A bamboo fox's nest

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 重返未来：1999 | Reverse: 1999 (Video Game) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Marsha/Sentinel (Reverse: 1999) Characters: Marsha (Reverse: 1999), Sentinel (Reverse: 1999) Additional Tags: Pre-Relationship, Romance, they dance around their feelings, Sentinel Has Wings Headcanon, Marsha has a flying broom because reasons Summary:

The dream of flight had ever been a personal wish of Marsha’s. A solitary wish, born at first of the simple desire to escape the earth and embrace what must be true freedom, as her eagle had.

Then, as war encroached and overran them all, it became the firm-held belief that the sky remained the only battleground where the honor and courage of an individual knight still mattered.

And now—Marsha understood that the clouds were not meant to be stained with blood. She did not desire a stage to prove her merits, only a refuge she could borrow for a time, where obligations of duty and responsibility and expectation could not reach her.

The equivalent of a shower thought led to me trying to hammer together an exploration of a timeline where Sentinel joined the Manus.

However even that's no match for the power of Sentimarsha!

Unfortunately this is not a slowburn Enemies to Lovers (I write slow and I burn out easily) but something smolders here in the text, I hope.

I'm tickled because this person was definitely, specifically looking at the Marsha/Sentinel tag (they go on a small positive rant about it later in the vid) but also -- that is my name and fic on there lmao

I blame that beautifully rendered CG of Sentinel stabbing the hell out of Marsha. Apparently the image invaded my subconscious mind. And I mean, what an origin story for a ship.

Time will tell if I manage to break this streak.

I did not plan to finish a story for Sentinel and Marsha on Valentine's Day, but the Sentimarsha cosmic energies must be in alignment.