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[thrandilf]

The Devil You Thought You Knew Chapter 40- The Truth

It's been over a year, but I'm back!

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“Every mage has to ask themselves what they’re willing to do. I would do it again, should I have to. Everyone here has made a similar choice, regardless of the scale.”

[fandombee973]

started reading the devil you thought you knew again after a year, and its so cool how aaravos acts like a father, even though at the time of writing we didn't know he was one. also the re-directing lightning?? how did i miss that when i first read it??? so much i love about this fic :DD

[salty-and-spiraling]

Gonna hide away and read my comfort fics to cope with this trainwreck of a season 😭😭

[thrandilf]

It's been almost a year since The Devil You Thought You Knew had a promo post for the fic overall and while I can't make a new graphic right now, I can toss out a list of things readers may be interested in that are in this fic

In no particular order:

Aaravos centric/sympathetic

Moon Arcanum Callum

Aaravos having a father/daughter relationship with Claudia

Callum being Aaravos’s apprentice- an exchange for Aaravos postponing revenge

Aaravos angst

Aaravos fluff

Viravos wedding

Callum and Viren having a relationship and addressing baggage between them

Ocean Arcanum Viren

[REDACTED] Arcanum Claudia (it's a couple chapters away but I'll let it out of the bag that it's coming)

World building exploration focused on Evenere

Villads has a dormant arcanum connection. Also he and Aaravos have a conversation

Kpp'ar gets out

Janaya Wedding 2

Rayllum pining but as of ch 37 Rayllum REUNITE

Sorvus dates constantly crashed by mage gang (sorry Sorvus)

So many Dark Magic/general magic discussions and debates

People in this fic are not afraid to scream and cry at each other

Aaravos and the archdragons were old friends and it's much more Bittersweet than we got in s7

Aaravos has a modern day underground human mage cult following

Sir Sparklepuff Lives

There's going to be a happy ending, I promise

If this sounds like your kind of fic, check it out/come say hi!

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[thrandilf]

Rayllum Scene-

I just wanna beam the mental image of this scene into the Rayllum fandom/if anyone wants drawing inspo or something here you are, it's from the end of chapter 38 of The Devil You Thought You Knew:

Rayla was always beautiful, but she was most stunning in the moonlight. Callum didn’t need to look up at the moon- just at her- to feel his connection to the arcanum grow. He focused on a feeling, not an incantation, eyes closing as he felt something click into place inside of him, a silent understanding he couldn’t explain with words. The sensation started with the crown of his head and ran downward like raindrops, soaking him in moonlight. He opened his eyes to Rayla staring at him, mouth open. He held up their joined hands- his hand was only outlined- a barely detectable shadow to those who didn’t know the Moon Arcanum. “Callum, how did you- you connected to the moon?” Rayla looked him up and down over and over again with amazement. “Moonshadow form, just like that!” “I’ve had the best teachers.” Rayla made a face. “Lujanne?” “No, she definitely wasn’t the best.” “Aaravos.” “I mean- technically yes, but I meant you.” Callum stepped closer to her, cupping her face with his palm, touch as gentle as a breeze. “I could tell you- like I’ve told everyone, apparently- how much I missed you, and how much you mean to me, but this says more than I could. I never stopped thinking about you and wanting to be closer, even if it was just being under the same sky.” Rayla’s own Moonshadow transformation happened a lot faster, but Callum could still trace the motion it made from head to toe. She smiled at him, and the smile turned more into a joyful laugh, shared power and connection racing through every point their outlines met. “We don’t have to miss each other anymore.” No one else could see them, two silhouettes in the moonlight. Rayla leaned close to him, hands on his shoulders. Both of them moved in together, lips meeting and chasing away any lingering space between them in a world entirely their own.

This is all to say Moon Arcanum Callum! Moon Arcanum Callum AUs let's go!!!

[thrandilf]

The Devil You Thought You Knew- Ch 38

Viren lingered. “I… I’m sorry,” he managed. “It’s difficult. I wouldn’t wish this on anyone.” “It’s what you’ve done too, isn’t it?” asked Callum. “Different times and places, but it felt like this.” “Whatever you have to do, whatever you’re faced with-” Viren stood tall but bowed his head as he spoke to Callum. “-make sure that there’s enough of you left to make it home and still be you.” Callum sat with those words for a while.

[thrandilf]

I used to worry I was making Aaravos Too emotional in the devil you thought you knew but now I realize that the sobbing breakdowns are Accurate and I feel so validated

Also

"The flash of faces he once knew drove him to screaming, hands over his own ears so he didn’t have to hear it, yet screaming to no one all the same, making up for years of hiding from the ocean of pain he pretended he could walk on."

Another Apollo dodgeball for me considering this was written post S4. I didn't think ocean of pain would be LITERAL

[thrandilf]

Okay I'd written this with the implication that Aaravos himself had been ousted from his own people pre s6 drop and now that I'm looking at it now I'm like WOW

I keep hitting the correct emotional beat for the wrong reason but I'm still Dying