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I still obsess over your tharya x miraak fanfics and the speedpaint I made for it
BRO THANK YOU SO MUCH😭😭😭💖💖💖 genuinely i know i say it every time but....it does baffle me how lovely people are about tharyaak, and i feel so so lucky (and EXCITED) to have such awesome comments and support 🥺 thank you SO much!
IF YOU ARE THE PERSON I THINK YOU ARE, omg if you still have it could you send the speedpaint to me? i've been actually tearing apart my discord to find it recently...i could've sworn i had it saved but who knows what the servers of time have gobbled up. i'll keep looking tho! and again thank you so so much for the art, literally nothing makes me happier than people making ART of THEM! i've always wished i could draw so i could show others how i visualize them but alas 😭 not for me
a lil oneshot for the ides of march! (not actually i wrote this like...4 days ago) a writethrough of skyrim's opening scene centering my LDB. here's the ao3 description:
On a sweltering summer morning in 4E 201, Tharya of Whiterun is a prisoner of the Empire in the back of a rickety wooden wagon rumbling towards Helgen, where she, the horse thief, and the Stormcloaks captured with her are set to be executed at 10 A.M. Terrified of her fate, Tharya begs the Imperials to let her go free, especially so close to her home city and family. In the face of Tullius' clamor to win the war, Tharya does die that day - just as she will die every four thousand years when she returns to defeat Alduin, riding the sways of Time until the Wheel churns her out again to face the World-Eater til the end of eternity.
some wip wednesday!
just wanted to share some of the skyrim project i'm working on :3 hoping to start posting in april (or at least put ch1 up before my ao3 draft dies lmao). open tag for anyone who wants to join, but here are some folks i know may have WIPs of any kind:
@kiir-do-faal-rahhe @helix-studios117 @nuwanders
Suddenly Miraak was below her on the ground, his eyes widening and the stench of fear flooding through his pores as he called her name; he was so distant, so slow. Her saliva slathered over her chin and dripped onto his neck, onto his pulse, quick and warm. She felt dirt push under her nails as she dug her hands into the soft ground on either side of his head - somehow his arm had detached from her, she felt it slip away as her back began to bend and crawl and her skin moved and bubbled and trembled, stretching so thin it turned white, and then a murky brown-grey.
"Tharya," Miraak whispered, struggling for breath as her face twisted and snarled just above him, as her teeth lengthened and sharpened. "I'm here, elskavin. Don't. I'm here. Your family-" she screamed at him as he spoke, a scream that had a thousand different sounds behind it, augmented chords that pulled and plucked her voice into a gargling roar, and then a guttural howl.
Miraak Dialogue Starters
“Oh darling, you have no idea how long I have waited to see your face again.”
“What ails you, Dragonborn? Sentimentality? It seems you have grown to enjoy my company.”
“The gods know how long I have lived without you. I do not intend to do so for another minute.”
“What is your next move, Mal Dov?”
“Please, allow me one more moment before the world tears us apart.” “I would burn it all down for you, my Dragon. I will lay the world at your feet.”
“Stop trying to fix me - allow me to drag you to hell, the sweet ecstasy of becoming your worst form.”
“Once I was a terrible and fearsome god. You have softened me, poisoned me with your kindness.”
“The Greybeards have taught you well, Dragonborn. But I could teach you more. Take my hand, join me.”
“In this mortal realm, I am under your power.”
“I would do it all again, ruin my name and waste a hundred lifetimes if only I could return to you.”
I'm terrified because I accidentally in my enthusiasm sent the miraak starter to the person who made the post but there's no take backsies. But the "in the mortal realm, I'm under your power" is such a powerful thing to sAY
LMAOOO please i don't think they'll mind teehee. and YOU'RE SO RIGHT THAT ONE IS LITERALLY CRAZY- my mind took a bit to get the idea for it but in the end it came up w this ehhe
i hope you enjoy! it's not exactly the most evident(?) thing you would expect from that prompt but tbh they're all so amazing....feel free to ask for others bc i NEED to write them all😩
how do we feel about meatrack with cats (asking for myself)
MIRAAK IS A CAT GUY. i don't think he likes dogs very much at ALL, but he enjoys cats (and possibly other farm animals, esp sheep, which surprises him! i think he occasionally likes to stop and pet animals on the farms they pass while traveling). i actually gave tharya & miraak a vale sabre cat from gelebor during their own timeskip, her name is runa and she is the best🥰 she's huge and has massive teeth so she's good to have around for protection, but also for a long time she was very very tiny kitten and miraak would let her sit in the neckline of his robes while they traveled so she could stay warm and comfy, with just her lil head peeking out. tharya would put a glove or kerchief or something to wrap her & carry her in the bandolier she has so runa could peek out and watch too. she was small for a long while, but then grew very quickly, so now she's large but still young and still wants miraak to carry her around (he tries occasionally).
