#annaisha

I started this way back in June of last year, and before I fall into an editing black hole, I’m declaring it finished!

I present fourteen stories exploring everyone’s favorite grumpy time-manipulating mechanic, each story inspired in one way or another by Mary Fahl’s album The Other Side of Time. Aside from the sheer perfection of the album title, I think Mary Fahl’s deep, sometimes brooding voice works well for Meg’s demeanor, especially in some of her darker moments.

This gave me a really good opportunity to explore a lot of facets to Meg, from her angstmuffin moments to her reckless moments to her happy moments to her downright dorky moments. There was a LOT I learned here. And I’m rather proud of the fact that I got to explore her relationships with all the Selan kids - everyone has at least one story where they feature prominently.

SO BUCKLE IN KIDS HERE WE GO.

1.) In the Great Unknown 2.) Going Home 3.) Want To 4.) Ben Aindi Habibi (Warning: Gun violence) 5.) Redemption 6.) Paolo 7.) Una Furtiva Lagrima 8.) The Other Side of Time 9.) Raging Child 10.) Annie Roll Down Your Window 11.) The Station 12.) Kindness Can Be Cruel 13.) Dream of You 14.) The Dawning of the Day

i remember reading a steter fic where stiles and peter are married and work at the same college. They both teach different things and are in different buildings but they have the same last name, stilinski-hale or hale-stilinski, and sometimes their students get confused for which class to go to or turn in the paper to the wrong professor but thats ok because they live together. I know its on AO3 but can’t seem to find it and google is useless. I think its a series. I also know its completed. Can’t quite figure out the tags so sorry if this isn’t submitted right.

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Enjoy

“Domestic Bliss and Other Nonsense” by moonstalker24

(E | 1/1 | 8,901 | Complete)

“So, I think we should get married.”

Peter chokes, fumbles for a second, then manages to set his mug of tea down on the coffee table. He turns to look at Stiles, who is sprawled over the end of the couch, flipping through an old book.

“What?” Peter asks.

Stiles turns bright amber eyes on the stunned werewolf. “We should get married.”

“Why?”

Shahil

For the longest time, Shahil doesn’t have much investment in summoning Byakko other than getting it over with so he can get back to his life without having to constantly be on guard. Then, like Agni, he finds out lives could be on the line, and if the priestess could be killed, what about all of his friends? Could he lose everyone? And I don’t think he could make it through that in once piece.

Annaisha

Annaisha, at the point where we are on the boards (her teaching Red how to read is the most recent in the timeline, I think) wants to learn more about Byakko and Their warriors in a context that could help her friends. She has no interest in summoning Them, is neither actively for nor against it. BUT THEN she receives another collection of books and pamphlets from Saanvi, and one of them is a copy of a copy of a journal. She’s aware there is room for mistranslation, but it is pretty clear the man who wrote it was one of Byakko’s seishi in the past, and it was also clear he didn’t expect them to make it to the end of the journey.

Then she goes Mama Tiger on all her little tiger cubs and swoops them up and says, “I’m not letting you go.”

I don’t know how well that turns out or not, though. XD

Hongyu: 

Hongyu’s mark didn’t appear until she was in her early twenties, although she and Xun grew up hearing stories of the Great Phoenix. So while it was a shock, at least they did know what it was.

They got married shortly after that, and, (thanks to Sage’s fantastic idea!) spent their honeymoon of ten years or so wandering around the country, trying to find any other warriors, or see if there was any news of the priestess. They found nothing, but Hongyu still felt a responsibility to the mark, so she went back to training. She was too old to become a dancer in a travelling troupe, like she’d dreamed growing up, but a wandering martial artist wasn’t that far off, was it?

Eventually she stopped training out of responsibility and started training out of love for all the different styles of fighting, and while she had to keep her forehead covered, Suzaku wasn’t much in her thoughts. She thought she’d been abandoned, so why deal with Them?

Then, when she finally starts meeting other seishi, and Meilan, all those years later, she sees a lot of herself in them. In their early-twenties, all young and vulnerable in their own ways. All she wants to do is protect them. They are her children now. Her priority is finding the last few remaining seishi, Suzaku comes later.

rosarian: a person who is fond of, develops, or cultivates roses

imprimatur: sanction or approval; support

saudade: (in Portuguese folk culture) a deep emotional state of melancholic longing for a person or thing that is absent

erstwhile: in the past : formerly

lanuginous: covered with down or fine soft hair

The obvious character arc I want Annaisha to go through is sharing as much of her knowledge on the Old Gods with as many Avatars as she can get her tiny little hands on. She’s always wanted to share knowledge with everyone, as we know, but this is especially important to her, because for most of the Avatars, their marks and skills have been a big part of their lives that they were forced to hide, or be afraid of ashamed of, or at the very least be ignorant about. And she wants all of them to feel safe and empowered.

Another thing I want her to go through, on her travels with the Byakko Avatars (yes, that mini fic was canon, she does demand to go with them), is learning to become physically stronger. She’s tough emotionally and mentally, but physically the most she can do is carry a heavy stack of books, and they have trolleys for that now. I want her to be able to help them fight and not be afraid. I want them to go on an adventure to meet Hongyu so they can all learn how to fight and learn to use their opponents’ weaknesses against them if they don’t have much strength (like Annaisha, maybe she can get a jiujitsu lesson too!).