Amethyst's Febuwhump 2024
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“You never miss the flowers till the suns down” by Amethystfairy1
Fandoms: Hermitcraft SMP, 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
01 Feb 2024
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Helplessness was unique in the dark.
It’s not like Tango had much option to suffer it in the light, either. He didn’t have any options at all. The creak of the redstone wagon sounded like a thunderclap. The vague murmur of voices from other hybrids in the wagon was crackling in his ears. It wasn’t joined by his flares, nor by the hiss of his blaze-rods, because they were barely smoldering. That was entirely the point as he sat kept in the dark, fear lacing each breath, unaware of how much longer he'd remain here.
Keeping quiet was the best option, though. It wasn't like he'd receive an answer if he called out for help, either way.
{In which Tango is traveling the old continent, and as a nether-born slave, the humans have twisted ways of keeping him docile.}
(Febuwhump 2024 - 1 - Helpless)
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- Part 1 of Amethyst's Febuwhump 2024
- Part 17 of Traveling Thieves {Dark Fantasy AU}
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“And I promise to be patient, and I promise to be kind.” by Amethystfairy1
Fandoms: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series, Empires SMP
01 Mar 2024
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After a year, Scott had gotten better.
A year away from the tower, a year living with the love of his life, a year trying to fit back together the pieces that had fractured from him after so much time alone. So much time alone. When the one-year anniversary of the rebellion victory arrives, Jimmy is invited back to the capital to join the rest of the rebel leaders in a grand celebration. Scott doesn't want to go back to that place, but he also doesn't want to be a weight on Jimmy, so he insists Jimmy ought to go without him.
It had been a year, an entire year; Scott felt better than he had in a long time, so a single night alone should be no big deal.
Unless it wasn't a night, unless it wasn't yet morning, unless it hadn't been a year at all...unless the love of his life had never come, the endless silence had never been broken, and the clinking of chains had never stopped, and maybe he'd shattered worse than he'd ever been able to tell.{In which, after a very long night, Scott wakes up again}
(Febuwhump - 2 - Solitary Confinement)
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- Part 2 of Amethyst's Febuwhump 2024
- Part 2 of The Mad King AU
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Cold-Blooded Crush by Amethystfairy1
Fandoms: Hermitcraft SMP, 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
03 Feb 2024
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Scar had always been wanted for his body.
Now now, hang on, roll it back, hear him out. What he means is for what his body represents. The perfect test subject, attractive company for the night, a high-flying superhero to give everyone hope in a city so unstable. Scar had thought he was perfectly comfortable with that. After all, he'd certainly had his...shall we call it a 'period of self-discovery' during college and grad school, which poor Cub had been made to suffer through, considering they were roommates all through their degrees. But who even was that? Wasn't it just Hot Guy in like...a sexy clubbing outfit? Probably.
Grian was different, though. He wasn't a casual fling, he was someone in whom Scar saw his forever, but then what? What would it feel like if Grian wanted him like that, too? In a fantasy, it was wonderful, but in reality, his boyfriend's hand had just slipped under his shirt, and he couldn't breathe.{In which Scar has some internalized self-worth issues, Grian just wants his boyfriend to be ok, Cub has been an incredibly patient friend, and no, the grading is most definitely not getting done tonight.}
(Febuwhump 2024 - 3 - Alt: Human Weapon)
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“Let our shadows fall away like dust.” by Amethystfairy1
Fandoms: Hermitcraft SMP, 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
04 Feb 2024
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Grian had never had an issue before with obedience. As an avian, growing up in his colony had been a series of following orders and obeying rules. Breaking them, intentionally or not, resulted in brutal punishment. By a conscious retaliation or by a failure or a flaw, it didn’t matter. Grian had learned very quickly that obedience meant minimal suffering. When he’d been sold at fifteen years old, off into the wider world of the old continent, it had been more of the same.
Obey. The rules and expectations, the orders in the collar around his neck, it wasn’t hard. Grian hardly questioned it anymore.
That was why this was just so strange.
“Eat. You must be hungry.”
