#spyverse updates

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Don't tease us like that Rosie! I'm so feral for those dragons! I want any chapter in any dragon pov.

Except for maybe dragon sex, I guess I'm not that feral lol. No judging though. But I'd rather read the resulting frisky riorgail

Too small for a one-shot? Make it a half a shot. Just post it here 😇😈

I will probably post it on ao3 eventually but I'd want to write it out a bit more (later, since I finally moved back to the main fic) and probably re-read both regular Threshing and Xaden POV for reference lol I had it all figured out in my head at the time but that was months ago

Here's a sneak peak of the first half (~1k words) because I'm excited to be writing again now that my wrist is feeling better!

Spoilers, obviously. I'll probably return to finish the second half of what I have written eventually since I only worked on this for like an hour! We haven't even gotten to the best part.

Tairn POV of Chapter 21 of life of spies or Threshing!

‘Come and stay with the golden one until Threshing is concluded,’ Sgaeyl demands. 

Tairn holds back a sound of complaint that will get him in trouble. ‘Why must I attend to her whims when you are already in the valley?’ he asks, even if he is already rising and preparing to take to the sky. He had stayed close, knowing that the young dragon is likely to push her luck after petitioning for the right to enter Threshing. 

Sgaeyl’s answer is more of a snarl than anything else, and Tairn admires the sound as he takes off. His mate is the most fierce she-dragon in the sky and he is in awe of her every day. Even if her taste in bonded ones leaves something to be desired. 

‘Because, my dear mate, I am limited by having a rider in the field and there are humans who would seek to harm her.’ 

Tairn growls and flies faster. ‘Who would dare?’

‘A weak human posturing during Presentation,’ she responds tartly. ‘She is flying in your direction.’

He sends a wave of agreement. Sgaeyl knows she doesn't have to ask Tairn to protect the young dragon they help care for. ‘While you complete patrols?’ 

Sgaeyl sighs tiredly. ‘While I deal with my bonded, who is turning out to be more emotional than expected. I fear he will not calm down until he sees a flash of silver in the skies.’

The black dragon huffs in amusement, having heard about his mate's recent struggles with her rider’s obsession. He uses his superior senses and spots a flash of gold in the distance as Andarna draws closer, nearer to the valley floor. 

‘Is the little human bothering you?’ Tairn attempts. ‘I will help rid you of him if you’d like.’

Happily. 

‘Tairn,’ she snips warningly. 

‘It was just an offer,’ he continues innocently, adjusting his path to meet the small dragon on the ground. 

‘One I will reject,’ she adds. ‘He is simply taken with a human girl. While pathetic, it could prove beneficial in the end.’ 

‘How?’ he asks in disbelief. 

Sgaeyl’s emotions are a flood of uncertainty and pride. ‘His chosen… she is interesting.’

‘An interesting human?’ 

A rare commodity, to be sure. None of the cadets who have crossed the parapet have called to Tairn in the years since the one who came before, and he doubts they ever will again. Not after all that he has lost. 

‘She spies on Navarre, though her motivations are unclear,’ Sgaeyl reminds him. That could be considered interesting. He has heard talk of the girl for years, when the elders predicted her rise as the next Head Scribe. How does a girl training to be a keeper of faulty history end up in this valley, spying on her home country?

Sgaeyl continues. ‘Her body may have been crafted weaker than most, but she does not balk in the face of a dragon.’ 

‘Is that all?’ Tairn asks quietly, sensing there was more to the story. False confidence fills cadets in droves, and many of them do not balk in the face of a dragon simply because they are too stupid or prideful. 

Sgaeyl is quiet for a moment. ‘During the Presentation, when one of the humans threatened Andarna, the silver one he’s obsessed with… she threatened his life for his transgressions.’ 

Tairn considers his words carefully. ‘Perhaps your rider is not useless, if he has chosen an honorable partner.’ 

His mate just scoffs. ‘Perhaps if they were not waiting to claim each other like foolish humans, he would be more bearable. We could not have made it simpler for him.’ 

‘The offer still stands,’ he chuffs in amusement at the reminder, feeling Sgaeyl’s answering wave of annoyance before she retreats from the bond.

Tairn lands by Andarna where she had settled to drink from a lake and greets the small dragon with a press of his wing.

‘I do not need you to watch me,’ she complains fiercely. ‘I am not a hatchling!’ 

