I started Metanoia in 2015 as my NaNo project and was promptly derailed by... everything. I had some serious doubts that I’d come back to DA and/or writing, but I couldn’t have anticipated 2020. Nothing like an endless shelter in place to get the old creative juices flowing?
Anyway, Metanoia is done.
I left off at Chapter 4 back in 2015. I’ve posted Chapters 5 and 6 today and I’ll keep posting at least one or two a day until it’s all been posted. I’m leaving myself a little breathing room for some editing instead of posting the whole shebang at once considering it comes to a little over 60k words, making it the longest Volutions story yet.
musical, theoretical, tattoos... short hair... soft... girls......
Sweet Pea: what’s your favorite flower?
finally a question i can answer! i love delphiniums, they’re so dang big and bold and blue! copper canyon daisies are so awesome and good-smelling too. fav edible flower would be toothache plant ;)
A little prompt. Fenders, allotriophagy or doing something they've both never done before.
Allotriophagy
n. A depraved appetite; a desire for improper food; having food cravings that are different from the expected or the norm
Given the subject matter, I’m going to put this short behind a cut. Not everyone’s going to want to read about Anders’ “depraved appetite” for things you can fight and kill in the DA universe (not humanoids!)
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Fenris thought he might never get used to the way Anders would look at almost anything that wasn’t humanoid, tainted, or a cat as a potential meal.
Giant rat? Anders would skin it and have it skewered over a fire before anyone else had managed to clean the blood off their blades.
Dragon? Fenris had heard him remark that he appreciated a meal that cooked itself.
He thought Anders might draw the line at fennec, but the first time one of the little foxes blithely trotted into the burst of a fireball thrown at a cluster of bandits, Anders offered the charred remains his apologies and then set about finding the edible parts.
Fenris put up with it, in part because he had put up with worse from Anders, in part because he loved the fool man, and in part because the other wardens told him that appetite was one of the side effects of the Joining. Considering the stamina that was also a side effect, Fenris tried to convince himself it was a tolerable balance.
But the day that he saw Anders squat by the remains of a giant spider with a speculative look in his eye, he didn’t think twice about slinging the mage over his shoulder to carry him back to the camp and their trail rations.
Jade vs NaNoWriMo, chapter 1 victory goes to Jade.
Metanoia, Chapter 1 on AO3, spoilers in the archive tags.
"We have to talk about Anders."
After his meltdown with Ser Alrik and losing it completely in the Vinmarks, it's time to do something about the Anders Situation. If that something includes an ocean voyage, sunken treasure, old companions, a tramp through the Frostbacks, and the usual Volutions messing about, then so be it.
