CERSEI
Cersei Lannister sipped her tea, the warmth of the fine porcelain cup a small comfort in her hands. From the window of her solar, she could see the leaves of the garden trees swaying gently in the sea breeze. It was a peaceful sight, a sight that should have been calming. And yet, ...
2025-09-30 18:25:00 +0000 UTC View PostJON
A knight's duty, according to the teachings of Ser Warren Cole, was to protect. Protect your Lord, protect your lands, protect the weak and the innocent. Jon had held fast to those teachings. He had trained until his muscles felt like they would tear, he had taken blows that would have knocked a sm...
Inside the quiet inn room, Yuji packed his things with methodical, emotionless movements. The storage scrolls containing his clean clothes, leftover rations, and medical equipment were rolled up neatly and placed back into his deceptively small backpack. Every movement was an efficiency born from habit.
T...
2025-09-29 17:46:49 +0000 UTC View PostThe next day, the exhibition began. Koji had left early in the morning with Tsukasa-sensei, dressed in his best clothes, his back a little straighter than the day before. He carried his masterpiece with him, a promise he had to fulfill.
The previous afternoon had been spent in a fog of exhausting bureaucracy. The Capit...
GERION
Casterly Rock, 275 AC
Gerion Lannister had always believed that a castle needed laughter. Without it, it was just a cold pile of stones, no matter how much gold lined its walls. He did his part to fill the halls of Casterly Rock with cheer, wal...
2025-09-26 07:54:09 +0000 UTC View PostOberyn
The morning air in the Westerlands had a sharp chill to it. Here, in the vast training yard of Casterly Rock, it felt clean and refreshing, carrying the faint scent of salt from the unseen sea and the damp smell of the castle's ancient stones. For Oberyn, it was a pleasant diversio...
2025-09-26 07:48:40 +0000 UTC View PostOBERYN
The journey had been long and tedious, a tour of the grandeur and oddities of the Seven Kingdoms. Oberyn had gazed at the stars from the towers of Starfall, tasted the sweetest wine in the Arbor, inhaled the dust of ancient manuscripts in Oldtown, and felt the salt spray on his face as he sailed...
Nara left with three others. Their group, officially named Expedition 1 by Wyr, consisted of four strangely mismatched souls, bound by a common purpose. While the other three groups each had only three members, theirs was the largest, perhaps because they were the first, the spearhead of their community's new reach. She walke...
2025-09-26 03:44:01 +0000 UTC View PostThis is a crossover story between ASOIAF and LOTM, you can read chapters 1 to 6 on Spacebattles or AO3
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Nara had always been aware of her size. Among the Free Folk, where height meant a longer reach with a spear and bulk meant better warmth a...
Blood splattered and bodies lay everywhere. In the dim, damp tunnel, there were no more screams or the clang of metal. No sound. Only a thick, heavy silence that seemed to absorb all light and hope. But amidst it all, in the center of that deafening silence, Yuji's heart beat wildly.
Thump, thump, thu...
2025-09-25 20:33:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe enemies had been defeated. The sudden silence felt deafening, broken only by the sound of Yuji's ragged breathing and the rhythmic drip of water from the arched tunnel ceiling. He looked down at what he had done.
Blood was splattered everywhere. The thick, dark red color looked almost black under the dim lantern li...
Gone?
The word hung in the cool night air, a sharp taste against the lingering sweetness of cotton candy in Yuji's mouth. It was a word that didn't belong. A word that shouldn't be here, amidst the warm lantern light of the inn and the echoes of laughter from the night market they had just left.
How could she be...
After finishing their meal and a hot bath, the warmth and satisfaction from the delicious Yakiniku served as a comfortable cushion against the cold night air. They parted ways in the inn's lobby, each heading to their respective rooms to rest for a moment before the night-time adventure Tsukasa had promised. The inn was simpl...
2025-09-10 10:28:55 +0000 UTC View PostThis was the third day of their journey to the Capital. Three days that felt like a month. Yuji had forgotten how slowly the world moved when you weren't leaping from one tree branch to another. The steady pace of the horse-drawn cart was a slow torture for a shinobi, but it provided far too much time for thinking.
