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  <title>The Flower Trying to Bloom In Snow</title>
  <subtitle>The Words Won't Come</subtitle>
  <author>
    <name>The Rose In Winter</name>
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  <updated>2026-03-24T01:28:16Z</updated>
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  <entry>
    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-20:104490:128302</id>
    <author>
      <email>lassarina@dreamwidth.org</email>
      <name>Lassarina</name>
    </author>
    <dw:poster user="lassarina"/>
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    <title>[Dragon Age 2] When Love with Unconfin&amp;eacute;d Wings, Chapter 31</title>
    <published>2026-03-24T01:26:52Z</published>
    <updated>2026-03-24T01:26:52Z</updated>
    <category term="multi-chapter: wings"/>
    <dw:security>public</dw:security>
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    <content type="html">Posted by: &lt;span lj:user='lassarina' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'&gt;&lt;a href='https://lassarina.dreamwidth.org/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='https://lassarina.dreamwidth.org/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;lassarina&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Characters:&lt;/b&gt; Fenris, Mage Female Hawke, Sebastian Vael (Fenris/f!Hawke/Sebastian)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rating:&lt;/b&gt; NC-17&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Contains:&lt;/b&gt; Canon-typical violence, explicit sex&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Fic Wordcount:&lt;/b&gt; 117,000&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Chapter Wordcount:&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Notes:&lt;/b&gt; Canon-divergent, ignoring most of Act 3. A thousand thanks to &lt;span style='white-space: nowrap;'&gt;&lt;a href='https://senmut.dreamwidth.org/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='https://senmut.dreamwidth.org/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;senmut&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;'s Discord server for cheering and brainstorming and reactions and encouragement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Beta:&lt;/b&gt; breadedsinner and MikWrites_InSpace&lt;br /&gt;Summary: After the duel with the Arishok, Ariane Hawke looks around at the wreckage of her life in Kirkwall and asks herself: what is left for me here? As tensions increase between the Circle and the Templars, she turns to helping Sebastian retake Starkhaven. Meanwhile, she is trying to figure out how to love Fenris when he hates mages, and also definitely not looking at Sebastian's gorgeous eyes. Definitely not. Neither is Fenris. Sebastian is not looking back.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Definitely.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Canon divergence in which almost all of act 3 goes in the bin, and three damaged people try to find a way to live with each other and themselves, and maybe heal a bit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/119204.html" target="_blank"&gt;Chapter index here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/128302.html#cutid1"&gt;Chapter Thirty-One&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=rose_in_winter&amp;ditemid=128302" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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  <entry>
    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-20:104490:128075</id>
    <author>
      <email>lassarina@dreamwidth.org</email>
      <name>Lassarina</name>
    </author>
    <dw:poster user="lassarina"/>
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    <title>[Dragon Age 2] When Love with Unconfin&amp;eacute;d Wings, Chapter 30</title>
    <published>2026-03-24T01:21:16Z</published>
    <updated>2026-03-24T01:27:52Z</updated>
    <category term="multi-chapter: wings"/>
    <dw:security>public</dw:security>
    <dw:reply-count>0</dw:reply-count>
    <content type="html">Posted by: &lt;span lj:user='lassarina' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'&gt;&lt;a href='https://lassarina.dreamwidth.org/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='https://lassarina.dreamwidth.org/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;lassarina&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Characters:&lt;/b&gt; Fenris, Mage Female Hawke, Sebastian Vael (Fenris/f!Hawke/Sebastian)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rating:&lt;/b&gt; NC-17&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Contains:&lt;/b&gt; Canon-typical violence, explicit sex&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Fic Wordcount:&lt;/b&gt; 117,000&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Chapter Wordcount:&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Notes:&lt;/b&gt; Canon-divergent, ignoring most of Act 3. A thousand thanks to &lt;span style='white-space: nowrap;'&gt;&lt;a href='https://senmut.dreamwidth.org/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='https://senmut.dreamwidth.org/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;senmut&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;'s Discord server for cheering and brainstorming and reactions and encouragement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Beta:&lt;/b&gt; breadedsinner and MikWrites_InSpace&lt;br /&gt;Summary: After the duel with the Arishok, Ariane Hawke looks around at the wreckage of her life in Kirkwall and asks herself: what is left for me here? As tensions increase between the Circle and the Templars, she turns to helping Sebastian retake Starkhaven. Meanwhile, she is trying to figure out how to love Fenris when he hates mages, and also definitely not looking at Sebastian's gorgeous eyes. Definitely not. Neither is Fenris. Sebastian is not looking back.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Definitely.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Canon divergence in which almost all of act 3 goes in the bin, and three damaged people try to find a way to live with each other and themselves, and maybe heal a bit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/119204.html" target="_blank"&gt;Chapter index here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/128075.html#cutid1"&gt;Chapter Thirty&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=rose_in_winter&amp;ditemid=128075" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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  <entry>
    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-20:104490:127928</id>
    <author>
      <email>lassarina@dreamwidth.org</email>
      <name>Lassarina</name>
    </author>
    <dw:poster user="lassarina"/>
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    <title>[Dragon Age 2] When Love With Unconfin&amp;eacute;d Wings, Chapter 29</title>
    <published>2026-03-24T01:14:03Z</published>
    <updated>2026-03-24T01:28:16Z</updated>
    <category term="multi-chapter: wings"/>
    <dw:security>public</dw:security>
    <dw:reply-count>0</dw:reply-count>
    <content type="html">Posted by: &lt;span lj:user='lassarina' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'&gt;&lt;a href='https://lassarina.dreamwidth.org/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='https://lassarina.dreamwidth.org/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;lassarina&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Characters:&lt;/b&gt; Fenris, Mage Female Hawke, Sebastian Vael (Fenris/f!Hawke/Sebastian)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rating:&lt;/b&gt; NC-17&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Contains:&lt;/b&gt; Canon-typical violence, explicit sex&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Fic Wordcount:&lt;/b&gt; 117,000&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Chapter Wordcount:&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Notes:&lt;/b&gt; Canon-divergent, ignoring most of Act 3. A thousand thanks to &lt;span style='white-space: nowrap;'&gt;&lt;a href='https://senmut.dreamwidth.org/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='https://senmut.dreamwidth.org/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;senmut&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;'s Discord server for cheering and brainstorming and reactions and encouragement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Beta:&lt;/b&gt; breadedsinner and MikWrites_InSpace&lt;br /&gt;Summary: After the duel with the Arishok, Ariane Hawke looks around at the wreckage of her life in Kirkwall and asks herself: what is left for me here? As tensions increase between the Circle and the Templars, she turns to helping Sebastian retake Starkhaven. Meanwhile, she is trying to figure out how to love Fenris when he hates mages, and also definitely not looking at Sebastian's gorgeous eyes. Definitely not. Neither is Fenris. Sebastian is not looking back.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Definitely.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Canon divergence in which almost all of act 3 goes in the bin, and three damaged people try to find a way to live with each other and themselves, and maybe heal a bit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/119204.html" target="_blank"&gt;Chapter index here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/127928.html#cutid1"&gt;Chapter Twenty-Nine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=rose_in_winter&amp;ditemid=127928" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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  <entry>
