#there are points in this fic that get so melodramatic its funny actually LOL

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: NoPixel Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Troy Donahue & Anthony Murphy (NoPixel), Troy Donahue/Grognak the Destroyer (NoPixel), Grognak the Destroyer/Anthony Murphy (NoPixel), Grognak the Destroyer (NoPixel)/CDD (Call Me Kevin RP) Characters: Troy Donahue (NoPixel), Anthony Murphy (NoPixel), Grognak the Destroyer (NoPixel), Posy Florian (NoPixel), CDD (Call Me Kevin RP), Rocky (Call Me Kevin RP), Steven Hayes (NoPixel), Sherry Paie (NoPixel) Additional Tags: Minor Violence, Found Family, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, she/her pronouns for grognak, like 90 percent a gen fic but there is that other ten percent, no beta we die like men Summary:

Before they disband, Troy catches Anto’s eye. Troy knows the emotions he feels are not his alone, knows that they both feel the same way. That pain, it’s there for both of them but… “We’re gonna be alright,” Troy’s sure of that fact. The pain will pass. And even if Grognak doesn’t come back, they’re going to be alright.

“Yeah,” Anto agrees, “We’re gonna be just fine.”

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🔥 Give us your hottest Silm hot take. Lol you would ask this one. Disclaimer: I don't really like offering hot takes because when I was newer to fandom I'd take them as criticism of my own headcanons and creations despite the illogic of that. So please, if you also do this - reminder that you will never be able to please everyone, and most of us can still enjoy things we don't agree with.

So: Maglor is not an attention-seeking, melodramatic, vain diva. It's funny to use for comedic effect in fanworks, and I have, but as a serious character interpretation I don't care for it. There's just nothing to support it canonically imo. I think it's derived from modern conceptions of musicians and singers that do not directly translate to the world of the Silmarillion. Arrogant and boastful about his talent? Thinks his interpretations of events are the right ones? Willing to use performance to manipulate feeling and opinion? Image-conscious (in ways that are compatible with the ideal warrior/bard image in his culture)? Yes, all that works with the historical bardic traditions he is (fictionally) a part of and I love to see it. But not diva.

⏩ Which section of the Silm did you read through the fastest? (Couldn't put it down!) It was twenty years ago so I don't actually remember, but probably Of the Flight of the Noldor and Of Turin Turambar. Watching characters hurtle towards doom and destruction 👌.

🪄You can change how one (1) Big Event goes down in the Silm - either in favor of something in HoME or something you made up. What happens instead? Tell us the cool stuff! Fix-its are a fun imaginative exercise but I'd never actually want to fix canon because it would make the story either less compelling or just not the same story.

So this is a small one from HoMe, but I'd use the version of the third kinslaying in Annals of Beleriand (The Lost Road) where Amrod and Amras are the main drivers who "ravaged Sirion" and Maedhros and Maglor were only there reluctantly and "sick at heart". It makes A&A more interesting as characters, and it makes M&M's (ultimately unsuccessful) redemption arc more coherent. (Might as well just call these Maglor Asks at this point 😆.)

Maximum chaos bonus question (💀): You have a "Get out of jail 'Doomed by the Narrative' free" card. Who do you give it to? Cheating, but (almost) all the women. Not to get them out of their tragic ends (see above lol), but to give them their own narratives, to raise them above the role of plot device in the stories of male protagonists. But that's what fic is for!