10 Works by MatchstickQ
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Jaskier's struggle with apathy, depression, the mortifying ordeal of being known, and being painfully head over heels in love with his best friend.
Warning: tooth-rotting, disgustingly sappy hurt/comfort.
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Tempest Dawning by MatchstickQ
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types, The Witcher (TV)
06 Feb 2022
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Ciri's had a rough go of it-- which, to be fair, so has everyone else. She just wants to feel normal again, to meddle and laugh and thrive with her strange, patchwork family. But she's a young human girl in pain, and not everyone is well-equipped to deal with that.
In the end, she does get to do her meddling. Just... not in the way she'd planned.
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- Part 3 of How to Build a Family: A guide by Ciri
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You Deserve an Oscar (for pretending nothing's wrong) by MatchstickQ
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types, The Witcher (TV)
29 Dec 2021
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The last time Ciri had heard of or seen Jaskier, it was when she had to deal with Geralt's emotional lock-up over the songs he sang. Now she's riding with him to Kaer Morhen and a lot has happened since then.
But does any of that really matter now that she has the opportunity to hear his side of the story? He's certainly a lot more talkative than Geralt is, and -- gasp -- he's openly emotional too! This bard is practically a rich deposit of information on the past, and Ciri's got a pickaxe in hand, ready to dig.
(AKA Ciri finally gets the backstory she's been waiting on for months, plus some quality time with a rightly bitter bard.)
Set right before the end of s2 e7, because there's that little chunk of time skipped and I'm squeezing this in, spackling it over, and calling it "canon".
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- Part 2 of How to Build a Family: A guide by Ciri
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Set sometime between S1 and S2 of the Netflix show.
Ciri's trying to survive the trip to Kaer Morhen with Geralt, and along the way they stop at an inn. In walks Jaskier, heartbroken and fucked up as all hell, singing about the idiot who abandoned him on a mountain. Geralt is forced to confront that he might have screwed up.
There's no clear happy ending here, but maybe it's the start of one?
(Or: Ciri meets her second dad that she doesn't know will end up being her second dad. Unfortunately, he's very sad and Dad #1 is too emotionally stupid to do anything about it. What's a girl to do in that scenario except follow the whims of fate?)
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- Part 1 of How to Build a Family: A guide by Ciri
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A Soulmate AU where whatever you write on your skin shows up on your Soulmate's too.
Levi, who's been raised in France by his mother, has to move to America and live with his cousin, Mikasa. They end up having a lot more in common than they think, and although Levi isn't the biggest fan of his new school, he'll admit that America isn't all that bad. That is, until his mother gets sick, and both he and his cousin are forced to attend a heavily Catholic boarding school until Levi is old enough to become a secondary guardian for Mikasa and they can ditch that place. Oh, and to make matters worse? Neither of them identify with the gender they were assigned at birth.
Will they make it four months in this damn school? Why did Levi's Soulmate just up and disappear? And what the hell is the deal with that green eyed boy that Levi ends up sharing a room with?
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Lost and frustrated, Levi finds himself alone, stranded in a forest that could be filled with who knows what. (He's more concerned about the dirt than the cannibalistic monsters, though. Priorities!) But, maybe, just maybe, this odd, green-eyed boy that he's found can help.
At least, that was his assumption, right up until the brat jumped out of a tree and turned into a fucking bird.
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In which, Levi gets way more than he bargained for by meeting Eren. However, he quickly finds himself - dare he say it - enjoying the insane, mysterious, and literally magical life that he's stumbled into.
(I'm sorry, I know I'm shit at summaries, but it's my first time attempting to write something without the threat of it going up in flames. It's also going to be VERY self indulgent and probably a little silly, but hey I've got to practice somehow. Writing quality gets better as you go along, I swear ;_;) -
Little Bit Corny / a Halloween Story by MatchstickQ
Fandoms: Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan
13 Jun 2021
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Eren, as far as the world is concerned, is dark. He’s the embodiment of the space between life and death, that shadow that lingers around people who have seen too much of either; the penumbra of the afterlife. A Vantablack amongst people of all different shades of the rainbow.
He’s something to be feared, a story that terrifies children into obedience, the monster under your bed.
At least, that’s what he’s telling himself. Because, ladies and gentlemen, he also happens to be lost in a corn maze. At nearly midnight. Two days before Halloween. On a full moon.
Yeah, he’s really stepped in it this time.
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- Part 1 of Holiday Romance
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Pretty much what the tags and title say. Eren's absolute fucking boatload of trauma manifests as intrusive thoughts and a voice in his head, triggered by his first transformation. He struggles, but learns to live with it, thanks to a little help from Levi and the squad.
Right up until he doesn't.
(Not to worry, Levi's still there to pick him back up.)
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Sparkling, Deep-Sea Blue Eyes by MatchstickQ
Fandoms: Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan
26 Apr 2021
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Levi's new to this whole Captain thing, but he has to admit it's kind of fun. It's just his luck, though, that a fair bit of the odd little crew that he gathered doesn't know how to swim. On a boat. Who signs up to become a pirate, on a boat without knowing how to swim?!
One good thing does come of it, though, because Levi gets to learn more about the pretty, mysterious man with sea-green eyes. Well, said man throws himself overboard and Levi has to save him from drowning, but that qualifies as learning, right?
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Featuring Eren "Reckless and dramatic" Jeager, who pretends he can't swim and nearly drowns to catch Levi's attention. Largely inspired by sea shanties, specifically "Lifeboat Man" by The Dreadnoughts. I may or may not have a problem with listening to it on loop.........
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"I like the way you kiss me" by MatchstickQ
Fandoms: Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan
06 Apr 2021
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“Shhh, it was centuries ago.” Levi reached a tentative hand out to pat his friend’s head in comfort. “I’m perfectly fine now. No stab wounds, see?”
“Wha— Stab wounds?!” Eren cried, flinging his arms around Levi once more. “No! I won’t let them stab you!! I’ll— I’ll fight whoever stabbed you! Don’t die on meeeeee, Leviiii!”
“I’m not dying, idiot. It was a long, long time ago. Do you remember Cleopatra? It was sometime around when she died.”
Eren gasped as tears kept dripping down his cheeks. “Now she’s dying too?! So many people today……” He pulled back suddenly, eyes shining with misplaced worry. “Did she stab you? I’ll fight her! Don’t care about the snakes, I’mma get to her throne so fast and- and- I'll stab her too!!! Then I’ll come back and save you.”
"Bloody hell, you're dumb today."
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Eren and Levi, despite the incredibly high alcohol tolerance that they've built up over the centuries, manage to get drunk off of wine that they definitely didn't steal. Somehow, through the grief and loss, they get closer than they'd ever imagined they could.