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Dark Stories of the North

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Vampires, Musicals, Horror
Grishaverse, Locked Tomb, Hellsing, Dracula,
whatever TV shows I’m currently watching
Fic & HC requests are always welcome!
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Grishaverse Fics

Unmaking The Heart of The World — time loop AU, Nikolina, Darklina, Zoyalina, multi ship, grief, post R&R Alina marries Nikolai, but in another timeline, she’s only just been brought to the Little Palace following the discovery of her powers (ongoing)

Éminence Grise — Darklina, Nikolina, fake engagement AU where Alina is betrothed to Nikolai, despite her affair with the Darkling, who has also not showed his hand yet (ongoing)

Penance Without Penitence — Darklina, Nikolina, post R&R, the Darkling is resurrected without his power, so Alina takes him to Keramzin to make up for his wrongs (complete!)

And I Said to the Star, “Consume Me” — Darklina, Darknikolina, alt S&S ending, the Darkling offers Alina a bargain, if she marries him, he won’t kill all her friends (complete!)

The Scorched Sea — Darklina, Darknikolina, role reversal AU, tired of his mother’s austere and fear driven lifestyle, Aleksander Morozova seeks out the Sun Saint and the splendor of the Little Palace

His Creatures — Darknikolina, Volcralai, PWP, after the Spinning Wheel, both Nikolai and the Darkling visit Alina

Heartsickness — Nikolina, past Darknikolina, pre KoS, PWP, when the demon resurfaces, Nikolai flees to Keramzin, to see Alina. Conveniently, her husband is away

Collecting Ashes — Darknikolina, post R&R, bodysharing, Alina takes the Darkling as an amplifier, his consciousness seems to come along with it

Inconvenient Attachments — Darknikolina, past Darkolai, AU where Alina meets Nikolai in the First Army before anyone realizes she's the Sun Summoner

Promises Kept — Nikolina, PWP, during S&S, after her fight with Mal, Alina goes to find Nikolai

Uncharted Waters — Nikolina, post KoS, infidelity, Alina meets Nikolai on the coast. They’re both already married to other people, but that’s not as much of an obstacle as it should be.

Ad Libitum — Darklina one shot, ballet AU set in a twentieth century inspired Ravka, Alina performs at a private event at the Grand Palace

A Reprieve From Thought — Darklina one shot, S&S era PWP set aboard the ship

Spoils of War — Darknikolina, alt S&S ending, dead dove, PWP, Nikolai makes a deal with the Darkling

Tenderness — Darklina one shot, dead dove, PWP, Alina is caught before she escapes the Little Palace on the night of the fete

Infinite Ruin — Darklina one shot, post R&R, Alina holds the Darkling captive

Silence — unrequited Nikolina, Darklina, one shot, post R&R, possession, Nikolai still hears the Darkling’s voice in his head

Clarity — Darklina oneshot, during RoW, PWP, Alina visits the Darkling through the tether one last time

A Reunion — Zoyalina one shot, modern AU, the gang are snowed in at the Christmas Party

In The Morning — Nikolina one shot, only one bed, fluff

Fondness — Nikolina one shot, mildly fluffy character study, Alina has thoughts about her relationship with Nikolai on their wedding night

The Picnic — Genyalina one shot, set during S&S if Genya was with them, fluff

Vanishing — Darknikolina one shot, post R&R, Alina keeps visiting the Darkling's prison A Light That Burns — Darklina one shot, background Nikolina, post R&R, the Darkling returns in Nikolai's body; the country is short a Tsar, and Alina a husband.

Benefits of a Gilded Cage — Darknikolina one shot, Alina puts the third amplifier on the Darkling.

