rusaalka
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- Dragon Age (Video Games) (16)
- Fallout (Video Games) (13)
- Mass Effect Trilogy (12)
- Dragon Age: Origins (11)
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"We're always fighting. You know she pitched a mug at my head before I came over here?"
“Is that what that was?” Gob asked. "You’re in pretty good shape for a man with a head injury.”
“Well. She missed.”
“She missed, or you ducked?”
“Eh.” Butch allowed himself a small grin as he shrugged. “A little of both.”
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Petra weaponizes dishware. Butch plots Moriarty's demise. The search for Nuka-Cola Quantum is interrupted. Ronald Laren gets punched in the face.
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- Part 6 of more, more, and more
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“C’mon, baby, don’t be like that,” he crooned. “We woulda made a great pair. Your counseling would fix all our fighting, I’d do your hair every morning so we were the cutest couple around, and we’d have batch of vault kids together.”
“Jesus, Butch."
“Oh, I can see it now,” he continued. “Seven of ‘em. Six girls and one boy, and they all got my eyes and your smile.”
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Butch and the Lone Wanderer pretend they're dating. Butch's crush reaches a boiling point. Everything goes to shit.
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- Part 5 of more, more, and more
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So far, their peace treaty held. It would hurt if it didn’t, though he’d never, not in a million years, admit that to her. Butch DeLoria had his pride, too.
“Bet you can’t tell me who Copernicus is,” she taunted.
“Some dead guy who was old news before the world went to shit,” he replied.
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The Lone Wanderer ignores her birthday. She and Butch visit the National Mall instead.
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- Part 4 of more, more, and more
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Cipritine was a blazing wound, and early reports—the only reports they’d received before Earth went dark—said Vancouver and London hadn’t fared any better. Garrus didn’t know if his father and sister had survived. He didn’t know if Shepard had survived.
He wasn’t allowing himself to wonder if his mother had survived.
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The war begins. Garrus fears the worst for Shepard. He fights anyway. (ME3)
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- Part 5 of long live all us crazy soldiers
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“Has it been long enough that I can joke about you going to prison?” he asked abruptly, and she let out a surprised huff of laughter, warm breath tickling his neck.
“Why not? We could die tomorrow. Might as well laugh at all the bad stuff while we can.”
“We won’t die tomorrow. I give us another week, at least.”
“Optimism? From Garrus Vakarian? I never thought I’d see it.”
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Shore leave offers a brief reprieve from the war. Shepard and Garrus take advantage of it. (ME3, Post Citadel DLC)
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- Part 11 of long live all us crazy soldiers
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the world's a mess and you're my only cure
there's no time for me to act mature
the only words i know are more, more, and morebutch deloria / female lone wanderer
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long live all us crazy soldiers by rusaalka
Fandom Mass Effect - All Media Types, Mass Effect Trilogy
08 Oct 2024
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long live all of us crazy soldiers
who were born under calico skies
may we never be called to handle
all the weapons of war we despisegarrus vakarian / commander shepard
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TK - an abbreviation is used to mark where additional material will be added to a manuscript before publication
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"in the dark times
will there also be singing?
yes, there will also be singing
about the dark times"astarion / tav (baldur's gate 3)
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are you feeling nervous? are you having fun?
it's almost over; it's just begunjespar dal'varek / qyaranian arcanist prophetess
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again we light our fires by The_Capricious_One
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
21 Nov 2025
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For almost three decades, Emmrich Volkarin has made himself available to unbonded omegas going through heats.
He gets a lot more than he bargained for when Rook shows up at his door.
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- Part 1 of again we light our fires
Bookmarked by rusaalka
22 Jan 2026
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When the Watcher asks if there could ever be more between them, it breaks Edér's heart to let his best friend down.
...and yet, he can't stop thinking about this possibility he has never considered before. Can he love again? Should he bother giving it another shot?
One thing’s for sure: He won’t know until he tries.
In which Edér asks for a rematch. This time, he’ll be the one making the first move.
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- Part 1 of Tales of Qwyl and Inc.
Bookmarked by rusaalka
08 Dec 2025
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Bookmarked by rusaalka
17 Nov 2025
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Sonar has been obsessed with you since you started at SDN. Unfortunately, every attempt to talk to you ends in disaster.
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Bookmarked by rusaalka
17 Nov 2025
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ND-5 has a personal request to make of Kay. She agrees, but they both may have bitten off more than they can chew...
Bookmarked by rusaalka
29 Apr 2025