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Jinshi is a SinJa fankid, right? Or is fusion just a cheap tactic to make weak monarchists stronger?
#NO SPOILERS FOR APOTHECARY DIARIES PLZ I BEG YOU I'M STILL WATCHING IT#jinshi#the apothecary diaries#sinbad#jafar#sinja#magi#sinbad no bouken#the lore with me and magi runs deep#as does my love for kickass second in commands/bureaucrats#blogging
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Introduction Post (V2)
I did an introduction post 7-8 months ago and it's really bad, so I wanted to do a new one.
Hello! I am relatively new to tumblr, but I've been here for over six months now, and it's the only social media I've been able to stick with for this long. It feels like I've officially put down roots with this blog, so I wanted to give myself a proper introduction.
A little about me: I'm a writer with a particular emphasis on poetry and fiction that angsts about identity. I'm a Dungeon Master who has been playing D&D (and occasionally other ttrpgs) since I was 12-13. I'm in my mid twenties (and am going to post accordingly so I don't want to see any minors interacting). I'm a lesbian, and ngl pretty much everything I say or do has an undertone of sapphic yearning. If i had to define my taste in general I love anything that is super feminine, pink, and princessy, and also anything that is gothic, rotted, and miserable. Anything that could combine the vibes of like Princess Peach/Sailor Moon and Edgar Allan Poe would be a dream come true for me. I also have a deep love on run down apocalyptic settings (especially if they include a theme park).
This blog will mainly be reblogs, fandom posts, and random things about myself and what I'm thinking. It's just kind of a personal haven to express myself and show my friends cool stuff I saw. I was originally going to make this a place where I posted about my writing/D&D, but all of that stuff kept getting buried, so I decided to delete those posts and make a couple dedicated sideblogs.
If you want to see my original posts i use the hashtag #entombedpost and for reblogs where I remembered to say something I use #entombedreblog
Follow @myovergrowngarden if you want to read/hear about my writing
Follow @yeehaw-in-magic-space if you want to hear about the adventures that take place in my space western/fantasy horror D&D campaign. I recap every session and drop random bits of lore on this account.
Some of my favorite books/short stories include: The Locked Tomb series, The Poet X, Clap When You Land, Family Lore, Any Other City, The Honey Month, This Is How You Lose the Time War, An Education in Malice, The Fall of the House of Usher, Mexican Gothic, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole, Orientation, White Smoke, The Iliad/Odyssey.
Some of my favorite shows include: Supernatural, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Midnight Mass, Black Sails, Game of Thrones (seasons 1-4), House of the Dragon, Breaking Bad, Chernobyl.
Some of my favorite cartoons/anime include: Steven Universe, Over the Garden Wall, Arcane, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Cowboy Bebop, Delicious in Dungeon, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Noragami, Hunter X Hunter, Simoun, Chainsaw Man, the old DCAU (Batman TAS, Superman TAS, Batman Beyond, Justice League, Static Shock, JLU), Teen Titans, Star Wars Rebels, High Guardian Spice, Gravity Falls, Amphibia.
Some of my favorite video games include: The Last of Us PT II, Get in the Car, Loser, Hades/Hades II, Darkest Dungeon, Fallout: New Vegas, Celeste, Ace Attorney, Dark Souls, Epic Mickey, We Know the Devil, Slay the Princess, Long Live the Queen, Monster Prom/Camp/Road Trip. I also love a lot of board games, but I think that would push us over the text limit so I'm just going to mention that briefly.
Some of my favorite movies include: I Saw the TV Glow, Star Wars (particularly VI, VIII, IV, V), Lord of the Rings, Whisper of the Heart, Kiki's Delivery Service, Birds of Prey, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Snowpiercer, Annihilation, Sorry to Bother You, the Fear Street Trilogy, a bunch of the Saw movies, Us, Nosferatu (1922).
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i am running thru ur tumblr to find ONE POST to cite for tvtropes, and i agree so hard with the soulmate stuff. what if my soulmate is an awful abuser, i want the choice to NOT be with them without some painful physical consequence or loss of perception if i don't date them just because the universe said we were "meant to be"... plus if it's just a magic thing it "feels" more justified in-universe that soulmates exist and less like an ass pull so you could justify getting 2 characters together
oH gods this is something that I have SO many feelings about that probably is slightly informed by my own orientation and preferences, but. feelings. this got long so it's going under the cut
so there are three and a half major things that I have a problem with in terms of general soulmate tropes that are "there is one person who is your perfect romantic partner" (which to be fair I've seen a number of soulmate AUs do that trope with the addendum "although it only applies to a certain percentage of the population / not everyone has soulmates / everyone has soulmates but not everyone has SUPER PERFECT ROMANTIC soulmates" which at least somewhat avoids the statistic inevitability of abusive soulmates if combined with Fate Can See The Future And So Your Fated Soulmate Just Won't Be) and these complaints aren't even from the "I'm poly where's my poly rep" kind of place which is a whole 'nother bag of worms, but let's go:
1. I aggressively believe that love is a choice. Love is something that is built, not predetermined before you meet someone. There might be initial compatibility aspects going down when you first meet someone, but, like. statistically there are more than seven and a half billion people on this planet. If there is only a single person perfectly meant for you, again, statistically, you are not going to meet them, I've seen the figure thrown that on average a person will meet on the order 10,000 people in their lifetime but let's even go 100,000, you will meet 0.001% of the world's population. Unless you think some sort of divine coincidence or fate is guiding you to a soulmate which throws free will out the window and then I can't help you but, like. discarding the math, I think it is actively harmful to a relationship to believe that it can be sustained on chemistry or predetermined 'but we're perfect for each other' alone. It requires work. You choose who is in your life, you choose who stays in your life, you choose who you want to be important to you based on what they contribute to your life and what you contribute to theirs.
(I am assuming this ask is at least partially in reaction to my soulmate post, which actually the fic in question, a buried and a burning flame, has since gone up. I highly recommend reading Hands of the Emperor by Victoria Goddard first, but besides the setup for arson wizards that alas is never used because the fire mage with a soulmate in question is Responsible, I decided to both tackle 'okay soulmarks trope too let's throw it in', which leads to the not-really-a-spoiler passage that appears fairly early on about actually the full layout (albeit with less detail on the 'yeah for mages it just helps ground their magic, nothing romantic about it' part) of my Soulmate Rules:
Soulmates existed, both in the Empire of Astandalas and across the Wide Seas. They just worked slightly differently in Vangavaye-ve than the rest of the worlds.
The rest of the Empire seemed to view soulmates as a monolith. From what Cliopher had been able to glean, the tradition was grounded in their magic. Magi had soulmates, or rather, magic-workers would each have a soulmate. Cliopher wasn't clear if all magic-workers had a soulmate, or if magic-workers simply could have one, but there was always a mage in soulmate pairs, and it was always a pair. There were no marks, no visible signs involved, as soulmates were something that were sensed with magic. They were permanent, intrinsic, and to be recognized immediately.
To Wide Sea Islanders, soulmates were a choice.
The soul-marks, lana and lani-voa, would appear the first time you touched someone that you had chosen to love, with the full knowledge that you loved them. Cliopher had the marks of his mother and father, his sisters, Basil and Dimiter, Bertie and Ghilly. His skin was covered lovingly with the colors of his love, marks that he had gotten used to concealing with long sleeves in Astandalas when he had gotten tired of the constant staring at his 'primitive tattoos'.
Buru Tovo had been the only one to give him lani-voa, a greater mark of the soul. The pattern, with its thick lines and twisting design in a deep blue, extended over the entirety of his left arm and shoulder. They were the dances of his family pressed onto his skin, and he had traced them over with reverent and feather-light touch for months after he had received them. A lani-voa marked someone who had changed your life for the better in a deep and irrevocable way. It was a great honor to have even one.
And now, with the gold stretching up his right arm, new patterns that he didn't recognize stretching up from a handprint of pure gold that was expanding the longer he held that first contact with Tor—
now he had two.
(Buru Tovo is Cliopher's great uncle, for context. In fact, everyone listed there is either a familial or platonic relationship, with a single relationship that used to be romantic but settled into platonic.))
so. yeah. Love is a choice! The Biggest Of Moods! any soulmate lore that undermines that is a Bad Message, in my opinion.
The emphasis also on platonic soulmates leads into my second point:
2. I have found in my life that platonic relationships that I have are and have always been as important if not moreso than the romantic relationships. the emphasis of a single romantic relationship as the most important relationship that you can be in maybe fits for some people, but as a generalization to absolutely everyone I think is toxic and harmful. and not just for aro people! I'm not aro, but I would be miserable to write off my friends as Less Important And Meaningful to me than my parter, whom I love with all my heart! (I've actually ended up in my life settling into what I call the red/blue/gold system for 'relationships that I treat with the importance that society treats romantic relationships', but that's a personal thing). The standard soulmate trope tends to really solidly deliver the thesis of "there is a single romantic relationship that is the single most important relationship in your life" and I just think that's a very bad thesis.
3. Finally, I think the emphasis on permanent/forever is a harmful one for relationships in general. People change. you drift closer to people or further away from them. you move, they move, your schedules change, your interests change, your life changes. if you are living with a romantic partner you're going to keep seeing each other every day, but that doesn't stop you from changing as a person, which means see Point 1 Love Is A Choice; but even if you choose to remain together, you are probably eventually going to Ship Of Theseus your entire relationship. I think it is an important message that if that happens and it is no longer a relationship that is as deeply positive as it once was in your life, you don't...have to keep it out of loyalty to what it once was.
