WORD OF THE DAY
Monday, September 19, 2022
OED Word of the Day: requiescat, n.
A wish or prayer for the repose of the soul of a dead person.
SENTENCE EXAMPLE
"The first is the requiescat that she speaks over the body of Adam Brant after Orin has shot him in retaliation for their father's murder."
- 2006, B. F. Dick Forever Mame v. 114
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Twenty-two years ago, I stood where I stand now – and watched my loved ones die, betrayed by those I had called friends. Vengeance clouded my mind. It would have consumed me, were it not for the wisdom of a few strangers, who taught me to look past my instincts. They never preached answers, but guided me to learn from myself.
banned from adding stops to the road trip (hill i wanted to walk up was judged a ‘very small mountain,’ the view from the top was of the absence of a view, added time to the drive so we would go past a giant ant statue)
Needed a break from working on longfics to write a lil lich gale angst as a treat to myself. :)
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Astarion/Gale (Baldur's Gate)
Characters: Gale (Baldur's Gate)
Additional Tags: Major Character Undeath, also major character death, Angst, Hurt No Comfort, Character Study, Lich Gale
Summary:
Unlike reversing undeath, the secrets to earning it are surprisingly easy to uncover, yet he can understand why the ascension to lichdom is not performed with more frequency. It involves a ritual with a material component most sacred — giving up what one values most.
When Gale lays down at night, he finds himself frightened, not by the idea of such a sacrifice, but by the truth that he does not know what it is he values.
A moment of your attention, if you will? As imspited by bookshop owner AU and the latest Branch... A Desmond who is not reborn, but still ends up as a lady, but in Renaissance Italy. And, by a happenstance, ends up taking Cristina's place as Ezio's first crush. Que Desmond spending too much time rejecting Ezio - so far as being moved (by parents) from Firenze, to Venice, to Rome. Only for the (chivalrous) pursuit to continue there, too. In short - Ezio being a competent lovesick fool
Desmond doesn’t even want to get involved in any of this Assassins / Templar bullshit anymore. Her new parents are nice and the bookshop they have is pretty neat…
She just goes wherever her parents go. They have a bookshop and she helps out, maybe even screwing up the timeline so badly she becomes Leonardo’s model for the Mona Lisa and doesn’t even realize it until Ezio buys the damn painting and hears the name ‘Mona Lisa’ from his lips.
Then, when her parents finally ask her to take care of a bookshop that’s in trouble in their stead, she travels to Constantinople and…
And Ezio comes in and asks for help and they find out that her parent’s sad little bookshop leads underground and…
Holy shit.
Desmond didn’t just accidentally take Cristina’s place as Ezio’s first love.
She also took Sofia’s place as the woman of Ezio’s dreams who just so happen to have a bookshop.