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Shadow puppetry by DukeOfDucks for jammerific
Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
14 Apr 2025
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Eight years after the end of the war, Tsar Nikolai Lantsov and his Tsaritsa Alina expect their second child.
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Nikolai Lantsov was having a good time, steadily progressing through his Politics & International Relations degree, until Aleksander Morozova happened. Morozova had no business being in one of his classes, but here he was, and now all Nikolai can do is try to vicariously seduce him through his evil wizard character using the charms of his half-pirate half-prince bastard character.
Which, in hindsight, and considering the rather impressive amount of Nat 1 he rolled, was going pretty well. -
Fata Morgana by DukeOfDucks for LoisJoanneLane
Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
06 Mar 2025
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The future is bright. Bright with the strength of an ardent sun.
Hot with the blaze of all-consuming grief. -
Mosaïque by DukeOfDucks
Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo, Nikolai Series - Leigh Bardugo
14 Feb 2025
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I don't have enough lives to write everything I'd like to write, so have bits and bobs of everything I'd like to write.
This is also open to requests, as long as it's Grishaverse related.
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The nature of power by DukeOfDucks for van1lla_v1lla1n
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
11 Feb 2025
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A meander in Zaun for two councillors, musings on power for Mel and Sevika.
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In a lavish room of gold and fine draperies, Kings shake hands.
The Drüskelle commander grins.
The First Army Generals wear self-satisfied expressions.
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The white-haired girl had been haunting Aleksander for as long as he could remember, visiting his dreams to plunge a knife in his chest, forcing him awake with sorrow tearing his heart apart.
The white-haired girl was— real, and actually had the most delightful laugh he had ever heard.
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An aftertaste of almonds by DukeOfDucks for chalk
Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo, Nikolai Series - Leigh Bardugo
12 Jul 2024
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It was a gift from Vasily after all. Rarer than when the larger stars aligned in the sky, precious and to be carefully enjoyed lest he regrets it later.
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Seven times Nikolai sent Dominik's anxiety spiralling and one time he quieted it all down with a kiss by DukeOfDucks
Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo, Nikolai Series - Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo
21 Jun 2024
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To his own surprise, Dominik Vertov did not die at Helmhend after being shot.
After months of slow recovery, he is ready to find Nikolai again. He expects the task to be short and easy. After all, how hard can it be to find the prince of your country?
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As simple as that by DukeOfDucks for annihilare
Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
12 Apr 2024
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"Life can just be as simple as that: you’ll have a perimeter to wander, you will not exactly be free, but you will be taken care of and untroubled,”
“As simple as that,” he murmured with a nod of agreement.
Alina, of course, knew to recognize his lies by now.
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Their latest stop in Ketterdam made Alina realise her comprehension of written Kerch was severely lacking, and she needed some books and kind guidance from Inej to truly master this tongue.
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Thorn within by DukeOfDucks for goblins_riddles_frocks
Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo, Nikolai Series - Leigh Bardugo
30 Mar 2024
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This place was everything to her.
Where her light came alive.
Where her light died.
Where she killed Mal.
Where she killed Aleksander.
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A Song of Thievery by DukeOfDucks for nikosander
Fandoms: The Language of Thorns - Leigh Bardugo, The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
28 Feb 2024
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If asked to describe his daughter, Magnus Opjer would tell you this: Although her mind is great and full of world-changing ideas, she has the survival instinct of a beached fish and is too easily distracted by a pair of pretty eyes. Nothing has ever worried me more than letting her go to university in Ketterdam. In the name of science, she'd accept the most sketchy scheme and get herself in unfathomable troubles for sure.
(If asked to describer her daughter, Baghra Morozova would tell you this: Who?)
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And she would name him Aleksander, defender of the people.
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One Kiss Away From Killing by DukeOfDucks for KseniyaChe
Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
19 Feb 2024
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The Lantsov Emerald surfacing again after decades of it being lost had to be celebrated in the form of a lavish party at the Lantsov estate, of course. Only the most elites of the beau monde could pretend to an invitation and a chance to lay eyes on the precious jewel.
Among the lucky ones, Alina Starkov, renowned art collector, beloved by high society for her skilled eye, rewarded for her service to the Lantsov family. On the other end of the list, Eryk Kirigan, a nobody by all standards whose handsome face secured him a spot on the arm of the Lantsov second son. -
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She had called him ruffled. He supposed he was, he usually was ruffled after interacting with his mother in any way. It had been a long time since anybody ever dared to call him anything like that (his aforementioned mother aside). She was so irreverent. Rude and blunt, saying whatever her heart desired, sometimes clearly before it reached her mind.
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I can feel his approach like shadows in my blood by DukeOfDucks
Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
10 Feb 2024
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They had been on the lookout for the Darkling, for Second Army soldiers. They never saw the Drüskelle until they fell upon them.
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Serendipity by DukeOfDucks
Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo, Nikolai Series - Leigh Bardugo
29 Jul 2023
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It was him but she had never seen him like this, not even when he had collapsed in her arms, a dagger in his heart. He was still the same— the sharp jawline, the pale skin, the lips— and yet his cheeks were stained red like a child in a fever. His quartz grey eyes were half-lidded, unfocused yet looking up at her, and his perfect lips were parted to let out small struggling pants. His cheekbones had always been sharp, but now he was downright gaunt, and she wondered when he had last eaten.
“Alina,” he finally whispered, so quietly it could have been the wind murmuring in her ears. She leaned closer, her hand still on his shoulder, not pulling away when he wrapped his own around her wrist again. “I didn’t know where else to go,”
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The monster is you, and I am your monster by DukeOfDucks for miajackswild
Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
13 Jul 2023
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“I will do nothing to you that your family hasn’t done to me,”
But Nikolai's ancestors did not have the Darkling's powers, and so those terrifying words held hope as well. Hope that he would retain his humanity and not be turned into a beast of shadows.
"You might not be hateful, but you are painfully naive. It’s as unforgivable a crime,”
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Trekking into the forest searching for mushrooms was what happened when one of your best friend (here, miss Alina Starkov) was:
1. An art student
2. A weirdo
3. A hair away from burn out
4. Currently dating a very bossy physics student who had taught her how to delegate tasks. Here: picking mushrooms for one of her final projects.