20 Works by Praazlwurm

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    “I was a man, once.”

    And that nugget of information was apparently one Volo was otherwise very reticent to share, going by how he clams up for the next three hours.

    Which, normally would be and ostensibly is fine, preferred even, to maintain the quiet of the library. But that slip had intrigued Magpie so entirely that she spent the entire time trying to prod him into speaking. If he was a man, when was he born? Where? How long had he been… transformed? How was he transformed? Each question, written increasingly illegibly on post-it notes, went ignored, batted away, and eventually tossed through a gilt ring plucked from Volo’s horn to vanish into nothing. The last, at least, brings that snide little grin back to his crooked mouth.

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    Or, a different take on a 'volo wins' au where there never was a hero to begin with.

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    He wakes in the dorm, wrong. Because he hasn’t seen the inside of your dorm, hasn’t seen your once-welcoming bedside in weeks.

    But more importantly–

    (and this he realizes very abruptly indeed as he shifts to get your knees under you)

    – he wakes with something inside him.
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    Volo wakes up on the wrong side of the bed. Or rather, in the wrong bed entirely.

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    “I do not have the skillset,” Reyna hisses, fingering the spine of the tome, nail digging into leather, “that you are looking for.”
    For a long moment, Briar doesn’t respond, and it isn’t until red begins to creep up from beneath the black line of her turtleneck that Raifort actually realizes why.
    After this little dance, this circling of hunting animals, they stand chest to chest. Briar’s breath, coming just a little faster than before after what must be the latest denial of many, stirs the tassels of Raifort’s shirt, the lowest silken strands of her hair. Grey eyes hooding, she raises her free hand until one long finger curls under the other’s chin, a furl of mahogany beneath ivory-pale.
    “Or do I?”
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    An exchange, parlayed in the common tongue.

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    Wander starts to hiss back, and wonders how the temple doesn't thaw around them with the way the teasing term sets his skin alight with ruddy color. He flushes from toe to temple, and the cooling salve of Volo’s tongue doesn’t go unappreciated. Before he can manage more, though, Volo grips them both hard and nips at his neck.

    “I don’t think I will, Mr. Detective,” he says, and he can feel the brush of lips as he speaks, the fan of breath. “You see, I have a great interest in seeing you crumble to my whims, to see you tremble and beg…”

    He pauses, sucking in a breath, and it's long enough for Wander to realize that Volo is entirely in control. Then –

    “Do you think you can do that for me?"

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    Raifort appreciates your work seeking the Treasures when no-one else will. She thinks it's time to reward that work.

    She's not the only one.

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    You let out one, long whine that cracks when that mirror-plate gaze flicks up to meet yours. The pupil blows wide at the sight of budding pink on your cheeks and the first thin track of a tear down your face.

    It's impossible to read this thing's face or even non-existent body language, but if it had a mouth you're convinced it would be smirking.

     

    Asshole.

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    Three years have passed since the blood of the heavens blotted out the sun.
    The lost rift-borne must be found, the merchant must be redeemed, and the court of Nobles will be convened with a familiar, old mission in mind:
    Quell the three frenzied divinities at the Temple of Sinnoh.

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    It starts, the elder Celestican descendant had told you over steepled fingers, with a token of defeat; something valuable and hard-won. Something befitting of a fellow dragon's hoard.

    Or: a primer on the Celestic tradition of a wielder's seduction.

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    "What the hell," he grits out after a beat, "was that thing?"

    You blink, scrunching up your face before taking a shot in the dark. "Big white thing, gold ring, surprisingly dainty feet?"

    Jaw clenched, he nods. His visible eye, shocked from that state of perfect mania, is shadowed by his glare but – no, that purple smear is actually the beginning of a black eye. How could...

    Shaking off the thought, you shrug insolently, exaggerating an expression of disaffect. "That'd be Arceus."

