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carry the bones of your home by Vail
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Origins
29 Jul 2018
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She was angry. She was furious, with herself, with her father, with everyone - they all insisted there was nothing to be done, accepted Adaia’s loss, told one another to move on. Mihra knew her mother’s fate was becoming the next warning tale for Alienage children.
'Don’t fight back, don’t go looking for trouble, or you’ll end up like Adaia Tabris.'
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[A prologue origin story for my city elf, placed pre-canon events.]
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- Part 1 of like dust, i'll rise
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what's a home (the first place you learn to run from) by Vail
Fandoms: Overwatch (Video Game)
18 Aug 2017
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“Two dragons!” the elders whisper among themselves in delight. It’s not unheard of, but it hasn’t been seen in generations.
“Surely,” one of them murmurs to another, “the dragons are recognizing the sole, true heir. They have offered their combined protection to Hanzo.”
Genji, who has spent all this time making himself small, trying to fit, feels cold in the deepest hollows of his bones, like a flood of ice down his back. When it comes down to it, his brother is his brother in name only. Genji is not a Shimada by blood, and blood, it seems, is all that will ever matter.
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Or, an Adopted!Genji AU. It changes less than you might think.
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let the stars guide you home by Vail
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Origins
15 Jun 2017
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Cullen has ‘I'm glad it was you’ on his forearm. It shows up a few months after his third birthday, in neat cursive, and it keeps him hopeful and strong through years of hard training.
Amell's words are ‘Hey mage, curfew is in five minutes, you better head back to the dorms.’ She knows she’s the younger of the pair since she was born with the words emblazoned on her back. The Chantry sister who helped her mother give birth read them and handed her over to the templars as an infant.
(AU where your soulmate's first words to you are written on your skin.)
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When she visits Diagon Alley, Hermione hates that the first thing the shop clerk in the apothecary tries to sell her is a potion to “tame her hair.” She likes her hair the way it is, curls and frizz, heavy around her shoulders. She thought the wizarding world would be different. (Black Hermione character study.)
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chaos is an infinite by Vail
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Inquisition
06 Oct 2015
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The problem - the only problem - is that Majalis Lavellan is not a mage.
It doesn't matter that she was born to lead - without magic, she cannot become Keeper.
(She doesn't let this stop her.)
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in her name by Vail for blossomstains (arrowfortea)
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Inquisition
01 May 2015
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For all that the People have lost in the thousands of years of his slumber, and the hundred since he awoke, Solas found it amusing that the stories of him had lasted in such strength that statues of wolves were still scattered throughout the lands. (A character study of Solas and his thoughts on his relationship with Lavellan.)
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resolute by Vail for psikeval
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Origins
04 Apr 2015
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Anora was tired. Tired, and lonely, and she didn’t want to shake the hand of the woman who had killed her father with the same hands that had killed the Archdemon. [Art fill and Character Study on Anora, 2 years post-Blight.]
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AU: In 9:14, Perrin Threnhold was declared unfit to succeed his father, and Aristide Amell became the Viscount of Kirkwall.
15 years later, his grandniece Roslin struggles between her life in Hightown and the price she is still paying to keep him on the throne.
Written for Wave One of the Dragon Age Big Bang 2012.
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There are no true heroes and no glory in war – only the ones that manage to survive. 50 Prompt Challenge.
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- Part 3 of Giustia
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Finnick Odair is 14 years old when he wins the 65th Hunger Games.
He dreams of the other tributes rising from the river, seaweed entwined in briny locks, bony hands curling around his ankles and dragging him down. The current sweeps him away, tearing tanned, smooth skin from his limbs and flesh, salt gathering in the soft lining of his eyes the color of the sea.
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The air is thick with smoke and the bitter taste of metal, the clang of a hammer beating an anvil ringing through the forge. Arya twists her mouth at the heat, and tugs the string of the doorbell sharply.
The hammering stops. “Who is it?”
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"Do you believe in past lives?"
They sit on a rooftop a world away from where they once were, holding hands, speaking in whispers as they always have.
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Susan is not asked to identify the bodies.
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held up by your strings by Vail
Fandoms: The Avengers (2012), Marvel Avengers Movies Universe
19 Aug 2012
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Red spills over his fingers, in soft curls and warm blood, the weight of her head heavy in his lap. Her breathing is quiet, raspy. The stone beneath his legs is cold, his hands are uncovered, and his bow is a solid presence on his back.
Her eyelids are bruised, her lashes long and dark against the pale of her skin. A gun lies inches from her outstretched hand.
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salted by Vail
Fandoms: Game of Thrones (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
12 May 2012
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[Makes a GOT-specific reference concerning a scene from S2.E3. Explanation in notes within.]
The oceans do not freeze.
Men may walk across rivers and lakes but never the sea, and no man knows the sea so well as the Ironborn, whose wounds taste of brine and blood alike. They are made anew in water, born to sail upon it and rule.
Theon Greyjoy is of the sea.
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cosmic by Vail
Fandoms: Game of Thrones (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
01 Apr 2012
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The cold winds rise, swords cross, and dragons breathe trickles of fire in anticipation of the war to come - and still, humans make the time to fall and hurt in places outside the battlefield. A collection of drabbles too short to post independently.
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The sky is a mass of dark smoke, the edges of it colored the same red as dying suns - but Commander Shepard is not dead, just lost amidst the crumbled remains of London. Elsewhere, Kaidan Alenko works with the ticking of a clock loud in his ears.
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You can run from the Blight, but you can't run from what flows through your veins. Sometimes, family is everything.
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- Part 1 of Ignis Aurum Probat
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Winter in Kirkwall is an interesting time for all its inhabitants. Fenris gets sleepy. Hawke misses Ferelden. Varric tells Merrill no, he's not interested in snow angels, but perhaps Aveline is. That sort of thing.
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- Part 3 of Ignis Aurum Probat
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"Fire tests gold." Asteria Hawke knows better than most how facing the flames can change you - nobody walks away from dragons untouched.
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- Part 2 of Ignis Aurum Probat