Shadow and Bone Fic Inspiration

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

This is my collection of prompts!!

If you use one/any, then I would love it if you sent me a link so that I can see where you took the idea! I hope you enjoy my prompts, headcanons, recs (tagged: fic link), and occasional research!!!

[bettycooper]

The missive bounces off her thigh into the dirt. Alina reaches for it, her hands already shaking. It’s the thin, yellowed paper carried by the scouting groups. There’s blood on one corner.

“Another whole town.” Zoya doesn’t give her time to read. “Three of the scouting group were killed on-site. They had to put down a fourth in the night. He tried to hide his bite.”

“We need another sun summoner,” says Genya, more gently. “Think how much we could do, Alina.”

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A different type of terror has come to Ravka. One sun summoner will not be enough to hold back the tides forever. And everyone knows the best chance for a child to be a powerful Grisha is for it to have two powerful Grisha parents. - haunted & holy, made in glory by goldcranes

@darklinaserver Ben & Jessie Birthday Week

[lucife56]

Sketches Inspired by “Scars of Light” by Kallypso

[lucife56]

Scene in chapter 22 of “Ten suns in the sky” by PresidentHades

[burninghoneyatdusk]

forever ago

a darklina fic

complete | multi-chapter | explicit | 38k

soulmates | cottagecore | angst | best friend’s daughter | father’s best friend | age difference | slow burn

If you asked anyone in the town of Balakirev about Aleksander Morozova and Anatoly Starkov, they would claim that the boys were inseparable, twin flames, each a shadow to the other. With their matching dark eyes and mops of dark hair, they were even mistaken as brothers often enough. It is technically untrue, though neither boy would deny it.

They say blood is thicker than water, but amongst the moon and the sun and the Earth beneath their feet, each boy knows that a drop of scarlet is just that and nothing more.

Aleksander is holding his newborn goddaughter when he makes the devastating discovery that she is his soulmate.

ao3 link in reblog

[burninghoneyatdusk]

you kept me like a secret (I kept you like an oath)

a darklina fic

wip | multi-chapter | explicit | 10.7k

modern au | amnesia | exes to friends to lovers | unplanned pregnancy | boss/employee relationship | secret relationship | office sex | smut | angst

When Alina wakes up in the hospital after an accident, she learns that not only did she lose her memories from the past year, but that she’s pregnant—and has no idea who the father is.

Aleksander never planned on having a secret affair with one of his employees, but Alina snuck up on him in more ways than one. When she loses her memories in an accident, he realizes that she has no memory of the affair that prompted him to divorce his wife and her to end her own relationship. He also has no idea how to tell her that he’s the father of her child.

ao3 link in reblog

[lucife56]

Inspired by chapter 20 of “Ten Suns in the Sky" by PresidentHades.

[lucife56]

[orlissa]

He finds her on the couch in his private parlour as he returns from the Grand Palace, almost as if she was waiting for him–still clad in bits of her uniform from combat training, the fitted breeches and loose shirt with the sleeves pushed past her elbows, she sits sideways, a pillow wedged between her back and the hard armrest, her socked feet resting on the cushions as she reads what appears to be one of her infernal romances, one of those cheap paperbacks imported from Ketterdam. The tip of her tongue sticking out and her gaze flitting across the page, she is completely engrossed in her story–so much so that it seems like she doesn’t even notice him–, which he finds absolutely endearing.

He finds her absolutely endearing.

(She is right there where she belongs.)

Smiling to himself, he turns around to go back to his study, sheds his kefta, and gathers a small stack of papers from his desk–he really does need to read some reports–, then returns to the parlour.

Seemingly deaf to the sound of his steps, she doesn’t even raise her eyes from the page until he grabs and lifts her legs, which earn him a startled little shriek, reminiscent of a kitten frightened of its own reflection.

“Hey!” she laughs half a second later, her book momentarily set aside. “What are you doing?”

“Taking a seat on my couch,” he answers nonchalantly as he sits, laying her legs over his thighs, so she is trapped between his body and the armrest.

“But I’m already sitting here,” she teases, leaning into his shoulder.

“Noticed that, you squatter” he tells her with a grin, leaning back against the back of the couch. “Be glad I didn’t just dump you on the floor.”

“You wouldn’t do that.” She sticks her tongue out at him, making him chuckle. No, he really wouldn’t do that.

“Hush now, you little criminal,” he kisses her forehead, wrapping the arm holding his papers around her shoulder, as if he means to read them over her head. “Go back to your book and let me work.”

They both know he won’t work, not in the long run, not with his hand on her knee and her scent in his nose, but she settles against him nonetheless, her gaze wandering back to the cheaply printed pages of her novel. It’s nice to humor him sometimes.

(Five minutes he lets out a weary sigh, so she asks What’s wrong?, and he just shakes his head and asks what her book is about instead, and she tells him, but it bores him soon, so another five minutes later she is on her back with him over her, kissing her fiercely, her book and his reports long forgotten.)