It's okay for people to drift out of your life that were once the most important person in your life. It doesn't invalidate how important and meaningful that relationship used to be, and it isn't a betrayal to let yourself and them and your relationships change and evolve. The idea that something has to be forever for it to matter I think is the idea about soulmates that I disagree with the most. Probably because that was the hardest lesson for me to learn as a kid and a teenager, and the life lesson that I am proudest for learning.
3.5 your point 'plus if it's just a magic thing it "feels" more justified in-universe that soulmates exist' is exactly on the nose, literally I am unable to write anything without attempting to write down a universal theory of everything for How The World Works. if something soulmate-wise is going down even if it never appears on the page you bet your ass I have either figured out the general cosmology and theology of "are there gods or divine forces who have instituted this policy? if so, why? what purpose does it serve", or in the case of abaabf which already has such interesting magic rules in the original canon of "is there an evolutionary reason for soulmates to exist" which I don't go tracing out full evolutionary biology for a fic necessarily mostly because I would want the full evolutionary biology in canon to make sure mine is compliant enough but that sure as hell does translate to "if soulmates exist and it's not for the reason of Because Godlike Beings Said So, there better be a practical purpose". I find at least long-form soulmate fics (ie things With Plot and a Developed Setting that aren't just "let's do a ficlet with this well-known trope") that Do Not Feel Like They've At Least Thought About Why Soulmates Happen To Exist hurt my soul. which I think slightly intersects with my "I hate it when the rules of the universe/ laws of physics are human-centric" instead of "the base rules which were not designed for humans came first, and how the human world works arose in reaction to them" and. yeah. consistent desire to know at least for myself why things are set up the way that they're set up which gods ifmlam is wild and completely bullshit and pulls from quantum multiverse philosophy I started writing that thing when I was like. eighteen? nineteen? but at least it's there so I can be consistent.
as a caveat for everything above: I don't actually think that fiction, fanfiction in particular, needs to perfectly reflect what A Good Relationship or A Good Message About Relationships should be. it is a very human desire in a chaotic and confusing world to want a simple, absolute, binary thing to hold onto. fiction is a place for escapism or wish fulfillment or even exploring things that you wouldn't actually want in real life, I think that the movement in fandom/fiction that all of the messaging in your story should match the advice you'd give for a real-life setup is a bad and harmful one. mostly my opinions on soulmates and hence desire to do inversions of the soulmate trope in my fic and things like the red/blue/gold system and heavy emphasis on platonic relationships in original work that I'm writing is about a desire to see representation for me and the things I love and find important and my sort of relationships in the stories that are a big part of my life. but I am really glad that in doing so I seem to have struck a chord in other people, who maybe want to see the same thing!
#my life#my writing#abaabf#soulmates#also what post are you looking for/ what is its general topic if you haven't found it#I might remember a few keywords and be able to help you search
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The experiments of Connie Maheswaran and Little Homeworld R&D: A fighting flirty Series.
From small projects to large experimentation from the practical to the fanatical From the social to the technological From the local to inter-dimensional
Little Homeworld R&D is always trying to better Era 3 through experimentation...and have a hell of a time doing it.
AN: The FF-verse grows with a new story depicting the work and times of Little Homeworld R&D. Expect humor, magi-science, FF-LORE, some romance (Not all connverse), action, and appearances from your favorite characters, OC's and maybe some special guest every once in a while..
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First Case: Steven Universe and his shape-shifting pt1
"Knock Knock."
Connie turned her head to the pleasant surprise of Steven walking into her R&D Lab, something that doesn't happen everyday. "Well, this is unexpected. What do I owe the pleasure, Mister?" She smirked, leaning back in her chair as she looked at him observe the cave-turned-lab with its cool metal and crystal and stone walls adorned with hard-light tubes.
The vat at the northern end of the giant room, filled with a liquid that held a multicolored liquid. On the opposite end was a circular display case exuding a white light straight up, within it were multiple crystal like spheres of blue and white hovering in place; the assault spheres and Cospheres. At the western end stood what looked like a hard-light workstation complete with telescope, tools both Earth and Homeworld origin made, various types of creation, modification or destructive purposes. On the table stood a group of black spiked like crystals upon with one of the five supercomputers plugged into them via hard-light wiring; The tether crystals. Tools used for Inter-dimensional (inter-realm, if you prefer) travel. This combined with a warp pad brought Dapper and Witchy to their realm sometime ago. No doubt a list of realm locations was being coded into them.
He looked across from there to Connie. Her hair in two twin-tailed braids, goggles around her neck. dressed in an ankle length dark blue lab coat, a blue thigh length denim jumper dress over a green t-shirt and black mid thigh tights, a pair of forest green wool knee high socks and some brown boots.
To her left is a giant console with holographic screens. Displaying and compiling all kinds of data and results from another experiment.
Behind that there's a giant window overlooking a giant cavern with coolant pipes and multiple artificial waterfalls falling into a deep lake filled with liquid form of manufactured R&D repairing gel the same gel used to repair gem structures like warp pads and such infused with diamond essence.
"This place is kind of romantic in a way."
"It has its charm. machinery and tech withstanding..Kind of cold at times too."
He took a look at her, licking his lips. "Not cold enough, It seems."
"Uh-huh. If you came here just to visually strip me, you could have waited to after work."
He chuckled at the researcher with smug lips and mischievous eyes.
"I have a theory that I wish to test, and I was hoping you could help me?" He sat down in the empty leather office chair beside her, turning to face her.
Connie arched an eyebrow. "A theory to test?"
"Yes, mam"
She crossed her legs and gave him a half grin. "Curious, you never came up with an experiment before." She folded her hands over her knees. "What are we testing?
"My shape-shift ability. We're going to see how fantastic I can take it and how well I can control it." He scratched his cheek " As well as something else, but that something that will resolve itself. "
Connie looked over at her home-mate( something she still bounces over) and nodded. "Sure, I can go for some fun experimentation. So..." She typed on the console bringing up a holographic spreadsheet, "What are we changing?"
"Something small." He stuck out and pointed at his tongue.
"Obliviously, we have two different views on the term 'small'. "She teased as she logged it in, before turning to Steven. "Ok so..we need an action to work as control...Something to test against. Any-"
Her words were lost to Steven as his mouth over took hers and his tongue played with her own. There was a millisecond of surprise before she returned it , pulling him close as she fought him affection to affection, tongue to tongue. They broke off, giving each other a few popping kisses and tender nips.
"So...We have our control." Connie said breathless, cheeks aglow and an unbreakable, lip biting grin on her face.
"We do." He smirked, licking his lips.
"Now, we just need to run some test." She sat on his lap facing him, with one hand on his nape and the other on the console." What attributes are you changing?" she gazed at him with excitement in her eyes.
"Well" He rested his palms right upon her belt-line." Shape, length, texture , temperature and flavor."
Connie who was typing this down froze at the last one, looking at her man, with an arched eyebrow "Flavor?"
"My experiment, my choice."
"Can you even give your tongue *flavor*? How would that even work?"
"That's what we gonna find out.'' Steven offered before nipping at her neck, getting a purr from the researcher. " Now Flavor."
"Fine, adding flavor." She sighed, basking in his oral assault on her neck."If you let me..." She breathed out feeling him go up behind her ear.
"In a few." He growled in her ear before, continuing his affectionate attack.
"You're the boss." She leaned into him. Her hands and fingers, finding his nape and scalp, pulling him closer, allowing him to have his way.
A few moments of pleasure wouldn't hurt anyway.
#fighting flirty#heartberry#mister#scifi humor#workplacehijinks#little homeworld#research and development#psudeoscience#magiscience#steven universe fanfiction#connverse#connverse arc#humor and fluff#researcher connie#fanfiction#steven univere#dsduke#black fanfiction writers
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Do you still want Chuubo lore questions? Because I'd like to know more about the Bleak Academy and its headmaster.
i love chuubo lore questions always! please by all means feel free to ask followups or springboard to something else
(i have been getting new followers recently who probably don’t know what the hell this is about. may i interest you in an intricate TTRPG system in these trying times?)
the Bleak Academy is located in the deep Outside; it stands as counterpart or opposition to the School in Horizon established by Lord Entropy. apparently its in-universe promotional materials claim a student body of over 12,000, but firsthand accounts have only seen a population of less than 100, maybe as low as 20? wow, that’s a tiny aside in the corebook that never gets elaborated on and i forgot the disrepancy was so huge.
the four established colleges - the College of War and Nightmare, the College of Natural Philosophy, the Colloquium of Magi, & the College of Emptiness and Dream - correlate to the four ridings of Excrucians seen more prominently in Nobilis & Glitch (Warmains, Deceivers, Mimics, and Strategists respectively.) the curriculum is esoteric and usually self-directed. the Colloquium of Magi accepts ‘transfer students’ from conventional reality who have some reason to renounce the world and give up their humanity (or, you know, whatever they originally were.)
there aren’t many details about what it’s like to live there or study there - it’s not the focus of any official campaign at the current moment and once you get that deep in the Outside things are by necessity going to be wildly abstract. it’s not good for you. it’s not ideal.
