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Hello all!! This will be the master list for all of my nonsense! I don't normally post updates to Tumblr, but I might start doing it! I'll update this with each fic I add to AO3 and categorize it by series!! I'm also going to add the type (oneshot, multichapter, number of chapters, etc), as well as completion status! I'm also going to include some of the fics I'm currently working on! Thank you so much for expressing interest in my nonsense!! :)

Fics below the cut! :)

Running

It's been four days since they fought.

Four days since Vex left.

Four days to think.

Four days to confront their real fears.

Four days to realize that the cure isn't running away.

It's running together.

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In the Arranged Marriage AU, how would the truth spell amulet fiasco in the Cobalt Soul Archives go? Giving that Percy and Vex are already married?

Or would this be the moment you could broach the topic of future children [*wink*wink] ?

(i mean, if it's a spoiler for the fic, you don't have to answer; it's just my curiosity picking through here)

Ooh! I've been thinking about this a lot since S4 came out!!

I honestly have no clue which way I want to take it just yet, but I have an idea of how I want it to go. Since a lot of this fic is very show-dependent, with a lot of elements from the campaign, I know I've been using the show as a framework, but the fact that Vex and Percy are already married in this AU does change things quite a bit. I've been thinking about the subject of future heirs and other things that they could bring up, but I'm not sure that's a topic I want to broach just yet.

All of this to say, I've not yet completely planned it out just yet, but the new season definitely gave me a SHIT TON of things to consider!! Right now, though, I'm focusing on finishing up the Briarwood arc and how I'm gonna shift that into the Conclave arc, so we'll see how that goes. Just know it's definitely something that's under consideration!!

Q: Have you considered how you will tackle post-Briarwood marriedAU Perchalia - in terms of how they might feel like they "need" to stay in Whitestone? In the show/campaign, Whitestone is kinda just thrown onto Cassandra's shoulders, but now that THE lord n' lady Whitestone (in your fic) are alive and around, they might not wanna leave Whitestone again/feel even more obligated to stay behind to help rebuild? Will they be in Whitestone when the conclave attacks Emon? Will they have heirs sooner in the fic than in the campaign, seeing as they're ... well, pretty far into their relationship in your fic than they were in show/campaign? I'm so excitedddd!

It's definitely something I've given thought to!

Assuming everything works out in the end (evil author laughter), I definitely feel like they both will have more of an obligation to return to Whitestone to help Cass rebuild and heal, especially since they will eventually have a lot of healing to do as a family. That being said, I feel as if the will also feel as if they have things they need to sort out in Emon first. I'm not quite sure yet how I want that to fall into the Conclave Arc when we eventually get there, but their role in Whitestone and their marriage will definitely play a role in their decision-making in future parts of this series.

As for heirs...I won't say much, but it's definitely something I've given thought to.

Again, that's assuming everything in the Briarwood Arc turns out alright in the end!!

This one was the first fic I'd written in a VERY long time, so this one holds a special place in my heart.

Honestly? Watching S3x12 for the first time was such an experience, and I am such a sucker for any iteration of Vex's confession/Percy's resurrection (I'm sure the sheer number of Glintshore-related fics I've written makes that clear lol), but I just kept thinking "What if it was Vex?"

I kept asking myself, what would have happened if Vex had been the one to go after him? What would Orthax prey on if Vex had been the one to enter his domain? Would her confession and Percy's receptiveness to it be any different? How would it be for the others? How would it play into her grief?

This one was so much fun to write!!! I absolutely loved writing this fic!!

In terms of chapters, Chapter Ten (Shadow Waltz) was my favorite to write (probably the most self-indulgent, too).

I loved figuring out where the group would fit into the story. I knew I wanted it to be Vex-centric, but I had to figure out how I wanted everyone to fall into place. I knew I wanted Percy to sort of be in a Maid Marion kind of position to Vex's Robin Hood, and I knew I wanted Keyleth to have a close friendship with him, so trying to figure out how everyone got to where they were at the beginning was a lot of fun. I realized how much fun it was to write Percy, Keyleth, and Cassandra's dynamic, as well as Vax, Vex, and Velora together.

