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saratogaroadwrites · 9 months

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For King and Country (23/122)

For King and Country | saratogaroad rating: T total wordcount: 280,466 characters: Evan Pettiwhisker Tildrum, Roland Crane, Aranella, Batu, Tani, Lofty, Leander Aristidies, Bracken Meadows relationships: Roland Crane & Evan Pettiwhisker Tildrum, Aranella & Evan Pettiwhisker Tildrum, Roland Crane & Aranella, Batu & Tani, Batu & Evan, Tani & Evan, Evan Pettiwhisker Tildrum & Lofty, Rolander other tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Canon-Typical Violence, Mother-Son Relationship, Father-Son Relationship, Place Slowly Becomes Home People Slowly Become Family, Found Family, For Want of A Nail warnings: none

Pulled from his world by mysterious powers, former president Roland Crane finds himself caught in the middle of a coup meant to take the life of the young King Evan Pettiwhisker Tildrum. Joining forces with Aranella, the pair of them set out to aid Evan in making his dream of a kingdom where everyone can live happily ever after a reality.

But the road to peace is a long and treacherous one and there is no promise of success in a world where darkness spreads ever thicker with each passing day. If they are to stand a chance, they must stand together, for king and for country.

(A retelling.)

Thunder rumbled overhead. Evan didn’t bother to look up, pacing back and forth down the hallway outside of Roland’s room. Everyone had been expecting the storms to come to Evermore sooner or later, and he was glad that they’d been able to finish construction before the storms had slammed into the little town with all the force of a charging Manticore. It was the only bright spot he could find in the last week.

Oh, why had he let Roland come with them into the muggy summer rains? Why had he thought that was a good idea?! Just because the trip had been simple didn’t mean that it had been good for him! He’d gotten steadily worse over the trip and then he’d—he’d collapsed out of nowhere! Sure, he’d come around a minute later, red in the face from embarrassment instead of fever, but still!

And then this morning…

He hadn’t shown up for breakfast this morning. Everyone had looked to his spot at the table and made quiet, not really amused jokes about him finally taking the chance to sleep in and get some bloomin’ rest—Batu’s words, not Evan’s—but as the day had worn on and no one had seen hide nor hair of the man, the little voice in the back of Evan’s mind started screaming at him again.

Something was wrong. Something was terribly wrong.

He hadn’t been able to stifle his panic this time. His mind had whirled, remembering what King Leonhard had said when he had first taken ill.

”It’s just a little bout of cold, my son,” He had said to Evan one cold winter’s night, the pair of them sitting by the fire in King Leonhard’s study. ”It’ll pass and I’ll be right as rain!”

Obviously that hadn’t been the case. And obviously there were differences between King Leonhard’s situation and Roland’s now—Evan highly doubted anyone would have poisoned Roland!—but the panicked part of his mind hadn’t cared. It had sent him running for Roland’s chambers in the northern residential wing, his room just one door down from Evan’s. He had knocked first, of course, because Nella and his tutors had instilled manners in him from an early age, but when no answer had come he had gone right in anyway.

Considering he had found Roland still in bed, feverish and unresponsive, he was glad he had.

But it did mean that panic had been chasing him ever since, nipping at his heels and leaving him too nervous to sit still. Even now, pacing back and forth through the corridor, he was wringing his hands, his half-puffed tail lashing back and forth with every step.

What if this was poison? Or another curse? Or—or anything! Oh, why had he agreed to let the obviously ill Roland spend a week on the road with him?! Just because he had looked fine didn’t mean that he was!

“Oi!” Lofty’s voice broke through his whirling thoughts. Evan looked at his Kingmaker but still didn’t stop pacing. Lofty heaved a sigh. “Settle down, Evan lad, “Youell wear a hole in the floor if you keep this up much longer.”

“I know, I know,” Evan hissed. He stopped for a moment, shifting from foot to foot. He glanced at Lofty. “You’re sure this has nothing to do with the Darkness?”

Lofty heaved another sigh. They’d been over this a couple of times already, and each time Lofty’s answer was the same. “Aye, mun, I’m sure. It’s just a run-o-the-mill cold! Ol’ Rolly-boy’s gonna be just fine.”

Would he? Evan wasn’t so sure. He shivered, chafing his arms against a chill that came from inside of him. Thunder rumbled overhead, but the sound could do nothing to cover the click of the door as it open. Evan startled, whirling back around in time to see Nella step back out of the room. He ran towards her.

“How is he?!” Evan asked, trying to peer over her shoulder and into the room. She shut the door too quickly for him to get a good look, but not fast enough that he didn’t hear a wheezing inhale from inside. Evan’s already racing heart picked up speed as panic crept closer. “He’s not—”

Nella shook her head. “He’s an even worse patient than I am, but it really does seem to be nothing more than a bad cold. Going out into this mess didn’t help. Honestly, Evan,” She put her hands on her hips, raising an eyebrow at him. “What were you thinking? You know better than this.”

Evan’s ears folded back. Biting his lip to keep it from quivering, he nodded. He did know better than to let someone sick into the rain or snow, but—Roland hadn’t looked that bad! And he’d…he’d been fine until the fight and he’d said he was fine and—

No. No, it didn’t really matter what he’d said. Evan was King, and that meant he was responsible for the lives of all his subjects. This included Roland. He should have put his foot down and made the man stay in Evermore, but he hadn’t.

He would know better for next time. Taking as deep a breath as he could manage, he looked up at Nella. She raised an eyebrow, waiting for his answer.

“You’re right,” he said, swallowing thickly. “I should have made him stay here. I just wanted…I thought that he…”

Evan squeezed his eyes shut tight. He’d just wanted a little more time to go and see the world before he’d have to settle in Evermore, one more adventure with his friends. Had it been selfish of him? Probably. It had certainly been foolish to not make Roland stay behind, but…he’d wanted the man with him.

He just wanted things to be the same as they were before. But they weren’t going to be, were they? He shook his head, glancing down as Lofty laid a comforting hand on his knee. Taking a deep breath, Evan looked back at Nella.

“I thought that he would be alright. I trusted what he said.”

“I know you did,” Nella said, bending to his level. “Believe me, I intend to have words with him about this, too, but Evan.” She reached forward, pushing hair out of his face until she could meet his eyes without looking through blond strands. “You can’t just do what you want anymore. You have to think about what’s best for everyone, alright? Even stubborn sick men who think they’re perfectly fine when they’re clearly not.”

