#vowbreaker

[tennessoui]

so the other day, i rearranged my entire bedroom at 3am while watching Birds of Prey and it got me thinking of pbatmb....again lol. Now I dont use Tumblr often so I'm taking a risk by asking but for all of us who, like me, are absolutely obbsesed with that fic, do you have anything written/planned for the next chapter of pbatmb that youre willing to share with us?🥺 (i think im begging for a word on it lol)

This is such great timing tho for real cause I just drove for like 10 hours and I passed a flock of vultures picking at a carcass of a deer and it made me think of how anakin must feel after obi-wan “dies” in Vowbreaker and everyone descends around him with questions and requests and comments even when he feels dead too - and I got to my destination and deleted the beginning couple of thousands of words of the next chapter I had that stalled out the story and then I started reworking it with that feeling of slaughtered helplessness center-stage and I like how it flows a lot better

cause it’s like. Unreliable narrator to the max. Vader wants to be strong and unaffected, but he’s not. He’s just anakin still. He’s dead already and he’s messy and he’s struggling and trying desperately to pretend he’s not.

and I think when I was writing the next chapter originally I bought too much into Vader’s confidence that he’s so cool and unaffected and capable because he did this mental switch from referring to himself as anakin to referring to himself as Vader. but he’s STILL just an open wound fr he’s just one who has conned himself into being able to communicate to people again and the next chapter is critical for communicating that yeah, he’s a spinning top slowly toppling over in wider and wider circles

so all that being said, I’m very much thinking about the next chapter of Vowbreaker and I’m very not finished with the story - but I do want to finish hanahaki first and make strides on my coma!obi-wan big bang story as well before I turn back to my longer term wips

[ratasum]

Leave them at the bottom of the grave they dug for you.

Elektra Vowbreaker, formerly Elektra Rendstone, the bitter, angry legionnaire of the Breaker warband. She has dedicated her life and warband to destroying any Flame Legionnaires they see.

[jedibongrip]

i think if you ask a writer (who is very active and FREQUENTLY [or even INFREQUENTLY] updating and posting things) if they've abandoned a fic (which has been updated within the last year) you deserve 10 lashes and 6 hours in the digital stockade

[ratasum]

So it turns out I have more than I thought!

Row 1: Oaklinna (Guardian), Deshauna (Revenant), Liath (Warrior)

Row 2: Xeonna (Guardian), Umbra (Revenant), Rhiia (Revenant)

Row 3: Laxzzi (Guardian), Ktokka (Warrior), Butch (Warrior)

Row 4: Iialli (Warrior), Elektra (Guardian), Suulea (Revenant)

Row 4: Ouiima (Warrior), Praxxi (Guardian)

Gw2 community. I am calling forth all my heavy armor mains (or simply enjoyers) and asking you to show me your guardian, warrior and revenant looks.

This is for science. Gender/race are irrelevant!

Signed, a heavy armor main

[magic-is-something-we-create]

- BETA READERS WANTED -

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Marika Swiftfoot has hidden from the Shadow of Fowden for ten years, but ten years isn’t a life complete.

She has a debt to pay, and the Whispers have finally come to collect. And once again, she is ripped away from everything she calls home as the result of a poor choice she made years ago, when she didn’t know what would come.

But she will not go to Fowden without a fight.

And she swears the man who brings her there will die by her hand, no matter how much she once loved him.

Lorelei, too, is steeped in the regrets of her past, for she is known by three names: Softheart. Witmouth. Vowbreaker.

She wants to earn Hopebringer before her legs give out for good.

But first, she needs to find out what happened to her little sister. First, she needs to find the man who has disappeared just as untraceably, thirty years later.

First, she needs to end the Shadow of Fowden.

For she is not her father; she does not break her vows.

Content warnings, beta reading details, and sign up are below the cut!

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Important basics:

- It's 172,000 words, or about 750 pages.

- First-person, dual POV narration. Most of it is present-tense, but one POV features frequent past-tense flashbacks.

- The target audience is Adult. It dives headfirst into a plethora of dark topics, and reader discretion is advised.

- The main critique focus is on plot effectiveness and points of potential confusion. I'm especially looking for whether the twists are too predictable/too unexpected, and whether the ending is satisfying. If you won't have time to read all of it, please don't sign up.

