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"I Do, My Love!" Story Event Round Two
Mitsunari
Pt 1: The Proposal
Pt 2: The Wedding
Pt 3: The Wedding NIght
Epilogue
Shingen
Pt 1: The Prposal
Pt 2: The Wedding
Pt3: The Wedding NIght
Epilogue
Kenshin
Pt 1: The Proposal
Pt 2: The Wedding
Pt 3: The Wedding NIght
Epilogue
#whimsey events#whimsey story event#whimsey wedding event round 2#ikemen sengoku#ikesen#ikesen mitsunari#ikesen shingen#ikesen kenshin#story event#wedding story event#ikesen wedding story event#fanfic#fanfiction
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LEON
LEON YOUR EYEBALLS
#art#ride kamens#ride kamens spoilers#ride kamens episode 14 spoilers#can't believe i made a joke about it being his eye color AND THEN#i did see his updated sprite before i got to 13 but i didn't even notice it at first...#at least he also got a funky little face marking to go with it#shine on you super shitsuji!!!!#anyway I AM FINALLY CAUGHT UP#on main story anyway i haven't played the tower emblem event yet :')#but man i am loving this game#i was not expecting it to be a full-on mystery! with intrigue!#who is lying! who is telling the truth! who THINKS they're telling the truth but isn't!#punctuated by the most delightful nonsense like the unbreakable magic superhero covenants#where you gotta touch rings in the magical wedding chapel dimension that we teleport to sometimes to talk to our dead dad#(OR IS HE???????)#NO IT'S GREAT (and it does make sense in context i just love it)#still 50/50 on yellow beyblade man secretly being our dad but i can't get into theories now i don't have enough tags#man this really has the essence of what i love about rider ❤️#so far i do think agata is my favorite#but then there's leon...#let me put it this way: i would tell agata a hard truth about himself if i thought he needed to hear it#but there is no amount of money in the world you could pay me to say anything even slightly mean to our sweet leon#LET 👏 HIM 👏 HENSHIN 👏#WAIT SHOOT is it too late to redo my survey answers i need to demand that i be able to put hats on leon
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i saw this tweet and found it interesting for two reasons. one is that some people base how good cartoon network would be to toh by how it treated su, and despite the fact that su’s treatment by the network was considered poor at the time, now its thought to be exceptionally good in comparison to modern shows.
two is how exactly su got impacted by a limited budget. a common criticism is how characters like connie, peridot, and lapis are left out of missions. but balancing a lot of characters is not only hard but also costly (extra animation, extra voices—it’s been revealed that the show is limited to a set number of characters per episode otherwise they’re over budget). animation mistakes are not uncommon since retakes cost extra. the entire reason the original show got cut short was due to loss of funding!
#i don’t know if pay rates differ per networks#but a.ivi and s.urrashu have said that they needed to work outside of su in order to make sufficient funds#it only makes me wonder what other ways su suffered from a lower budget#that we as the audience never got to see#in the vein of the too-little characters complaint#another part of that is that low-stakes episodes should’ve been abt the main cast instead of the townies#like last one out of beach city and too short to ride vs restaurant wars and kiki’s pizza delivery service#i definitely see that especially since that isn’t budget related#nor would it seem to be network related (even if cn had an ‘episodic episodes’ quota it could still be abt the gems#(another side note: /would/ cn even have a requirement that the show make episodes that can be watched standalone?#this is a question for the people who were around when su was airing#what episodes often got rerun?#was it the townie eps or the lore eps?#for example i heard that su once did a ‘peridot event’ where they just reran peridot episodes#which had eps that skip around in the show#did they even care about airing the story so that it made sense anyways?#id get it if the low stakes townie episodes were the ones getting rerun))#but i have such a boring view on that which is i think it’s simply because the creators like townie eps#like in interviews r.ebecca s.ugar has said she’s the type to be really invested in background characters#answers in interviews have been crafted in ways to hide what’s really going on though tbf#prime example of this is rebecca and ian saying the wedding being interrupted was meant to follow the common trope#when later in the art book they said that it was bc cn rejected the ep bc it ‘wasn’t interesting enough’#both could simultaneously be true! it’s a psychology thing though where people make up nice-sounding explanations behind what they create#in retrospect because they want it to be thought out in such a nice way they believe in it#the bigger problem is that not matter how many episodes there are of them#it can be hard for ppl to be invested in the townies the same way they are invested in the main cast#i’m sure that a million writers have made surefire advice on how to get an audience to care about characters#but off the top of my head i think it’s because 1. most don’t have strong motivations to get truly invested in#(exception is ronaldo but people find him too annoying to care about him)#okay i had more points and explanations but i hit the tag limit and idk if anyone is actually reading this so bye
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Want to know everything that's ever happened in Project Sekai but don't have time to read all those stories? Guess what! For the low, low price of "it seems fun", I'll be summarizing every single event!