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    Her fingers find his pectorals, and the few, long scars left there. Still pink, poorly healed. They’d probably been scabbed and split a couple of times, for how deep they feel against her fingertips.
    It’s the chasm that remains between them; perhaps not abyssally deep but, like the scars, stretched further by imperfect care. How much was hidden, when did he start to, where did it stop.

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    “Just what do you think you are, that you wouldn't bleed?” she hisses, and keeps his chest pinned to the rock. “Do you think yourself a god?” she prompts, and his breath hitches. The metal drags over the bone, still bringing a line of pink to the skin as she draws it toward the collar of his shirt. Then, softer, she asks, “Or… maybe a monster?”

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    Thirteen sends up a signal flare in her mind: iron. The plate in the sweltering Lava Dome Sanctum, so far removed from this moment and these sensations.
    Fourteen, and she's finding Volo’s eyes for the first time, feeling every inch of her body radiating heat against the stone. She can’t picture more than the rough outline of her frame as it arches away from the wall and casts writhing shadows against the stone. But her realization must zip across the line of their connecting gazes, because for the first time his stoicism cracks.

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    “Death by the draining of sexual energy is a very long process – or so the legends go.”

    “What legends are you reading?” he huffs, genuinely flabbergasted for a moment. Far too coherent, actually.

    She smiles, slow and curling, enjoying how her moon-cast shadow engulfs his upper body, how the pink glow of the moon-beast's feather is just enough to see him sweat.

    “The fun kind.”

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    “I’m – y-yeah! I’m fine, I’m not actually –”
    “Stuck?” Volo supplies, and this time it’s undoubtedly a husky tone, his hand pausing at her knee as the heat of his breath fans over the skin below his palm. Surrounded by cold stone and darkness, she’s entirely lost to the touch when his thumb traces little circles over the bump of bone. His long fingers curl into the tender skin of the joint below. “I suppose I’m meant to say that’s a good thing, hm?”

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    “What I’m hearing,” Volo hums, “is that prostrating myself may, in fact, be an effective method in the right context.”
    She can't distract herself in time and the mental image worms in. The rope at his arms, kneeling, gaze hazy as he watches her with a nigh-worshipful light in silvery eyes.
    We must remain focused, she chides her hindbrain, then rounds on him.

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    “What would you know about patience,” she snarks, gripping at the scarf a little petulantly. He cocks a brow, even as he begins to drag down the hem of her skirt and leggings, and she elaborates, “When has the great researcher of myths denied himself the opportunity to sate your hunt for knowledge, in favor of attending other responsibilities? Truly, Volo, you’re a bit of a fucking wastrel.”
    He bends, pressing a passing kiss to her temple even as he purrs into her ear.
    “You would do well to watch that foul mouth of yours. We might need to preoccupy it, otherwise.”

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    “Why wouldn’t you have done that, Volo?” she murmurs. He’s pressed too close to make out his face and she lets her lids flutter shut, lashes against his cheekbone. This isn’t enough – words and gestures, implication. She needs to know he understands what she’s taking away, what he lost in shattering her atop that mountain.
    Finally, he shudders. He flinches.

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    "H-hello?" Volo (not-Volo?) responds, in the tone of answering an unexpected phone call. "Cynthia speaking."
    "Uh, hi, I'm Magpie and-" nope script dot e-x-e not found "and I'm afraid you've become part of a space-time experiment."
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    She only wanted to send Ingo back to his time, his home. She expected it to be difficult.
    But not rift-tearing, ultra beast summoning, and -- worst of all -- politics-embroiling difficult.

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    "I don't see how you can't hate them."
    "At least you had a god to hate."
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    With his broken nose pressed to the mountainside and the sounds of the God of Distortion getting their ass handed to them at its peak, Volo can't help but wonder where he miscalculated when sizing up his would-be rival.
    The woman calling herself Magpie.
    The rift-borne, who fell from a world so torn and horrible and godless and beautiful that she may still be able to love a new one.

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    Records of Marcia Carter, employee of the Magnus Institute, Acquisitions Department.

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