{In which Grian can't understand, Scar and Mumbo want to understand, and dinner is on the table, so why is it so difficult to take a seat?}
(Febuwhump 2024 - 4 - Obedience)
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- Part 7 of Traveling Thieves {Dark Fantasy AU}
- Part 4 of Amethyst's Febuwhump 2024
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Sliver of a Chance by Amethystfairy1
Fandoms: Hermitcraft SMP, 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
05 Feb 2024
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Scar couldn’t believe he’d actually hit him. It had been almost a month since the new winged vigilante had come on the scene, and Scar wasn’t really sure what to make of him. His outfit was vivacious to say the least, his charisma and talent were the real deal, and honestly, the fact that the Council was foaming at the mouth to bring him in was rubbing Scar the wrong way. For as frustrating and beguiling as he was, Scar couldn’t claim he disliked this so-called Cute Guy. Which is why when he’d been in pursuit over the city skyline after the black-and-pink clad vigilante had swooped in on a monster outbreak from a rift, firing the strange energy bolts from his pink pistols, Scar had found a moments hesitation when he’d drawn back his bowstring. Yet still, he’d activated the biotech grafted into his eyes, seamlessly communicating with his visor, taken his aim, and fired.
Hot Guy rarely missed a shot when he was truly trying to hit it.
{In which Scar tries to change perspectives, Grian needs some aloe vera, the city is already scary enough, and who knows which one they're actually protecting?}
(Febuwhump 2024 - 5 - Rope Burns)
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He wasn't brave enough yet. Ren knew that, he understood that better than anyone. For all the bravado he played up and put on, sometimes even truly believed in, he knew he wasn't brave enough. Even if he'd seen the results of such reveals around him, seen the sweetest chances it could create to finally admit the truth to the one he loved, he wasn't brave enough. He was terrified of all that could go wrong, for every moment he dreamed of had within itself an opposite unbearable nightmare.
He wanted to believe Martyn's enamored gaze, electric green and burning bright, wouldn't go cold. That was all he hoped for...but he didn't know. Nothing could be guaranteed. When he'd constructed their entire relationship on a series of unspoken lies, how could he ever be certain?
He wasn't brave enough yet. But maybe one day he could be.{In which Ren wants to fight the butterfly effect, Martyn's glad he set Ren's contact to bypass when his phone is on silent, and 3 AM is definitely the best time for this conversation.}
(Febuwhump 2024 - 6 - "You lied to me")
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"You just bleed you, and I'll stay with you" by Amethystfairy1
Fandoms: Hermitcraft SMP, 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
07 Feb 2024
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Grian didn't know yet, if he understood it. He wasn't going to pretend like he did. His new masters were strange for as kind as they were, an oddball combination of a rogue and a nature elf swindling their way over the old continent. That sort of activity drew attention...sometimes that attention made them a coin; other times it made them trouble. So far they'd been taking care of everything without issue, and Grian was an avian, he had been trained to serve as a bodyguard, if necessary as a killer. He hasn't been made to keep his skills sharp as before, the constant work an ache no longer present.
When he hears the twang of a bowstring, maybe he's already moving to late.
{In which Grian sees red, Mumbo calls on shadows, Scar is still the emotional core around here, and feelings sometimes seem like they just aren't worth it.}
(Febuwhump 2024 - 7 - Alt - Human Shield)
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- Part 7 of Amethyst's Febuwhump 2024
- Part 9 of Traveling Thieves {Dark Fantasy AU}
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“And I’ve got so much more to live for than what you think of me.” by Amethystfairy1
Fandoms: Hermitcraft SMP
08 Feb 2024
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Tango had always figured he must just have an unlucky streak. His life had turned on the narrowest of edges, the smallest of choices that had seemed so innocent at the time. That, if they'd happened on another day, even another hour, it would've all been different. He wouldn't be here right now...but then again, if none of this had happened, he'd never have met Zed. And besides, considering the events leading him here, could he really regret it? If he could go back to that moment, would he have changed anything?
That's an aside. It's not easy, being a blaze-born on the old continent. Every word from your mouth is questioned twice, and that's if people are feeling generous. It can get exhausting. Besides, Zed had been so kind to him these past weeks, comforting him during thunderstorms and encouraging him to open up, to speak his mind. He understands, though, that it's not the majority...he's spent ten years getting used to it. Even still, it's always so uniquely frustrating, and that's removing whatever time spent writhing on the ground in agony.{In which Tango is always honest, Zed considers arson, and paladins are the absolute worst.}
(Febuwhump 2024 - 8 - "Why won't it stop?")
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- Part 8 of Amethyst's Febuwhump 2024
- Part 22 of Traveling Thieves {Dark Fantasy AU}
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Yes. Tango knew. He’d heard the jokes. He’d answered the questions. He was well aware. Yes.
Tango was from hell.
