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Some part of him lives in her head, just as she increasingly stomps about in his own. The thought makes the spoon tremble a little in his hand as he eats — though it could, logic dictates, be the fever.
[wolphinaud week prompts. or: izzie and alphinaud through the years.]
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- Part 8 of a wind alive in the valley
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“Let me brush your hair for you,” Jullus whispers into the back of his neck.
Alphinaud bursts into a tangle of boyish laughter, happy delirium pressing cold, logical thought out of bounds. “All that and that's what you ask of me afterwards?”
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- Part 7 of a wind alive in the valley
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“Wait. What’s my character today?”
“Oh,” Izzie says, breezy as a valley, “my master. Did you not hear?”
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- Part 6 of a wind alive in the valley
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“Every mage says so?” Jullus laughs a little, boyish and cute in a way he rarely allows himself — even more charming in that this topic should terrify him. It doesn’t if it’s you, he had said.
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- Part 5 of a wind alive in the valley
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Jullus meets the Warriors of Light.
Not that he knew that, then; perhaps, if he had, this would have ended so much differently.
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- Part 2 of a wind alive in the valley
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bring me flesh and bring me wine by witchfall for papernautilus
Fandoms: Final Fantasy XIV
27 Dec 2024
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“Die,” she says, voice a burbling creek stuffed with debris. “For once in your pitiful existence, do one thing that I ask.”
[or: the bells finally toll for Elidibus -- but Lilith receives no answer.]
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Silk feels nice.
That's the thought she clings to as Ortega stares at her like she's from outer space.
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You hated him because you needed him to love you.
[xivrarepair week challenge. Izzie, Jullus, and Alphinaud as seen through snippets in time.]
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- Part 4 of a wind alive in the valley
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Tension pools in Izzie's body, right alongside confusion. Somehow, despite all her years on the road, she'd never run into this question before, of…a tent’s suitability for…things.
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- Part 3 of a wind alive in the valley
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This body had raised a hand against him. It had, for a moment, not been tied to him so intensely as to be one shared skein. What does that mean? What does it say, about everything she’s ever believed, that the world had fallen so quiet?
[Or: the aftermath of Zenos's possession.]
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History does not happen in the pretty lines that writers eventually wrangle into finer narratives; one very rarely can stand in a moment and know exactly how it will be remembered.
So he writes it for her in his head, so that someone gets it right.
[or: how a prodigy from Sharlayan and a nobody girl abandoned in the desert find common ground — and something more.]
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All at once, every single facade the girl has ever worn in front of them — spritzy jokester, screaming banshee of a warrior, above-it-all late teen — collapses inward like a spell fizzling.
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- Part 1 of a wind alive in the valley
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The pain is straightforward. She struck you so you'd know to stay away. But then Ortega pulls you from somewhere else.
[Or: What happened when Owl punched Sidestep, all those years ago.]
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Seven years he thought she was dead and gone, but it had somehow been worse than that.
And still, she finds it harder to talk about...this.
[Or...one way the "herald and ortega talked" situation may have gone.]
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When there's nothing left but truth between you, what comes next?
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Elvish jewelry: Dirty but still beautiful. On the side is a flowing script thought by some to be the ancient language of the Elves. No Elvish bones have ever been found.
Her difference is a burden that she keeps close like a dark bruise beneath her clothes.
Unfortunately, she falls for the town’s doctor.
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She holds his face between her hands, her cheeks pink with life, mouth trembling with something. Her eyes shine with unshed tears. And she says...
"Please make me yours again."
[Directly post main story quest. Martin and Alice grapple with what they could have lost.]
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- Part 2 of aurum
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Grab ahold of it, make it mine. He could say it so easily about the metal that made up a sword.
They've kissed before, sure. He's held her tightly in his arms, afraid to let go. Her body is not an unknown geography to him -- and yet.
[Martin and Alice have their first time. Direct aftermath of 'A Smithy's Honor'.]
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- Part 1 of aurum
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Perhaps daughters are born fools.
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The warmth of a secret. The veil between self and everything else. There are some things she does not want even him to know.
//drabble collection for Izzie & G'raha
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There's a reason the First once had five Warriors of Light. Even that wasn't enough.
[A Shadowbringers retelling with two Warriors of Light and two loves.]
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- Part 3 of astra inclinant