feeling like he’s being submerged beneath the obsidian black of his mind, where nothing, but miasmic ash and dust suffocate him - all the prospect of love and goodness in the world brings him right back to the surface. There may be etched grief, an occasional trembling and tensing around his broad shoulders, his thick neck, the cords standing up as he quietly holds the harshest tides of emotions as he soldiers through. And he lets more air inside than the hollow of his diaphragms can take. As his gently shut gaze snaps back open and regards Smoke with tranquil gentility of star-studded night embedded upon his obsidian eyes, his neck cants with blossoming intrigue. 

His bun sits atop his head in permanent perfection; not a strand of loose hair swirling about in the midst of a gentle zephyr. “You may try, but it may not be such an easy endeavor.” Perhaps he’s being uncharacteristically cheeky with the deliverance of his words, but it may hold some semblance of truth; after all, his hair is slick, like strands of silk, barely caressing the fingers before they loosen again in carelessness. With a sweep of his arm and curled finger into the perfect mold does he send the cascading waterfall of his hair to melt into the night. The length of his hair passing beyond his shoulders, just reaching below his shoulder blade as the veil sways gently against the spring air. “How would you do it?” Hanzo inquires the other with gentle intrigue, as his settling gaze saturates with warmth. 

[lilyhargrave]

Reminder! Obsidian: Ash and Moonbeams, the first chapter posts free to read on the website today! Wheeee! It goes up in less than an hour!

[lilyhargrave]

Chapters: 6/? Fandom: Dracula - Bram Stoker (Novel 1897), Dracula & Related Fandoms, Original Work Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Darcy Rose Seward/John Silver (House Draculesti), John Seward/Lucy Westenra, Arthur Holmwood/Lucy Westenra, Arthur Holmwood & John Seward, Arthur Jonathan Lancaster & Darcy Rose Seward, Darcy Rose Seward/Quincy Harker Characters: Darcy Rose Seward, Arthur Jonathan Lancaster, John Silver (House Draculesti), Quincy Harker, Quincey Harker, John Seward, Lucy Westenra (Dracula), Arthur Holmwood, Mina Murray Harker, Vlad Tepes Additional Tags: Fae & Fairies, Fae contracts, Dhampirs, Gore, Blood and Injury, Blood Drinking, Intersex Character, Trans Character, Trans Male Character, Masochism, Background Relationships, Background Poly, for the parents, Vampire Bites, Magic, Mina decided we're spelling canonical 'Quincey' as 'Quincy', tagged both for people's search convenience, collection requests will not be approved Series: Part 2 of Obsidian Summary:

The fae have stolen Darcy. Quincy, John and Arthur are going on the warpath about it.

But will it be enough? And what's happening to Darcy while she's missing?

[lilyhargrave]

Chapters: 8/? Fandom: Dracula - Bram Stoker (Novel 1897), Dracula & Related Fandoms, Original Work Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Darcy Rose Seward/John Silver (House Draculesti), John Seward/Lucy Westenra, Arthur Holmwood/Lucy Westenra, Arthur Holmwood & John Seward, Arthur Jonathan Lancaster & Darcy Rose Seward, Darcy Rose Seward/Quincy Harker Characters: Darcy Rose Seward, Arthur Jonathan Lancaster, John Silver (House Draculesti), Quincy Harker, Quincey Harker, John Seward, Lucy Westenra (Dracula), Arthur Holmwood, Mina Murray Harker, Vlad Tepes Additional Tags: Fae & Fairies, Fae contracts, Dhampirs, Gore, Blood and Injury, Blood Drinking, Intersex Character, Trans Character, Trans Male Character, Masochism, Background Relationships, Background Poly, for the parents, Vampire Bites, Magic, Mina decided we're spelling canonical 'Quincey' as 'Quincy', tagged both for people's search convenience, collection requests will not be approved Series: Part 2 of Obsidian Summary:

The fae have stolen Darcy. Quincy, John and Arthur are going on the warpath about it.

But will it be enough? And what's happening to Darcy while she's missing?

