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“You’re not a bender,” Taigen scoffs. “That campfire didn’t flicker the whole time we were fighting, and the ground hasn’t moved once. Don’t even try to convince me you bend air, either, you don’t jump high enough.”
“Maybe I don’t think you’re worth the effort,” you bite out, shoving him off you. Bad leverage, but you budge his weight; you don’t have to headbutt him and use the surprise to your advantage. He’s intrigued. “Come on, aren’t you curious? I thought all firebenders liked to throw sparks.”
“An honorable samurai doesn’t use bending in a duel.”
“You said yourself you can’t duel me until I’m healed,” you say. “This won’t be a duel. This will be… a demonstration.”
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Or: Officially speaking, waterbending is an element exclusive to foreign barbarians, and there are no waterbenders in Japan.
This is only mostly true.
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A Dark Urge/Astarion series featuring Tav, a ranger Durge who is interested in mitigating the risk of the Urge taking him over any way he can, even if some of those methods are not necessarily safe or sane. At current time of writing, he and Astarion are stumbling into a friends-with-benefits situation where one of the benefits is that it's harder to murder people in your sleep when you're experiencing mild-to-moderate blood loss.
Tone-wise, expect slice of life/slow-burn pacing and camp shenanigans, with plenty of The Power of Friendship to go around and a sprinkling of self-destructive behavior and some terrible coping strategies for spice. I put more specific content notes in the chapters that need extra explanation.
The first 2 stories are rated M for violence and discussion of past abuse. Later stories will mostly be rated E for explicit sexual content. Tav is transmasc, but that's less of a plot point and more of an anatomy situation and an excuse for me to play around with themes of identity, choice, and the horror of being in a body that doesn't always listen to you.
Each work can be read as a standalone piece without needing to read prior stories, but they do all fit together as one story.
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Continue reading from: Prey for the Hunter, Chapter 1
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Idealism Sits In Prison, Chivalry Fell On His Sword by novaauster
Fandoms: Blue Eye Samurai (Cartoon)
31 Mar 2024
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“Would the gentleman like to fuck a man while dressed as a girl, then?” Kaji says.
Mizu realizes, far too late, that she is goading them. They made it clear that they are not here to fuck anyone or anything, so she would like their business to be closed.
Still, they have never been good at walling off their temper. Anger is like water to them, like the blood in their veins. It can be redirected for a time, dammed, compressed, aimed with a fire hose elsewhere, but the pressure only ever builds.
(Madame Kaji talks some sense into Mizu. Not a lot of sense, but enough.)
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This is the first lesson a warrior must learn: how to get up again.
(Canon divergent, post-season 1: Mizu comes home instead.)