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Happy October!

As a way to participate in “OldContentOctober” I’ll be sharing some old fics.

If that sounds fun to you, I invite you to join in :)

Please let me share my “magnum opus” (hahaha), “Pull It Together” AKA “The Lorenz of Doubt.”

This is my biggest fic project to date! It is a duology (2-fic series) for Fire Emblem: Three Houses for my favorite ship: Leonie / Lorenz. Each fic follows the same time period but with a different focal character. (So, one is Leonie POV and one is Lorenz POV.) It clocks in at about 150k between the two fics. It is, to date, the longest work (together and separately) for this ship.

Leonie Pinelli is a commoner, poor, practical, and completely lacking in romance. If her feet were any more firmly on the ground, she’d be in it. Like a potato.

Lorenz Hellman Gloucester is noble, rich, morally upright, and overly uptight. If he gets any more tightly wound, he’s going to pull something.

An unexpected friendship becomes rather something more through bad haircuts, shared food, and a continent-spanning war.

OR: Leonie/Lorenz slowburn friends-to-lovers paired fics, one written from Leonie POV and the other from Lorenz POV as the two dunderheads grow up, experience Emotions, and eventually get a clue.

Leonie’s POV features: Swearing! Impostor syndrome! Folk music? Handicrafts!

Lorenz's POV features: Repression! Thirst! Paperwork? Magical nerdery!

Each fic in the series is readable independently, and their intersecting but nonidentical journeys (and different voices) mean that each has its own flavor and appeal.

Tags: Slow burn, friends to lovers, character development, coming of age

The story starts during the Academy phase when Leonie and Lorenz are friends, then the war breaks out, and it follows them through the time skip and the war.

Each fic is readable independently (by design, and also people have read them separately and reported back that they had fun), but they are also fun as a pair. There’s a lot of stuff in Leonie’s fic that doesn’t make it into Lorenz’s fic, and vice versa. I also have a friend who read it fandom blind and had fun with it! So that is wonderful too :)

It has a lot of original worldbuilding for the Leicester Alliance. It has cute moments. It has funny moments. It has plot stuff. It has lots of Golden Deer cameos.

One interesting thing (for me) is that you can see my writing get better over the course of the fic. Like, on the one hand, bummer that I wasn’t perfect throughout. On the other hand, you gotta love growth!

This is the single longest fic for this ship! Like, taken separately and taken together. And I’ve written a goodly amount of other stuff for these two as well. At one point I manually calculated by WC what percentage of leonie/lorenz fics I had written, and I was at 75%. I’m sure the number is different now, but that’s fun to think about.

Final note: I made hard copies of it, and they look pretty rad

Links one more time: Leonie POV and Lorenz POV.