18 Bookmarks by melonbubble
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Their pasts, their future by Zorja for xAlthaia
Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
08 Oct 2023
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Niklolai is having a bad day, Alina frets.
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08 Nov 2024
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And other love stories. 50 sentences on Alina and Nikolai.
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08 Nov 2024
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polaris by Marenke for goblins_riddles_frocks
Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
22 May 2023
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At the Spinning Wheel, the skies always seemed clear and full of stars at night. Maybe it was Alina being childish, but she couldn’t help but look, staring at the myriad of stars that make a blanket above her head.
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04 Nov 2024
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if you don't let it out (you're going to let it eat you away) by Marenke for DukeOfDucks
Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
11 Jun 2023
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Only Alina was allowed to see his scars, those awful things that punctuated and tinted his skin; Nikolai had never seen in her gaze pity or hatred, and it meant more than he could put in words.
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04 Nov 2024
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When Nikolai Lantsov crosses the Fold on his way to Ketterdam, an unexpected revelation upends his carefully crafted plans. It's pretty much downhill from there until the Darkling brings him as a captive onto a well-known pirate ship. Its famous (or infamous) captain makes him an immoral offer, but can he trust her to keep her word and what other secrets is she hiding...
The role reversal nobody asked for, or is it?
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02 Nov 2024
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Shifting Tides by Nangala
Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV), Nikolai Series - Leigh Bardugo
20 Apr 2025
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In a world without Grisha or the Fold, Ravka is still at war and still needs its infamous privateer. Running afoul of the cunning, ruthless Sturmhond is risky business as a lovely bar wench finds out. Or perhaps just risqué?
As unbidden feelings start to develop between them, our heroes must embark on an epic journey that will take them from the waves of the True Sea to the ice-covered lands of their enemies to the very heart of the Ravkan Empire. Juggling multiple identities, keeping secrets, trying to distinguish friend from foe, they have to fight for their lives and their love.
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02 Nov 2024
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Awoken by ArienElensar
Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV)
15 Jun 2023
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“It’s just that, I need your help.”
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17 Jun 2023
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He was relieved, to be honest. He'd grown up seeing how his parents had treated each other and he knew that royal marriages were lucky if they had some semblance of cordiality. Nikolai had long since given up hopes of romance in his life, so it was a pleasant surprise that he could be friendly with Alina again. It was enough.
.....or was it? AKA Alina accepts Nikolai's proposal after Mal dies (for good) in the Shadow Fold. He says they'll probably only be friends, but this is a fanfic so y'all know how it'll go lol.
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- Part 1 of Royal Idiots
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03 May 2023
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At the end of the war, Alina is crowned queen.
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02 May 2023
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i once believed love would be burning red, but it's golden by xAlthaia for Zorja
Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
09 Apr 2023
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Nikolai and Alina have had a long day attending to royal duties. Wanting to decompress, they bathe - together.
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Or, as my best friend put it: "A demon King gets into a bathtub with a Sun Saint. What happens next will SHOCK you!"
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01 May 2023
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They have been married five months when the urge finally creeps up on her.
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23 Apr 2023
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Nikolai was finely tuned by now. His body, his mind were now instruments calibrated to reading his wife's output—an idle twitch of her finger, the hesitation of her diplomatic mouth. He watched her eyes grow a gossamer sheen, and he knew her magnificent heart was stretching, spilling over.
"But who will bear your burden, Nikolai?" Alina asked with a catch in her voice.
He wove his hands together in familiar prayer. “I will, of course.”
"Until when?"
"Until I break, I suppose."
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Scenes from their married life, and how they grow around and with each other.
Now a two-shot.
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02 Apr 2023
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It comes slowly, one visit at a time. She’s living her life as someone new, not the Sun Summoner or Sankta Alina or even Alina Starkov anymore— rather, just an unremarkable woman with white hair and a fake name running an orphanage. She hasn’t spoken with Nikolai in a year, a year in which they’ve both changed, but they ease back into friendship and end up finding love and a family along the way.
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01 Apr 2023
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Mal stays dead.
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- Part 1 of What Stays Dead
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30 Mar 2023
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like a fox to a burrow by Marenke for Isilloth
Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
22 Aug 2021
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“And what is this?” She asked, palming the key gently, feeling its weight. She noticed the carved sun immediately, raising it to eye level so she could see it better.
“A gift. For the, you know.” A wide gesture, as Nikolai was impossibilitated to put it into words: for staying. For spending the nights with me. For the fox. For accepting the monster I am. It choked on his throat, clawing their way into the mucous membrane and refusing to leave. “Everything you’ve done for me so far. I did my best. Please, open the door, Alina.”
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- Part 161 of the quaren-fics
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30 Mar 2023
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A Sailor Always Looks To The Sun To Guide Him by DukeOfDucks for FictionPenned
Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
08 Aug 2022
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Alina choose Nikolai. For Ravka, for him, for her. Her friend, who does not flinch at the sight of the sun within her hands, but cranes his neck to get closer.
Her friend, who does not hold her hands to bind her, but to feel her warmth.- Language:
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27 Mar 2023
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do you think of me (like i think of you?) by Marenke for goblins_riddles_frocks
Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
03 Nov 2022
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They weren’t supposed to catch feelings. Nikolai, at least, felt like a failure for doing so; he wasn’t sure if Alina felt the same way about him, really, which just made him more miserable.
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27 Mar 2023
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The Southern Cross by AmazingGraceless for StallingGem
Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
05 Jun 2021
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Alina Starkov was rescued by Governor Keramsov from a shipwreck as a little girl clutching a medallion in her hands.
Ten years later, Alina wears that same medallion around her neck, the only remnant of the mysterious time before she was the governor’s daughter, about to be arranged into a marriage with one of the finest commodores in the Tsar’s army, Malyen Oretsev.
But all of that is about to change when a mysterious pirate ship arrives on a moonless with Alina’s past—and a dashing cursed captain that may be her future. Pulled into seven seas full of treasure, adventure, and legend, Alina will find herself part of a greater story than she ever dreamed.
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12 Jul 2021