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Violet Sorrengail is a forensic anthropologist good with only one thing: dead people. Their bones speak a language only she can hear, but the living aren't quite so easy to understand - particularly one FBI Agent Xaden Riorson, who does everything possible to get under her skin. When an unexpected murder victim washes up in DC, the ensuing investigation brings them closer together despite her every effort to stay away, and she's forced to decide if the careful distance she keeps around her heart is really worth it.
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13 Nov 2025
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"You have got to be FUCKING kidding me."
"Language, Violet." Lilith Sorrengail's gaze is disapproving.
"Respectfully, ma'am, I have trained as a figure skater my whole life. And now you're telling me I need to play hockey? At Basgiath? As a WALK-ON?" My mother is many things. Unhinged was not one I would have seen coming, given the carefully controlled, cold façade she wears 99% of the time. But there's no way else to explain this other than unhinged.
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The transition to college is hard enough, but Violet Sorrengail also gets to add "attempting to become a hockey player" on her plate ... as well as avoid Xaden Riorson and his crew, thanks to some sketchy shit that went down with their parents and the (now-closed) University of Aretia. Or so she was always told. But things are never exactly what they seem ...
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- Part 1 of Basgiath Dragons Hockey
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10 Nov 2025
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Violet Sorrengail is a history professor with a badass lecture voice, a weakness for vintage propaganda posters, and a talent for making students laugh (and occasionally cry). So when nearly her entire Monday morning class abandons her for a new course in “Revolution & Rebellion in the Western Canon,” she wants answers. What she doesn’t expect is Professor Riorson: sharp-tongued, infuriatingly calm, and alarmingly hot.
It’s just a few classroom debates, a little intellectual sparring. No big deal.
Until the debates start sounding suspiciously like foreplay.Or: The one where Xaden thinks Violet is a student and tries to keep his distance - kinda
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- Part 1 of The syllabus
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07 Nov 2025
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just lose control and let your body give in by theoneiam2277
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros
11 Sep 2025
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Rules are simple. Black-and-white, fail or pass, succeed or be a disappointment.
Dain has always been drawn to their simplicity, just because life is so chaotic. Breaking life down into rigid rules was a survival mechanism that served him well. Up to a point. But while he’s let go of that way to live now, knows it destroyed most of his friendships and relationships, it lives on in certain parts of his life. As wingleader, he’s known to be hardass, a stickler for rules – but rules are there to keep cadets alive, so he won’t apologize for that.
The other place is in bed.
Which is what he is currently bending Sloane over.
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Written for Dain Week 2025 Day 1: Rules.
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- Part 6 of the Daddy Dom Dain TED talks
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07 Nov 2025
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up against the wall with me by theoneiam2277 for alltoowellread
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros
14 Sep 2025
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"Fuck you," she snarls now when he lets his palm loosen, twisting in his hold but unable – and unwilling – to dislodge him. "You've been winding me up all day!'
"But you're so easy to tease, sweetheart," Aaric laughs quietly.
"Oh, I'll show you–"
His hand covers her mouth again.
"None of that now," Aaric admonishes. "There's a group of cadets heading this way."
And then he's dragging her. She struggles mildly, just for the sake of it, but her heart isn't in it. It's beating a tattoo of anticipation and desire in her chest instead.
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Slainic smut for Johnna's birthday, and also Dain Week 2025 Free Day.
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- Part 6 of life may spin us in its dance (Slainic)
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07 Nov 2025
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i wanna be inside your heart (so let me in) by theoneiam2277 for Andie_B
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros
19 Sep 2025
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Tyrrendor joining forces with Poromiel after a successful apostasy that killed countless in Tyrrish leadership means the venin threat has been contained a bit longer, but Tyrrish leadership is desperate to raise the wards in Aretia. Sloane, an expert on runes, has graduated from Aretia's new war college, and is sent on an undercover mission to Basgiath to gather information. Dain, playing a loyal Navarrian and ferrying information to Tyrrendor via his friend Violet, is posted there, and has promised to hide Sloane in his quarters.
That means a lot of time spent in each other's company.
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A birthday gift for Andie <3
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07 Nov 2025
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Violet hates court days. It's part of the job, she gets that, and sometimes they’re even tolerable. This case, she knows, will be anything but. She’s surprised they’re even letting her testify, especially since she knew the victim. And the murderer.
No, Violet was certainly not looking forward to court today.
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07 Nov 2025
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I know you like it more by theoneiam2277 for Caernunnos
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros
18 Aug 2025
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He knows what time of the month it is.
Xaden keeps a fucking mental calender of every part of her cycle, tracks which days her hormones make her joints looser, tracks which days she's more prone to migraines, tracks when he needs to acquire pain tonics.
Tracks when she’s ovulating.
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Some VLX for Caernunnos' birthday, which I finally got to putting up on Ao3!
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07 Nov 2025
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now you're ours (we don't care who sees) by theoneiam2277 for ThatWouldBee_Enough
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros
21 Sep 2025
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Xaden interrupts her thoughts again. “This way, darling wife.”
The glint in his eyes tells her how much he enjoys calling her that. She can practically see the possessive parts of him purring at the thought of her being his, and can’t really find it in herself to mind. Being owned by this man, by–
“There the two of you are.” Bodhi’s voice is as familiar as Xaden’s at this point, the cousins rarely apart. “Everything is ready.”
“Ready?” Violet asks, though the statement was aimed at Xaden.
Bodhi smiles kindly. “For the consummation.”
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Tyrrish Independence AU with Riorrangail, arranged marriage and public consummation. Written for Bee <3
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07 Nov 2025
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"Who the fuck are you?"
