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the fire kept closest (burns most of all) by mousecookie
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
23 Jan 2022
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“Okay, you definitely have something new,” Beau said when he stalled for too long. “Spill.”
Essek continued to chew his thumbnail. “Tour group on the lava field. There was a sudden breakout from a soft spot.”
“...And?”
He took a breath, then shrugged. “It looked like hands?”
(Aka, the spooky volcanology AU that absolutely no one asked for.)
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23 Jan 2024
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Deep in the heart of the city of ghosts, a chisel breaks stone. Alone in the candlelit studio, Hua Cheng bows over the remaining boot and chips away slivers of veined marble. The sculpture is nearly finished, has been for weeks. The details he cuts into the lower foot now are so fine as to be invisible if viewed from any further away than a single step.
Above it, ornate robes are swept back on a frozen wind and a sword halfway from its sheath cuts across the sculpture’s waist. With its weight perched on the front foot as if a breath away from leaping and the candelight rosy across its cheeks and brow, the sculpture looks as if it is only a heartbeat from life. Except—
Hua Cheng takes a step back, tilting his head to survey his creation from toe to brow.
A blank face stares down.
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Hua Cheng emerges from Mt. Tong’lu looking for someone he cannot name, cannot place, cannot picture. For centuries, he chases fragments of memory—until he stumbles upon a cultivator in white who might be the answer to the questions he has carried for eight hundred years.- Language:
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28 May 2023
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Xie Lian gets a glimpse of its eye: a hot coal set deep into unearthly, marble-like skin, onyx pupil blown so wide with bloodlust it threatens to swallow the red iris entirely. A mouth full of entirely too many teeth, extended incisors bared like daggers. Rust smeared down the pale line of its throat.
A vampire. A feral vampire.
Looking at him like a feast set out before a starving man.
While wandering the mortal realm, Xie Lian stumbles upon a hungry vampire who, curiously, seems reluctant to drink from him.
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21 May 2023
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’Til our compass stands still by edenwolfie
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
23 Jul 2023
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After getting lost in Ghost City, Xie Lian bargains away years of servitude to the Gambler’s Den to help a man in need. He dons the robes of a worker and hides his face and life behind an enchanted mask, protecting himself from the city's denizens. Xie Lian finds an unexpected home in Ghost City before he ever sees the lord of it, the infamous Hua Cheng. When he finally does, something about himself seems to catch the attention of the Ghost King, slowly striking up an unusual friendship. Xie Lian must figure out how to navigate his burgeoning feelings, how to keep his identity to himself, and how to get over a ghost so clearly in love with someone else.
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01 May 2023
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Being friends with the Mighty Nein is infuriating. They're loud and vulgar, and Essek has long since picked up the defense mechanism of smiling and laughing along to jokes he doesn't understand while he googles nasty words on urban dictionary under the table. It frustrates him though. Essek has never liked not knowing things, anything. When he confides that fact in Caleb his friend is all to quick to jump at the chance to offer Essek some...hands on lessons for anything he might not understand.
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30 Sep 2022