#day 1: fated

[laxibbeb]

Day 1 | Once upon a time...

y'all they were fated!! soulmates!!! meant to be, even!!!! @elucienweekofficial

[queercontrarian]

In the Hands of Fate

@elucienweekofficial

day 1: fated

i've had this idea in my head for a while and i finally did it and i'm so happy with how they turned out!

[octobers-veryown]

ELAIN & ELUCIEN: FATED

My head can't seem to grip anything but the aftertaste of you,

when we say goodbye, not a handshake,

melancholy cardiac arrest.

My first submission for this week is inspired by this song

Happy @elucienweekofficial. I hope everyone will have a blast!

[elucienweekofficial]

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Thank you to everyone who participated in Day 1 of Elucien Week!

We did our best to keep track of all of the tumblr contributions below, but if we missed anyone or made any mistakes please assume best intentions and kindly reach out to one of our mods! 🌸🦊

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📝Fics, drabbles, and poetry:

In Rememberance of Regret by @aldbooks

Glimpses of Maybe Tomorrow by @avabrynne

A Warrior of the Mind by @starfall-spirit

Elucien Hunger Games AU by @bee-the-bell

what lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why by @foundress0fnothing

Fated (Day 1 Mini) by @onlyinmymiiiind

ACOWAR (Elucien's Version) by @crazy-ache

Just A Tug by @yaralulu

Perennial by @zenkindoflove

Dreams of a Seer by @ennawrite

The Cauldron by @shadowqueenjude

What Do You Know About Love? by @the-lonelybarricade

A Heart of Gold by @jules-writes-stories

Long Live by @separatist-apologist

Watch It Glow by @cauldronblssd

Karma Is My Boyfriend by @rosanna-writer

maybe these lights'll take you home by @writtenonreceipts

Sight Beyond Fate by @sonics-atelier

Day one: Fated Poem by @stargirlie25

Something About April by @starsreminisce

Fated by @clockwork-ashes

Fates Intertwined by @xtaketwox

Sun On A String by @booksnwriting

Fated- Elucien Week Day 1 by @shadowisles-writes

Chance Encounters by @lady-sunbeam

Secret Letters by @xaliceatlasx

🎨Art:

In The Hands of Fate by @queercontrarian

meet me in the afterglow comissioned by @lucienarcheron from artist @toastyrobos

Elucien stained glass mural by @works-of-heart

“𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔. 𝑯𝒊𝒔 𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒆.” comissioned by @cauldronblssd and @moonpatroclus from artist @/jaoies

Fated Art by @artedeabs

Mirrored Suffering comissioned by @separatist-apologist and @the-lonelybarricade from artist @sassyhobbits

“Don’t just leave her on the damned floor!” by @velidewrites

Forever Happily Married comissioned by @foxylady13 from artist @/pinkishmalina

Day 1 "Fated" by @brielyasmin

Elucien Wedding by @lamija-v

Elucien Portrait comissioned by @gwynrieldefenseatty from artist @carol-pisarro

Once Upon a Time by @laxibbeb

a single thread of gold tied me to you by @jadedbugart

Elain & Lucien’s fated future in the Day Court comissioned by @honeybeegarden from artist @majuandrad

a vision of Elain's future comissioned by @lulufoxlainfawn from artist @/cedakotes

Lucien and Elain by @eburnsillustrations

Fated Elucien Art comissioned by @foreverinelysian, @amandapearls. and @acourtdelaluna from artist @/Adamszkiart

Elucien week Day 1: Fated by @nesta-apologist

Day One — Fated by @oristian

Fated/Orbit by @scrawlandspirits

🎶Misc:

