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In the end she is a little bit of a coward. She can rationalize it all she wants, can make the excuses about safety, about not wanting to disrupt the fragile peace, about removing unneeded components from the equation.
In the end she is a coward so she lets Ekko show Vi while she buries her nose into Council-related work, into papers and foundational documents for the Wardens.
In the end she sits at her desk as the sun sets and waits to see if Vi will return.
Caitlyn buys Vi something.
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19 Dec 2025
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where the heart is
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Caitlyn buys Vi something.
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She is well aware that she is being difficult.
It would not be the first time someone has described her as that in more polite words, nor, Caitlyn suspects, will it be the last time someone does so. She is not trying to be difficult on purpose—there is rather no point in that and she has no desire to add to the stresses that those around her are already suffering. If anything, she'd much rather they cease this ridiculous babying and let her do things that will help.
She's healing, yes, but she's not incapacitated. She's wounded, yes, but she's not immobile. She has two good hands, half of a good leg, a good eye, and a brain that is gnawing desperately at the bars of its enclosure, rattling against the inside of her skull. She can't sit still, she finds it so difficult to hold her tongue and stars above, she's trying.
She really is.
Caitlyn shoots again.
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19 Dec 2025
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as birdsong
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Caitlyn shoots again.
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She found it tucked into a back corner of a drawer of Mother’s desk. She hadn’t meant to look. She’d been doing a very good job of not looking. Mother had always been exceedingly prompt with dealing with everything she needed to and Caitlyn had long since cleared Mother’s for-later pile. She hadn’t needed to look.
But she’d wondered where Mother’s favorite pen had gone and although she knew it wouldn’t be in that drawer, she opened it anyway. Opened it, put her hand in it, come away with the feel of a soft, textured paper, the kind that Mother would have never used. Pulled it out and stared down at the shine of a copper foil and red print set in cream.
Caitlyn has never burned joss paper in her life.
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19 Dec 2025
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the soft of ash
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Caitlyn has never burned joss paper in her life.
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"Mother," says Caitlyn. "I hardly think this to be a good idea."
"You'll have to forgive me for not taking your opinion into account, officer." Mother's head simply tilts up. "This is a matter not just of national pride, but national security. Furthermore, you misunderstand. This is not a discussion, nor is it a negotiation. It is an order from your Commander-in-Chief. You have been notified and you will serve."
Caitlyn scowls.
Mother holds her gaze with her own.
"Gold, officer," says Commander Kiramman. "Ionia demands no less before her enemies."
Caitlyn isn't supposed to be at the Olympics. And she's certainly not supposed to be flirting.
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Bookmarked by Arcane_Bookmarks (SlipperyJimDiGriz)
19 Dec 2025
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headshot
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Caitlyn isn't supposed to be at the Olympics. And she's certainly not supposed to be flirting.
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“Can we keep him?”
Cassandra looks at the creature currently running around in circles in the corner of Caitlyn’s room.
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19 Dec 2025
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to let go
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“Can we keep him?”
Cassandra looks at the creature currently running around in circles in the corner of Caitlyn’s room.
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Seven year old Caitlyn proves that Santa Claus is not real.
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19 Dec 2025
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on the top speed of reindeer
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Seven year old Caitlyn proves that Santa Claus is not real.
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“Surprised you didn’t cancel,” the words catch her half by surprise but at this point Vi’s not sure she’s going to let Caitlyn Kiramman catch her by surprise ever again.
“Maybe you don’t know me as well as you thought you did,” she murmurs back, trying her best to keep her expression flat and placid the way the photographer asked.
A pause.
Vi steals a glance upwards at blue eyes that stare back down at her. There is, surprisingly, no heat nor hatred in them. Perhaps Caitlyn has always been a better actor than Vi gave her credit for. She’d certainly looked hurt when—fine, that’s unfair. That is unfair.
“Perhaps not,” says Caitlyn, expression still not moving, “given that we are now strangers.”
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19 Dec 2025
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the soft of your shirt
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“Surprised you didn’t cancel,” the words catch her half by surprise but at this point Vi’s not sure she’s going to let Caitlyn Kiramman catch her by surprise ever again.
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It’s a bad idea for many, many, many reasons. They’ve gone through hell and high water together, yes, arguably saved the world, if all of the threats were to be believed, but that’s in game, where Caitlyn is a very different person, where her knowledge and interests and attention to detail are key, where her avatar doesn’t fidget quite the same way she does—does it? She’s not entirely sure—where she’s just the Sheriff, a sharpshooter with an knack at figuring things out and not lanky Caitlyn Kiramman, sole heir to Kiramman Industries.
They've met in-game. Now they meet for the first time outside of it.
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19 Dec 2025
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at first glance
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They've met in-game. Now they meet for the first time outside of it.
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“The white of that cute little beret works very well with your hair and that fetching scowl does bring out your cheekbones. But above everything else, my dear Sheriff—” a blade she hadn’t seen before tips her chin up and Caitlyn glares into a smirking pink-purple gaze “—your eyes are a vision.”
A mission goes a little awry.
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19 Dec 2025
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from iron to steel
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A mission goes a little awry.
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Vi follows the Enforcer out of Stillwater and cannot believe someone would be this stupid to set her free.
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19 Dec 2025
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the sun in my eyes
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Vi follows the Enforcer out of Stillwater and cannot believe someone would be this stupid to set her free.
