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English
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Part 1 of Doll Parts Verse
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Dazzling Light & Faerûn's Darkest Nights - BG3 Winter Big Bang
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Published:
2025-02-19
Completed:
2025-04-09
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33,950
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8/8
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59
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39
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DOLL PARTS

Summary:

"New round here, right? Living down here in the Discards is hard enough without the shit-storm of winter and all it brings. You a Psion? I'll sell you some suppressors. Trade you for a battery. Wait - you got some food? Gave my last to that Carver Dolly for a tune-up. Hard getting room with her lately, though. Heard she's running with the rebs. Y'know. Princey's Pawns."
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Doll Parts is a tale of the intertwined lives of survival in a tumultuous winter beneath a dystopian Vlaakith Empire.
Of a formerly Mastered Doll, Vanquish, now a Carver, living amongst the lowest of society in the Discard Downs.
Of a disgraced old githyanki, Voss, adjusting to civilian life after most of his spent inside prison.
Of an heir to the Empire conspiring to tear it all down from within, Orpheus, if he could just open his eyes for long enough to care.

Notes:

Hey!! and thank you so, so much for starting on this journey with me on Doll Parts! I've been longing to write a fic set in my cyberpunk world with Vanquish, Voss and Orpheus for so long, and here we are at last. I feel SO emotional lol. It was originally meant to just be about 10k for the BG3 Winter Bang, but it has spiralled into a life of its own, and rightly so.

It's probably one of the works I've been most passionate about in a long time. And I'm really excited to share it with you all over the next 6 weeks!

Here's my Tir Dictionary for the words used, but any used in the chapters will have their translation in the end notes.

I wrote this with Una who is one of my biggest supporters, fans, and dearest friends, who has gone absolutely above and beyond with art for this fic, cover and banners included. I know you're all going to adore it and not stop staring at it like me.

Enjoy your time in the Discard Downs and Worm Tunnels with Vanquish, Voss and Princey Boy ;)

-Des xxx

Chapter 1: Overture Strings

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” Doll is a complicated word in our city and world now. After The Severed Sky, Warlocks found they were able to in essence, create people. It took them a long time to perfect it, and even now it isn’t so. Mostly what we see in Dolls is that the Warlocks take someone, something, and modify it to their absolute desire - and that someone or something becomes their Doll.

Some see it as a form of necromancy, bringing a being to life that shouldn’t be; or killing something to bring alive, new. Aberrant.

There are Dolls that simply have very sophisticated augments, both cyberware and magical from the Warlock's patrons, to Dolls that seem to be shaped from the very heart and soul of the Warlock’s wishes, and deepest, darkest desires, guided by the very hand and eye of their Patron.”


-an excerpt from Oh Maker My Maker - by Avarice Foe

 

I am beyond fake
Someday you will ache like I ache