Teldryn is Bae

The Star (Tarot Card)

I'm participating at a little Tarot Card Challenge/prompt on a discord server. We get 3 tarot cards randomly and I decided to draw my Altmer OC Ilegir as the Star because I think its very fitting

Hello again friend! I will gladly ramble on about Firien until the day I die, so don’t worry at all lol

12. Candles

Firien lazily passed her fingers through the flickering flame, causing it to lean in whichever direction she went. It, along with its three companions in the candelabra, was the only source of light in the room, and Firien had been playing with it for quite some time as she switched her gaze between the candlelight and the sleeping city of Solitude and the sea beyond.

She paused with her finger held steady in the fire, but it did not blister nor burn her.

“It really doesn’t hurt?” Farkas asked from where he sat, watching her, nearly invisible in the dark. A hint of awe colored his voice as always whenever he watched her interact with fire, and when she glanced in his direction, she could see the candlelight reflected in his eyes.

“No,” said Firien softly, her voice just above a whisper. She cautiously lifted the candle from its taper holder and cupped her hand around the flame. She approached Farkas, her gaze fixed on his. “It never does. It used to, when I was younger. But ever since I absorbed that first dragon soul...”

She trailed off into silence and opened her hand, revealing the flame. The warm glow illuminated her palm, and now she could see more of Farkas’ features as the candle lit up his face and eyes. But he wasn’t looking at the flame, no... Farkas, as usual, was looking directly at her.

“It would be dangerous,” she continued in the same tone, “but to me, it’s not. It’s warm and gentle. It feels comfortable and familiar to me.”

Farkas, without tearing his gaze from her, reached his own hand out and held it over the flame... too close. She watched, bewildered, as his skin erupted, angry and red. He pulled it away, deliberately slow, and held up his fresh wound for her to see. With the beast blood long gone, it did not heal immediately as it would have in the past. Instead, it remained visible, a future scar to join with the rest that riddled his body.

“But it still hurts others,” he said simply. Then after a moment, he smiled, as if suddenly amused by a secret joke. “You are my candle.”

Firien frowned, confused.

“You will hurt others if they aren’t careful,” he explained. “But to me, you’re warm and gentle, comfortable and familiar. You are my candle.”

Firien immediately flushed, and she busied herself by turning away from him and returning the candle to its home with the others. When she turned around, she was somewhat surprised to see Farkas standing before her, having crossed the room in a few, swift and silent steps. He gripped her chin in his freshly injured hand and brought his lips to hers.

It was slow, yet brief, and Firien found herself missing him the moment he pulled away from her. Her hands clutched at empty air for a moment, searching for him, before she drew them back to her sternum, her cheeks hot.

Fanfiction is fiction.

Fictional people are not real.

Fictional people do not have rights.

Fictional people cannot be abused.

Reading or writing about something does not mean the desire to do or support it in the real world.

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Britpicking is a good thing.

You don't have to justify why you like a canon/pairing/trope/kink. Sometimes navel gazing is fun, but you don't have an obligation to explain yourself, especially to strangers. I share the overwhelming desire to refute an unfair accusation, but the people accusing you are rarely doing so in good faith, so you're batting a losing wicket.

I'm not your Mum. (Well, okay, a very few of you can call me Mum or Mom, but if you are one of them you already know who you are ❤️)

“Telvanni make the worst councilors. I wouldn’t listen to their advice if I were you.”

some doodle requests I did cause im so bored, these were really fun and I would die for all these funky little dudes

Ah my favourite minor character ship from all of TES. Teldryn and Geldis.