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Desperate to cover rent, second year Journalism student Sanson Smyth agreed to take on one Guydelot Thildonnet as a roommate on behest of his best friend. Little did he know he was getting far more than he bargained for.
Loud, blasé and a downright charming flirt, the keyboardist for local emo band Heresy proved to be an exasperating roommate... and an unstoppable force barreling his way into Sanson's home—and his heart.
A story of how two fools fell head over heel in love.
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In the Holy See of Ishgard, and the country surrounding it, there are two boys fated to make arduous climbs to power. As each begins to face their journeys alone, they are brought together. With one seeking vengeance against the Dravanian threat that robbed him of his life, and the other combating the tangled politics of the Holy See and his parentage, they forge a bond in their shared resolve. Only as the years press on do they begin to realize that there is more to living than revenge and justice.
((This fic stays loosely faithful to lore and goes right up to the ending of A Realm Reborn, but it also contains spoilers for Heavensward/the Dragoon Job quest line))
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In another life where Ferndale never burned, Estinien Varlineau lives a simple life as a shepherd. One day after a distant battle with the Dravanians goes wrong, he stumbles on an injured knight and has no choice but to nurse him to health, unsuspecting of just how profoundly the stranger will touch his heart in return.
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Estinien, who ought to have been born a prince but was instead cursed to be born a wyrmling, finds one single friend after he is cast outside of Ishgard’s walls: an orphaned shepherd boy who, for a time, takes him in, feeds him, and curls up beside him to sleep.
More than a decade later, after Estinien has grown into a full fledged wyrm, he still remembers well his shepherd boy—though he knows not where he went or what became of him after their sudden separation. Bitter and lonely, he scours Ishgard’s countryside with flames in his hunt to find his long lost friend.
To stop the wrathful dragon wreaking havoc on his kingdom, the young Prince Hamignant is willing to consider even the unorthodox. And when he learns that Estinien’s blighting of the heartlands is all in search of a single man, a (nearly) bloodless solution comes to mind: make a sacrifice of this once-a-shepherd in the hopes of placating the dragon and sating his appetite, whatever form it may take.
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12 May 2026
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Just a boy and his dragon. Alberic was the best of them all
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Burdened with immortality and twisted into a beastly shape by Nidhogg's final curse after using gifts stolen from Ratatoskr to slay their kind, Estinien has hid beneath the aetherial tempest surrounding Ishgard for ages. Using the ravaging abyss to deafen himself to the world of man above that he helped to shape, nothing has roused him for centuries. That is, until he is stirred by the impossible: the voice of his long-dead lord. Spurred into flight for the first time in nearly a millennia, Estinien finds himself interrupting the banishment and judgment of accused heretic Aymeric de Borel, a man identical to his love from another lifetime but now spared the same fate.
But what purpose could this second chance serve? Estinien has long abandoned hope of being freed from his curse, unable to die at mortal hands and bound by the magic of dragons long gone from this world. Yet while he understands this Aymeric is not the same prince he knew, served, and loved, he is unable to refuse when the earnest young man makes a request that echoes his past and winds up learning just what has become of the kingdom of man.
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12 May 2026
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Ancient and cursed Estinien, but Aymeric can talk anyone around eventually