No one understands my poetic heart...

An interactive project for the moral philosophers of the Choices fandom

A/N: I’m a big fan of the reddit AITA (Am I The Asshole) sub where people write in about moral dilemmas/disagreements and seek public judgment. I started wondering what sort of AITA posts our favourite Cordonians might make and this is what happened. If people like it I will post more from other characters (and feel free to include your reddit-style judgment in your reblog – I might even reply “in character”).

Maxwell

r/AmItheAsshole

Posted by: DancingUncle

AITA for keeping a child from his family?

Throwaway account just in case someone I know reads this.

My older brother recently became a father although he doesn’t know it. He was sleeping with a mutual friend of ours, “Havana”, and, on the night she had decided to tell him about the pregnancy, he broke up with her and gave her the impression that he considered her to be beneath him.

I ran into Havana right after this conversation. She was incredibly stressed and planning on leaving the country with no forwarding address.

I managed to talk her into keeping in touch with me and letting me help out with her expenses as long as I promised not to tell anyone about the baby or where she was.

Summary: Sixteen years ago Libby Scott was supposed to become Queen of Cordonia, but Fate had other plans. Catch up here.

A/N: As always please let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the tags!

Disclaimer: I don’t own the TRR characters, they own me.

Song Rec  for this Chapter: “What Might Have Been” by Little Texas

Tags:  @ao719​@ritachacha​ @leelee10898​ @fullbeaumonty​ @emichelle​ @lodberg​ @pedudley @blackcoffee85​ @drakesensworld​ @thequeenofcronuts​ @kingliam2019​ @dcbbw​ @desireepow-1986​ @princessleac1​ @dianalend​ @valtorian-duchess​@maxwellisangry​ @texaskitten30​ @bbrandy2002​ @burnsoslow​

  “This will be an important evening for our Duchy, Your Grace. Your people have missed you dearly, and now you are back and you are about to be elevated to more than just their Duchess. You’re about to be touted as the mother of the royal heir!” Tessa squealed as she lined up the many dresses in the boutique. 

Maxwell and Libby in the boutique in the present day was just perfect. It's all so bittersweet, but it was like a flashback in real time.

I love that the ending of this story is still so open even after all these chapters and the twists and turns you've written in. I'm your BFF and I can say with complete honesty that I have no idea how it will end. Who will Libby choose? Maybe she won't choose anyone! What does the future look like for the kids? For the lover(s) she doesn't decide to move forward with? 🤔🤔🤔

Book: Ride or Die

Pairing: MC x Colt, Logan and Salazar (naughty girl!!!)

A/N: The clock has just ticked over to 28 August in my time zone (Sydney Australia), so I’m posting this for @rodappreciationweek epilogue day.

This is the last of my four “Waiting” drabbles that take place after the end of Ride or Die. It is part of my Naughty Ellie series, although you don’t need to have read those fics. This particular fic is not unique in its concept, with @choiceslife and @baldwinboy5choices already expressing aspects of this idea. I do hope there’s room in the fandom for my take on it!

Ghosts

Living is hard, dying is harder, but being dead in name only eclipses them both.

Emilio Salazar knows this better than anyone, because he is part of a small group of people that can compare all three.

Your stories are always so beautifully-written. The prose is second to none.

Book: Ride or Die

Pairing: MC x Colt, Logan and Salazar (naughty girl!!!)

A/N: This is the third of my four “Waiting” drabbles that take place after the end of Ride or Die. It is part of my Naughty Ellie series, although you don’t need to have read those fics to follow this. Sorry for posting so unusually frequently, I just want to make sure everything gets finished before I take a break.

Waiting

For most of her teen years, Ellie was waiting for College.

Waiting to grow up, waiting to escape, waiting for life to begin.

That future she'd dreamed of all those years, starting with going to college, must seem so mundane compared to the things she saw and did with the Mercy Park Crew. She had experiences most of us will never have - and likely wouldn't want to, either!

Also, a threat to his child isn’t just MC’s battle. It’s his too, right?

He feels things more deeply than the party boy facade suggests. The way he proposes with the twig ring, the way he makes love to the MC for the first time, that’s because his depth of emotion is incomprehensible- even for him.

Remember when he called Tariq “that sleaze” in book 2? He was furious that Tariq had kissed MC without her consent while she was vulnerable. They used the angry face and I believed it (and that line is unique to Maxwell, no matter who you romance).

Maybe I’ll feel differently when I catch up, but it doesn’t seem like a stretch to me that Maxwell would be furious if his family was threatened (and the anger would be magnified by an estranged father doing the threatening).

