5 Works by LadyDeme
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The Pearls That Were His Eyes by LadyDeme
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
31 Jul 2023
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In the fractious and academic Sixth, parenting is often a question of definitions – and Archivist Juno Zeta doesn’t know how to be a parent without being first a teacher and archivist: observing and guiding young Palamedes Sextus as a baby and toddler, discovering power; as a child making his first friend; as a boy falling in love; as a young man seizing the House. She stores it all away in the archive of her soul, as each fades from view.
Palamedes changes everything he touches – the House, the Universe, and perhaps most of all, himself. Juno Zeta was never the type to wander blind – not metaphorically, at least, but in the wake of voting for her home to change forever, and suffering the consequences, she’s in the dark about their new future - and about that new person, to whom she does not know if she’s parent, or teacher, or archivist. Paul hopes to shed a little light for them both.
Written for The Locked Tomb Big Resurrection Event 2023.
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Translated Into Touch by LadyDeme
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
12 Nov 2022
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The bag kept jostling, and there were more faint noises. But eventually – faster than he had time to really process what was happening, victim of fortune in a sack that he was – the bag was being supported from below by something irregular, and then he was rather gently tipped out from it, the bag sliding away until he’d lost all contact. The new surface was flat, and he was sprawled out on it as a tangled, ungainly knot of bones that did not quite know where it was.
And then there was a sound. Slightly fuzzy – blurry, maybe, with a strange timbre like he was the string in a child’s sound-wave experiment cup-and-string.
“Warden?” It sounded like home.
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Palamedes Sextus is just a little bit stuck, not having a body that can talk. There's a lot that needs to be said before they can rest.
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A Kiss of Peace and Trust by LadyDeme
Fandoms: Fire Emblem Series, Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses
05 Mar 2020
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It's the day of Dimitri's coronation, and afterwards, his vassals, lords, and knights will offer him their fealty, their loyalty and mutual promises sealed with a ceremonial kiss. Dimitri could give precedence, the honor of their loyalty acknowledged as first and most important, to a noble of high standing. But it's an honor most deserved by Dimitri's most loyal man -- if Dedue is willing to step forth and accept praise and honors.
Their kiss is a sign of their mutual trust; it is a symbol of peace; it is a formality. It can't mean anything more than that, an honor and testament to their bond as lord and vassal. But somewhere in their hearts, it can't help but mean something else, too.
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Learning to Read by LadyDeme
Fandoms: Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Fire Emblem Series
18 Feb 2020
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A series of 26 alphabetically-titled vignettes examining the period where, in the wake of The Tragedy of Duscur, Dimitri taught Dedue to read: a time in which they learned about each other, and the rules of their relationship, perhaps more than about books.
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The Lucky One by LadyDeme
Fandoms: Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Fire Emblem Series
29 Sep 2019
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Imagine what a strange position this must be: You’re Sylvain Jose Gautier, you’re fifteen years old, and all you want is to get laid. But it was just the worst day in everybody you care about's lives, the world is falling apart around you, and you're completely unharmed by all of it.