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    The Half-Life of Element Zero by

    Fandoms: Mass Effect - All Media Types, Dragon Age - All Media Types, Mass Effect Trilogy, Mass Effect: Andromeda, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age II, Dragon Age (Video Games), Mass Effect  

    02 Sep 2020

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    After her discharge from the Alliance, Commander Helen Trevelyan joined the Andromeda Initiative, wanting to leave her personal tragedies and a psycho ex-boyfriend behind her. She expected to sleep for 600 years, and wake up in a med bay. Instead, she crash-landed on a snow-covered mountain, ten-thousand years later. She is alone, confused, and dying from eezo radiation. And the only sign of civilization is an old church in the distance.

    A Post-Modern Girl on Thedas fic.

    Many, many thanks to my betas, Dreadlordcherrycake and Duinemerwen, who have advised me on all matters of lore, plausibility and verb tense. If it wasn't for them, this story would still be in cryo. Any mistakes are mine, not theirs.

    I have a regular work schedule IRL, which means I don't have a regular update schedule on AO3. This story is visually supported.

    I sometimes tumblr at https://unhealthynpcobsession.tumblr.com/

    Bioware owns all/legal boilerplate/blah blah blah.

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    07 Jun 2026

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    Corps à Corps by

    Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition  

    01 Aug 2024

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    The pages of this book—memory?—describe a pair playing, colliding in the air, bodies formed for kissing, stroking lines of heat as molten as the sun. The dance is fluid, roiling, never ending, lovers tangled in a laughing knot[.]
    - The Shattered Library: Birds of Fancy

    Curiosity has mutated into a mindless, lustful thing.

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    I’ve’an’aria by

    Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game), Dragon Age (Video Games)  

    16 Dec 2024

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    I've'an'aria: The Veil.
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    Loathing twined all at once with that fury; in an instant, the maddening, somatic thrum of awareness had overtaken her. That too-slick, self-assured feeling of him, pressing, smirking, consuming the recesses of a domain he sought to seize. Intoxicating dregs of wine staining the very fabric of her Self, fingers of pure will slipping behind her eyes and curling amidst her thoughts, entitled as they were to worm their way within.
    "And why," he derided, syllables unspooling in a drollery of draping silk, "would I ever do that?"
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    Their regrets, their very lives, inexplicably tied. Bound by a hasty mistake, trapped by a forced hand.
    And Solas is still as determined as ever to right his wrongs.

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    Broken Roads by

    Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game), Dragon Age (Video Games)  

    01 Jan 2025

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    Witness as an immovable object meets an unstoppable force and learns it's not so immovable as he once thought.

    This is a love story.

    ~or~

    The Crossroads are in chaos. An accident of fate frees Solas from his prison, but renders him unable to access his magic. Now he must work together with Rook to restore the Crossroads, clearing all traces of Blight. They just have to figure out how to not kill each other on the way.

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    24 Nov 2024

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    Tell Me That I'm Wrong by

    Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game), Dragon Age (Video Games)  

    03 Jun 2026

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    "Remind me, what have you been doing to help out lately?"
    "I am trapped in the Fade."
    "And whose fault is that?"
    "Yours!"

    Ten years ago, Solas left the Inquisition more determined than ever to tear down the Veil. Enter Rook, stage right.

    Title from The Bomb by Florence + The Machine

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