“I know,” Evan whispered, fear and shame twisting in his chest. “I’ll know better for next time.”

Next time. He really, truly, sincerely hoped there would never be a next time like this. He already had a mix of muddled terror and grief from how similar Nella’s situation had been to his father’s, and now Roland’s image was in the mix too! He shivered at the thought. Nella made a soft noise.

“I’m sure you will,” She said, standing up straight. “Now, try not to worry too much for him. He’ll be alright.”

Evan wanted to believe her. He really, truly, with all his heart wanted to believe her, but the mix of her collapse with Roland’s and his father’s kept playing on a loop when he closed his eyes. He gripped his trousers tightly.

“Really?” He whispered. Nella blinked at him. “Is he…he’s not going to…?

He couldn’t finish. Nella made a confused noise, then stopped. Her shoulders slumped.

“Oh, Evan…” She whispered. He could hear the understanding in her voice. His heart sat heavy in his stomach as she reached out with one arm, pulling him into an embrace. He sniffled, hiding his face in her shoulder.

“No, sweetheart,” She said, rubbing his back. He reached up to cling to her, feeling all too much like a kit once again. “No. I’m sure he feels utterly miserable, but he’s going to be fine! Although I will admit,” She shook her head. Evan pulled away, panic making his blood run cold. “I can’t get his fever to come down. It’s not getting any worse, but it’s not getting better, either.”

“What can we do?” He asked, “Is there any sort of medicine we can use, or—” he wracked his brain, trying to think, “Maybe magic of some kind?”

“Healing magic doesn’t work on illnesses,” Nella said, taking him by the arm and beginning to walk down the hall. Lofty trailed in their wake, quietly watching them. “But there could be some medicine that might help. The doctors in Dell always used a syrup of Sheermint to bring down fevers. You took it a few times when you were younger.”

“I did?” He couldn’t recall. He’d been sick so rarely as a younger child. Still, if it could help Roland he would go fetch it himself! They didn’t have a doctor yet, but maybe, “Do you think Auntie Martha would have any?”

“She’d be the first person I’d ask,” Nella said. “Why don’t you go and ask her?”

“I will!” Evan took off running down the halls of the palace, his feet thumping along the floor as he ran. He slowed only long enough for Lofty to leap up onto his shoulder, then picked up speed again and bolted right out the front door. Outside, the storm was coming down hard; Evan held up an arm against the driving wind and ran for Auntie Martha’s cottage not so far from the palace gates. By the time he made it, he and Lofty were both dripping went.

“Auntie Martha!” He called as he shut the door against the storm, “Auntie Martha, are you here?!”

“Just a moment, dear!” She called from her personal quarters in the back, her voice echoing in the nearly empty open public space she had asked for. Many of her colorful little creatures milled around in the front, all of them staring at Evan as he dripped onto the floor. Normally he would have greeted them, able to understand their meaning if not their odd language, but he just couldn’t work up the cheer right now. Footsteps scraped along the stone up ahead as Auntie Martha came out of the back, drying her hands on an apron. “I was just tidying up and—oh, goodness gracious me! What happened?!”

She didn’t wait for Evan to answer before she bustled forward, wrapping an arm around his shoulders and hustling him over towards her firepit. He didn’t have time to protest before she’d bundled him up in a towel, wrapping it tight around his shoulders. Lofty gave a token protest as this ended up with him squashed to Evan’s back.

“Now what’s got you so worked up that you’d come out without so much as a cloak in this kind of weather?” Auntie Martha asked him, stoking the fire. Evan sank back into the warmth, sitting down on a nearby chair.

“Roland’s sick,” he said, tugging the towel tight around his shoulders, “He’s got a very bad fever and he’s wheezing something awful.” He tightened his grip, stomach a hot pit of fear. “Nella said that syrup of Sheermint could help. Do you have any?”

“Not on hand,” Auntie Martha said with a frown, “But I know how to make it. You just sit right there a second.”

Evan squirmed, needing to move but forcing himself to wait, watching as she toddled off to a shelf built into the wall of the cottage. It was full of glass flasks and jars loaded with colored liquids or shards of crystal, some full of green herbs or colored flower petals. More of the little creatures ducked between the jars, but all of them parted as Auntie Martha worked her way down the shelf.

“Sheermint, Sheermint…” Auntie Martha shifted the bottles around with the clinking of glass. Evan watched, heart in his throat. “I know I had some in here somewhere…oh, bother!” She cried, and Evan’s heart sank as she pulled out an empty bottle. “Oh, twist my knickers why don’t you!”

“Is that your Sheermint, then?!” Lofty crowed, bouncing off of Evan’s shoulder. “Look’s like Sheerdust to me!”

“It’s rotten luck is what it is,” Auntie Martha said, setting the bottle down with perhaps a bit too much force. She looked to Evan. “And it doesn’t grow this time of year, either!”

“What?” He whispered, his grip on the towel going slack. “But we need it now! Roland’s going to—”

“Aye, I know, I know! But it only grows in the cold months, dearie. There won’t be any more ‘till winter comes ‘round.” She made her way back over and sat down beside Evan, rubbing a comforting hand down his back. He sniffled back tears. “But this isn’t about some cold now is it?” When he shook his head and sniffled again, her voice grew softer. “Why don’t you tell your old Auntie what’s really bothering you, hm?”

“It’s…” he looked down at his feet, scuffing his toe against the stone floor. “It’s just…my father…he got sick, too. It looked a lot like this at first and he didn’t…” He swallowed hard, the rawness of fresh grief catching in his throat. It had gotten easier to not think about and then this and his heart ached. “He didn’t make it. Seeing Roland like this is…”

It was too hard to say. He curled into himself just a little, hiccuping around a quiet sob. Auntie Martha made a soothing noise.

“I understand, dearie,” She said, rubbing circles in his back, “And you need to do something to help, don’t you? So you don’t feel so helpless this time?”

Evan nodded. He took a shuddering breath as several of her little creatures padded over, resting their tiny hands on his legs and making crooning noises of their own.

“But I don’t know what else to do,” he whispered, “If we don’t have any Sheermint, and it’s out of season, then…” His ears drooped. “What can I do?”

Was there anything he could do? Or was he as helpless as when Nella was cursed all over again? He’d never wanted to feel that helpless again. He hiccuped around another sob, trying to hold them back. The little creatures turned into blurs of color as the tears spilled over. He reached up, dashing a hand across his face. Spirits, he was such a crybaby kit sometimes!