He, Death, the Headmaster of the Bleak Academy, He, has no other goddamn name given. people always ask me. don’t you think i’d be calling him by it if i knew? i would LOVE to puncture the dude’s ego by referring to him by first name. i can’t even just call him ‘Death’ because he’s not the only personification of death running around in this setting, although He, Death is probably sufficient to disambiguate from King Death. ‘Headmaster’ is what i usually default to and then just rely on context.
of the four ridings, the headmaster is notionally a Warmain, but he has some nonstandard abilities and his Test is not especially defined (he was, i’m told, written as a character first and slotted into a categorization second). he is.. man, i’m trying to find things to say about him but honestly he eludes description in a lot of ways, his motives are frequently opaque or to-be-determined-in-play or both. the tie-in novel Fable of the Swan deals with him; the, hrmm, there is a short story about meeting him at the laundromat which was freely released back during the kickstarter but does not appear to be available online any more, but you can hit me up for a copy of it on discord if you know me. i think the best summary i’ve got is that he’s smug and bastardous but he definitely intrigues me enough that i’d want to hear him out slightly more than i want to punch him out. which is, of course, how he gets you
he fell in love with Jade Irinka, the Angel of the Houses of the Sun, and they had a child together: Jasper/Raven Irinka, a playable character (possibly two children, depending on whether you count “i had a prophetic nightmare that you killed me and it manifested a personification of the eclipse” as, like, parental responsibility. gods are like that). his daughter Mrs. Senko (further genealogy details unknown) is a teacher at School and does recruitment for the Academy; in Fable of the Swan, his ‘sister’ Giselle is a budded-off piece of himself. a family man!
#every time i give things to people im going to make reference to these trying times#because i think in memes and the times are very trying#cmwge tag#anonymous
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We Seek That Which We Shall Not Find, Chapter 6
Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 5
Written for Trope Madness’s betting kitty winner, @ruleofexception! It’s been....over six months, but here is this HUGE BEAST of a chapter. I know I said I thought this would be the last Laxdo chapter, BUT...there’s gonna be at least one more!
There hadn’t been much in the way of entertainment, back in the country. At least, not the way Shirayuki’s constantly bombarded with it here, videos up on billboards and scrolling across phones on the subway. The B&B had a limping internet connection, and with the only television in the common room, she’d spent more time inside a book or outside the house than struggling to find a channel the other boarders would agree to.
So when Zen asked her to join D&D, when Kiki had teased her for not even knowing what she’d said yes to --
Well, she’d done her research. Not just the kind Izana gave her, reading source books and studying lore, but watching videos, listening to podcasts, finding the D&D episodes of popular shows -- anything that would give her something to expect. Nothing could have rivaled her disappointment or her relief when she realized costumes were optional; she hadn’t known how she would cobble together historically accurate, fourth century Welsh gown when even the SCA shrugged their shoulders at the idea, but, well...it was exactly the sort of challenge she would have risen to, if she had the excuse.
Still, she’d thought she had an idea of what to expect: roleplay, quick thinking, rich story, complicated feelings, improv, maybe even some funny voices, but --
Nothing had prepared her for the amount of planning.
“So that’s it?”
Shirayuki startles; she’d been deep into splitting healing duties with Mitsuhide. Paladins are only half spell casters, only good for buffs and an occasional off-heal, so all the curse removal duties fall to Lynet. Bedwyr is more or less moral support; unless the curse itself had some sort of permanent stat drain, there’s nothing he can do.
Zen isn’t invested in this conversation, of course; magi don’t have magic that can’t be applied to themselves or their weapon. Which is why he’s craning his neck toward Izana, incredulous. “We just cast a whole bunch of Remove Curse and then hit the road?”
Shirayuki isn’t an expert on Izana’s expressions, not when the difference between them is the angle of an eyebrow or the twitch of a lip, but she feels confident in calling this one positively withering. “Is that what you think you should do?”
The temperature of the room drops two degrees. That’s a question where everyone knows the answer.
“We still don’t know who started this,” Mitsuhide tries, haltingly, thick fingers worrying at the edge of his character sheet. From the dog-eared corners on every side, this isn’t a first-time occurrence. “It’s not a good habit to leave enemies behind us.”
“Not a healthy one, at least,” Kiki adds, leaning her knee against the table.
“But we don’t have any hints either.” Zen’s flushed, frustrated. “Do you guys just want to hang around here, waiting for him to come back? If he comes back?”
“Or her.” Kiki’s brow twitches, and Shirayuki’s not sure whether to read it as amusement or annoyance. Maybe both is the better bet. “Then again, you haven’t tried to woo any rescued damsels this session, so probably not a dread sorceress. Unless there’s something Shirayuki isn’t telling us.”
Kiki turns to her with an inquisitive look, and even though she knows she’s joking, even though she sees the quirk at the corner of her lips, Shirayuki’s cheeks flare fire-engine red.
“Hey!” Zen snaps, not looking much better. “Shirayuki--”
“Well.” Obi’s mouth cants, eyes catching hers from their corners. “I know Beaumains is under her spell.”
She can feel it, this moment of opportunity being flung open like a window, and -- and his wink is not helping matters. Not at all. Especially not when Kihal’s flirt back or make out with his face is burning a hole in her pocket, reminding her of what she was trying to do before plot carried her away. It’s just --
She can’t say something now. This isn’t Lynet and Beaumains, this is -- is them, Shirayuki and Obi, and that might mean something, and she doesn’t -- she isn’t --
Well, there’s just a huge difference between a flirtation and a boyfriend, probably. And she hardly knows if she wants the first, let alone -- that. Not with some college boy she’s known a week. He might play trumpet, for all she knows.
The moment stretches on, too long, and Kiki hums, amused. “I suppose that is some damning evidence.”
“Okay.” Zen’s folded himself into a huff, fuming so hard it’s an honest surprise smoke isn’t pouring out his ears. “So you all think we should just...hang around? Hope for some Big Bad to come wandering back to check his work?”
“Well.” The word bursts out of her, unbidden, but -- she’s committed now, with everyone watching her. “We do have, um, another reason.”
He blinks, some of his flush fading back to pink. “Oh?”
“I, uh, only prepared one Removed Curse at our last rest.” Her hands twist themselves in knots under the table, anxious. “But I can fix that at our next one! If this works like it should, then I should be able to get everyone on their feet in...a few days, maybe?”
Zen lets loose a whine that would make a puppy worry. “A few days.”
“Um, well...” Shirayuki squirms in her seat. “Give or take.”
Kiki’s eyes narrow. “Just how many spell slots do you have?”
“Um...” She flips through her sheet, squinting at the chart on the second page. “Three?”
Mitsuhide lets out a worried hum, too high-pitched for a man his size. “How many people are under this spell again?”
The question sits heavily at the table until Izana leans back, the picture of surprise, and asks, “Oh, are you asking me?”
Zen stares. “Is there someone else who would know?”
“It could have been rhetorical. A nice little thought exercise.” He shrugs, and Shirayuki does not miss the way his mouth twitches at a corner. “But the answer is: as many as it takes to make a castle of this size function.”
Zen groans.
“Oh, looks like we better get comfy, my liege,” Obi says with a wolfish grin. “We’re gonna be here a while.”
This night is your longest yet; you had thought the first interminable, when all the miasma of illness hung thick over the room, choking you even behind yours mask. Despair had clung to every wrinkle in your gown, tight like a child’s hand on a mother’s apron, always niggling, reminding you that time would run out, that perhaps no amount of your cleverness could save them.
But hope is worse.
There is no reason to pick the man you do -- or rather, the lack of one becomes it. With only a single brew, Bedwyr suggests that you spend it on the castle’s healer, but--
But this magic is familiar somehow. It slicks along your skin like a drop of oil in water, and though you cannot divine its maker, you do not trust it to act as it ought. Curse though it may be, there is a part of you that worries any cure that you brew will only add to your troubles.
You worry over that same thought for endless hours, trying to get to the marrow of it, to logic out why dread settles so firmly in your gut. There has never been an instance, not one, where your gifts have failed you, where the joy of victory has turned to ashes in your mouth. Except for the one, of course.
Despite your misgivings, the man wakes at dawn.
It is not a calm thing, oh no; he heaves into life, breath filling his chest so forcefully it arches him upright. He clutches at his breast, wide-eyed, but besides the atrophy expected of long illness and the shock of waking, he is healthy. So healthy he empties the first bowl of broth you give him, and the second, and when you bring the third he inquires after a heel of bread as well.
“Well, this certainly stands as a testament to your skill,” Arturius remarks, bemused, as the man sops up his bowl. You are tired, and for a moment you are tempted to ask if he had doubted it, but -- it would be picking a fight, and it is not the prince’s fault that his particular skills meant he slept, rather than wait.
“I brewed more last night,” you tell him. “Enough dose for three.”
“Our priority is the healer, of course.” He bites his lip, head tipped back in thought. “But the others...”
For the first time in hours, you feel your mouth lift into a smile. “I did have a thought about that...”
Izana blinks. “The dwarf?”
“He’s cursed, isn’t he?” She must be the only one that remembers; despite happening only hours ago, the rest of the party stares blankly at her. “Worse than anyone else, if I’m remembering right.”
“Oh,” Obi hums, thoughtful. “Yeah, I think I remember that. He’s human.”
“Oh, right.” Zen scoops up the dwarf’s figure, squinting hard at its shapeless features. “I thought he was going to be the Big Bad’s sidekick, honestly.”
“Mm, agreed.” Kiki leans over, giving the plastic the same skeptical look. “I was waiting for the backstab.”
“Such little faith in your fellow man,” Izana clucks, shaking his head.
She arches a brow, eloquent in her disdain. “It is your game.”
His mouth stretches, curling into a smile Shirayuki’s only ever seen on the Grinch. “That is fair.”
“Still.” The word drags Izana’s attention back to her, his eyes almost comically wide. “I want to give our friend at least one of these. After all, he’s been helping us this whole time.”