[lilyhargrave]

Chapters: 2/? Fandom: Dracula - Bram Stoker (Novel 1897), Dracula & Related Fandoms, Original Work Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Darcy Rose Seward/John Silver (House Draculesti), John Seward/Lucy Westenra, Arthur Holmwood/Lucy Westenra, Arthur Holmwood & John Seward, Arthur Jonathan Lancaster & Darcy Rose Seward, Darcy Rose Seward/Quincy Harker Characters: Darcy Rose Seward, Arthur Jonathan Lancaster, John Silver (House Draculesti), Quincy Harker, Quincey Harker, John Seward, Lucy Westenra (Dracula), Arthur Holmwood, Mina Murray Harker, Vlad Tepes Additional Tags: Fae & Fairies, Fae contracts, Dhampirs, Gore, Blood and Injury, Blood Drinking, Intersex Character, Trans Character, Trans Male Character, Masochism, Background Relationships, Background Poly, for the parents, Vampire Bites, Magic, Mina decided we're spelling canonical 'Quincey' as 'Quincy', tagged both for people's search convenience, collection requests will not be approved Series: Part 2 of Obsidian Summary:

The fae have stolen Darcy. Quincy, John and Arthur are going on the warpath about it.

But will it be enough? And what's happening to Darcy while she's missing?

[lilyhargrave]

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Dracula - Bram Stoker (Novel 1897), Dracula & Related Fandoms, Original Work Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Darcy Rose Seward/John Silver (House Draculesti), John Seward/Lucy Westenra, Arthur Holmwood/Lucy Westenra, Arthur Holmwood & John Seward, Arthur Jonathan Lancaster & Darcy Rose Seward, Darcy Rose Seward/Quincy Harker Characters: Darcy Rose Seward, Arthur Jonathan Lancaster, John Silver (House Draculesti), Quincy Harker, Quincey Harker, John Seward, Lucy Westenra (Dracula), Arthur Holmwood, Mina Murray Harker, Vlad Tepes Additional Tags: Fae & Fairies, Fae contracts, Dhampirs, Gore, Blood and Injury, Blood Drinking, Intersex Character, Trans Character, Trans Male Character, Masochism, Background Relationships, Background Poly, for the parents, Vampire Bites, Magic, Mina decided we're spelling canonical 'Quincey' as 'Quincy', tagged both for people's search convenience, collection requests will not be approved Series: Part 2 of Obsidian Summary:

The fae have stolen Darcy. Quincy, John and Arthur are going on the warpath about it.

But will it be enough? And what's happening to Darcy while she's missing?

[lilyhargrave]

Aaaand next week's posts are scheduled on Patreon! : ) Very exciting!

Posting Announcement!

Get ready for new people joining our cast, more action, more romance, more world-building, more of everything! Oh, we're really in it now!

Obsidian: Ash and Moonbeams will start posting:

On Patreon: Wed., 19th of July (that’s next week! Sign up is pay what you want, from 1 €/$/£)

On House Draculesti: Wed., 16th of August – free to read!

On AO3: Wed., 13th of September

Initial schedule will be 2 chapters of roughly 4k words a week, updating Wednesdays and Fridays.

We are deep in the writing and editing, and ecstatic to get back to sharing it all with you!

Newcomers, join the story here:

Anyone who needs a refresher on this arc, we started here:

Woot!

About House Draculesti:

Do you need more queer in your life? More found family? Do you need more vampires, more weres, more fog-wreathed streets of Victorian London? More castles and mountains and dragons? Then you're in the right place! House Draculesti is a fiction web serial written by author team Lily Hargrave and Devan Dacian, following Darcy Seward, child of Dr Jack Seward and Lucy Westenra (yes, like from Dracula) and Arthur Lancaster, mage, accidental demon-summoner, as they pick their way through politics and family and life among humans and supernaturals alike.

[lilyhargrave]

Correction: We're starting on AO3 on FRIDAY, the 15th. I done an oopsie there. Since I can't schedule on AO3, Fridays are posting days for all the week's chapters! (So, two, at the moment.) Like it was with the last installments!

Posting Announcement!

Get ready for new people joining our cast, more action, more romance, more world-building, more of everything! Oh, we're really in it now!

Obsidian: Ash and Moonbeams will start posting:

On Patreon: Wed., 19th of July (that’s next week! Sign up is pay what you want, from 1 €/$/£)

On House Draculesti: Wed., 16th of August – free to read!

On AO3: Wed., 13th of September

Initial schedule will be 2 chapters of roughly 4k words a week, updating Wednesdays and Fridays.

We are deep in the writing and editing, and ecstatic to get back to sharing it all with you!

Newcomers, join the story here:

Anyone who needs a refresher on this arc, we started here:

Woot!

About House Draculesti:

Do you need more queer in your life? More found family? Do you need more vampires, more weres, more fog-wreathed streets of Victorian London? More castles and mountains and dragons? Then you're in the right place! House Draculesti is a fiction web serial written by author team Lily Hargrave and Devan Dacian, following Darcy Seward, child of Dr Jack Seward and Lucy Westenra (yes, like from Dracula) and Arthur Lancaster, mage, accidental demon-summoner, as they pick their way through politics and family and life among humans and supernaturals alike.