After all, what good is a protector who refuses to protect?
sorry this is late they sent me to hell 5 times over. FOR @mcytblraufest !!!
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After all, what good is a protector who refuses to protect?
sorry this is late they sent me to hell 5 times over. FOR @mcytblraufest !!!
they are kinda doomed but its okay
Warmth Retention - Chapter 2
Half of a tower has collapsed under the weight of the crystal, rubble punching holes in the castle below. The crystal is spreading inside and out now, consuming everything in its wake. It is only speeding up. It is only taking more and more and more, and she still does not know how to stop it. She still does not know if it can be stopped. She has to try regardless. She has to find the man who is doing this, and she has to protect her people. And there is a shape, distant and dark. It flies as she does, high above, watching. Waiting. She feels the moment its eyes settle on her. The moment his eyes settle on her.
Chapters: 2/2
Words: 8,125
Fandom: Philza Hardcore Lore, Witch Hat Atelier
Rating: Teen and Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Blaze Empress/Sandy
Characters: Blaze Empress, Sandy, Ender King, Rose | Flower Deity, Ocean Overlord
Additional Tags: Canon-Typical Violence, Canon-Typical Magical Violence, Implied/Referenced Character Death, Wise in Principles Blaze, Wise in Friendship Sandy, Wise in Teachings Rose, King of Ezrest Ocean, Brimhat Ender, Angst with a Happy Ending, Canon Retelling, Established Relationship, Established Blaze/Sandy
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I FORGOR TO TAG THE BLOG LAST TIME OOPS!!! this is for @mcytblraufest!! and my work is now all posted!! yippee!!! super fun chapter here ft me struggling to describe magical fights yet again. also ft lesbianism. the whole thing is ft lesbianism tbh. enjoy my super niche self indulgent au!!
Warmth Retention - Chapter 1
“We have identified the brimmed cap responsible for the destruction across the peninsula. I regret to inform you his name will not be new to you. Ender, the previous Wise in Friendship, has taken up a dangerous mantle and is using it to harm innocent people.” Blaze’s voice does not waver, at least audibly. Ender’s absence from the role was not broadcast, two years ago. Perhaps foolishly, but Blaze cannot spend too much time dwelling on hindsight. Stars know she does anyway. No, Ender’s departure was treated as normal, kept secret so as not to alarm those who the matter should not concern. Witch problems stay between witches, it is the way of the world, the way of the Pact. This is no longer just a ‘witch problem’. --- or, the Wise in Principles, Blaze, is forced to make a choice
Chapters: 1/2
Words: 4,107
Fandom: Philza Hardcore Lore, Witch Hat Atelier
Rating: Teen and Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Blaze Empress/Sandy
Characters: Blaze Empress, Sandy, Ender King, Rose | Flower Deity, Ocean Overlord
Additional Tags: Canon-Typical Violence, Canon-Typical Magical Violence, Implied/Referenced Character Death, Wise in Principles Blaze, Wise in Friendship Sandy, Wise in Teachings Rose, King of Ezrest Ocean, Brimhat Ender, Angst with a Happy Ending, Canon Retelling, Established Relationship, Established Blaze/Sandy
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BABYS FIRST AUFEST!!!! FUCKING FINALLY!!!
possibly the most Me fic to ever exist, im sure i was just sooooooo anonymous in all the claims mhm yep. no one could tell the philza hardcore lore blaze/sandy witch hat atelier au was mine.
ANYWAYS!! had a lot of fun with this one!! i got to play around with characters i love in a world i love and make such a cool story out of it!!! literally been spinning this idea in my head since the beginning of the year so it was SO nice to get to finally put it to paper
AND A HUGEMASSIVE SHOUTOUT TO MY ARTIST!!!! CHARLIE @cyburnya I AM IN LOVE WITH UR WORK AUGH!!!! aufest was a bang format this year and i fuckin WON SO BIG!!! ill embed and link the art at the end once charlie has posted it
uhh go forth, uncalled for and unscheduled self-promo! fic is here on ao3, and below the cut.
lapis lazuli
You miss her in blue.
It strikes you as strange--you would have expected it to be gold. You would have expected to see her in every fire, and to have to watch her ghost glint off of every vein of gold in blackstone, even off of the jewelry that your subjects wear, and you are unsure of whether or not this is a kindness. Instead, you have to search for it, and find yourself swallowing back tears at the oddest moments, blue-glazed pottery and stained glass and lapis.
That last one is the worst, you think. Lapis beads go in and out of fashion on a schedule you have not found reason to keep track of, until a harvest where you find yourself speaking your blessings to a ghast whose hair is just dark enough that the blue looks like it did against hers. It happens again, decades later--and hurts that much more for all the time that has passed, the way you struggle remember the shape of her face in that moment. There is the vague memory of dark eyes, of tusks and a smile, and then nothing, leaving you floundering through words you have known for almost as long as you have been Empress.
Of course, it happens with more than just a colour. Old maps have done worse, the feeling of paper under your fingertips forcing you to press a hand over your eyes to catch your tears. Being alone means that you have time to compose yourself, luckily, but the moment still rattles you, far worse than you think it should.
Some day, you hope, you will be able to, if not forget, then get to the point of acceptance, as mortal writings call it. The grief, you have learned, is a heavy thing, made heavier by how intertwined losing her was with losing the one you had once been closest to among your fellow deities, and the guilt that claws at you every time you realize that you miss the few moments of your life that you shared with her more.
What makes it easier is this.
You miss her in blue, and one day you are brave enough to surround yourself in it, head to a beach, sand turning to glass beneath your feet and crackling as you lie down, far enough from the water that it will not nibble at you. You have brought with you what little of her remains, this much later--a broken ring you had meant to return, a map, and your memory--and you look up knowing that, once some eternity has passed, as little will be left of you. In time, you will join her, but that time will not be now.
i think i'm happy with how this one turned out.
Jenny of Oldstones, Florence + the Machine // Ontwerp voor een hanger met bloemtakken van de witte wisteria, van geëmailleerd goud (c. 1905), Paul Louchet // An Ecclesiastic Building in Flames with Demons Above, Arthur Frederick Payne // Fire, Barns Courtney // NetherVoid & FlowerFall Montage (latest Hardcore world!), Ph1LzA // All Things End, Hozier // Design of Glass Window III. (1940–1944), Ján Novák // Trauer (1921), Karl Wiener
TORCHFLOWER IS CANON!!! THE YURI IS FINALLY REAL!! WE WIN THESE!!!
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