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[teafrtwo]

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by: يونس

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[berryeggs]

Fanfic Rec - “The Coming of Wisdom”

I barely use this blog for anything and I don’t have any followers. I don’t plan on doing much more with it after this post. However, I thought I could at least use this blog to promote the best fanfic I’ve read in a while.

I rarely read fanfiction anymore and have written two fics in five years. I feel that I have generally fallen out of the hobby. Still, a favorite author and friend wrote her first story in years, and it features my ultimate OTP, Emil x Marta from Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World. I’m reluctant to post fanfiction stuff on my Twitter, so I figured, posting links here might be fine? I’m sure Naekane would appreciate any boost, however minor this may give. 

Anyway, the story is called “The Coming of Wisdom,” and it’s set six/seven years after DotNW. It’s a fic about Emil and Marta becoming new parents. I suppose you could see it as being tremendously sappy, but I just adore how wonderfully fluffy and heart warming it is, and think it’s well written. I find Naekane’s understanding of Marta and Emil’s relationship and them as individuals to be fantastic. 

So yeah, give it a try, if this sounds like something that would be up your alley. She has other great fics, including five other Maril/martil stories.

Maybe I’ll post links to my own (most recent) fics some day.

Fanfiction.net link

AO3 link

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[carnelianwings]

001. Marta/Emil! It's super underrated, imo!

(For this ask meme!  Already answered: 001: SoreMiku, RosAli, 002/003: It’s open for asks!)

When I started shipping it, if I did:

I think I started shipping them starting from Chapter 3 of the story, where both of them, but Emil in particular, starts growing as a character.  It’s when he starts having a backbone and starts making decisions for himself instead of just being along for the ride on this (crazy) adventure with Marta.  It’s also where a friend (he’s basically the Tenebrae of a group) once said, “I played the early parts of the game and watching Emil and Marta, I couldn’t tell if I was actually playing a game or watching the two of you right after you started dating.”

(Rest behind a cut because this one got a little long too)

My Thoughts:

They’re a really sweet ship, and they’re super supportive of each other too!  I think one of the things I really like is that Marta eventually realizes she’s had this super idealized version of Emil that she thinks she’s in love with, but realizes (and calls herself out on even) that it’s not really him . . . and then realizes she loves him (both sides even), even if she does prefer the gentler Emil over the gruffer and rougher around the edges Ratatosk in the end.

And I agree, they’re a super underrated ship, but I’ve always loved how well they work together and even if she’s a bit childish at times and he’s really indecisive in some places, they both worked together to make the other a stronger person - Marta stops running away from her problems in the end, and Emil decides to fight himself for his right to exist.  And I think that’s a really wonderful thing about them.

Also, they’re the one and only time where I looked at a fictional ship and went “holy shit that’s me and that’s my relationship right there”.  Which is why I always end up saying, “If I can have that, shouldn’t everyone?”

What makes me happy about them:

If there’s anything I really really like about them, it’s that they way their relationship grew and developed really reminded me of my own relationship with my college ex.  Like, it got to the point where we’d be playing Minecraft together and I’d have a Marta skin for my avatar and he’d play with an Emil skin on his.  Plus, Tenebrae?  Totally our not-a-third-wheel totally here to tease us to death friend.What makes me sad about them:

The part where Marta’s just a human girl and Emil’s a part of Ratatosk so he’s basically immortal and won’t die.  Just . . . think of how he’s going to have to watch her grow old and die . . . okay yeah.  Stopping that train of thought now.

Things done in fanfic that annoys me:

Because of the aforementioned “they really remind me of my previous relationship” I’ve actually never read any fanfic for the ship.  The ship is too personal for me to really read for, and I’ve only ever managed the one story for them and even then it felt entirely too personal for me to feel like it came out well.  And by “it feels entirely too personal” it’s on the same level as me getting incredibly flustered while trying to write nsfw for any other ship.

Things I look for in fanfic:

See above; I guess you could say the ship feels entirely too self-insert-y for me to properly read/write for.

Who I’d be comfortable with them ending up with, if not each other:

See the above.  Even though I’m no longer with said college ex, I still look back at the ship really fondly with those same memories and positive feelings in mind so I don’t really have any other side ships for them.  Maybe Richter for Emil/Ratatosk, but I don’t have any good choices for Marta mostly because she doesn’t really have a strong chemistry with any other cast members.  (And Alice or Decus fall straight into NOTP territory.)

My happily ever after for them:

Them finding some way around Marta’s mortality so they can have their happily ever after, just like a certain pair of ruin nerds, lol.  Or barring that, for a slightly more canon-compliant approach, Ratatosk going back to sleep in his core to guard the gate, forever dreaming of his time with her.

Who is the big spoon/little spoon:

Emil’s the big spoon to Marta’s little spoon.

What is their favorite non-sexual activity:

Traveling together, joking, basically being a really mushy couple together while Tenebrae makes snarky comments in the background.  And occasionally shaking his head because they’re being entirely too sweet and mushy.