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worldsunlikemyown · 6 months

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Keeptober 2023 #31 — Halloween

“You have to be in costume!” Sophie insists. “And then we can knock on all the Councillors’ doors to give them a fright, and to ask them for baked goods — pretty sure at least Bronte will have something. But don’t ask me for costume advice — surprise me.”

And so all the others turn up at Havenfield, obediently dressed in whatever approximation of a costume they can muster.

Biana dresses as a mercenary — she has become familiar with the concept from goblins’ stories — with twin swords of some cardboard-like material strapped to her back, and an outfit made entirely out of something supple and leather-like. Sophie approves, and Biana, as usual, pulls it off.

Tam is dressed as a light-bulb, ironically, and Sophie wonders how he even knows what one is — he tells her later that Dex has told him. Linh, Maruca and Stina decide to come as the Hecatae, which also astonishes Sophie, until they tell her that they have got the idea from someone’s Ancient relative who has lived through the rise and fall of Greece and thus, that of Greek mythology. Marella, with Dex’s help with the media again, is dressed as Jack Frost, which is very funny.

Dex himself is dressed as a robot — one of the ones from Star Wars? Sophie doesn’t quite remember — with shiny metal wrapped all over his body, and a cleverly crafted helmet over his face. He greets her robotically, and she laughs.

Introducing them to Halloween has been great.

Fitz is dressed as a vampire — he’s apparently watched Hotel Transylvania, and that’s what he knows them from. He doesn’t say much about why he has been to a movie screening during his time searching for Sophie, but he looks good. Wylie comes as Batman, which is… unexpected, and Keefe in a swan (? White bird anyway) costume. Ugh. That’s going to be slightly awkward.

They say that they’ve swapped ideas, just to surprise her.

She’s been sufficiently surprised by all of them.

Sophie herself has dressed with the intention to figure out if one of the Councillors might have been the ones who had spoken to Tolkien (the thought of that inscription and its similarity to that verse still haunts her), so some character from his books it is. Besides, the irony of being an elf dressed up as an elf is too good to resist, so she intends to pick an elf. But it’s a hard, hard choice — recognisable, someone she knows well enough, someone whom a Councillor who might have inspired (or seen inspired) would recognise on sight…

She ends up, at last, picking a human. Half-elf, half-human, really, and for once, in exact measures. Sailor’s clothes, wild hair, seagull plushie on her shoulder and a shiny-looking, pretty stone (for which she has raided Edaline’s brooch drawer) ‘bound upon her brow’. Or at least she thinks that should be a quote, if she isn’t misremembering.

If anyone makes the connection between Keefe’s accidental Elwing-callback, they’re never going to let her live it down. But, well. It’s worth the risk.

They start with Councillor Alina.

#Sophie's costume is earendil btw #I'm sorry this is SO self indulgent but it's FOR ME #sophie foster #kotlc sophie #team valiant #kotlc team valiant #keefe sencen #kotlc keefe #is the bird thing funny? maybe? is it unfunny? also maybe #also Alina getting the biggest scare of her life lol #keeptober #keeptober2023

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crymeariveronceagain · 1 year

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kotlc characters ranked best singers to worst

Keefe Sencen. He's just. Hhhh. Anson Seabra mixed with Shawn Mendez mixed with like. That one guy who sings "I don't want the world to see me because i dont think that they'd understand how everythings made to be broken i just want you to know who i am". I wrote a whole fanfiction about this.

Wylie Endal. Damn. Damn damn damn damn this kid can SING.

Marella Redek. No thoughts, she has this talent and she's never going to sing for you, she's highkey so embarassed about it.

Biana Vacker. Belongs in a musical. Whichever you think fits her best. But she's got the voice for musical theatre.

Glimmer Alenefar. She can sing fairly well. Hers is a voice for stairwells and echoey hallways.

Tam Song. No one can sing MCR like this kid. He's got a voice for emo music, and he's fun to listen to.

Fitz Vacker. Fine voice but was never trained in it at all and never liked the way it sounded. So he's got a bit of insecurity about the way he sounds. But his voice is decent, if you'd ever get him to sing.

Stina Heks. Lana Del Rey vibes but she doesn't practice enough to make it count for anything. She is off-key 20% of the time.

Linh Song. She's average. Not super good, not super bad, can carry a tune. She's got a voice for singing happy birthday to her best friends and humming bars of tv intros.

Maruca Chebota. Eeeeeeh. She's not horrible but she would rather die than sing unless she's in a huge group of people. She'd sing at a concert when no one can tell its her. that's it.

Dex Dizznee. He has a singing voice for written lyrics.

Sophie Foster. Again, wrote a fanfic about this, she's deplorable at singing. She's got a voice for the most embarrassing karaoke performance this week, and therefore she will not touch a microphone with a 39.5 foot pole.

#kotlc #kotlc thoughts #kotlc headcanons #kotlc headcanon

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rayniscatstatue · 1 year

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Stellarlune unpack with me

Sophie is done, she needs therapy

Keefe come back, please

Sophie and Ro one bed trope… slay

Dadwin was only there for a few chapters. Shannon fix this. What is wrong with you?!

Ro should’ve punched Cassius in the face… Sophie has my back

Let Sophie burn things

That fight within the entire group. Nah uh, I’m not having it

Tam vs Linh?????

What crack is Shannon on to make her do that?!

It must be a high dose whatever she is on. Like girly what? Give us back the twins as twins. Twins deserve to be bestie twins. We also deserve bestie twins

Tam sticking up for Sophie

Cue me and my fake dating Sotam au where they fake date just to piss of Fitz and add more chaos to the group

I am living for platonic Sotam

I eat that shit up

No but Sophie and Tam vs everyone

Literally everyone hates the pettiness duo. It’s Snarky Sophie and Spiteful Tam

Just Sophie and Tam being besties and glaring at everyone

Enough about platonic Sotam, we will get back to that later

Linh just stop

I want the old Linh back, she literally carried books 5-8

Stina’s redemption is just down the drain…

I think Shannon mopped it up or licked it up, who knows?

Fitz needs to be angry

Let the child be angry but still be Sophie’s friend!

Chapter 23 tho!!!!

Sophie fawning over Keefe the entire chapter and finally realising her feelings

But also Ro leaving the chapter before

The Glimmer reveal

Like Rayni sounds so hot

Time to count how many people want to marry her

And that she doesn’t regret being in the Neverseen. Girlboss

Rayni is a girlboss

Say it with me, Rayni is a girlboss

Tiergan adopting all the gay kids

He is that meme of “how many kids do you have?” “Biologically, legally or emotionally?”

Tiergan is done with this hetro shit

He must want to quit teaching Sophie and Fitz at this point

The “Stop calling us Fitzphie!” Damn

Like dude you literally still have a crush on her…

Rayni is what made that book not boring

She made that meeting happen

Dex and Biana are totally dating but haven’t told anyone

You can’t convince me otherwise but their is chemistry between the 2, and it is getting spicy

Like they are getting along too well

Dexiana is sailing

Wylie stop being a fucking council stan

I am begging you Wylie!

Your dads taught you better

Btw, Tiergan and Prentice are the closest to canonically in love we will ever get!

Sophie snapping at Oralie

Dex must be there for that drama because damn, Sophie hates that girly

Just calm down a bit

And Sophie’s new attitude is slay

Marella putting gold in her hair

If that doesn’t tell you that she is head over heels in love with Linh then I don’t know what will

I ship it

Okay but the Jensi appearance

Sophie and Jensi besties

No, Sophie, Tam and Jensi as the new trio!

Jensi is gay tho, you can tell

Okay now the meeting! Rayni slay the day you absolute queen

Sophie with her entire plan

Rayni feeding Tam when his stomach growled will never be forgotten

The Trix and Rayni friendship

Tam stopping Sophie from having a panic attack because of Vespera!