“Has he though?” Obi mutters, and without even thinking, Shirayuki puts an elbow straight in his side.
Every hair stands on end as she realizes what she’s done. She’s -- she’s practically scolded him, the boy she maybe-kind of-might want to flirt with. Or his character, at least. For, you know, fun.
When she dares a glance at him, his eyes have rounded, eyebrows practically up at his hairline, but -- but --
He almost looks impressed.
“Huh,” Izana huffs out, drawing her attention back to the topic at hand. “Do you now.”
It’s not a question, but she hasn’t gotten this far by letting him practice his rhetoric. “I do.”
He hums, tapping at his notes. “Well, I suppose you could...try.”
“Me?” The dwarf shifts on his spindly legs, wringing his thick-fingered hands over his belly. “But -- but there are others. Other who would be of much more use than me!”
“We have more than enough for your healer,” you assure him, though you have to grit your teeth as he dances.
There’s something strange, off-kilter about the way he moves, about the way his face changes, as if your mind is trying to make him into two different people entirely -- one which is familiar, and one which is entirely not. It is tiring to say the least.
You meet his eyes, those warm hazel-green, and say, “You have helped us immeasurably. Who else could be more important than you?”
“The head of the guard?” he supplies with a squeak. “The steward. The -- the cook? Anyone, my lady, would be more helpful that me.”
You lower yourself to a chair, coming to his height. “No one is more important here than the man who knows how this all came to be.”
His gaze is watery when he tears it from yours. “No, no,” he insists, voice ragged. “Spend it on the others. All of them are more deserving than me.”
"Welp.” Obi pops the ‘p’, annoyed, and it draws attention to his mouth, to the way it fits around the words he speaks and -- well, Shirayuki really didn’t need help with that. “We’re doing real good, solving this mystery.”
It’s been three in-game days, and with every awoken man, more questions are asked than answered. So far none of them can remember being cursed, and when they bring the dwarf in front of them --
Well, Shirayuki knows this is all pretend, that the dwarf is really just Izana bending his voice into something new, but the way his expression crumples as every soldier calls him a stranger -- it’s a lot.
“What is even happening here?” Zen groans, fingers pulling at his face. “The dwarf knows something, but he won’t tell us.”
“He can’t tell us.” It comes out a little sharper than she intends, but -- it’s an important distinction. “He’s cursed.”
“Right,” he agrees absently. “But also he won’t let us help him, so it’s pretty much the same thing.”
Her hands clench on her lap. “It’s really n--”
“Can’t you just cast it on him anyway?” Obi asks, chin in hand, drumming his fingers on the table. “Then bingo-bango-bongo: the whole problem is solved.”
Her jaw drops. “I’m not going to treat a patient without his consent!”
Obi rounds on her, eyes incredulously wide. “He’s not real.”
That...is a good point, she’ll give him that.
“Well, he’s real to Lynet,” she informs him primly, setting her hands flat on the table. “And she would never.”
For a moment is mouth goes flat, annoyed, but then -- then it curls, Obi leaning casual on one fist. “I’m sure Beaumains could be persuasive.”
Her mouth wraps around the word, silent. The look he gives her is too knowing, eyebrows lifted in invitation, and she’s so, so tempted to ask just what kind of persuasion Beaumains might be inspired to do--
“Even if Shirayuki cast it, he could still resist it with a Will save,” Mitsuhide interjects, sending the moment skittering. “If he wanted to, at least. And then we’d be out of a spell slot.”
“If we’re stuck here, we should be focusing on the Big Bad anyway.” Zen settles back in his chair, running a hand through his hair and leaving it adorably askew, like he’d just woken up. “Someone has to have said something interesting, right? And we’re not just thinking about it.”
Mitsuhide leans a chin in his hand, pondering the idea. “The head of the guard mentioned that a traveling caravan came through before this all happened.”
Kiki nods. “And the steward mentioned buying wood from traveling merchants. Probably the ones who supplied the logs with the Will debuff.”
Zen settles back, thoughtful. “So you think they were force to sell the wood?”
“They must have some leverage on them,” Mitsuhide agrees. “They didn’t mention any children--”
“Or maybe,” Kiki deadpans, “they were all bandits?”
Mitsuhide gapes. “But there were women in the caravan.”
“Oh my,” she hums, teeth flashing behind her lips. “You’re right. How silly of me. We all know a woman could never be dangerous, oh no.”
“T-that’s not what I meant!”
“Oh?” Kiki smiles, and the room drops an entire degree. Shirayuki practically shivers in the chill. “It better not be.”
Shirayuki blinks, and between one moment as the next, Kiki stabs her pen into the table, leaving it quivering like a knife.
Izana huffs in annoyance. “Kiki, please. The table didn’t do anything to you.”
“It’s just between the leaves.” She shift her character sheets, and there it is: pen nib wedged perfectly into the crevice. With nothing more than a sharp tug, it’s back out again, twirling between Kiki’s long fingers. “Besides, it’s not like this is some family heirloom.”
“No,” Izana agrees, “but it’s the principle of the thing.”
“Okay, aside from Princess Kiki’s love for violence, which, by the way--” Obi tosses her a wink, which absolutely does not send a jolt of disappointment spear through Shirayuki’s belly-- “hot. It looks like our only lead are these bandits.”
Mitsuhide grunts. “We don’t know if they’re bandits.”
“Fine, Schrödinger’s bandits,” he sighs. “We don’t--what?”
The table is quiet, wide-eyed -- even Izana -- and into the silence, Zen says, “You know Schrödinger?”
Obi huffs. “What? I go to college. I know memes.”
“Wow,” Kiki manages, drawling every letter.
“Anyway.” Zen wields the word like a knife, trying to cut through the distractions. “We should track down these bandits--”
Mitsuhide clears his throat.
“Potential bandits,” Zen amends, annoyed. “So while Shirayuki is tending to the people here, we can start canvassing the area.”
“Oh!” It slips out of her, like a punch to the gut. If she’s back at the castle, and Beaumains is out looking for bandits --
She shakes her head. That’s not what this game is about. It’s about saving her sister and having fun with her friends, not -- not practice flirting.
Unfortunately, it’s too late to take it back. Every eye at the table falls on her, and she squirms. “Um.”
“That isn’t very fair,” Kiki observes, dragging her gaze to Zen. “Shirayuki should get a chance to have an adventure too, not just heal in the background.”
“But we can’t take her with us.”
She hadn’t even minded being left behind -- Izana would give her something to do, and it wasn’t as if Lynet would feel strongly about bandit chasing -- but it stings, hearing it from his mouth. Zen had wanted her to be Gwenhwyfar, to be the one waving the handkerchief from the parapets. Instead she’d made Lynet -- an alchemist, an arcanist, an asset -- but even still he’s finding ways to keep her at Camelot, leaving her behind when the knights rode out.
Mitsuhide grunts, disapproving.
“She’s using her highest slots to do this curse thing,” Zen explains, and she gets it, she does, it just doesn’t help. “If we find the Big Bad--”
“--We should probably have our healer with us.” Obi’s mouth cants into a lop-sided smile, cajoling. “Come on, my liege. We don’t have to jump in the deep end the second we get a hint of where this guy is. We have plenty of time to give my lady here a heads up before we get ourselves neck-deep in trouble.”
He winks, and -- and maybe she’s just projecting, but it feels different from the one he gave Kiki. More...personal.
“Um.” Now is really not the time to blurt out, I’m more upset that I can’t flirt with your character, so she just nods, ducking her head so he can’t see her blush. “Okay! But I’ll need a day to swap out my spells.”
He’s just -- adjusting, she knows that, but his foot swipes right along the bottom of hers and every hair stands on end. Oh, goodness. “We’ll see what we can do, my lady.”
Each day, more men awake from their stupors; three at a time, all of them disoriented, groggy. You had hoped that when you woke the healer, he would at least be able to ease your burden, but all the cursed are emaciated, their muscles atrophied to the point that they must be helped to the chamber pot and back. It is up to you to brew the potions, to cook the broth and, eventually, heartier stews to strengthen them.
And still there are more chores; small things: opening windows and keeping your stores stocked, organizing and documenting the treatment of your patients. Each day blends into each other, sleep only coming in fits and starts and never restful. Still, it is enough. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, hands doing what you ask of them, until --
Until one day they don’t.
Most of the men have not been moved from the great hall, though now, at least, there is room between them to walk, not just bodies laid haphazardly across the stone. It is not a situation you find ideal, however -- it is not feasible to move so many, and in their fugue state, few will care about privacy or proximity. However, those awoken few have been moved to more private chambers; the weft of the curse is thick, as fine a weave as any linen, and you suspect it does not allow any inference, either magic or mundane. Those who lay dreaming are free from any ailment save the caster’s making, but the others --
Well, that many men pressed so close is just tinder waiting for a kindling.
There is a way within Laxdo’s halls to reach the dormitories from the great hall, however, a quick dash through the courtyard’s arcades cuts minutes off a day that already has too few to spare. You hurry through, gaze set ever forward, laden with yet another heavy box of supplies.
Your mind is not on your day, of course. Oh no, it has long wandered far into stranger lands. The dwarf is what plagues your thoughts, for with every man that wakes, their eyes passing over him with barely more than a curious glance and no flash of recognition, he fades a little further. One day, you fear, you will turn to see he is little more than a shadow, a suggestion rather than a reality.