    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-20:104490:127599</id>
    <author>
      <email>lassarina@dreamwidth.org</email>
      <name>Lassarina</name>
    </author>
    <dw:poster user="lassarina"/>
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    <title>[Dragon Age 2] When Love With Unconfin&amp;eacute;d Wings, Chapter 28</title>
    <published>2026-03-15T01:24:31Z</published>
    <updated>2026-03-24T01:27:25Z</updated>
    <category term="multi-chapter: wings"/>
    <dw:security>public</dw:security>
    <dw:reply-count>0</dw:reply-count>
    <content type="html">Posted by: &lt;span lj:user='lassarina' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'&gt;&lt;a href='https://lassarina.dreamwidth.org/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='https://lassarina.dreamwidth.org/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;lassarina&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Characters:&lt;/b&gt; Fenris, Mage Female Hawke, Sebastian Vael (Fenris/f!Hawke/Sebastian)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rating:&lt;/b&gt; NC-17&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Contains:&lt;/b&gt; Canon-typical violence, explicit sex&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Fic Wordcount:&lt;/b&gt; 117,000&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Chapter Wordcount:&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Notes:&lt;/b&gt; Canon-divergent, ignoring most of Act 3. A thousand thanks to &lt;span style='white-space: nowrap;'&gt;&lt;a href='https://senmut.dreamwidth.org/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='https://senmut.dreamwidth.org/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;senmut&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;'s Discord server for cheering and brainstorming and reactions and encouragement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Beta:&lt;/b&gt; breadedsinner and MikWrites_InSpace&lt;br /&gt;Summary: After the duel with the Arishok, Ariane Hawke looks around at the wreckage of her life in Kirkwall and asks herself: what is left for me here? As tensions increase between the Circle and the Templars, she turns to helping Sebastian retake Starkhaven. Meanwhile, she is trying to figure out how to love Fenris when he hates mages, and also definitely not looking at Sebastian's gorgeous eyes. Definitely not. Neither is Fenris. Sebastian is not looking back.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Definitely.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Canon divergence in which almost all of act 3 goes in the bin, and three damaged people try to find a way to live with each other and themselves, and maybe heal a bit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/119204.html" target="_blank"&gt;Chapter index here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/127599.html#cutid1"&gt;Chapter Twenty-Eight&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=rose_in_winter&amp;ditemid=127599" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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  <entry>
    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-20:104490:127281</id>
    <author>
      <email>lassarina@dreamwidth.org</email>
      <name>Lassarina</name>
    </author>
    <dw:poster user="lassarina"/>
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    <title>[Dragon Age 2] When Love With Unconfin&amp;eacute;d Wings, Chapter 27</title>
    <published>2026-03-15T01:18:35Z</published>
    <updated>2026-03-15T01:25:24Z</updated>
    <category term="multi-chapter: wings"/>
    <dw:security>public</dw:security>
    <dw:reply-count>0</dw:reply-count>
    <content type="html">Posted by: &lt;span lj:user='lassarina' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'&gt;&lt;a href='https://lassarina.dreamwidth.org/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='https://lassarina.dreamwidth.org/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;lassarina&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Characters:&lt;/b&gt; Fenris, Mage Female Hawke, Sebastian Vael (Fenris/f!Hawke/Sebastian)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rating:&lt;/b&gt; NC-17&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Contains:&lt;/b&gt; Canon-typical violence, explicit sex&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Fic Wordcount:&lt;/b&gt; 117,000&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Chapter Wordcount:&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Notes:&lt;/b&gt; Canon-divergent, ignoring most of Act 3. A thousand thanks to &lt;span style='white-space: nowrap;'&gt;&lt;a href='https://senmut.dreamwidth.org/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='https://senmut.dreamwidth.org/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;senmut&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;'s Discord server for cheering and brainstorming and reactions and encouragement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Beta:&lt;/b&gt; breadedsinner and MikWrites_InSpace&lt;br /&gt;Summary: After the duel with the Arishok, Ariane Hawke looks around at the wreckage of her life in Kirkwall and asks herself: what is left for me here? As tensions increase between the Circle and the Templars, she turns to helping Sebastian retake Starkhaven. Meanwhile, she is trying to figure out how to love Fenris when he hates mages, and also definitely not looking at Sebastian's gorgeous eyes. Definitely not. Neither is Fenris. Sebastian is not looking back.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Definitely.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Canon divergence in which almost all of act 3 goes in the bin, and three damaged people try to find a way to live with each other and themselves, and maybe heal a bit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/119204.html" target="_blank"&gt;Chapter index here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/127281.html#cutid1"&gt;Chapter Twenty-Seven&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=rose_in_winter&amp;ditemid=127281" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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  <entry>
    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-20:104490:127173</id>
    <author>
      <email>lassarina@dreamwidth.org</email>
      <name>Lassarina</name>
    </author>
    <dw:poster user="lassarina"/>
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    <title>[Dragon Age 2] When Love With Unconfin&amp;eacute;d Wings, Chapter 26</title>
    <published>2026-03-13T02:13:22Z</published>
    <updated>2026-03-15T01:25:48Z</updated>
    <category term="multi-chapter: wings"/>
    <dw:security>public</dw:security>
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    <content type="html">Posted by: &lt;span lj:user='lassarina' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'&gt;&lt;a href='https://lassarina.dreamwidth.org/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='https://lassarina.dreamwidth.org/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;lassarina&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Characters:&lt;/b&gt; Fenris, Mage Female Hawke, Sebastian Vael (Fenris/f!Hawke/Sebastian)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rating:&lt;/b&gt; NC-17&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Contains:&lt;/b&gt; Canon-typical violence, explicit sex&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Fic Wordcount:&lt;/b&gt; 117,000&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Chapter Wordcount:&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Notes:&lt;/b&gt; Canon-divergent, ignoring most of Act 3. A thousand thanks to &lt;span style='white-space: nowrap;'&gt;&lt;a href='https://senmut.dreamwidth.org/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='https://senmut.dreamwidth.org/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;senmut&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;'s Discord server for cheering and brainstorming and reactions and encouragement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Beta:&lt;/b&gt; breadedsinner and MikWrites_InSpace&lt;br /&gt;Summary: After the duel with the Arishok, Ariane Hawke looks around at the wreckage of her life in Kirkwall and asks herself: what is left for me here? As tensions increase between the Circle and the Templars, she turns to helping Sebastian retake Starkhaven. Meanwhile, she is trying to figure out how to love Fenris when he hates mages, and also definitely not looking at Sebastian's gorgeous eyes. Definitely not. Neither is Fenris. Sebastian is not looking back.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Definitely.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Canon divergence in which almost all of act 3 goes in the bin, and three damaged people try to find a way to live with each other and themselves, and maybe heal a bit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/119204.html" target="_blank"&gt;Chapter index here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/127173.html#cutid1"&gt;Chapter Twenty-Six&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=rose_in_winter&amp;ditemid=127173" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-20:104490:126956</id>