Tam would honestly be an amazing friend

Trix outing Keefe for being fake with the Neverseen! Like Keefe is really an idiot

No but Maruca and her “is that true?”’s to Tam

Girly was shook

Sophie and Tam showing up to Dex’s in the middle of the night with a forbidden spy ball with ways to get Keefe back

Dex would’ve screamed

What if it was Juline that opened the door to Sophie and Tam?

Also Biana was missing

She literally just disappeared throughout that book

No but you can tell Sophie and Tam annoyed Dex so much while he was rigging the Spy ball

He wanted to slap them

Also Bex and Lex annoying them

Also poor Rex

Save Rex petition

I don’t like Shannon for that one

Then when they jumped out a window to flee to London and drag Keefe back

Sophie, Dex and Tam slayed

Then how Tam wishes Linh was there

Okay In the hotel, the “Foster?” As Sophie literally hug-tackled Keefe

Should’ve bitch slapped him tho

How Keefe was trying to take his shirt off for Tam, like you are gay

Dex standing there

Poor Dex

Also Tam just standing there

Poor Dex and Tam

Then them going back to Havenfeild

Edaline hugging Keefe!!!!

Also Keefe having presents ready to give to Sophie because of what he did

That’s what you get for running away

I want to see Sophie, Dex and Tam babysitting the triplets

Even Sophie and Dex babysitting them would be amazing

Oh my god, the kiss

The kiss guys

Sophie and Keefe finally kissed and Fitz was salty about it

Also both of them caring about each others feelings

Keefe calling Sophie “Sophie” during the confession

Fitz is salty

Like “You kissed him, you didn’t even kiss me” *wah wah wah*

Fitz is acting like a toddler that got his toy confiscated from him

Calm down dude

The damn hairpin was in Biana’s jewellery box, that was Biana’s plot point in the entire book at this point

Then Tam chaperoning Dex and Biana

He knew that Sokeefe happened so he had to move onto Dexiana

Keefe teasing Sophie

Like he really wants to kiss her in the moment

Then Keefe coming along with Sophie to make sure she is safe

That is like Sophie stopping Keefe from going to Ravagog in book 4

Sophie, Keefe, Marella, Maruca and Fitz at it

Gisela bowing up Vespera so she doesn’t have to confess her love for her

Taking notes

Then Elysian

Elysian neutrals

Like Damn girly, that cliffhanger…

And why hasn’t Ro came back yet…?

#kotlc #keeper of the lost cities #kotlc stellarlune #stellarlune #stellarlune spoilers #it was a wild ride

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moonlarked · 1 year

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More incorrect quotes from the quote generator

Wylie: Let's just agree to both say we're sorry on the count of three.

Wylie: One... two... three.

Maruca: ...

Wylie: ...

Wylie: See, now I'm just disappointed in both of us.

Sophie: Are you a cuddler?

Dex: I'm a machine of death and destruction.

Sophie:

Dex: ...Yeah, I'm a cuddler.

*While the Squad is in a battle*

Dex, trying to warn about the location of an enemy: To the left!

Biana: Take it back now y'all!

Marella: A fistfight CAN be romantic.

Keefe: Hi, who's this? Sophie changed all of my contacts to mythical creatures.

Marella: What's mine?

Keefe: Dwarf.

Marella: THEY'RE SO MEAN, I'M NOT THAT SHORT!

Keefe: Oh, hey Marella.

Marella: FUCK!

Wylie: Are you ready to commit?

Rayni: Like, a crime or a relationship?

Jensi: Where's Sophie, Linh, and Tam?

Biana: They're playing hide and seek.

Jensi: Where?

Biana: I don't think you get how this game works.

Jensi: Why are Sophie and Keefe sitting with their backs to each other?

Tam: They had a fight.

Jensi: Then why are they holding hands?

Tam: They get sad when they fight.

Maruca: Pose as a team because SHIT JUST GOT REAL!

Marella: Would it be discrimination to only hire employees at my doughnut shop who have the same name?

Sophie: Legally, I don't believe that breaches any discrimination laws. Morally though... I don't know.

Marella: I believe god is on my side when it comes to Duncans' Doughnuts.

Stina: What? I'm not aggressive!

Marella: Last Tuesday, you wacked me with a pair of crocs and stole my chocolate chips?

Stina: Survival of the fittest, bitch.

Rayni: The only thing keeping me from running away and hiding from society for the rest of my life is spite. I could disappear forever, but there are some bitches whose downfalls I have yet to witness, and I wanna be around when that happens.

Sophie: Wakey Wakey Eggs and Bakey!

Fitz: But I'm a vegan.

Sophie: Wakey Wakey Vegetables and Sadness.

Marella: What the fuck? People actually tell their crushes they like them??

Dex: What the hell do you do?

Marella: I die? What kinda question...

Linh: I'm never having a debate with Dex again, they literally started their argument with "Riddle me this."

Sophie: Like, no offense to myself and all, but what the fuck am I actually doing?

Fitz: Advice of the day kids, if you ever meet someone who calls Gatorade flavors the actual name of the flavor instead of just the color then they are a certified nerd.

Wylie: Yeah but you have to specify, frost glacier or cool blue? You can’t just say blue because there’s more than one blue.

Fitz: Blue and light blue, nice try nerd.

*Linh and Biana are in a car teetering on the edge of a cliff*

Linh: oh my god, Biana, backwards!

Biana: Really, Linh? I thought I might go forwards into the river, I thought that would be a fun thing to do.

Jensi: Marella's refusing to wear their glasses!

Marella: Jensi, look, I wore the glasses for a day. My eyes are much better now. Watch.

Marella: *points to Dex* Dex.

Marella: *points to Wylie* Wylie.

Marella: *points to Stina* Sasquatch.

Jensi: *eating a cinnamon roll*

Maruca: Cannibalism.

Jensi: *confused chewing noises*

Tam: Why is Keefe crying on the floor?

Stina: They're drunk.

Tam: And?

Stina: They saw a picture of Sophie's spouse.

Tam: But they're Sophie's spouse.

Stina: I know.

Rayni: You remind me of the ocean.

Tam: Because I'm deep and mysterious?

Rayni: No, because you're full of salt and you scare people.

Linh: You’re alive.

Rayni: No need to sound so disappointed.

#kotlc #keeper of the lost cities #kotlc incorrect quotes

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bookwyrminspiration · 2 years

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So I saw a post from Fintan Pyren about wallpapers, so if the characters in kotlc had phones, what do you think their wallpapers would be?

oh yeah I saw that post too!! also I love this question. I won't look for actual photos because that will take me a while and not all of them exist but!! here's my thoughts!

Sophie: I'm thinking one of her photos from the baby book she took with her to the Lost Cities. She can't have her human family in her life anymore but she can always remember them, and seeing them on her phone is a nice way to keep them close. Maybe the photo is of multiple photographs laid out, whatever it is it's a tie to her human life

Fitz: Whatever his favorite human place he visited was, or maybe a collage of different human places. He can't take all the trinkets he took around with him, but he can have photographs of all the places he looked right in his back pocket. San Diego might be in the center for reasons

Keefe: he's got an innocuous lock screen of something very Keefe like a gulon or a photo of himself with a focus on The Hair, but his homescreen (which no one else is allowed to see) is a photo of Sophie. Some sweet moment of her just reading or doing homework that he took a photo of without her knowing

Biana: She's either got something bold like a photo of herself she particularly likes, or some photo she secretly took of her friends/family. Like everyone at a sleepover and she took a photo of everyone in their element to really capture them without them feeling the pressure of the camera, portraying a piece of them she gets to see where they're not pretending to be anyone but themselves, you know!

