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actually writing my fic!!!!!!!

zoyalai my heart <3

nikolai: guys i love my gf so much she is the best

pls i have the same hc buried in my notes

Someone: do you have a pet? maybe, a dog?

Nikolai: I have a dragon. but she's not a pet - she's my queen.

Someone: ...

Nikolai: however, we should get a cat for her and a dog for me. definitely.

I swear, Zoya is a "cat"-person. At first she will yell at Nik because of his "present", but then she will love her black 🐈‍⬛ with all her rough heart.

he is so delulu

at first i was honestly worried about my word count but nik is incorrigible im sure hes got me covered

oh, ruthless zoya!

me!

alright there is only one(1) complete actual fic ive written and this is it

also, ive written this new crack fic which allows my trash self to write nik/nik without feeling guilty and this is it.

however, i would absolutely LOVE asks from y'all- though i cant be sure as to when ill reply- but i WILL. love y'all! (also there are little sneak peeks to my fic for the gvbb all over my acc, so go check that out!)

nikolai x angst???????

crack fic

warning: mild sexual content, crack crack crack. THIS IS PURE CRACK!!!

Nikolai drew Zoya into his arms slowly, smiling as he kissed her. "You must be excited- this is the second-last stop."

"Oh- is it? I hadn't noticed." she answered. Nikolai laughed, knowing that not to be true. She had been grumbling and whining and complaining every day of the trip. It had been some of the best weeks of his life. The thought that he would get to live like this for the rest of life swelled his chest- and also perhaps the fact that Zoya brought her hands to his shirt- determined to unbutton the impossible buttons.

"My love," he said gently, "we have to leave soon." Nikolai kissed her lips chastely. She continued making quick work of his buttons, and a familiar shiver of desire struck him. Nikolai took her hands. "Zoya; you are making me be the voice of reason and I hate it. We have your appearance soon.''

Zoya sighed, wringing her hands free and taking the liberty of re-buttoning his shirt. "Yes. We do. See you later, Lantsov?"

"You know it, Nazyalensky." Nikolai turned and stepped out of the room, leaving Zoya with the precious few minutes she had before she had to appear in front of the public at Caryeva.

~

Nikolai grinned as he waded through the crowd, proud to do this for Zoya today instead of himself. He had known the people would have to look at her, and he had been excited for another one of these- the publicity tours, as Zoya called them.The people looked at him, yes, but Zoya was the true object of their worship. He honestly felt an enormous weight lift off his shoulders as he watched the subjects scream for their Sankta, even four hours after her only appearance. Nikolai would have felt guilty, but he knew that the burden would not weigh nearly as much on Zoya. She could not care less what people thought of her.

He felt a hand on his shoulder, and he turned around- only to see a ghost. It was Dominik. He told himself he was being ridiculous, lots of people looked similar, after all, he reasoned. But no, it was Dominik. The scar above his brow where the cook's hot ladle had flicked, the eyes- those eyes. "Do I know you?" he summoned the energy and courage for words.

"Nikolai the Spider Squealer- look where you are now." the man who could not be Dominik but inexplicably was grinned and spoke.

"H- how?" he managed to get out. The crowd of people pressed against him.

"Here- let's go into the corner. You need to sit down, friend." as Dominik's ghost steered him to a corner outside of an ally. Friend. That word... had they not been each other's everything back then? "Do you need water?" Dominik asked.

"I seem to be in greater need of answers." Nikolai replied. Dominik smiled again, and Nikolai already knew that it could not be a ghost, because no ghost would ever smile like Dominik had.

"Well- I stopped breathing. You were there for that part. I was left in that field of bodies." A distinct tone of bitterness took over his voice. "But I was found by a group of scavengers. I do not know how I survived woth my wounds, but I did. On the move, eating scraps, I survived. The scavengers at last brought me to Keramzin. At the hospital there, they gave me something, and I fainted. Went into a coma for five years. Woke up right before the war ended. I was healed, and so I found the love of my life, and we shifted here." Nikolai processed that for five minutes.

"What do you do?" he asked, at last.

Dominik beamed. "My handsome husband supports us both, he's a trader."

Nikolai was finding it difficult to breathe. "Good to see you're alive, man." was what he got out before stumbling away.

~

Nikolai shut the door to their chambers. Zoya looked up from her place on the bed, scowling. "Where were you? You know, you cannot do this to me. First you crown me against my wish, make me do this tour, and then disappear? Ravka does not need an undiplomatic queen, Nikolai!"

"No- that is the last thing Ravka needs. What it needs is you, a person who they can have the purest belief in." he responded automatically, but with a hollowness inside him. Zoya immediately sat up.

"Nikolai? What's wrong? Did something happen?" she asked, walking to him.

"Zoya- you know Dominik's plant in the garden?" she nodded impatiently. "I think we can remove that now." Zoya drew her brows together, confused.