- The hard deadline for critique completion is July 1st, 2024. The document will be sent out on January 10th at the latest.

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Body horror, gore, violence, and death. Emotional abuse. Transphobia and sexual assault. Harm to children and implied child death. Police brutality. Ableism and physical abuse. Fire.

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[the-winters-prince]

underrated funny scene in twp was when Lleu was rightfully angry that Medraut drugged him up without his permission and Medraut went off inside his head how the twins usurped his place in his father's heart and hearth and he suffered more than Jesus Christ on the cross and now even Goewin has sided with Lleu against him and he has to promise not to do it again and then asking "Am I that cruel?"🥺 as he constructs his promise in such a way it allows him to poison his brother in the future without becoming a vowbreaker

[bigsnaff]

I just think that the in-game nameplate for Braham should've briefly changed to "Braham Vowkeeper" when you find him during the conclusion of Champions. just to reflect "Vowbreaker" during the earlier half of IBS

[kerra-and-company]

🖊 for Nisha, 🖊 For Aysel and 🖊 for a beeb of choice >:3c

>:3c (tyty!!)

🖊 - Nisha has the same relationship with anger that xe has historically had with the rest of xyr emotions--not showing it is kind of xyr default, and to be fair, xe also doesn't tend toward anger all that much. There are a couple notable exceptions, though. HoT was an incredibly tense time (for numerous reasons), and Nisha progressively lost more and more patience with people mistrusting sylvari. There was one particular Pact member at base camp who just would. not. stop. talking. about it, and that marks the one and only time Nisha has ever physically punched someone. (Hurt xyr fingers doing it, too.) The second exception to this was when Nisha, Canach, Kas, and Rytlock got to the top of the spire in PoF to find Kerra dead and Balthazar leaving with Aurene. Xe fully tried to take off after the rogue god solo and would have done so if Canach hadn't both physically held xem back and talked xem out of doing something that would definitely have ended badly.

🖊 - Aysel doesn't really use a last name, in the typical norn style or in any other style. There's certainly names that people have assigned to her (like along the lines of Braham being called "Vowbreaker" in Icebrood by Jhavi, though Aysel's are--generally--positive), but the only one she occasionally recognizes is people calling her Slayer. Aside from that, she honestly feels like her first name is enough evidence, to her personally, of her own legend at this point. She might choose to make a last name for herself someday, though.

And you get a GW1 character for the last one, because I talked about my main three in a different ask and left her out (terrible of me), so I'm putting her here:

🖊 - Enna is the last to join the "main squad" of my GW1 folks, and she's also a lot more grounded than the rest of them. She's generally not one to mess around with magitech, or experiment with both death and life magic, or reach out into the Mists in new ways (which is Cal, Daisy, and Nabi in that order). She grew up with fairly rigid structure in Kourna and ended up joining the Sunspears; she didn't really expect to be thrown into world-altering events with a bunch of adventurers from around the world. This results in her being a bit awkward and thrown off by them early on, but she does become good friends with them eventually. (She also bonds with Iseul the most at the beginning. He's from Kaineng and had maybe the most "normal" life experience of the others besides Enna before the Afflicted started to be a problem. He had a very chaotic childhood, though, so he's always been very "this might as well happen".)

[solomanta]

Warlock comes from Old English, meaning "oathbreaker" or "vowbreaker".

And it refered specifically men who had learnt dark magic, which was associated with the Devil, and thus they had broken their baptismal vows with g-d.

The war bit meant "true" and by extension "faithful" and "promise" and the lock bit basically meant "liar", so if you're being very literal it's something like "truth-liar" or "promise-liar", but "oathbreaker" is a better translation.

In medival times (from around year 1000) the word was used specifically for men whom specifically worked for the Devil.

