Crow

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Summary

Will should’ve realized this sooner. The fifth anniversary of the start of all of this, the day he was taken, was just four days ago. It passed by harmlessly. That should’ve been a warning sign. Now Will is paying the price for his naive, yet blissful, ignorance as he dangles between the balance of his two worlds. One of home, one of nightmares. El's grip on his bloody hand is tight as she tries to pull him from perdition. Looking up, he can see El’s face flushing with strain, her limbs shaking. She’s tired. They’re both exhausted. After everything she's done in the past few days, he knows she's spent. Her powers can’t– She can’t save them. Will can't be saved this time.

But he can save her.

He inhales, taking in his last breath protected by a night of blanketed stars and faraway brown eyes, and exhales.

Will lets go.

And he falls away from Eden. OR: November 10th, 1988, Will Byers is taken into the Upside Down. The Party & Co. come together to try and save him, all the while Will is fighting to save himself. New monsters emerge and love flourishes. Will hides and Mike finds.

Together, even across dimensions, right?

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Volume I : The Fall from Eden

Chapter One : The Fall from Eden

Chapter Two : The Fall of Will Byers

Chapter Three : The Call of Calypso

Chapter Four : Hand of Apate

Chapter Five : Confessions to No One

Chapter Six : Thisbe's Lament

Volume II : The Curse of Mnemosyne

Chapter Seven : The Jump

Chapter Eight : The Titan and the Beholder

Chapter Nine : The Heart

Chapter Ten : The Curse of Mnemosyne

Chapter Ten Part Two : Always

Volume III : Finding Elysium

Chapter Eleven : Blood of Repentance

Chapter Twelve : Tale of Chronos

Chapter Thirteen : The Paladin and The Cleric

Chapter Fourteen : Light of Patroclus

Chapter Fifteen : Dear Will

Epilogue : Finding Elysium

Other Tags

Media Inspiration List

Chapter 2 : The Balcony Scene

Chapter 9 : The Kiss

Story Recap Chapters 1-11

FFE Pinterest Board

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Expected Length: 200k words | Mature | NO Smut | Canon Typical Violence | Angst w/ Happy Ending | Slow Burn | Mind the Tags!

*updates will be slow, possibly delayed, until summer. sorry for the wait! please have patience, I'm a chronically ill college student. thank you all so much for your support <33

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"Just running forwards, a life like wires

As I see the past on an empty ceiling

I play along with the life signs anyway

But hope to god you don't know this feeling

Yet in reverse you are all my symmetry

A parallel I would lay my life on

So if your wings won't find you heaven

I will bring it down like an ancient bygone"

Can you hear me?

I cannot hear what I speak

Nor remember what has been said

Today has arrived as yesterday has died

With it, a thousand memories becoming

One meaningless blur.

Will you remember me?

I wish to remember myself.

What was it that I used to wear when there was no rot in my soul?

What did I used to say when I knew the words would come back to me? Like a loyal friend, always there.

But I am alone now.

I exist in a fog of blurred memories.

They spill into my current hour,

Trapping my tongue in a daze of uncertainty.

What were we talking about?

My mind is both here and in 2023,

April is warm and I am alive.

People still call my name,

They sit beside me in a cafe of noise,

A beautiful noise of connection.

I partake, one within the many.

I belonged.

But now two summers have passed

And I am a mere ghost that haunts the cafe.

My voice fades in and out,

My eyes wander between the years that have gone by

My mind is drifting along, no longer tethered to my soul

Reliving the years where it could remember itself.

Who am I?

My limbs shake and my body is fading

Soon I shall fall into the earth

And maybe then I will remember my name.

I will remember words that are fleeting now.

Hello, please hear me,

What was it that I was trying to say?

Hello?

.

Please hear me.

.

I am... I want... I...

.

.

and I just readily accepted the idea that our tongues had tiny bugs that tasted our food for us

why did they make Rocky's first appearance a jumpscare?? sure, it was scary meeting an alien for the first time, but Grace's first introduction to Rocky was curious more than anything

but the movie, bro is a full on jumpscare!

scary alien bro in question:

"Well, putting detergent on yourself doesn’t make sense on a normal day, but with an open wound? That’s asking for an infection."

like, Mike is just baffled that Will would dump laundry detergent on himself, because who does that??? especially while injured?

of course it makes sense once they figure out he was masking his scent, but still it's just absurd. laundry detergent? yuck. I remember giggling when writing it.

just wow

this was such an amazing experience and phm is my new favorite book. I can't wait to watch the movie later today!

spoilers incoming

I absolutely adore the ending, it's so different compared to other space novels where the protagonist departs from their alien friend and goes back to earth. it's always so sad to see that happen, but understandable.

but this book kept the protagonists together in the end and made Grace stay on Erid instead of going back home to earth, and I love it.

I love how this book focused on hope and humanity's will to survive (not just humans but eridians too, beings in general) it focused on friendship and hope and the act of sacrifice.

no character was perfect (except for Rocky, he's perfection) and I love everyone so much.

sure, I could mark them and come back later when I'm editing

but the bugs in my brain scream at me to fix it NOW or else I'll FORGET so I HAVE TO FIX NOW

caw caw caw!!! hello rootbeermilk!!!

lmao ur good!!! that's a good question!!

hmmm an idea I went too far with... as of right now since I'm still early in the reread a lot of the ideas I remember are pretty vague, I'll probably have a better answer once I'm done.

honestly I'm pretty happy with the ideas and themes in fall from eden. some ideas that may be extreme will be explained later too!! so I don't want to say something that will give a plotline away

I guess I'll say that I have heard some questions about *spoiler incoming* how Will was revived with a kiss and if that went too far... my answer is to keep reading when I start posting again!

everything in this story I wrote for a reason. the themes, the plotlines, even the numbers on the doors have meaning. so I can't say I overdid anything when everything has a purpose!

one thing I learned in my writing class is to not hold myself back. it's a great lesson to learn. as writers we may feel the need to hold ourselves back/censor/filter our writing because it may make people "uncomfortable" or it may be "too much" but we as writers have a story to tell. so we need to tell it!

of course some concepts may need to be altered, but I'm a firm denier of kill your darlings. I say mend your darlings. keep them with you even if they don't get published in the end.

anyways that's my very long answer! I'm sure there are things I will want to edit and mend to be better, but overall I'm happy with my story!!! thanks for the question, it was very insightful to answer!!! :D

but then jerma came out of nowhere and confessed his feelings for sanji

and sanji chose jerma?!

thank you! I'm happy to be back!!

oh that sounds horrible I'm so sorry, I hope you're able to recover soon!!

I have also tried to forget anything post s5 vol1 because it's all just trash. thankfully we have glorious fanfiction that is 10x better than canon 😌❤️

United in illnesses

omg I'm sorry this got lost in my inbox!!! I hope you're doing better now!!!

thinking of you too, PEM is horrible and I wish it on no one. just rest, pace yourself, and give yourself grace. kindness. you deserve it <33

I say in thirds, like Rocky, to emphasize the importance, maybe even throw in some jazz hands

I've decided to provide commentary of my thoughts while reading it, as the author!

spoiler warning for fall from eden, my byler fanfiction!

Chapter One is interesting, because originally it started with Will and El running straight away with no introduction.

the introduction I wrote weeks later. I was thinking about how I wanted to finish fall from eden, specifically the final paragraphs and how it would wrap up.

I then wrote what will be the final paragraphs.

not to spoil too much, but I decided to reflect the introduction in the ending, so if u wanna taste of the end, have a look at the beginning! it'll be a callback to the intro to finalize the circle of the story.

everything will tie together quite nicely!