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blades au wip [wintersberg]
Apr. 21st, 2023 10:58 pmsometime between middle and high school i read Dave Duncan's Sky of Swords and the concept of the king's blades have lived rent free in my head ever since. if you've never read any of the books it's basically a magically bound group of swordsmen sworn to protect their lord with their lives. the bond makes them want to stick very, very close, it's a compulsion, and though it will gradually wear off in time blades who have lost their lord will still sometimes go insane due to the bond/compulsion freaking out. the ritual binding blades to their lord is also pretty rad tbqh.
so anyway of course i wanted to do a knight/lord wintersberg au using blades. i have a very extensive outline for this fic but only a few excerpts; two from inktobers (2021, 2022) and one that i churned out as if possessed. they're all below the cut, in chronological order as they would appear in the fic. heisenberg's characterization in this is very much not what i typically go with. ethan's isn't really either for that matter. some dubcon elements that are not explicit/emphasized in the excerpts below but which would become very much so in the fic itself.
so anyway of course i wanted to do a knight/lord wintersberg au using blades. i have a very extensive outline for this fic but only a few excerpts; two from inktobers (2021, 2022) and one that i churned out as if possessed. they're all below the cut, in chronological order as they would appear in the fic. heisenberg's characterization in this is very much not what i typically go with. ethan's isn't really either for that matter. some dubcon elements that are not explicit/emphasized in the excerpts below but which would become very much so in the fic itself.
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