Well, not, like, literal hell, but according to the over-worlders, it was close enough. The Nether was a fiery dimension of red, angry loud noises, citizens who’d try to kill you on-sight unless you were wearing something shiny enough to distract them, and occasionally you’d hear a shriek and know you ought to take some evasive maneuvers unless you felt like getting blown up by a fireball. Moving to the over-world to join the Hermits had been…an adjustment. There were a lot of things to get used to, but despite it all, he felt like he could learn to belong here...as soon as he figured out what all these strange new creatures were. Plucking up the courage to go visit his new neighbors would be a good start, right? Even if his anxiety was already hanging by a thread...he could tough it out. It'd be just fine.
{In which Tango is new to the over-world, Zed is a sweetheart, and hang on, what the hell is a bee!?}
(Febuwhump 2024 - 9 - Bees)
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- Part 9 of Amethyst's Febuwhump 2024
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Pix was getting what was good for him. He was getting paid, and the labs were a shield against anything too terrible happening to him, so long as he was careful. He turned a blind eye to the things that made his heart feel heavy....but hey, this city was broken long before he was even born. There was no reason for him to shoulder the burden of trying to fix it. Maybe if it had mattered so much, his predecessors ought not to have so irreversibly screwed it all up in the first place. Then again, it wasn’t all their fault, either. Only so much you could do, in a place like this, with bedrock and secrets, straining and lies. It was enough to give anyone pause.
Pix tried not to do much pausing, though. That is, until he accidentally saves a little voidwalker from plunging to his death, gets his wallet stolen, buys some sandwiches, and witnesses the anarchy. As it would turn out, those were all such horrible things...but maybe...no, definitely...they were blessings in disguise.
{In which Pix hates feelings, Sausage can't get a job, False is stronger than she looks, Fwhip does crimes, Oli wants a soda, and all it takes is a little anarchy to fit a family together}
(Febuwhump 2024 - 26 - Help them)
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- Part 51 of Through the Sky-Blue Cracks {Hot Guy/Cute Guy Superhero/Hybrid AU}
- Part 10 of Amethyst's Febuwhump 2024
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“Don’t rip the heart off of your sleeve” by Amethystfairy1
Fandoms: Hermitcraft SMP, 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
10 Feb 2024
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It wasn’t easy trying to be honest when the world was already convinced you were a liar. Mumbo was homeless, broke, orphaned, and worst of all? He was a rogue. With ruby red eyes and shadows dancing beneath his skin, exposing his true nature to all the world...or at least, that's what the world believed. He didn't want to believe it. He wanted to look up to the nobles and knights, upstanding gentlemen who were poised and brilliant, whom he saw in the parades through the city as he lurked in back alleys scrounging for another meal. He'd tried to get an honest job, truly, he had...but they'd all turned him away. And it seems like no matter how hard he tries, he can't run away from a blood-soaked fate.
Strange that the blood isn't his, though.
{In which we meet Mumbo Jumbo, age thirteen, who really does wish someone had heard of a gentleman rogue before.}
(Febuwhump 2024 - 10 - Killing in Self-Defense)
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- Part 11 of Amethyst's Febuwhump 2024
- Part 16 of Traveling Thieves {Dark Fantasy AU}
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Let the Cycle Repeat (Don't Make Me Start Over) by Amethystfairy1
Fandoms: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
11 Feb 2024
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“I’ll kill you!”
“Trade me a life.”
“Is it us? Is this it?”
“I just need an hour!”
“Give me your heart.”
He wasn’t sure how many years they’d been at this.
Somehow he intuitively knew that there was somewhere he’d been before all of this. Before the games.
Before the deaths, put on a loop, like a song driven into the ground till it felt better, perhaps, to go insane. Grian honestly wasn’t sure how all of them were still even remotely mentally stable.
“Isn’t it fun…being trapped in a killing game with seventeen of your best friends?”
{In which Grian takes a flight over the newest battlefield, and the letter of the game is to start all over, but the word is far from that truth}
(Febuwhump 2024 - 11 - Time Loop)
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- Part 12 of Amethyst's Febuwhump 2024
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"You were supposed to be my light and keep me safe against them all." by Amethystfairy1
Fandoms: Hermitcraft SMP, 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
12 Feb 2024
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Impulse hated the old continent.
The air up here was colder than home; winter was setting in, and that was never fun. Sure, he’d only been coming up here for the past three summers and would always return to the Nether as the cold set in, but not this time. Any more time wasted might break his heart. The last sight he'd had of someone so dear had been scarlet and hazy, and that wasn't just because of the heat baking from the soul sand and lava oceans. It was a moment he'd regretted, plagued with guilt for ten years since, and as he'd gotten older, he'd found himself paralyzed in his grief. Not anymore. He wasn't going to cower and allow his guilt to drown him.
