The Rise and Fall of Empires - FE3H - Rhea

Title: The Rise and Fall of Empires
Fandom: Fire Emblem Three Houses
Challenge/Prompt: drabblesoup - history is written by the victors
AO3 Link: here

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And so at last it comes to this: the Empire comes to Fhirdiad, hungry for nabatean blood. Humanity, for all its flaws, has at least the merit of predictability.

No matter. She has made the Empire and she can unmake it. Put down the rabid dogs, slay the monster in human skin who would dare to wield her mother's own desecrated corpse against her.

She'll do it right this time. No more legends, no more stories. No example for others to follow.

 

And so at last it comes to this:

Burn it all to ashes.

From the ashes, start anew.

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An Ode To Absent Friends - The Untamed - Nie Huaisang & Wei Wuxian

Title: An Ode To Absent Friends
Fandom: The Untamed
Challenge/Prompt: chenqing_100 - Raising my cup, I beckon the bright moon
AO3 Link: here

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The moon looks lonely tonight; or maybe that’s just Huaisang. Wine these days lulls him into a maudlin state, a melancholic longing for the bygone days of childhood.

His brother had delivered the news with his customary bluntness. Wei Wuxian is dead. Jiang-zongzhu killed him. Such simple words, to cut so deep.

Wei-xiong always had a way with words, especially when it came to wine; Huaisang tries to imagine how he would have described this one, but the only words he can find are his own.

“Until we meet again, then,” he says, and leaves the rest to the poets.

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