    <author>
      <email>lassarina@dreamwidth.org</email>
      <name>Lassarina</name>
    </author>
    <dw:poster user="lassarina"/>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/126956.html"/>
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    <title>[Dragon Age 2] When Love With Unconfin&amp;eacute;d Wings, Chapter 25</title>
    <published>2026-03-13T02:08:33Z</published>
    <updated>2026-03-13T02:14:29Z</updated>
    <category term="multi-chapter: wings"/>
    <dw:security>public</dw:security>
    <dw:reply-count>0</dw:reply-count>
    <content type="html">Posted by: &lt;span lj:user='lassarina' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'&gt;&lt;a href='https://lassarina.dreamwidth.org/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='https://lassarina.dreamwidth.org/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;lassarina&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Characters:&lt;/b&gt; Fenris, Mage Female Hawke, Sebastian Vael (Fenris/f!Hawke/Sebastian)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rating:&lt;/b&gt; NC-17&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Contains:&lt;/b&gt; Canon-typical violence, explicit sex&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Fic Wordcount:&lt;/b&gt; 117,000&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Chapter Wordcount:&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Notes:&lt;/b&gt; Canon-divergent, ignoring most of Act 3. A thousand thanks to &lt;span style='white-space: nowrap;'&gt;&lt;a href='https://senmut.dreamwidth.org/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='https://senmut.dreamwidth.org/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;senmut&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;'s Discord server for cheering and brainstorming and reactions and encouragement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Beta:&lt;/b&gt; breadedsinner and MikWrites_InSpace&lt;br /&gt;Summary: After the duel with the Arishok, Ariane Hawke looks around at the wreckage of her life in Kirkwall and asks herself: what is left for me here? As tensions increase between the Circle and the Templars, she turns to helping Sebastian retake Starkhaven. Meanwhile, she is trying to figure out how to love Fenris when he hates mages, and also definitely not looking at Sebastian's gorgeous eyes. Definitely not. Neither is Fenris. Sebastian is not looking back.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Definitely.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Canon divergence in which almost all of act 3 goes in the bin, and three damaged people try to find a way to live with each other and themselves, and maybe heal a bit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/119204.html" target="_blank"&gt;Chapter index here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/126956.html#cutid1"&gt;Chapter Twenty-Five&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=rose_in_winter&amp;ditemid=126956" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-20:104490:126682</id>
    <author>
      <email>lassarina@dreamwidth.org</email>
      <name>Lassarina</name>
    </author>
    <dw:poster user="lassarina"/>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/126682.html"/>
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    <title>[Dragon Age 2] When Love With Unconfin&amp;eacute;d Wings, Chapter 24</title>
    <published>2026-02-02T04:56:06Z</published>
    <updated>2026-03-13T02:14:06Z</updated>
    <category term="multi-chapter: wings"/>
    <dw:security>public</dw:security>
    <dw:reply-count>0</dw:reply-count>
    <content type="html">Posted by: &lt;span lj:user='lassarina' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'&gt;&lt;a href='https://lassarina.dreamwidth.org/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='https://lassarina.dreamwidth.org/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;lassarina&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Characters:&lt;/b&gt; Fenris, Mage Female Hawke, Sebastian Vael (Fenris/f!Hawke/Sebastian)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rating:&lt;/b&gt; NC-17&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Contains:&lt;/b&gt; Canon-typical violence, explicit sex&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Fic Wordcount:&lt;/b&gt; 117,000&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Chapter Wordcount:&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Notes:&lt;/b&gt; Canon-divergent, ignoring most of Act 3. A thousand thanks to &lt;span style='white-space: nowrap;'&gt;&lt;a href='https://senmut.dreamwidth.org/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='https://senmut.dreamwidth.org/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;senmut&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;'s Discord server for cheering and brainstorming and reactions and encouragement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Beta:&lt;/b&gt; breadedsinner and MikWrites_InSpace&lt;br /&gt;Summary: After the duel with the Arishok, Ariane Hawke looks around at the wreckage of her life in Kirkwall and asks herself: what is left for me here? As tensions increase between the Circle and the Templars, she turns to helping Sebastian retake Starkhaven. Meanwhile, she is trying to figure out how to love Fenris when he hates mages, and also definitely not looking at Sebastian's gorgeous eyes. Definitely not. Neither is Fenris. Sebastian is not looking back.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Definitely.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Canon divergence in which almost all of act 3 goes in the bin, and three damaged people try to find a way to live with each other and themselves, and maybe heal a bit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/119204.html" target="_blank"&gt;Chapter index here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/126682.html#cutid1"&gt;Chapter Twenty-Four&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=rose_in_winter&amp;ditemid=126682" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-20:104490:126292</id>
    <author>
      <email>lassarina@dreamwidth.org</email>
      <name>Lassarina</name>
    </author>
    <dw:poster user="lassarina"/>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/126292.html"/>
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    <title>[Dragon Age 2] When Love With Unconfin&amp;eacute;d Wings, Chapter 23</title>
    <published>2026-02-02T04:54:48Z</published>
    <updated>2026-02-02T04:57:52Z</updated>
    <category term="multi-chapter: wings"/>
    <dw:security>public</dw:security>
    <dw:reply-count>0</dw:reply-count>
    <content type="html">Posted by: &lt;span lj:user='lassarina' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'&gt;&lt;a href='https://lassarina.dreamwidth.org/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='https://lassarina.dreamwidth.org/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;lassarina&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Characters:&lt;/b&gt; Fenris, Mage Female Hawke, Sebastian Vael (Fenris/f!Hawke/Sebastian)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rating:&lt;/b&gt; NC-17&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Contains:&lt;/b&gt; Canon-typical violence, explicit sex&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Fic Wordcount:&lt;/b&gt; 117,000&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Chapter Wordcount:&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Notes:&lt;/b&gt; Canon-divergent, ignoring most of Act 3. A thousand thanks to &lt;span style='white-space: nowrap;'&gt;&lt;a href='https://senmut.dreamwidth.org/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='https://senmut.dreamwidth.org/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;senmut&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;'s Discord server for cheering and brainstorming and reactions and encouragement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Beta:&lt;/b&gt; breadedsinner and MikWrites_InSpace&lt;br /&gt;Summary: After the duel with the Arishok, Ariane Hawke looks around at the wreckage of her life in Kirkwall and asks herself: what is left for me here? As tensions increase between the Circle and the Templars, she turns to helping Sebastian retake Starkhaven. Meanwhile, she is trying to figure out how to love Fenris when he hates mages, and also definitely not looking at Sebastian's gorgeous eyes. Definitely not. Neither is Fenris. Sebastian is not looking back.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Definitely.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Canon divergence in which almost all of act 3 goes in the bin, and three damaged people try to find a way to live with each other and themselves, and maybe heal a bit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/119204.html" target="_blank"&gt;Chapter index here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/126292.html#cutid1"&gt;Chapter Twenty-Three&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=rose_in_winter&amp;ditemid=126292" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-20:104490:126011</id>