Last sight? No way. He'd do anything to see Tango again.{In which Impulse remembers, the mercenary guild sucks slightly less than the rest of society, but only slightly, and yeah, he was terrified, but he was never going to let that stop him from reaching out again.}
(Febuwhump 2024 - 12 - Semi-Conscious)
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- Part 13 of Amethyst's Febuwhump 2024
- Part 28 of Traveling Thieves {Dark Fantasy AU}
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“Present all your pretty feelings, may they comfort you tonight” by Amethystfairy1
Fandoms: Hermitcraft SMP, 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
13 Feb 2024
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Pearl liked thunderstorms.
She didn't find beds very comfortable. She loved sweets and early morning flights and always preferred starting with her left inner wing when getting preened.
None of those things mattered anymore. Not really. They hadn't mattered for seven years, and even before that there were very few people who'd known these little things about her. Those were people she wasn't allowed to know anymore. She wasn't allowed to remember, didn't have permission for these last night mental wanderings as a raging storm tore against the roof and battered at the windows of the inn.
It wasn't as easy as saying something like, "No, I don't regret it." ...because stars it was so much more complicated than that.
Even so, that didn't make it any less truthful.{In which Pearl sleeps on her tummy, Gem projects confidence even when she's clueless, and a raging thunderstorm is the most comforting thing to hear.}
(Febuwhump 2024 - 13 - Alt: Last Words)
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- Part 14 of Amethyst's Febuwhump 2024
- Part 30 of Traveling Thieves {Dark Fantasy AU}
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Jimmy was used to the pain. When he’d first started coming to the over-city, he’d been a kid. First year of high school he’d still been small. Still shorter than both Grian and Pearl, who’d towed him along into the sunlight. Back then, he’d been able to fold his wings into the tight column against his back and hold them there easily. It hadn’t been the most comfortable thing in the world, but he’d slowly started to get used to it.
Then he’d hit a growth spurt.
And alongside the suffering of backaches more severe than either of his cousins suffered, not like he intended to let them in on that, was the reality of six cheap pleather belts he'd bought at a thrift store when he was seventeen. And now? With the sky above his head and the sky across the table from him, with hair fluffy like spun sugar, it was even more so. A twisted feather and some phantom knives in his wing roots weren't going to slow him down.
Because Scott and the sky were both worth it.
{In which Jimmy weighs the pros and cons of stripping in his office, Scott isn't in the loop, but he's got the spirit, and hey, at least the bakery had bar-height tables.}
(Febuwhump 2023 - 14 - Blood-stained Tiles)
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“You’re on the other side of the storm now, you should be so proud” by Amethystfairy1
Fandoms: Hermitcraft SMP, 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
07 Mar 2024
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Grian had never been able to place himself very well on the old continent as a whole. His journey in this sick system had bounced him around, and it wasn’t as though he was often given much chance to get his bearings. Now that he was with Scar and Mumbo, he’d had plenty of opportunities to look at the maps or listen to them plotting their routes. That didn’t instantly give him a better grip on where he’d been previously, though. That's why he didn't realize till that roofline seared into his memory was coming into view over the treeline. Tasteful pale blues and yellows reflect the house crest that was emblazoned on the bronze inset in the front walkway. Gently sloping rooflines that arched into points with perfect symmetry between the two huge wings. It was a stunning place nestled on the crest of a grassy knoll. He knew as well as the scars he could trace along his spine, as well as the cigarette stubs snuffed against his wings with wicked intention.
Lovely place for a hellhole.
{In which Grian looks over his shoulder, Mumbo puts together some context clues, Scar gets tunnel vision and painful memories are left beneath the dirt}
(Febuwhump 2024 - 15 - "Who did this to you?")
Series
- Part 16 of Amethyst's Febuwhump 2024
- Part 39 of Traveling Thieves {Dark Fantasy AU}
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“Come morning light, you and I’ll be safe and sound” by Amethystfairy1
Fandoms: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series, Empires SMP
17 Feb 2024
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Jimmy had been preparing for this moment. He and Scott had been on the run, headed north with half a plan to either hide out in the mountains or try for the Free Hybrid Cities, for a while by this point. They’d escaped from the market during a contract transfer, Scott’s resolve having inspired Jimmy to give being a free bird a try. Then they’d been attacked by adventurers trying to recapture them for the reward. Jimmy had ended up killing all three of them.
Then they’d kissed. It was the kiss he was hung up on.