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Key Stories
Leo/need
MORE! MORE! JUMP!
Vivid BAD SQUAD
Wonderlands x Showtime
Nightcord at 25:00
Mixed Events
Year 1 (Run! Sports Festival Committee Rush! - Scramble Fan Festa)
Year 2 (Time to Hang Out - At this Festival Bathed in Twilight)
Year 3 (Screaming!? Welcome to the Forest of Wolves! - Hello • Good • Day)
Year 4 (The Best Picture Wrap! -Wedding Live ♡ With Everyone!)
Card Stories
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Birthday Cards
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Card stories for events yet to be summarized
Miscellaneous
April Fools
#pinned post#project sekai#prsk#leo/need#more more jump#vivid bad squad#wonderlands x showtime#nightcord at 25:00#characters are tagged as [last name] [first name]#virtual singers are tagged as [unit abbreviation] [first name]#side characters with no last name are tagged as [unit abbreviation] [name]#main story#unit event#mixed event#world link#card story#new years#anniversary#wedding#valentine's#white day#fes card#bloom card#miscellaneous#april fools#<- special event types#not a summary#<- for anything else i may say on here!#masterpost
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William not you too 💀
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next // previous
august 17, 2021 1:00 a.m. paradise hotel
[grant] you can have first dibs on trying. my family on all sides and in all countries have been too successful at matching people.
[henry] time to humble them?
[grant] besides, mama ong didn't get a chance with you. you figured it out a decade ago!
[henry] two decades ago if you count the time soobin and i crossed paths in vacation bible school and she kind of sort of ruined my watercolor painting of jesus.
[grant] isn't that crazy? the same girl you, uhhh, almost punched in a church is the same woman you fell in love with at a college cheese club meeting?
[henry] the enemies to lovers trope lives on.
[grant] you're basically a fanfiction. enemies to lovers plus soulmates because neither of you ever dated anyone else.
[grant] man, the universe is so weird. seven plus billion people on earth and you guys run into each other twice.
[henry] the first time was a total fluke, too. how were we at the same VBS when we didn't go to the same church or live in the same town? oh, and we didn't recognize each other from our first encounter until years into our adult relationship.
[insook] her family seems to have forgotten the incident, too. permanently, though.
[insook] which is good because i defended you when i shouldn't have and things got ugly.
[henry] you defended me?! mom, i threatened to punched someone. in a church. over nothing worth that level of aggression.
[insook] oh, not for that. that's unforgivable. you knew that. i punished you. but i defended you when soobin's mom insulted you. now don't worry - she likes you these days!
[insook] still, a parenting tip: you can never reason with a parent in an unreasonable state.
[henry] i could have gone without knowing that. i'm not going to bother asking what she said about me. i find her intimidating. she's like if your mom wasn't evil, grant.
[grant] you know, that's extremely hard to imagine. i'll just assume you mean rich and strict.
[insook] that would be about right. but she is nice! oh, look at the time. i have to go now, i'm sorry. i have book club soon!
[henry] that's fine! have fun. i'll call you back tomorrow.