Xaden's blade is at the stranger's throat before Violet even comprehends the situation. The sharp edge of one of his perpetual twin swords glistens in the glow of mage lights, but she doesn't understand what's going on, her vision slightly blurry and her balance off as she stumbles, catching herself, her eyes not adjusted to the sudden darkness.
Xaden sounds scared.
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Or, the time travel fic that no one probably asked for but I wrote anyway.
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07 Nov 2025
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It had been a week since they came to Aretia. A week of healing and rest and recovery. But Liam was pulling away, and Xaden was ready to confront Liam about it.
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- Part 2 of Unbreakable
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06 Nov 2025
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“Are you going to spend all of this class staring at me, love?”
His mind wraps around hers like black velvet, soft and seductive. Violet shivers, which could easily be attributed to the winter weather outside the arena they’re currently in.
Xaden looks totally unruffled, waiting for all the cadets to arrive, and she lets her eyes roam across him: thick thighs and strong shoulders under his leathers, beautiful and sharp facial features. This man is her every weakness.
“Well, it is not my fault you look so good,” she tells him, and drags her eyes down his form again. “Besides, no one can fault me for looking. And thinking. And imagining.”
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Prompts for Riorgail Week 2025 for @empyreanevents Days 1-3 as one story: Professor Riorson, Bond, Signet.
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06 Nov 2025
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Rowan Sorrengail was born for the Riders Quadrant.
For years, he has carried the weight of his family’s expectations—the son of the famed General Sorrengail, the brother of riders, the shadow of a sibling lost to war. His younger sister Violet is destined for the Scribe Quadrant, when her time comes, leaving Rowan to walk the path carved for him alone.At Basgiath War College, weakness is a death sentence. The parapet culls the unprepared, the gauntlet breaks the reckless, and the dragons burn those they deem unworthy. To survive, Rowan must endure every trial, every rival, and every betrayal waiting inside the Riders Quadrant.
But survival demands more than strength. It demands allies. And when Rowan’s path collides with Xaden Riorson—the son of the rebellion’s executed leader and a first-year burdened with his own legacy—enmity turns into something far more dangerous: a fragile, necessary alliance.
As dragons choose their riders and the threat of war presses closer to Basgiath’s walls, Rowan will discover that loyalty cuts deeper than any blade—and that the spark of rebellion has already begun to burn.
Because in the Riders Quadrant, there is only one true law: ride… or die.
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04 Nov 2025
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I don't think I care what it costs by theoneiam2277 for ShipMistress
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros
24 Jun 2025
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"This pretty little neck would snap so easily under my fingers," Xaden says, and he sounds almost – wistful?
"So do it," she spits, and immediately wants to take back the words, because she doesn't want to die today. But she's committed now, and maybe she can goad him into killing her fast. "It's not nice to play with your food. Didn't daddy teach you that, Riorson?"
She opens her eyes to see anger flash in his, features twisting from amusement to hate very quickly. The hand on her windpipe presses down, until she's trapped with her head completely against the wall, at his mercy.
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In which dark!Xaden keeps the General's daughter alive, as per their deal, but exacts his revenge from her in other ways.
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03 Nov 2025
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Four hundred years ago, Navarre leadership chose to not hide the existence of the venin. Instead, they aid Poromiel in the fight for the Continent.
We step into this alternate universe as Xaden, fierce rider and Duke of Tyrrendor, meets Violet for the first time. Without the secret of the venin, she excelled in the scribe quadrant to become its leader, and she journeys to Aretia to offer him something he never dreamed of. Her arrival and brilliant mind send him reeling, ensnaring him in a way that feels as if it was simply inevitable.
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- Part 1 of The Duke and the Scribe
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03 Nov 2025
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The Prince pulled away from Violet and shot her a winning grin that made me want to punch his perfect teeth in. I don’t think I gave Violence nearly enough credit for not murdering Cat in the sparring ring if this is the way she was feeling. Then I watched as Halden tucked a hair behind Violet’s ear and I lost the little control I had left.
Shadows skittered below my feet as I clenched my fists at my side. Luckily, I was surrounded by my friends and Violet’s squad so that no untrustworthy eyes noticed. I ignored Imogen’s goading snort as Garrick raised an eyebrow at me. The only person who ever really saw me lose control like this was Violet. The few times I lost control in front of others were usually a result of Violet landing herself in danger again. Publicly losing my composure over jealousy was completely uncharted territory for me.
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In which the Navarrian Royal Family arrives at Lilith Sorrengail's funeral and Xaden is shocked to find out who Violet's ex is.
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- Part 3 of Onyx Storm Headcannons
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02 Nov 2025
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a more satisfying revenge by plum_petals for Lalapie
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros
02 Aug 2025
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Xaden decided early on that he would wear his ruthlessness unapologetically. It was one of the reasons that Sgaeyl had chosen him, still covered in the blood of a dead prince who threatened one of his own.
The son of the Great Betrayer isn’t looking for forgiveness or honor or even peace at the end of it all. Those kinds of motivations are reserved for much better people than himself. Why pretend to seek absolution at all when revenge is so much more satisfying?
Seducing Violet Sorrengail to the rebellion’s side may not be his most straightforward plan, but he thinks it’s one of his most brilliant.
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- Part 1 of revengeverse
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02 Nov 2025
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Violet Sorrengail is only a matter of months away from finishing her PhD when her scholarship extension request, aka her only source of income, gets denied. Looking for a way to make money, she comes across an online ad looking for a surrogate.
Xaden Riorson thought everything in life was working out, but when his ex leaves him suddenly, the future he has worked so hard for is in jeopardy. The he gets a text message that may be the answer to all his problems.
They might be exactly what the other needs, but will their arrangement end up being far more than they bargained for?- Language:
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31 Oct 2025