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—   𝐀𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐍 𝐀𝐒𝐇𝐑𝐘𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐆𝐀𝐋𝐀𝐓𝐇𝐘𝐍𝐈𝐔𝐒 𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐓𝐒.  

She could forgive the girl who had needed a captain of the guard to offer stability after a year in hell ; forgive the girl who had needed a captain to be her champion. But she was her own champion now.

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Aelin: If I died-

Rowan, sharpening his knives: Death will not get you out of this relationship.

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@starsrattle asked : ❛ you're an idiot, but... i trust you. ❜ / from chaol ?

“They should print that on my tombstone.”

Idle remark, as petite frame leans back in the chair – boots cross on the table before her ( much to the cringe of the Captain before her with far better manners ), even as fingertips continue to toy with the small blade in her hold, tilting her head to watch him now with a quirk of the brow. Too long it’s been since the days of her early times within the glass castle, trained under his watchful eye, and with utterly no trust that she wouldn’t take every chance to slaughter him and run if given half a moment to spare. In fairness, chances that she might have taken if freely given.

Too long now, since her time in Wendlyn ; since real name had been uncovered and every reason to doubt her might have been thrown her own way. Too much time, and too much lost between them. It’s comfortable, to be before him now, even with a few too many sips of wine ; enough to loosen a sharp tongue and speak words intended to earn a smile or laugh.

“Aelin Galathynius, formerly Celaena Sardothien, Ardalan’s Assassin and the King’s Champion: an idiot… but trusted.”

Drawling lightly, there’s a hint of that swagger beneath her smile – enough to let him know the girl he’d known, the woman he’d loved, still lingers beneath rightful Queen of Terrasen. Blade placed down, she leans forward now to capture his cup of wine to steal a sip with her own long emptied, cocking a brow.

“Highest praise I can think of.”

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𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐎𝐎𝐒. — In modern verse and Crescent City verse, much like canon, Aelin possesses several prominent tattoos that adorn her frame that will be frequently referenced in and amongst my own canon. These include :

The names of loved ones she’s lost, and friends she’s lost along the way, along the most prominent scars down her spine from the torture inflicted on her prior to her imprisonment. This tattoo is constantly added to. 

The date of her parent’s death in a series of numbers along her wrist, in Roman numerals.

Her largest tattoo is featured against her ribcage and is a subtle reference to the nickname given to her by her mother, fireheart. The tattoo sits on the left side of her body, and is the silhouette of a heart on fire.

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@stormbcrn asked : 'i can't do it. i can't-'

“You can.”

Words come softly from her lips before that sentence can continue, a hand reached out tentatively to lay against fire made flesh, fingertips touching the forearm before her boldly. They sit before fire, and gaze flickers between those violet hues and the flame beside them both, in the silence borne only at the dead of night, where all but the pair linger. A long way away from her own time in the fighting pits, and far from the lands the Q U E E N before her seeks to declare as home. Plans spoken aloud and away from prying ears, where the women can talk without fear or judgment, and her own head cants at the Targaryen before her. They leave Essos at dawn, sail for Dragonstone.

And then the true battle begins.

Carefully, does Aelin Celaena let her hand fall now, to squeeze the one before her, and her voice softens.   

“You must.”

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"skulls bay. aelin would never go to skulls bay."

meanwhile aelin in skulls bay

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“There were many, many debts to be paid before she left Rifthold and took back her throne. Starting now. Fortunate that she was in a killing sort of mood.”

– Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows

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“ They can not save you. ”

          “ No… but I can save  t h e m. ”

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holy f.uck hotd.

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— 𝐀𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐂 𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐓𝐒 : 𝑩𝑹𝑰𝑫𝑮𝑬𝑹𝑻𝑶𝑵.

Her hand rose to her lips and she stared up at the stars, feeling her heart grow, and grow, and grow.

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i have been blessed.

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𝐕𝐎𝐈𝐂𝐄 / 𝐀𝐂𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓. — Following the wide theory that Prythian is based on the UK, I’ve been trying to place an accent undertone for Aelin in the “real world”, to allow me to picture her voice better in my head. And when you think about the aesthetic descriptions of various areas in Erilea - and Terrasen specifically - I tend to think of other parts of Europe, like Scotland, or Ireland. So with that in mind, when I think about what her voice sounds like, I picture what’s best described as a soft little Irish undertone to her voice ; it wouldn’t be very strong, especially given she was raised in Rifthold in her slightly older years. But there would definitely be a slight lean to her tone, though she would have learned to mask the majority in her time as an assassin. 

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Survive the Torture.