“Hmm…well,” Auntie Martha sat back and hummed pensively, “I reckon Goldpaw might still have some. It grows up in the mountains and high places around the city, I think.” She tilted her head as Evan looked at her, hope bubbling up in his chest for the first time all day. “If you can get me some fresh stuff, I can whip up a batch of syrup quick as a wink.” She nodded firmly. The tiny bubble of hope grew larger until it pushed back the panic and he leapt to his feet.

“Oh, thank you, Auntie Martha, thank you!” he surged forward, wrapping his arms around her shoulders in a quick hug, “I’ll go check right now!”

He took off at a run before she could get more than a “be careful!” out, grabbing a loudly protesting Lofty under one arm and darting back into the storm. He’d grab Tani and Batu and they’d head out to Goldpaw! It’d be quick, easy, and everything would be fine!

Roland was going to get better!

#nnk2 #ni no kuni 2 #nnk2 fic #!fic #fic: for king and country

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sugarskies · 2 years

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What is your favourite Ni No Kuni game? Mine is Ni No Kuni 2: Revenant Kingdom.

wrath of the white witch!! i adore the entire series but wrath of the white witch is my #1 for its characters, story, and gameplay (the reason it ranks higher than dominion of the dark djinn for me even if there are aspects of dotdd that i SO WISH were in wotww, i'm just not a big nds person anymore). there are so many things i love about that game. the character dynamics, the familiar system, that one guy who keeps losing his journal... the speech oliver gives after defeating the white witch is very important to me too, i think about it a lot. and of course the ghibli animations give it (and dotdd) that extra spark. and as a Certified Platoon Master i am partial to the casino. just make it easier to get angel wings and it's a perfect game. <3

but revenant kingdom is so good too! when starting cross worlds i actually picked witch solely bc she fights like my beloved leander. and i do enjoy the combat in wotww but the combat in revenant kingdom is SO FUN. i also love the different outfits in that game and the story is so sweet even though i worry for evan bc he just keeps giving and giving when he really deserves a nice long nap. and the soundtrack has some BOPS. sometimes i just hang with the sky pirates for the music. so good. and HIGGLEDIES. omg. words cannot describe my love for higgledies. i have clips of every single higgledy doing their little dance. i should make gifs of those some time. plus the labyrinth is really fun too, i am a SUCKER for level challenges. i will stop rambling now but basically the entire series is spectacular.

#THANK YOU FOR ASKING NNK IS MY FAVORITE EVER :)#someone got me the nnk2 board game for my birthday this past weekend and it's so cute even tho it confused me at first <3 #i should write more nnk fic there is not enough out there #ni no kuni #anonymous anon #maskarons

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the-local-oddity · 5 years

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Child of Mine

NNK2 DLC Spoiler Warning

A story about Roland after going home to his world. I wrote this after finishing the 5th memory lane, or Will's Memory Lane.

Enjoy!

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When his eyes opened, he was laying in a grass field. The wind blew, rustling the grass and nearby trees. The grass tickled his face. He could hear cars, they weren’t too far off, that alone told him he was home. As he sat up in the grass, his back felt sore, that’s how he knew he was back to his old self. Old. He rubbed his face and looked around, there was a line of trees blocking the view to the highway where he could hear the cars. He stood up finally with a sigh. He turned around, away from the treeline, and saw he was near a parking lot, for a hospital. He stared for a moment.

THE hospital. His eyes grew wide, and his heart pounded in his chest, telling him to do one thing. Run. His legs carried him before he even thought about why he was running. He raced past people, speeding by so they didn’t even have a chance to recognize him. He might’ve even pushed someone.

He ran through the front doors, dodging people as they went about their own business. He still had a few swear words thrown at him though. He raced right past the receptionist, he didn’t need her to guide him anywhere, he knew where he was going. He moved past patients and doctors, he was yelled at, grabbed at, people we angry with him. But he didn’t care he had one person to worry about, and it wasn’t himself.

He came to the door finally and opened quickly, but froze as he stepped inside. He stood there, attempting to catch his breath as he stared at his son. The child looked quite shocked to see him there in the condition he was in.

“Dad?” the child said after a long silence, breaking him from his trance.

He finally moved again, shutting the door behind him he walked over to his son and held him tightly. He squeezed his eyes shut. Reminding himself that this was real. They were both here and they were both alive.

“Dad, what’s wrong?” Of course, he hugged his father back, but he was extremely confused, his dad had never acted like this when he came to visit, “Dad, is everything okay? What happened to you?”

He pulled back and grabbed a seat, pulling it to his bedside, “I had a nightmare.” he wanted to tell him the truth, but he wasn’t sure how much his son remembered the last time they talked, “I was afraid I’d never see you again…”

His son smiled at him reassuringly, “I’m not going anywhere!” he smirked, motioning around his room, “Doctors get mad if I leave without permission!”

He chuckled and rubbed his son’s hair. Goodness, he was happy to see his child smiling. Then he paused, “Will, you’re not leaving without doctor’s permission, are you?”

“No!” He folded his arms and stuck his nose in the air, “It was just a joke, dad!” He then turned back to look at his father, who had a peaceful smile on his face, “Nevermind what I may or may not do, what are you wearing? I’ve never seen that outfit before!”

Roland looked down at his clothes, he was still wearing his clothes from the other world, he laughed a bit. He didn’t fit in again.

“This was uh,” he thought quickly, “a present from your grandma.”

William shook his head, “I knew you’d say something like that.”

Roland shrugged with a chuckled when he suddenly remembered something. He grabbed his bag and began digging around inside it. Searching for something promised to give to his son. He dug around until he finally pulled out the book, the pages no longer blank, now filled with the stories of an entire world. Carrying the legacy of one small king.

“Here, a new book.” He handed it over. The cover of the book did nothing to tell the child what was contained inside, neither did the back. He turned it over in his hands, investigating it.

He opened it, and his eyes widened when he saw the handwritten words, his head snapped to look over at his dad, “Did you write this?!”

“Yeah, and I hope you like,” he rubbed his writing hand, “because that hurt to get all down on paper.”

“When on Earth did you find the time to do this?” William skimmed the pages, catching sight of hand-drawn pictures on some of the pages, definitely not done by his dad, “This is nuts!”

“Let’s just say, I had some off-time…” He noticed William staring at one of the images, it was of the young king, sitting with his friends around the fire, he smiled fondly, “A friend of mine drew all of those, said he wanted to adventures to capture accurately.”

