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By the Book, Under the Gun by OpalApparition
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games)
09 Aug 2025
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She'd hired a secretary and gotten... what, exactly? Someone who moved like a soldier but spoke like a professor, who treated office supplies like tactical gear and wore pressed, tailored suits. Every day brought new questions: why did he test her coffee before bringing it to her? Why did he always position himself facing exits? Was he... kinda hot?
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The story in which ex-hitman Solas tries to build a new life under witness protection as... a secretary. For a fashion company.
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28 Dec 2025
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“Don’t move. It’ll hurt more.”
Like the sound of the sea trapped inside a tiny shell, Goro’s voice echoed through the small room. That tone belonged to Saburo Arasaka’s former bodyguard—a tone that could make anyone flinch, anyone run as far as they could. But not V. She wasn’t afraid.
And she wasn’t someone who could ever surrender without a fight. Not even to him.
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This story takes place about two years after the ending of Cyberpunk 2077 and is part of a series.
It can be read on its own or in the order listed in the collection.
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Let me know if you spot any mistakes or awkward phrases—English isn’t my first language!Series
- Part 3 of White-Haired Ghost
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07 Dec 2025
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After six months, it’s become more than apparent that nobody and nothing remains in NC for V.
But there's a second where V thinks that maybe, just maybe, the Takemura of 2079 resembles the person who was sort of her friend once, and not the person that Arasaka made him.
That second is enough to make her decide to call him back. It’s not like she has much else to lose.
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06 Dec 2025
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Sandayu Oda is grumpily finishing up another long workday at Arasaka, but when he stumbles upon Takemura Goro and his wife doing some extra, after-hours duties of their own, he finds the day is far from over.
"There are only two rules: One. You do nothing before you have her explicit permission. Two. You do nothing to cause her any discomfort."
Oda returns his gaze to V. Her cheeks are flushed and her eyes are dark with lust.
"If you violate the rules, I will make every effort to ensure your corpse is returned to your family in one piece."
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18 Oct 2025
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"𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥, 𝘺𝘦𝘴?" 𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘺𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘧 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴𝘯'𝘵 𝘴𝘰 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘦. "𝘛𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘥, 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦?"
𝘚𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘴, 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘢𝘣𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘩𝘦'𝘴 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘰 𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦.
"𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘯'𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘵𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘢𝘸 𝘮𝘦," 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘱𝘴.
"𝘕𝘰𝘵 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘵𝘦. 𝘍𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘴."
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𝗔𝘀 𝗮 𝗺𝗶𝗱-𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗽𝗼, 𝗩 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮 𝗮𝘀 𝗮 𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗽. 𝗦𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝘀𝗻'𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗯𝗶𝗴 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗴𝘂𝗲𝘀 𝗔𝗿𝗮𝘀𝗮𝗸𝗮 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝗵𝗲'𝘀 𝘁𝗮𝘀𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘀𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘂𝗽 𝗮 𝗺𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗲𝘅𝗲𝗰𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗶𝘀𝗻'𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝗹𝘃𝗲𝗿-𝗲𝘆𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺.
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05 Oct 2025
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After sending Songbird to the moon and once again dooming herself to be overtaken by the Relic, V just wants to sleep until it consumes her. That is, until Takemura calls, offering a new lead and a second opinion.
V and Takemura go undercover at a corporate gala and are running out of reasons not to cross lines they’ve spent months dancing around.
Complete!
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30 Sep 2025
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V never liked birthdays.
In Night City, birthdays meant only one thing — you, choom, managed to survive another year without catching a bullet to the head.
Well, V did catch one. Thanks to Dexter DeShawn.
And yet here she was, throwing herself a full-blown twenty-seventh birthday bash at Afterlife — a place made for the dead, just like her.
Only one guest was missing.
But hoping Goro Takemura would actually show up? Yeah, that was beyond stupid. Downright delusional.
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26 Jul 2025
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V has a ticking time bomb in her head—a prototype biochip now threatening to overwrite her mind with the engram of legendary rockerboy Johnny Silverhand. Betrayed, desperate, and running out of time, she’s forced to seek help from the very corporation she once turned her back on: Arasaka.
Goro Takemura, once Saburo Arasaka’s stalwart bodyguard, has been branded a traitor after being framed for the murder of his master. Driven by loyalty and vengeance, he vows to unmask Saburo’s true killer—and claw his way back into the good graces of the very corporation that wanted him dead.
When their paths collide, V sees Takemura as her only shot at stripping out the biochip that’s killing her, while he regards her as the sole witness to expose his master’s true killer. What begins as a fragile alliance of necessity slowly unravels their beliefs. As the lines between enemy and ally blur, something deeper takes root—one that could crumble at any moment or become the only thing either of them has left.
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25 Jul 2025
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𝘏𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘮𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘢 𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘸𝘭𝘴—𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘢 𝘵𝘦𝘯-𝘥𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨.
𝘛𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘮𝘶𝘳𝘢 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘥.
"𝘐𝘯 𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘳," 𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘺𝘴.
"𝘐'𝘭𝘭 𝘬𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘪𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘭 𝘱𝘶𝘳𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘴," 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘴.
𝘛𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘮𝘶𝘳𝘢 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴𝘯'𝘵 𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘰𝘳 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘬. 𝘏𝘦 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬, 𝘧𝘭𝘪𝘱𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘶𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯.
"𝘐𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘮𝘦," 𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘺𝘴. "𝘍𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝘐 𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘮𝘺 𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘦."
