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a debt brought back from the wars by emollience, rushvalleys
Fandoms: Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses
22 Sep 2025
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A year after the war, Emperor Edelgard von Hresvelg bides her time in a fractured Faerghus. Banished in all but name, Claude von Riegan returns to Fódlan. Everyone has their secrets; it’s a stroke of bad luck that theirs just happened to get tangled together.
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terrain of minor stars; terrain of incomplete hunger by emollience, rushvalleys
Fandoms: Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses
17 Jun 2022
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“Sure, Princess, let’s put the war aside. Who knows? Maybe this will spawn a beautiful friendship. We can hold hands and sing songs around the campfire, talk about our crushes, maybe even use the buddy system––“
Edelgard groaned. “You’re going to make me regret this, aren’t you?”
“Yep,” said Claude gleefully. He stood and wiped the dirt off his pants. He extended a hand toward her. “Where to now, bestie?”
“Never,” Edelgard’s voice was a dangerous monotone, “call me that again.”
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claude and edelgard go against their nature.
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a bird in your teeth by rushvalleys
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
25 Feb 2021
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A ghost told Link a story once. In this story, everyone died on a burning field.
There were two survivors –– the lovelorn princess and her battered knight, cursed in cruel mercy to a century in purgatory and a memory so shattered and broken that it was impossible to put the shards back where they fit.
He learned atop the Temple of Time, the dilapidated ruins where his ancestors’ ancestors’ ancestors once stood, that Hyrule had sustained itself on nothing more than stories for ten thousand years. Evil collected underneath the marble floors of Hyrule Castle for centuries. Hyrule had almost unlimited time to find a way to stop it, and yet they waited for two characters out of a fable to save them. Why was anyone surprised when the myth couldn’t sustain itself? Salvation is not the job of two children, regardless of the lofty titles placed over their heads.
But this isn’t a story about a knight. It’s not a story about a princess. This is a story about the aftermath of stories.
This is, ostensibly, a story about a dog.
Link, Zelda, and a never-ending story.
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and you are wedded to calamity. by rushvalleys
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity (Video Game), The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms
30 Dec 2020
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"It’s a tragedy,” the poet says with a glint in his eye. “So in one hundred years, it’ll age like fine wine into comedy, maybe.”
“That’s not how tragedy works.” Zelda would know, because she is quite well-read on the subject of tragedy. “Stories are only called tragedies when the hero dies. You can’t turn one into a comedy. The hero won’t suddenly come alive after one hundred years dead.”
“Ah, Your Highness,” The poet plucks a string on his harp. She hates the harp. The harp is now her least favorite instrument. “Is that really how it happens?”
“What is your definition, then?”
“Comedy,” he plucks another string, “is tragedy plus time.”In which:
Zelda is stuck between a rock and a calamity, contemplates the nature of tragedy, and learns that even the Goddess cheats at cards. -
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“We should have something that’s ours, you know?”
And Catra can’t fight her on that. It’s been years since the war, but old habits die hard, and Adora is still learning how to be selfish. How to just say no when she wants to, sleep when she needs to, let go of her burdens when they weigh her down. She gets better day by day. And if Adora wants to build something of her own from the ground up, so be it. It’s not in her nature to do things the easy way.
Catra laces their fingers together. She kisses the back of Adora’s hand. “I’m in.”
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Catra, Adora, and a home out in the woods.
Recent series
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i gave you my minutes; let them remain ours. by emollience, rushvalleys
Fandom Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses
22 Sep 2025
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It's your privilege to find me incomprehensible. I gave you my minutes; let them remain ours. I hope I haunt you.
— Theodore Roethke, from “Straw for the fire.”- Words:
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back burner by negative_ease
Fandoms: Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses
26 Feb 2023
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They're not together anymore; Derdriu put an end to that. So why do their paths keep crossing? It makes for a messy knot, over and over and under with the ends lost somewhere in the middle.
When it's good, it's a game.
When it's not good, it's any number of things.
Bookmarked by rushvalleys
12 Mar 2023
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angle of approach by negative_ease
Fandoms: Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses
26 Dec 2022
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Three years have passed since the Battle of Garreg Mach.
Claude bides his time in Derdriu, pulling the strings behind the scenes and worrying over his inability to see what the next act may bring. If he thinks of her, not that he does, he only sees the shining inverse of his failure of a year at the Academy.
Edelgard digs in at Enbarr, working to undo the knots binding her to Those Who Slither in the Dark. If she thinks of him, not that she does, she only sees every hungry, opaque force that would plot to use her.
When Imperial forces catch Claude stumbling out of the wilderness of Hrym, Edelgard fears the worst.
But what if, in this Edelclaude fanfiction, it's actually... for the best?!Bookmarked by rushvalleys
21 Nov 2022
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Underpromotion by smarny
Fandoms: Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Fire Emblem Musou: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes
01 Sep 2022
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EdelClaude Week 2022: Future/Co-operation
"I see," says Ferdinand,. "Quite so. And if you don't mind me asking, how do you like Enbarr so far?"
"I've barely seen any of it."
"Aha. Yes. Well. As you know, we are so happy to have you here. Her Majesty has talked of little else for weeks."
Claude doesn't believe that for a second. "But?"
"But," Ferdinand says, and rather than flounder goes quiet, screws his eyes closed and takes a preparatory breath. "Even as we are, inarguably, in a period of peace and calm, that is to say-"
"I need to watch my back?"
Ferdinand's smile barely falters.Not long after their victory at Garreg Mach, Edelgard invites Claude to Enbarr to discuss their ongoing alliance. It doesn't necessarily go the way they planned.
Bookmarked by rushvalleys
01 Sep 2022
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The Stars Will Be Watching Us by onnari
Fandoms: Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses
29 Nov 2021
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The 7th of Pegasus Moon, Year 1180
On the eve of finally departing to assume the throne, all her greatest plans about to unfold, Edelgard finds the dawn never comes—no matter how many times she lives through the same evening.
But she's not as alone as she first thinks. Someone else who dreams of the dawn is repeating the night with her.
Bookmarked by rushvalleys
23 Jun 2022
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“He’s dead. It’s not like he can get killed again. We’ll just pull over and scoop him back up,” Sylvain answers with an actual grin on his face. Ingrid refrains from slapping it right off but she does respond with a furrowed glare.
“Okay, fine.” He digs into the backseat for a roll of duct tape and proceeds to wrap numerous rings around the width of the casket. “If he takes a tumble, he can’t fall out.”
Dimitri is dead. His friends take his body home to Fhirdiad.
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- Part 1 of Atoll
Bookmarked by rushvalleys
19 May 2022