8 Works by Essyllt
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The slopes of the Lonely Mountain are white with snow, an early sign of the impending winter. Gimli can taste the sharpness of the air as he waits shivering with his companions on the outskirts of Dale.
[For the prompt "Snow" in the Year of the OTP Challenge 2023]
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Gil is still learning the many undercurrents of the Guard, but she already knows the Icefalcon has a bit of a reputation for being popular with people of both genders, and generally always being open to a quick fuck with no strings attached. So she isn't exactly surprised when he turns to her and says: "They have the right idea, keeping warm on a night like this. Do you want to share blankets tonight?"
She has mostly seen people approach him before, not this way around. He's as matter-of-fact about it as she expected him to be. It makes it easier, and she's gotten some practice at turning people down. Everyone in the Guard has been very relaxed about it. "No thanks," Gil says, only a little awkwardly. "I don't really do that. With anyone." -
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After Zagreus reaches the surface for the first time and is taken back by the Styx, Thanatos finds him in his room.
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Dressed Like Hell by Essyllt
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
07 Nov 2021
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There is an art to being a truly excellent liar. It requires more than pretense – at any given moment, it means truly living in the false identity one has constructed, while a more hidden part of the self lies below, silent and watchful. It is why Wangji is terrible at it, for all his self-control. He can offer the world a blank mask, but he has never been anyone but himself.
Lan Xichen, one the other hand, has been careful and meticulous in his crafting of the face he shows to the world. Tonight he is the Lan clan leader, reluctantly loyal, as hateful and yet cowed by Wen Ruohan as the rest of them. He is very good at becoming this version of himself. If he was not, if any of the Wen ever had an inkling of that other, hidden version of Lan Xichen, he would be dead by now. -
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Zhou Zishu wants to hit him. He wants to push him away and hide like a wounded animal. He wants to crawl inside Wen Kexing's ribs and shelter there from the pain.
"Let this one take care of you", Wen Kexing murmurs. As if that was an easy thing to permit. -
Walk the Streets Alive by Essyllt for butchgoth (GremlinGirl)
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
04 Sep 2021
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I don't need you, He Xuan thinks, I can get what I want however I want it. And yet, he hesitates. The shattered bone fragments of his broken fish still glitter on the floor. Hua Cheng's smile seems like the brightest thing in the entire cave, and it has been so very, very long since he talked to anyone at all. Since he felt like a real person and not just a vengeful shadow.
He holds out his hand wordlessly, and shivers when fingers as cool as his own wrap around it.
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This is how it goes, on a spaceship hurtling towards a black hole: Missy holds the Master close, and feels him tremble in her arms.
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Washed Away by Essyllt
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
05 Sep 2020
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When he had moved into fighting Wei Wuxian that night, this was what he had expected: a Jiang earthbender. Lan Zhan had not fought one of them before, but he had studied their style like those of the other major clans. He had known what to expect, right until the moment when Wei Wuxian shifted out of his stance in one swift motion and used a heavy gust of air to throw Lan Zhan on the ground, hard.
AU in which the Lan are Waterbenders, and Wei Wuxian is a very unorthodox Airbender raised by Earthbenders.