The...
A few minutes passed in a tense silence. Yuji looked around at the five attackers who were now bound with ninja wire, lying unconscious on the ground like broken dolls. The small, sound-based traps they had set up around the camp seemed to have been known by the attackers; they hadn't functioned at all. These assailants were ...
2025-09-02 11:30:14 +0000 UTC View PostLannisport was a symphony of ordered chaos. The smell of salt and fish from the harbor mingled with the aroma of freshly baked bread from the bakeries and the sharper tang of the stables. The shouts of merchants hawking their wares, the clang of a blacksmith's hammer, and the groan of cart wheels over cobbleston...
2025-08-30 14:57:23 +0000 UTC View PostNight fell quickly in the wilderness, swallowing the colors of twilight and replacing them with a palette of deep blue and pitch black. The sky above them, unobstructed by the village lights, was an ocean of stars so clear and dense it felt like you could touch it. Fortunately, there were no signs of rain. Otherwise, they wou...
2025-08-30 13:38:55 +0000 UTC View Post
The first few minutes after stepping out of the Konoha gate felt strangely silent. It was as if the four of them, along with a dog, had passed through an invisible veil that separated the orderly world from the unpr...
2025-08-27 18:56:47 +0000 UTC View PostThe warmth of the Yamashita family dining room was a sharp contrast to the life of a newly-formed Genin. Here, within these walls that smelled of wood and home cooking, the world of missions and danger felt so distant. At the same dining table where Yuji had spent thousands of meals in his life, there was now often an extra s...
2025-08-26 13:20:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Yeah, you guys definitely know who he is. Lol.
2025-08-26 03:27:34 +0000 UTC View Post
This is Yuji's Jonin-sensei. Tsukasa Fuji.
2025-08-26 03:25:36 +0000 UTC View Post
This is Yuji when he was a Genin, art by me.
2025-08-25 11:58:32 +0000 UTC View PostThe next morning, the air in the training ground felt different. The gentle warmth of the morning sun couldn't dispel the tension hanging between them. Yesterday was about funny chaos and strange introductions. Today was about business. Yuji and the others sat on the grass, forming a semicircle in front of their teacher. Tsuk...
2025-08-25 11:44:18 +0000 UTC View PostYuji yawned, a deliberate movement filled with profound boredom. His jaw made a soft clicking sound. Today was team announcement day. The day their fate for the next few years would be decided by a few adults in a room who probably didn't even remember their names. Maybe. He wasn't particularly excited about it. To him, it wa...
2025-08-24 19:18:33 +0000 UTC View PostFor a shinobi of Kakashi Hatake's caliber, boredom was a far more subtle enemy than any enemy ninja. It was the silence that crept in when the adrenaline of a mission had faded, leaving a void that had to be filled. Today, that boredom was particularly acute.
He was on his surveillance "mission," which now felt more lik...
2025-08-24 14:38:25 +0000 UTC View PostKenji Yamashita's workshop was his sanctuary. It was a small world he had created for himself, a world that smelled of freshly cut cedar, sharp varnish, and dust that floated like golden pollen in the lamplight. The sound of his knife shaving against wood was the only music he needed, a soothing rhythm that had accompanied hi...
2025-08-24 09:36:25 +0000 UTC View PostA ten-year-old Naruto leaped from one large tree root to another, his blue eyes scanning the forest floor intently. The air under the canopy of trees was cool and smelled of damp earth and decaying leaves. Sunlight pierced through the gaps in the foliage, creating pillars of light that danced among the shadows.
"See any...
2025-08-24 09:23:38 +0000 UTC View PostThe vibration from the hard clash of wood traveled up the practice sword, into his wrist, and exploded into a dull ache in his shoulder. His muscles screamed, his lungs burned, and sweat plastered his golden hair to his forehead in dark clumps. In his previous life, as Steven Evans, the only combat he had ever known was a fig...
2025-08-24 08:38:13 +0000 UTC View Post