I get that it wouldn’t be the same Alpha energy that Liam/Drake radiate. It would and should be different (and copy pasted dialogue sucks) - but MC means the world to Maxwell. If I had to pick who would unleash the most ferocious reply to a threat- it actually wouldn’t be Drake or Liam.

Rating: SFW, no warnings apply.  Takes place before “Heimat”. Comment to be added/removed from my tag lists and to request tags.

Alexithymia (n.) the inability to express emotions

Book: Ride or Die

Pairing: Colt x MC

A/N: This is the second of my four “Waiting” drabbles (the first of which was “Etched”) that take place after the end of Ride or Die. It is part of my Naughty Ellie series, although you don’t need to have read those fics.

Word count: 550-ish

Inspiration:

MC: I’m afraid you’re going to burn yourself down one day, Colt.

Colt:  Maybe. But first I’m going to be great. And so will you.

Flames

He doesn’t have the money for the warehouse the first time he meets with the agent.

Everything he’s owned, everything he’s ever cared about, has gone up in smoke.

A Liam Story

A/N: I dedicate this fic to my friend @dcbbw in celebration of her birthday. Robin, I have attempted a very different writing style (one that I hope is right up your alley), because I know that playing with prose is as important to you as playing with pixels. The subject matter has also been chosen with your tastes in mind. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.

Word count: 2000 approx

Thank you to @fullbeaumonty for pre-reading.

The Best Days

In the last day of his reign, King Liam of Cordonia stood before the mirror, contemplating the tasks he must complete before the sun would set, as had been his ritual for the past thirty-five years.

At sixty, he was a handsome man, his hair so black it shone blue underneath the soft lights of the Royal Chambers, save for the streak of grey that had emerged when he was just forty and persevered without expansion in the two decades that had followed.

It's perfect that while he always carries that torch for Riley, he does love Madeleine in her own way, and he remains acutely aware of the fact that the path his life took was a direct result of his decisions - and had nothing to do with what his heart wanted.

I wonder if Riley will be glad to see Étienne Cordon at her doorstep? I do like imagining how that reunion will go.

A/N: I haven’t written any poetry since high school, I apologize 😂

Rating: Mature/ 18+

Word count: 173

Tagging: @speedyoperarascalparty @leelee10898 @fullbeaumonty @valtorian-duchess

Rating: SFW, no warnings apply.  Takes place between “Skinny Love / Serendipity” and “Tacenda”. Comment to be added/removed from my tag lists and to request tags.

Heimat (n.) a place you can call home; a sense of belonging, acceptance, safety, and connection

Maxwell sliding down the bannister and the exchange with Bertrand are peak Maxwell, and I adore it.

Lisette! Ogling Maxwell's assets in his joggers - how cheeky of you! 😉

I have been debating over whether or not to post this, or hell even finish it, for the last couple of weeks, so before I talk myself out of it again…here it is. I apologize.

Warning: LEMONS…its just lemons.

Disclaimer: I do not own Maxwell Beaumont (PB does), he owns me.

Tagging some thirsties: @fullbeaumonty @speedyoperarascalparty @leelee10898 @emichelle @ao719

words: 1731

Tagging a few that may be interested/possibly showed some interest since I don't really have a tag list anymore. Hoping to start posting this soon.

@ao719 @zaffrenotes @burnsoslow @ritachacha @fullbeaumonty @valtorian-duchess @twinkleallnight @kingliam2019 @mom2000aggie @speedyoperarascalparty @leelee10898

   I can't really tell you the exact moment that I knew my marriage was over. There was no inordinate scene, no explosive moment that I could point to and say "Yep. That's when it ended." 

      I know this because as I lay sprawled across my mattress for the umpteenth time since it ended I've been slowly, agonizingly replaying every moment of my life since I met her searching for it.....

I ran a poetry giveaway which was won by @coffeebeandragon. She asked me to write a poem for Colt, so here it is. I’m sorry for the long wait – I had to replay RoD to make sure I had captured all the important moments. In some weird twist I finished it on the day that happens to be the designated Colt day for @rodappreciationweek

Handy hint: if something sounds like it doesn’t rhyme, try reading it in an Australian accent ; P

The Ballad of Colt Kaneko

It started in a car-lot with fast rides and faster boys.

He leaned against a motorbike while watching souped-up toys.

“You’re in the wrong place sweetheart,” Colt drawled to wide-eyed Ellie.

“Girls like you don’t come here! Go home and watch some telly.”

“That’s rich,” she snapped her firm reply. “You think that I can’t hack it? …

You’re the one in red pants and a cruddy leather jacket!”