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𝗔𝗻 𝗔𝗨 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗩'𝘀 𝗮 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗿, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗚𝗼𝗿𝗼 𝗧𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗺𝘂𝗿𝗮 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘀𝗵𝗲'𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹.
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23 Jul 2025
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13 Apr 2025
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Takemura spends the night at V's apartment in Japantown.
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11 Apr 2025
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Living a life as a merc V often needed to cut her emotions out of the equation. But sometimes things just grew far too heavy for even her to bare all by herself.
With judgement day looming overhead, V needed reassurance from someone she felt she could count on.
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(Orginally a twoshot)
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14 Mar 2025
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His holo rang. It was Hanako. Perfect timing, he thought bitterly. He took a breath and answered.
“Takemura-san. I've been told that your thief has just left Night City. I take it she is uninterested in joining us.”
A muscle in his temple twitched as he tried to maintain his composure. “I'm afraid so, Hanako-sama.”
She hummed and eyed him carefully. “Very well then. It does not matter, she was not essential to our plan. We will do fine without her. Meet me at my brother's mansion. You know what to do.”
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Set after the events of The Tower ending. Sat on this for over a year but I need to get this out of my system/drafts. This was me trying to cope and make lemonade out of lemons. Slow and chill.
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14 Mar 2025
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To the Heart by Fictional_Mussels
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
18 Apr 2025
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"I forgive you!" She cried. "All you have to do is stop!"
If he considered it, it was not for long. Soon his shoulders would square, his chin turning up in that way she knew so well. The return of Pride. No matter the instance, it would always come back to this:
She, reaching out, begging him to choose their love. He, leaning in, only for a fraction of a moment, and then no more.
"Ir abelas, vhenan... but I cannot." He kept his eyes away, his face and body turned. "Long before we met I... failed my oldest friend. She died for that failure," he explained. "If I leave the Veil in place, I am destroying the world she wanted. And I will have," he stuttered, "she, will have died for nothing."
Her heart was breaking. Before her and inside her. Her Pride was shattered. So, it would make sense now to turn away. All the same, she would sooner be destroyed at his heel than alone in a world without him.
There was no honour in it, sure, but it was the truth of the thing.
She would allow him his final betrayal. She would accept it; forgive it as the price of loving him.
Her betrayer.
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17 Jan 2025
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Desiring a Dellamorte by TheStoriesWeTell
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
03 Mar 2025
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Rook is getting a team together known as the Veilguard and has the latest on her list to recruit: a mysterious assassin known as the Demon of Vyrantium. Only problem? He happens to be trapped in an underwater prison and she needs to get him out. She's prepared for the rescue. She's not prepared for how attractive he is.
Lucanis/Female Rook ship.
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- Part 1 of Desiring a Dellamorte
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05 Jan 2025
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Inspired by the stories in the Minrathous papers, Bellara tries her hand at writing fiction. She asks Rook and Lucanis to read it and give feedback. The effect is...not quite what she expected.
Thus begins a long dance of two lovesick puppies using fiction initially as an excuse to spend time together. There will be awkward moments, there will be tension, there will be angst - and of course - spicy smutty times.
Spoilers pretty much the whole game and some character story arcs - trying to move through it chronologically and running this little story alongside the major events with focus on Lucanis and Rook.
Main story now complete with epilogues.
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04 Jan 2025
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Rook survived the Kirkwall Circle. She survived Crow training. She even survived a meeting with the Dread Wolf. But, she's starting to wonder if her sanity will survive the Demon of Vyrantium.
Before Spite, before the Antaam, before his "death" and her defiance, Lucanis and Rook had history together. No, not that kind of history, for all that Rook had wished for it. They were colleagues, and on their better days Rook would have even called them friends. Never mind that she had fallen for him from their first mission together; never mind that she was the one mage he trusted to have his back; never mind that she'd saved his life once already and he'd owed her a debt long before the Ossuary. They'd left too many things unsaid, and what words were spoken before it all fell apart had been shouted in anger.
Now it's the end of the world, and with it, a second chance. But a demon, a Blight, and three Elven gods stand in their way, and the odds for anything good are stacked against them. How fortunate then, that a Rook can rise above anything, and a Crow's stubbornness can spite the gods themselves.
It's just getting out of their own way that's the real problem.
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03 Jan 2025
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Goro Takemura: ex-samurai, ex-Arasaka, and now? Completely at V’s mercy. Turns out, losing control has never felt so good.
As tags suggest it's just smut with feelings!
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02 Jan 2025
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In A Moment by Aiambia
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game), Dragon Age (Video Games)
10 Dec 2024
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He came to know her in the big moments: how she knew that Illario was always to blame, how she leads with honesty even when the truth is difficult to hear, and even how she sees him despite Spite.
But he falls in love with her in the little moments: the way she she can always make him smile, the time they spend just sitting together and read, and how always she waits so patiently for him.
There is no expectation, no standard, no demand—just her smile, a cup of cioccolada calda, and an invitation to stay.---
Author pads out Lucanis's romance scenes because Bioware didn't give us much to work with.Series
- Part 1 of The Sound of Starlight
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27 Dec 2024
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Uncomplicated by AlysFancosm
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game), Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types
21 Mar 2025
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After a hard victory and a lot of wine, Rook's mouth gets away from her. She makes Lucanis an offer he can't refuse.
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- Part 1 of Uncomplicated
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26 Dec 2024