Dex: his is function over fashion, he's changing his wallpaper all the time to reflect things he needs to remember, to-do lists and materials he needs and things to remember, maybe it's animated. moving on it's own in this super confusing way to everyone but him. he can always reference it to see what he needs

Marella: She's got this super detailed collage of a bunch of things that she made herself. Photos she's taken of sunsets and photos with friends and quotes and all manner of things. I'm thinking a light blue color scheme, but I bet she changes it depending on her mood

Linh: Princess Purryfins 100%. Of course she's going to make her pet murcat her wallpaper, what else would she do? Maybe Princess Purryfins is sprawled out looking cute or staring off into the distance ofr has a bow on her head, whatever it is, LInh treasures the photo. Maybe she's even got one with Iggy in it as well

Tam: his lock screen is pure black because he's "too mature" for something as frivolous as a personalized lockscreen. secretly he's got a floral homescreen, some small flower growing alone amongst the rocks or something. may or may not be in black and white with a sentimental quote in handwritten font, he'll never tell

Stina: She's got a picture of one of the baby unicorns from Sterling Gables as her wallpaper. Maybe it's with it's mother, but it's one of the adorable little unicorns she works with, and she'll get defensive about them if she thinks someone is being judgy because how dare you say that about her unicorns

Maruca: A photo of her with her friends all grouped together and hanging out. Perhaps they're at the beach or there's a sunset behind them, but they're all smiling and having a great time together, and those are the memories she wants to make sure she never forgets so she sets them as her wallpaper

Wylie: I'm thinking either a photo of his parents from when he was a kid, a way to remember them and hold onto that image of them without falling victim to losing them to his memory, or a photo of his current family. Tiergan and Linh and Tam, as a reminder that things can get better and that he's got people who he cares about that care about him.

#kotlc #keeper of the lost cities #quil's queries #bluecookiesarebetter #the kotlcrew #this is of course assuming that dex would use a phone and wouldn't instead simply invent a new phone that works much better than human phon #es #i got cut off #this is cruel #anyway #those are just the kinda vibes I think they'd go for!!

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faggot-friday · 2 years

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Results from the KotLC Ship Quiz Thing (part one of two)

(Thanks to everyone who did it!)

Question 1: Sofitz, Sokeefe, both, or neither? 46.2% said Sokeefe 46.2% remained neutral 23.1% said Sokeefitz 7.7% said Sofitz 0% said neither

Question 2: Who do you ship Biana with? 61.5% said Sophie 53.8% said Marella 46.2% said Maruca 30.8% said Tam 23.1% said Dex 7.7% said Stina 7.7% said "Honestly probably any of the girls, this child is NOT attracted to guys" (accurate) 0% said Keefe

Question 3: What about... Dex? 61.5% said Fitz 38.5% said Keefe 23.1% said Biana 7.7% said Stina 7.7% said "no one. except me ofc <3/hj" 7.7% said "Aroace Dex" (Dex is either gay or aroace, there is no alternative, he was not written in even a remotely heterosexual way) 0% said Linh 0% said Sophie

Question 4: Linh? 69.2% said Marella 7.7% said Wylie 7.7% said "no one" 7.7% said "lowkey Marella" 7.7% said Sophie 7.7% said "i dont rly ship her w/ anyone rn" 7.7% said "biana, maruca, stina" 7.7% said "stina and maruca <3" 7.7% said "Solinh is very cute" 0% said Fitz 0% said Dex (so basically what I've gathered is that 12/13 voters think Linh should have either a girlfriend or no one, only one thinks she should get a boyfriend)

Question 5: What about Tam? 69.2% said Keefe 30.8% said Biana 15.4% said Glimmer 7.7% said Sophie 7.7% said "lowkey I don't want him to be with anyone" 7.7% said "I think his dynamic with Dex would be really cool if they got more development"

Question 6: Keefe? 61.5% said Tam 53.8% said Sophie 38.5% said Fitz 38.5% said Sophie and Fitz 7.7% said Dex 7.7% said "Dex (and also fintan)" (which terrifies me beyond belief) 7.7% said "sophie ig? but rly i don't care anymore"

Question 7: You think we're nearly at the end? We're not! Haha! A little over halfway, I believe! It's Fitz's turn! 61.5% said Dex 30.8% said Keefe 30.8% said Sophie and Keefe 15.4% said Sophie 7.7% said "fitz x fitz" 7.7% said "idk sophie? but same for keefe don't rly care" 7.7% said "he's not good enough for anyone" (give Fitz a hug and a cinnacreme 2k22) 7.7% said "know what- fitz keefe tam and dex can be in a polycule, as a treat" (thank you) 0% said Linh

Question 8: Sophie time! *jazz hands* 53.8% said Keefe 46.2% said Keefe and Fitz 46.2% said Biana 38.5% said Stina 15.4% said Fitz 7.7% said Tam 7.7% said Dex 7.7% said Marella and Linh 7.7% said "if u can't tell already, i don't rly care about the love triangle anymore" 7.7% said "a good night's sleep <3" (get Sophie sleep 2k22)

Question 9: Marella? 69.2% said Linh 53.8% said Biana 15.4% said Sophie 7.7% said Maruca and Stina 7.7% said "again lowkey Linh" 7.7% said "uhhhhhhh idk no one rn" 7.7% said maruca, stina 7.7% said maruca and stina!!! 7.7% said "I honestly don't know for this one"

Part two will be up next! (with different formatting bc the questions are different)

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sugarshackpeasant · 3 years

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sophie and her friends: too predictable or do they have a spy

so i don’t think that shannon will have one of sophie’s friends betray her but this is who i suspect if shannon did:

so lets use the process of elimantion for this, in sophie’s main-ish group (i’m counting maruca and marella as part of the main group) there’s keefe, fitz, dex, tam., linh, biana, wylie, marella, maruca

keefe: obviously its not keefe, most of his character is about not wanting to be like his mom

fitz: i kind of suspected fitz in the earlier books, but his reaction to alvar being a traitor was way too strong for him to be a part of the neverseen

dex: he got tortured and kidnapped in book one, he’s definitely not a spy

tam: we say from his pov in the legacy short story and he hated being a prisoner of the neverseen, he’s not the spy

wylie: not the spy, he was tortured by the neverseen, the neverseen killed his mom, and prentice and tiergan are in the black swan

marella: i think it would be too much like the brant plotline if marella was a neverseen member, and the whole evil pyrokinetic thing has already been done twice

maruca: hasn’t had enough page time, for her betrayal to be impactful and wylie’s her cousin and the neverseen literally tortured him

that leaves two main suspects: biana and linh

when i started writing this post i was leaning towards biana and i’ll make a case for her, but first let me address linh

i’m writing this while i’m in school (lol) but the more i thought about ti during english class the more it made sense

let’s break it down:

linh was banished and sent to exillium

wouldn’t that make your blood boil if your parents just let the council banish you for an accident instead of not taking a hydrokinetic under the ocean

being banished under circumstances like that would make you pretty angry at the council and your parents right?

angry enough to want revenge?

linh and tam were already treated horrible by elvin society because they were twins and wouldn’t you hold a grudge for that?

at exillium it seems like it would be pretty easy to recruit the kids for the neverseen

a bunch of angry and powerful kids and being anonymous is enforced all the time

and we know tam is more openly bitter about linh and his banishment, but couldn’t linh just be putting on a front when she’s around other people because she doesn’t want them in her business

okay so lets just assume that the neverseen recruited linh a little before the gnomish plague got spread

lets think about why the neverseen would recruit her: she’s banished and angry, she was already discriminated against before she was banished, she’s very powerful and she’s more likely to follow orders than her brother (remember that tam doesn’t like being told what to do by anyone), and she and tam lived right by wildwood (i think, but i know that they lived where the plague was)

okay the neverseen’s recruited her and she lives by the perfect spot to spread the plague, so they do the thing with the tree and now the plague is out in the world

and i know that you’re probably thinking that fintan made alvar reveal he was a spy so why wouldn’t he make linh reveal herself too?