Modern AU: I did already fully comment this but I'm SO curious as to the context for "you can put it down" in this universe. What happened? Especially with like no magic how did it work out?

:D

(Season finale? What season finale? Everyone is fine).

Everything is totally fine, and I'm not in denial at all :')

Oh yeah! So this bit of dialogue, funnily enough, was a bit of a spur-of-the-moment kind of thing that popped into my head while I was writing the fic, but the context behind it kinda just grew with the story.

In this AU, I'm probably not going to go big into the Briarwood's involvement as a story itself, so much as mentioning a lot of Percy's past trauma and how the demonic couple of all time ruined his life. For the most part, the Briarwood stuff is going to be a thing of the recent past.

In this, he's been battling the Briarwoods both legally and physically in trying to find evidence that they were responsible for the murder of his family and his siblings, and trying to regain custody/guardianship of Cassandra. Once that battle was fought, and Delilah was going to jail (Sylas died for a reason I've not yet decided), he regained pretty much what had been lost, but he's still blinded by grief and anger. So he plans to kill Delilah after their final court hearing, when her sentence is decided. Only Vex and the others find out.

Vex and the others scramble to find him, knowing what he's going to do and trying to stop him before he does something he regrets (something that could potentially land him in prison and make him lose everything all over again). She basically finds him hiding near where Delilah will be escorted out of the courthouse with a gun, and talks him down, telling him of what the consequences of this choice will do to his life and to Cassandra, hence the "It's alright, you can put it down."

He does eventually put it down, and he breaks down with Vex as one of the first major moments of vulnerability between the two of them, just letting his pain, grief, and anger loose for the first time in a very long time. She just holds him in the alleyway while Delilah's escorted to prison, where she'll likely remain for the rest of her life (probably). The others then find them and take him home to Cassandra, and they let him rest after a very long and very painful legal and mental battle.

He saw (Via Vecna's televised apocalypse) that Vox Machina returned, with Pike and Grog, to boot. Only to hear their enemy tell them that he used Tary as a tool for all of this to happen.

Imagine you're Tary. You've just made your first group of friends after a lifetime of loneliness. You finally get to set out on adventures like you've always dreamed about...with some setbacks and pain, but you learn a lot, and you make friends!

But then you watch your friends, your heroes, the group that you practically idolized and the first people to accept you (slowly but surely), submit to an evil that you unwittingly helped bring into the world.

Replying to a question left in a comment by @counterfeitbags!!! :)

Q: I really liked the fic (the modern AU. I thought it was intense, but also very moving and poignant, and I can't wait for the next chapter. I also love how Vex-centric it was. I really liked the deep character exploration going on with it. For questions... There is a lot of backstory that has been alluded to in the chapters (like the tension between Vax and Percy), and I was curious if that's going to be fully explored, or if it mostly has to be inferred from the parallels to the campaign? I think either one sounds interesting, but I was curious about where you were going with it. :)

First off, thank you so much for reading!!! I'm so very glad you're enjoying!!

In answer, yes, there will be a little more exploration into that particular tension. It won't necessarily be a story of its own, and it is primarily alluded to in parallel to the Campaign (Sunken Tomb), but there will be an explanation of what happened and why Vax has so much anger towards Percy and where Percy has so much guilt, especially since the setting of a hospital and Vex being in pain brings up bad memories. Since it's a modern AU, what exactly happened has probably been explored in a ton of other fics like mine, which is why I'm not gonna do a one-shot about that event specifically, but it definitely will be explicitly talked about in the coming parts of this story.

I'm super excited to be exploring this whole part of this au, especially since it's supposed to start off a little darker and sadder in comparison to some of the other fics and oneshots I have planned for this au.