Have Courage & Be Kind Little Dove

The Bubonic Plague

Vampire Folklore

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Chapters: 1/9 Fandom: Original Work Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Sébastien Dupont & Jack Outlaw | Jack McQueen, Sébastien Dupont/Luc Aubin, Hal Peacock/Jack Outlaw | Jack McQueen, Original Male Character/Original Male Character, Original Male Character(s) & Original Male Character(s) Characters: Sébastien Dupont, Jack Outlaw | Jack McQueen, Luc Aubin, Original Characters, Original Male Character(s), Original Non-Binary Character Additional Tags: Pride, Gay Pride, Pride Parades, Friendship, Past Trauma, Eating Disorders, Self-Esteem Issues, Genderfluid Character, Drag Queens, Grief/Mourning, Found Family Series: Part 38 of Two of a Kind Summary:

Sébastien Dupont, sparkly extroverted gay French rock star, is in Manchester to support his friends Jack and Hal through a difficult time. Entirely coincidentally, it’s also Pride season!

Seb has been agitating away in my mind for a while, wanting to talk - wanting to hijack the main narrative in Two of a Kind much as he’s hijacked it in the unhinged AU AU AU. I cannot let him do that - Two of a Kind has two (2) narrators and neither of them are him - but he has so much main character energy that he’s been manufacturing plotlines for them anyway, and I figured I could at least let him have my Writers’ Pride Month prompts. So here he is.

These are all set during the latter half of book 4 of Two of a Kind, and after the various stories in last year’s Writers’ Month that will make up the first half of the book when I’ve managed to wrangle them into shape. Something extremely significant to Jack happens about halfway through and I am trying very hard not to spoil it, but Seb does let the cat out of the bag in one chapter of this work (see above comments about main character energy). All will make sense eventually, I promise.

Oh, and there are a few little references to the unhinged AU AU AU here and there, starting with the work title. XDDDDD

Chapter One: Do The Work, in which Seb tries to distract Jack from everything that has happened by explaining exactly how fucked-up he used to be, before he a) got therapy, and b) got together with Luc. Which is, uh… a lot. 

Warning for Seb being a perfect storm of issues including anxiety, low self-esteem, feelings of inadequacy, ADHD and an eating disorder, most of which was either induced or exacerbated by going on a talent show on national TV when he was only barely eighteen.

Thanks, Anon!

A charcoal stick. Paper (not the kind of specialist paper that you would use to paint or draw if you wish it to not warp but it is the most perfect thing in all of Arda these rough sheets). A tablet and chalk. Something settles in him and he can see it in Mairon too, that his…friend feels the wrong word, not enough to explain everything that they are to each other, that holds Feanor together, but Mairon seems less fragmented. He is not so close to shattering into pieces now.

Thank you. Thank you. He signs to Adar and it is not enough, none of it is enough but he cannot stop saying so.

You taught them to read. You and Mairon. You are kind to my children. I trust you.

Mairon writes it down (Valarin does not have a written language, Mairon had told him once - not exactly - it is half symbols that you can only hear with the mind, in resonance with the world and Feanor could understand it still). He writes it down but then he draws.

@malkaleh your tags grabbed me i couldnt help it--

TW Self Harm (referenced but not graphic), general Gold -Cage typical warnings:

- One Ring To Rule Them All. 💍

Credit to: thepoptake instagram.