think about it, if you were fintan and you were deciding who you wanted to reveal themselves as a spy to sophie and her friends would you rather reveal alvar who can spy on alden (that’s about it) or linh who is now trusted by sophie and the black swan?

make sure to remember that sophie doesn’t tell alden everything, the people she normally goes to first are either her friends or the black swan

linh is in the better position here and why would fintan want to reveal both of his spies, instead he could reveal alvar to fuck with sophie and her friends head while still keeping linh who is in a better position to gather intel

also lets not forget that everyone else in the friend group has been injured or had severe psychological trauma from the neverseen

sophie and dex were kidnapped and tortured, keefe’s had his ribs broken and his mom’s been emotionally abusing him his whole life, fitz was tortured by umber, wylie was tortured, tam was taken prisoner and forced to do a lot of fucked up shit (you really think that wouldn’t leave any trauma at all?), and biana has permanent scars and almost died

marella and maruca haven’t been majorly injured but they’re also a lot newer to the group than linh

linh has been with the group for a while now and nothing major has happened to her that i can remember

also maybe linh was another factor in gisela wanting tam in the neverseen, maybe linh just wanted her brother safe and on the winning side

and maybe that’s why linh doesn’t want to be around glimmer because she doesn’t want glimmer recognizing her or her voice

lets assume that linh probably had a code name

so what do you think, is linh a spy for the neverseen?

alright, so i said that i also thought that biana could be the spy, but after everything i just wrote, i think it’s less likely, but it’s still a possibility, so here’s why is supect her:

biana vacker always being used to get closer to fitz, never the golden child, always in fitz’s shadow

she always just kind of gave me a vibe in the first three books that maybe she was in the neverseen

think about it, alvar was a member of the neverseen and he thinks that biana is the sibling that would understand why the vacker legacy is fucked up

so maybe once she manifests as a vanisher he recruits her

but idk biana also got scarred and almost died from vespera’s attack and that would take a lot of commitment to a cause to let them almost kill you just to maintain your cover

so personally i don’t really think that biana’s a spy anymore but if you can think of more reasons on why she might be, feel free to tell me

so what do y’all think is linh a spy or is biana a spy? or do you think that it’s someone else from sophie’s friend group?

#this post is wayyy longer than i thought it was going to be #sorry <3 #kotlc #sophie foster #keefe sencen #fitz vacker #dex dizznee #tam song #linh song #biana vacker #marella redek #maruca chebota #wylie endal #alvar vacker #lady gisela #the neverseen #the black swan

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an-absolute-travesty · 4 years

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For the prompts: Team Valiant has to do some kind of "bonding game" to make sure they can work with their councillor teammates. They play Uno as teams and it it eventually ends up with someone flipping the table and/or screaming. Myabe a fist fight or two.

So, I really love this prompt.

Word count: 891

About: listed above

Tw: capital letters

(whoops I made it gay-)

Oh and this will be going on my wattpad later tonight, my user is ohwowhatethis and I have the same pfp, you can’t miss me :)

“YOU’RE AN AWFUL PERSON! I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU WOULD BETRAY ME LIKE THIS!”

“Sophie, it’s just a plus 4, calm down!”

“No Biana! This is a betrayal! A betrayal I tell you! I cannot believe my own girlfriend would do this to me”

This game of Uno had lasted almost 4 hours by now. The council wanted Sophie to bring a human game for team bonding experience. It didn’t help that the rest of the friend group had heard about it and there were now 23 people playing. Sophie had to leap back to the Forbidden cities to get 2 more packs of cards.

“Sophie, it can’t be betrayal if we aren’t using teams anymore.” Dex pointed out.

Originally they had divided into 3 teams, the councillors, team valiant, and then the people just there for fun. However, that didn’t last very long as Bronte apparently couldn’t resist screwing over Alina and so they quickly abandoned the teams and it was now every man for themselves.

“It is a personal betrayal, Dexter.”

“Stop your blabbering, is it my turn yet?” Stina looked like she was about to fall asleep.

“Yes,”

Stina smugly put down a wild card and chose green.

“Oh you mother-”

“Ramira!” Oralie yelled “Language! We do not swear at children!”

The councillor rolled her eyes, she had nearly sworn at everyone in the room at least twice. Every time she tried, Oralie cut her off.

Ramira took a card from the pile. And another. And another. And another.

She picked up 11 cards before getting angry.

“OKAY WHAT THE HELL-”

“Language!”

“THERE IS NO WAY THAT I WENT THAT LONG WITHOUT GETTING A GREEN-”

Terik started laughing from the other side of the round table.

“What are you laughing about?” Ramira sneered.

“Well, I can sense potential...so I used it to my advantage. Blame Keefe, he gave me the idea”

“Hey! Don’t put this on me! You told me Stina would choose green and all I did was shuffle the cards when everyone was looking at Sophie screaming-”

“You little rats” Said Ramira as she stood up from her chair, Terik matched her.

“Councillors,” said Oralie. “We are above fighting like this!”

“Well clearly someone isn’t above cheating” said Ramira with a look in her eye that could kill a man.

“Oh, what? You can’t handle a little prank-”

“BE QUIET!” yelled Oralie as she bounded up from her chair.

Naturally everyone was immediately silent, surprised by the normally sheepish woman’s outburst.

“This was supposed to be a bonding activity! Instead we are fighting like children and threatening each other! This is absolutely ridiculous, I cannot believe that two people of such high status, power, and education could be so...so...childish!”

The councillors looked down in shame, along with Keefe.

“It’s...it’s my fault. I told Councillor Terik to use his powers to cheat.” Keefe kept his head down in shame.

“No, it’s my fault.” Sophie said. “I knew how intense games of Uno could get, the only worse game I could’ve chosen was Monopoly.”

Terik shook his head. “The blame can only be put on me and my fellow councillors. I was the adult in the situation and should not have encouraged cheating.”

Bronte stood from his chair. “It doesn’t matter whos’ fault it is. What matters is that we have acknowledged our mistakes and we can now move ahead. Let’s continue with the game, I may be diplomatic but it doesn’t mean I’m not still determined to win this thing,”

“Nice try old man, but I have this in the bag,” said Tam, as it was now his turn. He put down a custom card reading ‘Play rock, paper, scissors with the person directly across from you. Whoever loses picks up 8 cards.”

“Oh it is on” said Bronte, putting his hand in position to play.

~*~

1 hour later, Linh sat with her head on the table, fast asleep. Marella right next to her. Fitz and Tam had both quit and were now sitting in the corner talking with their foreheads touching. Keefe was doodling with his legs crossed on the floor, Dex peering over his shoulder. Sophie and Biana were laying on the floor next to each other while holding hands and talking. Maruca and Stina were leaning on the wall next to each other. Wylie sat in another corner reading. Only the councillors remained playing.

Bronte sighed, “Plus 4”

“Ugh,” said Alina. “I’m tired of this”

The others mumbled their agreement.

“Let’s just settle for a tie this time,” Emery said.

Everyone in the room that was still awake nodded.

Slowly, everyone got up and prepared to leave.

“Well,” Zarina said, “Same time next week?”

“Yep,” Sophie said as she stood up. “Next time I’ll bring Sorry!” She had a grin on her face that showed she knew what chaos she was about to create but no one seemed to notice.

Everyone steadily streamed out the door. Grady and Edaline were waiting outside and picked all the kids up before leaping them to Havenfield for a sleepover, it was easier than everyone’s guardians picking them up.

Once everyone had changed into their pyjamas, Keefe pulled out a familiar deck of cards.

“So,” he said with a smirk. “Anyone up for a game of Uno?”

They all looked at one another.

“You’re on.”