ELAIN & ELUCIEN: FATED Moodboard by @octobers-veryown

Elucien Week Day 1: Fated Moodboard by @climbthemountain2020

Destin Enchant�� Moodboard by @fieldofdaisiies

Elucien Fate Analysis by @acourtofthought

Elucien 🌻 Moodboard by @lomlloll

Worth The Wait: An Elucien Week Playlist by @areyoudreaminof

fox and fawn playlist by @oristian

"Mine. You are mine and i am yours. MATE " Moodboard by @zoya-nikolai

Elucien Week Day 1: Fated Moodboard by @iheartfjords

Elucienweek2024 Mix Vol.1 by @sadiegirl2021

the tortured mates department elucien playlist by @vanserrass

“Are we together in every life?” by @oristian

They are inevitable, by the Fates by @bookishwithathought

Intertwined Hearts | An Elucien Playlist by @lainalit

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Thank you as well to everyone who coloured today's Coloring Page!

Fated coloring page by @sadiegirl2021

Fated coloring page by @cauldronblssd

Fated coloring page by @shadowqueenjude

Fated coloring page by @yaralulu

Fated coloring page by @olenvasynyt

Fated coloring page by @the-lonelybarricade

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If we missed one of your contributions, kindly reach out to one of our event runners!

Header art by @laxibbeb

[lainalit]

Intertwined Hearts | An Elucien Playlist

"I can hear your heart beating through the Stone. Can you hear mine? "

I saw the Golden Hour Playlist from @areyoudreaminof and was inspired by it to also create my own playlist for Day One Fated for @elucienweekofficial on the themes of Tension, Growth & Healing that Sjm mentioned in her old facebook post about Elain & Lucien

The Playlist has 33 Songs with two Sides: Side A which is the Tension & Growth and Side B being the Healing & Coming Together The Genres are mostly folk/Indie, singer-songwriter, pop & new age

>> Click here to listen to it <<

Under the Cut you find the Tracklist & my favorite Lyrics Hope you enjoy listening 💚

Thank you to the commissioners @foreverinelysian & @fiercehildr for allowing me to use the Artwork by @pandyals_art as the cover

Favorite Lyrics

Where have you been hiding? You seem lost within your body and your mind A beam of light can still remind you who you are -The Secret Garden by AURORA

But despite all of my virtue I know that I'm the one who hurts you -The Garden by Flower Face

You're gonna be a strange companion Building his cage with disaster Tangled emotions Sunlit became my bond -Litha by Nadiiife

Flowers in my hair makes me wish that you were here When my mind goes away oh I hope that you’ll be near me -Flowers in My Hair by Wes Reeve

Stop you putting roots in my dreamland My house of stone, your ivy grows And now I'm covered In You -Ivy by Taylor Swift

And I'd give up forever to touch you 'Cause I know that you feel me somehow You're the closest to heaven that I'll ever be And I don't wanna go home right now -Iris by goo goo dolls (cover Kina Grannis)

Can we become we No longer known as just you and me Two separate lives now in unity Stuck here together but Will this always be just an arrangement -We Become We by Fiona Palomo & Milo Manheim

I'm an atom in a sea of nothing Looking for another to combine Maybe we could be the start of something Be together at the start of time -Start of Time by Gabrielle Aplin

And in the beginning, when land touched the sea The Earth was created around you and me And we keep on spinning from now on and on Tumbling and turning till all becomes one Becomes one -In the Beginning by Alice Merton, Fahrenhaidt

Seasons may change But we won't change Isn't it strange how different we are from all of our friends? -Yosemite by Lana del Ray

In the morn, I'll be wed to the bonniest boy And I'll bind my hand to his He is blood of my blood And bone of my bone I am bound to the love of him -Bound by Karliene

We only last a moment Our heartbeat's just a life But love can make believers never die So I will be yours if you be mine -Sweeter Place by SVRCINA

Honeybee Could you imagine where our lives would lead? That silly ring, it wasn't meant to be Luckily, you saw in me something I couldn't see -Honeybee by The Head And The Heart

Each day, you'd rise with me Know that I would gladly be The Icarus to your certainty Oh, my sunlight, sunlight, sunlight -Sunlight by Hozier

'Cause you are loved, you are loved more than you know I hereby pledge all of my days to prove it so Though your heart is far too young to realize The unimaginable light you hold inside -Light by Sleeping At Last

[allwaswellllll]

Fated (Day 1 Mini)

Treading lightly into my first Elucien week and aiming to write a drabble a day based on the prompts! Will post them all on A03 as individual chapters. This is for Day 1: Fated. Thanks for organising @elucienweekofficial!

