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    A Modern day Merlin AU set at the University of St Andrews, featuring teetotal kickboxers, secret wizards, magnificent bodyguards of various genders, irate fairies, imprisoned dragons, crumbling gothic architecture, arrogant princes, adorable engineering students, stolen gold, magical doorways, attempted assassination, drunken students, shaving foam fights, embarrassing mornings after, The Hammer Dance, duty, responsibility, friendship and true love...

    This story was inspired by the thought of Prince William of Wales (and indeed the current Max von Hapsburg) studying at the University of St Andrews; it is also, as the title suggests, at least a little inspired by the operetta 'The Student Prince'.

    Grateful thanks to Lamardeuse and DarkEmeralds for Beta and cheerleading!

    ::2019 note: This story was written BEFORE the TV show introduced the character of Gwaine. It's not that I can't spell, or that I'm perversely writing him out of character - I incorporated other characters from Arthurian legend (Kay, Gawain etc) into my story, and lacking prophetic abilities, my versions naturally don't mesh with the versions subsequently introduced into the show.::

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    18 Jul 2023

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    “Do you want to switch back or not? You guys are getting married in less than a week! Or are you planning to get married and go to your wedding chambers in the wrong bodies?”

    // Dongfang Qingcang and Xiao Lanhua are finally getting married, and nothing is going to stop them this time—until, well, they accidentally switch bodies again, and can't switch back.

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    22 Sep 2022

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    In the best of circumstances, Shang Qinghua wouldn’t have to be cursing all the choices that Luo Binghe makes, except Luo Binghe’s every move as the venerated ruler of the realm is so carefully observed and emulated by all the other demons.

    Luo Binghe takes a male consort? The demons watch and learn.

    Luo Binghe’s consort is a human cultivator? The demons are taking notes.

    Luo Binghe’s human consort is a Cang Qiong Peak Lord? The demons are frantically making checklists that would determine one’s suitability to be a consort, and guess who ticks all the boxes.

    (Or, the one where Shang Qinghua suddenly becomes Prime Demon Marriage Material™.)

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    04 Jun 2022

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    Lucidity:
    noun: the ability to think clearly, especially in intervals between periods of confusion or insanity, or,
    brightness; luminosity.

    Or: if Jinx found an injured and feverish Ekko before Heimerdinger. Takes place during Episode 8. Implied Jinx/Ekko.

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    17 Dec 2021

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    She’s not broken, but Silco is afraid that if he does not intervene, she will break apart into something barely salvageable.

    So he begins to reach out to her in small ways, the only ways that he knows how to.

    (Or, vignettes of Silco and Jinx’s life as he raises her.)

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    03 Dec 2021