Scarlet opened her eyes to see a void, with a light in the center of whatever area she was in.
She followed the light, stopping when she stood right under it.
A voice spoke from the dark, “Hello, Scarlet. We’ve been awaiting your arrival.”
“…My arrival?” She tilted her head.
Five shadowy figures stepped into the light, they had no discernible features, only their white-crescent eyes and their permanent smiles.
The first spoke up, “…You and your siblings messed with the timeline. This isn’t where any of you belong. You have the chance of a lifetime, to make everything right.”
The second replies, “But, making everything right will cost you dearly.”
The third chirped, “We’ll explain the benefits and the…consequences.”
The fourth grinned, “Just sit back and let us talk.”
The fifth stepped forward, “We’re sure you’ll make the right choice.”
Scarlet hesitantly nodded. She felt like she had the weight of the world on her shoulders, which she probably did.
The first spoke, “If you reset this world, time goes on as it did before. The world’s events will happen all over again, but the same. You’ll remember the previous timeline the moment you are born again.”
The second frowned, “You’ll be back in the facility, and be saved when you’re six years old…you have to endure it for the sake of keeping the timeline safe.”
The third played with her hair, twirling the silky locks in their clawed fingers. “Your daddy will find you, but something will be different. He’ll actually take those sacrifices that he needs.”
The fourth added, “And your family will actually be happy…but you all will go through the same pain you went through tenfold.”
The fifth hummed, “and if you choose not to reset, you’ll be back to pain and suffering.”
They all spoke in unison: “YOUR CHOICE.”
Two buttons appeared in front of her, and she panicked. She felt like she was in a horror movie, exchanging suffering for suffering.
If she resets, her family goes through their trauma again, but worse.
If she keeps this timeline, Grim will die and the world will go to chaos.
She was shaking, her head spinning in every direction.
Her eyes locked onto the RESET button, “…everything will be ok in the end, right?”
The figures nodded.
It went silent.
Eerily silent.
“…I want a happy ending. I’m tired of suffering…I’m sure we’re all tired of suffering.”
She pressed the reset button.
( @coffee--spill @the-grim-reaper-offical @ashyd-shy and everyone else who’s in the lore bc idk who needs to see this)
I’ve had this GW2 fanfic sitting on my PC for months. And I’m finally getting around to sharing it! :D
It’s an explicit rated fic at points so be mindful of that.
And yes, it’s got ships. Canach/OG being the main. Even Laranthir gets some damn love from Part 2 onwards. While the link is just Part 1, I will say this... clears throat TRAHEARNE LIVES! You know, in case that is a deal maker or breaker for you.
About half of Part 2 is up as well, and the rest will be uploaded weekly. I have over 250K words to post so it’s got a bit to go still. :3
If you want, I’d loved to have you amazing individuals check my story out. No pressure though. <3
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This story rewrites many of the major events, or tweaks them. However, the main story is about the same.
As the name 'Reaperverse' suggests this AU’s Reapers are different. :3
It is a darker tale in parts, and adds importance to the mental affects certain events would undoubtedly leave on some characters that the game can't go over due to it's rating.
It also gets more... hmmm.... interesting as the story progresses.
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Catriona awakens a normal secondborn, naïve and ready to explore the world. But then, one day when she and her siblings venture too far from the Mother Tree's roots, her life is dragged down a dangerous path. One that will break her apart and reform her into a being built for survival and destruction.
Many moons later, with twenty years of her past a mystery to many, Catriona returns to discover Lion's Arch in ruins and a destiny waiting.
so! we have one overarching universe (wotog) that almost everything falls under, with the exception of the chromatica crew and the Project 83 kids. and, because we have so many kids and so many ideas, naturally, we’ve come up with (entirely too many) alternate universes to put them in. designated tags for each au are after each description.
this is also gonna be really long so i apologize in advance. everything is under the cut.
pirate: this is actually set somewhere in the beginning-middle of True Canon, after the og crew (minus anne and viren) went around the continent, witherhurst, and decided “yknow what? there’s nothing else to do here, let’s go be pirates i guess” so they proceeded to steal a pirate ship and go be pirates. #pirate au
ccak: cats, coffee, and kink. this is the generic modern au, and i love it so much. to me, this is True Canon but for the modern aus. set in fantasy-modern new york city, it’s basically slice of life as the kids just kinda exist together. #ccak
flowers: ah yes, the soulmate au. [redacted] actually came up with the idea for this one: everyone is born with at least one soul mark. they have one that’s their own, and it takes the shape of their favorite flower somewhere on their body, and is filled in with the actual colors of the flower. but, because this is a soulmate au, most people have more than one mark. okay this is gonna be a little hard to explain so. person A has a rose on the back of their left hand, and that’s their soulmark. they have a romantic soulmate, person B, so they might have a red lily on their right forearm (or wherever it is on person B). they also have a platonic soulmate, person C, so they have a blue daffodil on their leg, and a familial soulmate, so maybe a green peony on their back. and a person doesn’t know what kind of soulmate they’ll have until they meet their soulmate and their marks start to fill in. a person’s personal mark goes gray if they go against destiny and love someone who doesn’t share a mark with them, and their mark fades almost completely when that corresponding soulmate dies. (in addition, fantasy races don’t exist in this one, and if i remember correctly, magic isn’t a thing either.) #flowers
wings: this one is pretty straightforward. everyone has wings (and everyone is human, rather than fantasy races), and it’s great. #wings au
wolf/vamp: so in this one, everyone is human, but can be turned into (or born as, i guess) a werewolf, a vampire, or, in some rare cases, a cross between the two: a vaewolf. this one is kinda grittier to me, but that’s just the impression i personally get from it. #wolf au #vamp au