[bee8467]

Thinking about vowbreaker and starpool ough

[visenyaism]

insanely real that the first reason he existed is so that jaime can point to him in the white book and say to loras: listen kiddo. even though we all dreamed of glory once, we swear vows to be faceless violent agents of the crown. and still despite this facelessness and the way you give up your identity to be kingsguard, our proximity to power means that there could be a moment where you are staring history in the face and what you personally choose to do in a single decisive vowbreaking moment will determine the fate of everyone in the entire realm. and whatever you choose to do is still based on who you are. even if you’ve forsworn it. They called him kingmaker for what he chose and that’s who he is forever. Kingmaker, Loras. (Loras do you understand that i am actually talking about me the Kingslayer. Loras do you get it.)

the reason at the end of the day criston cole is such a fascinating character is because he got invented to be a symbol of knighthood and the kingsguard as agents of state violence while also following personal ambitions and status and how you cannot do both and yet are put into the position to, for a feast for crows, easily the best book in the series. and then that big ol pile of symbolism wished really really hard on an evening star to be a real boy and then in fire and blood that wish came true

[tennessoui]

Hello! Just read the whole of pbatmb again and it's so interesting watching their relationship develop! I was wondering what Cody would do with Anakin if Obi-Wan was actually dead? He'd be a useless wreck and a danger as seen in vowbreaker but without Cody knowing Obi-Wan was coming back would he take him out? Also how would Cody and Rex deal with the reverse if Anakin died or was thought dead? If the mood ever struck I'd love to see the bathroom scene from vowbreaker from Obi-Wan's perspective!

what interesting questions!!!

i think if obi-wan really actually died in pbatmb, cody would really, actually put anakin down. i've started writing out some of the havoc anakin causes in vowbreaker post obi-wan's death, and a lot of it is just. messy. chaos. anakin is bleeding all over town and he's going to bring the entire criminal organization down with him as he goes---and cody isn't going to let that happen. and honestly, killing him as well seems kinder

(which as a side note, i feel like rex would know this. like he and cody must have talked contingency plans before, rex must have known cody well enough to know that if anakin went off the rails, cody would kill him.....so why hasn't he?)

if anakin were to die, i think it would look different, feel different. i think cody views anakin as his family to an extent but he's not his brother, he's not obi-wan.....so if he had to put down anakin for the sake of their mob, he would. but could he put down obi-wan for the same reason?? obi-wan, his actual brother?? i don't think so

but i also don't think that obi-wan would mourn anakin's loss the same way anakin would mourn obi-wan's.

like i think obi-wan would be devastated, and like. burnt to ashes by anakin's death. i think he'd be ruthless and cruel to anyone he thought conspired to cause anakin's death. but i don't think he'd go fully feral maniac needless slaughter unleashed hell over it, and i think anakin would.

but i think also that cody would never be able to kill obi-wan either way, even if obi-wan was begging to be put down, begging to join anakin in the grave. even if obi-wan did go insane over anakin's death

cody just couldn't kill obi-wan, and neither could rex

ahsoka on the other hand.......

[ratasum]

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[rosy-opal-commander]

I do not mind long winded lore chats lol. At all.

And yeah I'm not like opposed to "hero's start some where" but my feeling is they've gone to the "shady dude turns his life around" a few too many times.

And with Logan it doesn't fit his character IMO.

Also as far as DE being the first to work with other races, meh that's in GW 1. And the order of Whisper, the Vigil and priory either are older or formed around the same time. Once again I believe you. I just think Anet has too many cooks in the kitchen and the right hand isn't telling the left hand what's going on.

I don't mind it's nobodies that change the world I think it works better for DW than it does DE.

Also so much story content being in dungeons when it's falling out of fashion to do them. Boils my blood. lol just make it scale you walnuts!

Eirs story reminds me of this scene in meet the Robinson's

Like Eir girl what do you mean the norn hate you this is literally the story we see. Like is she dramatic like her son? What's going on with that 😂

I think Loyalty being the core of any given guardian would have been an amazing thing to explore especially with the main guardian we deal with is called Vowbreaker. He formed a new guild and abandons them? Granted they were supposed to safe at jora's keep. But why wouldn't they go to holbrok with him and rox? Like why is this just throw away lines when it's his guild?

Logan is tore up snaff dying and meanwhile a whole guild DE 2.0 is just wiped. That was just a fucking weird then to do.

Getting off track per usual.

But yeah you can chalk DE rifts coming down to cultural differences. Logan not understanding that Rylock actually cares for him like family. Eir and Snaff not feeling attached to the humans dying because they're singled minded and think of conflicts in very different ways. And Caith just being vibes because of her youth and naïveté.

Which again. Is why it such a good idea to make Logan the grounded one of the group. Snaff needs to be high minded but not necessarily practical. Eir being spiritual and believer. Caith once again needing to try having the hope of youth. Rylock willing to die because that's what he was trained for and that's what he believes is. And Logan is just like "I can't let all of a city with the woman I love, die for a chance."

