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"Could you," he asks, after a pause, "feel me watching you?"
"Only at first," she says, "I almost couldn't do it, with somebody watching."
He frowns. "Sorry."
"Don't be, I've gotten used to you watching me."
"Oh." He winces and looks away again. She wonders, if there were any heat left in him, he'd be blushing. "I'll—stop? Doing that. If it makes you uncomfortable."
"I don't mind," she says, and her voice comes out feeling heavy. He must feel it too because his eyes snap back to hers.
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03 Mar 2026
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Six Months after Black Rose decimates Eorzea, the Warrior of Light wakes up inside her own tomb.
A dead man waits for her in a stolen body at the foot of the grave.
(Wol and Zenos go on a road trip for revenge.)
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27 Jan 2026
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Sidurgu and D'alia are no strangers to the night terrors that plague each other's sleep.
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- Part 1 of D'alia/Sidurgu
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07 Jan 2026
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"I think you’re the only person I can stand looking in the eye," Hermes had told her once with a watery smile. Then he had laughed at himself for calling her a Person, and Meteion had laughed because he was laughing, and Hermes never made that mistake again. Now she is just Meteion, or Entelechy, or the lost little sounds he makes in his sleep when the dreams come.
[In a fit of rage, Meteion mirrors Hermes's self-destruction in the worst possible way.]
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25 Dec 2025
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Zenos's stare is like two molten ingots; yet despite that intensity, he looks half-awake, almost drugged, his hair hanging lank and his white shirt slipping from one shoulder. It's the first time Fordola has ever seen the unobfuscated lines of his body, and it gives her a strange feeling, like seeing a lion skinned of its pelt.
[Fordola is beckoned to Zenos's quarters for an unusual request.]
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25 Dec 2025
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Estinien's brain isn’t capable of stuttering anything more than “please,” over and over again while his lungs heave for air, begging Halone to grant him solace, just this once. You aren’t supposed to lose everything when you’re only twelve.
This time, he gets there a few minutes earlier.
This time, Halone answers his prayer.
(or: in a softer, kinder world, Hamignant survives Ferndale. canon divergent AU)
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27 Nov 2025
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After a long evening in the Pillars, the Warrior of Light and her companion find an abandoned cathedral. Sidurgu finds better uses for Wren's sharpest parts.
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14 Oct 2025
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A historical romance AU. The daughter of Duchess Sagahl finds herself tired of the marriage market, so she removes herself by claiming to hold a torch for a certain General just off to war.
It all goes mostly to plan until General Estinien Varlineau returns, straight to her doorstep.
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18 Sep 2025
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“At least.” Eydis murmurs, “At least you have a cause. I have none, beyond my own death. This whole farce is utterly selfish.”
“I’m starting to think mine own might be as well.”
Ysayle rolls over on her side and props her head up on her hand, studying Eydis in the low light that’s starting to seep through the tent walls. The colors have not yet been returned to the world and the monochrome makes nothing feel real as Eydis opens her mouth and bleeds from it.
The Warrior of Light's Echo allows her to see the death of an individual before it comes to pass. She wishes Ysayle Dangoulain was the exception.
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“Are you certain?”
Y’shtola’s hand runs over hers, briefly, and for the first time since she’s stepped foot into this room with the Miqo’te, Thya exhales.
The truth is she is not certain. She wants this, that much she knows beyond a doubt. She wants it, terribly and dearly..
But still, she is not certain. Her nerves are frayed, her heart is in her throat, and it feels difficult to breathe.. Every time she thinks of what is potentially to come.. Of her vision blacked out so she can’t see, so she can’t anticipate what is to follow, she feels something inside her core quiver and tremble with a horrifying sickness..
But..
Slowly, she lifts her gaze to Y’shtola’s, and meets the Seeker’s eyes.
She is not certain, no.
But she wants it, and she knows.
It is necessary.
With a voidsent living in your mind, commenting on your every move with glee, it's not easy to figure out how to share something special and intimate with your partner...
But Y'shtola and Thya may have figured something out, even if that something makes Thya's stomach twist itself into knots with uncertainty.Bookmarked by almandines
11 Aug 2023
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Three hundred years ago, King Thordan and his Knights Twelve laid low the last of the Great Wyrms and doomed the world to darkness. The land withered, magic forsook man, and the very balance of life and death was rewritten.