“They’re pretty.” William flipped back to the first page, “Are you gonna publish this?” he asked, he hadn’t started reading yet, but he was excited to start.

“Probably not.” Roland sat back, “I wrote it for you, so if you want me to I will. But, I don’t think I will on my own.” He sighed, he had so much he’d have to do once people discovered he was here, he’d be whisked away, working as hard as he could, barely having time to visit his own son, he wasn’t sure if he could handle that.

The room filled with silence, Roland figured he had already started reading, and stayed quiet so he didn’t disturb him. Until William spoke again, he had just been staring at the first page blankly.

“Dad…?”

“Yeah, what’s up?” Roland sat up again, worried he’d have to run for a doctor.

“Could you… could you read it to me like you used to?”

Roland paused for only a moment, before smiling. He stood up, “scoot over a bit, so I can sit next to you.” William from ear to ear as his dad took a seat next to him, he gently took the book from his son’s hands, and read the first words.

“It all started with one young king, determined to fulfill a promise…”

The two were found asleep on each other, the open book in their hands and smiles on their faces.

#ni no kuni ii: revanant kingdom #ni no kuni 2 #ni no kuni #nnk #nnk 2 #nnk2 #nnk fic #nnk2 fic #fic #my fic #roland crane #william crane #will crane #nnk2 spoilers #timeless tome spoilers #spacey author

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apatheticphoenix · 2 years

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Leander and Bracken are best friends nnk2 was just too cowardly to delve into their relationship and i could 100% go on a rant about them

#you can say this about most nnk2 party members tbh #I love them but their relationships could have been sm better #anyway currently writing more fic and a scene of those two just being friends and god #THEYRE ALSO A REFLECTION OF SWAINE AND MARC BUT THATS AN UNRELATED TANGENT #ni no kuni #nnk #ni no kuni 2 #nnk2 #bracken meadows #leander aristides

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ni-no-fool · 4 years

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Guess who started playing Ni No Kuni 2 for a second time this year whOOPS!

#Get ready for this blog to become a Roland angst fic archive #I already have like three fics in mind #Please send kelp hahaha #ni no kuni #ni no kuni 2 #nnk #nnk2 #roland crane

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wyrmy · 4 years

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The Blood Price

AO3 || DA || FFN

Fandom: Ni no Kuni 2: Revenant Kingdom

Rated: T

Genre: Horror/Family

Characters: Mausinger, Ratja, Captain Buck, Doloran, Vermine, the Conductor, Annabelle and Aurelius Fielding (OCs), the other Four Rulers briefly, other minor OCs

Pairings: Mausinger/Ratja, Vermine/Annabelle Fielding

Summary: There is a spell that can bring the dead back to life but at a price. Set ten years post game.

Warnings: Minor depictions of blood/injuries and a decayed corpse, and whump of a minor

It’s Halloween!

Instead of some original content, why not (re)read this fic I did for Halloween last year? C:

#Ni no Kuni 2 #NnK2 #Mausinger #Ratja #Vermine #Wyrmy writes #I am once again plugging this fic I did last year

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kaikaykoa · 4 years

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sometimes a guy with overgrown hair, a trench coat, and a gun who betrays you for a hot second needs to be put in the angst pit every now and then

#ni no kuni 2 #nnk2 #yma.odles #wip wop #//it doesnt make sense now nor does it look legible at all but just wanted to get an idea out #//was reading old fics i never posted nor finished but they ended up being not as a bad as i anticipated #//not sure if ill ever post this one tho #//theres just too big of an au behind it and i might as well write my own world like everyone else #//wish i could #//hehe the caption heehoh im a genius #//the composition couldve gone better but hot potatoes am i with how i arrange my schedule #//funny cuz i have none

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defiant-firefly · 4 years

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Chaos AU update

So the internet is currently down and I've been burning data on my phone all day for it. I really want to start posting but I can't get my laptop on the internet until it's fixed.

In the meantime, we have a word count of... 12303 words so far and we're not even at the Sky Pirates yet. I'm gonna be working on it whilst I don't have the internet so if it's down for like a week, I'll still be making progress.

#firefly writes #nnk2 #chaos au of doom #I'm working on the [REDACTED] section of the fic and once its done #its sky pirate time #maybe

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melodycalypso · 6 years

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I drew a genderbent version of Evan...

I think I’ll name her Elowen.

#ni no kuni #ni no kuni 2 #nnk2 #ni no kuni 2 revenant kingdom #evan #i actually wanna write a fan fic with evan having a twin

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suzuki-violin-school · 2 years

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rating my old wattpad drafts/stories

This is just gonna be one long self callout post but I do think it's gonna be funny

"Persona 5 oneshots" (published) - actually pretty decent for what it is but there's only three published parts. fortunately the published ones are actually better than the three unpublished drafts oof- 7/10

"🥺ruv" (draft) - I don't want to talk about this and also I put way too much effort into attempting Russian dialogue 1/10

"The Queen {Ben Hardy as Roger Taylor x Reader}" (published) - out of every fic I've ever written and across every fanfiction platform I've used, this is the most successful fic. I've held the number one spot in several tags and still hold high spots 1000/10

"ni no kuni ii revenant kingdom oneshots" (published) - 10/10 only because I could not for the life of me find any nnk2 fanfiction out there so I wrote my own (it's not good though, although I am using it as a fandomswap AU with bnha)

"The Contract" (draft) - it had potential when it was just a concept but execution was terrible. It took a turn for the worse and now has the same vibes as being sold to one direction. the plot was sign this contract and you marry loki and teach him earth etiquette so he doesn't go on an alien murder rampage again 0/10

"Loki x reader bumbles" (draft) - what the fuck is a bumble? it ended up splitting into three different fics all at once and they were all bad. One was overworked maid reader is assigned as loki's personal caretaker, one was Tony stark's little sister babysits loki on the regular while the avengers are out Doing Thingsᵀᴹ (that one was titled trash gremlin), and the other was Loki finds out his lover lied to him about her past and gets mad at her and she breaks down and goes into a coma for hundreds of years and when she reawakens Asgard is destroyed and Loki's dead 2/10

"multifandom oneshots requests only" (unpublished) - it ruined my life -1000/10

"a foreign trickster" (draft) - 9/10 on potential I might come back to this one and try to fix it. it's a post-game persona 5 fic about a half-Japanese girl moving to Japan from America except she was a part of a group similar to the phantom thieves and the metaverse reappears when she arrives maybe 4/10 overall

