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Thank you!! This is technically the day after but ty nonetheless!!

Percy’s recklessness isn’t new to anyone. It’s expected at this point. And even the most logical of minds make mistakes.

After all, the location of the vestige seemed hidden enough with enough traps already - why would there be another here? There was no need for it, right?

So, unlike Vex and Trinket, Percy doesn’t pull back as they shove the sarcophagus lid open. He holds none of their concern or resolve. And thus he is engulfed in the death energy it radiates.

There is a moment where a look of surprise, not panic, crosses Percy’s face then nothing as his body goes still, crumpling to the ground like a discarded rag doll.

Obviously there is no doubt in trying to resurrect him - Percy’s just as much a member of Vox Machina as the rest. Just as valued and just as treasured.

But nothing happens the first time the spell is cast. Orthax already has his grip on Percival’s soul, ready to trap the gunslinger in an eternal torment.

So obviously Greater Restoration is cast and the ritual begins.

Keyleth wraps her hands around the raven skull she had once given Percy, reminding him that there are those waiting for him back home. There are those that care enough to offer small and simple things for the simple fact they love him.

Vex’ahlia removes a feather from her hair and tucks it behind his ear. A soft plead for him to come home to them. They did not reclaim Whitestone only for it to lose him so quickly. They could not defeat the Chroma Conclave without him.

Then there’s Vax. He doesn’t offer himself up as blatantly as he did his sister. But he still stares at Percival’s body for a few moments as if there was some disbelief; some improbability that the gunslinger’s body should be so still.

“Bring him back to me. I will do anything but Gods, please bring him back to me.” Then a kiss to his lips to seal such a deal.

For a moment, nothing happens. There is a sinking silence that seems to stretch out for far, far too long.

Then a gasp of air as Percival’s chest begins to rise then fall.

“Well, this is certainly one way to wake up.”

They get to be happy. As a treat.

So I’m going post-Campaign with this

Without Lucien in his original body, I’m going with Uk’otoa as the BBEG, and no pre-est Widomauk

So these two have been an insufferable will-they-won’t-they to the point the two of them getting together is somewhat of a party in joke - particularly as both of them are convinced their feelings are unrequited

Until they defeat Uk’otoa

In a moment of pure instinct on a more-than-slightly damaged ship, Mollymauk just kisses Caleb (who happily returns it) followed by a “I’ve wanted to do that for so long.” Any tenderness is very quickly broken by Beau shouting “Fucking finally!”

Caleb and Molly laying on deck that night, staring up at the stars and just talking things out

“I don’t think I could say when I fell in love with you, Mister Caleb. But I know I do so with full honesty.” “I know the moment I realised I was in love with you, Herr Mollymauk.” “Oh? Do tell?” “The moment the glance went through your chest and the sheer fear at the prospect of losing you. But you are here.” “I am, and Lorenzo may have been foolish enough to aim for my heart when it rather firmly belongs to you”

Irresistible by Fall Out Boy

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So Geraskier (my beloved). Going with the Netflix series because I’ve been hyping myself up for season 2.

Sometime the mountain, Geralt seeks out Jaskier again. Trying to make amends in some awkward way but he doesn’t quite know how to apologise. Now Jaskier’s moved on with his life. He’s figuring his shit out and what he wants to do next - part time professor, part time cabaret owner, part time travelling bard. He’s sticking his finger into a few different pies. But y’know, Jaskier could do with some new material so he agrees to start travelling with Geralt again.

In the decade they spent together previously, there was always Something between the two of them. Something they never really spoke about but accepted. Something that led to Jaskier experiencing the worst heartbreak of his life. Part of him never quite moved on from Geralt and reuniting with him only made it worse. But Jaskier isn’t a push over. He’s learnt his lesson with Geralt of Rivia. So he spends the night with him, gives it his all and convinces Geralt that maybe things could go back to the way they were.

As with literally everything, this has been sitting in my ask box for a while. You couldn’t have sent this ask without the expectation of angst.

So we’re going post-Out and post-DTTM

Somehow, Nastya survived Out. She survives and she regrets her decision of leaving.

So she returns to the Aurora to find a lifeless ship floating in the void of space. No AI responses when Nastya reaches out to offer an apology. The Aurora does not respond for the simple reason that Aurora is no longer there.

The ship is silent so she searches and she searches but there’s nothing. There’s no one - not even an octokitten. Just empty chairs at empty tables.

Abandoned rooms, discarded possessions. Everything about the ship Nastya recognised as her home. But her family is gone. Her love is gone.

She finds the Toy Soldier, of course. But it does not respond to anything she says. It does not respond at all. It is nothing more than a doll.

Going into Jonny’s room is the hardest for her. Because this is a man who is her brother in all blood who is now lost. But his room is still a mess. Scraps of fabric and odd tidbits scattered around. A photo of him and Nastya still pinned to the wall.

Oh my friends, my friends forgive me // That I live and you are gone // There’s a grief that can’t be spoken // There’s a pain goes on and on.