The larger dragon pushes back his inconvenient feelings of affection towards the golden feathertail. Ever since the orphaned dragon had forced herself onto him when she was a hatchling, he had become protective of her. She may not have come from his line, but she is still his. 

‘I am not watching you,’ Tairn argues. ‘I am watching everyone else.’

He knows better than most that it’s foolish to trust a human.

Andarna sighs with the weight much larger than her mere four years. ‘Fine, but you must follow me,’ she says, voice dripping in her typical impertinence, and guides him towards a nearby cave entrance. 

‘You said you wanted to watch the proceedings,’ he reminds her. Andarna sends him a wave of annoyance that feels far too much like a human eye roll. He mourns her lack of respect, even as he has no plans to do anything about it. The golden one merely must become a strong enough dragon to justify her impudent and unruly disposition.

Tairn, child of Murtcuideam and Fiaclanfuil and descended from the cunning Dubhmadinn line, follows the small dragon as instructed. 

‘We are going where we must be,’ she says stubbornly and gallops ahead into the dark cavernous space. Tairn sighs tiredly, ducking down to fit through the entrance and following Andarna deeper inside. 

‘We must be in a dark cave with stale air?’ 

Andarna turns to look out into the woods through the cave entrance. Dragons, with their superior senses, can see easily through the trees and shrubbery and they can discern the presence of two pairs of footsteps running in this direction.

An approaching flash of silver through the greenery captures Tairn’s attention and holds it. 

‘Yes,’ Andarna answers. ‘This is exactly where we must be.’

Tairn looks down at the feathertail suspiciously. He is a wise and seasoned war dragon, but even he cannot tell of the future. 

‘And you are… certain about that?’ 

‘I am,’ she answers decisively. ‘Let us retreat into the cave.’ 

Tairn glances at the flash of such an unusual color, belonging to a girl who is so clearly running for her life. ‘Is this about the silver one that Sgaeyl speaks of?’ 

‘Let us retreat into the cave,’ she repeats. ‘Be patient and you will come to see what I see.’

Tairn sends a warning to his mate as he listens yet again, but not before snapping his teeth at Andarna warningly for having the nerve to accuse him of impatience. 

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OK, update since I imagine that you guys will hate me.

The wiki is on hiatus. Also I have technical problem and extreme lack of motivation. My interest in SvS us basically gone. And have VERY mix feelings on Spyverse as whole and I believe it need a reboot. But I couldn't find the motivation to bother. I just don't find much fun any more. I'm sorry. I don't know when the wiki will come. Also I have stress and exams are comings. I hope didn't disappoint. Let just draw funny animal fellas like this guy.

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me when violet: she’s right and she should be allowed to do that

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reactions to my spyverse fourth wing oc

chapter 5: aw he's kind of cute chapter 10: can we keep him? chapter 11-59: baby! violet's tall son actually! if he dies, i swear [insert threat here] chapter 60: he is the chosen one and he will save the day

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In case I was too vague before, the second in the letters series between Xaden and Brennan is coming and it is coming soon! It’ll cover until late June before Reunification Day (because they leave right after that) so I’ll probably post it before the next main fic chapter!

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people shouldn't be hesitant to ask fic writers for stuff they'd like to read bc i sat down to work on spyverse and could not get over the comment i received today on chapter 21 asking about threshing in tairn pov...

anyways i have written 1.5k and none of it is for what i planned to write today

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just realized this is the longest i've gone without a main fic update (one week) since i started posting haha i hope the xaden pov and iron squad one-shot kept it from feeling like so long!

going to post xaden pov for chapter 45 today because i am already like 7k in (yes 45 is only 5.6k in main fic and yes i did in fact cut out some explanatory dialogue/the entire first scene to try and cut it down and it didn't work, xaden is just THAT dramatic, okay??) and then main fic chapter 59 tomorrow

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okay so I updated my timeline and broke apart all of my separate mess of notes into chapters to try and finalize the count and place all my snippets i've written... 71 chapters including the epilogue which will probably be pretty short!

do I dare to update the chapter count in ao3 for the first time? it still might change lol

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why must i edit when i just want to write more smut

nevertheless she persisted bc the next main fic chapter will be up later today!

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feelin' like i need to change my bio because i posted a chapter before i fell asleep and from the look at my comments and inbox this morning, i am clearly in my villain arc

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“So…” Xaden starts as we exit the tunnel to the flight fields. His eyes flit around nervously. “I wanted to give it to you with a few extra days to practice. I know how you feel about being prepared.” 

