fandom: the wayhaven chronicles
rating: (eventually) explicit
pairing: female detective/ava du mortain
chapters: 1/3
A/N: cozy winter vibes, ahoy! who cares that it's spring started this originally in 2021, i'm determined to finish it
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“Ava,” you say, turning a page on your copy of Pride and Prejudice. “Please stop.”
Ava doesn't look at you or even acknowledge your words, she keeps staring outside from the frosted window with her hands folded against her chest and jaw flexed with irritation.
Always so stubborn. It's as frustrating as it is endearing, because Ava du Mortain hasn't changed one bit after the day you met her eight months ago. She is honest and sincere, always. She's also the most bull-headed woman you've ever met. Yet, you love that about her. Sometimes, when you're lonely and sick with feeling the way you do, you wish you didn’t.
You sigh at her silence and close your book, keeping your forefinger between the covers to mark the page you were reading.
“The weather won’t change no matter how hard you stare at it. It's supposed to storm for two more days.”
Ava just grunts and unfolds her arms-- only to fold them again a few seconds later. She’s actually wearing a long sleeved shirt because of the weather, it's still grey and boring, but the fabric is fuzzy and it looks soft and warm on her. Her pants are the same as always, though, and her blonde hair is on a bun, but it's just a little bit looser than normally-- a few hair strands frame her serious face nicely, making her expression appear gentler than it is.
You shake your head in exasperation and return to your book.
There are three problems to the situation you have found yourself in:
1. The huge snow storm raging outside that prevents you and Ava from leaving the cabin.
2. Ava and the fact that she has avoided being alone with you for the last two weeks and now you're stuck in here in the middle of nowhere for at least a couple more days than was originally planned.
3. Nat, Farah and Morgan left before the snow storm started for a reconnaissance for your mission. So, you're with Ava. Alone. And things happen to be very awkward between you two because you might have kissed her at the New Year’s party drunk on longing and too much expensive champagne.
[❤️ read more in ao3]
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Just to make a point, every time I finished a panel of this I would export it as a PNG on the perceptual setting and use it as a color reference for the next panel
IT'S BAD
PLEASE CHECK YOUR COLOR SETTINGS
EDIT: If you're still having problems, it might help to switch from "Save/Save as" to "Export (as a) Single Layer". Just. Make SURE the box labeled "Expression Color" is set to RGB. I've been messing with this all day, and it looks like this combination of settings will allow exported PNGs to maintain their colors perfectly. To you. So far both Discord and Toyhouse still only display desaturated images and I cannot for the life of me figure out why
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what happened to tumblr's boyfriend? i never see boyfriend posts anymore. sorry man we made too many jokes about your boyfriend. yeah he was a really popular joke format for a while and then he fell out of fashion. sorry man.
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Are you alright, honey? You've barely put your blorbo in situations
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last night i had a dream that i was playing minecraft and i noticed i had 77 blocks of cobblestone in one slot instead of it being capped at 64 and it was so jarring to me that it literally booted me out of the dream. like sure you can fly now and your childhood home is a pharmacy but 77 pieces of cobblestone? unthinkable. wake the fuck up.
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