[insook] of course. you two have fun as well! yes, have fun, sleep well, make sure you eat, and mind your health, grant.
[insook] by the way, i'm glad you're still best friends.
[henry] couldn't have it any other way. this guy's pretty cool.
[grant] i literally adore you.
[insook] i'm not surprised–just happy. a good friend is one of the only things in life that can be forever.
[insook] now don't forget to call me again! i love you kids.
[henry] i would never forget. love you.
[grant] i love you, too, mama ong! bye bye bye.
#ts4#the sims 4#sims 4#sims 4 story#sims 4 storytelling#simblr#hlcn: everything the stars promised#loose throwback to the scene where grant's family in ireland was joking about the next big event being his wedding someday#and also technically the alex bachelor party scenes with that matchmaking but this is in better spirits lmfao rip#btw i never feel overly confident in my sim making skills but ngl i feel like i popped off making henry's mom#i'm sorry dhfikdsfdks she's just so stunning#holocene.docx#holocene.png#hlcn: grant#hlcn: henry#hlcn: insook
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🌻❤️Josephine Coombes Harrington, Welcome to the family❤️🌻
Colored Photos & Subtitles Below:
Friday, 1907 Dear Journal,
Today started early with Mama rousing me and Pa before the sun for Si's wedding. Si, true to form, seemed uninterested, bored even, as we made our way to the church yard.
Despite a soggy autumn, today turned unexpectedly pleasant. Clear skies, a welcome break from the week's thunderstorms. However, I think Ma is stressed, she kept nagging about walking with my skirt up to avoid dragging it through the mud....
The ceremony was small, Only Josephine's parents and Jackson with his fancy wife, bothered to show. I tried my best to focus on Mama's words from yesterday, And I could see why Jackson favored her.
Skinny, porcelain pale, dripping in expensive jewelry....everything I am not. However, as Josephine graced us with her entrance, any inkling of comparison vanished.
Radiance enveloped her, surpassing the boundaries of mere beauty. She embodied something ethereal. A sunlight aura surrounded her, and I found myself akin to a sunflower, unable to avert my gaze.
Even Si seemed genuinely happy, I saw him smile from ear to ear, he clasped her soft delicate hands, and caressed her cheek.
It was a sight to see, physical or emotional affection have never been his forte, not even in our childhood.
He was initially furious with Pa over the prospect of marrying Josephine. I remember his enraged shouts, echoing from the parlor.
Confidentially, Journal, I've noticed his practiced performance of donning the façade of a gentleman and a devoted son, particularly when in Mr. Coombes' presence.
Whether genuine or an act, my earnest prayer is for him to treat Josephine with the respect she deserves. I hold a genuine fondness for her, and I welcome her warmly into our family.
Lucile Harrington
#I'm fairly happy with this! a few mistakes oops and IGNORE HER CLIPPING HAIR i was so tired im sorry#but I like how this event went#the doyle legacy#doyle legacy#diary entry#lucile doyle harringotn#Josephine Mallory Harrington#Josephine Coombes Harrington#Josephine Harrington#decade: 1900#1900#decade legacy#ts4#decades challenge#decade challenge#decades legacy#ts4 historical#decades story#ts4 decades challenge#sims 4 decades#ultimate decades challenge#sims story#sims 4 gameplay#sims 4 screenshots#wedding#wedding photos#if anything looks funky am sorry I am so tired I have not slept
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thank you @presdestigatto for tagging me 😚
tagging @balaclavacharles @never-looked-so-good @ferrariprince16 @dobbiamo-capire @charlescherie @caffeinatedlovergirl @debushit and anyone who would like to do this - you are legally obliged to say i was the one to force you to do it
