Nortan Event Council Creator Scavenger Hunt Entry!
will do supporter one later don't worry
Mare’s room is far more bare than I remember, more like mine than I ever wished it to be. I should relish this newfound similarity, relish the ways in which I’ve bent her in my mold. But all I feel is this sick ache, this fear that we are truly, deeply even. My head has always been full of holes.
Has hers finally become the same?
Mare gets amnesia in King's Cage and only remembers pre-betrayal Maven fic
Pretty Follies - Chapter 1 - beforeIlearnedcivility - Red Queen Series - Victoria Aveyard [Archive of Our Own]
In war, healers are the first to die.
House Skonos stood tall and proud before the Newblood uprising, a noble house that served the highest titles in the land. Their head would heal the king himself, easing wrinkles and gray hairs for all his days. Mother liked to grumble about it in the mirror.
Their sister house, Blonos, was able to flee. As their ability was to heal themselves, they thought they had nothing to fear when the rats came pounding at their door. But one arm was grabbed, then another, the life force draining from their skin. Leechers, they were called. House Carver, they named themselves.
They could not heal themselves.
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Mareven Role Swap AU where Newbloods rule, Reds are still oppressed, and Silvers exist in a hazy space in between
Newblood Queen - Chapter 1 - beforeIlearnedcivility - Red Queen Series - Victoria Aveyard [Archive of Our Own]
Mare sits upright, watching me dress. She was crying last night. She told me not to stop. If I close my eyes, her face spears through me, glazed with melancholic hope. Her skin was so soft.
My foot catches on a stray book and I clutch the dresser for balance. I fight the urge to look at her, reveal the silver creeping across my nose and cheeks. It’s so casual. Like she’s not talking to me.
I may have started a new game. One I don't know how to play.
Mare doesn't escape in King's Cage. Maven POV chapter, A Brand New Day
Lover's Curse (Four Time Red Queen Awards Winner) - Chapter 18 - beforeIlearnedcivility - Red Queen Series - Victoria Aveyard [Archive of Our Own]
gonna assume a series . . .
There is one quiet place left in the world. One nestled in the gap between dream and reality, where life is but a nightmare and my hands are not my own. One where I can ask a question I’ve always wondered.
Where the only sound is my flamemakers rolling on the ground.
Her fingers twitch. I won’t fight her. I won’t cry for help, so long as she stays with me til my last breath. So long as she burns as deeply as I do.
I won’t go alone. Not again.
Live with me, or die with me. Your choice.
Stay in the Light - beforeIlearnedcivility - Red Queen Series - Victoria Aveyard [Archive of Our Own]
The first night they came, I thought it was real. That he’d found me despite our efforts, despite all we’d done to run from him. My fingers dig in my chest. His notes burn bright at my side.
We don’t choose who we love. I wish, more than anything, that we could.
My nails claw at my chest, digging for something I cannot find. I’m a traitor. I’m a traitor, and nothing I’ve done has stopped it. Not Cal, not Kilorn, not the cause–I’m sleeping with the enemy, and he doesn’t even know it.
And if I’m not captured, he never will.
Mare dreams of Maven during Glass Sword
birds of a feather choke together - beforeIlearnedcivility - Red Queen Series - Victoria Aveyard [Archive of Our Own]
Once upon a time, a dragon settled in the lakelands of Norta.
It didn’t mean to. It’d been on its way to Piedmont, after all, or perhaps Ciron, the nation that worshipped its firebreathing friends. But the wind was cruel to it, as it so often was, and forced it to land upon the ungrateful people of Norta. A people who pelted its side with arrows and threatened its scales with boiling oil.
A people who swiftly put a price on its head.
Maven turns into the dragon he slayed and Irisare quest to save or slay him
Evangeline plots to steal Iris' kill and Elane tries to stop her
And Cal is just trying to blacksmith in peace
Raised in Fire, Forged by Smoke - Chapter 1 - beforeIlearnedcivility - Red Queen Series - Victoria Aveyard [Archive of Our Own]
Maven’s voice echoes around us, a grand speech listing Tiberias’s crimes. Is this to be my life? Always watching, always waiting as he preens and squawks? Word games, court plots, brief refuges in Mare’s company, until she dies and he lashes out at me. His crimes. My punishment.
He’ll want this graphic and visceral, to give them a real show. I have too much spite for that. Water rises around Tiberias, thin curtains curving into a globe. In his mouth. Out his nose. Make it quick.
Mother was always fond of small mercies.
Will I ever see her again?
Mare doesn't escape in King's Cage - Iris is set to execute Cal
Lover's Curse (Four Time Red Queen Awards Winner) - Chapter 10 - beforeIlearnedcivility - Red Queen Series - Victoria Aveyard [Archive of Our Own]
He blinked, then laughed, arms swooping to her waist as the rain continued to pour. His lips tasted of black tea and peppermint, of bitter spice and startling sweetness. Rain dropped down her arm, but she didn’t care, finally drawing back as he stared down at her. “One percent chance.”
His eyes darted, nervous. “Of this working.” He exhaled. “You know my mother. You know this town. If they knew about us–”
“Hush.” She pressed another kiss to his lips. “You don’t have to worry about them. Not with me.” Her lips tugged, too somber to smile, but too hopeful to frown. “We won’t let them rule our lives.”
Maven cupped her cheek as they kissed again, as she closed her eyes and exhaled against his lips. “One percent,” she echoed.
His finger slid along her chin, a soft murmur. “Bad odds.”
“When has that ever stopped me?”
they didn't believe me when I said you were the one - Chapter 1 - beforeIlearnedcivility - Red Queen Series - Victoria Aveyard [Archive of Our Own]
“Here, I’ll get them–” She trails off, jolting as I tug them off, finger by finger, with my teeth. She bites her lip, the faintest hint of red on her nose.
“That was the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen you do.”
I make a face. “I have definitely done weirder.”
WIP - fruitcake just makes me sick (New Year's Eve party fic)
Her hair flutters in the wind as she vaults over the bars, as she dodges each rod that aims to trip her toes. Sweat gleams off her brown skin and I want to lean in closer, to see just how much I can push her until she breaks. My breath hitches.
And then I trip again, sprawling onto the pavement.
I cough, sitting upright. Ugh. I can already taste the dust in my mouth. Who would ever subject themselves to this on purpose? Me, apparently. I scoff. Whatever Elizabeth wanted, it had better be worth it.
I look up, and realize Mareena has already caught up to me in her second lap. She smirks, eyeing me before she carefully steps over my traitorously weak legs. "Is the dirt tasty down there?"
Maven joins the Newblood nobility in Training
Newblood Queen - Chapter 22 - beforeIlearnedcivility - Red Queen Series - Victoria Aveyard [Archive of Our Own]
