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Going through my dump doc for the Felassan fic and oh

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wip Friday????

I'm writing everything out of order as I figure out these stories, so I thought it would be fun to post how my outline/drafts work. A lot of it is just figuring out what's going on hahaha.

A glimpse from the solavellan post veilguard fic.

My Lavellan commits to protecting the veil by also binding herself to it, heh.

'somethingelven' ahahaha I need to invent a name but haven't thought about it yet!

Rambling under the cut

This is still becoming something; I have some fun ideas but it also involves all too much plotty world building, so I'm not sure how far I will take it - I'm enjoying writing these glimpses, though.

Mostly I've been working on the Felassan fic, which ALSO involves a lot of plotting, but the structure is kinder - I'm writing it as a short story, not a chaptered fic, so it feels more manageable. That said I am also stepping through millennia of his life so that is requiring a lot of thought 🙃 I am really enjoying it though! It's that process of - first figuring out what on earth is going on, and then choosing the moments from it, and it's very much a dialogue between those two things - I have a gigantic cut section haha as I throw ideas and thoughts on the page and evolve them. It's why my doc is so big. I won't clean a part up until I've got the structure sorted because it will keep evolving; it's a fun way to write, although it means at some point I will have to sit down and fill in all of the holes!

Have I spent the last couple of days figuring out Elvhen hierarchy and where Felassan sits relative to it, yes. Remembering Wolf Hall was the breakthrough- totally going to model the patronage networks on this (with Solas in a Cromwell sort of position for Mythal, and Felassan as Solas' right hand). Next on the docket - the evolution of their relationship .. yes I really am just writing extended character studies but it's what I enjooooy! And that's what these fics are about, getting back into writing again. The last year was just too crazy. I went from being a little creatively burnt out to having no time at all

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Who wants a snippet of the second chapter of this Felassan x Solas fic? Have a snippet of the second chapter of this Felassan x Solas fic

This is the opening to it - and those who have read my Wayhaven BtY fic may recognise that I have tendency of introducing my backstory chapters this way haha. I have spent so much time world building for Felassan and you can definitely tell hahaha an earlier rendition of this just crammed in too many Neat Facts from his childhood. But this is much more in voice, and I like it for now - I needed to know where I was starting from (this chapter is an entirely different time/place than chapter 1)

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wip whenever

Ava/Nate/Detective; a snippet from Ember Days, and the polymance we deserve:

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...Nate re-emerges shortly from the hall brandishing a bottle of red wine, two pewter goblets threaded between his fingers. He retrieves another from the windowsill. "And this,” he says, pouring out glasses on the desk with no further ado — although careful to do it away from the books — “is from Sicily. 1724."

"Good choice," Ava says, turning away from the bookshelves at last.

Nate’s expression is affectionate and bemused as he hands over hers. "Yes, if only because it was yours."

Ava’s smile curls the corners of her mouth. "Yes, it was."

Dinah crosses an arm across her chest, trying to hold back her laughter. They are just— so very— “You dragged books and wine up a mountain?"

Ava blinks, unconcerned, and Nate smiles, and she loves them, like this, she loves them. "But of course."

Dinah is building quite an image of the two of them here, of the time they must have spent in this chalet together. The quiet of the countryside, the shelter of the alps — peace and space and time.

The pewter goblet warms in her hands as she raises it to drink. The wine is red and rich, and tastes ever so slightly of oak.

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Good MORNING, have a belated WIP Wednesday (I've been struggling to sleep for a while, sob, but found myself writing last night which was lovely-!)

I'm considering myself tagged again by @crownleys - looking forward to your antiquity Thursday!

A little Adam and Tobi for the soul:

No, I don't know where this is going to go, I just had to write this conversation. Breaking the Yearlings verse, I think, which is much softer than the A route in the books.

Tagging: uhm a random assortment of lovely people - @vryptid @kirnet @thee-morrigan @cigarettesandinevitablebetrayal @dasburnfrau @serenpedac @agentnatesewell @nat-seal-well @nerdierholler @serially-wayhaven @lellium @pinksparkl @dottiechan

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You know I HAVE to ask abt the first death of Adam du Mortain

Also asked by @nat-seal-well @ejunkiet and @serial-chillr YOU ALL HAVE GREAT TASTE ...it's the final Breaking the Yearlings chapter. It's taking me a long time, and I'm not sure if it's necessary, yet I can't seem to let it go either...! I've already teased sections of it before (here), so this time, have a conversation that I cut because it didn't fit with what I was going for...

Will this one ever be done HOPEFULLY, EVENTUALLY. I was rereading the fic the other day though, and ohhh, I've done some good work. I want!! To finish it!! This, and Ember Days. I have a novel to get back to now that I've finally figured out how to solve a plot point - I need to plot the rest of it properly now, though...!

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WIP Wednesday

Considering myself tagged by @ejunkiet

Gonna do this a little differently today, as I just finished 'what power thou art' for @fujinstorm as part of the Wayhaven secret santa. Have a few snippets that didn't make the cut:

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Cute extra details about the office goodbye party:

Sung being Sung and staring contemplatively at golfing green photos:

And then the full story of why Nat is so into ornithology (it just didn't fit!!)