Whoever he is, he must be much changed. Perhaps he is knight, strong bodied and deep-voice; or perhaps he is truly only a boy, and --
Your heel catches, so hard that your teeth jitter in their sockets. It snaps your spine straight, feet staggering beneath you to balance both your weight and the box’s.
All for naught; the shock jolts like lightning through your limbs, and the moment you right yourself, the box slips from boneless fingers, straight to the stone below.
There is a moment where your life flashes before your eyes. Or at least, the last week, which has felt like a lifetime. On shivering fawn legs, you bend, touching each bottle and jar as if they were the saints’ bones themselves. It is not the first inventory you have done with your heart lodged in your throat, but it is certainly the one where you had the most to lose. After all, it wasn’t as if the people of Castle Perilous would rely on their young mistress alone.
Your breath huffs out on a sigh. Misfortune’s bony fingers have no hooks in your skirts today. Not one cracked jar or one broken seal.
You get to your feet, hauling the box into you arms, but -- but you are made suddenly and terrifying aware that you have not slept for days. The world swings in a mad carousel around you, and with the momentum of your lift and the weight of the box you tilt back --
But never hit the ground.
“Oh,” Zen groans, flopping back in his seat. “Come on. Really?”
“Oooh, master, you just wish you had moves like me.” Obi’s hips give a sultry swivel in his seat as he scoops up his natural twenty. It absolutely does not give Shirayuki any -- any ideas. The room is just unnaturally warm for a basement.
“Careful, smooth moves,” Kiki deadpans. “K-pop impressions and bad pick-up lines won’t save you from not investing in your health.”
Obi huffs out a laugh with one of his devil-may-care shrugs. “I don’t invest in nerd things like hit points, I invest in being cool, and I stand by that decision. Besides,” he says, pink flaring high on his cheeks, “my pick-up lines are great.”
“Name one that worked.”
“I dunno.” His shoulders hunch, defensive. “All of them.”
Kiki’s eyebrows lift. “On who?”
Me. Shirayuki catches the word in her teeth, swallowing it down. It’s not -- it’s not even true. Beaumains has been using them on Lynet, and Lynet is the one interested, not -- not her. They’re different people. Probably.
“You know.” He sniffs. “People. You don’t know them.”
If anything, Kiki’s brows only raise higher. “Hmm.”
“If we’re quite done speculating about Obi’s romantic prowess,” Izana interjects smoothly. “I do believe we’re in the middle of something?”
Heat blooms across your back, the way it would when you sat at the hearth, tilting a book so it might not lay in shadow. It smolders along your side, not like a bonfire, but a brazier, or even a bed warmer --
Ah, now there is a thought your father would not appreciate you having.
Your gaze is fixed to your supplies, but it takes you a long moment to realize you are not holding them. No, it is a steady hand over you, sheathed in black leather, and in one, delirious moment, you realize that bare indigo must be pressed into your back, hooking just so at your hip. He doesn’t even shake.
“Careful there, my lady.” The words rumble against your ear, too intimate in the cage of his chest. “Keep this up, and a man could get ideas.”
You lift your gaze, gold tangling with green, breath catching in your throat. He might have made a shoddy assassin, but as your protector, well --
“Do you think if it happens another time, you will believe it?”
He blinks, eyes as wide and gold as coins. “Believe what?”
With all the courage you can summon, you mimic his flirtatious smirk and say, “That I’m falling for you.”
If the birds still sang at Laxdo, then the air would not be so still, so silent. At it is, you could hear a pin drop, so long as it was louder than the throb of your heart.
In a single, staggering moment, you are back on your feet, and Beaumains shakes his head, hunching his shoulders against the cold. “You need to work on your delivery.”
Your jaw snaps shut. “What do you mean?”
“You’re not the flirting type, my lady.” He shrugs, a smirk peeking out from behind his cowl. “Too earnest, I think.”
Blood boils in your veins, and you know he can see it on your skin when you say, “It does not seem fair that you may make love as you wish, but yet I cannot.”
He huffs out a laugh, sweeping a step closer. Oh, he smells...nice. Leather and pine with a hint of brimstone. “You know what I have and you don’t, my lady?”
“What?” You wish it wasn’t so breathless.
He leans in, and unbidden, your eyes flutter to half-mast. “Charisma.”
“Wait.” Kiki snags his sheet, sliding it across the table. “How on earth is your charisma higher than your con?”
“I’m a rogue-sorcerer!” Obi squeaks, snatching it back. “It’s my casting stat.”
“This is ridiculous,” she decides. “Are you planning on using it any time soon?”
He gapes. “I use it all the time!”
“I mean besides for bad pick-up lines.”
“How do you think I snuck up on Shirayuki at all?” He waves his hands. “Obviously magic!”
“I mean...” Kiki shrugs. “There is a stealth stat for a reason. A good rogue wouldn’t need Invisibility--”
He sniffs. “There’s just no reasoning with you, Princess.”
“I thought you were supposed to be bandit hunting.” The words come out breathless, and you wish you were like Morgaine, who never sounds as if anything bothers her at all, instead of -- of this. A girl ripe to be teased, since she can never wear her heart anywhere but on her sleeve.
He looks out over the yard, eyes squinting into the distance, and it is a fine view for watching the smirk creep up the side of his face. “Seemed like my job was here, my lady.”
Warmth blooms in your chest, as suddenly and easily as if he had laid a hand over your heart. Still, you frown. “And you did not think to announce yourself?”
“You did well enough alone,” he tells you with a speculative glance, and the flash in his eyes makes you think he likes what he sees. That he is, perhaps, even a little impressed with you. “And anyway, it seemed like you understood well enough about hiding in plain sight.”
You do not miss the bite of censure in his words, the warmth spreading from your chest to your cheeks. He put space between you, but you close it as you say, “I am the only one who can do this work, I do not have the luxury of--”
“Peace, my lady.” He holds up his hands, as if he might ward you off like a bitch anxious over her pups. “I know well enough. Still...” He edges a step back, teeth flashing white against the dark of his face. “Should you not be wary of me?”
You stare, brows furrowed. “Wary? Has not Uther himself consigned me to your care?”
“That’s true enough,” he admits, hand raising to squeeze at his shoulder. An old injury must lay there, aggravated by the heavy weather. “Though I thought His Grace would fill your head with all sorts of things.”
“Things?”
“Speculations. Rumor.” He grins, sharp enough to cut, though it is not a blade faced outward. “Maybe even something close to the truth.”
“Beaumains.” You step closer, and he watches you now, not the quintain creaking in the distance. “I think my own thoughts, not those of Arturius. And I have never been wary of you.”
The arcade is so quiet, you can hear his breath rasp in his chest.
“Besides--” you let yourself share in some of his smile-- “I was the one who had you pinned.”
“My lady,” he protests, “I let you--”
“I think we can call this argument thoroughly explored,” Izana informs them. “Not that I do not enjoy the enthusiastic roleplay.”
“Oh!” Shirayuki chirps, hands clapping to cover her blush. “I’m sorry, I didn’t--”
“No need.” You do not miss the twitch of amusement at the corner of his lips. “Besides, I think we all know it was your tanglefoot bag that did the pinning.”
“In any case,” you continue, perhaps a little forcefully, “you have proven yourself to be a man worthy of trust in my eyes.”
Beaumains stares, inscrutable. “My lady...”
Whatever words he means to say are lost; he folds his lips around them and the moment carries them away.
“My lady,” he tries again, more sure. “You’re wearing yourself down.”
“I am fine--”
“Perhaps His Grace--”
“I am fine,” you insist, sharper than you intend. “There is no reason to worry Arturius. So you might as well not.”
The silence between you itches, and when those golden eyes look at you, when they stare through you as if you were a specimen under glass, you want to squirm out of your own skin. “Who says I have to listen to anything you say?”
Uther. The name bubbles up, unbidden. You would have to be a fool to speak it; what passed between assassin and king is known by them alone. To pretend you know either of their minds would be a mistake of the rarest form.
Instead, you take a step forward, skirt brushing over the toes of his boots. “You owe me.”
His eyes narrow, thoughtful. “Owe you?”
“Yes,” you breathe. “You do.”
He stares at you, and you know he remembers the same as you do: the botched assassination, him grabbing your wrists and pulling you under him, the way his skin had warmed so pleasantly against yours --
“Fine.” His gaze swivels away, chin turned so much your neck hurts just looking at it. “But...why keep it a secret, my lady?”
Teeth prick at your lips. You cannot just say, Arturius. Not when he has been so kind to you, when he has taken on this quest that no other would. But still, still -- you were barely allowed to come. If he were to know that you are weary, or weak, or, Father forfend, overwhelmed --
Well, you do not have to imagine what sort of behavior that might invite from His Grace.
“Because I can manage on my own,” you say instead, lifting the box from his hands.
Or at least, you would, if he would let go. “We’re only having this talk because you’re not managing, my lady.”
Ah, that is...a point. Your shoulders drop, grip loosening until it is once again only Beaumains that holds it. “I...”
“My lady?” You cannot meet his gaze, but you feel it on you, warm and inquisitive, perhaps even concerned.
“It’s only...”
He leans in. You can feet his heat against your skin.
“The dwarf,” you manage, a flush gathering at where your wimple meets your collar. “There’s something about him.”
“He’s short?” Beaumains offers, voice low, a pleasant rumble so close to you. “He’s cursed?”
Your mouth pulls thin. “That is not what a meant. However...” You shake your head, at a loss. “I only have this...this feeling. It is important that he be cured of his affliction. But...if he does not want to be saved before the others...”
Frustration tangles your tongue. If only you knew what words would convince him, what proof you needed to lay before him --
“Ah,” Beaumains sighs, mouth crooking into a grin. “Is that all?”
