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Raised by Wolves by WarriorEowyn
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
29 Jun 2023
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Once, in infancy, he was their child-king to be, heir of Elu Thingol and Lúthien Tinúviel and Dior Elúchil. Now, he is an open wound. They love him, they welcome him, they are as kind as they can be, but a thousand little things about him make them flinch. Inheritors of a culture lost and burned and fragmented, they can never take a king who constantly reminds them of their enemies.
The immediate foes outside him, the servants of Angband, are easy to fight. His other enemies are inside him, have made him one of them, and he cannot escape.
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Elrond grapples with identity, belonging, and family in the wake of his unusual upbringing.
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19 Jun 2025
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Camelot is a far-off dream, a place which was made for men. They travel through the forest, hunting.
Merlin lays with the deer and they with him, and he cannot bear their suffering the way he once cared about the suffering of men, so he splinters arrows before they pierce flesh and leaves the rotting bodies of unlucky creatures on the hot stones that circle the men’s fires.
If they cannot be taught their place in the forest, then they will leave it at least unsettled.
Men fear decay and death.
Merlin fears neither anymore.
(Arthur banishes Merlin from Camelot, so Merlin goes to the forest and slowly loses himself to its magic. By the time Arthur learns what he's lost, it's too late to bring Merlin back by his own will.)
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13 Apr 2025
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There's more to being a knight than swinging a sword, and bureaucracy has finally caught up with the boys. They have a 'Sir' in front of their names now, and that means they have earned the right to bear a coat of arms.
Who knew there were so many finicky rules behind the colorful shields the nobles carry with such pride? And why is Lancelot grinning like the cat that got the cream?
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28 Aug 2024
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The Crooked, The Cradle by RoyalRampionEngineer
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types, The Witcher (TV)
05 Jan 2024
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“Hello my daughter,” Pavetta whispers. She smooths a hand over her daughter’s ashen blonde hair, so much like her own. Pavetta idly wonders if she will inherit her own striking green eyes, or the steady dark brown of her father, Duny.
As if fated by Destiny itself, the babe blinks her eyes open. Her big, beautiful, bright cornflower blue eyes. Distantly, Pavetta hears the bard in the corner reaching the end of his song, the strings of the lute building into a resounding crescendo. She has a sudden flash of memory, of those strong lutist fingers pressed against her bare spine, playing a different kind of song.Ah fuck, Pavetta thinks, more than a little hysterically. Ah, fuck.
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Or, a Witcher AU where Jaskier is Ciri’s biological father.
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29 Dec 2022
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Instead of getting there in October, Billy Hargrove rolls into town at the end of November; complete with a broken arm, a head full of stitches, and some newly-refreshed fear of his father. There he meets Steve Harrington: the preppy dreamboat who seems content with hating Billy's guts on sight and is determined to ignore him for the rest of the year. Billy's never been easily ignored, though, and Steve is about to really learn what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object.
or, another season 2 AU that occupies my mind rent-free
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13 Nov 2022