#sapphic mareven....

[planetmaven]

thinking about drawing fem maven now that I've been drawing again....

[ball-of-butter]

vampire mareven. thats the post.

[lucy-the-cat]

Sapphic Mareven (Holiday Exchange)

Unfinished, but I tried

For @martianmaestro

Roses.

Dancing.

Kisses on the cheek.

They still played in Mare’s mind even after she was imprisoned.  Even after Maven’s eyes had grown cold, forcing Mare to kneel to the hem of her gown and kiss her shoe.  A vengeance then, for the mother she killed.  A vengeance faded, now that she was hers.

Hers.

The word sent shivers down her spine.  How she longed to be so, when they were engaged.  How she thought they were destined, two stars in the sky, the only one who understood what needed to be done.  Dust now, all of it.  Dust that should’ve been blown in the wind.

She still remembered Maven’s words on the balcony, how she’d touched her cheek and kissed it despite the makeup tinting her lips.  I’ll never let go, no matter what.  Not even if they find us, not even if they kill us, not even if they rip us apart, limb by bleeding limb.  I will always find you, Mare.  I will never leave your side.

A rose had slid behind her ear.  Blood had trickled from the thorns.  Maven had touched it, smearing her fingers.  The same fingers that then touched her lips.  I like it better, when you bleed.

Her breath had hitched.  I do too.

Their first kiss had tasted of iron, the tinge of blood growing as Maven too, pricked her finger.  Silver and Red, pain made passion, the divide between them healing with each brush of tongue.  Mare almost bit her.  Not like she would’ve protested.

There would be no dancing, not anymore.  Maven wouldn’t show her face to her.  Their love was always meant to die.  If Mare didn’t murder it, Maven would.

But her heart faltered when she returned from the gardens to find a familiar face in her sheets.  Maven had curled beneath the blanket, her waves fanning across the pillow.  Crystal eyes fluttered, lined with soft lashes.  For a moment, Mare was lost in them.

Then she smiled.

The same smile she’d had as Mare knelt before her.  The same smile she’d had as the shoe touched her lips.  The same smile she always had, a gentle perfection of the mask she wore at all times.  She was fake as her promises, fake as her virtue, fake as the feelings Mare once had for her.

“I was borrowing your bed, if you don’t mind.”  She yawned.  “And you don’t mind, right?”

Mare lunged at her, but she rolled out of the way.  Her hand lazed in her hair.  “It seems you do.”

“Get out.”

“No.”  She drew the blanket over her head.  “I don’t think so.”

All her limbs seized at once, her lungs burning as her manacles refused to melt off.  Maven could take them off, if she wanted to, as she could’ve so long ago.

Mare sat at the foot of the bed.  “Why are you here?”

Maven grunted.  “My bed was giving me nightmares.”

“You can’t dream.”

“It’s a metaphor, Mare.”   She lolled her head.  “We all dream when we’re awake.  And I have more nightmares than most.”

“You deserve them.”

“I suppose.”  Her lashes wobbled, and Mare almost took it back.  Would’ve, were it not for the truth lying beneath them.  “You would know, after all.”

“I do.”

She smiled.  “Words for a wedding.”

Mare yanked the blanket, teeth gnashed.  Maven huffed, shielding her eyes before reaching for her flamemakers.  “Careful, Mare.  It only takes a spark for things to burn.”

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That's as far as I got. I also wrote the line "I was thinking of making you a consort." but never had the attention span to connect it. Maybe I'll finish this one day.

[lucy-the-cat]

Mareven Week Plans

Day 1: Jan 7 - Crossover, Songfic

The start of the reputation collection, Maven Popstar AU (. . . Ready for It?)

Day 2: Jan 8 - Betrayal, Cheating

finishing sapphic Mareven

Day 3: Jan 9 - Marriage, Wedding, Kids

Red in the Heart continued

Day 4: Jan 10 - Kidfic

Skip

Day 5: Jan 11 - Bathtubs, Smut, Choking

The boat kiss, but make it more than a kiss

Day 6: Jan 12 - You could've been my Red Queen

If Mare didn't escape during the wedding (very different then Lover's Curse, very depressing, will use an archive warning)

Day 7: Jan 13- The Lakelands, Piedmont, Tiraxes, Montfort, Ciron, Prairie

Burner King of Ciron!Maven x Shadow!Mare as the Sun's Voice

[lucy-the-cat]

🥺and 📈

desperately reminiscing on lost love as characters are forced to interact by circumstance (see Dark Mirror, Run Away with Me/Never Let You Go, the sapphic Mareven oneshot in my drafts, chapter fifteen of Lover's Curse, just so many I love this)

and

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current fics, but I have written more on wattpad that I've unpublished out of embarassment. I really kicked into writing gear with my bipolar meds lol

[lucy-the-cat]

Day 2 of Mareven Week - Betrayal, Cheating

Sapphic Mareven

Open Your Eyes - beforeIlearnedcivility - Red Queen Series - Victoria Aveyard [Archive of Our Own]

[lucy-the-cat]

Tentative sapphic Mareven title "Open Your Eyes"