An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
so I wrote a thing. no one is allowed to be mad at me for anything that happens to Tossdir bc I am a coward and didn't have the heart to write Meneldir's actual death, so this takes place in the Meneldir Lives AU.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
well here I was, thinking that when I started this it could reasonably fit into a single tumblr post and I wouldn’t end up putting it on Ao3. I was mistaken, as it turns out!
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Lord of the Rings Online
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: oc & galasebdir, Tossdir & Galasebdir
Characters: Galasebdir (Lord of the Rings Online), Halbarad (Tolkien), Original Character, Tossdir, ok well Halbarad isn't HERE but he's mentioned enough I felt like I should tag him
Additional Tags: survivor's guilt, Mild Hurt/Comfort, I guess?? yea that sounds right I suppose, Spoilers, CHARACTER DEATH SPOILERS, idk what else you would categorize this as, just 'two guys talk about their feelings while the narritor forgets what "show don't tell" means'
Summary:
be warned! major spoilers for the ending of the Before The Shadow questline! like, the entire thing. the whole thing be spoiled here. do not read if you've not played it I am begging you. "oh but I like spoilers!" look I understand, I do too, but Not These Spoilers! speaking as someone who usually loves to be spoiled, I am TELLING you to go in blind.
look this is just me rambling on about two guys' emotions n stuff, it's not worth spoiling yourself over. the fic will still be here later, I promise.
with that out of the way, Tossdir has an illogical anxiety about going to sleep after a traumatic event because he does not want to save his progress and has some pretty severe survivor's guilt on top of that. little does he know, his new buddy is having similar problems.
must a fic have "a plot"? is it not enough to simply write about two men being sad in similar ways and bonding over it while literally nothing else happens?
(in hindsight I should probably have given it a serious title, but hey, this one isn’t exactly inaccurate!)
