thisbluespirit: (leaira)
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Name: Head in the Clouds
Story: Starfall
Colors: White Opal #4 (pictures in the clouds); Tourmaline #15 (feather/lead)
Supplies and Styles: Graffiti - 11 Years of Rainbowfic Pt 12 (anniversary/birthday) + Giftwrap
Word Count: 893
Rating: G
Warnings: None.
Notes: late 1320, Portcallan; Leion Valerno, Leaira Modelen. (Leaira is about 8 here, while this takes place 7 years after the Portcallan arc for Leion. The Starflower Day mentioned is the anniversary of the Emoyran regions uniting into one country.)
Summary: Leion finds a child in the garden.

Head in the Clouds )
thisbluespirit: (fantasy2)
[personal profile] thisbluespirit
Name: Illusions in Ice
Story: Starfall
Colors: White Opal #3 (Reverie/daydream); Tourmaline #18 (sea/desert)
Supplies and Styles: Charcoal + Diptych + Photography + Postcard (2 x drabbles) + Chiaroscuro
Word Count: 200 (2 x 100)
Rating: PG
Warnings:
Notes: 1317(ish) Wastelands; the Ice Prince.
Summary: The man dreams he is a god; the god dreams he is a man.

Illusions in Ice )
thisbluespirit: (viyony)
[personal profile] thisbluespirit
Name: Victim of Fate
Story: Starfall
Colors: Tourmaline #11 (running/stumbling); White Opal #17 (stream of consciousness); Light Black #1 (dream)
Supplies and Styles: Novelty Beads (June 2021 Candy Green – Nothing ever becomes real until it is experienced. - John Keats)
Word Count: 3970
Rating: PG
Warnings: Mild injury, angst; otherwise nothing worse than the pun in the use of the prompt.
Notes: 1313, Portcallan; Viyony Eseray, Leion Valerno, Marran Delver.
Summary: Viyony tries to fight a dream and loses – luckily for a certain young soldier.

Victim of Fate )
thisbluespirit: (viyony)
[personal profile] thisbluespirit
Name: Astray
Story: Starfall
Colors: White Opal #8 (wandering)
Supplies and Styles:
Word Count: 2015
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Notes: Portcallan 1313; Viyony Eseray, Ivina Gerro, Nin Valerno, Leion Valerno. (A very slight linking piece, but sometimes you need them.)
Summary: Viyony has an unexpected visitor.

Astray )
thisbluespirit: (fantasy2)
[personal profile] thisbluespirit
Name: Learned By Heart
Story: Starfall
Colors: White Opal #14 (Fool’s Paradise)
Supplies and Styles: Canvas + Triptych + Silhouette + Graffiti – 11 Years of Rainbow fic (October Bingo square “Silhouette”.) + Novelty Beads (March Challenge [2022 I think?] “I know sometimes you feel like you don't fit in/And this world doesn't know what you have within/When I look at you, I see something rare - What Makes You Different, Backstreet Boys.”)
Word Count: 3727
Rating: PG
Warnings:
Notes: 1310-1312 Pollean Academy, near Old Ralston (NE); Marran Delver/Telo Torwell. (This is what happened between Marran Delver and Laonna’s mother, or the first part of it.)
Summary: Telo would love to be the perfect pupil at her Academy, but there’s one particular brand of trouble she can never let go of.

Learned by Heart )
thisbluespirit: (leaira)
[personal profile] thisbluespirit
Name: Point of No Return
Story: Starfall
Colors: Nacre #20 (How long did you plan on keeping this from me?); White Opal #20 (hope)
Supplies and Styles: Novelty Beads – Birthday prompt from [personal profile] dray (I’m afraid there was no other choice) + Graffiti – 11 Years of [community profile] rainbowfic Part 9 (September Secrets)
Word Count: 3247
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Peril, injury.
Notes: 1337, Starfall Mountains; Leaira Modelen, Marran Delver. (Comes soon after Paper Trail, and we begin to get an answer as to why the Governor behaved oddly with Leaira. *\o/* This was, I think, the second piece I wrote (longhand), so I’ve been sitting on it a while.)
Summary: Leaira finally understands one of the Governor’s secrets, much too late – or too soon – for either of them.

