Rating:Ā Mature
Archive Warning:Ā Major Character Death
Category:Ā F/F
Fandoms: Dark Souls III, Dark Souls (Video Games)
Relationship:Ā Anri of Astora/Ashen One
Characters:Ā Anri of Astora, Ashen One (Dark Souls), Yuria of Londor, Fire Keeper (Dark Souls), Liliane of Londor
Additional Tags:Ā Canonical Character Death, Fix-It, Angst with a Happy Ending, Usurpation of Fire, Lord of Hollows Ending, Soul Bond, Basically a fix it for the wedding where the ashen one carries anri's soul till the ending, And then they get married PROPERLY thanks FROMSOFT, Femslash, Oral Sex, subtle bloodborne references, Canon-Typical Gore, Canon-Typical Violence, Content warning for Aldrich's canonical levels of gross BS, Sharing a Body, Resurrect your Lesbians, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, implied eygon/irina, spoilers for Ashes of Ariandel, mentions of Seath, passing references to Aldia's war crimes, passing enough that if that tag means nothing to you then you're gucci, Canon-Typical Bodily Mutilation i.e. crimes against firekeepers, references to Canon crimes of Gwyn and speculation on a couple more, Dissociation, Implied/Referenced Suicide, Implied/Referenced Character Death, both of those are for ringed city chapter and deal with NPCs who die in canon, implied Firekeeper/Karla endgame
Words:Ā 60,799
Chapters:Ā 15/15
Summary:
As the Ashen One leaves, face still warm with affection, she could have sworn she saw the faintest shimmer amidst the eerie collection of statues. She smiles, and thinks it nothing more than the glimmer of snow in the wind.
(Later, Anri sees it too, but sheās still only clad in her mere tunic, her sword still by the altar where a wayward foot knocked it, and then she sees nothing at all.)
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A fix-it for the Usurpation of Fire ending, where Yuria dupes them both but was telling the truth in a sense ā the Ashen One binds her soul to Anriās in the marriage and carries it along with her own through the rest of the journey, and it gives the both of them the strength to do what must be done. Sweet, with a certain Souls-appropriate amount of angst and gore, but with an ultimately happy ending.