"My Best Friend" (published) - glorious although maybe not the best quality. It's a Brian May x childhood friend reader fic and for most of the beginning every other chapter is a childhood memory 9/10

"You digifucked up" (draft) - I don't wanna talk about it 0/10

"hfjavnbchvxgyjgmbnas" (draft) - I have no idea what this was supposed to be but it ended up as a three paragraph disgrace of a roy mustang fic 0/10

"Is orochimaru babie" (draft) - one point for each chapter none of them were good and the only actual substance was a breakdown fic 2/10

"Naruto x reader oneshots" (published) - pretty okay, has a decent amount of reads and comments 5/10

"Me, having watched five episodes: hnnngh fanfic" (draft) - 10/10 for nostalgia, first bnha fic I ever wrote. Is actually a great idea and is in the works to be reworked and posted here on tumblr as a cyo multichap like a 6/10 overall

"Peter Parker x Avenger Reader" (draft) - no <3 it was about Peter and his girlfriend both mutually breaking up with each other because they're both tony's underlings and they slowly fall for each other's superhero alter egos 0/10

"Yoosungi~" (draft) - I started writing a yoosung fic where reader was his best friend at school and was mad that he was obsessing over mc being 'just like rika uwu' and then it slowly turned into reader unfriending him and moving in with seven and then dating seven I don't know what happened there 0/10

"Land" (unpublished) - first noncon fic I ever wrote but I don't wanna get into it. Also the title was originally a keysmash but it autocorrected to land and I kept it 1/10

"Nigihayami Kohakunushi x reader" (draft) - wow conceited much? -10/10

"Howl & Sophie but not bc fight" (draft) - I was jealous of an anime girl and needed a fix-it fic 0/10

"Akiba's Beat" (draft) - ongoing pet project of mine. one of those fics that is for me and me only. gets a good rating because I love it. nearing 700 chapters and it's like seventeen different stories going on at once but I am in love with basically everyone in that game (bar mippity mop and saki) 10000000/10

"Toxin" (draft) - the only oc insert fic I've ever written and it was partially for a friend but also it's like four paragraphs of my oc waking up in orochimaru's lab with amnesia and meeting my friend's oc 0/10

"Queen Texts" (published) - gets fairly good interaction for some reason. I only wrote it to jump on the "group chat text fic" bandwagon I don't understand the hype also none of the jokes were funny ?? 6/10

"BNHA oneshots" (draft) - by 'oneshots' I guess I meant half a kaminari fic and a decent start to a decent shigaraki fic, might circle back to that one actually idk 0/10

"double-edged sword" (draft) - good concept? the first crossover fic I ever attempted. I got impatient after writing the first chapter though so the second chapter is a massive time skip to the juicer parts of the story thank god no one else has ever seen this 5/10

"more persona 5 bullshit" (draft) - the concept was ok and the execution was okay but it was also kinda ??? reader was Akira's sister and hooked up with Yusuke and Akira got mad and then reader 'woke a persona' except not she was just a floating jester who had some power pertaining to confidants' tarot cards or something 3/10

"No Secrets Spilled" (draft) - another persona 5 fic I had an obsession I'm aware. I have no idea what the fuck was happening it was about a reader who's super good at keeping secrets, one of those secrets being she's the sidekick to a cyber criminal being hunted by the phantom thieves 2/10

"Coaster Crazy" (draft) - a Joe mazzello fic about aspiring actress reader getting cast as his love interest in a film called coaster crazy. I liked it but I gave up on it because it was too much effort trying to come up with a 'script' for a 'film' 5/10

"Queenies: Rated M for Mature" (unpublished) - was a collaboration with some friends who turned out to be a bunch backstabbing motherfuckers -10/10 bad memories

"sky rim one shots?" (meant to be read in the same tone as bill wurtz saying majapahit) (draft) - it is simply one draft that was barely even a start to a fic. an elf banished from the silver crescents comes to Delvin to join the guild. she was banished because she kept wasting her earnings trying to find her best friend (lover) Nir for years and years and years. Turns out Nir changed his name to Niruin when his father disowned him 4/10

"the rfa is one big party" (draft) - gives off vibes like a fic from 2011. it's equal parts zen x jaehee, seven x yoosung, reader x jumin, except it's like a gazillion chapters of buildup (all through 'texts') that slowly leads to everyone living together and that's literally as far as I got 1/10

"BoRhap Cast/Queen Trioshots" (unpublished) - trioshots are not a real thing I don't think I'm pretty sure I made that up but they should be (only just now realizing they are a thing but they're called trilogies) they should be more common in fanfiction I think anyway they were pretty bad it would be 5/10 but I'm subtracting points for a particularly sad trioshot about roger's girlfriend reader being cheated on and then realizing her best friend John is the perfect man for her so 1/10

"akiba's beat x persona 5 crossover fic" (draft) - been there done that and didn't even try to give it a better title. this one was about reader being a hacker and doing basically the same thing Futaba did to try and lure the phantom thieves to violet eden because she was suspicious about the metaverse and delusions being similar 0/10

"Candy Shop fanfiction" (draft) - gonna be straight up with this one: this was fanfiction of a porn game series about a dude named Andy fucking girls made of different types of candy (and one time also fucking his coworker who is the daughter of satan) -10/10 not a good thought

"...even more persona 5 bullshit" (draft) - I really gave up with titles, huh. In which reader is a quiet reserved girl in Akira's class who occasionally skips a day of school and comes back the next day having pulled a stunt like keying a teacher's car or tp-ing the school. anyway ryuji found a secret admirer note (from reader obviously) and found out it was her and tried to ask her out but Ann reminded him they were going to do "charity work" after school but then Y/n followed them into Kamoshida's castle and ended up waking a persona not even for herself, she was just mad Kamoshida hurt Ryuji lmao 0/10

"[redacted] x me" (draft) - not me fantasizing about my hot teacher oop- 0/10 he'd think it's creepy and so do I

"Jareth is a babie" (draft) - the reader was Sarah's niece and she gave her the book for her birthday and then reader wandered into the underground and met jareth and that's where it ended 1/10

"LOLOL" (draft) - back in the days of good ol' RinMaru Games, I used all the necromancer makers and warrior makers and thief makers and based all their designs on MC and then tried to write a yoosung fic that took place almost entirely in the world of lolol 2/10 I miss rinmaru so much

