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Better question: What is this place? What-
There is nothing to recall. No sense of self, no useful memory. There’s the sense this should be accompanied by discomfort, upset, but the only things throbbing in the skull are pain and a distant curiosity.
This person. This body.
If you have no memories, how do you know if you're a person?
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hésperos; “pertaining to the evening”
Night seems to be the only time you get some peace.
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The last thing Percy expects, the night after the Briarwoods’ welcome feast, is to be woken by his tutor, a candle in one hand and her other over his mouth.
“Percy,” Ripley says quietly. “If you wish to live, listen to me.”
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After the attack, the thing Percy wants most is his family restored to him. It doesn’t happen how he thinks.
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- Part 1 of Delia AU
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When Vex is twenty two and a half (after so many years with long-lived elves the “half” becomes very important) something happens to her soulmate.
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The Pain-Based Soulbond AU a few people have tried their hands at, but hey, what's another cake at the buffet but more options? Additional Tags will be added as the story is updated.
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something more than flesh by EssayOfThoughts for Nanyoky
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
11 Oct 2024
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“I don’t want to be afraid,” Percy says, half a mumble against her neck or hair each time. “Not of you. Not of this.”
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- Part 7 of Essay's Perc'ahlia Week '24 Submissions
- Part 2 of Percy-Ripley Oh God I'm Awful (PROGIA)
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Percival de Rolo has known a lot of people and considers himself, these days, to be a pretty good judge of character. This woman in his office, elegant in her dark dress as she perches on his desk, thick dark hair in a braided cascade that obscures one side of her face...
Well. She’s something. Percy’s not entirely sure yet if that’s going to be a good or bad thing.
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- Part 6 of Essay's Perc'ahlia Week '24 Submissions
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Percy thought he was delirious at first, seeing two identical faces at the door to his cell, and it took him a moment to clarify that, no, there were two men there, in different clothes, one with a bow and one already kneeling to pick the lock.
Much as it shames him, it takes him a few days to consistently tell them both apart - he’s known twins, yes, but never ones as identical as Vax’ildan and Vex’ahlian.
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- Part 5 of Essay's Perc'ahlia Week '24 Submissions
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It’s a good thing, Sylas supposes, that Percival stepped out of his grave with the intent to heal his scars.
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- Part 4 of Essay's Perc'ahlia Week '24 Submissions
- Part 2 of Sylas Briarwood Gets To Live AU
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Sylas Briarwood breathes with gasping need, with the desperation of someone not used to it.
How many years, Pike wonders, has he been dead? How strange must it feel, to be alive again?
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- Part 1 of Sylas Briarwood Gets To Live AU
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“We should have written him,” she says. “You- you were right, he worried about us.”
“In my experience, all good parents do,” he says, and swallows. “I know mine did.”
“Why don’t you write them?” she asks and oh, oh, he wishes she hadn’t asked.
“I wish I could,” he admits.
AKA: The Syldor Is A Good Dad AU no one asked for.
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- Part 3 of Essay's Perc'ahlia Week '24 Submissions
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“Vel,” Vex murmurs as they head into Westruun. “Stick with Percy for me, would you?”
The daemon caws before fluttering from Vex’s shoulder to his, careful to make sure no feathers touch skin. It’s familiar, the weight, just like Adelheid - even more so when he feels the familiar tugging of his hair pulled into place by a beak. When he glances to the side, the twins have shifted - Vax’s hand no longer rests on Trinket’s side, only Vex’s, and Vorbarra's grooming her ears while perched on Vax’s shoulder.
Oh.
Oh. They’re keeping him safe.
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- Part 2 of Essay's Perc'ahlia Week '24 Submissions
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“Before-” he starts and then cuts himself off, feeling out each word carefully, rolling them around his mouth and balancing them on his tongue before releasing them. Should he even admit this? It’s not like anyone would guess or know to guess, rare as the phenomenon is. But- maybe Vex will understand, then, why he can’t quite find it in himself to believe her hope, and he musters his courage. “I had a soulbond,” he admits.
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- Part 1 of Essay's Perc'ahlia Week '24 Submissions
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does your GOD believe in you? by EssayOfThoughts for exhaustedwerewolf
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
16 Mar 2024
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Kashaw has been married to Vesh since his birth. When he's fifteen, she comes for him.
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- Part 1 of eyes lazy for the truth
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Tell me who I am now (I don't know) by EssayOfThoughts for umwelt
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
04 Nov 2023
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He remembers pain. He presses a clawed hand to his chest and through the thin cloth he feels the ridges and smooth sheens of scars. He remembers family, hears ringing laughter and echoes of familiar voices and his heart aches.
He remembers running in darkness, cold snow beneath bare feet and a familiar hand in his. He remembers a set of familiar eyes wide in pain before he fell and fell and didn’t get up.
Names are piecemeal. Words are fragmentary. The title he goes by- Percy? Percy-
There’s something missing.
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His soul is not free, perhaps, still burdened by his sins, but he is making amends and living his life.
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- Part 11 of Essay's Perc'ahlia Week '23 Submissions
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Parent Elections by EssayOfThoughts for rightpastnowhere, umwelt
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
01 Oct 2023
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Gwen's grin doesn't dim even a little. It's so wide she can completely see the little gap between her daughter's front teeth, the one that Percy insists makes her smile so endearing. Unfortunately, he is completely correct.
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- Part 10 of Essay's Perc'ahlia Week '23 Submissions
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Courage now.
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- Part 9 of Essay's Perc'ahlia Week '23 Submissions
- Part 7 of Little Moments In The Quiet
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It probably says something about how often they've been in combat together that standing with Percy in the midst of masses of people is more steadying than cultured conversation.
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- Part 8 of Essay's Perc'ahlia Week '23 Submissions
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His words ring through her mind all the same.
No matter what today, I forgive you, but I cannot let you leave.
AKA: the Vex POV Glintshore fic no one asked for.
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- Part 7 of Essay's Perc'ahlia Week '23 Submissions
- Part 6 of Little Moments In The Quiet
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"You're my mother," Trinket says. "Can you- can you be his mother too?"
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- Part 6 of Essay's Perc'ahlia Week '23 Submissions
- Part 16 of Little Moments In The Quiet