(edit: i think he also just enjoys little Animals in general. i have a headcanon that while he was a priest on solstheim he had two little sugar-glider-esque pets (native critters to atmora) with him that morokei gifted to him :3)
WAIT I have another. Miraak is the kinda person to use those toddler leashes if the LDB has any kids
HONESTLY. i want to say yes but also no but also....like YEAH😭
for me, my army of OCs largely never have (biological) kids because i personally don't want kids and tbqh i don't.....REALLY like them a lot? tho some OCs adopt or gain found-family children (i.e. my inquisitor & sebastian vael, who adopt meghan vael when she reappears in the city after seb takes the throne).
miraak & tharya never have kids of their own (there's lore), but miraak really loves kids. so i remedied this by making tharya's family have a ton of kids; you have sofie, who they unofficially adopt, and then tharya's brother adopts her, and then tharya's OTHER brother and his wife have 3 kids (there's a very tender scene of him getting their youngest cozied up for a midday nap in my upcoming fic). miraak also occasionally teaches local whiterun kids at the temple of kynareth. he enjoys letting them climb all over him and is happy that his presence makes them feel safe, and gladly holds them or holds their hand when they want, and is VERY protective of them when he has them. BUT i cant help but think some days he would wish to live in a world w the backpack leashes when they're all especially rowdy🗿 but this is all just me teehee i wanna hear other miraak crowd's thoughts 👀👀👀
Heeeey everyone! ٩(◕‿◕｡)۶ The last few days, when I had any free minute of my time (´-ω-`), I spent it on drawing Miraak, in general I dreamed of this idea (heh, almost as usual о( ❛ᴗ❛ )о), I was in the role of Dovahkiin and instead of standing (as happens in the canon scene) Miraak was sitting on a roughly similar throne ٩(｡•́‿•̀｡)۶,
I was so impressed that I woke up, turned on the laptop and, without connecting the tablet, with the mouse I sketched the image that was in my head (otherwise by the morning I would have simply forgotten about this dream (≖､≖╬)),
Aaand this drawing I did it for about a week, one to two hours a day and I’m very pleased with the result („ಡωಡ“)
i like dropping little tidbits about upcoming fics as if i'm a huge name brand movie studio dropping tiny crumbs of information to goad people so they freak tf out when the full thing drops 😌
20 Questions for Fic Writers!
i was tagged by @2lim3rz but the og post was getting pretty big, so i remade it!
1. How many works do you have on Ao3?
30! soon to be 31 😎
2. What’s your total Ao3 word count?
1,166,343. 😳 woah
3. What fandoms do you write for?
mainly skyrim! it's my most beloved, my bread and butter. however i recently also wrote for one piece, dragon age, spiderverse, and some older stuff for jojo's and star trek!
4. What are your top five fics by kudos?
1. apocrypha
2. dragonmark
3. smut drabbles (not really a fic but im lazy)
4. break of dawn
5. sic parvis magna
5. Do you respond to comments?
ALWAYS‼️ i love love LOVE commentors and do my best to respond within 1-3 days!
6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?
UGH i wish i could but i don't often do REALLY angsty endings. so this would probably have to be dragonmark, since it ends with tharya and miraak quite estranged from one another and quite a frosty exchange of dialogue, as well as setting up for the next fic (which ends a teensy bit angsty as well, but not really)
possible runnerup to this is from the new world with love, since it ends rather ambiguously on what happens next.