"oh okay" (draft) - literally I just wrote the lead up and the part where you go to the dawnstar sanctuary and see arnbjorn and then go inside to find Cicero except I made the reader character yell responses to everything Cicero said 0/10

"I'm a dangerous man, MC" (draft) - written before I completed Seven's route, and I have never played other story, so I have no idea what I was thinking. Based solely on the fact that seven doesn't shut up about being dangerous, I decided to write some bullshit fic about Saeran hacking the reader's phone to stop contact with her bff seven oh seven and slowly manipulate her into thinking "oh wait is he serious? is he dangerous?" and eventually coercing her into letting him "kidnap" her and they basically run away together and seven is after them the whole time to rescue the reader and idk it was weird 1/10 just because I spent too much time on it

"it's just more jareth" (draft) - three chapters of my venting about the backstabbing motherfuckers from "queenies: rated m for mature" (see above). it was supposed to be a comfort fic where I dump my "friends" and wish for jareth to take me away and then he does and we fall in love but I didn't get very far 1/10

"Cheydinhal" (draft) - another ongoing pet project, slowly growing into a longer and longer sob story. It starts far in the past, when Cicero first moves into the cheydinhal sanctuary after his home in bruma is destroyed. he makes friends with a fellow member of the Black Hand and then one day she disappears (it's called a prison sentence, cicero, she was tried for murder) and then they're separated for years but meet again decades later on the roads of Skyrim. reunited, they fall in love. nazir is confused 1000000/10 my favorite wip

"no thanks" (draft) - ??? like three sentences??? I think it was an OHSHC fic??? 0/10

"Cicero not even oneshots anymore" (draft) - Serana's sister reader falls in love with the jester basically 0/10 not good at all

"Sims 4 boyfriend imagines" (draft) - I lost a bet. the only thing there is vampire au imagines. I wanna hate this but I think about soft Vlad too often 5/10

"My Name Is Me" (draft) - literally what the fuck. this was an original thing and not fanfiction but ??? It's about a kid named Me You what the fuck. Anyway his secret spy uncle dies and it's up to Me and his friends to finish his uncle's last mission idk 0/10

"fanfiction mistakes that piss me off" (draft) - would've been popular in 2008 I think. the entire first chapter is just the word orbs a bunch of times. I also called my general audience "thottie ass hoes" but only specifically if they "don't read a/n 's (author's note)" 0/10

"The Princess {Joe Mazzello x Reader}" (draft) - it was supposed to be a sequel to "The Queen" (mentioned up there somewhere^^) but there's literally nothing there it's a blank document you guys wtf 0/10

"this*has*no*plot" (draft) - another original thing. I didn't get far with it but it's about a beautiful princess with lots of suitors but no will to get married so she sneaks out of her window one night and goes on an adventure except she keeps meeting interesting people who are the main character of their own stories whereas she is a temporary side character in all of their stories. It's meant to seem as if there no movement in the story, just her being a stepping stone in other stories that we do not follow 0/10

"pleas" (draft) - another original thing but I'll be damned if I can tell you what it's about. Time travel? Super powers? A bunch of different characters who all knew this "max" guy at different time periods and he leads them all to a wine cellar hidden in a forest at a certain point in time and then there's like five of "max" but all different ages?? Idk bruv 3/10 for being kinda interesting I guess

here are some notable moments from things that will never see the light of day:

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TheSkyLarkin’s Whumptober 2020 Completionist Post

Link to Ao3 Series

Specific Warnings/Trigger Information available at each link.

Links to All Fanfics/Fanfic Chapters, Sorted By Day and Prompts Completed:

No. 1: “Let’s Hang Out Sometime” “Waking Up Restrained” “Hanging” – Fear Death by Water (ITV Endeavour)

No. 2: “In the Hands of the Enemy” “Kidnapped” – Roadkill Drive (Ant Man, MCU)

No. 3: “My Way or the Highway” “Manhandled” “Forced to their Knees” “Held at Gunpoint” – Roadkill Drive

No. 4: “Running Out of Time” “Buried Alive” “Collapsed Building” – What Lies Beneath (NNK2, The Gap in the Doorway AU)

No. 5: “Where Do You Think You’re Going?” “Rescue” “On the Run” “Failed Escape” – When Nella Wasn’t There Chapter 1 (NNK2)

No. 6: “Please…” “No More” “Stop, please” – When Nella Wasn’t There Chapter 2

No. 7: “I’ve Got You” “Carrying” – When Nella Wasn’t There Chapter 3

No. 8: “Where Did Everybody Go?” “Abandoned” “Isolated” – I Know About the Human Heart (I Have Been Watching Yours) (KHUX)

No. 9: “For the Greater Good” “Take Me Instead” – When Nella Wasn’t There Chapter 2

No. 10: “Blood Loss” “Internal Bleeding” – When Nella Wasn’t There Chapter 4

No. 11: “Defiance” “Struggling” “Crying” – When Nella Wasn’t There Chapter 5

No. 12: “I Think I’ve Broken Something” “Broken Down” “Broken Bones” – When Nella Wasn’t There Chapter 5

No. 13: “Breathe In, Breathe Out” “Oxygen Mask” – dream as if you’ll live forever (NNK2, The Gap in the Doorway AU)

No. 14 -> Alt. 5: “Stoic Whumpees” – Shadows in the Looking-Glass (KH BBS)

No. 15: “Into the Unknown” “Magical Healing” “Science Gone Wrong” – Objects at Rest (Half-Life, Black Mesa Remake)

No. 16: “A Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day” “Forced to Beg” – Roadkill Drive

No. 17: “I Did Not See That Coming” “Wrongfully Accused” – In Which History Repeats Itself (KHUX)

No. 18: “Panic Attacks” – Objects at Rest

No. 19: “Broken Hearts” “Grief” “Survivor’s Guilt” – A Thrice Broken Heart (KH3)

No. 20: “Toto, I Have a Feeling We’re Not in Kansas Anymore” “Lost” “Field Medicine” – Objects at Rest

No. 21: “Hypothermia” – When Nella Wasn’t There Chapter 4

No. 22: “Drugged” – Perpetual Motion Chapter 1 (Half-Life, Black Mesa Remake)

No. 23: “Exhaustion” “Sleep Deprivation” – When Nella Wasn’t There Chapter 7

No. 24: “You’re Not Making Any Sense” “Forced Mutism” – Perpetual Motion

No. 25: “I Think I’ll Just Collapse Right Here, Thanks” “Disorientation” “Blurred Vision” “Ringing Ears” – When Nella Wasn’t There Chapter 7