#other things i didn’t include but i wanted to: the stress ball from shey i love to play with but made all grimmy and never washed yet (oops)#one of the 1d themed books#5 pretty buttons my grandma gave me when i was a kid#rocks collection with time and location stamps#empty peroni bottle from the peroni event in bratislava#wristband from red bull showrun in prague#the ferrari car i made out of kids toy#the real ferrari bluetooth controled car i won in a game#the lid of LEC chocolate crunch ice cream because the rest of the tub didn’t fit in my backpack home#a book of religious stories my friend from uni dedicated to me#empty bottle of red bull that saved my life after i got stung by a bee and got a bad allergic reaction#the ikea pillow with black and white hearts#mercedes 2023 driver cards i got by pure luck tbh because shey didn't get them#the ollie bearman driver card that's judt downloaded from his site (lol)#heartshaped lollypop from my cousin's wedding#bottle of handmade origami stars that glow in the dark made by shey#a lanyard with my 'ice hockey player' photo that i got at 2024 iihf championship in prague#the ice hockey jersey number 93 i won at the same championship#paper crown from uni ice hockey battle (which our uni won of course)#'have a toto-lly amazing birthday' card from my sister#the charles with huge neck paper figurine from shey#the postcard collection and tickets collection#the 'family chronicles' journal with family stories and inside jokes i collected over the years#cookbook which is honestly plagiarised mostly from my grandma#a rainbow flag from louis tomlinson concert in prague :)#and of course my good luck ferrari shirt#e#polls#oh wait i also have collection of dried pressed flowers!!!@
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"yes, the princes will be getting alternate outfits!!"
"what for?"
"season 3 routes!!"
"yes, crown + vogel will be getting alternate outfits!!"
"what for?"
"Limited Events."
#roubrainrot#first the wedding event now the halloween event#we're spoiled#sad we only get to see them once#edit: forgot whether those two were collection or story so I just changed it to “limited”
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You may think your OTP is the best ship, but have your faves ever intentionally and single-handedly crashed a cryptocurrency together? 🤨
#enstars#shumika#sab actually posts#I seriously cannot get over this aspect of the new Valk event story#these boys really out here reciting mental wedding vows because they destroyed an NFT and I love them for that#this and ‘mika didn’t answer One call so Shu does the only reasonable thing (fly back to Japan immediately)’#are the biggest things on my mind from what I’ve heard through the grapevine of this story#ensemble stars#I keep forgetting to add that version of the tag for og posts-
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I got some GREAT shots for the Heathens set at Chicago night 2! My wife and I got SUPER excited because the lighting color choices were our exact wedding colors (we got married in December 2023 after getting engaged at the final show of the Icy Tour)!
#twenty one pilots#clancy world tour#clancy tour#heathens#chicago night 2#also we dropped the save the date ticket and festival wristband favor from the wedding to them at the fpe event#i realize adding the personal story may not make people reblog this#and that's ok#may repost tomorrow without the personal story#bc they're good shots tbh#the lighting worked very well
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when the lip differs from the lip
#aizo’s really too good for this series (sometimes). very male lead of him i have to say#he forgives his mother for being like *that* to him and still loves her despite everything#he shows kindness to people who openly hate him (mona; granted it was only to make up for his bf’s earlier misdeeds)#a n d he tolerates yujiro’s nonsense (bc he loooooves him) despite their frequent arguments and disagreements all#meanwhile yujiro openly hates on people who go after his bf (kanami 2k20: never forget… and chizuutan to a degree too ig)#man i miss honeypre event stories (says this all the time). i miss seeing aizo pine on main (while being dense about his own feelings)#and yujiro being salty on main (while somehow being even denserrrrrrrr about his own feelings for aizo)#those event stories truly were some of the best shipping fuel for ss lxl#(also ngl but. i liked how hiyoko was still present in their stories as the supportive friend role to them…)#(unlike a certain [redacted] anime which turned her into a horrible self-insert who shoehorns herself into situations unrelated to her)#(*cough* aizo’s so-called ‘fake trauma’ *cough* ‘how could yujiro’s family hate him when his mom makes him such a nice lunch????’ *cough*)#(wished we could’ve seen more of the jk trio in the event stories though [sadge]. bring back honeypre p l s)#um anyway!!!!!! see y’all when the next lxl mv drops ig???? maybe later in the week???? sometime between wed-fri???? idk?????
