gabby. 30s (and still on this hellsite). she/her. ♎. lil healthcare worker in the big world of new jersey just here to write some silly stories and hyperfixate on stuff.
Keep Your Brittle Heart Warm (a Davrook Modern AU)
Hi, so I committed to the bit and, after two previously shared chapters, I posted a new third one today because I can't get Silvia and Davrin having a happy ending out of my head.
After, a little brainstorming and very vague outlining, I have a general idea of where we're heading, so here I am again, like a bad habit you just can't get rid of.
There's a little smidge under the cut.
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When his eyes break open, Davrin is all too aware that he hasn't slept enough. Sunlight pours in through the thin curtains he had been convinced to buy for the aesthetic. To this day, he can't fully understand their purpose, especially when they clearly don't do very much. He can feel his pulse pounding against the inside of his skull. That, though, he knows is not from the minimal booze he consumed the night before but might have something to do with the crick in his neck from sleeping sitting up on the couch. By the time he successfully dragged his blind date back into his house and finally settled in on the couch with a mugful of Gatorade for her–which, he notes, was met with nothing but complaints for being “yellow flavored” and sugar free–and a plate of grocery store brand mozzarella sticks that she explained were a disgrace to mozzarella cheese.
Yet when he rolls his neck to the side, he finds her fast asleep, wrapped up in the blanket that usually sits on the back of the couch. The one his mother sent him off to college with and has somehow lasted all these years. Her mouth sits slightly ajar, and a half dried string of drool graces the soft point of her chin. Makeup from the night before is smudged around her eyes, dragging ever so slightly down her cheek. Rays of light skate through the fine strands of silver hair hanging all around her face. Glitter on the still oil painting of her form. Faint and white, he notices a thin scar running over her cheek and onto the corner of her lips.
It takes all his strength not to run a finger over the length of it, wondering how she acquired what must have been such an angry wound. Tracing over her cheek bone, just below her eye. Across the constellations of freckles that litters her skin. Dipping down into the hollow of her cheek. Brushing over to her lips. Full and pink.
He thought about kissing her at the bar, and maybe he should have. Pressing his mouth up against herself. Soft and warm under the shitty bar lighting. Truthfully, it's been on his mind since he laid eyes on her. “The little one that's not Lace,” Taash had explained, having caught sight of them sitting at the bar when they walked in. "That's Silvia. She's a little bit of an asshole, but I trust Lace. She thinks you might like her.” Even if he didn't, he thought he might get to hook up with a pretty girl.
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I know this is the website where we talk about artists and writers doing anything other than making art or writing, but man, we REALLY undersell how good it feels to actually work on your stuff.
Like you hit your word count for the first time in a week and its like
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mmmm the implications of the inquisitor stumbling out of the fade with "andraste" behind them in dai and then rook in datv being desperately pulled out of the regret-prison by their comrades with the likeness of varric guiding and lovingly sending them off. the maker's bride/world's spiritual leader sacrificing themselves for the inquisitor, thus stripping personhood away from them by rendering them The Holy Chosen One, in contrast with rook, a "nobody" who recruits other normies with the intent to stop what are, for all intents and purposes, ancient and religiously sanctified deities. the inquisitor, who very quickly becomes mythology that walks the land, and rook, who finds themselves up against unfathomable monsters from legend. the idea of a person made impersonal by their own greatness and another who is too human, too mortal, flailing at every turn to keep the world from falling to who the inquisitor could have been one day
I was mentioned bc @juniper-and-dragonthorn might read my very slow going warden AU soooon and ofc the open tag from @sorrygoldfish is always tempting because I do love to yap!
...what I'm reading (books): MY FAV QUESTION AT THE BEGINNING! OK! I'm probably going to start my new couch book tomorrow and it will be No Body No Crime by Tess Sharpe all I know is it's a thriller with a sapphic romance entangled in it (see: I choose my books based on vibes). My bed book is The Inn At the Foot of Mount Vengeance by Chiara Bullen. Cozy fantasy - finally a good book for falling asleep. Annnd my e-book/work book is Spellbound by Georgia Leighton, which is a re-telling of Sleeping Beauty. So far it's been compelling so I'll report back.
I did also just finish This Monster of Mine by Shalini Abeysekara, which was an easy one to gobble up this weekend. I've decided that in order for anything romantasy related to be compelling to me there has to be political intrigue A, B, and C storylines and the romance sneaks up as a beautiful gripping D story. Anyway, I liked this and will definitely read the second book in the duology
...what I'm reading (fic): I AM FINALLY READING GO GENTLY BY @juniper-and-dragonthorn. Davrin is a tree and always will be. Also about to dip my toes into Triple Threat by @woodlandeelf and Riptide Years (a silly feel good Rookanis college AU) just had and update. (also I promise u @mythals-whore I will finish Hunting Days. My heart just isn't ready yet but also so many other things I just fucking missed that you put out???)
...what I'm listening to: lots of Noah Gundersen. He's my Hymns from the Vigil soundtrack (I'm going to be seeing him in concert on Sunday too), but also I've been vibing to the entirety of the album the King Is Dead by the Decemberists. The sound is what's getting me through prepping @davrookweek stuff. Also my child has decided she only wants to listen to girls sing so we've been on a real Paramore kick
...what I'm watching: we're midway through Fionna and Cake season 2 right now, and my partner has been watching the LoTR extended editions at night. I haven't really been paying full attention but I've watched a little so?? That counds right??
...what I'm playing: I fired up a little Stardew Valley the other night but almost immediately quit and booted up Breath of the Wild just to feel something.
...what I'm eating: made a big batch of pesto with this huge thing of basil we got from the farmer's market this weekend. Also lots of oranges trying to supplement my berry child's diet during the fucking diarrheapocalypse of 2026. It's been rough out here.
...what I'm working on: too many things at once, but I'm plugging away at davrook week stuff, getting a few words here or there on Hymns, and then also fucking around with Thom and Viera because I'm love them.
...what I'm doing to touch grass: we've been building a lot with magnet tiles, and I have an app blocker on my phone that I set for like an hour or two at a time on the weekend so I can actually be present and not fall into an endless hole of scrolling. I've also been working out and doing some reading outside on our wraparound porch (my ass is sore so I get into my chair like an old lady but still doing it)
...what's giving me hope: I'll be real with you guys I'm feeling a bit listless and real "what the fuck is the point" about a lot of things, but a bunch of people came up to me while I was reading the other evening out on the porch and told me how much they loved our wildflowers. We also put a bunch of stuff out on the curb during our town wide garage sale but labeled them as free (mostly baby stuff, some unopened) and a family came by so excited and took most of it. It felt good.
...what's so true to me right now: again feeling a little lost these days, but my coworker who just returned from vacation said something yesterday that struck home: "you can't save everyone, and even if you tried, you're only one person." Two patients I talked to within the last couple of weeks died, and I feel like the grim reaper so I needed to hear that. Can't help everyone. At the end of the day I am one person.
Anyway on that bummer of a note, have a picture of my dog and one of my cats sitting next to each other
just watched a clip where a woman said "you can't let the threat of a kys stop you from doing your hating", and that's the most inspirational thing I've heard all day.
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if you have a half finished reply to me or forgot to send smth in a "timely" manner or wanted to respond to smth I @'d you in or whatever else YOU ARE FREED !!!
I'm being a little silly for funsies but I am Very Serious about this sentiment. you are always allowed to: not reply at all or reply late (days, weeks, months... years with a reminder of the original conversation, truly it is fine and I'm not kidding)
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