    <author>
      <email>lassarina@dreamwidth.org</email>
      <name>Lassarina</name>
    </author>
    <dw:poster user="lassarina"/>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/126011.html"/>
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    <title>[Dragon Age 2] When Love With Unconfin&amp;eacute;d Wings, Chapter 22</title>
    <published>2026-02-02T04:53:17Z</published>
    <updated>2026-02-02T04:57:35Z</updated>
    <category term="multi-chapter: wings"/>
    <dw:security>public</dw:security>
    <dw:reply-count>0</dw:reply-count>
    <content type="html">Posted by: &lt;span lj:user='lassarina' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'&gt;&lt;a href='https://lassarina.dreamwidth.org/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='https://lassarina.dreamwidth.org/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;lassarina&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Characters:&lt;/b&gt; Fenris, Mage Female Hawke, Sebastian Vael (Fenris/f!Hawke/Sebastian)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rating:&lt;/b&gt; NC-17&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Contains:&lt;/b&gt; Canon-typical violence, explicit sex&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Fic Wordcount:&lt;/b&gt; 117,000&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Chapter Wordcount:&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Notes:&lt;/b&gt; Canon-divergent, ignoring most of Act 3. A thousand thanks to &lt;span style='white-space: nowrap;'&gt;&lt;a href='https://senmut.dreamwidth.org/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='https://senmut.dreamwidth.org/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;senmut&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;'s Discord server for cheering and brainstorming and reactions and encouragement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Beta:&lt;/b&gt; breadedsinner and MikWrites_InSpace&lt;br /&gt;Summary: After the duel with the Arishok, Ariane Hawke looks around at the wreckage of her life in Kirkwall and asks herself: what is left for me here? As tensions increase between the Circle and the Templars, she turns to helping Sebastian retake Starkhaven. Meanwhile, she is trying to figure out how to love Fenris when he hates mages, and also definitely not looking at Sebastian's gorgeous eyes. Definitely not. Neither is Fenris. Sebastian is not looking back.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Definitely.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Canon divergence in which almost all of act 3 goes in the bin, and three damaged people try to find a way to live with each other and themselves, and maybe heal a bit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/119204.html" target="_blank"&gt;Chapter index here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/126011.html#cutid1"&gt;Chapter Twenty-Two&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=rose_in_winter&amp;ditemid=126011" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-20:104490:125714</id>
    <author>
      <email>lassarina@dreamwidth.org</email>
      <name>Lassarina</name>
    </author>
    <dw:poster user="lassarina"/>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/125714.html"/>
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    <title>[Dragon Age 2] When Love with Unconfin&amp;eacute;d Wings, Chapter 21</title>
    <published>2025-01-05T22:57:31Z</published>
    <updated>2026-02-02T04:57:13Z</updated>
    <category term="multi-chapter: wings"/>
    <dw:security>public</dw:security>
    <dw:reply-count>0</dw:reply-count>
    <content type="html">Posted by: &lt;span lj:user='lassarina' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'&gt;&lt;a href='https://lassarina.dreamwidth.org/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='https://lassarina.dreamwidth.org/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;lassarina&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Characters:&lt;/b&gt; Fenris, Mage Female Hawke, Sebastian Vael (Fenris/f!Hawke/Sebastian)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rating:&lt;/b&gt; NC-17&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Contains:&lt;/b&gt; Canon-typical violence, explicit sex&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Fic Wordcount:&lt;/b&gt; 117,000&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Chapter Wordcount:&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Notes:&lt;/b&gt; Canon-divergent, ignoring most of Act 3. A thousand thanks to &lt;span style='white-space: nowrap;'&gt;&lt;a href='https://senmut.dreamwidth.org/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='https://senmut.dreamwidth.org/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;senmut&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;'s Discord server for cheering and brainstorming and reactions and encouragement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Beta:&lt;/b&gt; breadedsinner and MikWrites_InSpace&lt;br /&gt;Summary: After the duel with the Arishok, Ariane Hawke looks around at the wreckage of her life in Kirkwall and asks herself: what is left for me here? As tensions increase between the Circle and the Templars, she turns to helping Sebastian retake Starkhaven. Meanwhile, she is trying to figure out how to love Fenris when he hates mages, and also definitely not looking at Sebastian's gorgeous eyes. Definitely not. Neither is Fenris. Sebastian is not looking back.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Definitely.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Canon divergence in which almost all of act 3 goes in the bin, and three damaged people try to find a way to live with each other and themselves, and maybe heal a bit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/119204.html" target="_blank"&gt;Chapter index here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/125714.html#cutid1"&gt;Chapter Twenty-One&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=rose_in_winter&amp;ditemid=125714" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-20:104490:125476</id>
    <author>
      <email>lassarina@dreamwidth.org</email>
      <name>Lassarina</name>
    </author>
    <dw:poster user="lassarina"/>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/125476.html"/>
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    <title>[Dragon Age 2] When Love with Unconfin&amp;eacute;d Wings, Chapter 20</title>
    <published>2025-01-05T22:56:01Z</published>
    <updated>2025-01-05T22:56:01Z</updated>
    <category term="multi-chapter: wings"/>
    <dw:security>public</dw:security>
    <dw:reply-count>0</dw:reply-count>
    <content type="html">Posted by: &lt;span lj:user='lassarina' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'&gt;&lt;a href='https://lassarina.dreamwidth.org/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='https://lassarina.dreamwidth.org/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;lassarina&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Characters:&lt;/b&gt; Fenris, Mage Female Hawke, Sebastian Vael (Fenris/f!Hawke/Sebastian)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rating:&lt;/b&gt; NC-17&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Contains:&lt;/b&gt; Canon-typical violence, explicit sex&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Fic Wordcount:&lt;/b&gt; 117,000&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Chapter Wordcount:&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Notes:&lt;/b&gt; Canon-divergent, ignoring most of Act 3. A thousand thanks to &lt;span style='white-space: nowrap;'&gt;&lt;a href='https://senmut.dreamwidth.org/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='https://senmut.dreamwidth.org/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;senmut&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;'s Discord server for cheering and brainstorming and reactions and encouragement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Beta:&lt;/b&gt; breadedsinner and MikWrites_InSpace&lt;br /&gt;Summary: After the duel with the Arishok, Ariane Hawke looks around at the wreckage of her life in Kirkwall and asks herself: what is left for me here? As tensions increase between the Circle and the Templars, she turns to helping Sebastian retake Starkhaven. Meanwhile, she is trying to figure out how to love Fenris when he hates mages, and also definitely not looking at Sebastian's gorgeous eyes. Definitely not. Neither is Fenris. Sebastian is not looking back.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Definitely.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Canon divergence in which almost all of act 3 goes in the bin, and three damaged people try to find a way to live with each other and themselves, and maybe heal a bit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/119204.html" target="_blank"&gt;Chapter index here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/125476.html#cutid1"&gt;Chapter Twenty&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=rose_in_winter&amp;ditemid=125476" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-20:104490:125230</id>