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RAAAAHHH RAAAAHHHHHH!!!
#officially done watching QSMP!!#I watched mainly Fit's POV bc he speaks English and has the most hours on qsmp#i would have watched Philza's but his vods included his hardcore world and made his vods much longer and also spending less time on qsmp#i have watched all of Slime's POV and since he rarely logs on and he cuts his vods it was easy to finish#for non-English speakers i have watched Maxo and Pierre's bc they are the most lore heavy apparently-#and their qsmp povs comes in episodes!! very easy to binge#lore-wise it was great!! sad qsmp was cut short bc of management issues but im glad at least Fit made an effort to make a great ending#as for everyone else's lore ive been relying on clips and compilations#my favorite event is definitely cellbit and roier's wedding bc it was so fuckin funny - i have rewatched certain parts multiples times#my favorite lore would be aypierre's bc his felt more complete and cohesive... maxo is close second... these two are good roleplayers...#Purgatory is another BIG favorite event purely bc of BOLAS ROJAS 😂 the first day was the funniest shit I've seen acted on Minecraft#favorite pair is definitely Deathduo... one bc Philza did a great representation (on purpose or not) of an aromantic character -#two because found family... im a huge sucker for found family stories... Deathduo isn't as rich in fanservice but it's part of why i like it#rare but GOLD - augh their first day with Chayanne and the whole prison arc thing 😂😂 everytime Phil catches Missa up on the lore 😂#another favorite pair is Misclickduo - if the latter was a nice story this one's on the complete fucKING OPPOSITE#everything about this family is fucked in every single angle 😂 but it has good lore esp Slime's POV with Juanaflippa#favorite eggs definitely Ramon and Juanaflippa... since I watched Fit the most it made sense Ramon is my favorite#but Juanaflippa is my favorite lore-wise bc of how tragic she is...#essay over :3 im going to sleep crying i hate Fit's ending so much BYEEEE#qsmpcroof
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thinks about Kohane Azusawa and photography (explodes)
#you know how she said she wished she could feel as passionate about something as an or minori#but she was already doing photography as a hobby by then#something about that. something about photography not exactly being her passion but it being something she knows#(especially in the sense that it was her dad that got her into it. her family being the only significant people in her life before hs)#(azusawa family and how little we truly know of you i want to blow you up so badly in the good way)#go further in with that line from over rad squad (she can feel passionate about things because of other people)#so a. photography literally coming from papa azusawa b. photography was how she experienced things growing up#pictures of the mundane. pictures of action. pictures of the things kohane would have loved to try#but considered herself incapable of pursuing#but photography itself didn't give her that passion otherwise she would have mentioned it in the main story#then vivid bad squad. an's side story for the first wedding event where she rushes over to take photos of them all#the photos from same dreams same colours. her photos being used in their flyers#kohane's fes card. the gallery of what she cherishes most. the trained and the outfit#photography has become something she does love. genuinely love. thanks to vivid bad squad#how kohane's passion for something comes from other people. how her love for her hobby properly comes out with them#it is most likely the thing she will be doing when vivid bad squad retires from singing (however long that takes)#or maybe even it'll be what she does on the side#sega i know we got the valentines event to sort of give us this but. proper kohane unit focus based around photography? please?#card set that looks like photos kohane took? the edges looking a bit old? a way of showing how much she loves these memories?#an event that reintroduces papa azusawa???#if they're going abroad it could be going over her anxieties about it (however that depends on how long it is until then)#(i doubt next event will be straight into the travelling. we maybe won't even get it this rotation)#(so maybe. maybe if they swap an and kohane around so kohane kicks off rotation 6 for vbs?)#(idk. blah)#bagel's rambles
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Omg I forgot how much I adore the sumeru cast
#Grinning ear to ear watching the interaction#Everybody love nahida so much 🥺#I only got thru the second part but it nearly 3am#Am I pushing my luck to do everything tomorrow while I got stuff to do too tomorrow?#Yes :)#:'''))#Here hoping 1 day left means 1 day left n that I do have Wed to finish everything off#God please#This is the one time I left a story event last min n it with one of my favourite characters with cast that majority adore#What is wrong w me <o>#Anyways kaveh n granny improv Infront of their god was funny n I hope nahida finds out how hard they were keeping a suprise for her teehee
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Lock and Key
(Arianwen Tabris/Zevran | 2,298 Words | Hurt/Comfort | CW: Blood, brief references to torture and broken bones)
The torture, Zevran thought cynically, truly left something to be desired.
