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Empyrean series(Landoscar)

A/B/O || medieval royalty || omega Lando || alpha Oscar || WIP

Captive Prince Lando must bind himself in marriage to the enemy prince, Oscar.

Part 1: Know your enemy and Know yourself

Part 2: Know your allies and Know your foes

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Finally finished chapter 4.

Also this is the end of Arthur’s pov in this fic because this poor guy is about to get shipped off to Dunjen. May God save him from Max and Carlos, lol.

Now begins the long and miserable process of sitting with a thesaurus open for a week straight, paraphrasing sentences word by word while trying to convince myself I am writing “political fantasy with a play-like writing style” and it’s okay for me descend into purple prose, occasionally.

My ADHD genuinely wants to try every writing style under the sun all at once, but execution is so much harder. Still, I do think I am learning a lot through this series, even if it occasionally feels like I am fighting the prose.

Also I can already tell this is going to be my one and only attempt at writing something this ancient and stylistically dense.

If I ever write another historical fic after this, everyone is getting slightly simpler dialogues, less symbolism, poetic yearning and fewer descriptive tangents. They are all just going to become vague little blobs floating across the page exactly the way my brain originally intended.

I have written ancient royalty and fantasy fics before, but never anything this deep. Most of my older stuff was still very romance-focused, with the world existing mostly to support my ship and their emotional arc.

But this series somehow spiraled into politics, religion, regional tensions, court structures, folklore, symbolism, inheritance, diplomacy, historical parallels and enough family lore to give me a headache.

Half the time I am wondering when exactly my silly little Landoscar fic turned into an entire fictional civilization?

And I do sometimes worry that all the lore and worldbuilding might put people off or make the fic feel intimidating to get into. Which is funny because at its core it’s still just a silly fic with Lando and Oscar yearning for each other in fancy clothes.

Also I genuinely have no idea how some of the things I wrote in this chapter is going to be received as this is my first time doubting my dramatic irony usage in a fic and wondering if I should have just turned the whole thing into a plot twist instead?

But Lando is operating with extremely limited understanding of what’s actually happening around him, while also being under severe stress for months and then being trapped in a massive power imbalance, so naturally he ends up villainising almost everyone in Dunjen through his pov. Which means dramatic irony was my last hope, so everyone can slowly piece together things he either misunderstands completely or simply cannot afford to see clearly yet during the first arc of KYEAKY.

And sometimes I wonder whether it’s strange that I make all the drivers interconnected in my fics, but I also can’t really bring myself to write about non-celebrities. So most of the time I am just inventing family trees, alliances, rivalries and emotional histories completely out of thin air and hoping everyone follows along.

Anyway should I just make a side blog for this series atp?(maybe password-protected)

Because I genuinely have so much lore, memes, scene snippets, discarded ideas, symbolism rambles, family trees, references and completely unnecessary thoughts about this universe.

Like I actually want to yap about this series because half the fun of writing it is the insane amount of spiraling happening bts.

The only thing stopping me from doing it here is honestly anon hates and the fear of coming across as annoying or overly self-indulgent.

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Chapter 4

Alpha Oscar Piastri/ Omega Lando Norris

Part 2 of Empyrean Series || 4/4

29.5 k words || ancient royal au || world building/ lore

Prince Oscar of Dunjen had the bearing of one who had long since concluded his own heart's trial, passed his own sentence of eternal longing and taken up a peaceful residence in the prison of his yearning.

“Love desires only that the beloved walk unharmed beneath a gentle sky. That no sword shall find him before it finds me first. That no grief settles with permanence upon his shoulders. I would stand in opposition to the world entire to restore to him every kindness it seized without right, every tenderness it withheld without cause, every moment of peace it stole from his keeping and squandered on the ambitions of lesser men. If I can place into his hands even one dawn unmarred by fear or threat, then let Dunjen's assembled court name me betrayer of the crown. Let history name me worse. I shall answer to neither, so long as Prince Lando stands safe.”

An ancient royal au with Prince Oscar pining for Prince Lando amid court politics and royal intrigue.

read Empyrean Series (WIP)

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It’s Zero-Braincell Syndrome posting week, this Saturday!!

What’s coming next is 3 chapters merged into 1 chapter (The chapter count should ideally go down, but I am not trusting myself just yet lol)

A few weeks later it will be Mutual Denial Disorder(russtappen fic) chapter 2 and 3, followed by Do-Something Policy chapter 4 and Do-Nothing Policy chapter 3.

That will be the end of Arc 1 (Survival) of the Live and Let Live verse.

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Got super sick recently, time to prioritize myself so I can recover faster to return back to my plethora of WIPs

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Me: I want to write them being in love in my fic.

Also me (the moment they start acting in love): Get a room. Oh god!! I have to write the room. This is hell.

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Just realised I update my fics once a month, though it’s unintentional (crying for help)