Point of No Return )
thisbluespirit: (viyony)
[personal profile] thisbluespirit
Name: Holy Ground
Story: Starfall
Colors: Vienna Orange #10 (an old world made new on the same holy ground); White Opal #11 (woolgathering)
Supplies and Styles: Paint-by-numbers from [personal profile] shadowsong26 (it’s perfect because you’re here) + nubs + charcoal + gift wrap
Word Count: 644
Rating: G
Warnings: None.
Notes: Portcallan, 1313; Viyony Eseray/Eollan Barra. (A missing scene from the same night as Set Patterns.)
Summary: Viyony Eseray is exactly what Eollan has been looking for all these years.

Holy Ground )
thisbluespirit: (fantasy2)
[personal profile] thisbluespirit
Name: Escape Switch
Story: Starfall
Colors: Nacre #17 (Between the couch covers); White Opal #16 (Living inside one’s mind); Twilight #2 (Ecstasy)
Supplies and Styles: Canvas + Paint by Numbers from [personal profile] bookblather (finally free) + Photography + Panorama
Word Count: 718
Rating: PG
Warnings: Mentions of injury, peril.
Notes: 1316 Portcallan; Osmer Nivyrn. (Another snippet from Osmer’s being betrayed and injured too badly to continue as a Pathwalker. It’s 1316, because Osmer lost over 18 months as a result of what he does here (returning to Starfall in early 1318), which apparently I never actually made clear in the other pieces where this was referenced.)
Summary: The Paths have no physical location in this world. Therefore the only thing limiting a person’s access to them is the walls of their own mind.

Escape Switch )
thisbluespirit: (fantasy2)
[personal profile] thisbluespirit
Name: The Soldier’s Betrayal
Story: Starfall
Colors: Tourmaline #6 (day/night); White Opal #12 (moonlight sonata)
Supplies and Styles: Canvas + Life Drawing
Word Count: 2294
Rating: G
Warnings: None.
Notes: 1313, North Eastern District, Road west towards Copperfort; Viyony Eseray, Eollan Barra, Ranir Maraseny, Imai Lullers, & Marran Delver. (Introducing the 24-years-earlier Portcallan plot and main character, mostly for fun and worldbuilding while I try to line up all the relevant characters and plot points in the current day/main plot pieces. A familiar face is involved.)
Summary: On the road to Portcallan, Viyony meets three soldiers. She will meet each of them again before this tale is told.

The Soldier's Betrayal )
thisbluespirit: (fantasy)
[personal profile] thisbluespirit
Name: Dreaming In Ice
Story: Starfall
Colors: Twilight #18 (sybilline); White Opal #2 (dream)
Supplies and Styles: Charcoal + Paint-by-Numbers from [personal profile] bookblather (“I saw it coming”) + Novelty Beads (Shiver) + Photography
Word Count: 397
Rating: G
Warnings: Villain POV.
Notes: 1337, Northlands; the Ice Prince.
Summary: The Ice Prince dreams everyone else’s nightmare.

Dreaming In Ice )
thisbluespirit: (fantasy2)
[personal profile] thisbluespirit
Name: Morning Walk
Story: Starfall
Colors: Tourmaline #7 (garden/road); White opal #5 (solitude)
Supplies and Styles: Seed beads
Word Count: 1236
Rating: G
Warnings: None.
Notes: 1337, Starfall Village; Aimon Merner, Imiya Sarno. (Introducing another character. Takes place at the same time as Boundary Break.)
Summary: Aimon’s left to amuse himself for the morning – and runs into yet another unexpected aspect of Starfall Manor.

Morning Walk )
thisbluespirit: (leaira)
[personal profile] thisbluespirit
Name: Into the Light
Story: Starfall
Colors: White Opal #10 (vision)
Supplies and Styles: Canvas
Word Count: 824
Rating: G
Warnings: None, really.
Notes: 1322, Lighthaven; Leiara Modelen. (Child Leaira.)
Summary: Leaira looks into the Great Lightstone.

