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Varúð - icelandic, 'caution'.
Perhaps their fate was written in the Elder Scrolls themselves, immutable, unchangeable. Perhaps they knew all along it all could only end in tears, but in the final days after the Great Gate's opening there is a force yet greater that draws them together in spite of all they know speaking doom.
(A telling of the Great Gate to Light the Dragonfires.)
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A two year tour wiping out the rest of the Legion wrecks hell on the mind. Due to declining performance and deteriorating mental state, Boone finds himself on the steps of a Followers of the Apocalypse clinic with two options: he can try to put his mind back together, or he can find himself a new vocation.
With the Courier gone for good, it's harder than he'd ever thought possible.
(Part of a series, but can be read standalone)
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- Part 3 of A Kind of Blindness
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Thief and hero. Dunmer and Nord. Aching scar and bleeding heart. Despite their differences, Tandreth and Idunn keep meeting. The son of the Nerevarine has seen what becomes of heroes, and battles his own fears to save a woman kissed by Kyne from her fate.
There is no escaping Akatosh's firstborn, nor the end of time.
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Despite miracle upon miracle, loving a Nosferatu seems a bridge too far. Part of the Brujah curse is rebellion, however - and even the leader of the Anarchs is not free of it.
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- Part 3 of Goodbye to Sleep
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In this town where I was born
I now see through a dead man's eyes
Nines Rodriguez is a broken man with the weight of a city on his shoulders and too many dead friends to name. One of them returns - the only human, now turned fledgling, now turned Nosferatu.Mary's spent her whole life running. In unlife she is shackled to a Prince's whims - yet she's about to realize that in the gutter, there is power.
The Final Nights have come, and Los Angeles rages against them.
Part of a series, can be read standalone. Mild canon divergence, but follows the main beats of Bloodlines.
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- Part 2 of Goodbye to Sleep
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Three fics done for Whumptober 2020. Short Charon x Lone stories plus one multichapter.
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Goodbye to Sleep by hartstrings
Fandom: Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines (Video Game)
25 May 2022
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Nines helps Mary, a human woman, escape a bad situation. To his horror, five years later she returns to him as the nosferatu fledgling he put his neck on the line for. Together they try to hold onto what glimmers of humanity are left to them - and reconsider what a monster truly is.
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A Kind of Blindness by hartstrings
Fandom: Fallout (Video Games), Fallout 4, Fallout: New Vegas
02 Sep 2024
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A courier and a woman out of time make their mark on the wastes. Spanning from New Vegas to post Fallout 4.
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Sten paused in the polishing of his sword. “I did not think to ask before. Why did you decide to join me?”
Yara smiled. Everyone had asked her why she was following Sten back to Par Vollen, but her answer always remained the same.
“I don’t know,” she said.
He studied her intently for a moment, then went back to polishing his blade. “This is unheard of, kadan. Qunari always know their purpose.”
“I know,” she said. “But I’m not qunari.”
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Also known as: a quiet, contemplative slow burn during the ship ride from Denerim to Par Vollen, with eventual smut between Warden Yara Mahariel and Sten. Because I’m incapable of writing smut sans feelings, apparently.Bookmarked by hartstrings
05 Dec 2024
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Theirs was a love story, but it didn’t start out that way.
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29 Jun 2023
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“Do you want me to come back?” she asks.
He takes a long, open-mouthed breath. His eyes are smiling; his shoulders rise and fall.
He pierces her heart.
“If you want to.”
An exploration of the years following Jimmy and Kim's reunion in 6.13. Gradually, they learn to trust and take comfort in each other again, and they grow together in ways they could never have anticipated. NSFW content begins in Chapter 4.
Contains artwork by two wonderful artists in Chapters 11 and 19! (Artwork is SFW.)
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Bookmarked by hartstrings
22 Aug 2022
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i thought that i was here with you (but it was always just an empty room) by ryttu3k
Fandoms: Vampire: The Masquerade
28 May 2022
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"When I killed my sire, my siblings in blood sent me thank you letters."
A chance encounter with one of their childer leads Sascha to remember just what happened between them and their own sire.
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20 Jul 2022
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Gary would laugh if she ever told him, but she envies him, even with all his warped features and jagged edges, his reflection isn't a face he'd had to see in obituaries and missing persons posters, and the anger she feels because of that burns her insides like a stake.
Bookmarked by hartstrings
11 Nov 2021