Moth is the first mage to be born in centuries, a thaumaturge whose blood is worth more than gold. Wyrmblood is a mercenary with a curse of his own, sworn to her side. When the temptation of power and freedom leads Moth astray, they are both pulled into an adventure beyond their ken: a tale yet written, of good and evil, of might and magic, and a cursed prince who may be the key to restoring the world that was lost.
[AU, loosely based on the tale of Beauty & the Beast]
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13 Jul 2023
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It wasn't her choice to be locked in a windowless tower, but it also wasn't her choice to be saved.
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12 Jul 2023
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"What in the hells—?" he muttered to himself, his senses returning slowly. He suddenly heard the frantic words of a figure above him, and he squinted so as to make them out. A hooded figure, he thought, before realizing quite belatedly, ah, I'm nude.
A strange light-filled world, and an even stranger man at the head of it. At its center, the truth of the universe - and the man Mirko Iryut lost so long ago.
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- Part 1 of red string of fate
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22 Apr 2023
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Sidurgu is already looking at her. He says nothing, of course, and wears an expression Wren cannot read. That damned arrangement of his features hiding whatever he’s thinking, that damned cuirass concealing whatever wounds he’s sustained, not just today, but almost every day up to this night. She looks away, studying the shadow her mug casts on the journal next to it. Perhaps she should just make more tea. She never knows whether Sidurgu likes it, but he always accepts a cup when offered.
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26 Dec 2022
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“Irie,” he said, a small smile tugging on his lips as he stood and reached out a hand. “It’s been a long time.”
“It has, G’raha,” she replied, hoping he would think her flush was from the cold as she took his hand. He was warm. “It’s so good to see you.” She resolutely ignored both ‘Zula and Thancred staring at them like hawks.
“You too,” he said, and she felt his gaze trail down her body as she removed her jacket. God damn it, she thought, I need a drink.
Or, CEO G’raha Iksalion of Coinach Systems is begged by his mom to please spend starlight at home, and who is he to run into but his old high school girlfriend working at the nearby university? Being back home brings back a slew of memories, and not all of them good...
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- Part 8 of milly's causing mischief again
- Part 1 of Chocobo Holiday Channel
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26 Dec 2022
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The thought of Alphinaud crosses her mind just before the beast charges and her blood runs cold as she wonders what he would say if they find her here. He would never forgive himself and that’s what makes her tap her linkpearl twice, spitting out the blood in her mouth as she prays it’s not configured to Alphinauds line — it crackles loudly before Thancreds smooth voice comes from the other end and it nearly makes her sob in relief.
“Thancred here. What’s the matter?”
In the aftermath of the Dragonsong War the Warrior of Light takes on a hunt too much for her to handle, hoping it might grant her a measure of catharsis. Instead she ends up injured with Thancred coming to her rescue, leaving them stuck together in Coerthas. Will this be a chance for them to work out the tension between them?
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20 Dec 2022
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AU. Effie Sunhaven, a minor princess of Gridania, has always known that one day, she would be sold off into political marriage. All she can do is wait in her gilded cage, forced to keep her distance and painfully lonely for it...
Until she meets the handsome new stablemaster, and everything changes. But when time runs out on their dangerous affair and suitors from the noble houses of Ishgard come calling, they'll need their very own knight in shining armor.
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12 Oct 2022
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seven minutes in heaven (and the rest in hell) by mischiefmilly
Fandoms: Final Fantasy XIV
22 Feb 2022
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The first time it happened, the Warrior had to admit that it was funny.
The last time it happened, the Exarch was disgusted.
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- Part 4 of milly's causing mischief again
- Part 1 of shadow over your face
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21 Sep 2022
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A childhood friend. A near-forgotten betrothal. A plot that threatens to undermine not only their lives, but the kingdom as a whole.
[complete]
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- Part 1 of worthy of risk
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11 Jul 2022
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“Sidurgu,” Anora tries, his name thick and awkward on her tongue — it feels indulgent somehow, like she’s laying claim to something they both agreed to relinquish.
It’s just a name, she tells herself; again, this is not the time to examine the ugly knot of feelings that has built a home in her chest. Sidurgu needs her, so why is it so hard to grit her teeth and do what needs to be done?
After the fight with Ser Ompagne Sidurgu is wounded and has to stay at Moghome for a while. Anora stays with him and tends to his wounds.
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06 Jul 2022