She also finds copies of their albums. Some she recognises, some she doesn’t. One of them she just holds and stares at it for a few moments; as if she can’t comprehend its existence. Death To The Mechanisms.

She listens as Jonny makes jokes about dying from the start. She listens to the Bifrost Incident. She listens as they reminisce on old stories and old songs.

She listens as she reaches the second to last track. Nastya listens as her brother narrates how her family die; as he describes how they ‘follow Nastya’ before describing each and every one. None of them surprise her. Not entirely.

And Nastya curls up on Jonny’s bed and lets the album play on loop again and again until the CD stops working. Then she just lays there until she too is nothing and can do nothing but hope that one day, she will return to where she belongs.

Fun fact about this ask: it’s over a year old! I’m so sorry it took me this long! So I’m assuming the premise is ‘Tim is a civilian but everyone else is still a hero’ s o

Tim still gets adopted by the Waynes because shitty parents and Bruce literally can’t help himself when he sees a kid with black hair

However Tim hasn’t told anyone that he worked out that they’re all heroes and Bruce isn’t eager to even consider bringing in another kid as Robin.

So cue the comedy of ‘trying to hide thy at we’re all heroes to keep Tim in the dark’ escalating in more and more ridiculous ways.

Meanwhile Tim knows the entire time.

There’s an insistence that the family’s just really into cosplay and that they’re all just So Clumsy to get hurt that often.

The only person who knows Tim knows is Alfred for the simple reason that he’s Alfred.

Jason turns up one night just covered in blood and fully messed up, expecting no one to be awake because it’s like 3am.

Patches himself up in costume and walks into the kitchen to see Tim eating cereal with Monster Energy instead of milk. It’s unclear when he last slept.

Cue Jason agreeing not to tell anyone that Tim knows because he thinks it’s hilarious. Also,,, middle child solidarity when Bruce adopts Damian.

Finally deciding that Tim should know the truth, Bruce gathers the entire family together; Dick, Jason, Tim, Damian, Cass, Duke etc and goes to explain the truth.

However, at that point, Bruce is the only one that doesn’t know Tim knows.

To clarify; I’m not caught up on Critical Role. I’m like seven episodes in but I’m very much trying to binge through it soon. I am definitely taking liberties with ‘time travel’ but I have ideas. I’m going with the Mighty Nein because I haven’t watched Campaign One. I really went off with this but I hope that’s okay!!

Okay, so I’m making it a kinda ‘partial’ time travel AU.

Both Caleb and Veth are from the modern era but they don’t really know each other. Caleb has his regular brand of Trauma as Bren but Veth is pre-Nott.

The day the two meet for the first time is actually Veth bumping into Caleb practicing a new spell. However, her knocking into him caused him to uhhh Fuck Up Badly and the two get yeeted back in time.

However, they get separated and sent back to slightly different points in time when they do. Veth meets Yeza, has her son, and becomes Nott following her canon backstory. Veth is already Nott by the time they get sent back to.

When Caleb meets Nott in prison, he’s actually there after being arrested for being ‘drunk and disorderly’ (aka panicking and talking ‘nonsense’ about the present day because there’s no sensible way to react to being thrown back in time).

Nott doesn’t reveal her backstory to him but the two share a ‘holy shit! You’re from the future too! I’m not just imagining it!’ moment and stick together.

Caleb continues to buy up as many books as he can on the arcane, desperately trying to find a way to recreate the spell and send the two of them back to the present. It’s going...as well as can be expected. But he really is trying!!

Canon meeting with the rest of the Mighty Nein happens. There are Many Moments where Nott does her best to cover for Caleb when he screws up and mentions things that haven’t happened yet or things that don’t exist yet. Half the time the Nein do Not believe them but it’s okay. Caleb and Nott are just Like That.

A lot of canon still goes as planned. Mollymauk does NOT die because I refuse. Caduceus joins the Nein. Nott becomes Veth again etc.

Once she’s Veth again, she’s very...hesitant about going back to the present. She has a new life here. She has friends and family; she feels loved. She doesn’t want to go back. But Caleb is seemingly unconvinced.

This entire time, Molly has been fascinated by Caleb. This strange, reserved man that talks of seemingly prophetic things that haven’t happened yet. He finds the moments where Caleb is just...amazed by the world around them endearing. The two grow a lot closer a lot quicker than they do in canon. Even if Caleb is more than slightly oblivious with Molly’s attempts at flirting.

But Caleb and Veth find a family amongst the Nein. They find a sense of belonging. Even when they open up to the others about being from the future, there’s a lot of confusion but they’re not rejected for it. Caleb is able to sorta deal with his trauma and come to terms with the things he did because we sure do love caharacter Growth in this household.

But then it happens.

Caleb finally reaches his goal and completes the spell. He can go back to the present.

So he gets ready to go but the rest of the Nein are NOT having it. They start pointing out that he doesn’t have anything in the future, and ask what he’s returning for. They remind him that he has a family here; he’s wanted. Beau definitely hits him at least once (probably twice).