#kotlc #keeper of the lost cities #kotlc fic #sophie foster #keefe sencen #kotlc bronte #kotlc oralie

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everysongineverykey · 4 years

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headcanons for how the squad texts, definitely not for anyone who asked for it in the tags of the kotlc gc post:

- keefe obviously uses no punctuation whatsoever, expert memer

- he uses a lot of fuckboy-type language and emojis. ironically or unironically? no one can ever tell. it's terrifying and works both to his advantage and disadvantage

- he's the type to text the group chat at 2am just for boredom's sake. he texts whenever he has nothing else to do, and a lot of the time even when he does have something else to do

- sophie uses proper grammar and punctuation, except for periods and question marks/exclamation points, etc.

- she texts no more than she has to, she's not very attached to her phone

- she'll reply to other people's texts, but she very rarely texts first

- if she needs to talk, she'll phone someone. very inconvenient for most of the group since they hate phone calls but sophie finds texting kinda inconvenient itself because the person she's talking to can just not reply to her and lie about not having seen her message

-linh doesn't capitalize her texts, other than that her grammar is pretty consistent though

- she's really attached to her emojis. she uses them a lot. like, A LOT

- especially the hearts (all colours but she's partial to pink) and the sparkles and the animals, unsurprisingly

- she texts in roleplay sometimes (i.e. *throws phone* *smiles* *hugs*). the others find it a bit annoying but they love her too much to tell her

-fitz uses so many emoticons. ^_^, :), <3, that kind of thing. he's too lazy to scroll through the emojis to find what he's looking for

- his grammar and punctuation are perfect. the others bully him relentlessly for it

- he also signs his texts. everyone else has his contact saved as "old man" or "grampa fitz" or, in keefe's case, "spicy old man mcnuggets"

- he does it ironically, though, because he knows it drives them crazy

- half of biana's texts are preceded and succeeded with the sparkle emojis

- her grammar is perfect when she's being serious, bad when she's joking and chill

- she has shortcuts saved for all those really complicated face emojis. yknow, like the shrug emoticon? you know what i mean. she uses those often, sometimes ironically, sometimes unironically

- she's mastered sarcasm in her texts

- "hhh" and "wh" are frequently used by her and keefe

- dex's grammar is a lot like keefe's. he's tinkered his phone to let him text in any color he wants. the colors of his words are often how he conveys his emotions over text. they're color-coded, it's exhausting for colorblind fitz (i've just decided fitz is colorblind and no one can stop me)

- he helps the others with their homework a lot

- sometimes he pranks the crew by using his knowledge of electronics to edit their texts. it's chaos

- basically he can do anything he wants if he's given a phone and some time

- tam is the group chat cryptid. he's always watching, reading everyone's texts, but never replies. he's chaotic like that

- he'll only add to the conversation if he absolutely wants to

- his grammar and punctuation are perfect

- he hates phone calls and he doesn't see the point of texting, so he's a nightmare to get ahold of for sophie. sometimes she just mails him simple questions to spite him. he doesn't take the bait and sends a letter back every time

- you can email him if you want but he's got about a thousand unread emails so good luck

-marella is much like biana in her grammar habits, except sometimes she'll slip into proper grammar just to fuck with the squad

- she texts k a lot. is she aware of its power? probably. that's for you to decide.

- she always replies to keefe's late-night group chat texts and wakes everyone up on purpose

-wylie texts like an adult (sans capitslization) because he is an adult, obviously. he signs off with a smiley face. it's the purest thing. he's not in a lot of group chats but when he is, everyone's super nice to him. they would all die for him

- maruca replies with one-word texts, usually. once in a blue moon, she'll text k and the whole chat will be destroyed

- she is the queen of leaving people on read

#i hope you're happy lynn #kotlc #keeper of the lost cities

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cadence-talle · 4 years

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Hang A Shining Star

Pairing: Keefe Sencen/Fitz Vacker

Wordcount: 2,667

Summary: Keefe nods, nudging Fitz’s shoulder. “Of course. I wouldn’t miss it for the world. We’re going to raise the roof!”

Fitz snorts, taking a sip of his eggnog. From the living room, a stream of chatter weaves between the lyrics of Christmas Island. The whole house is warm and smells of nutmeg.

“Yeah. Yeah, we are.”

Other notes: Here we go! The Keefitz Christmas party fic! I hope you guys enjoy it.

Taglist: @everyonehasthoughts, @clearlykeefitz, @loverofallthingssmart, @a-lonely-tatertot, @enbies-and-felonies, @molly-sencen, @lemontarto, @appalyneinstitute1, @ruewen-and-rising, @silver-snow, @linhamon-roll, @hyperlollypop, @never-ever-too-many-fandoms, @keeper-of-the-lost-queers, @impostertamsong, @vibing-in-the-void, @yeetersofthelostcities, @mistythegirlfluxmess, @diamond-dreamerr

Read it on ao3 or under the cut!

If you had to give each season a word to describe it, winter would be quiet.

Summer is light, heat waves sinking across the country and sunshine spreading its rays. Spring is growth, flowers opening and leaves unfolding. Autumn is rest, leaves dropping to the ground and blowing away on the wind.

And winter is quiet. It’s something in the air- something about nature pausing, holding its breath, something about the way the snow muffles any semblance of sound. Winter is a time for introspection, a time to catch your breath. It’s peace.

Right now, though, the house is anything but quiet and peaceful.

Even from two floors up, Fitz can still hear the finishing chords of Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You, Biana humming along. He’s supposed to be retrieving the decorations from the attic, but he doesn’t want to leave the relative safety of his Justin Bieber-less space.

“Fitz?” Livvy pokes her head into the room, garishly-patterned Christmas sweater seeming to glow in the dim light. “Everything okay up here?”

“Yeah,” Fitz grimaces as Santa Claus Is Coming To Town starts up. “Just trying to save my ears.”

Livvy laughs, sitting down on a box labeled China Tea Set- DO NOT TOUCH. “Yeah, I get that. I love Dell to death, but her music taste is terrible.”

Fitz nods. “And it’s Christmas songs. How do you mess up Christmas songs?”

“Not sure, but they’ve managed to do it.” Livvy springs to her feet and picks up a fake wreath the size of her torso. “We should probably get this stuff downstairs.”

“Yeah.” Fitz picks up a box that just says X-mas shit and rests it on his hip. “All right. Into the beast’s mouth we go.”

“Maybe we can steal the aux cord and change the music to something good.”

Biana and Della do not, unfortunately, relinquish the music. They do change it to Ella Fitzgerald’s Christmas album, though, so Fitz counts that as a win.

Winter Wonderland is crooned through the speakers as they start to unpack the boxes, sparkling glass ornaments hung on the tree next to a horrifying glue-and-yarn monstrosity Fitz made in first grade. Biana pulls a tiny tissue-wrapped package out of a box and holds it up with a shout.

“I found her! The mermaid!”

Livvy whoops as they all gather around to watch as Biana hangs the ornament on a pine branch. The mermaid is vaguely misshapen, facial features in the wrong places and tail twisted in on itself. It’s a Vacker family tradition- Fitz and Keefe bought it at a gas station at 3 am once when they were fifteen and they’ve never looked back.

“Perfect,” Della says, stepping back to look at the tree. “All we have to do is put the lights on the house, then.”

Everyone groans. Having a huge house is nice for some things; parties, for example, or having sock-sliding races, but hanging lights is always a pain. It takes multiple people just to hang a single string- Keefe usually comes over to help.

“Where is Keefe, anyway?” Livvy asks like she can read Fitz’s mind. (She actually might be able to. She’s talented like that.) Biana, from where she’s seated on the sofa untangling the lights, looks up.

“Oh, he couldn’t come today. He and Marella have a date to-”

“A date?” Della interrupts, looking at Fitz. “Huh. I always thought… I mean, that is to say, I always assumed Keefe…”

Fitz flushes. “No, mom, not that kind of date. They’re just the only two people crazy enough to go sledding.”

