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Adding the lowkey downtime moments between the highkey drama and action shown on screen, this story follows Callum, Rayla, Ezran and Soren through the events of S4-6. Lots of banter and humor, sappy romance and sad pining, interpersonal drama and intrapersonal angst
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Chapters are oneshots and can be read independently, with one chapter per in-story day/nightChapter 28: Where He Lies (post-S5E8) - Aftermath of the Finnegrin's Wake trauma olympics
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- Part 4 of Downtime and Beyond
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It wasn’t a rat or squirrel like she’d thought. A cat. A kitten, maybe? It was pretty small.
“Are your parents around?” Rayla asked.
The answering meow sounded even sadder this time.
Obviously not. Maybe that had been an insensitive thing to ask, she should bloody know-
While Callum is away visiting his family, Rayla is adopted by a stray kitten (modern au Stella).
A mix of dumb humor, warm cuddles and reactivated abandonment issues.Series
- Part 4 of Cottage Cuddles AU
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She should leave. Stop staring at him, back away, close the door so quietly he would never know she had been in here at all.
But it somehow didn’t seem fair to ogle him like this and then not even let him know or apologize, taking advantage of how all-or-nothing she well knew his focus was. No, she should… apologize for the intrusion on his private bathtub love poetry time, then leave.
“Sorry, Cal-“
“AARGH!”
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Born from that one incredible S5 end credit sketch of Callum in the bath tub
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The world burst into brilliant, blinding light, any clarity of thought or senses split apart like his skull… definitely felt like it had.
The dull thump of the back of his head hitting the deck echoed in his ears, reaching his consciousness delayed, but magnified and multiplied. Like a th-thu-thuump, the impact spreading and bursting through his senses, his field of vision tearing apart at the seams, a hazy blur spreading from the outside in, narrowing and darkening.
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Callum and Rayla have a terrible time onboard Finnegrin's Wake...
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It’s definitely very creepy to listen to her breathe, but it’s the only thing that has even slightly calmed him down, since they escaped from Umber Tor, since they pulled her from that rock slide. Listening to her breathe, that continual reminder of her… aliveness… had worked to calm his racing mind and thundering heart until the first breath he couldn't tell himself was anything but a sob and then it… hadn’t.
But he also can’t stop listening to her.
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It's the night following the S4 finale, and no-one's sleeping...
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“What’s wrong?” Rayla asked.
“Nothing, just… I wish I remembered. It’s pretty unfair. All the many pinnacles of uncoolness in my life… the many, many pinnacles… I remember those. Perfectly. Forever. Forever and ever. And ever.” He winced. Remembered. Remembered being face down in his own pee-snow at age 6, having lost a literal pissing contest with Soren… and seriously, that really had to stay with him for life, perfectly preserved for posterity, and he didn’t get to remember something this cool-sounding?!
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Post-battle rayllum banter, for a S5-trailer scene
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It's been 18 months since the battle of the Storm Spire, and the world is not okay. Viren was defeated, but there are new reports of dark magic in Xadia. The Breach between humans and elves is mending, but now the human lands are tearing themselves apart. Protecting the new world may prove even harder than it was to make it.
Callum is torn between Katolis and Xadia, Ezran between inherent idealism and the realities of kingship, and Rayla does not know where she belongs at all.———
Speculative 'Book 4: Earth' (Down to Earth) and 'Book 5: Ocean' (Down Below the Ocean).
In the spirit of the show, this will attempt to strike a balance between drama and humor, light and dark, dealing with heavy themes, but maintaining an undercurrent of optimism.Sequel to 'Downtime in Wartime' and 'Upside Downtime', but can be read independently.
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- Part 3 of Downtime and Beyond
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Some very tense campfire pining, after Rayla gets thrown into yet another lake and borrows Callum's new high mage coat.
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The stranger strolls almost casually towards the last assailant, avoiding a clumsy blow without breaking stride, and then-
“Hey!” Callum calls out. “You swept the leg!”
They… she… flinches back and whatever doubts he had that he’s right, falls away to leave just... them.
Her.
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They finally see each other again, and she's still leaving...
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If he was really considering taking a break from school to figure things out, Callum would certainly rather do it here than back home with all the pressure and expectations.
It was... all without making a single conscious decision, it felt, that he had gotten here. But here he was, asking for ‘Rayla’, his maybe-future-housemate, if… he actually went through with this extended fugue state he was experiencing and if she would have him of course and… it was nuts but… here he was.
And here she was, walking towards his table.
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Rayllum housemates-to-lovers slowburn. Includes chapter illustrations.
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Chapter 28 - January 2021: Callum returns from Canada. Last chapter, so story is now complete!
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- Part 1 of Cottage Cuddles AU
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There’s a flash of lightning, so close the clap of thunder seems to happen simultaneously, the light bouncing off the gloss of wetness everywhere around her, catching on every poky bit, throwing all the edges of the world into stark relief.
Nothing but jagged edges.
She got too close to a few of them, is all.
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Three birthdays before she sees him again...
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Rayla crosses her arms, and it tugs at the sweater and pulls him sideways into her, almost unbalancing him. “Ez, we’re fine. We’ll-“
“You’ll stay in your get-along-sweater until you’ve learned to get along, is what you will! And that’s Allen’s Solstice sweater his mom made, so don’t wreck it!”
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Some illustrated holiday-themed crack-angst
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Callum wakes up on the battlefield, finding himself in the kind of pickle with imminent danger and dark mages and desperate love.
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- Part 2 of Whumptober 2021
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Rayla faces a string of bad luck, alone on a dark mission. Small things, but they add up.
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- Part 1 of Whumptober 2021
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Sick and alone in the wilderness, Rayla calls for Callum in a fever dream.
He comes to her, but he's not the only one.
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Between the escape from Katolis Castle and the leap from the pinnacle, there were thirty days of daring and adventure we saw on screen, and thirty nights of relative downtime we did not.
This story adds the in-between moments, following Rayla, Callum and Ezran through the events of the first three seasons. There’s banter and introspection, angst and humor, loss and love, but with some emphasis on the banter and the love.
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Includes chapter illustrations. All chapters are oneshots and can be read on their own.
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- Part 2 of Downtime and Beyond
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Follows backpacking lovebugs Callum and Rayla, as they traverse Europe by train.
31 days of beaches, forests, mountains, tiny villages, big cities, piles of skulls, cramped quarters, pee-smelling hostels, puke-ridden sea voyages, boredom-ridden land journeys, ancient ruins, new feelings and old ghosts.
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Combines Callum’s illustrated travel journal spreads (with guest annotations) and written chapters.
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- Part 3 of Cottage Cuddles AU
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Sometimes, little doodles on post-its and spray paint on a skateboard and sharpie on a plaster cast... all come together to paint a picture.
(5 drawings Callum made for his friend and 1 for his girlfriend)Illustrated oneshots, showing progression of a friendship and more, through Callum's drawings for Rayla, one a year from grades 2nd through 7th.
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In chapter 5 (6th grade), Rayla is going away on an adventure, and Callum draws when he's upset
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- Part 1 of Rayllum 90s grade school
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Callum had said he wanted to get drunk and forget that he was a chronically single art school drop out with no prospects, romantic or otherwise.
He hadn’t said that watching a movie (even if it was Twilight) with Rayla in their cottage was… pretty much his ideal way of spending any evening, including Valentine’s Day.
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The tail end of a slow burn, purest form of idiots-to-lovers...
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- Part 2 of Cottage Cuddles AU
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Callum finds Rayla alone in a forest in Xadia. Over the next weeks of travel, they find their way back to each other.
Screenshot-edit and drabble combo story, trying to evoke season 4.