#hiareth

[longlostpevensie]

Of all the words I have available to me in this vast expanse of existence, the closest I can come to explain how I feel about Narnia is "hiraeth"

[dopamine-ashes]

He’s going to be okay

[tafferling]

Hiraeth: Eyes Up, Guardian

Chapter 12: Kinderguardian Pickup

In which Nicole keeps fretting over a set of green eyes, Ghost outs himself as needing a little coaching on matters of privacy, and John gets his first shot at picking up a Kinderguardian.

Read it on Ao3! :D

I am joined by @maverick-werewolf​ and Nicole gets to meet her fantastic John. Click here if you want to know more about him.

“John Shephard,” the man with wolves howling at each other on his breastplate introduced himself.

“Nicole Brennan,” she replied in an instant, more on instinct than anything. But it took her a moment to notice how he’d extended his hand and how it hovered there, leisurely. Patiently waiting for her to shake it. A moment which she spent choking down the flutter of dusty, dry moth wings.

She didn’t. Couldn’t.

All she could do was stand there, her eyes locked on him and a noose snaring her chest together tight. It wasn’t even that he looked threatening, the rifle on the strap and armour notwithstanding. The opposite, really. He held his head slightly cocked, curiously so, and yet all she wanted to do was turn around and be elsewhere again. Not in front of him, surrounded by dead things.

A recurring thing, that.

Read it on Ao3! :D

Oh, and here’s John, The Young Wolf. Drawn by @saph-y​ who you should totally check out and support cause omg.

[the-gunslock]

Recently I have read through some memories of Nicole, an explorer Warlock whose mun is @tafferfield. The idea of a Warlock that walks the world amazed my mun so much she had to design this and have me give it to her as a gift!

I present to you the Suit of the Homesick. And go read Hiareth on Ao3. Meet Nicole and her lovable Ghost. I mean it.

[tafferling]

Trianglebobs.

Me, trying to write around being clueless on what to call Ghost’s... trianglebobs.

Nicole reached up and tapped a finger against one of his… ends. Tips. Protruding shell bits. Trianglebobs. Anyway, she tapped one of those whatchamacallits enough to spin him around, earning herself a ruffle of nonexistent feathers and a squint.

Not even Google helped.

[tafferling]

Hiraeth: Eyes Up, Guardian

Chapter 9: Rubik’s Cube

“Will it be safe there?”

Ghost’s shell twitched in a shrug. “I can’t say. I hope so.”

“Since when do computers hope? Don’t you like, I don’t know, calculate odds, get all specific.”

“Hey,” he went in a huff, his shell flaring out. “I’m not— I’m a Ghost, not a… a… handheld accessory.”

“So what, you’re not like, an AI?”

Ghost hesitated. “Not exactly. I hope and I guess. And I dream, too. Computers don’t dream.” He sounded almost smug when he said that, which did its part distracting her from how this was all still very odd.

Box of mad frogs odd.

She wondered if she’d ever get used to it.

Read all of it on Ao3!

#Enemies to Friends, #Pre-Red War, #Ghost is an adoring dork but kind of wishes his Guardian was the Young Wolf, #Hurt/Comfort, #Guardians can be scared, too. #Author is struggling now keeping it & and not turning it into tragic /

[tafferling]

Hiraeth: Eyes Up, Guardian

Chapter 11: The Young Wolf

In which Ghost finds out just how stressful being a bound Ghost can be, and Nicole finds her wolf.

Read it on Ao3.

#Enemies to Friends, #Pre-Red War, #Ghost is an adoring dork but kind of wishes his Guardian was the Young Wolf, #Hurt/Comfort, #Guardians can be scared, too. #Oh look it’s the Young Wolf!, #Who said you can only have one soulmate... 

[tafferling]

The reluctant (and oftentimes angry) Guardian and her eager (sometimes too much) Ghost.

Nicole and her Ghost have a hard road ahead of them. But at the end it’ll all work out. I think. I mean, I should know. I’m the writer. Oh dear. *sweats*

You can read about them in Hiraeth if you like.

ksadjfasdfs Seriously though this art is amazing. A commission I got from @rocket-away