‘Do you think it was supposed to happen this way?’ Elain asks, her breath whispering against Lucien’s neck.

Her fingers graze against his bare chest and she breathes him in, his warm skin illuminating hers. His fingers trace lazy circles against the small of her back and she has to force herself to not arch into his touch, to not rile them both up again. She can’t ever imagine not wanting him like this.

She’s not sure why she said it, why this moment in time feels right. The bond glows between them, warming her entire body and humming in pleasure. There’s half-eaten bread on a platter, a bottle of wine on the sill and the balcony doors are wide open, the sheer curtains blowing a gentle warm breeze through the room. Dawn is close, its soft hues illuminating the opulent room and his golden skin, so incredibly beautiful in this place. His home. And now, her home.

He was her home. She had never been surer of anything in her life. These past few months together here at Day Court had cemented more than their bond, showing her a real, full life outside of Night and her sisters. She’d found her own family, her chosen family, and she’d found him. They’d found each other amongst the sunshine, the politics, the crumbling world around them.

She can feel his lips curve into a smile against her forehead. ‘You finally crawling into my bed you mean?’

He chuckles as she swats him across his chest. She can’t help her own smile as his free arm curves around her waist to pull her closer. As if she could get any closer. She had never felt more connected to anyone, and it still didn’t stop her wanting more.

‘I think everything happened the way it was meant to,’ he murmurs against her temple and her eyes flutter shut. There’s a lump in her throat, her eyes are burning with unshed tears, and she can’t help the small laugh that escapes her lips.

He looks down at her then, shifting his body so that it faces her and rubs his thumb against her cheek. Maybe a few tears slipped out. She opens her eyes, smiling at the concerned look on his face. He’s leaning on his elbow now, brushing the tears off her cheek while he waits.

‘I’ve never felt this happy – it doesn’t feel real,’ she finally says, her own fingers grazing his cheek. ‘But I think I was always meant to be here. With you.’

The smile that blooms across his lips knocks the wind out of her. His fingers move from her cheek to her jaw, then through her golden hair to hold the back of her head, bringing their foreheads together. She breathes him in, his lips inches from hers, and her body ignites like the flame coursing through his blood. The sun too. He’s everything she ever wanted, could ever need, and she instinctually tugs on the golden thread connecting them forever.

‘You’re mine,’ he breathes against her lips.

‘And I’m yours,’ she finishes, before closing the distance between them and crushing her lips against his, her whole body burning with want.

For him. Always for him.

[leithillustration]

Felt sad, drew the Fool, felt a little less sad (:

[moomoorare]

Autumn Gem inspired by my Scales of Fate AU and based on Alfons Mucha's Autumn painting. This will be the first of four art pieces, hopefully coming soon.

In the meantime you can find my SOFAU ao3 fics here, and Alfons Mucha's The Seasons Paintings wiki page here 🍇🧡 leave your thoughts in the reblogs if u want, have a nice day, it's Autumn!!! 🍁🌼💜

[ded-lime]

its always salieri sunday, somewhere (and here today)

[cyanis-art]

NejiHina Week 2024

Day 1: Fate/Destiny

[ovytia-art]

Eek rushed this so no proper bg, but starting off with some good old Clockwork art :3

Ectoberhaunt 2024: Past/Present/Future

[octobers-veryown]

Don't mind me, I only needed to see them all together after this amazing Elucienweek.

Looking forward to have some more inspo x.

[ali-mart]

Wolfwrenweek Day 2: Intricate Rituals

A Day for Sacred Acts

[teyrnacousland]

i want to break these bones ‘til they’re better (771 words)

Illario thinks often of Lucanis dying. 