    <author>
      <email>lassarina@dreamwidth.org</email>
      <name>Lassarina</name>
    </author>
    <dw:poster user="lassarina"/>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/125230.html"/>
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    <title>[Dragon Age 2] When Love with Unconfin&amp;eacute;d Wings, Chapter 19</title>
    <published>2024-11-11T04:49:32Z</published>
    <updated>2024-11-11T04:49:32Z</updated>
    <category term="multi-chapter: wings"/>
    <dw:security>public</dw:security>
    <dw:reply-count>0</dw:reply-count>
    <content type="html">Posted by: &lt;span lj:user='lassarina' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'&gt;&lt;a href='https://lassarina.dreamwidth.org/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='https://lassarina.dreamwidth.org/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;lassarina&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Characters:&lt;/b&gt; Fenris, Mage Female Hawke, Sebastian Vael (Fenris/f!Hawke/Sebastian)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rating:&lt;/b&gt; NC-17&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Contains:&lt;/b&gt; Canon-typical violence, explicit sex&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Fic Wordcount:&lt;/b&gt; 117,000&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Chapter Wordcount:&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Notes:&lt;/b&gt; Canon-divergent, ignoring most of Act 3. A thousand thanks to &lt;span style='white-space: nowrap;'&gt;&lt;a href='https://senmut.dreamwidth.org/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='https://senmut.dreamwidth.org/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;senmut&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;'s Discord server for cheering and brainstorming and reactions and encouragement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Beta:&lt;/b&gt; breadedsinner and MikWrites_InSpace&lt;br /&gt;Summary: After the duel with the Arishok, Ariane Hawke looks around at the wreckage of her life in Kirkwall and asks herself: what is left for me here? As tensions increase between the Circle and the Templars, she turns to helping Sebastian retake Starkhaven. Meanwhile, she is trying to figure out how to love Fenris when he hates mages, and also definitely not looking at Sebastian's gorgeous eyes. Definitely not. Neither is Fenris. Sebastian is not looking back.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Definitely.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Canon divergence in which almost all of act 3 goes in the bin, and three damaged people try to find a way to live with each other and themselves, and maybe heal a bit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/119204.html" target="_blank"&gt;Chapter index here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/125230.html#cutid1"&gt;Chapter Nineteen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=rose_in_winter&amp;ditemid=125230" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-20:104490:124976</id>
    <author>
      <email>lassarina@dreamwidth.org</email>
      <name>Lassarina</name>
    </author>
    <dw:poster user="lassarina"/>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/124976.html"/>
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    <title>[Dragon Age 2] When Love with Unconfin&amp;eacute;d Wings, Chapter 18</title>
    <published>2024-11-11T04:45:20Z</published>
    <updated>2024-11-11T04:53:59Z</updated>
    <category term="multi-chapter: wings"/>
    <dw:security>public</dw:security>
    <dw:reply-count>0</dw:reply-count>
    <content type="html">Posted by: &lt;span lj:user='lassarina' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'&gt;&lt;a href='https://lassarina.dreamwidth.org/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='https://lassarina.dreamwidth.org/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;lassarina&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Characters:&lt;/b&gt; Fenris, Mage Female Hawke, Sebastian Vael (Fenris/f!Hawke/Sebastian)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rating:&lt;/b&gt; NC-17&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Contains:&lt;/b&gt; Canon-typical violence, explicit sex&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Fic Wordcount:&lt;/b&gt; 117,000&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Chapter Wordcount:&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Notes:&lt;/b&gt; Canon-divergent, ignoring most of Act 3. A thousand thanks to &lt;span style='white-space: nowrap;'&gt;&lt;a href='https://senmut.dreamwidth.org/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='https://senmut.dreamwidth.org/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;senmut&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;'s Discord server for cheering and brainstorming and reactions and encouragement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Beta:&lt;/b&gt; breadedsinner and MikWrites_InSpace&lt;br /&gt;Summary: After the duel with the Arishok, Ariane Hawke looks around at the wreckage of her life in Kirkwall and asks herself: what is left for me here? As tensions increase between the Circle and the Templars, she turns to helping Sebastian retake Starkhaven. Meanwhile, she is trying to figure out how to love Fenris when he hates mages, and also definitely not looking at Sebastian's gorgeous eyes. Definitely not. Neither is Fenris. Sebastian is not looking back.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Definitely.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Canon divergence in which almost all of act 3 goes in the bin, and three damaged people try to find a way to live with each other and themselves, and maybe heal a bit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/119204.html" target="_blank"&gt;Chapter index here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/124976.html#cutid1"&gt;Chapter Eighteen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=rose_in_winter&amp;ditemid=124976" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-20:104490:124813</id>
    <author>
      <email>lassarina@dreamwidth.org</email>
      <name>Lassarina</name>
    </author>
    <dw:poster user="lassarina"/>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/124813.html"/>
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    <title>[Dragon Age 2] When Love with Unconfin&amp;eacute;d Wings, Chapter 17</title>
    <published>2024-11-01T04:22:04Z</published>
    <updated>2024-11-11T04:54:28Z</updated>
    <category term="multi-chapter: wings"/>
    <dw:security>public</dw:security>
    <dw:reply-count>0</dw:reply-count>
    <content type="html">Posted by: &lt;span lj:user='lassarina' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'&gt;&lt;a href='https://lassarina.dreamwidth.org/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='https://lassarina.dreamwidth.org/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;lassarina&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Characters:&lt;/b&gt; Fenris, Mage Female Hawke, Sebastian Vael (Fenris/f!Hawke/Sebastian)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rating:&lt;/b&gt; NC-17&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Contains:&lt;/b&gt; Canon-typical violence, explicit sex&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Fic Wordcount:&lt;/b&gt; 117,000&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Chapter Wordcount:&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Notes:&lt;/b&gt; Canon-divergent, ignoring most of Act 3. A thousand thanks to &lt;span style='white-space: nowrap;'&gt;&lt;a href='https://senmut.dreamwidth.org/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='https://senmut.dreamwidth.org/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;senmut&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;'s Discord server for cheering and brainstorming and reactions and encouragement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Beta:&lt;/b&gt; breadedsinner and MikWrites_InSpace&lt;br /&gt;Summary: After the duel with the Arishok, Ariane Hawke looks around at the wreckage of her life in Kirkwall and asks herself: what is left for me here? As tensions increase between the Circle and the Templars, she turns to helping Sebastian retake Starkhaven. Meanwhile, she is trying to figure out how to love Fenris when he hates mages, and also definitely not looking at Sebastian's gorgeous eyes. Definitely not. Neither is Fenris. Sebastian is not looking back.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Definitely.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Canon divergence in which almost all of act 3 goes in the bin, and three damaged people try to find a way to live with each other and themselves, and maybe heal a bit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/119204.html" target="_blank"&gt;Chapter index here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/124813.html#cutid1"&gt;Chapter Seventeen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=rose_in_winter&amp;ditemid=124813" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-20:104490:124467</id>
    <author>
      <email>lassarina@dreamwidth.org</email>
      <name>Lassarina</name>