[cassberrie]

Fanart of Alina’s Winter Fete outfit in the latest chapter of @presidenthades ‘s Ten Suns in the Sky because I’m a simp whoops 😌🖤

[bettycooper]

A series of questionable decisions lead Alina to meet the Black General a bit earlier. Butterfly effect ensues. - I see the real you (even if you don’t I do) by Ironblue

@darklinaserver Ben & Jessie Birthday Week

[lucife56]

Inspired by I Didn’t Want To (Have to Haunt You) by Lalaith_Yamainu.

[sabficinspo]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[kensthjerte]

I've been waiting for you for so long...

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After the Fold, Alina dresses in black and stops summoning. She tells Mal that black and brown clothes make them less noticeable, which may even be true, but that’s not the real reason. With everything over, Alina actually has time to think. First, she realizes, as her body goes into withdrawal, that Baghra must have been drugging her. Mal finds them an inn to stay at and, when Alina falls asleep, she dreams of Aleksandr.

In the dreams, Alina gets the chance to express her horror, hurt, anger, and love for the Darkling. He, in turn, explains his reasoning and tells her a much more complicated version of what Baghra told her. Alina always wakes wishing that the dreams were real- especially because, in her dreams, Aleksandr wasn’t lying about caring for her. Alina tells Mal about the dreams at some point and Mal realizes that they aren’t dreams. They don’t know what a Tether is, but Alina can feel the pull. Eventually, Aleksandr finds Alina. Or she goes to him. Or they agree to meet somewhere. The point is that they are together.

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Alina, for whatever reason you like, was not forced to join the army. She did something else instead. Which is how she met Nikolai.

Nikolai is planning on assassinating his father and brother in hopes of saving Ravka and her people from complete ruination. However, he needs someone to actually do the deed- someone who can go unnoticed. Alina agrees to be that someone and, to that end, Nikolai secures her a position in the palace.

Unfortunately, he forgets to specify which palace and Alina ends up in the Little Palace.

Somehow (perhaps she is assigned to the General’s rooms or she falls in love with his horse or she befriends Genya or Fedyor, or Genya foils her plans in an effort to protect Alina- whatever you like), Alina encounters Aleksandr. Our Sasha is, of course, a giant simp and an overprotective mother hen (despite the fact that Alina is not, to his knowledge, Grisha). Then Aleksandr finds out about the assassination plot. Or that Alina is the Sun Summoner. Or both.

Alina and Aleksandr both have to adjust their plans (probably harder for him to do). Aleksandr remains a simp.

[sabficinspo]

Alina Starkov is indeed wasting away when the Darkling finally finds his Sun Summoner. The wasting sickness is a reasonable assumption, but then Aleksander sees the control Alina has over her light. No, it turns out that Alina didn't become ill until her body started to change. Because Alina Starkov is a succubus. She had been wasting because she remained innocent. Perhaps if she hadn't been touch starved (her surrogate sibling being the only one who gave her any sort of physical affection) she could have been stronger.

Aleksandr’s touch may have kept her alive from the Fold to Os Alta, but apparently, no one knew that a succubus imprints... Like a duckling.

[sabficinspo]

Alina, a student (high school-postgraduate), doesn’t have much of a social life. She goes to a club (I used BDSM for the moodboard, but it could be a county club, dance- exotic or regular, yacht club, etc) and meets Aleksandr. He’s doesn’t have much of a social life either, due to work, and they begin a relationship of one kind or another. He helps her pay for her education and she brings light back into his life. She gets pregnant.

I just think it would be lovely to have two people who are crazy busy and have trust issues meet, start a relationship, and communicate. Also, smut.

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While Mal, her almost brother, was conscripted into the army, Alina was deemed too weak and the army didn’t want her. She found a job in Os Alta working at a pastry shop and, one day, on her way home from work she ran into an oprichnik. No, literally, she ran into an oprichnik. He helps her get back to the place she is staying (boarding house, apartments, brothel, friend/acquaintance of Ana Kuya or Mal) and she expresses curiosity about the Grisha.

The oprichnik teaches her about Grisha history, culture, and current issues. He also begins to teach her self defense. Alina brings him pastries and helps him think out his problems- helps him remember that he’s manipulating people, not pieces on a game board.

Only, the man she thinks is an oprichnik, isn’t really an oprichnik. In fact, he couldn’t be an oprichnik if he wanted to, because oprichnik cannot be Grisha. Alina’s new friend (to absolutely nobody’s shock) is actually the Black General, Duke Pytor Kirigan, otherwise known as the Darkling.

Aleksandr wants to keep Alina, for as long as he can. He knows that her life will only be the blink of an eye to him, but he loves her and wants to spend as much time as he can with her.

Perhaps Aleksandr marries Alina. Maybe someone else finds out about the time they spend together and causes problems. Maybe Alina’s power is revealed. Maybe Alina starts a revolution. I have no idea 🤷🏻‍♀️, but this background/set up popped into my head!!