pocketbrows
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- Dragon Age: Inquisition (1)
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When Scout and Pyro bring home an apparently 'cursed' claw machine, things start to get a little weird around Cactus Canyon. Is the machine haunted? Are they cursed for eternity? ...Readers beware - you're in for a scare!
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Sending Crystals Save Messages by greehouse-gases (pocketbrows)
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition
13 Nov 2017
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“Does this crystal store messages? I kind of hope it does. Because I feel like ranting at you for leaving again but I’m just too fucking tired for it all. Damn it.”
Dorian disappears, leaving the sending crystal behind. But he never gets a chance to use it. The Inquisitor takes to talking to him through the crystal, even if no one ever replies. -
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Ellie decided to write her life story in a journal that Nick got her. This is her first entry - detailing her childhood and how she came to know the synth detective.
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A poem.
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the line is covered in jellyfish by staroverlord
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), League of Legends
28 Dec 2025
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When Viktor finally asks why Jayce stayed behind inside the Anomaly with him, Jayce stares at him as though he’s supremely disappointed by the question— as if Viktor has betrayed his own brilliance by asking something so irredeemably stupid. “How could I not? We’re partners.”
Partners, Jayce calls them. Not for the first time, Viktor wonders: Partners in what?
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Or: Jayce and Viktor survive the Hexcore, a blizzard, their own bodies, sharing a bed and all the things they’re too afraid to say. Slowly, they put themselves back together— piece by stubborn piece.
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- Part 1 of the thin semantic line
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11 Mar 2025
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Four Million Miles from Here by LiteralWho
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
09 Jan 2025
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What has Viktor done to deserve this? At what point did Jayce come to value him so highly? Somehow, this bond of theirs grew so gradually, so subtly, escaping Viktor’s notice as it entwined itself into every facet of their lives, strangling all else with its roots until only its verdant bloom remained.
“Let me go, Jayce.”
The grip on him tightens. “I won’t.”
No. He’s made that quite clear. Viktor lacks the strength to shake him off; if he tried, Jayce would surely release him, but to rob Jayce of his sole source of comfort would not be right, nor good, and so Viktor waits. A minute passes, then two, then four.
The rune swallows them up, and abandons them in an unfamiliar land. Is this not what they wanted? With naught but the clothes on their backs, they are left to wander. To wonder.
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- Part 2 of Two in Durance
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02 Mar 2025
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Do You Mourn the Passing of the Hours? by TimmyJaybird
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types
14 Feb 2025
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Former Professor Emmrich Volkarin had spent years settled into a quiet life running a small, quint flower shop in Nevarra. He expected that any excitement was far behind him.
Enter, Lucanis Dellamorte. Professional assassin. Antivan Crow. A possessed man.
A possible bad decision to take in Lucanis after an assassination goes slightly off kilter, and suddenly Emmrich finds his life is full of far more excitement than he'd ever had. But maybe, for the man who had begun to experience the world through a cloudy window of fascination but never truly partaking, the excitement would remind him what it was like to truly be alive again.Bookmarked by pocketbrows
06 Feb 2025
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A Life To Give by ignite
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
02 Mar 2025
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Lucanis Dellamorte was given a contract : find the kidnapped wife of a powerful Magister, kill her abductor, and bring her back to Tevinter.
Simple enough. Or it would be, if only the abductor in question wasn't Emmrich Volkarin and the wife in question, who goes by Rook now, wasn't terrified of going back to her husband.... and if only Lucanis hadn't been betrayed by one of his own.
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This started as a fill for the DAK asking for Lucanis to have a contract on Emmrich before the start of the game. It derailed from there, and now it's a multichapters story that goes into the events of the game itself.
Will eventually be Lucanis/Emmrich/Rook.
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05 Feb 2025
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Random moments throughout the game, mostly just introspection. Dorian POV.
"He rather needs these people not to murder him in his sleep. Debauching the Holy Light of Andraste’s Grace should probably be near the top of his pile of don’ts."
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02 Mar 2018
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It's incredibly rare to come across a story that so vastly improves its source material, but imago does exactly that.
The Dragon Age universe is a complex one rife with heroics and horrors, and twigcollins displays masterful understanding of not just the lore but also the themes at play within it. Even the most insignificant of characters in this story are absolutely rooted within the world that they live in; having opinions and experiences that tie them with their environments so seamlessly that you'll be amazed to discover that much of those details aren't canon at all, but are the author filling in gaps or expanding existing lore.
Readers looking for stories where the author contributes something new and unique to the discourse surrounding canon, look no further than imago and Dragon Age: Inquisition. The way that magic functions in Thedas is explored in-depth, and fans of the franchise yearning to understand how magic would feel and operate in DA's unique magical setting will come away satisfied where canon has left them wanting.
But all of those elements operate tantamount to this story's single greatest strength: character.
There is no story that has a better written Dorian than this. Period.
More than anything else, imago is a character study devoted to everyone's favorite Tevinter Altus, and by God does it deliver. Written from Dorian's perspective, the story is every bit as razor-sharp as the man himself, and is at times both genuinely hilarious and heartbreaking - sometimes even within the same sentence. Such is the nuance of Dorian Pavus, and this story does the man justice in imparting a sense of three-dimensionality that players of Inquisition will immediately recognize and appreciate.
Part of me is convinced that David Gaider himself wrote this, but I feel like that's doing a disservice in not acknowledging the monumental effort the actual author undertook in emulating the character and expanding the universe as well as they did.
Also I can't remember the last time I've read combat this good in a fanfiction, or laughed this hard.