outbreak: the obligatory zombie apocalypse au, feat. low magic and a very soft magic system. Zombies are made of a mix of magic and disease, so a cure is virtually impossible. Typical gritty ‘everyone’s depressed and just doing their best to survive’ apocalypse shenanigans. #outbreak
hanahaki: self-explanatory. a modern au, i’m imagining it as similar to ccak, but in which the hanahaki disease is a thing and occurs. #hanahaki au
fae-u: a modern-ish au, in which mythical creatures exist! has heavy ties into japanese folklore and myths, with some more western ideas as well. this one is pretty xander-centric. #faeu #fae u
pantheon: the kids are deities! based more on greek mythology, and takes place in ancient greece, if i’m not mistaken. #pantheon
vigilante: heroes and villains are a thing, and where there’s heroes and villains, there’s vigilantes! this one is mostly centered around xander, hatch, and glo. #vigilante #vigilante au
reaperverse: set in a world where reapers come to collect souls when they die, one stubborn woman (spoilers: it’s eve) simply refuses, and forgets, to die, and shenanigans ensue. #reaperverse
prince and the gardener: based on a tumblr post i'll look for later, the palace gardener falls in love with the prince. they are, of course, none other than hatch and xander. they have therai, palace guard, and eve, reluctant queen, on their side, and life is good. #prince and gardener
warrior cats: the guilty pleasure au. (for me, anyway.) the kids, but set in the warrior cats universe, so they’re all cats. sue us. (actually please don’t, neither of us have any money.) #warrior cats au
dark carnival: Based on the vocaloid song Dark Woods Circus (i lost the link im so sorry), this au is Pippin-centric. Focuses on Pip as they’re dragged to a twisted hell by a demon that goes by the name of Ringmaster (Intem). Everyone in the carnival is a sinner, who was sent to hell for crimes they committed in their lives. Eve and Vik are the twins (Also based off ‘see no evil speak no evil’), Dante’s the deformed diva, and Therai is the blue beast??? He’s the cannibal guy. There’s a happy ending I promise. #dark carnival au
accidental summoning: based on the fic Twine (x) by CrunchyWrites on ao3, hatch is a witch and accidentally summons xander, a demon. they kinda fall in love, but also stuff happens. you’ll see. #accidental summoning
reputations au: ah yes, an au based on an au. this one is based on the fic Reputations (x) by Tromper on ao3. two empires have been at war for the past ten or so years, and it’s been a bloody one. until! each side decides to have their best warriors marry each other as a sort of peace treaty, and it’s a slow burn enemies to husbands to friends to lovers. #reputations au
class swap: basically, we were like “hey what if everyone swapped classes” so! this was born. gotta remember who swapped with who. vik and pippin switched (vik is now a rogue and pippin is a bard), therai and tal switched, i think eve and intem switched, and xander and maybe hatch switched? i think. #class swap
merfolk: everyone is a merfolk! their society is essentially made up of lesserfolk, higherfolk, serpents, and leviathans. anyway it’s life under the sea and it’s great. #merfolk au
pokemon: a pokemon au! we came up with our own region for this one, based on alaska, and it’s actually really good and a lot deeper than i thought it would be! #pokemon au
fairy au: different from FaeU in that everyone is a fairy, instead of mythical creatures. this one is pretty straightforward too. #fairy au
a pirate’s life for me: okay so we were both involved in our school’s production of the musical A Pirate’s Life For Me ([redacted] was cast, i was crew) and after a couple showings we were like “hey new au idea” so. this happened. long story short: eve is a lady, bored of noble life, and decides to go become a pirate to spice things up. her suitor, tal, is heartbroken and says yknow what! if it’s a pirate she wants, it’s a pirate she’ll get! so he goes and becomes a pirate too. eve runs into the notorious Captain Scars (intem) and Captain Vex (vik), and carves a place for herself in infamy as the pirate queen. #pirates life au
warrior princess: [redacted] came up with this one and it’s really cool actually! so, eve is a warrior princess, a role she filled after xander, the kingdom’s warrior prince, mysteriously vanished one day. she fills this role quite well, even if she isn’t particularly happy with her life, until a ~mysterious stranger~ offers to whisk her away to the feywild, so she can be free. (spoilers: she goes with him.) #warrior princess au
the witcher: this has been our hyperfixation for the past couple of weeks (at the time of writing this). marlowe and i decided to watch the witcher netflix series and said “hey new au idea”. i read copious amounts of fics and [redacted] is consuming frankly scary amounts of witcher media, so, this au was born. therai takes the place of geralt, and where would he be without his bard, eve? #witcher au
A young arabic-american girl living in the tropical city of Miami, Khalida is a close personal friend of Tuwile's. Despite her seemingly chill nature at first, she is actually quite cold towards total strangers, an attitude brought on from years of discrimination for her lineage. Instead of falling to her knees and giving up, she took it all in stride and toughened herself, becoming quite snarky and quick-witted, and delivering some painful cuts towards anyone who underestimates her. Despite her alienating quirks, those with the patience and compassion will find Khalida is actually very sensitive and shy.
A unique skill of hers, shared only with her friend Tuwile, is the ability to see the dead. Due to a traumatic accident in their childhood that left them the sole survivors, Khalida could gaze into the Ethereal Plane where ghosts lurk. But out of fear of what the consequences may be, the two have spent years ignoring the strange spectres, now having grown so used to them that they are barely registered anymore.
When it comes down to it, Khalida is dangerously protective of those she cares about, and will not hesitate to hurt you if you dare to threaten them.
I made my ocs in @chemicataclysm's picrew! I had to made both View and Aiuru human because there's no options for 4 eyes (also there's no green hair so Aiurus hair is blue). The picrew is really cool and good and chem is v good at art!
Characters (in order of appearance): Peony, Bay, Marcus, Cecil, Theo, View, and Aiuru