“Tobogganing,” Biana corrects. “Marella found an old toboggan in her garage and decided to take it out. I think they’re going down a hill near here, actually.”

“Well, maybe they’ll drop in after they’re done,” Della says crisply. “Eggnog, anyone? I’ll put nutmeg in it.”

Fitz stands up to go help just as the doorbell rings. He blinks, turning towards the front hall. “I’ll get it, I guess. Maybe Marella and Keefe are already done.”

He opens the door to see two snow-covered figures standing on the porch. Fitz can’t even see their faces, covered as they are by scarves and hoods. The shorter figure shakes off her coat and resolves into the form of Marella.

“Hey, Fitz,” she says. “Can we come in?”

Fitz narrows his eyes at the two of them. “Yeah, sure, just leave all the snow on the porch. What happened to you?”

Keefe pulls the scarf off his face, dropping it in a heap at his feet. He grins at Fitz, cheeks rosy from the cold.

“You know that Calvin and Hobbes strip where Calvin drives his sled into a tree and it breaks and he falls into the snow?”

“Vaguely. Please tell me you didn’t break your toboggan.”

Marella pats his shoulder as she enters the house, the wrists of her sweater wet from melting ice. “Sorry, can’t do that. It’s a pile of wood now.” She shrugs. “It was kinda a shitty sled anyway.”

Fitz rolls his eyes as they walk into the living room. Biana’s head snaps up and she pushes the Christmas lights onto the floor.

“Marella! Hey!”

Marella smiles, pulling her into a hug. “Hey, Bi. What’s up?”

Biana gestures toward the lights on the floor, which are only marginally less tangled. “Oh, you know. Just… fixing up the lights. Want to help?”

The two settle down on the couch, and Fitz and Keefe share a long look before slipping off to the kitchen. Keefe waves at Della.

“Hi, hon,” she calls, serving out the eggnog. “How was tobogganing?”

Keefe lifts one shoulder and takes the offered cup. “Okay. Better at the beginning, that’s for sure. How’s your composition going?”

Della grins, one of those huge, bright ones that Livvy swears could light up the whole world. “Well! We’re going to see if the orchestra can perform it next weekend. Speaking of which- Fitz invited you to the party, right?”

Keefe nods, nudging Fitz’s shoulder. “Of course. I wouldn’t miss it for the world. We’re going to raise the roof!”

Fitz snorts, taking a sip of his eggnog. From the living room, a stream of chatter weaves between the lyrics of Christmas Island. The whole house is warm and smells of nutmeg.

“Yeah. Yeah, we are.”

-/-

Fitz stares at his reflection, hands anxiously tapping the table in front of him. Jingle Bell Rock is playing on the radio on his dresser, the upbeat music floating through the windows and into the darkening sky. Della and Livvy are out for the night, so he and Biana have the house to themselves for their party.

It’s not a huge affair- it never is. Just them and their friends; Sophie and Dex, Tam and Linh, Marella and Maruca and Wylie. Keefe.

Keefe, of course, presents a problem.

Fitz isn’t stupid. He’s known what he’s feeling since it started four years ago. He’s known exactly what the clenching in his gut was, why his skin felt hot whenever Keefe brushed his hand.

He’s not stupid, so he’s not going to do anything about his feelings.

The music on the radio changes into something slower, sadder. Imogen Heap’s voice seems to echo in the room, as she repeats just for now, just for now. Fitz closes his eyes and takes a few deep breaths, trying to prepare himself.

A soft ‘psh’ comes from the doorway. Biana moves into the room, switching off the radio and giving him a sharp look.

“Really? Tonight’s a celebration, Fitz, not a pity party. You can be sad later.”

“I’m not sad,” Fitz protests. “I’m just getting ready!”

“Mmm.” Biana perches herself on the bed, green dress crinkling slightly. “You will be okay, though, right?” She asks, tone softer. Fitz nods.

“I’m fine. I promise.”

“Okay. But I’m here if you ever want to talk.” Biana stands up and ruffles his hair. “Now come on, I need your help with the cheese platter before everyone arrives.”

As if on cue, the doorbell rings.

“Too late for that,” Fitz says dryly as Bi darts downstairs. He glances in the mirror one more time before moving towards the stairs. “Here we go.”

Sophie, Dex and Marella burst in as soon as he opens the door, throwing their coats on the floor and attack-hugging him. Tam, Linh, Maruca and Wylie trail after them, calling “Merry Christmas!” as they kick off their shoes. Fitz tries to wave from underneath his hug pile.

“Merry Christmas,” he manages.

Finally, Keefe staggers in, covered in snow for the second time this week. Biana snorts.

“Need some help there?”

Keefe mumbles a word that might be “No” as Biana brushes some of the snow off of his shoulder.

“Come on, I think you might have an extra suit upstairs. Fitz, can you get everything cleaned up down here?”

“Sure,” he says, turning to the others and picking up discarded coats. “So did you all walk over here together?”

“Yup,” Maruca affirms, hanging her coat on a hanger. “Sorry about Keefe, by the way.”

“He fell into a snowdrift and had to change,” Marella explains. “I think he keeps an extra suit here?”

Sophie snorts. “He ‘fell’ into a snowdrift,” she says with exaggerated air quotes. “And by that, I mean Mare pushed him.”

“In my defense-” Marella holds up a finger- “his face was annoying me.”

“Right,” Fitz says, holding back a laugh. “Well, as soon as Keefe gets changed, we can-” A creak on the stairs interrupts him, and Fitz spins around to see Keefe standing there in a clean suit.

His suit.

“Sorry,” Biana says with a smirk that implies she is anything but sorry. “It turns out Keefe doesn’t have an extra suit here after all. And this one is too big for you, right?.”

“Y-yeah.” Fitz attempts to remember how to speak. “Yeah, no, that’s fine. That’s- fine. Good. Great. Yeah, it’s fine.”

He hears giggling behind him and turns towards the living room, resolutely not looking at anything else. “Anyway. Who wants food?”

-/-

“And that is why we don’t write personalized messages on bouquets anymore,” Maruca finishes, taking a delicate bite of a meatball. “Although there was also the guy who wanted me to write his ex a note that just said Hey Jane, fuck you and your fucking poodle. So, you know, it might have been more than one thing.”

Keefe snorts, leaning forward to grab another cookie. His shoulder brushes Fitz’s and Fitz stiffens before forcing himself to relax. He’s fine. This is fine.

“So, how about some music?” Marella says, plugging her phone into the speaker. The opening notes of Let It Go trail through the air and Dex boos.

“No Frozen!” Linh calls. Fitz blinks.

“Wait, I thought you loved Frozen.”

“Not anymore,” Linh says, settling back into the sofa cushions. Marella sighs and skips to the next song, cutting Elsa off in the middle of her line. Pentatonix’s Joy To The World starts up and she flops onto the floor.”

“You’re all homophobic.”

Biana laughs, sliding off the couch to sit next to her. She hands the smaller girl a mug of hot chocolate. “Here. Drown your sorrows in this.”

“Is it alcoholic?” Marella squints at it and takes a sip. She makes a face. “No.”

Patting her on the back, Biana turns to the rest of them. “Want to watch a movie? I think we have It’s A Wonderful Life-”

“No way,” Wylie cuts her off. Keefe nods.

“It’s Charlie Brown or nothing.”

Biana rolls her eyes and grabs the tv remote, clicking her way to A Charlie Brown Christmas. Next to him, Fitz feels Keefe stretch his legs out before curling up on the corner of the couch. He leans his head on Fitz’s shoulder, and Fitz takes a deep breath.

Yeah. This is fine.