When he watches him step a little too close to the edge of a rooftop, he thinks he sees a flash of capes fluttering over the edge out of the corner of his eyes. He hears the hiss of a knife cutting through the air, and an image of it burying itself in Lucanis’ chest flashes across his eyes. He has to turn to make sure it wasn’t a premonition of some kind. And lately he finds himself waking up twice. Once to find Lucanis laying still and cold in his bed, and a second time to find that it was only a dream.

Sometimes when they spar under Caterina's watchful eyes he imagines slipping through Lucanis' defenses and driving his dagger into his throat. He imagines the way his cousin would look at him as he dies. The image is so loud and so sudden that he doesn't manage to blink it away in time to react to Lucanis' next strike. The image falls away as Illario does, reality snapping back with a thud as his back hits the dirt. Lucanis is alive again, giving him a pointed look as he stands over him.

(When Lucanis reaches down to help him up Illario imagines tugging him down so he falls and lands on the dagger still in his other hand.)

Checking Lucanis for signs of the injuries that plague his daydreams has become second nature to Illario. A quick glance at Lucanis’ throat to see reassuringly unbroken skin. An hand on his arm to feel the warmth of life through the leather. A peripheral glance to make sure his cousin is still standing and not struck down beside him. 

It’s exhausting. 

And it only gets worse as they get older. As they each take their own contracts and spend more and more time apart. Lucanis leaves for days at a time, alone, and Illario’s head plays out the scene of someone else walking in through the door instead of Lucanis and delivering the news. 

He fills the empty days with empty pleasures and empty words to drown out the ones on repeat in his head. He’s gone. He ignores the whispers and pours himself another drink. Smiles at another pretty thing across the bar. Steels his heart and drives his blade into someone else’s. Anything to keep the thoughts at bay. 

Sometimes he wonders what would happen if the deaths in his mind became reality. 

Would Caterina renounce her approval of Lucanis, if he failed? Would she see Illario, the survivor, as a worthy heir at last? Would Illario become the favourite, if only by default?

Or would this, too, be Illario’s fault? Would Caterina scold him for not being able to protect Lucanis, House Dellamorte’s most valuable asset, and the one person in the world she respected and loved? Would she blame him for living when Lucanis did not?

And what of Illario himself? What would Illario be without Lucanis? No more glancing over his shoulder to check for signs of life. No more following in another’s footsteps and hoping he's not being led off a cliff. No more spectres of his cousin’s potential deaths floating around the Villa whenever Lucanis was out of sight too long.

He would be alone. Does Illario even know who he would be, without Lucanis held up to him like a mirror?

Illario’s daydreams never reach far past the mourning stage. He sees Caterina hearing the words he keeps hearing in his head: Lucanis is gone. Would she cry? He’d never seen her cry over her own children all those years ago. But she locked herself in her room, sometimes. Maybe she was crying then. Maybe she would cry if it was her dear Lucanis. Maybe they would mourn together. 

Or maybe she would lock herself in that room and never come out.

As for Illario himself… He would cry, he knows. He's always been the odd one out, never managing to keep the tight grip on his emotions that seemed to come naturally to Lucanis and Caterina. He would cry, and drink, and rant, and rave. And he would kill whatever took Lucanis from him. His final duty as his cousin’s keeper.

And then…

And then the nightmare ends. Lucanis walks in. Illario’s eyes scan him for fatal injuries, and the empty space in his lungs is replaced with relief when he finds none. The bags in his cousin's eyes are deeper and darker than when he left, but he can pretend to ignore that later.

The images in his head fade away. Until next time.

[nasuverse-most-breedable-tourney]

Bracket B, Round 3 (Match 4) (REDO)

[imminent-danger-came]

I really do hate when people complain about a character trait/writing choice that isn't instantly gratifying (what they wanted) but contributed to the work's ideas and themes as a whole (what the writers wanted). Like idk get with the program man