Rather, he seemed to recall—when he’d been a young Crow, there’d been racks, burning oil, things hammered between one’s toes…But this? Breaking his fingers? Slapping him around?
It lacked forethought.
It lacked…panache.
“I do not mean to complain,” Zevran told his torturer, spitting out a mouthful of blood, “But have you done this before?”
“What?” the hooded figure snarled, only their mouth and jaw visible beyond the hood and fabric they were swathed in.
“Mmm,” Zevran said, peering up at them through one swollen eye, “It is only that you are…how shall I say it? Trying too hard, you understand? Most torturers—they adopt a certain style, a way of getting things done, and you seem—”
The figure reared back and kicked him in the chest. His lungs struggled to inflate for a moment, and when they did Zevran coughed convulsively.
“Like that,” he wheezed, while the torturer stomped over to a small table of metal implements, “There is no sense of precision. You might have just stopped my heart, friend, and then where would you be? Luckily for you, I am made of sterner stuff than that.”
“Do you ever stop talking?”
The voice came not from the figure to his left, but from above. It echoed against the far ceiling and the stone walls, spreading until it was almost impossible to tell where it had come from.
Zevran, beaten and breathless, stretched his bloodied mouth into a crooked smile.
“Ah,” he told the hooded figure, “I am terribly sorry for what is about to happen to you.”
The torturer, alarmed, snatched a blade from the table and hurled it into the darkness above the rafters. There was no sound; not the thud of the blade in flesh or wood, nor the sound of metal clattering to the ground. Half a second later, the blade whistled back down, thudding into the flesh of the cloaked figure’s arm.
“Your aim is lacking,” the voice from above said.
“I said precisely the same thing, mi vida,” Zevran said, at long last allowing his head to fall back against the wooden back of the chair he was tied to, “I am sorry to say it, but there is a certain lack of professionalism at play here.”
“You shut up,” she said, and Zevran smiled, “I mean it. The smile, too. Flames, I could kill you.”
“It would not take much doing at the moment,” he told her.
As they spoke, the torturer ripped the blade from their shoulder with a grunt of pain (a bad idea, that; anyone could have told them that it was wiser to leave the thing in place until a healer could take a look at it).
“Show yourself, coward,” the torturer snarled, taking several more blades from the table and staring up at the ceiling. They turned slowly, as if trying to spot the shape of their assailant against the darkness of the ceiling.
If he’d been in a more charitable mood, Zevran might have told them it was pointless.
Indeed, as he thought so, a low laugh came from above, and there was a clatter in the far corner, almost directly behind the torturer. The torturer spun, already throwing a blade toward the source of the noise. As soon as they turned, a cloaked figure dropped from the rafters soundlessly, thrust a dagger into the place where the torturer’s kidney ought to be, and vaulted back up into the ceiling again.
“You know,” she said above him, “I think it’s more cowardly to beat a bound man. But that’s just me.”
A ring of keys fell from the ceiling and into Zevran’s lap. Of course; that was why she hadn’t killed his tormentor outright. She meant for him to do it instead. Balance, retribution; in her way, his Arianwen was all about balance. If he’d had the energy, Zevran would have thanked her for the effort and explained why he wouldn’t be doing that. It was hard to turn a key, after all, when most of one’s fingers were broken.
He didn’t hear her move; he supposed the torturer didn’t, either, because Wen swung down, kicked the large human into the table, and vanished again before the fallen figure could get their bearings again.
