Slay the Borrowers (Princess Tiny) AU
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On Borrowed Paths by SapphicSlayer
Fandoms: Slay the Princess (Visual Novel), The Borrowers Series - Mary Norton
14 Dec 2024
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Life has never been safe for a Borrower in a world governed by humans. Viewed as evil omens, any power-bearing “Fae” find themselves prey to black market circles where their fates are drawn to the highest bidder. And sometimes, the winners prefer to place them into the ring and hedge their bets even higher on a gladiatorial fight against something much, much worse.
As is the fate of a pair of escaped siblings, surviving in the woods by the skin of their teeth. But when evading their opponent proves too challenging, it may take deciding between trusting the owner of a nearby cabin or trying to outrun an enemy that can’t be killed.
But the tenants of that safe haven have one damning condition: they must reveal themselves to him first to be granted shelter. In order to make peace with the present, it may take unraveling the horrors of the past and the entwined destines between them all to save who still remains of all Borrowers, Cryptids, and Fae - and perhaps even the very forest itself.
When on Borrowed paths, some things cannot be returned.
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- Part 1 of Slay the Borrowers (Princess Tiny) AU
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Her Frigid Curtains by SapphicSlayer for ASpooky
Fandoms: Slay the Princess (Visual Novel), The Borrowers Series - Mary Norton
08 Dec 2024
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“Sometimes the excitement of being understood in a way that no other can may lead to, well… The accidental offcast of the other. That doesn’t mean her frigid curtains don’t long to drape around your heart where they belong.” - On Borrowed Paths, Ch8
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Love is a complicated for a Borrower. Traversing haunted ground can lead to loneliness in exchange for survival when you’re only a few inches tall. A singular lost soul finds the cabin in the woods in hope of refuge — one unwittingly dashed a few years later by the flick of a switch. When all sounds are swallowed up by static, there’s only one way this story can go. Death is inevitable, but how one life begins is from the other’s end.
Some relationships have an eager start; others, however, have some more… Stabbing pains and frostbitten beginnings. And sometimes, a sorrowful ghost haunts the produce in your fridge, wanting to know why she’s left all alone.
… You know what’s ALSO a complicated matter? Reconciliation.
(Prequel to On Borrowed Paths; no main story spoilers. Feel free to read this alongside it!)
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- Part 2 of Slay the Borrowers (Princess Tiny) AU