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Aymeric’s face turns white. ‘I had heard… stories but I always thought they were hearsay. Tales to scare children.’
Estinien laughs weakly, because he’s seen twenty seven summers and he’s fucking terrified. Aymeric’s jaw sets.
‘Well. ‘Tis a good thing I don’t scare so easily.'
(or: the ritual of choosing the vessel for the new Azure Dragoon is all fun and games until wings burst from your back and aeons-old monsters speak from your lips)
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29 Sep 2026
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Monstrous doesn't mean Estinien isn't still a man
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!! Endwalker 6.0 Spoilers !!
Nay, he should not have come, not when other, more pressing concerns lie unresolved elsewhere. Yet–
Yet the thought of Aymeric, alone on such a day– the thought of him smiling in that infuriatingly placid way of his and burying himself in his work into the late hours of the night, eyes dimming in barely-hidden disappointment as another holiday passes by uncelebrated, ignored out of duty and obligation when he knows how much he adores indulging in such silly traditions–
He found the thought to be– unbearable. Nigh unthinkable.
I've gone soft, he thinks with a grimace, yet finds he cannot regret his impromptu decision to teleport here, now with the sight of Aymeric mere fulms away, almost within reach. Aymeric deserves every onze of happiness this star has to offer, and if he might bring him some small amount of relief from his burdens, he will do so gladly.
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The canon love story of Celestaux falling for Foulques and then G'raha coming into the picture and the three of them loving each other! This won't include any AUs for the three of them.
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“Because of that head injury,” Sanson said, staring at the clouds they were passing, “I have…a hard time remembering things. Big details are fine but it’s little things. It’s like they slide right off my brain, no matter how hard I’m trying to hold on to them.”
Following a concussion during a Twin Adder mission, Sanson's short-term memory is not what it use to be. But he's figured out how to live with it – he keeps a journal to ensure he doesn't forget anything important.
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01 Sep 2026
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Sanson's had a TBI, and doesn't let it slow him down
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AU. Effie Sunhaven, a minor princess of Gridania, has always known that one day, she would be sold off into political marriage. All she can do is wait in her gilded cage, forced to keep her distance and painfully lonely for it...
Until she meets the handsome new stablemaster, and everything changes. But when time runs out on their dangerous affair and suitors from the noble houses of Ishgard come calling, they'll need their very own knight in shining armor.
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Bookmarked by RandomObserver
11 Aug 2026
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Some mideval romantasy good good! Haurchefant and Erenville both have a lot of love to give
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Estinien has spent years struggling to find the key to being 'normal', continually failing to understand why everyone else places such emphasis on sex. His lack of desire for full intimacy doesn't mean he has no wish for touch or affection, but his inability to go farther has already cost him one relationship with a man he loved with all his heart. He has no reason to believe a second attempt will end any differently, but he doesn't want to spend his life alone.
G'raha certainly can't empathize with Estinien's plight, but he does understand what it's like to be alone and untouched for far too long. If they can offer each other a solution for their mutual touch-starvation, he sees no reason not to indulge themselves. It doesn't take much of soaking in Estinien's affection before he has to admit that this is no longer a merely friendly exchange. He's willing to make sacrifices and compromises, if it means they can be together.
The biggest obstacle they face might not be Estinien's refusal to engage in sex, but rather his refusal to believe in the possibility that they can last.
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This work began as an answer to the questions: what would actually prompt a Viera to leave their woods behind and venture into the wider world? Especially if they truly believe in the Green Word and everything it stands for? What is it like, to be a Viera? What is it like, to be blessed and cursed with power, chosen by Hydaelyn, forced to leave your home behind?
Join me on this deep dive into Viera lore and culture as I imagine it, and the twists and turns it takes the author on. The journey starts with Aruna, a kit just at the cusp of presenting and discovering their gender, and many stories are told to me by them and those around them. Stories of the past, stories of the present, stories of the people.
Hearken, Viera, to Word of the Green
From Mountains to Jungles and all in between
By grace of the Woods we are living today
By grace of the Woods, in the Woods we shall staySeries
- Part 3 of Living by the Green Word
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The Warrior of Light is dead, and now his murderer must take his place.
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“Do you die with regrets, most lost of Travelers?”
He does not have the luxury of pondering it: as she speaks, he remembers, and it's the last memory the one that breaks him. The one that has him laughing, falling to his knees. Curling his tail around his leg as his laughter devolves into the kind of cackling that would better fit an Overlord.
“Then die, Slayer of the Chosen.”
All goes black once again, and the strength of the Light is overwhelming.
“Live, as another should have.”
His very soul feels on fire.
“Know, that you are my Child once more.”
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Desperate to cover rent, second year Journalism student Sanson Smyth agreed to take on one Guydelot Thildonnet as a roommate on behest of his best friend. Little did he know he was getting far more than he bargained for.
Loud, blasé and a downright charming flirt, the keyboardist for local emo band Heresy proved to be an exasperating roommate... and an unstoppable force barreling his way into Sanson's home—and his heart.
