8 Works by folkflower
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"Try not to overwhelm the boy," Maekar bites on his way out. "If you pull the benevolent prince act on him after you nearly died serving his side in the trial, he may actually drop dead."
"Perish the thought," Baelor manages, "he is the kind of knight this realm needs more sorely than anything."
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Baelor Breakspear lives and confronts his hedge knight. -
Palladian Postulate by folkflower
Fandoms: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (TV)
19 Dec 2025
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In his most expansive and heady dreams, his hands would craft metal and earth into brilliance - transmuting elements and mundane objects into works of unspeakable wonder. Instead, John Segundus' life as a practical magician looks something like this: waking up, getting washed, engaging in rigorous physical exercise in the wide expanse of grey moors, reading in his threadbare library, eating, and then going to sleep. It would have continued like this, he regrets, unless his opponent-turned-ally had not appeared, heralding a new era of magic: magical curriculae, muddling with Fair Folk, and reading blue-scrawls on pale skin that refuses to sit still.
John Segundus, to his dismay, is still someone who longs for the extraordinary, and to his chagrin and eternal embarrassment - somehow, John Childermass is present in every instance - the very hands that bring him deliverance.
Or: What Came After. The labor of standing up a school of magic as Segundus learns it himself - and the labor of learning to make Childermass bear his presence with less glowering (both of which, he may find, are more within reach than he thinks!)
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Coronary by folkflower
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
29 Jul 2025
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Lan Xichen watches plumes of blood spit and jet from the jagged wound lining Wanyin’s shoulder. Wanyin’s hair is loose, long streams of black silk pushed away from his forehead to ripple down his back.
“What is it, Zewu Jun? Don’t tell me the First Jade is squeamish at the sight of a little blood?”
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A mini collection of short, unrelated drabbles about Chief Self-Flagellator and Captain Maladjusted.
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eating me alive (again, again) by folkflower
Fandoms: 정년이 ㅣ Jeong Nyeon: The Star is Born (TV)
07 Nov 2024
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Hong Jooran thinks she knows what acting is like - stable exploration of characters under confines and limits she understands. That’s what it is like with Youngseo, anyways, sterile and sharp and essential. But Yoon Jeongnyeon? She should have known Jeongnyeon would leave no stone unturned to shatter her preconceptions.
Heo Youngseo has fought her way up to the top. She knows what it means to pour everything into her craft. But she has underestimated Yoon Jeongnyeon's limits, and Jeongnyeon seems determined to blow away her own boundaries in her pursuit of growth. And Youngseo aches with the aftermath of this rivalry - nothing will ever be the same after. She will always be the Youngseo before, and the Youngseo after she met Yoon Jeongnyeon.
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Character studies following rough episode plot-lines.
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stableyard sentry by folkflower
Fandoms: Farseer Trilogy - Robin Hobb, Realm of the Elderlings - Robin Hobb
26 Sep 2024
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Horses nicker and shift in their muzzy slumber, and the soft snoring of the minuscule, tan-coated puppies and dog form a susurrus of animal heat - natural, barely perceptible. Chivalry smells the dull grassy sting of old strewn hay, the warmth of fresh milk, the inexplicable smell of young children - the heat of their small frames, the buttery scent of new skin. He wants to vomit, he thinks with some alarm, or maybe faint and sleep for a thousand years. He wants to hold his boy in his own hands. He wants to hand him over to Patience, watch her eyes soften into crescent moons, her dark smooth locks splaying over the boy's bouncing ringlets.
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A study of Chivalry Farseer's first encounter of Fitz, through Verity and the Skill-sight. Blood of his blood - the quietness before they were apart.
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Han Juwon aches for a plummeting swoop in his stomach. Juwon has half-dreamed of it all his life, but nothing ever lives up to the jolt of a plane shuddering into the air, the brief moment of weightlessness as he is thrust into the unknown atmosphere above. He has flown twice, and both times were dulled by their circumstances: dead mothers, dreary London skies, crimson rushing and flooding into bathwater, and the image of his father’s broad back, etched with disapproval. If something can mimic that halting, aching excitement, Juwon realizes, it is the idea that Dongsik is coming back. Juwon doesn’t quite know how he will handle this landing. He doesn’t think the touchdown of the wheels will stand the plummet. (He determines to hang on anyways, as they crash and burn to the ground, plumes of pulpy flames and smoke curling above.
Or: a walk through four seasons, following Han Juwon for a year after he moves to Manyang and deals with the return of Lee Dongsik after his year of rest and relaxation (read: incarceration) away. A story about families found, villagers lost, the changing spokes of time, the inevitability of Lee Dongsik, and Han Juwon’s desperate rush toward the only pull he cannot avoid.
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Richard Papen is a delightful mystery for all of them. The wonder of this lanky Californian specimen does not miss any of the Greek class. Roiling whorls of coffee-brown hair curl across the nape of his neck. He has a warm brown glance, roving and flickering across all of them. He is a puzzle, and the Greek class is hungry, hungry, hungry for puzzles to piece together and break into bits. They are desperate for a cause to stand around and rip apart, and Richard Papen is a delicious distraction.
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A study of the Greek class' odd fascination with Richard Papen.
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Lee Dongsik is very good at observation, which is why he can tell something is profoundly different about the Han Juwon that returns to the Manyang substation after three months. He doesn't know how much of the front Han Juwon elaborately constructs is true, and how much is false. He is, though, determined to outline exactly what is wrong with the cold, imperious Inspector (especially if it means he has an excuse to stare at him longer).
A study of canon timeline and how Dongsik tears apart the fronts Juwon puts up after he returns 'reborn'.