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    My Liyue-centric fics!

    If they are related, I'll specify it. But otherwise they can be treated as standalone pieces.

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  1. Public Bookmark 17

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    Mercedes's life has taken a winding course, and she now finds herself on her estranged brother's heels, desperate to keep up. Edelgard, having emerged from the shadows of the Empire, must choose carefully the lights that shall guide her.

    Mercedes vocalized the incantation of a familiar healing spell, but several additional notes followed—it was nearly complex enough to be a song in its own right, but her voice didn't waver to Edelgard's ears. What granted her such serenity in the midst of a living, waking, raging hell? What allowed her to be a beacon of peace and salvation in such pestilent darkness?

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    21 Dec 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 3

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    Sylvain smiles, sheepish; shrugs. It's an act, of course: that mop of tousled white hair on his head, the easy grin. Edelgard can identify the wolf in sheep's clothing.

    Edelgard Rarepair Week, day 7: Hair

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    20 Dec 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 34

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    How Ingrid learns to fly all over again over the course of a war, and how she falls for an Emperor twice in the midst of it.

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  4. Public Bookmark 34

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    During the decisive battle at Arianrhod, Ingrid puts her life on the line to buy time for Dimitri and Dedue to escape. When knocking on deaths door, Ingrid makes the fateful decision to surrender fealty to the Empire.

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    This story takes place during Three Hope's Scarlet Blaze route, the diverging point being Chapter 8, "Defense of the Silver Maiden". Ingrid still makes her final sacrificial play, but instead of (spoilers) dying, she manages to survive. This story takes her from Imperial recruitment, to the end of the war, detailing new "Support Conversations" of her time in the Imperial army.

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    Torture smells like spring.

    Like daffodils and tulips and snowdrops. Like the bouquets brought inside from the manor gardens to lend their life to cold stone walls that house criminals. Easter mixed with madness makes sense in this twisted landscape; Draco’s only chance at survival is to endure it. He knows this. But that doesn’t quell the twitching in his calves, the flexing in his fingers.

    Granger lifts her hand off the floor and Draco nearly loses his lunch, stomach churning as he watches her extend her arm, reaching through the translucent cord, reaching towards him. He tries to blink it away, blink blink blink, but both she and the cord are stubborn, persistent things.

    [In which a soulmate bond appears while Hermione is tortured at Malfoy Manor. Canon divergent from that moment onward.]

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    21 Nov 2025