Something soft touched his wrist, bound behind him, and Zevran felt a quiet, shuddering breath at his back. She was going to be very cross with him as soon as she took care of their present company; Zevran winced at the thought, then hissed between his teeth when the motion reopened the slice over his eyebrow.
This time, when Arianwen moved away from him, Zevran could hear her; that could only be on purpose. The torturer heard it too, and turned to face her as she cast off the deep blue cloak, variegated with grey and black around the hem. Arianwen stood before him revealed at last, her long braid hanging down her back, her armor blue and silver and gleaming in the light of the brazier. Zevran smiled; it was a fool’s smile, punch-drunk and high from his own relief, but…well. It was just so good to see her. It’d been too long. Too many days without feeling her at in his arms, too many days fighting himself to keep from returning to her side.
“I was going to let him have you,” she said, “Or, if he allowed it, I was going to take my time. Fortunately for you, you’ve made me very, very angry. This’ll be quick.”
The torturer didn’t answer; they bent their head and ran, aiming right for her. Wen didn’t move for a long time—almost too long—and stepped aside at the last moment, exerting precisely as much effort as she needed to get out of the way. It looked, Zevran thought, turning his head as best he could to watch, like she simply floated away from him, like a feather in the breeze. The torturer rammed their injured shoulder into a column and let out a strangled shout.
“Don’t worry,” Wen said to Zevran as she passed, “The building’s empty.”
“There were at least thirty—” he began, and interrupted himself with a cough.
“As I said,” the Warden answered, casually lifting an iron from the fire and striding past, “The building is empty. Don’t worry. I’ll be quick.”
There were sounds that followed her statement, but he could not see their source. He didn’t need to know what she was doing, and he had the sense that not every time he closed his eyes lasted as long as a blink. Likely, that was not a good sign
“Zevran. Look at me, you fool.”
His eye fluttered open—the other seemed stuck shut—and Wen bent before him, her face beatific in its joy. Blood dripped from her ears and clumped in her hair, but she’d wiped her face clean, if the smears along her jaw were any clue. Zevran tried to smile up at her and was mostly successful.
“I knew you would come.”
“You’re an idiot. I don’t know why I put up with you. That letter was—” she wound up the sentence with a sharp click of the teeth instead of any descriptors, but after a moment the blissful look crept back into her eyes.
“Take your health potion like a good boy, hm? And I’ll haul you back to the safe house.”
Zevran might have made a crack about her wording, but as soon as he opened his mouth she pressed the cold glass rim of a vial in between his teeth and tipped it upside-down. The liquid was bitter and cold. Though there was a faint aftertaste of elfroot it was most certainly not a health potion.
“Wen—?” he gasped, and the room faded to black.
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Arianwen had been angry very often in her life. She enjoyed it, actually. There was a clarity of purpose to rage that most of the rest of life really seemed to lack. It was like…like crossing rooftops on a wire. Rage gave one a single clear path, and if one had the means to follow it things usually turned out alright in the end.
But now—now her old friend turned on her, hounded her steps.
Killing so many had been good enough in the moment, of course, but Zevran had needed to be unconscious for what came next, and she hadn’t wanted to give him the chance to talk her out of it. Now, all she could do was wait; there was nobody left to kill, and Zevran was not awake to argue with. As she paced the room, rage paced with her, shadowing her steps and clouding her concentration.
She crossed the room to open the window now, for the room was more or less empty of personality and furniture save an end table, a bed, and a chair. Zevran slept in the bed, his chest rising and falling easily. Few of his wounds would scar, not that he’d care about such things. He’d gained tattoos since she’d last seen him some…oh, had it been five months already? It felt like years.
This waiting.
Wen braced her hands on the windowsill, her fingers tapping out a staccato rhythm, and then she turned back to the bed.
Maker damn him, she loved the man. She’d kill a dozen times as many for him with pleasure, but seeing him hurt like this was—it was—
“Mi vida,” he murmured to her left, and Wen spun on her heel to look at him, “And here I had thought you were some sort of dream.”