No. 26: “Migraine” – In Which History Repeats Itself

No. 27: “Earthquake” “Extreme Weather” – When Nella Wasn’t There Chapter 7

No. 28: “Mugged” – Career Day (NNK)

No. 29: “I Think I Need a Doctor” “Emergency Room” “Reluctant Bedrest” – dream as if you’ll live forever

No. 30: “Wound Reveal” “Ignoring An Injury” – When Nella Wasn’t There Chapter 3

No. 31: “Today’s Special: Torture” “Experiment” “Left for Dead” – Perpetual Motion Chapter 2

By Individual Fic:

Fear Death by Water (ITV Endeavour) - No. 1: “Let’s Hang Out Sometime” “Waking Up Restrained” “Hanging”

Roadkill Drive (MCU) - No. 2: “In the Hands of the Enemy” “Kidnapped”, No. 3: “My Way or the Highway” “Manhandled” “Forced to their Knees” “Held at Gunpoint”, No. 16: “A Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day” “Forced to Beg”

Career Day (NNK) - No. 28: “Mugged”

What Lies Beneath (NNK2, TGitD AU) - No. 4: “Running Out of Time” “Buried Alive” “Collapsed Building”

dream as if you’ll live forever (NNK2, TGinD AU) - No. 13: “Breathe In, Breathe Out” “Oxygen Mask”, No. 29: “I Think I Need a Doctor” “Emergency Room”

When Nella Wasn’t There (NNK2)

Chapter 1 - No. 5: “Where Do You Think You’re Going?” “Rescue” “On the Run” “Failed Escape”

Chapter 2 - No. 6: “Please…” “No More” “Stop, please”, No. 9: “For the Greater Good” “Take Me Instead”

Chapter 3 - No. 7: “I’ve Got You” “Carrying”, No. 30: “Wound Reveal” “Ignoring An Injury”

Chapter 4 - No. 10: “Blood Loss” “Internal Bleeding”, No. 21: “Hypothermia”

Chapter 5 - No. 11: “Defiance” “Struggling” “Crying”, No. 12: “I Think I’ve Broken Something” “Broken Down” “Broken Bones”

Chapter 6 - None

Chapter 7 - No. 23: “Exhaustion” “Sleep Deprivation”, No. 25: “I Think I’ll Just Collapse Right Here, Thanks” “Disorientation” “Blurred Vision” “Ringing Ears”, No. 27: “Earthquake” “Extreme Weather”

I Know About the Human Heart (I Have Been Watching Yours) (KHUX) - No. 8: “Where Did Everybody Go?” “Abandoned” “Isolated”

In Which History Repeats Itself (KHUX) - No. 17: “I Did Not See That Coming” “Wrongfully Accused”, No. 26: “Migraine”

Shadows in the Looking-Glass (KH BBS) - No. 14 -> Alt. 5: “Stoic Whumpees”

A Thrice Broken Heart (KH3) - No. 19: “Broken Hearts” “Grief” “Survivor’s Guilt”

Objects at Rest (Half-Life) - No. 15: “Into the Unknown” “Magical Healing” “Science Gone Wrong”, No. 18: “Panic Attacks”, No. 20: “Toto, I Have a Feeling We’re Not in Kansas Anymore” “Lost” “Field Medicine”

Perpetual Motion (Half-Life)

Chapter 1 - No. 22: “Drugged”, No. 24: “You’re Not Making Any Sense” “Forced Mutism”

Chapter 2 - No. 31: “Today’s Special: Torture” “Experiment” “Left for Dead”

Stats:

Fics/Fic Chapters Completed = 18 (10 One-Shots, 8 Fic Chapters)

Fandoms Written For = 6 (ITV Endeavour, MCU, Ni No Kuni 2, Kingdom Hearts, Half-Life, Ni No Kuni)

Days Completed = 31

Days Posted = 18

Individual Prompts Completed = 53

Themes as Prompts Competed = 20

Prompts + Themes Completed = 73

Approx. Word Count = 58.k+

This was my first month-long creation challenge ever and I managed to finish on time, yay! Thank you to the mods for putting this challenge together! Thank you to @apollosvotive, @figureofdismay, @1blackstar2, @spiraling, @a-cup-of-unrealitea, @frelioan, @memoriesofthealhambra, @chaosintheavenue, and @cherryslibrary for beta reading for me! And thank you to everyone who reads my fics!

@whumptober2020

#Whumptober2020 #Completionist #ITV Endeavour #MCU #NNK2 #Half Life #Kingdom Hearts #NNK #Fanfiction #Torture TW #Injuries TW #Blood TW #Implied Brainwashing tw #Panic Attack tw #Whump of a Minor #See individual links for specific warnings #Masterpost

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saratogaroadwrites · 9 months

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For King and Country (1/122)

(A retelling.)

Gunshots echoed through the cavernous space beneath Ding Dong Dell. The sharp cracks were quickly covered by a high, terrified scream.

“Roland!” Evan screamed, his voice near to breaking. Halfway across the cavern, Roland Crane, former president and once-again-20 year old, hissed curses between his teeth.

“Stay back!” He shouted at Evan, but the young boy was in no hurry to move and join the fray. He stood there, paralyzed with fear, as the monster that had been the Black Knight charged at Roland again. They’d been locked in this makeshift arena, trapped by roiling and snapping violet flames, for what felt like an eternity. Roland must have gone at it a hundred times by now but it was almost as if nothing he did to this thing even made a dent in it. His sword forms were rusty, sure, but by now there should have been a lot more wounds on it, a lot more blood on the mossy stone beneath their feet.

Given the circumstances, Roland chose to ignore the tiny, panicking piece of his mind that was screaming “zombie!” at him. Alive or undead, he had to keep this monster focused on him.

If it turned on Evan, the young king wouldn’t survive a minute.

“Hey!” Roland shouted as the creature turned its attention to Evan, “Over here!”

Another shot cracked through the air, catching the creature in the face. A streak of red opened up beneath its eye, but Roland’s triumph—he could hurt it!—was short lived. The creature reared back, and with one massive arm swiped at Roland. He leapt back—too slow!

“Roland!”

The glancing blow sent him flying back, left him landing hard and rolling on the damp, slimy ground. He’d barely come to a stop and already he could feel the bruise blooming across his side as he lay winded on the uneven ground. Everything grayed out for a moment, his ears ringing.

