aesterium
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- Life Series | 3rd Life SMP Series (5)
- Empires SMP (3)
- Minecraft (Video Game) (2)
- Dream SMP (2)
- Hermitcraft SMP (1)
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“Hey, Impulse, is it hard to love me?”
Impulse pauses in the middle of the pun he was formulating about how hay is for cows and stares at Pearl. She’s sitting on the floor of his home and studying something on the wall and her face seems blank, but he can tell she’s forcing it.
“Is this about the iron? If you really need a shield, you can go ahead and use it. BDubs should be back with some more in a bit,” he says.
She waves him off with an errant gesture. “No, no, just–” she sighs. “Yes or no, is it hard to love me?”
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in which Pearl gives Scott a gift.
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“Xornoth, tell me the truth. Do you think my marriage to Jimmy weakens us?”
Xornoth can see where this is going. “No,” he grumbles, rolling his eyes.
“Does my marriage to Jimmy mean I put the Codlands before Rivendell in any political maneuvering?”
Xornoth tries not to look too grumpy. “No.”
Scott doesn’t look as smug at this admittance as Xornoth would have thought he’d be. “So why would your being married do anything worse?”
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or: if there was one thing Xornoth didn't anticipate from having to host his debutante ball, it's attracting the eye of a prince of the Lost Empire.
Series
- Part 1 of by any other name
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suns set // moons rise by aesterium for lunarblazes
Fandoms: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
15 Dec 2022
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“It’s a pity that our Kings have decided that this is my punishment and that we’re to go against each other,” the sun tells the moon. “I think we’d be quite a good team.”
The moon laughs at his words. “We would, we would,” she allows, “but that’s not how the game goes.”
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in which Grian and Pearl become both piece and player in a celestial chess game.
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cresting the hill by aesterium
Fandoms: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series, Double Life SMP
28 Sep 2022
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The first time Scott realized Pearl was taking this game seriously was when they’re green and she barricaded herself in the walls of his house.
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or: a brief study of what it means to be tied together in a game where only one person wins.
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There’s no continuation of this memory. It’s a single fragment, a piece of an idle childhood led by two boys who knew what their lives would be and how to seize it. It should be a perfect reflection of his childhood, of the simple joys that being young should give. Everything about it was polished in rose-tint, and yet he couldn’t view it that way.
Scott wonders why in even a memory so old and precious as this one, he cannot for the life of him remember his brother’s name.
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or: before everything, before he's crowned, before they were named, even, Scott had his brother.
Series
- Part 2 of at the end of all things