7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?
easily revenant. it's a rollercoaster of a fic, approx 40 chapters iirc, but ends with the thing i set out to do when i initially started writing the first & last series :3
8. Do you get hate on fics?
NO, but i have gotten bot comments! i'll take it as a mark of fame 💅 lmao (jk i have no allusions of grandeur)
9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?
YES. YES. YES. i'm probably a boring smut writer bc i kinda just write tharya and miraak over and over and over and over and over. but i do enjoy experimenting with them!
10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written?
not really - though i did write a dragon break fic once and asked a few other writer friends to lend me their characters for it.
12. Have you ever had a fic translated?
nope! would be cool!
13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?
also not really, but for that same dragon break fic i had those writer friends write scenes and brainstorm with me to fit everything together! so in a way, sort of :)
14. What’s your all time favorite ship?
god....would it make sense to say even though i write, i'm not very active in fandoms? i've never really considered myself well and truly a PART of a fandom (aside from skyrim), just someone who likes to orbit the fandom and extract ideas from the source content. so i don't have many fandom/canon ships i like. can i say my own characters instead??? if so. my ldb/miraak 10000000%
15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?
hmm....well, it was arms of chaos before i gave up and deleted it. i have two longstanding WIPs (jojo fic and miguel fic) but i'm in love with their content and ideas, so i do have full intentions to finish them both! might just take a while
16. What are your writing strengths?
i would say putting emotion and description into my work. i LOVE trying to perfectly capture emotions as i feel them, even if that sometimes means the way they get written can be unorthodox. and, ofc, im obsessed with describing stuff all. the. time.
17. What are your writing weaknesses?
description is a double edged sword LMAO😭 sometimes (most times) i go way too overboard or in depth. i also have a hard time writing kids 💀 and am not the best at writing normal fluff, i always need some kind of emotion or drama or problem/underlying plot to latch onto. i really wish i was, bc then i could write the cyrodiil vacation fic i've been dreaming of for two years
18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?
supporter! i do it occasionally with miraak and tharya. the original shōgun miniseries from i think the 80s is what first showed me that not all dialogue needs to be understood by the audience - in fact, it can be a powerful plot device when it isn't. so i'm a big fan of untranslated dialogue (in moderation) when it serves a purpose. otherwise i just denote the dialogue is in a different language after writing it in english.
19. First fandom you wrote for?
god....probably transformers (i've gotten over that shame and am now in love w transformers again)
20. Favourite fic you’ve written?
i often say revenant because it is in a way my crowning glory. but it's also stuck in my old style of writing (which is not bad, just less matured imo, and more flighty). but revenant is probably my fav ever content for a fic, it's something i wanted to write for like 4yrs before i did - from the new world with love is the only fic currently completed in my newer, aged wine style, and i really enjoy that one as well!
((but my coming soon fic is probably gonna take the cake whenever it drops))
i'll tag @kiir-do-faal-rahhe @nuwanders @elventhief @nusaran and absolutely leave an open tag for anyone who wants to do it :) tag me so i can see it!
last line tag
OP did NOT tag me (@pitiable-arisen) but i wanted to do it anyway :3 i've been getting close to finishing the last chapter of my new fic and wrote some miraak bangers (as usual, he always gets my best lines, sorry tharya)
“Good heroes do not exist.” Lofrek jumped a little at those words, surprised by their force and clarity since Miraak had been murmuring his sentences until now. But he said it so staunchly, so fully, that Lofrek couldn’t help but peer up at him. He would have to get used to that gaze if he wanted to make any of this work in the years they would inevitably be around each other. “They are only people whose shortcomings are weighted less when faced with the grandiosity of their accomplishments. Your sister tries to be something that does not exist, and cannot be attained - she knows this. It makes her better, but it destroys her.”
tagging anyone and everyone who wants to share! @kiir-do-faal-rahhe @nusaran @evil-is-relative @elventhief
IT'S UP!!!!!!! description from ao3:
“You are a beast, Tharya Stormhand. Dragonborn, soldier, werewolf - all beasts of different titles, but beasts nonetheless. You have never been anything more. You will never be anything better. Isn’t that why you gave your soul to me?”