After Midnight — triple drabble, Nikolina, Alina readies for bed

Longing for the Sun — triple drabble, set during KoS, Nikolai has come to dread sleep

Hellsing Fics

Innocents — pre canon, Alutegra one shot, Integra hunts a vampire on her own

Ice — monster of the week one shot, something of a The Thing AU

This Is Where Monsters Weep — one shot collection about a variety of ships and characters

Hold This Heart In Your Teeth — Alutegra one shot, dreams, angst, pining, mild bdsm vibes

In This Darkness, I Have You — Alutegra one shot, PWP, angst, pining, unwanted love confession

The Hand Which Holds The Leash — pre canon, one shot, Alucard attempts to talk to Integra about responsibility, instead the conversation turns to her ancestors

Leave Them And Walk With Dust — Seras and Integra roleswap AU, eventual Sertegra, (ongoing)

Fragments, Glory, And What It Is To Lose — Alutegra one shot, Alucard reflects on his servitude after that first encounter with Anderson

These Truths That Shape Us — one shot, Integra gets her first glimpse at the depth of Hellsing’s experiments, medical horror

Beautiful, Wicked, Brazen — Alutegra one shot, PWP

Summertime — Alutegra one shot, PWP, Integra rewards Alucard

A Diversion — Alutegra one shot, PWP, set after the Museum scene

Spare a Cigarette? — Waltercard one shot, pre canon, the first time Walter encounters Alucard after Integra releases him from the basement

If He Wills It — Aluseras one shot, during the Rio trip, Seras realizes Alucard didn’t have to turn her into a vampire, and she’s angry about it

Waiting — Alutegra one shot, angst, Integra is dead and Alucard has no idea what to do with himself

Dream of Daylight — angst, one shot, horror, a Hellsing soldier was kind to Alucard, he doesn’t take it well

Grief’s Cold Hands — Alutegra one shot, angst, time skip, in the aftermath of the battle of London, and years after, Integra reminisces.

Mercy — one shot, during the Rio trip, Seras asks Alucard why he kills so… enthusiastically

Thirty Years of Silence — Alutegra, post time skip, angst, incomplete atm

Fate of Prometheus — one shot, torture, a potential look at Alucard's first few years of captivity. (this one’s very old…)

The Locked Tomb Fics

Ever Ancient, Ever New — Dios Apate, John forgives Mercymorn, so he resurrects her without her memories. Augustine cannot forgive him

Generosity — Cytherea the First offers to spare Gideon one last time

Healing — Mercymorn is determined to make Cristabel whole again

Misc Fics

The Wild Hunt — Forbidden Game one shot, partial Labyrinth AU, Jenny wishes Zach away, Julian is happy to oblige

Burning For You — BTVS one shot, Faith has a fever, she dreams of Buffy A Kindness — Kushiel’s Legacy one shot, Melisande Shahrizai keeps Phèdre captive

Through Midnights Past — Winternight Trilogy one shot, time travel, Vasalisa Petrovna and Medved traverse the Midnight Road

By Moonlight and Candle’s Flame — Company of Wolves one shot, the Huntsman gets his kiss

Drop By Drop Upon the Heart — Gothic origfic, a young woman marries to escape her father’s occultist eccentricities, but soon discovers something is amiss in her new husband’s home

Apathy — Dracula (2020) one shot, Lucy knows Dracula couldn't mean well, she meets him anyway

A Worthy Sacrifice — Fate/Zero one shot, angst, Saber gets to Irisviel at the theatre in time, but no matter what she’s destined to die

Laundry Day — Fate/Stay Night one shot, fluff, Gilgamesh steals Kirei’s cassock

Fandom Discord Servers

Who Gave Dracula The WiFi Password? — Dracula, Vampire Chronicles, the Locked Tomb, other horror and goth stuff

The Gregs — Grishaverse books!

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Top 5 morally challenged female characters

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This is actually so hard because I love so many morally questionable women lmao

1. Cersei Lannister from ASOIAF

She’s so hateful and awful! I love her so much! She has so many neuroses. Her codependence with Jamie is so interesting, how she views him as an extension of herself. All the internalized misogyny? It’s great

2. Arianrhod from the Snow Queen Cycle

No one I know has ever read these books! She’s like a scheming evil queen who’s approaching the end of her reign and is supposed to be like ritually sacrificed at the end of it. So she has herself cloned to try to extend her already unnaturally long lifespan. And she’s just so selfish and jealous and miserable <3

3. Melisande Shahrizai from Kushiel’s Dart

Villain of all time! She’s so hot. The rest of the book is hit or miss but Melisande is insane. I really enjoy how ever present she is in the novel even though she doesn’t actually have that much page time. Her charisma is unmatched

