Rule of First Blood or unnamed chasexniamh baby fic!!! - em <3
I went kookoobabanas and whoopsie I ended up finishing pretty much all the of prologue/opening to this so uh here
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Rule of First Blood
the unwritten rule: the first Hunter to inflict a fatal wound makes the claim.
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The thing about Mage Hunters that infuriated her the most, she thought, was that she is not prey.
It was in those early days for Vesper when she heard the term, absorbing all she could, filling in the absence of memory with knowledge, ravenous to simply know. To know anything, to soothe the nothing that made the edges of her mind blur and blacken; some raw, gaping hole in her head and her heart. Anything to stop feeling hollowed out.
It made her brow furrow. Hunters, whose mark consisted of those born with the remains of an old covenant in their blood. Their fellow man, made in the image of Six.
The Viper King thinks we are dangerous, too dangerous to live. The Hunters were created to cull us. Drive us to extinction. Jax said.
“Like wolves.” She finished. But back in that moment,she felt more like a fawn, wide eyed and skittish, quick to flee, slow to fight, curled in a bramble and out of sight from the keen cerulean burn that meant the end.
Bellona was a pretty flower. The sketch in one of the books His Majesty had gifted her showed the petals, painted in blue ink, the thorns and leaves and next to it a description of the plant.
Beautiful. Deadly.
How could someone take something so lovely and turn it into a weapon? How wicked to look at beauty and think it the bane of your enemies. Poison- the venom of the Viper King-in their hands, in the veins, arrows tipped.
The wolf to the common folk, the hart to the hunter.
As she learned, as the intrinsic gift pulled and pushed and called to her, as she became entwined with the ambition of her regent who offered purpose, Vesper grew less resentful of the idea of being The Hunted.
After all, hunters step in their own traps. Fall to friendly fire. Gored on tusks and antlers. To creatures born to render and tear flesh with their teeth, hunger is a powerful thing.
If she is to be the quarry, she will be the quarry with fangs and claws. Quick and powerful, quiet and cunning, and most of all, hard to kill.
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Commentary below !!
The title came from google searching something different and I was like I… can’t NOT have this be a fic specifically about Vesper and Arthur (thus dubbed…Vespa), and I don’t know where it’s going besides it’s obviously playing into the fact they are foils of equal and opposing force who eventually fall in love, and I just love a good themed character study so the more we learn about our dear darling Margrave I think the more crazy I will get with this. The wonderful @thegrayascendancy-if WIP is still in its infancy and much is shrouded in delicious mystery, and while sometimes I feel like I have the measure of him, he is still largely enigmatic to me which works for Vesper POV fantastically as both she as the character and me as the writer of fiction and a reader of The Gray Ascendancy. He’s fascinating and I have to restrain myself from asking all the questions about him to his dear author- this may be me just studying him and Ves under a microscope, with some action thrown in there(not just massive introspection). I think when two people are posed to really do some damage to each other as in their nature to do so and are (as I’m interpreting it) pretty evenly matched, it’s just -Chef’s kiss- ;adding tension romantic or sexual or otherwise and raising the emotional stakes is also just a freaking delight. It’s really fun to write fierce and ambitious Vesper and learn more about her through my writing and in the story setting as it progresses too, and I’m salivating at Arthur (and the other 2 that make up the trio) having a meaningful impact on her. I joke that I want Arthur to destroy her wholly, and I think this is the start of it. Teehee.
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You tame the sassy 'bitter' women and they have a soft spot only for you. I say bitter not maliciously its more that they come across as that but have fair reasons to be. Also you have a soft spot for adorably awkward women like liara and to some degree feng but more gremlin :}
Oh my god, you’re right on both counts. I can definitely see the bitter aspect on a lot of the women I like! And of course I love Liara, and honestly even if Feng Min is gremlin I think she also counts as adorably awkward when she opens up and gets more vulnerable!
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the lovely Em (@wolfsbanesbite) tagged me to put my library on shuffle and list the first 10 songs that come up, so I just used my liked songs on spotify
I will tag @f1-disaster-bi, @geooooooorge, @wunderlichkind and @alexi-01
but feel free to play and say I tagged you (and ofc as always feel free to ignore if you're tagged)
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🐹
In the best way
Send 🐹 for “You? Intimidating? Hell no.”
ok since it's in the best way, i'll accept it 🤗
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Whats the Marazi version of Christmas like?
There's two options for this:
1/ A holiday celebrating a birth of a deity. That would be Sagkunagt (Ancient’s Day). It's the estimated day that the three ancient leviathans (that all life on Marazi is believed to have evolved from) went into hibernation in the abyss of the seas.
It's less about parities and more about remembering passed loved ones.
2/ A winter holiday: Marazi New Year's. Similar to the earth, New Year's is celebrated when Marazi has done a full loop around the system's sun. It's the biggest holiday of the year. Celebrating making it through another year with successful harvests, hunting and research.
This is the biggest party of the year and, on average, lasts about three days. With a lot of food, dancing and meeting up with family.
Also bonus shout-out to Life Day: It wasn't celebrated widely on Marazi before the fall of the Empire, but due to an increased Wookiee population, it was made an official holiday by the time of the sequels..
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okay got my new spotify discover weekly and there's this song on here that makes me think of your 6b lightning fic!
it's called lightning by cannons and it feels very buddie coded. anyway i was listening to it and i had to come share 💗⚡️
I love getting music recommendations! Thank you for thinking of me and my WIP; that’s so damn sweet Em! ❤️
“Cos you are the only thing I’ve ever gotten right” - Oh I LOVE this line a lot…
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KAEYA BIRTHDAY ??? ?? i love you mr alberich sir i love you oh so so so much.
uh dialogue for this one but more legible under the cut (and a messy ragbros page)
Klee: Kaeya! Come down here!
Kaeya: Oh? heh. What is it, Spark Knight?
Klee: Happy Birthday! It is today? Right? I even double-checked with Albedo and everything but I don't know...
Klee: It's a Calla Lily! You like those, right?
Kaeya: I certainly do! Thank y-
Klee: Oh.
Klee: OK OK OK-
Kaeya: Hm?
Klee: Kaeya you have to promise to not tell Master Jean about this one!
Kaeya: You can count on me to keep my lips sealed.
Klee: OK! Close your eyes- eye- and hold out your hands!
Kaeya: Mhm!
Klee: OK! You can open them! TA-DA~!
Klee: I made a bomb for you! It even has an eyepatch! He can look after you when I'm somewhere else. Take good care of him! Oh yeah- He explodes if you- Kaeya?
Kaeya: Thank you Klee! Thank you very much!
Klee: You're VERY welcome Kaeya!
a lil ragbros too.... kaeya and his red siblings amirite (bursts into tears).. also i am so obsessed with chibi diluc saying "bring em in..."
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