Onscreen, Lucy tells Charlie Brown to direct the Christmas play. Keefe smiles and snuggles closer to Fitz, wrapping one arm around him. Fitz glances down at him, but the other man is completely engrossed by the movie. Maybe he’s just cold.

He must be really cold, then, because by the movie’s end, they’re practically pressed together. When the lights come back on, Fitz expects Keefe to move away, but he doesn’t. They stay snuggled on the couch all throughout Tam and Marella arguing the merits of The Polar Express and Linh’s terrible rendition of That’s Christmas To Me. (Fitz loves her, but the woman can’t sing to save her life.) Keefe only moves when someone mentions Silent Night, turning to Fitz with an excited look. Fitz stares back.

“No,” he says. Keefe pouts.

“Please?”

Fitz sighs, standing up. “Fine. Let me get my cello.”

Playing music, even the worst, most religious Christmas songs, always calms him down. He and Keefe used to do this a lot, play together when they were sad or worried or stressed. Dragging his bow along the strings as piano notes lift into the air is familiar, easy.

They get through Silent Night, Carol Of The Bells, and Hallelujah before Keefe just slams his hands on the keyboard and shatters any semblance of peace they’d had. Fitz can’t bring himself to care, though, not when Keefe is laughing.

Livvy always says that Della’s laughs are the most beautiful thing in the world. Looking at Keefe, Fitz understands that.

Biana plugs her phone into the speaker and Bing Crosby starts to sing about how it looks like Christmas. Laughing, everyone stands up and starts to dance. None of them are very good, and they’re all slightly drunk, but it’s nice.

And they must be playing some sort of Bing Crosby album, because White Christmas comes on next. Almost immediately, everyone pairs up, swaying back and forth. Fitz looks at Keefe, blinking slightly.

Keefe smiles and puts his hands on Fitz’s hips. They move around the room slowly, taking tiny steps in time to the music and finally dancing right out onto the front porch.

The sun has set by now, and the frost on the lawn seems to glitter in the soft moonlight. Snow is still falling, and it seems almost magical when the next song to come on is the Nutcracker Ballet’s Waltz of the Snowflakes.

“I used to love this song,” Fitz says quietly, sitting on the top of the porch steps. “We went to see the ballet in the city when I was a little kid, and I thought it was the most amazing thing ever.”

“Huh.” Keefe sits down next to him, staring out at the silent greenery. “I never saw it,” he offers. Fitz snorts.

“I know. Your dad wasn’t really big on theater.”

“Yeah.” Keefe gives him a small smile. Fitz turns to look at him, biting his lip.

“Are you- happier? Now?”

Keefe takes his hand, running his thumb over Fitz’s knuckles. “I’m happier than I’ve ever been,” he says. “With all our friends, and your mom and Liv, and…” he glances up for a moment. “With you.”

“What-.” Fitz looks up, too, to see a spinning green bundle of plants hanging above them. Mistletoe. “Oh.”

He looks back down, straight into Keefe’s eyes. The other man is smiling, and Fitz thinks that’s where he gets the courage from.

Carefully, he leans forward and presses their lips together.

It’s short and sweet, and when they pull back they’re both blushing. Keefe scratches the back of his neck. “So, uh,” he starts.

“I’ve wanted to do that for a long time,” Fitz blurts. Keefe blinks. “Sorry, I just- I needed to-”

“Uh. Me too,” Keefe says, snorting a little. Fitz stares at him, a smile spreading across his face.

“Well. Good.”

“Yeah,” Keefe laughs, leaning in again. “Good.”

Winter is quiet. But even now, with music and laughter spilling out of his house and his best friend (boyfriend?) smiling on the stairs next to him, Fitz is at peace.

Winter is quiet, but sometimes it’s nice to make some noise.

#lynn rambles #my writing #keefe sencen #fitz vacker #keefitz #biana vacker #kotlc #kotlc fanfiction

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eristories-sev · 3 years

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A FOSTER-KEEFE FANFIC. I'LL BE THERE.

CHAPTER 02. PART 02.

"Look me in the eye and tell me thats not the cutest thing you've ever seen."

Sophie shifted deep into her pillow trying to block out the noices. Pillow... PILLOW?!

She scrunched her closed eyes trying to remember... It would have been easier to open her eyes but something told her not to.

Keefe and her...

Keefe... Keefe... KEEFE!

Her eyes snapped opened. And she felt her cheeks go nuclear...

In front of her were literally everyone she knew, 12 councillors, Dex, Biana, Linh and Tam, Fitz, Marella, Maruca, Wylie, Stina, Grady and Edaline, Della and Alden, Forkel and Teirgan, the collective. Everyone.

And all of them had amused expressions on their face. Sophie realized why Marella had said what she said. Her head was on Keefe's shoulder.

Her head was on Keefe's shoulder.

That meant she spent the entire night with him...

She stood up, waking Keefe up in the process.

His eyes took in what was happening and finally rested on her, raised an eyebrow and his eyes widened. He quickly turned away, and Sophie thought she saw a hint of red.

"So..." She turned towards the others, who continued to have amused expressions and raised eyebrows.

And her eyes went to Sandor and gave him a expression that said "WHY DIDNT YOU WAKE ME UP?!"

He shrugged.

"Why didn't you..." Keefe trailed off, Sophie had never seen him this lost for words.

"Hey, I wanted to. Gigantor was the one who told me not to." Ro stared at Sandor who looked uncomfortable.

Everyone's eyes went to Sandor.

"Miss Foster and Mr Sencen had a hard day and I thought it would be best if..."

Why was no one finishing there thoughts?!

Mr Forkle coughed. "Well *insert here some neverseen problem that everyone's freaking out about* we should go inside." Everyone murmed in agreement, even Sandor and Ro, shuffled inside. In few moments Keefe and Sophie were the only ones left and sadly Sophie's cheeks had developed a sort of red to fit the mood.

Keefe cleared his throat. And her mind suddenly snapped towards on how she looked, for no apparent reason, and her hand instinctively wiped at her mouth worried she may have been drooling.

"You should go inside there probably waiting. I'll join you- them in a mintue." He quickly went inside his room and Sophie felt the need to shrink into a rock. No, she had to go inside.

As soon as entered the room everyone stopped what they were doing and stared at her, the tips of their mouth tugging at a smile which they were trying hard to hide. Sophie went and hid behind Biana. Who was glad to offer her refuge though she suspected that was because she had questions. A lot of them.

She tried to listen, she truly did. (A/N Sophie would never do this in the actual series when actually she would be worrying her head off but as I mentioned before I won't be putting any neverseen stuff in this.)

But her mind kept wondering to why Keefe wasn't there yet, he was probably mad because she drooled on his shirt. Yeah-

"Miss Foster, any ideas?" Mr. Forkle

Sophie didn't even realised she's saying something until a fully formed plan uttered through her mouth. All the others looked amazed and was instantly in, everyone left one by one to prepare and that left Grady and Edaline.

"Would it be okay if-"

"Yes, Sophie. We'll see you at home." And with that Edlaine dragged Grady to the light and held up her crystal and just before they glittered away, Edaline winked at Sophie.

Sophie placed the most wimpest knock on the door. She had bailed at least 10 times but at last she had gathered up all her courage and knocked.

Keefe opened looking good as ever. Wait. What?

Sophie had noticed he had changed, and that made her wanted to run away and change too. He had gained more colour. His eyes didn't seem to meet hers, not that it mattered. Sophie realized she was staring and she quickly broke her gaze.

"If you want me to go..." She dragged the words out of her mouth.

"No, no. Stay, please."he gestured for her to come in.

She was surprised to see that the room was clean, the last time she had been there it was a mess and before well she hadn't quite noticed. The drapes were drawn back, and there was no dirty laundry or dishes scattered across the floor. Even though the furniture were still scattered throughout the room at random, it looked a lot better. Brighter.