Last Seed, 4E 208. Almost a full year since the events of Revenant, the Dragonborn - and their burgeoning family - have found home in Whiterun, with work and adventure to keep them happily busy. When the summer nights grow watchful and the moons deadly, Tharya finds herself at the center of the Wild Hunt, desperately outrunning a secret that has both plagued and formed her life and relationships for the past eleven years. Unwilling to let her long years of evasion go unpunished, the Daedric Prince Hircine gives chase, and the Hunt begins.
i like dropping little tidbits about upcoming fics as if i'm a huge name brand movie studio dropping tiny crumbs of information to goad people so they freak tf out when the full thing drops 😌
reblogging bc i'd love questions :3
I wanted to make a (serious this time) oc ask game of my own. feel free to ask me any of these on my oc blog if you'd like.
Skyrim OC Asks
What is their birthsign and does it have any large significance to who they are?
Do they worship any deities, be it aedra or daedra?
What factions are they a part of?
Do you consider them canonically dragonborn? If so, how are they faring at their prophetic duties? If not, what made you decide to do away with that part of the vanilla story?
What were they doing before their adventure officially began?
How old are they?
What non-combat skill do they excel at?
What is their combat style?
What skills that they fall short on?
What hold do they dislike the most?
From a story standpoint, what is the general opinion of your character amongst the people of Skyrim?
Who are they closest to?
What questline had the biggest impact on them?
What's their morality like?
Do they consort with Daedra?
Did they feel sympathy for any villains they came into contact with? If so, who and why?
Have they refused any jobs? If so, why?
What's their favorite armor?
Do they have any family?
Whats their least favorite hold?
What is their least favorite minor enemy to fight?
What creature are they most fond of?
Are they prone to boasting?
Who would they consider their biggest rival?
Who is their love interest?
Do they enjoy the cold Skyrim weather?
What kind of terrain do they enjoy the most?
Are they an "explore everything in the area" type of person, or do they go "straight there and back"?
What do they think of Skyrim politics? (Jarls, Thanes, empire, high kings, etc)
What is their favorite type of dungeon?
What is their preferred method of travel? (Ex: Walking, carriage, horse, etc)
Would you consider them to be merciful?
Do they have a specific color scheme?
What is their most preferred weapon type? (Ex: Glass dagger, dwarven bow, etc)
Could this character wield a two handed weapon successfully?
What is their opinion on draugr?
Did you make this character with a certain love interest in mind?
Is there a certain mod that is very important to this character's playthrough?
Has their character design changed?
Do they have any piercings or tattoos? If so, how many and what are they?
Do they wear war paint and if so, is it significant to them in any particular way?
guess who FINALLY got bg3 for xbox and guess who started playing, immediately made tharya/miraak, and has been thinking nonstop of a BG3 AU for both. expect writing soon
silly me i forgor to include pics 🤪🤪 (i remade them 3 times so i forgot to put tharya's scar BUT i will as soon as i go back to her save)
guess who FINALLY got bg3 for xbox and guess who started playing, immediately made tharya/miraak, and has been thinking nonstop of a BG3 AU for both. expect writing soon
MORE PICS? yes. this time including my actual BG3 character zefirith (zef)! tiefling monk :3 i love her a lot. i am in the works of coming up w a backstory for her one human eye
what i both love and hate abt tharyaak in BG3 is that they look SO FUCKING GOOD and yet the tiny details are off. tharya's face isn't that long (nor are her eyebrows so perfect lmfao), it's just a bit shorter and a tiny bit rounder. miraak's hair isn't swept back like that ever, he's always got a little bit hanging over the side of his forehead, his hair naturally falls a bit forward because of it's part. BUT IT'S OKAY. THIS IS THE CLOSEST I'VE EVER BEEN TO SEEING THEM CORRECTLY so yes they will be used as references and i do still love them incredibly
guess who FINALLY got bg3 for xbox and guess who started playing, immediately made tharya/miraak, and has been thinking nonstop of a BG3 AU for both. expect writing soon
I found this in a steam thread about Miraak and for some reason I’m fucking cackling
i PROMISE i am here for tesfest but i literally forgot it started yesterday!!! will be writing/posting day 1 soon :3
DID IT LET'S GOOO!!!! im excited for this week of sick prompts‼️ @tes-summer-fest
i PROMISE i am here for tesfest but i literally forgot it started yesterday!!! will be writing/posting day 1 soon :3