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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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23 May 2025
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Aymeric's kitchen is flooding, and he can't get hold of anyone who might be able to fix it. In desparation, he turns to Grindr, asking the closest man he matches with if he can help.
Five minutes down the road, Estinien gets his first ever swipe right on Grindr and opens it up to find the most unexpected request.
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10 Oct 2024
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(for the time being) i will still avoid my own questions by azems-familiar (BadWolfGirl01)
Fandoms: Final Fantasy XIV
10 Apr 2024
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Prompt: "Can you just- for a minute, can you pretend that I mean something to you?'
The Crystal Exarch rescues a small child from sin eaters. Emet-Selch rescues the both of them.
None of it means anything at all.
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- Part 8 of your boldness stands alone among the wreck
- Part 9 of in the shadow of the sun || ascian azem au
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15 Jul 2024
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Dirk has a plan, when he's 18 he's going to take Dave and get him the fuck out of their terrible lives and start over. Until then being the barrier between Dave and Bro is his only job, his soulmate is just going to have to wait goddamnit. Dave has a plan, it involves getting internet famous and not going gay, easy right? Karkat also has a plan, to repeatedly track down his dumb as rocks soulmate and get him to actually talk to him for fuck's sake.
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- Part 1 of It's the end of the world as we know it
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24 Jan 2021
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this is one of the longest homestuck fics i ever read back in the day when it was updating and it was my favorite of all time
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Chalk pauses before reaching over, delicately opening Haurchefant’s grasp and laying the quill flat on the letter before holding his hand warmly between his own.
For a second, Haurchefant—brave, chivalrous knight who’s sworn to live and die by the sword and who’s faced wyrms and demons and the overwhelming mountain of tax documents shoved into his desk drawers—is terrified that this castaway man from some distant sea will see the words spilled across the page and realize, perhaps, he’s been hoping for something more permanent this whole time—that when he says my dear friend, he means something entirely different. Has always meant something different, from the moment they stood together atop Witchdrop with the setting sun leaking golden across the Coerthan snow to the moment the cruel light of sunset spilled across the peaks of Ishgard, dyeing everything red.
When his dearest friend offers to stay with him as he finishes overdue paperwork, Haurchefant finds himself penning yet another love letter he'll never send.