4. Drusilla from Buffy the Vampire Slayer

She’s actually never done anything wrong in her life as far as I’m concerned. Her backstory is so tragic and compelling. The show doesn’t get much into her perspective but the broad brushstrokes are fascinating. I’m forever intrigued by her long running place in the evil vampire polycule and their overall dynamic

5. Mercymorn the First from the Locked Tomb

“‘I don’t mean to be cruel,” she said cruelly’ !!! She’s so shrill, judgmental, and unpleasant! I adore her! Love that she was willing to sacrifice the entire fucking world in order to kill John, even though she very much loves him. The grief and betrayal is just that insurmountable

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forever obsessed with dynamics between vampires, specifically that of a maker and fledgling, as a way to explore abuse. the creation of a vampire itself can so easily be a literalization of the lasting impacts of trauma and also much more simply the ways a perpetrator might shape their victim’s very identity. the extremes of isolation in the way that the new vampire, in most narratives, must cut all ties to their mortal life, or else go through an elaborate charade to maintain the facade of humanity, while forever still being removed from it. and the sheer dependence and vulnerability of being in an entirely new state of being, wholly uncertain of what it entails, and relying on another person to define… everything.

this thought occured to me while rewatching iwtv but people tagging it as vampire the masquerade are also very correct! I am basically always thinking about vtm, so even if a vampire post isn’t explicitly about vtm, it actually is also about vtm lmao

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Anonymous asked:

Do you think Aleksander managing to find companionship in any long living sibling would have changed anything at all? Eg Ulla lives for a long time.

Hmm hard to say because I think it would hinge on what his dynamic would be with the sibling and how that does or does not shake up his dynamic with Baghra.

Ulla is interesting because she didn’t grow up with Baghra, so she has wildly different values, which might be good! But also growing up separately means they don’t have much of a formative bond, and from what little of her personality we know about from the Language of Thorns, she seems prickly and independent. And she certainly didn’t jump at the chance of going with Aleksander when he offered! Therefore, even in a scenario where they interact as family, I think it’s just as likely they just randomly come across each other like once every couple decades lol so it’s not going to be much in the way of companionship. So I feel like he’d probably eventually wind up in the same place in that scenario?

Generally I don’t think he’s the sort of person where a single positive relationship would fix him. Both because Baghra already exists, and that didn’t solve anything at all, but also because he already has a pretty firmly entrenched “us unique few who matter vs those statistics on a page who’ll be dead in the blink of an eye” mindset. So a single sibling wouldn’t really alter that worldview, unless like very unique circumstance where they’re both older, and have had the opportunity to develop values outside of Baghra’s perspective, and they’re present during his formative years. And that’s still a toss up imo! But anyone who’s younger, also isolated, and either only has Baghra’s perspective, or like Ulla shows up way later, just isn’t going to meaningfully change his worldview, and therefore how things eventually end up.

(Unless you mean changing things in terms of him having an additional enemy or ally during the canon era, which, again, too many variables to even begin to consider.)

I’m very much not a Baghra hater, and I think Darkling stans get really weird about her! But it is true that pretty much most of his Problems (i.e. his personality) stem from how she raised him, what values she instilled in him, and the formative circumstances of them being so isolated and afraid of everything and everyone all the time. So I really think the only sort of relationship that would fix him is one found outside of his family unit, and preferably before he’s had centuries to calcify into uh… who he is.

Which makes the KoS introduction of other Saints really interesting! Because you’d think they would offer any sort of community for him. But a) KoS is not real to me, B) seems highly likely that the Saints were so fucked up and also so wildly uninterested in the rest of the world/the plight of Grisha that he eventually found them repellant.

Anyway, I think any sort of formative, actual community could’ve fixed him… DitW where Annika doesn’t try to kill him lmao. But also his character hinges on the concept of continued isolation, betrayal, and loneliness leading to insane ruthlessness of centuries. So like he’d need a string of good luck with people who might die eventually anyway, or at least some immortals that both don’t suck and aren’t Morozovas.

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