As everyone demands he stay, Caleb turns to the one person who’s stayed oddly quiet. Molly. He asks what he thinks. Because I’m deeply into cliches, Mollymauk kisses him in response.

I can work with this. I think.

So AC Odyssey modern AU

As much of the same storyline happens in a vaguely similar fashion because it’s a modern au. The Cult of Kosmos and Deimos are still problems etc.

After all this, Kassandra and Alexios decide to work on properly establishing and recruiting for the Greek Brotherhood. They want there to be people there and ready should Templars under the guise of the Cult try to strike back. And it works. Mostly.

So rather than fight for leadership of the Daughters of Artemis, the Brotherhood comes to an agreement with them - very much tedious and cautious allies.

As a front both to make money and hide assassin operations, the Greek Brotherhood operates behind two coffee shops - one in Sparta, one in Athens. The money’s decent and it’s very much the last place anyone would think to look for remnants of the Brotherhood.

Of course, Daphnae has to do her job as leader of the Daughters properly and check in on their allies. This absolutely has nothing to do with the flirting between her and Kassandra. She isn’t a regular customer but she becomes regular enough for Kassandra to memorise her order perfectly.

So they kept flirting and growing closer. Alexios is an absolute Shit about it and consistently complains about his sister’s love life because siblings are like that.

As much as it loathes me to say it, Great Gatsby AU Beauyasha

Yasha as Gatsby, Beau as Nick, Mollymauk & Zuala as Daisy, Caleb as Nick (minus being a shitty person because I wouldn’t do that to my boy), Essek as Myrtle, Jester as Jordan

So Beau is fairly new to settling down properly when she settles down in Rexxentrum. She’s there working for the Cobalt Soul and with some I’m-Sorry money from her dad, she’s got a pretty decent place.

One of the benefits to being there is she gets to be close to her adopted brother, Caleb. The two have been apart for a few years but it’s nice to see him settled down with a husband and a job as a teacher.

Mollymauk is...Unique. They have a lot of stories about travelling with a circus prior to getting with Caleb. They also mention travelling with their sister and her wife - though, Molly grows quiet when she presses for details. All they’ll say is Yasha now lives alone.

Turns out Yasha and Beau are neighbours and that she very much likes to throw parties with Molly insisting it’s her way to deal with the loneliness.

Surprisingly, Beau gets invited to one of these parties only to later realise most people aren’t

She goes, obviously. Mostly out of curiosity because she has yet to meet the illusive Yasha

At the party, she meets Jester, the daughter of the Ruby of the Sea along with being a young adventurer trying to find herself. Beau would be lying if she said she wasn’t immediately taken by her. There’s a few flirty exchanges until Beau catches sight of a tall imposing figure at the top of the stairs, watching the party rather than engaging with it. Yasha.

Making her excuses, Beau goes to speak with her host. The two hit it off pretty well with talks of Yasha wanting to spend time on various outings with Beau. Besides, Beau was short of friends in Rexxentrum. It would hardly be right to say no!

So her and Yasha start her outings together, all the while she tries dating Jester even if it’s clear her heart isn’t entirely in it. The two break things off amicably with Jester pointing out she’s in love with Yasha which Beau really doesn’t know how to take.

On a sibling bonding day, Caleb introduces Beau to Essek, the man he’s having an affair with. He claims to love them both but Beau has her own thoughts about him cheating on Yasha’s brother. As part of a plea not to tell anyone, he buys her an owl. Unfortunately, Professor Thaddeus isn’t one to stick around.

Her and Yasha grow closer and closer still. Yasha eventually opens up about Zuala, her former wife and how her death had broken her slightly. The parties are in part her way of dealing with the grief and finding a way to move on. Something she found in Beau. Beau also finds out that both Yasha and Molly make their money via various scams that she very quickly turns a blind eye to. The two kiss and for Beau? Everything seems to finally be going right.

Yasha and Molly go for a night out together. Feeling fancy, Mollymauk insists they take Caleb’s carriage in a dire effort to show off!! Unfortunately, driving a carriage and alcohol are a terrible combination. Essek seeing Caleb’s carriage, moves outside to greet him. But Molly doesn’t know who Essek is. Assuming he’ll get out the way, they make no move to stop. Only Essek doesn’t move. Not out of the way and not ever again as the horses barrel into him.

Of course, the death of such a high ranking member of the Dynasty needs retribution. In an effort to protect her brother, Yasha takes the blame for it. Something both Beau and Molly are mildly horrified by it. Yasha offers to lay the family compensation and to cover funeral costs - it’s the least she can do.

In an effort to help calm her down, Beau decides to visit Yasha unexpectedly as a surprise. Only, she’s the one surprised when she finds her girlfriend face down on the ground with a knife firmly in her back. Jester, in an offer of friendship, offers to resurrect her to no avail.

After Yasha’s funeral, Caleb and Mollymauk leave town with a strained marriage. Molly can’t stay in the city their sister died in and Caleb is desperately trying to patch things up with them.