Izana blinks as his phone hoots at him, scanning the screen.
“Hm.” He sets it aside, laying it square on the table. “Obi, if you would come with me.”
Zen’s eyes narrow as they stand, gaze darting between them. “What are you doing?”
“Me and the big boss here have some business in hallway time,” Obi tells him with a grin even Shirayuki has to admit is insufferable. “Got a problem with it?”
He frowns. “Why do you need that?”
“Wouldn’t you like to know?” With a waggle of his eyebrows, Obi skips around the corner of the stairs and is gone. The door above shuts with an almost jaunty click.
“Wha--?” Zen stares after him, sputtering. “That’s why I’m asking!”
It is quiet, for once. Only the moan of the wind outside and the scratch of your nib against parchment reach your ears, the crackle of the fire long faded into the background of your mind. It lulls you, the gentle sweep of your own hand, and you close your eyes -- just a blink --
Only to wake at the creak of your door.
“Lynet.”
You do not expect the prince to darken your door, not this late at night, but here he is, cloak dusted with snow, sword at his hip. He follows your gaze, and he seems shocked to find his blade there as well, as if he does not always keep it at his side.
“Arturius,” you say, rising to your feet. “I didn’t think to see you so late.”
“I needed to know something.” He sweeps a hand toward your bed. “Would you mind?”
You blink, and for a moment, he is a different man telling you to get to a bed, gaunleted hands reaching --
“Yes,” you gasp, shaking yourself. This is different. Arturius is a friend. You trust him. “Of course.”
Your legs dangle off the side of the bed, toes just brushing the floor, and he draws his chair up in front of you, holding your hand.
“Close your eyes,” he says. “I’m going to count.”
“Are you taking my pulse?” His fingers are not in the proper place for such a thing. At your wrist is truly--
“Please,” he laughs. “Just trust me.”
You do, and so your eyes flutter closed. For a moment, you are only aware of your breath, of his touch, and you --
Jolt awake, as the door flies open again.
“Beaumains!” Arturius snaps, dropping your hand as if it scalds. “What are you--?
It is only once he is in the room room that you can see -- there is someone behind him. A small someone.
The dwarf.
Beaumain’s smile stretches smugly from ear-to-ear. “Our friend here says he’ll do it.”
“What?” Zen squaws, glaring daggers at his brother before settling back on Obi. “How could you?”
“How could I what?” Obi grins, hooking his hands behind his head. “Get the job done?”
“Intimidate him!” He waves a hand vaguely towards the head of the table. “He’s our friend!”
Obi blinks. “Izana?”
“No, not -- I mean the dwarf!” He lets out a huff. “Izana is definitely not our friend.”
“Brother.” Izana presses a hand to his chest. “I’m wounded.”
“You’re like Rasputin,” Zen tells him. “You’ll get over it.”
“I didn’t intimidate either of them.” Obi darts a glance at her, hooking her with a grin. “I just used my raw charisma.”
Kiki groans. “Go home.”
“Are you certain?” You glance at Beaumains behind him, but there is no menace to the man, just an unseemly amount of gloating. “I will not force you.”
The dwarf hesitates, wringing his small hands over his belly, but in the end he nods, meeting your gaze with a confidence that is wholly new. “I am ready, my lady.”
Your hand shakes as his fingers cup the rounded bottom of the flask, as he pulls the glass from your grasp, and with a deep, steeling sigh, upends the entirety of the potion into his throat.
“Oh!” The sound hiccups out of you, and though you’ve worn a groove in your voice the shape of the warnings you give each time, they tangle in your mouth. It is too late to say, drink slowly, to say, stop if it does not feel right, and oh, you are usual say this to a man prone, insensate --
And yet, nothing happens.
It takes time, you know. Your palms itch, eager to reach for your notes, to see if this was too long an interval, if this was a sign that this geas was worse, that the caster was fighting your remedy --
A muscle twitches. The dwarf blinks, raising his hand -- his hand that is now large, now small, that cannot decide its size at all, which is fine since his whole body follows suit, growing and shrinking. His shoulders rounds as his spine stretches, as if he’s hit a wall, some sort of barrier --
And it shatters, like an egg’s shell, his body growing well beyond its confines, the proportion of his limbs and face changing, until --
“Oh!” You whirl around, putting your back to him. “Oh my!”
“Ah,” the man says, his voice reedy, yet not as high as you remember. “I had hoped that this might be better done.”
“Here.” Arturius tosses one of the sheets from the cots. “Cover yourself.”
“I thank you,” the man says, humiliation riding high in his tone. “My lady, please forgive me, I did not think--”
“You...you are--” it is hard to find the words with your cheeks as hot as this -- “you are the lord of Laxdo’s son!”
He lets out a single, pained laugh. “I am afraid I am more than that now, my lady. I am Laxdo’s lord.”
“But--”
“Arturius!” Bedwyr sweeps into the room, ragged. “The men are all waking!”
“Wait, wait.” Shirayuki shakes her head, brow furrowed. “I removed his curse, and now everyone is healed?”
Izana lifts a hand in a lazy shrug. “So it would seem.”
“But...but...” She swivels, fixing on him. “But he didn’t want to be turned back! He wouldn’t let us, not until--” Shirayuki stops, her brain rushing to put the pieces together. “That was part of the compulsion. He wouldn’t let the curse be broken so that we -- so that I--”
She groans. “We could have done this in a day.”
“Welcome to Izanafinder,” Kiki deadpans. “He may not kill you, but he will make you wish you were dead.”
“My name is Shuuka,” the man says, better settled with the sheet around his hips. You still keep finding the wall just over his left shoulder fascinating. If only Bedwyr would be faster at locating the young lord’s costume. “I must admit, I had hoped you might remember it, my lady.”
You grimace. “I am...very bad with names. My father often despaired of it.”
And as in all his wishes, it bore very little fruit.
“I think I remember that.” He laughs, weary. “It is no matter. I am in your debt regardless.”
“Pray, do not think on it,” you tell him, even as Arturius grunts. “I would not have a soul beholden to me.”
You do not miss Beaumain’s cough, nor the amused way he watches you from the door. Doubtlessly, he would find time to say his piece on that, but it will not be now.
“But, my lady--”
“What would help us most would be if you told us what happened,” Arturius says, oddly strangled. “Since you are the only one that seems to remember.”
Shuuka blinks, as if he had forgotten his prince sat mere steps away. “Of course. I shall explain it all to you.”
“That would be--”
“But first.” He slips his hand around yours, smiling shyly. “We must celebrate how you have saved us.”
“Oh,” you breathe, gaze flying to Arturius. A muscle in his jaw jumps. “I do not think--”
“Please, give me this,” Shuuka insists. “A banquet in your honor.”
You do not look at him, but you can feel Beaumain’s grin as a palpable touch. “Truly, it is not necessary. It was all of us who--”
“Ah yes, then in all your honor!” He squeezes your hand, and gives you a boyish smile that sends you straight back to girlhood. “All the men have been healed, and it would do them good to have a night of merriment.”
You cannot refute it would raise morale. Which would be much needed, once they took in the state of Laxdo’s disrepair. “I suppose...”
He leaps to his feet, thankfully taking the sheet with him. “Then a banquet it is!”
Shirayuki buries her face in her hands. “Oh my.”
“Oooh,” Obi croons. “Looks like you got some competition, my liege.”
Zen frowns. “Oh, shut up.”
#obiyuki#akagami no shirayukihime#snow white with the red hair#Dungeons & Dragons AU#my fic#ans#for all of you that were hoping for flirting#YOU NOW HAVE THIS#also please enjoy 6.5K of this because THERE WAS NO GOOD PLACE TO STOP#I keep hoping this arc will wrap up so i get get to SOME STUFF but NOPE#can't possibly shut up XD
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Deep Breaths*
OHHHH BOYYY!!! So its time for another characteristic long rant by yours truly except this is probably going to be one of the last ones I do on WoW because I will be exiting the game likely forever after Antorus is done. Its time to talk about Teldrassil. Fair warning, this is logistic heavy and lore heavy, and I sound super fucking bitter because I am.
So the renewal of the faction war is ass, and makes about zero sense logistically/storyline wise. Anyone smart knows that. Both the Alliance and Horde have just finished fighting an inter dimensional war with the Legion, and exhausted massive military and civilian resources to make it happen. Even with help from the “new factions” the brunt of the war effort was still being backed by alliance/horde races. By the end of this war there is about zero realistic explanation for either group wanting to go to war that makes sense.
They DONT have the resources, both groups are sick as hell of fighting because of the past three campaigns, (that have ravaged the world and its peoples) and while many are angry about the perceived slight by Sylvannas with Varian, that alone is not a good enough reason to start a war. Furthermore there is literally no way that some kind of communication wouldn't have happened that clarified what actually occurred over the course of the Legion war. Finally, Anduin is now king. He has hated this faction conflict from the beginning and he is smart enough to pursue peace and rebuilding rather than an ass genocidal war that neither side is ever going to actually win. This pushing of him actually going along with attacking the horde after Legion, is basically nullifying a defining characteristic of how we’ve been taught to see him. He was going to be a better king precisely BECAUSE he was done with the faction war.
