Your kingdom has fallen after a long, bitter war with the Greeks. As the only surviving princess, you are taken as a political hostage to their capital, meant to be both a symbol of surrender and a bargaining chip to prevent rebellion.
The sun is scorching hot in the Reef. The war between Na’vi and sky people has ended, and Kiri found a way to channel her unique connection to Eywa to grant her boyfriend Spider a queue and the ability to breathe the air of Pandora; they explore the forest uninterrupted. T’sireya and Lo’ak bathe in the water, while Aurora —T’sireya’s older sister — and Neteyam, the eldest son of Jake Sully, the Turuk Makto, watch over their siblings as they rest on the white sand.
The candles’ flames flicker feebly in the Undercroft. It’s silent — the three young students filling in the empty space. Their bodies radiate heat, a stark contrast to the chilling cold. It was Christmas time, and Ominis had no family to come back to. He was cast out.
A man meets a young girl. He is a hundred years old, and yet, he has never seen something like her. She is enticing, beautiful, funny, she's sweet and she's scarily strong. She reminds him that there's still something to hold on to, even after what he did. She's looking for her brother, and he intends to help her, should it be the last thing he does.
2016, on the set for the movie Captain America: Civil War. Y/n is new, young, but well known and respected amongst her colleagues — she’s tasked with helping Sebastian Stan, the actor for the Winter Soldier, slip in the metal arm prop every day of filming.
Y/n was an orphan. An opportunity, a perfect blank slate for obnoxious Enji Todoroki to exploit, helping him and his shadow achieve so much fame it would completely erase and surpass All Might. So he took her in, but never adopted her, when she was around five years old. His youngest son, Shoto, was the same age as her when she came to their manor, a fresh burn scar he'd acquired from his father on his cheek. Over time, they became the best of friends — finding deep comfort in one another, even going so far as sleeping together, keep each other off the nightmares, and healing each other's wounds.
After the war, wizarding Britain does not heal so much as it reorganize itself. The old families are not forgiven, but they are needed — their gold, their influence, their silence. To ensure stability, the Wizengamot quietly revives a tradition no one dares name aloud: strategic pureblood marriages. Theodore Nott is informed, not asked. He listens without reaction as names are exchanged, bloodlines weighed, futures negotiated. He expects indifference to settle over him, as it always does — until he hears hers. She is not a stranger. She was a fellow Slytherin, back when they were still in Hogwarts, and they had both shared a few conversations, their relationship remaining casual and careless. Theo remembers the sound of her voice, the way she never raised it. He remembers the moment their eyes met, sharp and assessing, before she turned away. He has carried that memory quietly, without indulgence, without hope. Now she is to be his wife. And he couldn't be happier, because he is been utterly and pathetically obsessed with her ever since she had hexed him to throw up slugs in second year for bullying a boy from Gryffindor. Outdoors, he is always the perfect picture of the distant, cold husband, leaving the impression of making his wife feel alone and isolated. Indoors, he is utterly devoted, all "yes love"s, and "of course my dear"s, and clingy obsession.
Lo'ak is the new bright star of the Sully family. After the last war against the Sky People and the Ash People, Varang and Quaritch have been defeated. And Neteyam te Suli Tsyeyk’itan — what's left of him, at least — has been found in the forest, caught in a protective prison of fungus, his fire wound a stark and ragged patch of scarred skin near his heart. Given his weakened state, the unsteady beat of his heart, and the fact that Lo'ak has outshined him this time, he is no longer his father's right arm. And when he feels defeated, when he feels useless and like he has no one to turn to anymore, Y/n is there. Fierce, kind, witty. Just like a bandaid.
Aurora is an unclaimed camper at Camp Half-blood. She is determined to keep some company to Nico Di Angelo, the son of Hades who recently returned from a solo journey in an attempt — failed — to reach out to his late sister, Bianca. He lies unconscious at the medical bay, his wounds cured.
The old RDA station is silent with purpose. It feels forced, or artificially created, and yet, the warmth almost makes up for it. The only two humans remaining on Pandora hang around it, a heavy responsibility placed upon them. They have been given a task from Norm and the others, and they don’t have the heart to turn it down.
The air is stale inside the lodge. Due to the thick fog, you can’t see where the settlement called Jackson is — and neither Joel, the man that killed each remaining Firefly.
When Scaramouche fell from the Shouki no Kami, his head hit the ground with enough force that the sound could chill the blood in one's veins. Traveler heard it. Paimon did, too. Fortunately, he made it — but not fully. He's not who he was anymore. A new identity, a new chance, a Wanderer: that's what he became after he woke up from the coma, a man who distances himself from his past and lives his days in peace, even keeping the base for his character. His consciousness, though, split: at times, especially at night, it shifts, and Scaramouche resurfaces. Same body, but two different personalities, alternating during the day and the night: Wanderer, and Scaramouche. Future and Past. And they're both utterly obsessed with Y/n.