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something like a death wish by slashingflourish
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Origins
18 May 2025
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“Hmm. So eager to walk into danger, dear Warden.”
Beyond his teasing tone, she senses a real, honest question brewing underneath the surface. Why are you so eager to trust me?
“I wish to be your equal, not to hold your leash. There is no need to act like you still wear a collar.”
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Talya, once again, tries to understand the former Crow that now resides in their camp. He derails the attempt.
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- Part 2 of lonely is the muse (talya surana)
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it's not over until the curtain call by slashingflourish
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Origins
21 Apr 2025
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It now occurs to her that Zevran doesn’t know the story of Jowan. Just like how Talya doesn’t know the story of … whoever that woman is. Zevran wasn’t there in Redcliffe, was he? How strange. It’s felt like he was by her side this entire journey.
“If you feel like you need to tell me, don’t bother.”
“Would you like to hear, though?”
Because she wants Zevran to know about this part of her. She wants him to understand her. She wants Zevran to know what’s hurt her the most, because she knows that despite all of his jokes, he will treat it well.
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Zevran and Talya discuss what they saw in the Temple of Sacred Ashes. Finally, Talya tells a story of her own. Zevran has a few thoughts about it.
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- Part 3 of lonely is the muse (talya surana)
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anders stays with us by slashingflourish
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Origins
16 Apr 2025
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"Queen Anora allowed my conscription! You can’t do this!” There’s a sort of naiviete to what Anders says that shocks her. Doesn’t he get it? Templars can do anything they want — even to Wardens, apparently. That scares her less than it should.
What do they do, how does she get him out of this —
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A mission to destroy another phylactery goes wrong. Not for Anders, mind you, but for the Warden-Commander.
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- Part 4 of lonely is the muse (talya surana)
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It shouldn’t mean anything. A striking apprentice, that’s all — he knows better than to become friends with them. Mages are dangerous. He knows this. It’s cruel, but you can’t treat them like normal people. If you get attached, Maker forbid you make friends, then you falter. A single second of hesitation could mean the difference between life and death, not only for you, but for the people you took a vow to protect. Do not get attached to mages.
And yet — despite his best efforts — she lingers.
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Cullen Rutherford finds himself fascinated with one of the apprentices of Kinloch Hold.
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- Part 1 of lonely is the muse (talya surana)
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Eyes alight with a sick malice Araj seems not to notice, the tiefling follows her from a safe distance. Uneasy, Astarion trails further behind. “I do hope you know what you’re doing.”
A wicked grin finally cracks onto her face, and she turns her head to look at him. “Don’t you want to hear what’s so important about my blood to her?”
"Oh." Understanding washes over his features, confusion melting into a smile that's almost as devious as hers. “When you put it like that … I think I do.”
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Araj Oblodra holds the blood of a Bhaalspawn in her hands, and that simply won't do.
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lonely is the muse (talya surana) by slashingflourish
Fandom Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening
18 May 2025
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history keeps pulling me down (the dark urge) by slashingflourish
Fandom Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
15 Feb 2024
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"Do you think even the worst person can be redeemed? I have to hold onto hope they could be, or I'm utterly doomed."
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individual stories from the journey of the dark urge, nethandre, a college of swords bard and later oath of ancients paladin. ordered chronologically, but written out of order whenever the mood strikes me.
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habitual sightings of phantoms by specialredo
Fandoms: The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy- (Video Game)
24 May 2025
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⚠️ SPOILERS for Route 0 ⚠️
Takumi knows the truth about Eito - how could he not, after he speared him through the heart with his betrayal? The Eito he thought he knew in his first timeline did not exist. It was a well-crafted facade, puppeteered by a masterful hand. And yet, despite how utterly and inanely stupid he feels for feeling this way... he just couldn't bring himself to believe it as entirely false. Because he sees those mannerisms, those habits and interests and likes and dislikes in this Eito. Maybe it was all a performance on a stage, but the actor was real.
Everything he went through was real to him. All that time he spent with that past Eito, all those feelings he had felt, everything he'd learnt about Eito - it was tangible, it was wonderful and devastating- it was... it was...
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Takumi Sumino is haunted by the version of Eito Aotsuki that no longer exists.
Bookmarked by slashingflourish
25 May 2025
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maybe i was you by fishfilet
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
31 Mar 2025
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Four years before the explosion at the Divine Conclave, a fugitive Krem is captured within sight of freedom by an Imperial cavalry officer. Fifteen years later, after the end of the world, they meet again.
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- Part 4 of Requiem for Thedas
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Bookmarked by slashingflourish
06 May 2025
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The Warden watches him with eyes made pale by moonlight. He can feel her gaze roam over him, considering. There’s the slightest pull in her face where she’s chewing the inside of her cheek. A brown, flaking smear of blood smudges her hairline, left from one of the assassins she killed today.
At last, she says, “You do not offend me.”
And that is that.Bookmarked by slashingflourish
06 May 2025
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The fire cracks and crackles. Smoke and embers rise and fade to nothing. There’s an ache in his chest that feels almost like a bruise. If he kissed her, the ache would get worse, and then it would get better. And then it would end. And then she would be gone. Better to dream. Better to hold her in his mind like this, better to wallow a little, pine a little, build around the absence. This is also romance. Isn’t it?
Zevran is good at romance. He is good at wallowing. He can tell as soon as he sees the Warden that she will be a good focus for these talents.
Bookmarked by slashingflourish
04 May 2025
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now i'm picturing you (and you're touching yourself) by kirkwallpaper for rottenwerk
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
30 Apr 2025
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As much as Phel is enjoying the peace that comes with the end of the Inquisition, he is reluctant to admit that he’s rather lonely now that nearly everyone has left Skyhold, leaving the fortress silent and mostly empty.
There have been a few stragglers — some unexpected, a few expected — Sera, who is waiting for her next assignment and a plan, right? to whisk the elf away somewhere far and less…. mopey, yeah? Cassandra is preparing her voyage to rebuild the Seekers — Krem and some of the Chargers linger and decorate the booths of Herald’s Rest.
And Commander Cullen, strangely enough, has not yet made the departure to Ferelden, for some reason — despite having no reason to stay in Orlais — haunting the stone halls like some pale, Ferelden ghost.
Regardless, for many — including Ahstrophel’s beloved — ‘country of origin’ and ‘where they needed to be’ end up being one and the same.
A place that proves far, far away.
Bookmarked by slashingflourish
02 May 2025