    </author>
    <dw:poster user="lassarina"/>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/124467.html"/>
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    <title>[Dragon Age 2] When Love with Unconfin&amp;eacute;d Wings, Chapter 16</title>
    <published>2024-11-01T04:20:54Z</published>
    <updated>2024-11-01T04:23:02Z</updated>
    <category term="multi-chapter: wings"/>
    <dw:security>public</dw:security>
    <dw:reply-count>0</dw:reply-count>
    <content type="html">Posted by: &lt;span lj:user='lassarina' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'&gt;&lt;a href='https://lassarina.dreamwidth.org/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='https://lassarina.dreamwidth.org/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;lassarina&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Characters:&lt;/b&gt; Fenris, Mage Female Hawke, Sebastian Vael (Fenris/f!Hawke/Sebastian)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rating:&lt;/b&gt; NC-17&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Contains:&lt;/b&gt; Canon-typical violence, explicit sex&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Fic Wordcount:&lt;/b&gt; 117,000&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Chapter Wordcount:&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Notes:&lt;/b&gt; Canon-divergent, ignoring most of Act 3. A thousand thanks to &lt;span style='white-space: nowrap;'&gt;&lt;a href='https://senmut.dreamwidth.org/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='https://senmut.dreamwidth.org/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;senmut&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;'s Discord server for cheering and brainstorming and reactions and encouragement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Beta:&lt;/b&gt; breadedsinner and MikWrites_InSpace&lt;br /&gt;Summary: After the duel with the Arishok, Ariane Hawke looks around at the wreckage of her life in Kirkwall and asks herself: what is left for me here? As tensions increase between the Circle and the Templars, she turns to helping Sebastian retake Starkhaven. Meanwhile, she is trying to figure out how to love Fenris when he hates mages, and also definitely not looking at Sebastian's gorgeous eyes. Definitely not. Neither is Fenris. Sebastian is not looking back.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Definitely.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Canon divergence in which almost all of act 3 goes in the bin, and three damaged people try to find a way to live with each other and themselves, and maybe heal a bit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/119204.html" target="_blank"&gt;Chapter index here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/124467.html#cutid1"&gt;Chapter Sixteen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=rose_in_winter&amp;ditemid=124467" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-20:104490:124217</id>
    <author>
      <email>lassarina@dreamwidth.org</email>
      <name>Lassarina</name>
    </author>
    <dw:poster user="lassarina"/>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/124217.html"/>
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    <title>[Dragon Age 2] When Love with Unconfin&amp;eacute;d Wings, Chapter 15</title>
    <published>2024-10-30T01:36:16Z</published>
    <updated>2024-11-01T04:22:39Z</updated>
    <category term="multi-chapter: wings"/>
    <dw:security>public</dw:security>
    <dw:reply-count>0</dw:reply-count>
    <content type="html">Posted by: &lt;span lj:user='lassarina' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'&gt;&lt;a href='https://lassarina.dreamwidth.org/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='https://lassarina.dreamwidth.org/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;lassarina&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Characters:&lt;/b&gt; Fenris, Mage Female Hawke, Sebastian Vael (Fenris/f!Hawke/Sebastian)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rating:&lt;/b&gt; NC-17&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Contains:&lt;/b&gt; Canon-typical violence, explicit sex&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Fic Wordcount:&lt;/b&gt; 117,000&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Chapter Wordcount:&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Notes:&lt;/b&gt; Canon-divergent, ignoring most of Act 3. A thousand thanks to &lt;span style='white-space: nowrap;'&gt;&lt;a href='https://senmut.dreamwidth.org/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='https://senmut.dreamwidth.org/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;senmut&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;'s Discord server for cheering and brainstorming and reactions and encouragement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Beta:&lt;/b&gt; breadedsinner and MikWrites_InSpace&lt;br /&gt;Summary: After the duel with the Arishok, Ariane Hawke looks around at the wreckage of her life in Kirkwall and asks herself: what is left for me here? As tensions increase between the Circle and the Templars, she turns to helping Sebastian retake Starkhaven. Meanwhile, she is trying to figure out how to love Fenris when he hates mages, and also definitely not looking at Sebastian's gorgeous eyes. Definitely not. Neither is Fenris. Sebastian is not looking back.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Definitely.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Canon divergence in which almost all of act 3 goes in the bin, and three damaged people try to find a way to live with each other and themselves, and maybe heal a bit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/119204.html" target="_blank"&gt;Chapter index here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/124217.html#cutid1"&gt;Chapter Fifteen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=rose_in_winter&amp;ditemid=124217" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-20:104490:124024</id>
    <author>
      <email>lassarina@dreamwidth.org</email>
      <name>Lassarina</name>
    </author>
    <dw:poster user="lassarina"/>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/124024.html"/>
    <link rel="self" type="text/xml" href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/data/atom/?itemid=124024"/>
    <title>[Dragon Age 2] When Love with Unconfin&amp;eacute;d Wings, Chapter 14</title>
    <published>2024-10-30T01:27:59Z</published>
    <updated>2024-10-30T01:41:50Z</updated>
    <category term="multi-chapter: wings"/>
    <dw:security>public</dw:security>
    <dw:reply-count>0</dw:reply-count>
    <content type="html">Posted by: &lt;span lj:user='lassarina' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'&gt;&lt;a href='https://lassarina.dreamwidth.org/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='https://lassarina.dreamwidth.org/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;lassarina&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Characters:&lt;/b&gt; Fenris, Mage Female Hawke, Sebastian Vael (Fenris/f!Hawke/Sebastian)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rating:&lt;/b&gt; NC-17&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Contains:&lt;/b&gt; Canon-typical violence, explicit sex&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Fic Wordcount:&lt;/b&gt; 117,000&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Chapter Wordcount:&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Notes:&lt;/b&gt; Canon-divergent, ignoring most of Act 3. A thousand thanks to &lt;span style='white-space: nowrap;'&gt;&lt;a href='https://senmut.dreamwidth.org/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='https://senmut.dreamwidth.org/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;senmut&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;'s Discord server for cheering and brainstorming and reactions and encouragement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Beta:&lt;/b&gt; breadedsinner and MikWrites_InSpace&lt;br /&gt;Summary: After the duel with the Arishok, Ariane Hawke looks around at the wreckage of her life in Kirkwall and asks herself: what is left for me here? As tensions increase between the Circle and the Templars, she turns to helping Sebastian retake Starkhaven. Meanwhile, she is trying to figure out how to love Fenris when he hates mages, and also definitely not looking at Sebastian's gorgeous eyes. Definitely not. Neither is Fenris. Sebastian is not looking back.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Definitely.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Canon divergence in which almost all of act 3 goes in the bin, and three damaged people try to find a way to live with each other and themselves, and maybe heal a bit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/119204.html" target="_blank"&gt;Chapter index here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/124024.html#cutid1"&gt;Chapter Fourteen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=rose_in_winter&amp;ditemid=124024" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-20:104490:123852</id>
    <author>
      <email>lassarina@dreamwidth.org</email>
      <name>Lassarina</name>
    </author>
    <dw:poster user="lassarina"/>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/123852.html"/>