She crossed to the side of the bed, her heart in her throat. She ought to say…she ought to tell him what an idiot he was. She ought to tell him off; she’d certainly thought of doing so enough times. But words escaped her now, and when he lifted his hand from the bed it was to wipe the moisture from her cheek.
“Ah,” he said, wincing when he lifted himself onto one elbow, “No, my Arianwen, no; do not cry for me. I cannot—”
“Why are you trying to get yourself killed?” she asked, and rage took her hand again, gave her the focus to keep talking.
“I am not—” he began, frowning, but she interrupted him.
“When will it be enough, Zev? Do you want to lead the Crows? Kill everyone who hurt you, who bought other kids like you? Do you want to be the King of Antiva? What? Because I can’t keep—can’t keep seeing you like this. If you need help, I will help; if you want me out of your life, then tell me to leave. But I can’t—”
She was crying again—so stupid. She hadn’t cried in years, and certainly never over him. He was staring at her with a sort of stunned horror that she might, if she’d had any sort of composure, have recognized better. It was the same face she was making, after all.
Don’t leave me, she wanted to tell him; as she wanted to tell him every time he disappeared onto a boat. But she’d been too proud to force him into a cage when he wanted the sky, so she’d always turned away instead.
“What do you think I should do?” he asked.
The hand wet with her tears fell away to the sheets of the bed.
For one dizzy, breathless moment, she wished he’d stayed asleep a little longer, given her more time to find the right words. But she…she….
“I want you to marry me,” she said, and it was already too late to take back. His mouth fell open, lips moving as if to speak, but nothing came out.
“Marry me,” she said again, grasping his hand in both of hers, “Tell me you want to live, and you want to live with me. Travel if you have to, but come home again. Live with me; be mine and let me be yours. I want a life, Zevran. I want a life for both of us.”
She searched his face, her heart racing harder than it had killing an entire house full of Crows on her way to her captured lover. Zevran stared at her, and slowly, slowly, a smile wrinkled the space on either side of his eyes.
“Yes.”
Wen blinked and squeezed his hand.
“Yes? You mean that? You’re not just—you aren’t going to take it back?”
“Maker’s pierced navel,” he said, struggling into a sitting position, “You do not believe me? And you were so persuasive, too.”
“No, I—” She clamped her mouth shut again and shook her head, “Yes, Zev?”
“Yes. Yes. Yes, of course, you beautiful murderess.”
She didn’t mean to lunge for him; would’ve thought better of it if she’d had the wherewithal. But all at once she was in his arms, her own wrapped tight around his neck, and both of them rocked back with the force of it.
“I love you,” she said into the salty skin of his neck, and kissed him there for good measure, “I love you. I love you.”
“I love you,” he murmured back, and inhaled sharply, “Ah—I should have known you would say something first.”
“I knew you wouldn’t want to force me,” she told him, but without any heat behind it. Her anger had faded away between one step and the next, gone in a breath and only a memory now.
“If you’d died,” she told him, eyes squeezed shut, breathing him in, “I would’ve killed you.”
His laugh was uneven, a little breathless, and likely that meant she’d need to let go of him soon. But when his words came, they were certain.
“Yes, I know,” Zevran said, “I love you for that, too.”
(For @14daysdalovers day 10: Captured)
#14dalovers#14dalovers2023#day 10 captured#zevran arainai#arianwen tabris#zevwarden#zevran x warden#zevran x tabris#dao#my writing#da fanfic#blood cw#torture cw#broken bone cw#zevwen#i hope this isn't too dark for the guidelines of the event i wasn't quite sure where the line was. sorry if so!#i have trouble writing wen *not* killing anyone it's like her go-to#the wedding is day 12 c:#this is like. very shortly after him meeting hawke in kirkwall. wen knows where he is bc isabela told her where he was headed next#posting early because i forgot about my ao3 story yesterday and i have like six things to do today#shivunin scrivening
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