'eyup, just makin' a new one bc the old had inaccuracies and while I could just keep updating it. I may also be procrastinating on things.
Anyway. Hi. Hello. I'm Ace (by name and nature), 30s, Scottish, they/them mostly. Sometimes it, occasionally he(hehe). Technically I work as a librarian, but realistically I largely write at the desk. and play dnd*.
ask & tag game friendly, but I can & will take an age to answer things.
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CHARACTERS
What you're going to find here is character creation like it's going out of style! It's fully [turns around, another falls out of my pockets] at any given moment. That being said, the ones I'm. most? likely to talk about are Syn and Maverick, and also the Llinos/Kaua&Jasper trifecta
SYN; a restless shapeshifter who volunteers to become a spy because actually, they're the best person for the job. Pretending to be someone else is what they do for a living. what. Also goes by Lance/Vale/Armoniel
MAVERICK; a frost dragonborn with guard dog tendencies that wanted to travel the world. And they get to do that! They just have to uhhh bite some throats out along the way
LLINOS/KAUA&JASPER; also known as the Mercenary Mages, these three are caravan guards and a tight knit family and the Kaua/Llinos angle is possibly one of the sappiest things you will ever see me write
Except I can and will bring up so many other names at any given time like sometimes I wish I was joking.
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some wip intros and the world building spiel below the cut
WIPS
Three main ones right now;
SHAPESHIFTER WIP; when things start getting tense between neighbouring countries, Syn volunteers to slip across the border and pass information back in an attempt to avert the looming war. They may have underestimated how hard it was going to be to go back when no one recognises them and their own best friend hates them (ft. pining, layers of secret identities, some not smart decision making, hand wavy world building, questionable morality, questionable spying techniques, A Certain Level of Dumbassery, some Fucked Up Shapeshifting). I'm putting it here now; THIS DOES NOT END WELL FOR ANYONE. be WARNED, but Syn DIES (allegedly) (it's complicated)
DUMB OF ASS, SNAKE OF TITS; in which Maverick leaves their monastery to see the world, ends up with a Morally Dubious Courtesan for a travelling companion, gets cursed (twice), has a slight corruption arc, but somehow still comes out better than they started and with a boyfriend to boot (ft. travelling, fights, the unwillingness to wear a shirt in camp and making that everyone else’s problem, revenge, What Sharp Teeth You Have, unquestioning kindness until it isn’t kind, overthinking but eventually manage to communicate about it, slight pining, one vaguely horny dragon) (DnD) [AO3]
MERCENARY MAGES; less a novel and more a series of vaguely connected moments in the lives of Kaua/Llinos & Jasper, going from when Llinos and Jasper met right through to. hm. Kaua and Llinos getting married...? (ft. siblings, magic, travel, sword fights, animal companions, just generally a good time, obligatory family trauma)
but also about. hm. I'm not going to count how many others occasionally get a skotch of focus but we've had; vampires, fair folk, time travel, superheroes, pirates, werecreatures, storytellers, a whole lot of wings, and technically there's even more linked in with Dumb of Ass up there.
All of the WIPS can be found on this page in chronological order
(and also I do have EtF for sale. I published it for the bit! We have kofi for ebooks and lulu for paperbacks and we don't acknowledge amazon at all)
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WORLD BUILDING
apart from the Shapeshifter WIP and the DnD stuff, all of them are in a big ol' portal fantasy collection called the Mist Worlds
There is an Overview post, a Magic post, a bit on the Mist Itself, and also the Worlds (and a page where this is collated)
some bits are incredibly handwavy and made up on the fly, other bits I have been thinking Too Much about for Too Long
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SECRET FIC THING
I've been going. uhhh Very Focused on this for the past. Year? and a bit? now and I will mention it in passing and literally nothing else but;
Dragon Age revamping of Inquisition & Veilguard to suit my accidentally-a-family-business bunch of elves, with my flatmate's. hm. enabling in the background. It's available on AO3 and is technically finished but also. There's always going to be more, isn't there?
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*technically it's wrangle a bunch of kids into playing DnD but I'll take what I can get
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I was tagged by the very talented @oh-no-another-idea. Thank you! My word is FLINCH. Because I miss him, this one is going to be all Carrion!
F (from "Carrion")
For every blow he shrugged off, another landed. He was distantly aware that he was wounded, that he’d taken enough hits to bring most men down, but it didn’t matter. He needed to see Orion.
L (from "Fear & Hunger / Human Nature")
Let this animal be a clever one. Let it understand that there are two of us and one of it. Let it decide to walk away so we might all live another day. He had no idea who he was addressing, and as a cool breeze sent a shiver down his spine, he felt certain nothing had heard him.
I (from "Carrion")
It certainly felt like a fitting place to die. And he was certain to die here. The road was so rarely traveled that chances are he would starve or die of thirst before someone passed by. And even if they did, he was so far down that they wouldn’t be able to see him.
N (from"Fear & Hunger / Human Nature")
No one moved. Carrion could have sworn none of them breathed.
C (from "Arran")
Cursed. That was certainly one word for it. Cursed. Corrupted. There was no pretty way to describe what had happened to him. What he was now. He remembered Beren’s words. That thing isn’t Reverence anymore.
H (from "A Crisis of Faith")
Hours slipped by as he waded through the fire. In its dancing flames, he saw memories. He saw himself training alongside the other paladins. He saw Theodore instructing him, correcting his stance. Beren laughing, mug of ale raised in a toast. Orion, deck of cards in hand, crowing gleeful victory as he leapt to his feet.
I'm going to tag @akindofmagictoo @dragon-swords-prophecies @ace-malarky @samplewriting and OPEN TAG!
I swear to fucking god. I would claw out OneDrive from my computer if I could. I would burn down their servers if I could. I would run down their stocks to the ground if I could. I hope every single one of their workers gets a better offer from a competitor in the next 24 hours. I hope every single one of their light bulbs explodes at the same time. I hope every single carton of milk in their fridge will always be expired.
Stop backing up my fucking files.
Stop asking me to back up my fucking files.
Stop taking my fucking files off my fucking computer.
I don't want a fucking reminder in three fucking days. Let me fucking say no.
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RULES: make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous, and tag as many people as you have WIPs. People send an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and you post a snippet or tell them something about it!
Ruby and Luna/Luna and Ruby
The Rise of Elpis
Dorothy and Tip
One Summer's Eve
Clip Your Wings
Want Does Not Equal Need
I'll tag, with no pressure, @pb-dot, @ace-malarky, @lamuradex, @oh-no-another-idea, @cocoamoonmalfoy, and an open tag!