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𝐂𝐑𝐎𝐒𝐒𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑 + 𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐄 𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐄𝐒. — this list will continue to be added to pending what media i consume / what muses follow me. generally i will be happy to add to this list even if your verse is not written on here, so please don't hesitate to reach out. the only verses i will not write in include aging down/up characters, and hp.

note for general fantasy verses : unless there is a specific verse plotted, i am happy to mostly prescribe to a canon where our own continents/countries co-exist within the same world for crossovers and alliances.

modern.

born into a very wealthy family, aelin's upbringing was blessed, with her parents joint CEOs of a company responsible for vast technological developments ( terrasen inc. ). at eight years old she witnesses her parents murdered via a hit arranged by her biological aunt maeve, who stood to inherit the company until aelin turned eighteen years old. barely managing to escape with her own life, she was rendered homeless and on the streets until she was found by arobynn hamel, who had made a shelter for homeless children under the guise of a gentle heart. over time, he used this influence over the children to encourage them to commit crimes on his behalf - first small scale thievery, and eventually training them to murder.

continuing in this life until reaching teenage years, falling in love with one of the other boys living there ( sam cortland ), aelin and sam had tentatively plotted to run away when ordered on one last mission where sam did not survive. aelin was found by police with his corpse and arrested for his murder, presumably set up by arobynn.

most plots in this verse will begin after aelin's release from jail one year later, when new evidence proved her innocence - she is living in a luxurious apartment purchased with her earnings from her crimes, and struggling to reintegrate into society. note, in this verse, her primary name is celaena sardothien.

a court of thorns and roses.

this verse exists in two forms - parallel worlds, where we embrace the canon of aelin falling through worlds and interacting with this world as an au one to her own ( which requires some sort of crossover basis plotting ), or neighbouring continents. in the latter, efforts to maintain political peace and a tentative alliance would see either aelin travelling to the night court, or members of the night court travelling to terrasen as emissary. this verse would be post koa.

crescent city.

essentially runs off the same premise as modern verse in relation to her childhood and being offered shelter by arobynn hamel, with the notable exception that aelin is half-fae and works as a bounty hunter post her time in prison, and is very much equipped to slaughter.

note: this verse was heavily au plotted with @stareternals / @ehlane in a world where feyre was aelin's roommate. taking the drop with aelin as both enforcer and anchor to bring feyre back.

a song of ice and fire.

born and inherited from one of the original families in old valyria, who fled after the doom, aelin was orphaned at a young age after her parents were murdered and her home ransacked. found by the faceless men within the free city of braavos, aelin was trained within their arts of assassination. after freeing a large amount of slaves within essos out of sympathy, whilst she had been tasked a high scale murder, the faceless man cast her out - she was promptly captured and forced into the fighting pits in meereen. note, in this verse, she has no dragon affinity despite her valyrian background, only a particular potency for fire.

fourth wing.

gryphon bonded, aelin agrees to go undercover within basgiath to provide intel on a base level to the other side. deliberately falling under the radar and unable to bond a dragon, she is "forced" to repeat her first year, using whatever opportunity she can to feed information back to the other side. displays a rare and powerful gift from her gryphon, one not witnessed by the other fliers before - fire proficiency, usually reserved for dragons and their riders.

bridgerton.

orphaned at a young age, aelin has been raised as the ward of the wealthy arobynn hamel, a man well known to offer his home to orphaned women in exchange for the financial benefit of marrying them into wealthy and powerful families when they come of age. finally of age for the marriage mart, new to the ton after their relocation from northern ireland, aelin is desperate to find a good match before arobynn decides to propose to her himself.

dungeons & dragons / bg3.

coming.

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𝐏𝐎𝐖𝐄𝐑𝐒. — Major Kingdom of Ash spoilers ahead. We know that Aelin uses all of her power and burns through all of her abilities to forge the Lock to the Wyrdgate, leaving nothing but her water magic and her Fae body. We also know that it’s Mala Fire-Bringer who gives Aelin a kernel of fire magic before the gate is sealed ( presumably using any of the remaining magic she has left ) and the portal is opened to kill the gods. She herself knows that when she returns to her own body, she has that droplet of water magic and a small ember of fire power. At the last battle, she obviously doesn’t have any magic - it’s far too soon after draining so much, and she believes she can feel the bottom of her magic now.

But we know two things - firstly, that it was Mala who blessed her bloodline with fire before, and secondly, that all it takes is a spark to forge an inferno. Since I personally don’t stand for removing power from women just for shock factor, my personal theory and headcanon is that in time that spark grows to the inferno she’s always had - it will take months, if not maybe even years, for the fire to grow to the depths of power that it was before she drained so much it burned her mortality to ruin, but it will return to the heir of ash and fire.