12 Works by SunshineSea
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"Sinking is a creature of open and unabashed emotion. She has seen his many moods, sudden yet predictable like waves on the sea, shift and churn and foam upon his face.
Yet it seemed to her then that he was always smiling, and always had been, and always would be. The smile was to Sinking as other men’s fingers were to their hands; undivorceable. Even with his wet, red face cradled by his wet, red hands, broad and stubby and inelegant as they are, not diplomat’s hands but something more, he still manages to exude that air of a smile just waiting to be put into practice.He sits a couple of steps away from the cliffs edge, on the border where straggling grass turns to stone. Sirin joins him. The ground ends abruptly here, but the sea goes on forever."
The Archon of Suggestion takes a trip home.
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It’s hot and damp and that’s how far the English language serves him.
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“When I was younger, I ate a handful of Budding Rose and tied myself to a tree.”
Sinking waves a hand, as if to pelt off an interruption that won’t come.
“Was a fantasy of mine. The desperation, the lack of relief, the possibility of being found… One of those stupid things you get off on but know you’ll never do, you know? Except I did. And it’s surprisingly easy to tie your own wrists behind a trunk, but, turns out, getting those ties off once you realize this is a mistake, with your head all swimming and hot? That’s more difficult. Couldn’t do it. Luckily, a group of beastmen hunters found me and took pity on me.”
He grins.
“Repeatedly."
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John has successfully cored himself to escape the Beholding, and the empty space in his head makes a great nest for the Web.
Meanwhile, Martin needs to make some hard decisions to get him back, and those decisions sadly include Elias Bouchard.(Reading the first part of the series is greatly recommended.)
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- Part 2 of You're not out yet
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Healthy and strong (and a little bit dead) by SunshineSea
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
05 Oct 2019
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"She hasn’t known him for that long but she can’t recall ever seeing him look so alive, just- fleshy and pink and even getting a little plump, with big, moist, cow-like eyes staring into different parts of the wall. He is starting to look like one of those frustratingly cute cherubs she had to cut out of magazines for Sunday school.
And he is so, so quiet."John finds a way to quit his job, but it's a slow thing, and it leaves him empty.
Everywhere there is a space, something new will find a home.Series
- Part 1 of You're not out yet
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Elias Bouchard has returned to the institute and decides it's time for his Archivist to stop this childish notion of "not consuming trauma to appease an all-knowing god". He persuades an old man to come in and deliver a statement, directly to John, regardless of how John feels about it.
He did not expect John to eat his tape recorder in response.
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"The End made itself clear in the flesh of a young man – taller, wider, all of himself pushed into pleasing shapes. He feels like winter walking when he loves, where the lovebites turn to frostbites and the tip-tap-clacking of his long, long nails on his phone screen sound afterward, deaf to their pleas of breakfast. In his younger youth he had wanted to be wanted. These days he only wants warmth."
In which an agent of the Desolation meets an unnamed agent of the End.
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"He sits motionless. He stares. He knows (not Know knows but plain knows) that any second now, the most human will become the bravest and she will cut the tethers that he is too cowardly to even attempt to touch. He is too dry inside to properly weep but he still feels his shoulders shake, ridden with rattling sobs that bang against the inside of his lips. He is so jealous. He is so happy. He is absolutely mortified. He cries, silently, as the scream of Melanie King reaches him through the wall."
Jonathan Sims discovers the aftermath of quitting The Magnus Institute, and absorbs what is left.
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He is something (old pains) by SunshineSea
Fandoms: Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines (Video Game)
18 Aug 2019
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"His job was so desired when he was young because it was low-intensity, okay-pay, AM radio relaxation with some records he likes. Liked. The money went directly into things he wanted because it didn’t need to stop at a wife or children on the way, building the life that every man wants. Wanted. He grew slowly but he did grow, and the boy who longed for nightshifts with his feet up has become a man whose wasted youth lies stretched out like roadkill behind him.
Ah, all those days that came and went. Little did he know that those were life itself."
A malkavian takes interest in an old radio-show host.
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"Bridget had insisted on using it because it was the closest thing to “private” one could find in this place, and that only made his discomfort worse. If what he was doing was as innocent as a blood donation, why did he need a private room to do it? He sat down in the very chair Harriet had used some odd month ago and tried not feeling like a lady (lord?) of the night. A blood hooker with Bridget as his pimp. He wondered, would it make him feel better or worse if he started taking payment? Maybe he could ask?"
In which Jonathan Reid decides to help out the sewer skal community in the most direct way he can; by letting them drink from him. While trying to find the cure for vampiric hunger he struggles with his own vices, his guilt, and desperately tries not to think about what it means to have power. (Tags will be updated as story progresses)
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"Clawing the cut up, eyes too big to see, it’s all red now, mama- it’s all red- it burns, it burns, make it stop, maker make it-“
Bull asks Cole about the Inquisitor.
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- Part 2 of Cole and things (drabbles)
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 564
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 5
- Hits:
- 124
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Josephine won’t dream. And Cullen won’t dream. And Leliana won’t sleep, so she won’t dream. The people go out like the lights in Skyhold, flickering slowly into a world of warmth and comfort, and now the shadows in his little corner feel like a blanket around him.
Series
- Part 1 of Cole and things (drabbles)