#bladework au

you are misrerading LMAO. the portrait of post-haircut tear in bladework i requested from @jeredu and then proceeded to sit on for two months while swearing them to secrecy until i finished the last chapter of feinting

Chapters: 5/? Fandom: Tales of the Abyss Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Asch the Bloody/Fon Master Ion Characters: Fon Master Ion, Asch the Bloody, Jade Curtiss, Luke fon Fabre, Anise Tatlin, Tear Grants, Natalia Kimlasca-Lanvaldear, Suzanne fon Fabre, Duke Fabre (Tales of the Abyss), Ensemble, Minor Original Characters - Character, Peony Upala Malkuth IX Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe - Political AU, Implied/Referenced Abuse, Implied/Referenced Neglect, Emotional/Psychological Abuse, Canon-typical Van Grants, Canon-typical Duke Crimson Herzog fon Fabre Series: Part 16 of Bladework Summary:

The process of purification begins with heat, so that everything unnecessary rises to the top. Only after you skim off the masks and the lies can you find what remains of value underneath.

The heat is rising now, and something new must be forged before the world burns.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Tales of the Abyss Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Guy Cecil & Asch the Bloody, Guy Cecil & Luke fon Fabre Characters: Guy Cecil, Asch the Bloody, Fon Master Ion, Luke fon Fabre, Jade Curtiss, Tear Grants, Anise Tatlin, Suzanne fon Fabre, Grand Maestro Mohs, King Ingobert VI, Class M (Tales of the Abyss), Natalia Kimlasca-Lanvaldear Additional Tags: Political AU, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Families of Choice, Diaspora Feelings Jam Series: Part 11 of Bladework Summary:

Part of growing up is coming face to face with the reality that you can't understand everyone. Not their ideas of home, or family, or forgiveness.

Gailardia Galan Gardios, faced with the idea of any of these things, runs away and hides the part of himself that thinks about those things. But Guy Cecil is running out of places to run to and places to hide.

hey did you want guy feelings? guy as a hod survivor feelings? guy guilty about having wanted to kill asch as a kid feelings? guy hating what van actually turned out to be feelings? guy loves fontech feelings?

A sword does not get to choose to stop being a sword, but if it's lucky, it can choose its wielder.

Did you know that I kept writing my massive Tales of the Abyss AU while I was away from tumblr? Did you know that it’s now over 100 thousand words in total and it’s still going?

 Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Tales of the Abyss Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Asch the Bloody/Fon Master Ion Characters: Fon Master Ion, Sync the Tempest, Van Grants, Largo the Black Lion, Asch the Bloody, Ensemble Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Ion has a Time, Psychological Torture, Ion is a badass Series: Part 8 of Bladework Summary:

A windfall gives Van what he believes to be the answer to his problem of controlling Asch - but Ion is no longer a simple puppet. To persevere as long as possible is the Fon Master's resolve, and no amount of revelations will challenge that.

SO HEY NERDS LOOK WHAT THE FUCK IT IS! it’s this motherfucker, having sat in various stages of WIP for [checks] thirteen months

Fandom: Tales of the Abyss Relationships: asch the bloody/fon master ion Characters: Luke fon Fabre, Fon Master Ion, Anise Tatlin, Tear Grants, Van Grants, Jade Curtiss, Natalia Kimlasca-Lanvaldear, Asch the Bloody, Sync the Tempest, assorted other members of the kimlascan court Additional Tags: Political AU, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence Series: Part 5 of Bladework Summary:

Luke comes home.

He didn't realize how badly he fit there until he left.

(Or: No matter how much you want to believe the best of your family, Reality Ensues.)

AND HERE IT IS, NERDS, the next major fic in the Bladework AU! Buckle the fuck up, because it’s only very loosely related to canon events from here. This train is not going where you think it’s going.

I’ve always been kind of mad that out of all the AUs I’ve seen for Abyss, there’s never been one where “Asch attempts to brute-force the Score off the rails by preventing Akzeriuth from even happening,” even though it’s, like, a logical thing for his character to do. This is that, though, of course, it’s significantly more complicated than just grabbing Luke and carrying him off.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Tales of the Abyss Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Characters: Sync the Tempest, Fon Master Ion, the Dark Wings Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Political AU Series: Part 6 of Bladework Summary:

As in games, so in war - do not leave the king exposed.

And a pawn that isn't watched sufficiently can change the entire board.

(Or: In which Sync knows very much what he is, but does not know his fellow Ion replica very well at all.)

this came out to be even shorter than I expected, oops

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Tales of the Abyss Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Characters: Peony Upala Malkuth IX, mentions of others Additional Tags: Political AU, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Epistolary, sort of, Peony gets a lot of letters in his life Series: Part 7 of Bladework Summary:

A ruler's job is not to go to the front lines. A ruler's job is to pick others to fight his battles, and hope he's chosen well.

Emperor Peony knows he's made the best choice he's can, but it doesn't make it any easier to it and wait as the reports come in.

(Or: No matter how careful you are, if you handle a double-edged sword by the blade, you're going to get cut.)

And here’s Peony’s No Good Rather Bad Series Of Days. Enjoy the look at the somewhat bigger picture of what’s going on in Bladework right now.