(and I was talking a little to @thee-morrigan about this, but Natalie did indeed order all 16 volumes of the Handbook of the Birds of the World, each one individually as they were released, costing over $2,000 in all, and Ava had the great pleasure of watching each arrive at whichever agency facility they were staying in at the time. "Truly, Natalie? Another?")

Tagging YOU READING THIS and also @agentnatesewell and @nerdierholler and @serenpedac and @delucadarling @nat-seal-well

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<3 <3 <3 and here’s the other three - thanks again, @grapecaseschoices​!

OTP asks (still open <3)

Do they have any hobbies they share?

Ava and Nate share a lot, haha! Cultural appreciation, although it is Nate that organises and makes the time for it, drawing her away from her work (willingly-unwillingly) to a play or a concert. She does not accompany him to many things, and does not need society or social company as he does. She does enjoy reading, but not to the extent that Nate does, and it is much farther down her priority list. He will give her books, and eventually, she will read them. Their tastes differ though (something Nate will account for in the recommending of literature, haha). Her ability to suspend her disbelief is far less forgiving than Nate's. She will enjoy a romp of an adventure book, but often they take too many leaps or get something wrong and that will throw her out of it. I can see her reading and enjoying John le Carre, though.

Otherwise, yes, their hobbies differ, and my ideas surrounding Ava and her hobbies have very much been developed with a great friend of mine, so all kudos to her and her galaxy brain. Because Ava is much more in the body, physical; she boxes, spars, enjoys sports, competition and challenge. She likes to win; likes horses and fast cars. I'd say she went to horse races (when it was earthier and not as corporatised), she maybe had her own stables, she likes contact sport (but rarely has anyone to truly compete with - although I swear that there were and still are in this dystopian world still some place where a supernatural community can live safely - and there is a potential place for Ava and Nate to retreat to someday).

Nate supports her in her interests, but will not participate, haha, but he doesn't need to. Nate is competitive in other ways; he is a fiend at cards, reads up on chess, and their chess matches can go on for days. When he can tell he is losing, though, he will outrageously cheat rather than surrender, which makes her indignant and makes him laugh, but eventually he will let her have her victory, insufferable as she becomes about it.

Dinah likes to run listening to podcasts. To read, to travel, to experience new things - she has a kindle but struggles to make the time for it; she picks up boxing after everything with Murphy, picks up physical training as a way to feel like she is regaining control over her body (after that was stripped away). She likes cheesy romcoms from the 80s and 90s, and still has a DVD player, and a growing collection of DVDs. When she was very young, she wanted to be a dancer, but that dream died out quickly.

The move to Wayhaven, tiny as it is, fits in with her career path. She tells herself that she will transition back to the city, she is here but she hadn't intended to put down roots. This is the town she grew up in, though, and she found herself drawn back.

Who is more sexually experimental? Who's more vanilla?

Hahaha, well, Nate certainly has the most experience. Ava likes to be in control, and that goes both ways in sex - sometimes she likes to be the one guiding, and other times she likes (although she finds it hard to articulate) being able to just let go. She trusts Nate, implicitly, but their sexual relationship definitely goes slowly, as she becomes more comfortable with being so open, so emotionally vulnerable.

Nate also enjoys both being in control and surrendering it, and he definitely surrenders prettily.

What are their thoughts on having children?

I can see Nate and Ava adopting, definitely. But it's something there would need to be good communication around, and it would not be easy for Ava to come to the point where she felt comfortable (for a variety of reasons, not in the least her fear of impending loss). With how vampirism works, she feels relieved that she and Nate would be unable to have children (think there was an ask somewhere about how two human born vampires couldn't have children, but if their partner is human, they could…?). She definitely feels like her choice of this life involved closing that door to herself, and I'm not sure she's given herself the opportunity or space to challenge that (quite a feat for 900 years, oh Ava).

But she would want Nate to have children, if he wanted. And he does, I think. A supernatural child, perhaps. But it's a strange life they lead, and their work (and the purpose it gives her) is so very important to Ava. She is not willing to set her life aside, who she is aside, and she should not be asked to. Their lives are also dangerous, too dangerous for a child. But if she could have her work, and they would be safe from it? If she could come home to a family, to Nate and another… 🥹🥹

Hmm. In 300 years, now I'm wondering if they might have done this, haha. Incidentally rather than formally, certainly. Maybe not for a full childhood. Ava would argue that their work is too dangerous… this world is too dangerous, and they are too isolated; a child needs stability, community, a home.

With time and actual healing, Ava would agree to stay, though. To commit. They could settle someplace safe, she'd change her duties to something less liable to bring the monsters to their doorstep.

And I've thought about it, but it would be the same for the polymance. Given the dangers, I think Dinah would choose to adopt. She would want to turn first, though. In the hope it would give her a greater ability to protect herself, even if it doesn't nullify the blood.

And because this reminded me of it - Ava and Nate have definitely adopted dogs before.