WIP Game
I was tagged by @taumoebaa and try to participate even if I hardly know anyone here haha
Rules: Make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! Tag as many people as you have WIPs.
I’ve got so many just for Fourth Wing, here we go:
1. Gift Exchange
2. R obsesses over D
3. Fic Challenge Prompt R D
4. Prototype
5. Body is changing
6. Xaden reveals he wants V
7. Beginning
8. Only choice
Tagging @yanny-77 and @justallihere No pressure to participate, of course :)
@yanny-77 asked about 8. Only Choice
So I have this super long Fourth Wing AU mapped out in which Violet doesn’t speak. Fed up with her chosen mutism and unwillingness to tell her why, her mother threatens to send her into the riders quadrant if she won’t break her vow of silence. Because surely, that will do the trick. We will basically follow Violets journey from the night before the Parapet. Relationship dynamics will be different from FW, but most other things will be the same, like which dragons she bonds. The main love interest for Violet will be Liam.
8. Only choice is about Liam finding out Violet can (and does) communicate with Xaden via their mental bond while she doesn’t talk to him (verbally).
„Liam, I don’t understand why this upsets you so much. I’m with you.“ She looks up at him meaningfully, rubbing a circle with her hand over his wildly beating heart. “You are my first choice.” She tries to soothe him.
A few long seconds go by before he acknowledges her at all. He lays his hand above hers and Violet feels a flood of relief washing over her. His fingers push underneath her flat palm, an attempt to squeeze it, she’s sure.
But to her surprise, he lifts her hand off his chest and drops it. It hangs limply down her side now.
“See, that’s what you don’t get.” He finally meets her eyes with a teary, albeit hard stare.
„I never wanted to be your first choice. First choice“, he says, „implies there is a second choice. But I,“ he draws a shuddering breath, “wanted to be your only choice.”
His voice is uncharacteristically shaky when he finishes. “For once, I wanted someone to be so sure of me that everything else disappeared.”
Not sure if this will ever see the light of the day, tbh. I plan too much, have too little time to write, am crazy slow and obsess over errors. 🫠
@taumoebaa asked about 1. Gift exchange and 4. Prototype
1. Gift Exchange is about the FW gift exchange @yanny-77 hosts. I offered L/V and wrote a bit of an idea down in hopes the person it’s for had no specific demands and I can just write a small one-shot about how Liam noticed Violet at the first day when the first years crossed the parapet.
“See her?” He nods discreetly towards her. “I’m gonna—“
“—kill her? I think Xaden called dibs already, brother.”
Wait. What?
“Why?” He asks, dumbfounded.
“Isn’t it obvious? Even though we all have reason. And it was both your parents. So maybe you should get dibs?” Bodhi muses for a second. “But if we go by that standard Imogen wins, I guess.”
Dread grows in his stomach. He doesn’t want to ask but needs to know at the same time.
“Who is she?”
“A Sorrengail. The youngest, I think. Violet.”
“Violet.” He repeats, trying how her name tastes on his lips.
He wanted to moan her name, whisper it, stutter it while he reached his high in jearky motions. Not say it in awe, in shock.
His fantasies, crumpling like a house of cards.
4. Prototype is also a scene from AU fic I mentioned in the other ask. Just Xaden being a prick and trying to stir up shit by pointing out Liam has a type.
“So is she the new Genevieve? Genevieve 4.0? 6.0? How many have been there since her? I lost track in those two years here at Basgiath.”
Liam glared. It was rare for him to have something get to him—to have him agitated the way he was right this moment.
“Who’s Genevieve?” Violet asked confusedly, spelling out the name.
“Who’s Genevieve?” Xaden parroted mockingly. “Guess you don’t know our Liam here as well as you thought.”
@shadyprincessstranger asked about 6. Xaden reveals he wants V is a chapter in the mentioned fic (working title: Beyond Blue) in which, surprise surprise, our favorite shadow wielder is secretly in love with Violet. He slips the info by accident through their mental bond and Violet is completely blind-sighted.
He looks at her darkly, almost daringly. To react, to say something.
But all she can think about is how these were clearly not just memories, but fantasies as well.