Because there were so many things he wanted to tell Scott that felt out of his reach, and lined up neatly amongst the memories he could no longer recount and the faces he didn't have permission to recognize was the simplest of things. Five letters, two syllables, he could tack it onto the end of a sentence if he really wanted to, and even still, only four words. It would only take four words, four words that still felt so far beyond him. Three syllables and three words, though? That. That he could do.
{In which Jimmy needs to tell Scott something important, Scott didn't want that but he wants this, and the word of the day is an agonizing mouthful.}
(Febuwhump 2024 - 16: Alt - "I love you")
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- Part 17 of Amethyst's Febuwhump 2024
- Part 24 of Traveling Thieves {Dark Fantasy AU}
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“Nothing quite prepares you for when they don’t come back” by Amethystfairy1
Fandoms: Hermitcraft SMP, 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
18 Feb 2024
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By now, Mumbo and Scar had gently encouraged Grian to allow them to preen his wings as a weekly habit. After the fiasco the first time they’d helped him preen had been, they’d actually made Grian properly explain how to do it, for as much as Grian squirmed at the notion. The idea of having his masters so gently caring for him at all was already deeply unsettling. Or maybe that wasn’t quite it. Unsettling certainly wasn’t the word to use. Too negative. Because that’s the thing…Grian liked it. It reminded him of someone who wasn't bound up in the web of repressed memories he had no permission to recall. The lines didn't draw over pale blue eyes that had been the only ones to care, the only of his fellow hybrids he'd met in the past seven years who'd volunteered to sleep in the same room as him. They'd trade. Grian would help him with his beautiful long hair, and he'd help Grian preen his wings...they were sparks of light during days in a hellhole.
It had been hard to lose him. Harder, perhaps, because he was someone Grian was allowed to remember.{In which Scar preens, Mumbo asks, Grian grieves, and someone beloved is presumed to be gone}
(Febuwhump 2024 - 23 - Presumed Dead)
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- Part 18 of Amethyst's Febuwhump 2024
- Part 31 of Traveling Thieves {Dark Fantasy AU}
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“It’s like fallin’ backwards into no one’s arms” by Amethystfairy1
Fandoms: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
19 Feb 2024
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Pearl supposed she should be happy. She had been called from the fifteenth years training on one of the upper plateaus to stand beside the elder to observe the thirteenth year fledglings training, after all. It was a unique honor, and they’d all seen it as the years went by. To be called to one of the elders sides was a strong signal that you were going to be retained. Keep your name, keep your ties, take the honor of being one of very few the colony deemed worthy of producing and training the next generation. Avian society was nothing but the most brutal sort of meritocracy. Maybe she would’ve been happy, had it been any other day or any other year or any other moment. Maybe happy would’ve been the wrong word. Happy meant bright sparks of late nights giggling under breath in their shared nest or early morning flights out from beneath the watchful eye of those retained from years before them.
Happy wasn’t standing here watching this.
{In which Pearl stands up, Jimmy gets knocked down, avian society really is brutal, and nothing has been fair since}
(Febuwhump 2024 - 19 - "Please don't")
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- Part 19 of Amethyst's Febuwhump 2024
- Part 33 of Traveling Thieves {Dark Fantasy AU}
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“Everything that you thought was real, doesn’t make much sense to me” by Amethystfairy1
Fandoms: Hermitcraft SMP, 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
26 Feb 2024
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It felt odd, and yet, he knew it wasn’t necessarily against the rules...that maybe he’d somehow managed to make a friend. And when he'd let himself cling to that, allowed himself pale blue eyes that had been the only ones who'd willingly share a room with the manor's only resident avian amongst the collection of hybrids with shining hair and stunning features, all the better to make lovely set dressing, well....he'd been punished. That's just how it was, and Grian really ought to try and start getting used to it. He regretted a lot about how it all happened. The fact that he hadn't moved, the fact that he hadn't spoken up, as the roar of the rules in his mind tore asunder the small corners where he hid chortling giggles in the near-dark, smiling, fluttering tiny wings that tried their best not to tug too hard helping him comb out his ridiculously long hair. What he regretted the most, in some backward way, was terribly simple.
He'd never told Ren his name...after all, he didn't have one anymore.{In which Grian makes a mistake, Ren makes a choice, Freemere makes us hate him even more, and a name fades away into pale blue eyes}
(Febuwhump 2024 - 24 - "I'm doing this because I care about you.")
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- Part 20 of Amethyst's Febuwhump 2024
- Part 32 of Traveling Thieves {Dark Fantasy AU}