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“Surely you’re the only mage in Kirkwall who can approach the Knight-Commander directly,” Knight-Captain Cullen had said, the first time she’d shown up to the Gallows for her meeting with Meredith.
Why had she come?
Because she’d been invited. Meredith was desperate. She didn't trust many of her templars, and the few she did were overworked and nearing disillusionment. And she’d heard how Marian abhorred blood magic—after all, she'd received a decade of reports about the Ferelden refugee and her rag-tag crew who'd captured more blood mages than any other civilians in Kirkwall.
That was why she’d gone to that first meeting. Why had she gone back?
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- Part 1 of Pro-Templar Mage Marian Hawke Universe
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Marian Hawke had always lived her life for her family—but magic took them all from her. Her mother killed by blood magic, her sister by the Blight that the magisters of old unleashed upon the world, her brother now a templar who no longer speaks to his apostate sister. She tells herself that if she can just be the perfect Andrastian, maybe one day it’ll make up for the fact that she’s a mage. Maybe then she’ll feel clean.
She falls in love with a Chantry Brother who's also the most selfless man she's ever met, the only person she knows who carries as much guilt as she does. And though they’re both desperate to atone, when they look into each other’s eyes, neither can imagine why someone so wonderful should feel so damned. She knows there’s no real precedent for their chaste marriage. An apostate joining the Chantry in the first place is revolutionary. But Sebastian's enthusiasm makes her believe that maybe the Maker might actually let them have this.
Then comes the destruction of the Kirkwall Chantry and the invocation of the Right of Annulment.
Afterwards, nothing at all is certain.
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- Part 2 of Pro-Templar Mage Marian Hawke Universe
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Six months ago, V's boss at Arasaka ordered her to assassinate his rival. Instead, with the reluctant but invaluable help of her old friend Jackie Welles, she pushed them both off their thrones and claimed one for herself. Now the new Director of Arasaka Counter Intel has a problem. She's uncovered information that indicates that Yorinobu Arasaka, the heir apparent to the Arasaka dynasty, is a traitor. But without solid proof, she's forced to take matters into her own hands.
An AU in which Corpo!V never leaves Arasaka.
“The world.” Johnny repeated the phrase slowly. She tasted his revulsion on her tongue. “This world?” He gestured at the trash-strewn alleyway. The cat had finished its meal and had settled to sleep in a blanket likely left there before by a homeless person. “This is your brave new world?”
“No, Johnny,” she said, her voice echoing the revulsion he'd forced her to feel. “These are just the rats that got caught.”
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When she woke up on that Nautiloid with an empty past and an insistent Urge, she didn't know quite what to make of it. She loved the killing and felt no shame in the act, but she couldn't help thinking that mindless slaughter was a waste of such a potent weapon as herself. Then her Father began to work his way into her mind again, with his orders and his boons, pushing her to reshape the world—and herself—in his image. Still another quieter voice in her head insisted that she was meant for something more than annihilation. She was meant to rule.
The story of Carissa Tennebraum—The Dark Urge—and her warpath to victory. Told in alternating perspectives from her various companions. The plot will stray further from canon as it progresses.
“Regardless,” Durge said, smiling wider than before, “I do hope I get to meet whoever came up with the whole scheme. I’d love to shake their hand before I plunge my knife into their back.”
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Garrus Vakarian didn't kid himself when it came to his proficiency in ruthless calculus. If he hadn't been able to make the tough decisions, he'd never have been put in a position to do so. The Turian Hierarchy was a meritocracy. No one was given a job they weren't fit to perform. But Shepard could put a turian to shame with her composure.
That's why it came as a shock to him when, covered in the dust their footsteps had stirred up in the vacant clearing, Shepard began to silently sob.
(In which Garrus and Renegade!Shepard finally have a moment to deal with the consequences of all that ruthless calculus.)
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even a well fed snake will turn by inky_dreams
Fandoms: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - Suzanne Collins
09 Jul 2026
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At her very core, she is a scientist.
Her experiments, her life’s blood.
And she shall live and die as a scientist if that’s the last thing she’d do.
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- Part 2 of survival of the fittest
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third time's the charm (or so the saying goes) by inky_dreams for swamplentils
Fandoms: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - Suzanne Collins
14 Jul 2025
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Volumnia has seen this story before.
Twice now, the ending has been the same.
This time, she will ensure a different outcome.
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- Part 1 of survival of the fittest
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Taste. That's what clued him in. The sour aftertaste to his scotch.
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Kim is standing beneath the #1 Whirling-in-Rags. He doesn't know that the room upstairs is in a total state of disrepair. He doesn't know that the man upstairs is Harrier Du Bois, infamy manifested in the flesh. And he doesn't know that Harrier Du Bois' efforts to bludgeon himself into oblivion over the past two days just met its catastrophic failure.
What he does know is this: The window upstairs is broken. He's here to investigate a lynching. And he's angry that he couldn't get here sooner.
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In which Harry Du Bois didn't lose his memory in Martinaise and has to deal with the consequences of his actions.
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- Part 1 of Cleaning Out the Rooms
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