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“Cait?”
That voice wobbles. Fear drips into those gorgeous eyes and for a moment she wonders if she could kiss it away. That thought disappears as quickly as the soft chill of the morning breeze sneaking in from under the hems of the curtains.
This person has said that name twice now, both times directed at her.
Is that her name?
An incident takes Caitlyn's memory. Now the two of them have to relearn everything they once thought they knew.
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19 Dec 2025
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in the blank spaces
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An incident takes Caitlyn's memory. Now the two of them have to relearn everything they once thought they knew.
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She sees it from across the room, the way Vi's head throws back in laughter, the easy smirk, how Vi knows just where to look to find her through the crowd. There's a glint of absolute mischief in those grey eyes, a cocky, jaunty tilt to her jaw.
Vi learns something new.
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19 Dec 2025
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say it again
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She sees it from across the room, the way Vi's head throws back in laughter, the easy smirk, how Vi knows just where to look to find her through the crowd. There's a glint of absolute mischief in those grey eyes, a cocky, jaunty tilt to her jaw.
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the salt of the open sea by taq for Azulatara
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
16 Aug 2025
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“Maybe you two will kill each other and save the rest of us the trouble of having to execute you tomorrow.”
The door is swung open. In that moment that she’s shoved backwards, her hands still cuffed behind her, a head turns to them and she comes face to face with the brilliant blue of the open sea.
“You,” hisses the last person she thought she’d see here.
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19 Dec 2025
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the salt of the open sea
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“Maybe you two will kill each other and save the rest of us the trouble of having to execute you tomorrow.”
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the gaps in my fingers, the holes in my hands by taq
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16 Aug 2025
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You could make a fist in the material, grab it, yank it, twist it, pull it, rip it.
You stare instead, stare at the cloth that has come fluttering down like the sickest kind of cosmic joke. It isn’t the stupid smooth silk of her bedsheets, not the soft pliant material of the bandages she wrapped your fists with once but it is a waterfall of canvas and it takes that hole in your heart that you thought was dried out and it sets it alight.
across the cities, in the darkness.
a diptych.
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19 Dec 2025
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the gaps in my fingers, the holes in my hands
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across the cities, in the darkness.
a diptych.
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The restaurant is every bit the same as she remembers it to be, a little too crowded, a little too loud. The lady who seats everyone is the one who’s seen Caitlyn grow from a knee-high tot to well, whatever she is now. Her smile is the same too though her eyes soften briefly as they skate over her single companion.
“The same table?”
Caitlyn nods, throat tighter than she thought it’d be.
It’s been a year.
That should be long enough, shouldn’t it?
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19 Dec 2025
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mouth full of bones
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The restaurant is every bit the same as she remembers it to be, a little too crowded, a little too loud. The lady who seats everyone is the one who’s seen Caitlyn grow from a knee-high tot to well, whatever she is now. Her smile is the same too though her eyes soften briefly as they skate over her single companion.
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Blue is all Vi sees as she comes falling back to earth, a fiery blue that burns right back at her, holds her gaze in its cold oceanic depths, unmoving, unwavering, almost unseeing like she isn’t even there, like she’s nothing, like—
The ball lands first, before she does.
volleyball caitvi
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19 Dec 2025
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on the line
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volleyball caitvi
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“She keeps looking.”
“She?”
Vi takes the proffered bottle, fingers closing around plastic that is blissfully cold. She tips it up, gulps greedily at the ice water, tries not to spill any but doesn’t really mind cos again, it’s hot as fuck.
"Kiramman."
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19 Dec 2025
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play ball
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“She keeps looking.”
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“殿下. Your Highness. The fireworks merchant.”
Vi dips to her knees and lowers her eyes the way she’d been drilled by Vander and the rest. Don’t get yourself thrown into prison, Vi. It’s not worth it. They’d literally kill you and then where would all of us be?
“Speak,” the voice is calmer than she expects.
“I bring tidings of the southern passes,” Vi begins, eyes still on the floor.
The silence hangs heavy.
“I asked you to speak,” the prince says, a deceptively gentle lilt threaded through with iron; Vi can hear the soft rustle of silks, can only see the way the prince’s feet shift as if the prince is sat more upright. “I have not asked you to stop.”
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19 Dec 2025
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by your grace
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“I asked you to speak,” the prince says, a deceptively gentle lilt threaded through with iron; Vi can hear the soft rustle of silks, can only see the way the prince’s feet shift as if the prince is sat more upright. “I have not asked you to stop.”
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19 Dec 2025
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domestic caitvi week 2025
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“So, you’re not courting the General of Ionia,” Vi says.
“No,” Caitlyn says flatly.
“When was the last time you courted someone?”
They blink at each other.
Left in varying states of confusion, indeed. Now more akin to the whiplash of being tossed off a horse.
“I don’t see how that’s any of your business.”
“Oof.” Vi grimaces. “So it’s been a while, then.”
Caitlyn balks. “Are you–”
Prince Caitlyn and Prince Vi have an impromptu meeting years in the making. It goes horribly. Shenanigans ensue.
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Bookmarked by Arcane_Bookmarks (SlipperyJimDiGriz)
19 Dec 2025
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pas de faux
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Prince Caitlyn and Prince Vi have an impromptu meeting years in the making. It goes horribly. Shenanigans ensue.