    <link rel="self" type="text/xml" href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/data/atom/?itemid=123852"/>
    <title>[FFVI/FFXII] The Invaluable Art of Knowing When to Fold, Chapter Five</title>
    <published>2024-10-12T02:58:54Z</published>
    <updated>2024-10-12T02:58:54Z</updated>
    <category term="multi-chapter: fold"/>
    <dw:security>public</dw:security>
    <dw:reply-count>0</dw:reply-count>
    <content type="html">Posted by: &lt;span lj:user='lassarina' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'&gt;&lt;a href='https://lassarina.dreamwidth.org/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='https://lassarina.dreamwidth.org/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;lassarina&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Characters:&lt;/b&gt; Balthier, Celes Chere, Locke Cole (Celes/Locke, Balthier/Celes/Locke)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rating:&lt;/b&gt; NC-17&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Contains:&lt;/b&gt; Canon-typical violence, explicit sex&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Wordcount:&lt;/b&gt; 13,727&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Notes:&lt;/b&gt; Yeah so I started this in 2009, and then it just sat there for fifteen years, but the &lt;i&gt;idea&lt;/i&gt; never left me alone, so here we are.   This crossover places characters from FF6 into Ivalice as though they have always been there; personalities remain intact, although backstories may have altered.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Beta:&lt;/b&gt; none&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Summary:&lt;/b&gt; One of the most valuable lessons a young sky pirate will ever learn is when it is wisest to simply cut his losses and walk away.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/122149.html"&gt;Chapter Index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/123852.html#cutid1"&gt;Chapter Five&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=rose_in_winter&amp;ditemid=123852" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-20:104490:123497</id>
    <author>
      <email>lassarina@dreamwidth.org</email>
      <name>Lassarina</name>
    </author>
    <dw:poster user="lassarina"/>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/123497.html"/>
    <link rel="self" type="text/xml" href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/data/atom/?itemid=123497"/>
    <title>[FFVI/FFXII] The Invaluable Art of Knowing When to Fold, Chapter Four</title>
    <published>2024-10-10T03:46:00Z</published>
    <updated>2024-10-12T02:59:15Z</updated>
    <category term="multi-chapter: fold"/>
    <dw:security>public</dw:security>
    <dw:reply-count>0</dw:reply-count>
    <content type="html">Posted by: &lt;span lj:user='lassarina' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'&gt;&lt;a href='https://lassarina.dreamwidth.org/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='https://lassarina.dreamwidth.org/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;lassarina&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Characters:&lt;/b&gt; Balthier, Celes Chere, Locke Cole (Celes/Locke, Balthier/Celes/Locke)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rating:&lt;/b&gt; NC-17&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Contains:&lt;/b&gt; Canon-typical violence, explicit sex&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Wordcount:&lt;/b&gt; 13,727&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Notes:&lt;/b&gt; Yeah so I started this in 2009, and then it just sat there for fifteen years, but the &lt;i&gt;idea&lt;/i&gt; never left me alone, so here we are.   This crossover places characters from FF6 into Ivalice as though they have always been there; personalities remain intact, although backstories may have altered.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Beta:&lt;/b&gt; none&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Summary:&lt;/b&gt; One of the most valuable lessons a young sky pirate will ever learn is when it is wisest to simply cut his losses and walk away.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/122149.html"&gt;Chapter Index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/123497.html#cutid1"&gt;Chapter Four&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=rose_in_winter&amp;ditemid=123497" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-20:104490:123235</id>
    <author>
      <email>lassarina@dreamwidth.org</email>
      <name>Lassarina</name>
    </author>
    <dw:poster user="lassarina"/>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/123235.html"/>
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    <title>[Dragon Age 2] When Love with Unconfin&amp;eacute;d Wings, Chapter 13</title>
    <published>2024-10-04T23:21:49Z</published>
    <updated>2024-10-30T01:41:24Z</updated>
    <category term="multi-chapter: wings"/>
    <dw:security>public</dw:security>
    <dw:reply-count>0</dw:reply-count>
    <content type="html">Posted by: &lt;span lj:user='lassarina' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'&gt;&lt;a href='https://lassarina.dreamwidth.org/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='https://lassarina.dreamwidth.org/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;lassarina&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Characters:&lt;/b&gt; Fenris, Mage Female Hawke, Sebastian Vael (Fenris/f!Hawke/Sebastian)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rating:&lt;/b&gt; NC-17&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Contains:&lt;/b&gt; Canon-typical violence, explicit sex&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Fic Wordcount:&lt;/b&gt; 117,000&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Chapter Wordcount:&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Notes:&lt;/b&gt; Canon-divergent, ignoring most of Act 3. A thousand thanks to &lt;span style='white-space: nowrap;'&gt;&lt;a href='https://senmut.dreamwidth.org/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='https://senmut.dreamwidth.org/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;senmut&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;'s Discord server for cheering and brainstorming and reactions and encouragement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Beta:&lt;/b&gt; breadedsinner and MikWrites_InSpace&lt;br /&gt;Summary: After the duel with the Arishok, Ariane Hawke looks around at the wreckage of her life in Kirkwall and asks herself: what is left for me here? As tensions increase between the Circle and the Templars, she turns to helping Sebastian retake Starkhaven. Meanwhile, she is trying to figure out how to love Fenris when he hates mages, and also definitely not looking at Sebastian's gorgeous eyes. Definitely not. Neither is Fenris. Sebastian is not looking back.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Definitely.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Canon divergence in which almost all of act 3 goes in the bin, and three damaged people try to find a way to live with each other and themselves, and maybe heal a bit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/119204.html" target="_blank"&gt;Chapter index here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/123235.html#cutid1"&gt;Chapter Thirteen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=rose_in_winter&amp;ditemid=123235" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-20:104490:122886</id>
    <author>
      <email>lassarina@dreamwidth.org</email>
      <name>Lassarina</name>
    </author>
    <dw:poster user="lassarina"/>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/122886.html"/>
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    <title>[Dragon Age 2] When Love with Unconfin&amp;eacute;d Wings, Chapter 12</title>
    <published>2024-10-04T23:20:05Z</published>
    <updated>2024-10-04T23:22:49Z</updated>
    <category term="multi-chapter: wings"/>
    <dw:security>public</dw:security>
    <dw:reply-count>0</dw:reply-count>
