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    to be seen by

    Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV)  

    28 May 2021

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    alina has spent her life knowing what it's like to be hunted for being Grisha. she uses her powers to hide herself, hide other Grisha, and forms the Invisible Army. her main focus is to free the Grisha until she meets him;

    the Darkling, commander of the Second Army, summoner of the shadows. alina comes into his life with a light he's never know, but also with a darkness he's all too familiar with.

     

    or: my take on if alina knew she was Grisha her whole life and if her and the Darkling were truly equals.

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    08 Jul 2026

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    Royals of New York by ,

    Fandoms: Shadow and Bone (TV)  

    13 Feb 2022

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    Alina Starkova is leverage in Aleksander Morozov's war against the Starkov Family. How he plans to use her, is yet unclear. But by the end, he plans to turn Alina on her family and upend everything that she knows about her life.

    She is leverage, and nothing more.

    Or -

    Aleksander kidnaps Alina with plans to use her to fulfill a vendetta against the Starkov's, and doesn't intend to get emotionally attached.

    They both get emotionally attached.

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    03 Jul 2026

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    Scars of Light by

    Fandoms: Shadow and Bone (TV), The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo  

    28 Nov 2021

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    Alina Starkov knows what it is to lose. She has lost her home. She has lost people she loves. And when she discovers the strange power kept dormant inside of her since childhood, her life is ripped from her again. Now she is a Grisha. Now she is something unique to be used by whoever can get their hands on her first. Shu, Fjerdans, Kerch traders-she learns to see them all as enemies as she fights to survive.
    Then she meets the Darkling, the powerful and handsome Grisha in charge of the second army. A man she swears she has seen before in passing hallucinations. He has spent years searching for her since the first rumors of a girl who shone like a star rose from Keramzin, and now he has found her.
    Alina is not naïve. She knows this man wants something from her like all of these others. But still, she cannot help but be drawn to him.
    Like calls to like, after all.

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    23 Jun 2026

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    casualty by

    Fandoms: Shadow and Bone (TV)  

    22 Feb 2022

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    Aleksander has been a thorn in Alina’s side since the moment she touched down in-country, and time has not made their relationship any less hostile and antagonistic. Alina knows her credibility — knows that the head of the NCTC back in Arlington had vouched for her when her name was put in the running for the operation — but she also knows that she’s young. Knows how she looks to these men, whose egos are rivaled perhaps only by their superiors. Aleksander Kirigan is no exception.

    War brings out the worst in people — and on rare occasions, the best. Alina is never sure if she's looking at the best or the worst of Aleksander, but she's looking all the same.

    British SAS Officer Aleksander and Military Intelligence Analyst Alina AU.

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    22 Jun 2026

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    Something True by

    Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV)  

    10 Mar 2023

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    Aleksander is in need of a Shu translator, a smart one, to help with an intercepted cipher. Luckily he finds Alina Starkova just sitting there in Poliznaya. He feels an instant connection with the talented woman and invites her to join his oprichniki, but it turns out she is nothing like she first appeared and navigating that will be a challenge all on its own.

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    06 Jun 2026