"Nikolai; you did not tell me who Dominik was at that time, and I do not press, but you have to tell me if something is wrong, Kolya." she called him the nickname she had only used once before, the one reserved for special occasions. What a devious trick- she knew it would cause him to melt.

"He was my-" Zoya interrupted him, pushing him back on the bed.

"What? Get comfortable! If I know anything, I know this is going to be a long story." she said.

He rested against the headboard, took a deep breath, and began. "He was my only friend, really. When I was younger, I was a troublesome, naughty child- I know, unimaginable." he said as Zoya's brows rose.

"I was excited one morning- I had procured a mouse to set into my Tutor's bag. Imagine my surprise when I found there had been another desk and chair all set up- with a frightened boy sitting there. He wouldn't talk very much, just called me 'moi tsarevich'. When I released the mouse, my tutor screamed and I laughed. But then- he whipped Dominik. He was to act as a whipping boy for me- for who would dare raise a hand against the prince?

After that I did not cause trouble. I promised him I would do better. But somehow- in that silent corpse of a palace; we became friends. As we got older, we started sneaking out of the palace, to his house. We roughhoused and shouted and ran through fields. When I was fifteen, we were lying in the fields together and I looked at him- and I kissed him. He kissed me back. But the very next day, when I was sneaking back, Vasily caught me. I had gotten careless, you see. I... became what I am. I charmed my mother and her court and flattered my father and wrote to gunsmiths and officers and ministers and generals.

"I got Dominik's brother reassigned to a place where the fighting was light. I joined the infantry right along with him. He... was my everything."

"And then he died. But I saw him today. Turns out he survived, went into a coma, found a rich handsome trader husband."

Zoya crawled into his arms, melting into him. He held onto her like she was his only anchor and he a pathetic drowning ship, and sobbed. "He did not once think he should tell me? Some mornings, his words, he was the only reason I could even get up. He just... forgot?"

"Nikolai. Nikolai- Kolya, listen to me. What else can you do?"

"If only- I'd checked his pulse, I wouldn't be here right now, Zoya do you understand? There was another life I could have lived."

"That is what you could have done. There is no use crying over spilt milk, Kolya. Moreover, do you regret this? Do you regret... me?"

He looked in his heart's eyes and said, "No. Of course not. You are right, of course. You always are." and attempted a smile.

Zoya's eyes narrowed. "Normally I would savour those words, but why does it feel like you're up to something? Like your mind isn't at rest?"

That made Nikolai laugh; a small laugh yes, but a laugh. "When is it ever?" he asked.

10000% confirmed

may have messed around and wrote a 12k youtuber! au wherein nikolai sings love songs for the internet and pretends they‘re not for zoya (except they totally are)

ft. kaz and inej as the hosts of ravka unsolved; alina as a lifestyle vlogger; nina and matthias warring over twitter; cameraman jesper flirting with pseudo khan academy wylan & genya and david having the only braincell in the group

https://archiveofourown.org/works/31614989

the fact that i‘m already at 15k for modern emma! kaz/inej au (aka kaz is grumpy, wears exactly one coat and is weirdly invested in other people’s love lives) and i still have four sections to go?? send help p l s

but also:

kaz and inej using zoyalai to talk about their overly close (friend)ship 😌

kaz and inej plotting to get nina and matthias to get back together so that they don‘t have to deal with their foolery 😌

zoya and nikolai taking moonlit walks around campus 😌

kaz having an inej playlist on spotify 😌

mal and alina wearing matching hoodies and singing tswift songs 😌

nina and matthias “running into each other” literally every week despite “hating each other” 😌

kaz and inej ruining kaz’s coat to help david confess to genya 😌

kaz and genya bonding over dramatic fashion choices 😌

kaz and inej working out everyone’s issues before they realize they’ve been beside each other the whole time 😌

the way that john mayer’s cover of xo and taylor swift’s untouchable are absolutely zoyalai i’m sorry i don’t make up the rules 🤧

your love is bright as ever / even in the shadows / baby kiss me / before they turn the lights out

&

untouchable, burning brighter than the sun / and when you’re close i feel like coming undone / in the middle of the night when i’m in this dream / it’s like a million little stars spelling out your name

plS i need crumbs in s2 so ppl can make edits

emma!au kanej

ok so because i am apparently incapable of writing soc/grisha verse fics that aren’t at least a little (a lot??) ensemble, the fun little 5+1 emma!kanej au has turned into a 20k+ monster!!! 

please enjoy part 1 of kaz and inej orchestrating the iconic denya, zoyalai and malina in uni whilst avoiding their own relationship. part 2 of wesper, helnik +1 coming (soon? hopefully?) 

https://archiveofourown.org/works/32979520

jean's v-neck blue shirt is to jeremy what zoya's blue hair ribbon is to nikolai

have your way with me until you go (zoyalai)

Nikolai and Zoya’s morning routines are like clockwork. She wakes him with a drop of stimulant. He makes a witty quip. Neither of them acknowledge what’s between them.

