Love vs Duty
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What starts as a night of bedroom fun, turns into something totally unexpected; and Nyx realizes he should have done this a long time ago.
Written for the NyxNoct Fluffpocalypse (Fall 2017)
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- Part 10 of The World As We Know It
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But howsoever strange and admirable by Madanimalscientist for palmedfire
Fandoms: October Daye Series - Seanan McGuire
10 Dec 2017
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Toby brought Raj home. He hadn't expected her to come home, as well. (Tybalt's perspective of the end of An Artificial Night)
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When Thace is notified of his relocation with promotion, the Blade of Marmora sees it as a unique chance to gather important insider information, but the lieutenant finds something far more valuable in the new fleet: someone who makes him truly happy. Will he be able to make this happiness last, despite all the hardships?
All my thanks goes to
@hoata for providing a unique critical view on the earlier versions of the text, helping me improve the plot greatly and proofreading it to make it sound like real literature. You are a magical fairy godfriend incarnate! T_T
@empersiannicole for having read the very first draft and having supported and inspired me ever since, for being the sweetest human being overall, as well as for producing art that kept me alive while writing (see individual chapter notes for links).
@astfut for having drawn the amazing art that sparked in me the idea to write this piece.Series
- Part 1 of Thace&Prorok
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In Duty, the Heart Dwells by Gabby (Kirahsoka)
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
15 Aug 2020
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Barriss Offee, Jedi and Empress of Mirial, battles her own heart to save it.
Ahsoka Tano, Togruta Chieftain, rages against loss and betrayal.
A young princess fights her own demons as she struggles to become more than a pawn in her father's quest for power.
When a Sith Lord sets his plans in motion, their destinies collide.The closest analogy for this story is a small-scale Game of Thrones with lightsabers--minus the incest, blood, and gratuitous battles. Oh, and less depressing. Yeah, um, maybe not very GoT after all.
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Donghyuck's life is in the palace, reading and writing and being tutored day in and day out. And it's not that he doesn't enjoy his studies—in fact, his mind is always hungry for more information, eager to learn about the world he has been born into...he would just like to see and experience it as well. But he is the extra son; he is the one who will fill the empty shoes left behind if something should ever happen to his older siblings, and this means that nothing can ever happen to him.
And if nothing ever happens to him, nothing will ever happen. Gods above, sometimes all Donghyuck wants is for something to just fucking happen.
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Valyria has Soulmates while Westeros has soulbonds; in Lucerys own terms, a chain vs. a choice. Having Targaryen blood has chained his soul to his uncle while having Westerosi blood from his biological father has given him a soul bond with Lord Cregan Stark. But he can't tell others about Cregan because that's admitting he's a bastard.
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Suppression by LadyR_A_P
Fandoms: Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Legends - All Media Types
24 Oct 2023
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It was not my place to offer Anakin absolution, but perhaps I could navigate him to a landing between it and hell. Without any more time wasted, I reached out and took his shaking hand in mine. He gripped it like it was a life raft, and I returned the clasp with strength in kind to communicate my resolve. Tiny grains of sand rolled under our skin—encroaching remnants on the linen.
"I'm here," I repeated, to Anakin and whatever higher powers were bearing witness.
Fingers did not dance and meld and caress. There were no tantalizing brushes of knuckles and wrists. This was a solid and static embrace, one carrying the identical weight of a full-bodied throw of my arms around his neck. Yet even through the stillness, the familiar feeling returned tenfold—I'd known this man in another life. In all lives. I recognized in his eyes a soul I would perceive if his hair were white, his skin blue, his eyes orange, or a collection of it all. I would sooner forget my own name in my current life than forget the feelings he'd elicited in a previous existence. *
Suppression is a detailed expansion of AOTC's love story. Non-AU. Told from Padmé’s POV with ROTS awareness.
Written for the enduring fans of Anidala.
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Fatebound by cherrysicle_wastaken
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
08 Sep 2023
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When Prince Jacaerys arrives at Winterfell to treat with Lord Cregan, he’s offered the services of Lady Erin Stark, the Lord’s legitimized bastard sister who swears her sword to Queen Rhaenyra. Unbeknownst to any of them, such alliance goes beyond the civil war and may change the future of the Seven Kingdoms.
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Supernatural forces bring together a northern lady and a dragon prince to prevent the doom of humanity, the extinction of dragons and the fall of the Targaryen Dynasty. But not even the gods could foresee that nothing clashes like the stubbornness of a Stark and a Targaryen. Was it a good idea to put the fate of the kingdoms in the hands of two bastards?Series
- Part 1 of The Heirs of Ice and Fire
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To be a knight is to swear fealty to the realm. Opeli and Soren begin to disagree on what ‘the realm’ is constituted of.
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- Part 2 of the knight & the cleric
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Sometimes I think about changing my name by theSealby
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
14 Nov 2023
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“Is that all I am to you, Thoma? Your lord?"
“My—Ay—” Thoma squeezes his eyes shut, heart bursting at the seams in confliction. “You know you’re more than that,” he whispers.
Words scream dire warnings in his skull: propriety, duty, honor. All the reasons even Thoma’s honesty has his limits. He could never. He can never.
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All Thoma wants is for Ayato to enjoy the springtime.
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Dream unmade the Corinthian at the convention. He'd known it was inevitable.
Now there are flowers growing in the Dreaming, roses red and black, thorns alongside fields of hyacinth.
Corintheus week ficlet for the prompt: justified ‘all I did was fall in love’:
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'How could such a wonderful night be the prelude to a carnage?
He moved his face upward, to meet his prince's gaze, and he found it at once, for Dion was staring at him; golden eyes filled with bliss, in the soft relaxation that follows ecstasy.
His man stroked his face with the backs of his fingers, slowly, poignantly gently, "I love you, Terence. You are the wind beneath my wings." he said.'Set before the battle of Belenus Tor; written for @terence_tuesday prompt "May Greagor's breath fill your wings".
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caught in the undertow by callalypsolily, redyarns
Fandoms: Transformers One (2024), Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers: Prime
06 Dec 2024
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When Megatron, leader of the rebellion, escaped from prison, everyone knew one thing, and one thing only: he stole an innocent with him.
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"I'm not a sheep, how dare you!" Orion hissed, bristling at the insult.
"Oh, really?" Megatron drawled. His red optics glanced up again, and Orion's glossa went dry.
Scrap.
Who knew the cruel and ruthless leader of the blasphemous rebellion was so... handsome?
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Until He Gets It Right by RHaye5
Fandoms: Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice & Related Fandoms, Pride and Prejudice (2005), Pride and Prejudice (TV 1995), Groundhog Day (1993)
26 Dec 2024
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Reliving his fateful proposal to Elizabeth Bennet at Hunsford Cottage over and over, Mr. Darcy must confront his flaws, learn true humility, and discover the meaning of love. Through days, months, years? of repeated days, one loses track when it’s all the same. Darcy saves damsels, helps the needy, and grapples with pride—learning that true love takes more than just getting it right.