“Nothing more attractive than adequate preparation,” I tease. Practice? Is it something to help with my signet? 

Xaden leads me to where our dragons are gathered and I’m about to open my mouth to ask about my gift when I catch sight of Tairn and I can’t stop my gasp of surprise. 

“Is that—” I cut myself off sharply, looking between Xaden and Tairn quickly. 

Time for a grand gesture, baby! Chapter 59 of Life of Spies is up and we are officially at the beginning of War Games! Violet and Xaden spend a not-insignificant portion of the chapter making up for lost time...

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sooo when is the next chapter coming?

it was supposed to be this weekend but with my wrist acting up, I dunno! i’ll have to play it by ear!

i have several side story chapters finished so i might edit a few of those to post in the meantime since editing is less hell on my carpal tunnel in general than writing new chapters

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i'm just going to quietly sneak in an update to Ivan's side-story even though I said I wasn't posting spyverse until next month...

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Because I loved your Tairn POV for threshing so much, I figured I'd try my luck and see if you had any interest in doing a random POV for a couple other scenes:

A Garrick POV when Violet comes to find him to collect the scorpiontail venom, and then his reaction when Xaden confronts him about it later. He's such a hilarious character and I love the dynamic with him and Vi, I want to see this so bad! Garrick trying to defend himself like "dude what did you want me to do, let her go ask my dragon without me? This was a no win situation from my side of things and I think you should consider that before removing my head from my body or feeding me to Sgaeyl". Maybe you'll cover this moment from Xaden's POV in his fic but Garrick would be funnier lol.

Liam's POV from when Violet gets stabbed during war games. I'd love both the insight into his guilt and then getting a third person view of the Xaden/Violet devastating goodbye scene. Seeing how he realized Ivan could fix everything would be epic. (Also on that note is there going to be an Ivan POV of this scene in his seven rules fic? Like Rule 1: do anything for your friends)

Okay I'll stop rambling now. Just wanted to say how much I love your spies universe! Also spiraling hard on needing more Riorgail and Empyrean in general after that tease from RY on her Instagram about the new Xaden POV of like my favorite scene ever AHHHHHH

omg thank you! I had so much fun writing Tairn POV... he's just so dramatic and grumpy and kind of stuck-up. In the best of ways!

That Garrick POV request is a good one! Like, very tempting, especially since I haven't gotten there in my Xaden POV story so it's still up for grabs on a narrative scale. I love Garrick so much! He has such a fun scene in Chapter 67 and I am soooo excited for people to read it. The chances of me writing this one is definitely not zero!

Ooof the pain! You guys love to hurt me. Xaden POV of that scene will have to happen, but I'm definitely torn on representing it through another character's eyes since it will definitely be covered in Ivan's story as such a pivotal moment for him. Writing the same angst four times is beyond even me.

Ivan's story will tentatively cover:

week after he's added to iron squad

???

manifestation

reunification day from his pov

I love rambling! Thanks for reaching out 💜 I'm so so glad you love it!

I too am absolutely losing it over the chance of a new Xaden bonus chapter!!!

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Questions 5 and 6 please!

ooo, more questions!💜

5. What is the perfect environment for you to write in?

I have an office thankfully so I love writing on my desktop surrounding by my favorite stuff and all my books. This is where I'll write during downtime! But when I'm off work, I'll just as often write on my iPad on the couch when I want to be near my partner or he's playing a video game or something I'm even slightly invested in. I've written many words in between video game cutscenes.

6. If you’re really concentrating, how many words can you write in a day?

Ooo, I'm insane, so I've definitely written like three chapters in one sitting, especially in early spyverse when I could do whatever without having to reckon with the 300k I've already written lol now I have to stop and think (and fact check) way more as I approach the end. I think the most I've written in a day has to be around 15k, if I have several free hours (pre-wrist flare up). Last night, I wrote on the couch for like 3 or 4 hours and ended up with the last 5k of chapter 65.

speaking of... the next main fic chapter will probably be up tonight! 🥰

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You're killing me with those tags... How to survive till tomorrow?? I so want to celebrate Violet birthday with reading smut (and with shadows!!). You are a TEASE ma'am lol your only saving grace is that it's going to be so worth it! Cannot wait! Ahah

Hahaha, just a little treat! I am sooo excited to post because it’s tons of stuff I’ve teased about or only included in Xaden POV. I went a bit crazy!

I am hard at work on the Reunification Day chapters too, which are the following two.