Into the Light )
thisbluespirit: (zila)
[personal profile] thisbluespirit
Name: Pawn in Play
Story: Starfall
Colors: White Opal #7 (fantasy)
Supplies and Styles: Charcoal + Seed Beads
Word Count: 3926
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Spying; mild physical violence & threats.
Notes: 1337, Portcallan; Zila Fayne, Marran Delver, Tana Veldiner. (Things start to move in the Portcallan politicking plot.)
Summary: Zila’s first attempt at the spying game pits her against a far more experienced player, and it may just prove to be her last...

Pawn in Play )
thisbluespirit: (fantasy)
[personal profile] thisbluespirit
Name: Sweets from Strangers
Story: Starfall
Colors: White Opal #15 (dreams do come true)
Supplies and Styles: Charcoal + Seed Beads
Word Count: 1496
Rating: PG
Warnings: None, really - talk of espionage etc.
Notes: 1337, Portcallan; Zila Fayne, Tana Veldiner. Carries on immediately from Make a Wish
Summary: Nothing about this proposition can be a good idea…

Sweets from Strangers )
thisbluespirit: (leaira)
[personal profile] thisbluespirit
Name: Study in Grey
Story: Starfall
Colors: Nacre #6 (False wall) ; White Opal #9 (gazing out the window)
Supplies and Styles:
Word Count: 1708
Rating: G
Warnings: None.
Notes: 1337; Leaira Modelen, Marran Delver.
Summary: It turns out Governor Delver really was serious about that research.

Study in Grey )
thisbluespirit: (zila)
[personal profile] thisbluespirit
Name: Make A Wish
Story: Starfall
Colors: Nacre #1 (Pearl); White Opal #1 (Wish)
Supplies and Styles: Seed Beads
Word Count: 498
Rating: G
Warnings: None.
Notes: 1337, Portcallan; Zila Fayne. (A piece to introduce a character who’s about to get unwisely sucked into some of the politicking.)
Summary: There are some things Zila wants more than is wise.

Make A Wish )
thisbluespirit: (fantasy)
[personal profile] thisbluespirit
Name: Widen Your Mind
Story: Starfall
Colors: White Opal #18 (there’s nothing more boring than living someone else’s dreams); Nacre #18 (mislabelled); Twilight #1 (Embody)
Supplies and Styles: Canvas + Charcoal + Paint-by-Numbers from [personal profile] bookblather (Is it really a lie if you make it true?)
Word Count: 699
Rating: PG
Warnings: Some punishmentr/mental distress or bad visions anyway.
Notes: c.1308-10, Old Ralston; Marran Delver (who’s about 15-17 here, so another snippet of backstory for him.)
Summary: Marran’s not like the other students.

Widen Your Mind )
thisbluespirit: (fantasy)
[personal profile] thisbluespirit
Name: Open and Above Board
Story: Starfall
Colors: White Opal #13 (castles in the sky)
Supplies and Styles:
Word Count: 1245
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Notes: 1337; Starfall Manor. Aimon Merner, Tannis Kellen, Camecia Tolling, Arin Teykal. (Now I’m trying to get back to a bit more of a chronological order, at least to start with, and this follows on fairly quickly from the very first piece I wrote for this canon.)
Summary: Aimon arrives at Starfall Manor and unmasks himself.

Open and Above Board )
thisbluespirit: (leaira)
[personal profile] thisbluespirit
Name: something that’s all mine
Story: Starfall
Colors: White Opal #19 (when I was young I wanted to be); Vienna Orange #5 (Where do I go when every 'no' turns into 'maybe'?)
Supplies and Styles: Graffiti – Lilith Faire Day 7 (Second Stage: All Saints “I’ve crossed the deserts for miles… searching for places to find, A piece of something to call my own.”) + Paint-by-Numbers from [personal profile] shadowsong26 (a string of happy coincidences)
Word Count: 504
Rating: G
Warnings: None, really.
Notes: 1337, Starfall Manor; Leaira Modelen. (Earliest of the current-set pieces yet, so probably more where I should have started...)
Summary: Leaira’s deepest-held wish comes true.

something that's all mine )
thisbluespirit: (fantasy)
[personal profile] thisbluespirit
Name: Star Storm
Story: Starfall
Colors: White Opal #6 (Wish Upon a shooting star)
Supplies and Styles:
Word Count: 501 words
Rating: G
Warnings: None.
Notes: New canon, finally, I hope! Aimon Merner.
Summary: Aimon has never been this far north before.

Star Storm )

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