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Nathaniel tripped on his feet. While standing perfectly still.
Oh.
Oh, that was fun.
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Anders knows his way around a blade. Nathaniel has feelings about it.
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There he was, drowning: useful parts stripped away, the empty shell of him slowly floating towards the bottom. Anders hoped the undercurrents would carry the coat far away, and that it might surface somewhere where someone might recognise it. Think him dead. Free, finally.
He wondered if anyone would mourn him.
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Anders started a war.
He didn't expect to live.
He didn't expect Nathaniel.
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Tara has decades of experience caring for silly people, and now she's surrounded by a tragic lot of them. Gale observes, for the most part.
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Merrill is lost, again, but at least there's a pretty pirate to help her find her way home.
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This is what he deserves: this solitude, this silence, this disconnect.
This is what he deserves.
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The folly, the orb, and a year of isolation: a character study.
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special that way by elsmaster
Fandom: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age II, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
31 Mar 2025
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"And... Anders? There's no escaping you, it seems."
"I'm special that way."aka. the possibly ever-expanding collection of stories where Anders runs into old friends (and new strangers) while on the run after the events of Dragon Age II.
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while this world collides by elsmaster
Fandom: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age II
13 Dec 2024
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“Do you remember what you told me before that battle?”
Henry’s eyes search his. Hans knows that he knows although he says, “Remind me.”
“You told me that courage in the face of fear is a knightly virtue,” Hans says, kicking at a loose pebble at his feet. It skitters between them, settling just shy of Henry’s boots. “And that being brave is something that you have to learn.”
Henry kicks the stone back. “Are you afraid now?”
Opportunities present themselves at the siege of Suchdol, and love makes Hans brave.
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- Part 14 of altar
Bookmarked by elsmaster
30 Sep 2025
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"Are you cold?" Henry asked.
Without armor, in hose and gambeson, he was still an imposing figure: tall and broad, hands stained with dirt and blood, jaw stubbornly stiff. His bare feet were a shock of white in the dirt. He held his helm with both hands, embracing the metal into his belly. His hair was damp with sweat. There was another string of bruises on his throat, shaped like two wide thumbs.
Hans looked away. The tunic around Henry's knee had darkened. Blood was trickling into the dirt.
Hans kills a man, prepares for a wedding, and tries to do at least one thing right.
(Or: five times Hans and Henry didn't share a bed, and one time they did.)
Bookmarked by elsmaster
21 Sep 2025
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“Still your tongue—”
“Thoughts back on my tongue so soon, my lord? Tell me,”—Henry’s mouth twists into a smile, acrid and full of bite in a way that makes Hans’ blood pool at the base of him, half tempered from just a look. He leans in, breath so hot against Hans’ ear it makes him shiver—“how many heirs will you waste down my throat before you’ll admit to yourself you like putting them there?”
Bookmarked by elsmaster
18 Sep 2025
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(tell me what you need) i'll do my job by riots
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
21 Jun 2025
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He’s drying the last of the soap off his hands when the door opens again. Davrin pauses at the threshold, then steps inside. “Don’t suppose you’ve got any leftovers for a midnight snack?”
lucanis and davrin process the events after weisshaupt, and maybe they understand each other just a little bit more
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29 Aug 2025
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Nathaniel finds Anders utterly annoying - he sleeps in Nathaniel's bed unprompted, makes terrible jokes and flirts with anything that moves. Nathaniel would never in a million years like this man. Or kiss him. Or bring him apple pie so he eats enough. Never.
(title refers to a type of storm cloud)
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Bookmarked by elsmaster
21 Jul 2025