Title: First steps - Epilogues
Rating: PG for non-explicit violence
Summary: Two possible paths history could have taken, after the night when Kratos brought two new friends to ask for Yuan's help.
Notes: Follows immediately after this. Since canon doesn't make it clear exactly what Yuan's decision was, I wrote it out two different ways. Choose ( Read more... )

Title: First steps
Rating: PG-ish
Characters: Yuan, Kratos, Martel, Mithos
Summary: On the eve of battle, Yuan faces a sudden choice provided by someone he believed to be his enemy.
Notes: So I was reading the Tales wiki the other day, and I decided to actually try out the canon (or at least Tales of Fandom) backstory for the Seraphim. According to the ( Read more... )

Title: Stars and Moons
Rating: G
Characters: Kratos and Yuan, schoolboy age
Summary: An examination of the interplay between scientific study and ancient legends in a magitech world, through the eyes of a human student and his half-elven bff.
Notes: I'll probably go back and edit this later, since I'm running more on caffeine than sleep, but I needed ( Read more... )

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...Disclaimers taken care of? Okay.

So last night, I was reading White Collar fanfic, and noticing with amusement how much of it involved shipping with my personal OT3 for ( Read more... )

I asked, yesterday, why he freed me. He’s been doing these things for weeks, secretly so that his parents and the household don’t find out. Is it for the sake of his own independence, that he should be allowed to do as he will? Have I given up the normal drudge of the other slaves only to be kept as a pet by a boy my own age, until he tires of me? 
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Today, I was walking down on the property, when I saw that slave boy again. A slave, a young female one, was being beaten harshly by the overseer. The slave boy - I guess I should say young man, he looks my age - lashed out with magic and shocked the whip out of the overseer’s hand. It’s a punishable offense for them to even use their magic except ( Read more... )