A story of how two fools fell head over heel in love.
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In the Holy See of Ishgard, and the country surrounding it, there are two boys fated to make arduous climbs to power. As each begins to face their journeys alone, they are brought together. With one seeking vengeance against the Dravanian threat that robbed him of his life, and the other combating the tangled politics of the Holy See and his parentage, they forge a bond in their shared resolve. Only as the years press on do they begin to realize that there is more to living than revenge and justice.
((This fic stays loosely faithful to lore and goes right up to the ending of A Realm Reborn, but it also contains spoilers for Heavensward/the Dragoon Job quest line))
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In another life where Ferndale never burned, Estinien Varlineau lives a simple life as a shepherd. One day after a distant battle with the Dravanians goes wrong, he stumbles on an injured knight and has no choice but to nurse him to health, unsuspecting of just how profoundly the stranger will touch his heart in return.
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Estinien, who ought to have been born a prince but was instead cursed to be born a wyrmling, finds one single friend after he is cast outside of Ishgard’s walls: an orphaned shepherd boy who, for a time, takes him in, feeds him, and curls up beside him to sleep.
More than a decade later, after Estinien has grown into a full fledged wyrm, he still remembers well his shepherd boy—though he knows not where he went or what became of him after their sudden separation. Bitter and lonely, he scours Ishgard’s countryside with flames in his hunt to find his long lost friend.
To stop the wrathful dragon wreaking havoc on his kingdom, the young Prince Hamignant is willing to consider even the unorthodox. And when he learns that Estinien’s blighting of the heartlands is all in search of a single man, a (nearly) bloodless solution comes to mind: make a sacrifice of this once-a-shepherd in the hopes of placating the dragon and sating his appetite, whatever form it may take.
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Bookmarked by RandomObserver
12 May 2026
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Just a boy and his dragon. Alberic was the best of them all
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Burdened with immortality and twisted into a beastly shape by Nidhogg's final curse after using gifts stolen from Ratatoskr to slay their kind, Estinien has hid beneath the aetherial tempest surrounding Ishgard for ages. Using the ravaging abyss to deafen himself to the world of man above that he helped to shape, nothing has roused him for centuries. That is, until he is stirred by the impossible: the voice of his long-dead lord. Spurred into flight for the first time in nearly a millennia, Estinien finds himself interrupting the banishment and judgment of accused heretic Aymeric de Borel, a man identical to his love from another lifetime but now spared the same fate.
But what purpose could this second chance serve? Estinien has long abandoned hope of being freed from his curse, unable to die at mortal hands and bound by the magic of dragons long gone from this world. Yet while he understands this Aymeric is not the same prince he knew, served, and loved, he is unable to refuse when the earnest young man makes a request that echoes his past and winds up learning just what has become of the kingdom of man.
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Bookmarked by RandomObserver
12 May 2026
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Ancient and cursed Estinien, but Aymeric can talk anyone around eventually
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A slow burn Sanson/Guydelot throughout the bard questlines
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Aymeric can't help but feel like something is missing from his life. In an effort to help, Estinien takes him to a gathering where inhibitions run free, and Aymeric is ... inspired.
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Bookmarked by RandomObserver
29 Apr 2026
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Aymeric his his gay awakening at a swingers club :D
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Shooting Star by AimeeLouWrites for bbirbb
Fandoms: Compilation of Final Fantasy VII, Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII
16 Apr 2023
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Once upon a time, a self-styled god turned back time and tried to steal his greatest enemy to become his eternal ally.
Once upon a time, Cloud Strife tore through the fabric of the multiverse to kill his tormentor—and succeeded.
Once upon a time, the hands of a benevolent goddess rose to catch a falling hero and give him a gentler future.Chapter 2: bonus content
Chapter 3: bonus AUsSeries
- Part 9 of Divine Comedy
- Part 4 of Cloud Lies Badly & Destiny Is Involved
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Omegaverse by ErrantNight
Fandom Compilation of Final Fantasy VII, Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VII (Video Game 1997)
09 Oct 2024
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tornadogenesis (pl. tornadogeneses)
(meteorology) noun - the process by which a tornado forms(or: someone finally faces consequences for hurting Haurchefant Greystone)
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03 Apr 2026
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Haillenarte family feels ft. Haurchefant
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The Crystal Mirror has guided kings of Ishgard for centuries. Now, it guides King Thordan to an unpalatable truth: that his son is destined to rise to greater heights than he.
When the champion of the Seven Scions saves Prince Aymeric from the brink of death, a wheel of prophecy is set in motion. Fate has pulled them together, but for what purpose? Change is coming to Coerthas, be it for weal or woe, and all must play their part.
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Bookmarked by RandomObserver
02 Apr 2026
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Heavensward, but make it Snow White. But Aymeric's Snow White. And WoL is Princess Charming. And it's a BAJILLION times better than Snow White