    <content type="html">Posted by: &lt;span lj:user='lassarina' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'&gt;&lt;a href='https://lassarina.dreamwidth.org/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='https://lassarina.dreamwidth.org/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;lassarina&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Characters:&lt;/b&gt; Fenris, Mage Female Hawke, Sebastian Vael (Fenris/f!Hawke/Sebastian)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rating:&lt;/b&gt; NC-17&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Contains:&lt;/b&gt; Canon-typical violence, explicit sex&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Fic Wordcount:&lt;/b&gt; 117,000&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Chapter Wordcount:&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Notes:&lt;/b&gt; Canon-divergent, ignoring most of Act 3. A thousand thanks to &lt;span style='white-space: nowrap;'&gt;&lt;a href='https://senmut.dreamwidth.org/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='https://senmut.dreamwidth.org/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;senmut&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;'s Discord server for cheering and brainstorming and reactions and encouragement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Beta:&lt;/b&gt; breadedsinner and MikWrites_InSpace&lt;br /&gt;Summary: After the duel with the Arishok, Ariane Hawke looks around at the wreckage of her life in Kirkwall and asks herself: what is left for me here? As tensions increase between the Circle and the Templars, she turns to helping Sebastian retake Starkhaven. Meanwhile, she is trying to figure out how to love Fenris when he hates mages, and also definitely not looking at Sebastian's gorgeous eyes. Definitely not. Neither is Fenris. Sebastian is not looking back.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Definitely.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Canon divergence in which almost all of act 3 goes in the bin, and three damaged people try to find a way to live with each other and themselves, and maybe heal a bit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/119204.html" target="_blank"&gt;Chapter index here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/122886.html#cutid1"&gt;Chapter Twelve&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=rose_in_winter&amp;ditemid=122886" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-20:104490:122628</id>
    <author>
      <email>lassarina@dreamwidth.org</email>
      <name>Lassarina</name>
    </author>
    <dw:poster user="lassarina"/>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/122628.html"/>
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    <title>[Crossover, FFVI/FFXII] The Invaluable Art of Knowing When To Fold, Chapter Three</title>
    <published>2024-10-04T03:09:56Z</published>
    <updated>2024-10-10T03:46:26Z</updated>
    <category term="multi-chapter: fold"/>
    <dw:security>public</dw:security>
    <dw:reply-count>0</dw:reply-count>
    <content type="html">Posted by: &lt;span lj:user='lassarina' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'&gt;&lt;a href='https://lassarina.dreamwidth.org/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='https://lassarina.dreamwidth.org/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;lassarina&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Characters:&lt;/b&gt; Balthier, Celes Chere, Locke Cole (Celes/Locke, Balthier/Celes/Locke)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rating:&lt;/b&gt; NC-17&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Contains:&lt;/b&gt; Canon-typical violence, explicit sex&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Wordcount:&lt;/b&gt; 13,727&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Notes:&lt;/b&gt; Yeah so I started this in 2009, and then it just sat there for fifteen years, but the &lt;i&gt;idea&lt;/i&gt; never left me alone, so here we are.   This crossover places characters from FF6 into Ivalice as though they have always been there; personalities remain intact, although backstories may have altered.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Beta:&lt;/b&gt; none&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Summary:&lt;/b&gt; One of the most valuable lessons a young sky pirate will ever learn is when it is wisest to simply cut his losses and walk away.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/122149.html"&gt;Chapter Index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/122628.html#cutid1"&gt;Chapter Three&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=rose_in_winter&amp;ditemid=122628" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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  <entry>
    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-20:104490:122534</id>
    <author>
      <email>lassarina@dreamwidth.org</email>
      <name>Lassarina</name>
    </author>
    <dw:poster user="lassarina"/>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/122534.html"/>
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    <title>[Crossover, FFVI/FFXII] The Invaluable Art of Knowing When To Fold, Chapter Two</title>
    <published>2024-09-29T00:12:51Z</published>
    <updated>2024-10-04T03:10:17Z</updated>
    <category term="multi-chapter: fold"/>
    <dw:security>public</dw:security>
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    <content type="html">Posted by: &lt;span lj:user='lassarina' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'&gt;&lt;a href='https://lassarina.dreamwidth.org/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='https://lassarina.dreamwidth.org/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;lassarina&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Characters:&lt;/b&gt; Balthier, Celes Chere, Locke Cole (Celes/Locke, Balthier/Celes/Locke)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rating:&lt;/b&gt; NC-17&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Contains:&lt;/b&gt; Canon-typical violence, explicit sex&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Wordcount:&lt;/b&gt; 13,727&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Notes:&lt;/b&gt; Yeah so I started this in 2009, and then it just sat there for fifteen years, but the &lt;i&gt;idea&lt;/i&gt; never left me alone, so here we are.   This crossover places characters from FF6 into Ivalice as though they have always been there; personalities remain intact, although backstories may have altered.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Beta:&lt;/b&gt; none&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Summary:&lt;/b&gt; One of the most valuable lessons a young sky pirate will ever learn is when it is wisest to simply cut his losses and walk away.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/122149.html"&gt;Chapter Index&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="cut-wrapper"&gt;&lt;span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b class="cut-open"&gt;(&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-text"&gt;&lt;a href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/122534.html#cutid1"&gt;Chapter Two&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b class="cut-close"&gt;&amp;nbsp;)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=rose_in_winter&amp;ditemid=122534" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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  <entry>
    <id>tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-20:104490:122149</id>
    <author>
      <email>lassarina@dreamwidth.org</email>
      <name>Lassarina</name>
    </author>
    <dw:poster user="lassarina"/>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/122149.html"/>
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    <title>[Crossover, FFVI/FFXII] The Invaluable Art of Knowing When To Fold, Chapter Index</title>
    <published>2024-09-29T00:11:36Z</published>
    <updated>2024-10-12T02:59:38Z</updated>
    <category term="character: celes chere"/>
    <category term="pairing: celes/locke"/>
    <category term="length: epic"/>
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    <category term="! chapter lists: multi-chapter fics"/>
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    <category term="fandom: final fantasy xii"/>
    <category term="character: locke cole"/>
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    <content type="html">Posted by: &lt;span lj:user='lassarina' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'&gt;&lt;a href='https://lassarina.dreamwidth.org/profile'&gt;&lt;img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href='https://lassarina.dreamwidth.org/'&gt;&lt;b&gt;lassarina&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Characters:&lt;/b&gt; Balthier, Celes Chere, Locke Cole (Celes/Locke, Balthier/Celes/Locke)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Rating:&lt;/b&gt; NC-17&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Contains:&lt;/b&gt; Canon-typical violence, explicit sex&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Wordcount:&lt;/b&gt; 13,727&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Notes:&lt;/b&gt; Yeah so I started this in 2009, and then it just sat there for fifteen years, but the &lt;i&gt;idea&lt;/i&gt; never left me alone, so here we are.   This crossover places characters from FF6 into Ivalice as though they have always been there; personalities remain intact, although backstories may have altered.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Beta:&lt;/b&gt; none&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Summary:&lt;/b&gt; One of the most valuable lessons a young sky pirate will ever learn is when it is wisest to simply cut his losses and walk away.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/51853.html"&gt;Chapter One&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/122534.html"&gt;Chapter Two&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/122628.html"&gt;Chapter Three&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/123497.html"&gt;Chapter Four&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="https://rose-in-winter.dreamwidth.org/123852.html"&gt;Chapter Five&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Complete!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=rose_in_winter&amp;ditemid=122149" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/&gt; comments</content>
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