Like real.

Also same. I need more Rylock and Logan moments

Anet could have done SO much with the Destiny's Edge split-up. How to deal with toxic friendships, how to healthily respond to blame and guilt, how to distance yourself if necessary...

Not necessarily by PORTRAYING those things (DE is as dysfunctional as it gets), but by showing the opposite, the bad habits and thoughts we fall into.

The sheer contradiction of "I miss them but I'm glad they're gone."

Like those relationships were SO GOOD and then they got SO BAD and like. That should be talked about more.

Anyway there's another chapter of Reforging the Edge coming out today, so stay tuned!

[magic-is-something-we-create]

Writeblr Re(rere)intro that's a year late!

Hi! I'm Pax, and I write Big Books that keep getting darker and darker in subject matter 🎉🎉

Basics about me:

he/him or they/them, Mid 20s

Favorite genres: Fantasy, SciFi, Horror, Mystery

Favorite authors: N. K. Jemisin, Tamsyn Muir, Brandon Sanderson, Pierce Brown, Samantha Shannon

Other things I do: Digital art (including commissions!), Twitch streams (usually art or writing sprints, occasionally video games), digital art assets and fonts (PWYW on Ko-Fi!)

Basics about my WIPs:

THE MILLENNIUM SAGA

High fantasy/Steampunk epic, 8 books planned. Book one: Firebreathers (160k words; ~700 pages) Book two: Echoseers (148k words; ~600 pages) Book three: Goddess-Touched (15k as of posting; 3rd attempt at drafting) First person, Multi POV What starts as a simple rebellion against their local Citylord becomes a flight - and fight - for their lives, as Ember Timber, their family, and their newfound friends are forced to flee overseas from the vengeful general who will stop at nothing to earn her Eternal King's favor, and will in fact relish hunting her own son and grandchildren for sport. But along the way, the crew learns that the Eternal King's immortality was not granted in return for his success as the Chosen One long ago, as they have always been told - and the sacrifice for such a thing is not only paid dearly in blood, but on its way to being repeated.

WHISPERS

Dark fantasy Noir. Currently with beta readers. 172k words; ~750 pages. First person, Dual POV. Set in the same world as Millennium Saga, ~5 years after the series concludes. Marika Swiftfoot owes her life to the Shadow of Fowden, the sorceress leader of a terroristic crime syndicate based in the north pole. When the man she once loved finally comes to collect on that life debt ten years later, she plans to kill him the moment it's safe. Too soon, after all, and everyone else she's ever loved will join him beyond the Veil. But hate isn't the only feeling that lingers between them, and when they're offered another way out of their debts, the lives of a few innocents looks like a bargain compared to the life of cruelty ahead of them. Lorelei has been hunting the Shadow for twenty years, and looking for the sister who disappeared for thirty. And here, names are legacies: she wants to earn Hopebringer before her legs give out for good, to erase the stain her father's name has left with Vowbreaker. And for that, she sees one way forward: she must never break her vows, no matter how small. The Shadow must die, and the Whispers with her. Her sister must be found, even if all that's left to find is a story. She must find answers for every case she takes on, even if she doesn't know so much as the name of the man who's gone missing.

THE LOST

Space opera webcomic. First scene fully illustrated; will release once the first chapter is complete, a week after Patrons receive the final scene. In the far reaches of space, the term "Media Empire" is quite literal; the Watchers have extended their influence throughout their galaxy filament with the help of their beloved Coliseum, and the Champion therein. After all, having a shapeshifter capable of replicating anything leads to some gruesome, spectacular fights, made all the more heartrending when they are the last of their kind, trapped in the ship molded from their kin's corpse. But while the Watchers have total control over what happens in the pit, they cannot predict the audience. And they certainly cannot predict the malfunctioning psychic implant of an assassin in the front row, and the loss of both opponents and a long-time prisoner of war to the escape.

I also post art of all of these semi-regularly, including in-progress stuff, as well as excerpts and rambling braindumps!! I'm also a huge worldbuilding nerd, so if you ever want to learn more about the worlds I'm writing, don't be afraid to ask!! I love talking about them :D

Boosts are appreciated <3 tell me about your own WIPs in the tags/replies/wherever!! I love learning about what people are working on!