“S-stay back!” Evan. All he had was a knife! He couldn’t fight this thing off!

Feeling the creature’s thudding footsteps through his back, Roland struggled to roll back to his front. He lifted his head, teeth grit; the monster was too close to Evan, taking plodding footsteps towards him like a cat who’d finally cornered the mouse.

How ironic.

“Get out of there!” Roland shouted, struggling to his hands and knees. “Go!”

Evan jolted and scrambled away, but there was nowhere to go. All he could do was run in circles, the pair of them trapped in here with the monster and it knew that. This time, it didn’t give chase but instead seemed to brace itself, purple and aqua flames gathering in its open mouth. Roland’s heart raced: if that hit anyone alive, then—!

“Run!” He shouted again, but it was too late. Aqua and purple flames flared to life in the monster’s mouth. He could feel the heat from here. Roland tried to get to his feet, staggering as his body refused to cooperate. He couldn’t get up fast enough, couldn’t clear the distance between them fast enough and—

Suddenly there was a flash from beside him. Roland jerked, barely catching sight of Aranella as she burst through the barrier of flames around them. In the same instant, the monster let loose its flames right at Evan, stunned into stillness. Without stopping Aranella ran right at her young charge, ignoring his shout of surprise as she grabbed him under the arms and twisted, throwing him clear of the flames without losing her momentum.

But the ground beneath her was uneven, and her foot caught. She stumbled, and Roland could only watch in horror as the blast caught her in the leg. Her scream rang through the cavern in concert with Evan’s shout.

“Nella!” The boy screamed, his voice breaking right down the middle. Heart in his throat, Roland found his gun in his hand before he’d even realized he’d called it. One shot to the face stopped the monster’s blast, and two more drove it back. Roland lurched to his feet and kept shooting, driving it further and further back. He snarled as it roared at him, rearing back, but then—one foot slipped!

It had reached the edge of the platform. The mossy stone crumbled away, leaving one massive leg hanging over the edge. Unable to balance, it stumbled backwards, arms wheeling, head thrown back in a massive roar that echoed through the stone around them. It tried to catch its balance, but it was too late. With one last roar, it tumbled over the edge of the platform and into the depths of the abyss all around it. Roland dismissed his weapons with a growl.

“Nella!”

Body protesting, he whirled around. Aranella was sitting up across the platform, Evan on his knees beside her. Quickly taking stock, Roland ran to join them. He was sore, bruised, and muddy. Evan had a scrape on his cheek and his palms were red, his finery more mud than silk. They would be fine. But Aranella…

“Well,” She grit out as Roland came to a stop beside her, “That was a bit embarrassing. So much for my dance training.”

“Nella…” Evan whimpered. They all looked at her leg then, the one that had been caught in the blast. Roland swallowed hard, his stomach somewhere near his ankles. He’d seen bad burns in his day, the deep red and blistering white of a palm that had accidentally touched a burner but this…this was worse. Her skirt had been burnt away, leaving everything from the knee down of her right leg blackened. Oddly, it wasn’t shrunken or shriveled. Still, it looked painful.

“Can you stand up?” He asked her, grimacing as he realized how foolish a question that was. She swallowed hard, face pinched in pain.

“I’ll manage,” She said as Evan scooted back, reaching out to offer what support he could. Lurching, Aranella began to rise. “We should move while we still—”

As she got her weight beneath her, her knee suddenly buckled. With a short cry she began to topple forward; Roland lunged forward to catch her before she could hit the stone floor. Evan dropped to his knees beside them.

“Nella!” He gasped, “Nella, are you all right?!”

She hissed between her teeth, hiding her face in Roland’s chest. He held her up, looking down at her leg. Was it worse than he’d thought?

Some part of his mind went “yes!” very loudly, even as the rest of it slammed into a screeching halt. Aranella’s burn was moving.

Except, that wasn’t a burn. There was no way it could be a burn. Gleaming purple and green and blue it reminded him almost of an oil slick on the pavement…if oil slicks writhed and twisted of their own accord. Stomach flipping, Roland swallowed hard. He helped Aranella to sit.

“That’s not a burn.” He said. She nodded at him, tucking Evan beneath an arm.

“Forbidden magics,” She said tightly. Her face was pale, the marks on her leg continuing to twist. “Some sort of curse, I’d imagine.”

“A curse?” Evan stares at her, blue eyes blown wide. “What do we do?!”

Before Aranella could answer, she turned around. Roland caught it a second later: in the distance, the clank of armor and shouting. The soldiers had found their way down. Roland cursed but before he could speak, Nella turned to Evan.

“Listen to me,” She said firmly, cupping his face with both hands, “You need to go. Run as far away from here as you can.”

“What?!”

“You have to survive!” She said, then stopped and took a deep breath. “You have to live, and become the ruler I know you will be.”

Roland watched as understanding dawned on Evan’s young face. He shook his head vehemently, ears going flat to his skull.

“No!” He shouted, voice catching around a sob, “No, Nella! I can’t! Not without you!” He hiccuped again, though the sound was lost beneath the clank and clang of nearing armed forced. If they were still here when the soldiers arrived, then…

Roland looked down the corridor, teeth grit. They were running out of time and options. He knew what Aranella was doing, knew that this was a final goodbye to someone she clearly loved very dearly. It was the logical thing to do, but—

He took a breath. They could leave her here and run, leave her to the real risk of being killed, or take her with them.

Leave a young boy bereft of all family…or not.

Mind made up, Roland moved.

“Evan,” He said, startling them, “Move.”

“What—”

“Move.” He said more firmly. Evan’s tail fluffed up as he drew in the breath for a protest but Roland cut him off with, “I can’t pick you both up at once.”

Roland saw the moment it dawned on them. Evan scrambled away and Aranella, well, she didn’t look happy.

“You’ll do no such thing—”

"Sorry about this," He said, scooping Aranella up before she could finish. She was a little heavier than she looked, firm muscle in his arms as he slung her over one shoulder. She yelped in surprise, instinctively grabbing onto his coat to keep from slipping.

“You—!”

“Just hold on.” He said, grabbing Evan by the arm. He stared up at the odd sight, then nodded and turned away. Tail streaming behind him, Evan ran. Roland shifted his grip on Aranella and took off after the boy, leaving the clank of armor far behind them.

#nnk2 #ni no kuni 2 #nnk2 fic #!fic #fic: for king and country

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