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Ravus looks around at all the towering grey buildings, the paved streets dotted with bustling cars, and he doesn’t know what to do with himself, either. Doesn’t know what he is in this place, so far removed from his home, isolated. He wonders what it means to be the prince of a kingdom that exists only in memory, if that makes him some kind of ghost, or if the real ghost is the home he left behind.
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a darkness by skyward_bloom
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age II, Dragon Age - All Media Types
24 Mar 2021
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“And do you remember your reply?” asked Hawke.
Fenris said, “That you should want more for yourself. As I did.” It shouldn’t have been past tense. He supposed he still wanted more, just wouldn’t ask for it. Putting words to his desires would make it all the more painful when he failed to attain them.
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- Part 3 of war of the foxes
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boundless, terrifying freedom by skyward_bloom
Fandoms: Compilation of Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VII Remake (Video Game 2020), Final Fantasy X
07 Feb 2021
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“You’re here,” Cloud says, so puzzled it almost sounds like a question.
“Yeah. I came as soon as I heard what happened.” Too soon, if you ask Tifa’s teammates, who were left high and dry in the semifinals without their right forward. Former teammates, she reminds herself.
“…Why?”
“Why? Because—” Her voice catches. “Why would I be anywhere else?”
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Mako isn’t nine years old anymore. He knows that places themselves aren’t evil, because evil can come from anywhere and anyone. Knows, too, that firebending is not a terrible thing, even if he struggles with accepting what it’s made of him.
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Akechi thinks that if the god Baldr hadn’t wanted to die, he shouldn’t have been so perfect. Flawlessness demands to be unraveled, dares people like Akechi to try.
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war of the foxes by skyward_bloom
Fandom: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age II, Dragon Age: Inquisition
24 Mar 2021
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A series of pieces on a theme: “This is one love. There are many loves but only one war.” (Richard Siken, “War of the Foxes”)
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A Slight Detour by astrangerenters
Fandoms: Final Fantasy VII Remake and Rebirth (Video Games 2020-2024)
18 Apr 2024
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Without the Guide Moogles and moving walkways, she realized it was going to take twice as long to get back to the hotel. Great. Exactly what she needed. More time to obsess over what had happened between them only minutes earlier.
[Cloud/Tifa set right as they step off the Skywheel in Chapter 12]
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13 May 2024
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Astarion's face was cruel and angular in the half-light of the darkened library, stark shadows cast across his features, lips curled into a teasing smile.
The Dispel Magic spell rushed over him faster than he could answer it, dark and sour like a sickening wave, and the invisibility curled away from his body like the burnt edge of a newspaper.
He should have known this had all been far too easy.
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Gale hadn't spoken to Astarion since a few days after the ascension. Whatever happened between them is long gone now-- and if he let himself be baited into returning to the vampire's palace to steal a certain magical text, it certainly wasn't because there was something in the cruelty of Astarion's new power that appealed to him.
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24 Dec 2023
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“What's he like?” she asks. “Your wizard?”
He seems to think about it for a moment.
“Arrogant,” he finally says. “Insufferably clever. He claimed he could have been Mystra's Chosen, but he turned her down.”
The group (sans Tav) meet Astarion by the beach. They don't meet Gale. If you ask Astarion, that just means they have to look harder.
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22 Dec 2023
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High elves, of all the peoples of Faerun, are the closest to the Weave. Magic is their right, it runs through their veins. But Astarion died two centuries ago. There's a lot he's forgotten, and even more that's simply a half filled in sketch, just out of reach. While he can still summon fire to his fingers, he does it by rote, or perhaps merely muscle memory.
Gale decides to teach him what magic should feel like.
For the bloodweave brainrot November art/fic swap.
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15 Dec 2023
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These days, most everybody in camp had learned to wave away Astarion’s advances with a laugh. They found the flirtation titillating, Gale figured, or a bit threatening, or some combination of the two. He wondered if anybody else found it sad.
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Good old-fashioned rumination on choice and compulsion. Gale and Astarion shake off their metaphorical shackles.- Language:
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14 Dec 2023