Teldrassil. Alright so the Night Elf nation has controlled and been fully entrenched in northwestern/southwestern Kalimdor for over 30′000 years. The night elves possess immensely powerful magics that dwarf half the races in the game, including arcanists/magi and arguably the strongest druids ever known. Their entire civilization is deeply connected on a spiritual and physical level to the continent itself and is literally part of the very ecosystems that function in those areas of Kalimdor. Nature ITSELF responds when they go to war or are attacked. Furthermore the vast majority of Worgen live amongst the night elves with huge amounts of them now part of the sentinels and druidic forces. The sentinels themselves are the most highly trained mass fighting force of any race in the alliance with the women that make up its ranks generally being several centuries in age (minus the worgen additions). The Azure Isles are also directly across from the island/tree of Teldrassil. Which means any offensive the Night Elves face is directly backed by their close allies, the Draenei. If legion is any indication, the draenei are several times more powerful than ANYONE ever gave them credit for.
There are two small mountain ranges separating Night Elven lands from horde lands with the passes being tightly controlled and guarded, Mount Hyjal itself also blocks any major land access routes to Teldrassil, and is protected by some of the most powerful ancients/wards that exist in Kalimdor. Garrosh during his genocidal barbaric regime invaded ashenvale, and southwestern Kalimdor in order to destroy the night elves presence for good (see total genocide). As we know, this failed spectacularly in the long run. The elves and their allies in Kalimdor held off this invasion with token assistance from the eastern kingdoms. Let me clarify. They faced the brunt of the ENTIRE horde and not only survived, but defeated the invasion with heavy losses on both sides. The horde has tried a land invasion before, and it failed. It also nearly alienated the Tauren from the horde because of how destructive the horde was to nature, and to the night elves who even across faction lines the tauren have very deep ties to. There is no way in hell they would have allowed Teldrassil to burn even IF they got close enough to do it. They respect nature and life as much as the Night Elves do.
Darnassus. Teldrassil itself is connected to the emerald dream, been blessed by two aspects, and also been purified. It is a bastion of nature and the new center of night elven culture. Darnassus is heavily defended by ancients, advanced siege weapons, countless sentinel squadrons, and literally nature itself in the forms of treants, keepers, dryads, and the literal tree rising to defend itself. The night elven navy is fast, massive, and advanced with the only comparable one being that of Kultiras. Both Teldrassil and the fortress city of Feathermoon being protected by it.
The horde logistically and literally has never been able to successfully push en mass to Teldrassil EVER. Which makes sense seeing as the elves have been there for over 30′000 years and are entrenched just as significantly. Based on lore, what we know/have seen of the night elven nation, etc there is no logical explanation that could remove them/destroy Teldrassil.
Meanwhile Lordareon has only been around centuries, and has changed hands so many times in the recent past that the only amount of significant entrenchment the forsaken actually have there is the undercity. They have other holdings all over the country obviously, but entrenchment even remotely comparable to the night elves? No, just in the undercity. What this means is that is indeed possible for the alliance to actually take Lordareon. Again though, war still makes zero sense after legion.
Finally this isnt even CLOSE to an equal loss on both sides. The forsaken dont care about things like culture and society. They care about winning, serving their banshee queen, and power. Period, with few exceptions. The night elves on the other hand have been the most continuous presence in Kalimdor since the sundering. It is everything that they are. It is part of them, and they are part of Kalimdor. The forsaken lose a city they can remake somewhere else with little long lasting effects to them aside from resources and angst/anger. The Night Elves are losing the soul of their culture, and it is assumed THEIR ENTIRE NATION which is twice the size of Lordareon. The ecosystems present are also deeply connected to them and uprooting the night elves would literally crash the biosphere of half of Kalimdor almost overnight. Which again, the Tauren would understand and advise/literally fight against.
No other race has as much right to Kalimdor as the Night Elves with perhaps the exception of the Tauren. Period. Blizzard is spitting in the face of logic, deleting their own lore, and creating conflicts and mediocre storyline where there wouldnt be any to satisfy what this game/community at large has become. A polarized mess of largely white straight nerds who dont care about lore, good writing, or the meaning behind any of it. They just want to bash each other/monsters with magic and arrows. Screw it if the soul of the game dies in the process as long as Blizzard makes bank, and gets the profit margins they want. It doesnt matter if the game has devolved/will devolve into a toxic mess of immature pro-violence asshats.
Im done. Im taking my money somewhere else where characters and story actually matter.
#Teldrassil#WoW#gaming#Blizzard#rant#long post#fantasy#battle for azeroth#Im so dissapointed#and horrified#Ive been following this series since I was a kid#and they are butchering it
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Fanmix Masterpost
All my fanmixes sorted by fandom under the cut. I’m working on putting all my old fanmixes on it now, and will be updating it as I make new mixes.
Agents Of Shield
Daisy
Fault Line
Lies Made Visible
Daisy/Fitz
Walk The Line
Daisy/Simmons
The Great Unknown
Daisy/Trip
Change The Weather
Fitz/Simmons
All My Broken Heartbeats
A New Equation
I Follow You (Deep Sea Baby)
Trip
These Small Hours
Anna Karenina
Anna/Vronsky
Constellations And Dreams
Arrested Development
GOB/Tony
This Could Be Magic, After All
A Song Of Ice And Fire
Ashara
With Grace In Your Heart And Flowers In Your Hair
Brienne
I Am Not A Maiden Fair
Brienne/Jaime
Only Love Can Save Us Now
Daenerys
My Voluntary Blindness
General
Put On Your War Paint
Robb/Theon
A Shock Of Death
Sansa
High On Lullabies
Theon
Blossom Every Broken Part
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
Johnny
Kick Drum Heart
Sissy
Aching To Pupate
Buffyverse
Andrew
Let The World Spin Madly On
TV Taught Me How To Feel
Andrew/Xander
Big Crush On You
Angel
The Fragile Substance Of This Soul
Angel/Buffy
This Is Not The End
Angel/Cordelia
I Loved A Girl (Who Said That I Could Change The World)
Miles From Where You Are
Angel/Darla
Darkest Hearts
The Undone And The Divine
Angel/Faith
All My Love
Angel Investigations
What I Stand For
Angel/Spike
Nothing More Sadistic
Anya
Cinder And Smoke
Anya/Xander
A Tightrope Tragedy
Buffy
I’m Only Human
Looking For Heaven (Found The Devil In Me)
Buffy/Faith
Love Hunt Me Down
Buffy/Spike
Damage Control
Dark Little Heaven
Fire In The Water
Love Me Mercilessly
Take My Hand
You Are Second Hand Smoke
Connor
Monster
Cordelia
Shed My Skin
Cordelia/Doyle
Going Going Gone
Dawn
Boundless And Beauty
Keep On Dreamin’
Dawn/Xander
Speechless
Drusilla/Spike
A Dark Waltz
Ethan/Giles
Oxford Comma
Faith
Clouded With Dirt
Faith/Giles
Perfect (In That Fucked Up Way)
Faith/Willow
Walking Into Fire
Faith/Xander
A Dime A Dozen Kind Of Love
Fred
Don’t Lose Yourself
Fred/Gunn
I Love You (I Always Have)
You Light Up My World
Fred/Wesley
I Ache For You
General
At The Bronze
Darkest Before Dawn
Giles
A Sinners Heart
Giles/Lilah
Without An Honest Heart
Illyria
Phoenix Throne
Illyria/Wesley
A New Empire
Lilah/Wesley
Complementary Colors
Oz/Willow
A Perfect Fit
You Picked Me
Scoobies
A Life Worth Fighting For
Spike
Battle Born
Tara/Willow
Dreams Of Starry Nights
Every Moment Was So Precious
Wesley
My Lying Technique
Willow
Darkness I Became
Twilight Galaxy
Women
Bright As The Sun And As Bold As The Moon
My Own Hero
Bully
Cliques
Just A Stupid Kid
Gary/Jimmy
Shades Of Wrong
Strange Type Of Chemistry
Gary/Pete
All That You Are (Is All That I Need)
Cabin In The Woods
General
Doomsday
Choices Stories You Play
Kenna
I Won’t Run
Kenna/Raydan
I’d Follow
Chronicles Of Narnia
Caspian/Edmund
Until The Stars Fall
Community
Abed/Troy
Holding A Heart
Cougar Town
Laurie/Travis
Hearts Given Freely
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Greg
Never Wanted To Stay
Nathaniel/Rebecca
The Chase Is All You Know
Rebecca/Valencia
Not Fade Away
Dead Poets Society
Neil/Todd
Nothing Like You And I
Dollhouse
Adelle
Last Call For Sin
Adelle/Dominic
Falling From Your Grace
Alpha
Our Vintage Misery
Alpha/Echo
A Taste Of Poison Paradise
Dirty Little Damsel
Bennett/Topher
Two Atoms In A Molecule
Echo
I Don’t Exist
Memories Fade
Echo/Paul
Gravity Sings
Epitaphs
This House Is Falling Apart
General
Go Back To Sleep
We Do What We Must Because We Can
Mellie/Paul
My Sweetest Downfall
Sierra
Pins In Your Fingers
Sierra/Victor
You’re My Everything
Topher
Afterglow Of Rapture
Dead Hearts Are Everywhere
What Fine Design
Whiskey
Weary Of This Melody
Don’t Trust The B In Apartment 23
Chloe/June
All The Violent, Sweet, Perfect Words That You Said
Downton Abbey
Branson/Sybil
(You’re) The Home My Heart Searched For
Edith
I’ve Been Waiting (For My Planets To Align)
Thomas
Love Is Just A Lyric In A Children’s Rhyme
Durarara!!