So when Zoya shows up late, it’s reasonable to assume that nothing else will go as planned.

@grishaverseonline mission 06: free for all

a/n: it’s literally just 2k of pining, pls take it, it’s all i have to offer. meant to be a parallel to the carriage scene at the beginning of kos but it got a bit out of hand 😔 big thanks to @storm-dog-pirate and @mareshes for helping me beta!

ao3

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When Nikolai woke, it was less surfacing gently from the sea of sleep than being abruptly spat out onto dry land by a monster. He inhaled sharply, his mind instantly assaulted with his surroundings. He was on his bed at the Grand Palace. Chains were once again fastened around his wrists. And an unfairly lovely face was hovering above his, her dark curls brushing his bare chest.

“Zoya,” he greeted with a groan, “how kind of you to grace me with your delightful presence this fine morning. I feel healthier already.”

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yk what really makes me emotional about the zoyalai garden scene? in king of scars, when lizabetha is talking to zoya in the fold, she mentions to zoya how other people do not want to look too closely at the thorns of others’ pains and fears. she even shows the quinces blooming and flowering, saying that it still does not change the nature of the thorn; it’s still prickly and covered in pain and anger. 

and then in the garden, zoya talks of the exact same thing. about how the thorns are so uselessly symbolic with no real value, that the thorn is too bitter and worthless and how people will not pay attention to it nor love, not unless they see something worth seeing in them or have something for themselves to see in it. 

and nikolai just. straight up counters it. he says the thorn endures so many winters, keeps others strong until they bloomed with the sun and when the cycle starts again, the thorn grows yet again, endlessly strong and persevering and blooms again. and that just. does feelings to you because we see how nikolai sees zoya’s thorns, understands that it’s more fear than a mere metaphor for her and her ruthlessness and of who she is. 

so the last quote ‘i will always seek to make it summer for you’ is so stark against ‘what if the winter is just too long and hard and it can’t bloom again?’ hits you hard because. they!!! understand and value who they are as people and vow to become the weather to make each other bloom. and that does BRINGS SO MANY FEELS to you in this essay i will—

its always “wyd” and never “biagftsoybtpoftwtlwyfmwfbifidwtffafiicfawtmafwy”🙄

barbie has a great day everyday

ken only has a great day if barbie looks at him

THIS IS GOLD OML. Nikolai complimenting himself is so him. I need to steal this idea and make some

🐦‍⬛ KazBrekker The King Of Ravka and Sturmhond are together 👑 ThatOneKing Nuh un 🐯 ZoyaTheGeneral That is confidential information 👑 ThatOneKing It is 🐯 ZoyaTheGeneral Yes? 👑 ThatOneKing We have to fire a lot of people

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🧇 KooperomWaffles New poll guys! What’s your favorite Kooperom dish? 🧇 KooperomWaffles Guys

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☕ DregsOfficial

Why does everyone say Kaz is hot

🦁 TheDimeLions

We have eyes

☕ DregsOfficial

WTF?????

🔪 RazerGuys

Yeah

☕ DregsOfficial

bruh

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He could kill me and I'd thank him ong

☕ DregsOfficial

67.221.48.167

We’re coming for you

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👻 TheWraith

I’m not with Dirtyhands, guys

🍰 TheQueenOfNeens

Oh honey

💥 JesperfaHEHE

Girl

💣 TheBoomTheBang

No

🌕 TheGhostOfMatty

Why are you lying

🐦‍⬛ KazBrekker

So true, mysterious pirate that I do not know

☕ DregsOfficial

That is such a big lie even you should be ashamed Kaz

🐦‍⬛ KazBrekker

Anika, you're fired. Pim gets your job.

☕ DregsOfficial

TRAITOR

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🦊 ThatOnePrivateer

Nikolai Lantsov is so hot

👑 ThatOneKing

You too bbg <3

🦊 ThatOnePrivateer

I’m gonna kiss you

🐯 ZoyaTheGeneral

This is public

👑 ThatOneKing

Okay?

🐯 ZoyaTheGeneral

Do this in your own time

🔥 TheTailorInRavka

Please

🪨 DavidSafin

This is why I do not like social media

👑 ThatOneKing

L

🦊 ThatOnePrivateer

L

🪨 DavidSafin

What does that mean?

👑 ThatOneKing

LOSER!!111!!!!!1!!1!!!!1!!!11!!!!!!!!

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Nikolai leave him be

👑 ThatOneKing

No

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💎 RavkaEdits

Nikolai Lantsov is so hot

👑 ThatOneKing

Thx bbg

🐯 ZoyaTheGeneral

Nikolai you can’t respond to these

👑 ThatOneKing

L

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