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[fate-touched]

[image description copied from alt text: album art for "Arbor" by Fate-Touched. a painting entirely in shades of purple and orange, showing shadows of trees on the ground. the branches intersect to spell out ARBOR. end id]

ARBOR

a dozen lesbian breakup songs about trees, vampires, and someone who once made me promise never to write a song about them.

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Tracklist:

Midwinter Child [3:19]

Erie [2:58]

Wyckoff and Palmetto [2:29]

Arbor [4:52]

Garlic [2:16]

Things Already Known [3:25]

On Bended Knee [4:57]

Mixed Metaphor Song (Both) [4:09]

Go Without [2:49]

Willow Weep [2:55]

Sophienne [4:14]

Cry Out [4:53]

[sulphuricgrin]

Fate-Touched Chapter 6

Chapter Word Count: 15,649 (sorry!) It's Lilliandra's chapter! I love getting to show her attitude and little by little showing how fucked up she can be. (And next chapter is Miraak's finally >:3)

Fandom: Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Relationships: Female Dovahkiin | Dragonborn/Miraak (Elder Scrolls), Miraak (Elder Scrolls)/Original Female Character(s) Characters: Original Female Character(s), Original Male Character(s), The Daedric Princes (Elder Scrolls), Miraak (Elder Scrolls), Thalmor (Elder Scrolls)

Additional Tags: cosmic horror, Existential Horror, Betrayal, Moral Ambiguity, Psychological Instability, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Religion, Trauma, Emotional/Psychological Abuse, Body Horror, Angst, Canon-Typical Violence, Drug Use, Bigotry & Prejudice, Torture, POV Third Person, Bard Dovahkiin | Dragonborn (Elder Scrolls), Miraak Lives (Elder Scrolls), Slow Burn, It's Miraak of course it's a slow burn, Denial of Feelings, Fate & Destiny, Destiny Bound Lovers, no beta we die like modern literature, Building upon lore, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, villain dragonborn, Miraak shows up in chapter 7, Unhealthy Relationships, Yeah there might be smut in much later chapters, Obsessive Behavior, Villain romance, baby steps and manslaughter, Graphic Description of Corpses, Necromancy, Villain Protagonist

[rashenditrash]

"Not just gold, you need diamonds? [. . .] I don't have . . . I don't have that."

-Vex, CR1E103 "Fate-Touched"

How tragic and ironic is it in this scene that Vex, who has spent the entire campaign amassing as much wealth as humanly possible, is forced to confront the fact that she lacks the material components necessary to bring her brother back? I can't even. Laura Bailey is just so good.

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lyrics:

how long? nursing the cinders one more reason to hate the winter

you on the tiled floor me up on the counter don't know what for

I'm running out of things to say can't shut my mouth come and shut it for me

wrought filigree your forehead pressed to my shoulder inevitably you have got to get older I have got to get over

no more favors make it worse every time that I try no, no opinions double-bitten and triple-shy

drawn the carriage yoked the horses I stood at your back one eye on the sun the other eye checking the date on the carton how long?

you always bite the hand I always pick the scab know what I wanna hear never said it did you, dear?

use the letters with pleasing shapes I wasn't playing coy early dusk overtakes and you're gone again

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lyrics:

spit out from the plane no sleep, nothing cogent to say feeling almost deranged cherry syrup flowing through my veins hands out for my babe hope she tells me how it tastes neck bared for my babe hope she tells me how it tastes

I think there's something living in the lake and I am gonna make a Great mistake find the place where monsters hide I see a cave, I'll go inside she's gonna have a piece of me tonight

dancing over the line I'm leather-bound as she splits my spine feeling almost sublime do anything to have this all the time demonic divine hope she tells me she's all mine choked out the divine hope she tells me she's all mine

I think there's something living in the lake and I am gonna make a Great mistake find the place where monsters hide I see a cave, I'll go inside she's gonna have a piece of me tonight there must be something lurking in the trees I bet it's gonna send me to my knees gouges made by sharpened claws I was never one to beat the odds and she's gonna catch me in her jaws

she picks me clean returns me from the dream not as bad as it seems I can almost believe she says what she means leave my bones in Superior seas hold her down when she says please I have lived through darker nights than these

I think there's something living in the lake and I am gonna make a Great mistake find the place where monsters hide I see a cave, I'll go inside she's gonna have a piece of me tonight there must be something lurking in the trees I bet it's gonna send me to my knees gouges made by sharpened claws I was never one to beat the odds and she's gonna catch me in her jaws she's gonna catch me in her jaws she's gonna catch me in her jaws

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lyrics:

it didn't bellow out of me the heaving breath of broken men a wracking tremor heaven-bent the weep that drowned the sea

it wasn't a symphonic swell the precipice of something great cracked glass just about to break no legends to retell

no, it was quiet as the wind through the trees quiet as the rotting of the leaves quiet as an oath on bended knee I hope you still heard it, honey

it was easy chewing off my tongue my teeth were made for sinking in for floss and twine and safety pin for songs I swore I'd leave unsung

but you know everything decays erosion runs the edges smooth the champion will always lose dust gathers on the picture frames

oh, it died like the wind through the trees died like the rotting of the leaves died like an oath on bended knee I hope that it haunts you, honey

I still can't rest my head at night there was no lesson to be learned nothing gained and nothing earned no love like fist on bloody knife

but it was honest as the wind through the trees honest as the rotting of the leaves honest as an oath on bended knee I hope you believed it, honey

yeah, it was quiet as the wind through the trees and it died like the rotting of the leaves and it was honest as an oath on bended knee I hope you regret it, honey I hope you regret it, honey I hope you regret it

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lyrics:

climb tall enough to block the sun behind your silhouette look down from that dizzying height see the small things that you left behind and how far away we get hang your head, drop the curtains, usher artificial night

come on, willow, weep and let me hear it make me believe that it mattered at all come on, willow, weep and let me hear it can't expect a sound from a tear that doesn't fall

dig your roots up from the earth and set them all aflame do your best to breathe around the smoke wrap your hands around my throat and bid me do the same tap out when you've had enough of the beast that you awoke

come on, willow, weep and let me hear it make me believe that it mattered at all come on, willow, weep and let me hear it can't expect a sound from a tear that doesn't fall

looking for your lonely violence I drag myself across the floor trying to scream around your silence 'til I just can't stand it anymore

come on, willow, weep and let me hear it make me believe that it mattered at all come on, willow, weep and let me hear it can't expect a sound from a tear that doesn't fall

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lyrics:

hand me the knife, babe I'm wailing hungry how many times will you walk away from me? I've left the door unlocked I, I've left the porch light on

disappeared like tissue paper held up to the sun my heart begun my hands begun your mouth rejected every one oh, stick a fork in me, I'm done oh, stick a fork in me, I'm done

you were empty I would have filled you up I was moving you never sat still enough one day you're gonna see the wreck you made of me one day you're gonna feel so fucking guilty

and when you're breaking down asking who's gonna love you now look down at your empty plate and remember all the meals you turned away

I plunge right toward the puncturing I hate the white November brings I see the night in everything I see your bite in everything