Anri/Masaomi/Mikado
By Mistake Or By Design
Izaya/Shizuo
Violent For You
Fallout
Charon/Lone Wanderer
You’re My River
Firefly
General
We Stood Up
Inara/Mal
The Dizzy Dance
Kaylee/Simon
Memory Of Home
The Bed Of Stars
Zoe
I Fought The War
Friday Night Lights
General
God Love Your Soul And Your Aching Bones
Jason
Strength In Pain
Jason/Lyla
Too Much Is How I Love You
Jason/Lyla/Tim
Carousel
Julie/Matt
She Is The Sunlight
Wonderstruck
Landry/Tyra
I Will Love Until
Lyla
Heart Full Of Mess And Lore
Lyla/Tim
Burn Me Up
Never Gets Dull
Our Love’s The Only Truth
Matt
Looking For Wisdom
Vince
Everybody Loves Me
Friends
Chandler/Monica
I Could Live On Your Love
Geek Charming
Dylan/Josh
Movie Loves A Screen
Hannibal
Will
Blood On My Name
Harry Potter
Dean/Seamus
Makes My Heart Scream Colors
Harry/Hermione/Ron
Our Hearts Are Joined
Hermione/Ron
The Key To Your Heart
Will You Be The Queen? And I’ll Be Your Clown
You’re My Favorite Book
James/Lily
Head Over Feet
Luna/Neville
Love Planted Deeply
Percy
The Higher I’ll Climb
Remus/Sirius
Born A Lion
Lines Of Lightning
Ron
The Call
Sirius
Ghosts That We Knew
How I Met Your Mother
Barney
That Boy Is All About Fun
Barney/Robin
A More Uncertain Future
Change My Orbit
Your Perfect Disaster
Lily/Marshall
Growing Old With You
MacLaren’s Gang
High 5 (Friends Til The End)
Ted/Tracy
I’ve Missed You But I Haven’t Met You
Under My Umbrella
In Your Eyes
Dylan/Rebecca
Echo
iZombie
Liv/Major
You Mean The World To Me
Liv/Major/Ravi
More Than Life
Kill La Kill
Elite Four
Dire Dreams
Ryuko
Meaning Of Resistance
King Falls AM
Ben/Emily/Sammy
My Heart In Your Hands
Les Miserables
Bossuet/Joly
A Drop In The Ocean
Combeferre/Jehan
Our Own Constellations
Cosette/Eponine
Spoken Words Like Moonlight
Cosette/Marius
Sunlight In A Jar
Sweet Love
Courfeyrac/Marius
Finding Something To Do
Enjolras/Grantaire
Our Hands Clasped So Tight
You’re The One (I Had To Meet)
Jehan
Marvelous Things
Les Amis
A Dream Inside Our Heads
Marius
The Way It Ends
Leverage
Eliot/Hardison/Parker
I Fall Into You
Lizzie Bennet Diaries
Lydia
Sweet About Me
Marvel
Avengers
All Is Lost, Hope Remains
Bucky/Natasha
Darkness In My Heart
Bucky/Steve
Calling Me Home
Clint/Natasha
Runnin’ Wild
Elektra/Matt
Your Devil Side
Frank
Cross The Line
Jessica
I Am Steel
Natasha
Fishnets And Malice
Peggy
Something Good Can Work
Pepper
Woman King
Pepper/Tony
Love Will Be Our Wings
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries
Dot/Hugh
Me Following You
Jack/Phryne
Anything Could Happen
I Can’t Waste A Falling Star
Mortal Instruments/Shadowhunters
Alec/Magnus
I Saw Heaven’s Skies In Your Eyes
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Asuka
Raise Hell
Asuka/Shinji
Hand In Unlovable Hand
General
People Are Just People
Kaworu/Shinji
A Prayer Left Unprayed
C’est La Vie C’est La Mort
Nothing More Than Stardust
Misato/Ritsuko
One More Night
Shinji
I Am (Not) Running Away
Searching For A Paradise
You Were Just A Wish
Non Fandom
Bumpy Relationships
Get Me Right
Cats
Nine Lives
Cheer Up
Comedy Tonight
Christmas Filk
It’s A Fanboy Christmas
Finnish Music
Finland Finland Finland (That’s The County For Me)
Love
Perfect Love
Music I Like
#Back8Tracks
Orange Is The New Black
Alex/Piper
Can’t Fight Gravity
Piper
I’m A Guilty One
Rosa
Gonna Go Out In Style
Parks And Recreation
Andy/April
Wrap The World In Ribbons
Ben/Leslie
This Whole Beautiful Thing
Percy Jackson
Calypso/Leo
A Funny Little Thing
Person Of Interest
Finch/Reese
Save My Life
Reese
Flesh And Bone
Root
Remember Her Name
Root/Shaw
I Come With Knives (To Love You)
Steal This Moment
Pretty Little Liars
Alison
I Was Born In A Summer Storm
One Of Those Ghosts
Alison/Emily
A Fantasy Affair
Law Of Gravity
Alison/Mona
Ruthless Game
Aria
Hearts From Iron
Aria/Ezra
How Fierce It Would Be
Young Love
A Team
Is It Any Wonder That I Feel Betrayed?
Caleb/Hanna
A Drug For Angels
Emily/Paige
She Keeps Me Warm
Emily/Spencer
Shinin’ Just For You
Hanna/Mona
We’ll Be A Sweet Disaster
Jenna
(You Never Met A) Bitch Like Me
Liars
We Are Fire Born
Melissa
Secrets That Are Never To Be Told
Mona
Boom Goes The Dynamite
Spencer
I Am Titanium
Last Piece Of The Jigsaw
Spencer/Toby
I See Your Face In Every Star
Lost Without You
This Love Is Ours
Princess Tutu
Ahiru
Dance With Me Tonight
Ahiru/Fakir
Everlasting Light
Mytho/Rue
I Was Made For You
Rue
Blackbird
Psycho-Pass
General
Sins Original
Kougami/Makishima
Living With Your Ghost
Kougami/Tsunemori
Words In My Memory
Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Kyoko/Sayaka
All Of My Stupid Love
Pushing Daisies
Chuck/Ned
Star-Crossed Souls Slow Dancing
Revenge
Emily/Nolan
For You, I Would Happily Drown
Revolutionary Girl Utena
Anthy
All This Sin And Strife
Hope That Something Pure Can Last
Anthy/Utena
Moondance
Pull Me Home
General
Stand And Fight
Juri/Shiori
All My Fragile Strength Is Gone
Saionji/Touga
Burn The Ashes
Safety Not Guaranteed
General
Gimme Sympathy
Shakespeare
Beatrice/Benedict
Crazy Love
Ophelia
Rose Red
Shameless
Fiona
Shining Stars
Fiona/Jimmy
Burn To Shine
Ian/Mickey
Every Truth That You Denied
Hope Is Our Four Letter Word
Karen
Baby You’re A Star
Karen/Lip
For Just One Yesterday
The Wonderful Mess That We Made
Kevin/Veronica
Here Comes The Sun
Lip
Devil In My Mouth
Star Trek
Cardassians
All In Gray
Filk
Star Trekkin’
General
The Future’s Not That Far Away
Sarina/Seven
Poetry In Motion
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Alexander/Nog
A Sky Full Of Stars
Bashir
Real Human Being
Bashir/Garak
Doctor Doctor (Give Me The News)
Inside The Lies
Love&Pizza
Mosaic Broken Hearts
No Sweeter Innocence
The War Is Over (We Are Beginning)
This Could Be Trouble
Truth In Your Lies
You Were A Kindness
Bashir&O’Brien
As Brothers We Will Stand
Dax/Kahn
Your Kiss Is Like A Lost Ghost
Dax/Kira
I And Love And You
Our Private Galaxy
You’re The Only One I See
Garak
Tell You A Secret
Jake/Nog
This Perfect Spot
Underneath The Stars
Keiko/Kira/Miles
Love Was Bigger
Kira/Odo
(Your Love Is) Steady And Sure
Odo/Quark
Say That We’ll Be Nemeses
Sisko
Faith Is All
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Picard/Q
That Makes Us Human
Riker/Troi
A Moment Of Truth
Star Trek: The Original Series
McCoy/Spock
Our Calculation
Uhura
A Star On The Dark Horizon
Star Trek: Voyager
EMH I/EMH II
Wings Of Thought
Janeway
Find A Home
Janeway/Seven
Coming To You
Kim/Paris
You Make Me Feel Like I Am Home Again
Kim/Paris/Torres
Fall In Love With A B Film
Kim/Tuvok
The Color Of The Universe
Paris/Torres
Falling Is Like This
One More Chance (To Be Young And Wild And Free)
Passion Bites
You Make My Motor Run
Seven
Machine
Suder/Tuvok
You Are My Temptation
Stranger Things
Jonathan/Nancy/Steve
The Sky, The Earth, And Us
That 70′s Show
Hyde/Jackie
Don’t Let Me Fall
Jackie
Bubblegum Bitch
The Book Thief
Liesel
Magnolia
The Newsroom
Don/Sloan
Only Love
Mackenzie/Will
I Gave You All
We Are Love And Misery
The Office
Angela/Dwight
Working Hard For You
Jim/Pam
The Earth Is Warmer When You Laugh
Kelly/Ryan
Reckless With My Heart
The West Wing
Ainsley/Sam
You Will Become
C.J./Danny
As Lovers Go
Sweet Nothing
Welcome To Night Vale
Carlos/Cecil
I Hear Your Voice (And Suddenly I’m Falling)
General
A World Of White Blindness
Wicked
Elphaba/Glinda
Swan Song
Wolf 359
Eiffel/Hera
A Universe Inside Of You
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