"Sophie, I'm sorry. I didn't-"

"Keefe, no. Don't apologise you did absolutely nothing wrong and your right. I don't understand. But if you will let me, I will try more than anything." She wasn't quite ready to meet his eyes yet so she kept her eyes on her feet and trying not to think about how he had used her first name.

"Well, come on Foster. You and I both you can't stand not to be around me." Sophie instantly looked up, glad more than ever to see his smirk returning and his eyes brightening but there seemed to be a lingering longing behind them.

Sophie laughed, glad they're back to being them. But also a little sad. And she knew why. She did.

"That's true." She smiled at him and he smiled back.

"You should probably get some rest though, before...you know."

"I don't know... I think I slept preeettyyy well yesterday." She glanced at him, who she was glad to see a little bit flustered. Sophie decided to bare him the pain,

"Well, see you later Keefe."

When she felt her hand being grabbed.

"Sophie..." He looked nervous, really nervous.

She noticed that he was squeezing her hand, and she didn't mind. Not at all.

"I don't want you to go."

A silence dragged through them.

"You don't understand. I keep pushing you away, even when you don't know it... When... I need you. Every moment of my life, being away from you... I can't stand it. No. There's always been something about you that made my miserable life seem better. A whole lot better. I need you Sophie."

"I've waited Sophie. And I still can, even if it's thousand lifetimes I'll still wait. For you. Because you are the light of my life and I need you. More than you know. I'll wait Sophie. I've waited and I still am. Because you are once in a lifetime person, a person that's worth waiting for. You. Sophie. You."

#keeper of the lost cities #keefe sencen #team foster keefe #sophie foster #sophie and keefe #kotlc #kotlc keefe #fanfics #sokeefe

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axels-corner · 4 years

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Hi! You can call me Axel, Eli, or Zabe. my pronouns are they/them this blog will be mainly keeper of the lost cities anything not kotlc will be tagged #not kotlc my other blog is @tay11 where I will post and reblog stuff about my other fandoms like the owl house or she-ra.

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Writing

The council meeting Shadow and Scout (based off a head cannon I have)(the council have a cat and dog this is how they met them) (459 words)

Elwin hangs out with Terick and the bramble team (Pre-cannon)(Terik is on the bramble team and he invites Elwin to hang out with him) (518 words)

Council Leadership Camp AU(the councilors are highschoolers but things aren’t as they seem)

Chapter 1 (409 words)

chapter 2 (439 words)

chapter 3 (1038 words)

chapter 4 (711 words)

chapter 5 (590 words)

The new peace summit (trans Sophie comes out to Bronte before the peace summit) (779 words)

Fall of the moonlark (major character death)(what if Sophie had died instead of Mr.Forkle at the peace summit) (1,789 words)

Fiction into reality (sad ending)(major character death warning) (the Neverseen attack and it all goes wrong) (694 words)

Because out of all the people in the world you chose her (Elwin confronts Bronte after the first inflicting session) (421 words)

Tuesday mornings (Kenric tells Bronte he’s supervising Sophie’s inflicting lessons) (402 words)

Surprise (What if Fintan had revealed himself to the council earlier) (466 words)

The councilors apologize for the ability restrictor (After a fight the council realize they were wrong and apologize) (2027 words)

As We Drift Apart (What if when Dex and Stina first started Foxfire they were friends?) (1022 words)

Let me help you old friend (Bronte visits Fintan in Exile before the mind break) (886 words)

Maruca dyes her hair (Wylie helps Maruca dye her hair) (575 words)

Bronte’s POV of Legacy pages 473 to 498 (Bronte’s Pov in Legacy from the ability reset to the announcement of team Valiant) (1494 words)

Goodbye old friend (hopeful ending, Bronte kills Fintan)(1064 words)

Goodbye old friend (sad ending, Bronte kills Fintan)(1107 words)

Death to the Moonlark (Sophie almost dies)(904 words)

Sad Ending (633 words)

Happy ending (899 words)

Green (and Mourning) (Bronte getting ready for Kenric’s planting)(273 words)

The fall of the peace summit if the councilors had siblings (959 words)

Bronte punches a man (403 words)

Thoughts of a younger Fathdon (A charcter study of Kenrics younger brother (oc))(372 words)

Thoughts of an older Fathdon (Kenric's thoughts as he waits to be crowned) (327 words)

It's not like I like you (Oralie and Alina are paired up as council dance partners, and a secret is revealed) (635 words)

The plague (This is based off of page 446 of Neverseen when Tam told Sophie about two councilors visiting the Wildwood colony, but what if he wasn't telling the whole story?)(878 words)

The tribunal that changed Tam Song (Linh’s tribunal) (531 words)

Fintan and Dimitar go to Walmart (389 words)

reminders of the everblaze (things that remind Oralie of him and that night)(573 words)

flashbacks of the fire ( Oralie being comforted by the rest of the council after Kenric’s death) (1340 words)

Rise and fall of the inflictors ( A thousand years of friendship ends in the death of a student and a broken mind) (459 words)

Meetings with Fintan (Different times people have visited Fintan) (1708 words)

Terik in the hospital (The council visiting Terik in the hospital after the peace summit) (491 words)

The pond where our story started (can we continue?) ( The love of Oralie and Kenric throughout the years) (6338 words)

Stolen Kisses, Pretty Lies (we can hide away my darling) ( Kenric and Oralie go on a date) (2029 words)

Talks of Soulmates and Stars (Oralie and Kenric talk at a party) (405 words)

The Twelve Of Us Are Eleven Now (on the night of Fintan's healing Oralie finds out what happened to Kenric) (900 words)

The Council Cafe ( Four months ago Kenric was hired as a councilor at the Council cafe after it almost burned down, not that anyone but the council knows that, and two employees left, one quit and one was fired. Now someone from his past is hired and he’s tasked with training her. But what’s going on with the employees that left and caused him to get hired? Was it truly an electrical malfunction that caused a spark like the news says, or is it something else?)

Chapter 1 (2805 words)

Chapter 2 (3105 words)

Chapter 3 (956 words)

Little moments can they last forever? (She knows they can't) ( 5 times Oralie woke up with Kenric and once without him) (787 words)

First and Last Words (The first and last words Oralie and Kenric said to each other) (213 words)

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sewersewersewercouch · 4 years

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So the sequel to my awful eye colors post: Keeper characters’ hair colors according to Coolors.

Sophie’s got “dutch white” yes, white, I don't know either.

Fitz has “raisin black” which is pretty bad but hey, it’s not liver dogs.

Keefe has “gold crayola.” a fine description, but wouldn’t look great in a book. also, why specifically crayola? do other crayon brands not have that shade of gold?

Dex has “raw Sienna” which I dont have much to add about. yep, its a thing.

Biana has “black coffee” (🎶blaaaaack coffee, I'm ya coffee gal-🎶 yeah, I’ll shut up.)

Tam’s hair is just plain black with “silver chalice” bangs. now that’s a description and a half.

Linh’s also got just black hair, but this time with “Spanish gray” tips, which is a way less nice name than “silver chalice.”

Wylie’s is “bistre” which autocorrect is telling me is not a word, but I googled it and apparently it’s like burned wood or something?

Marella’s is “champagne” again, I dont have much to say here.

Jensi’s is “coffee” wow, these are turning out kinda boring, huh?

Stina’s got “caput mortuum” which apparently means “dead head” and hmm, that’s kinda dark.

And last but not least, Maruca has “rich black FOGRA 39″ hair with a streak of “plump purple.” I do not know what that means.

#kotlc #keeper of the lost cities

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rayniscatstatue · 1 year

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“Severed Ties and Dreams”

Word count: 1605

Prompts: 54. “I don't hate you.”

78. "I hate you, I can finally say that without ripping my own heart out. I can finally say it with every fibre of my being, every bone, every nerve and I never want to see you again."

96. "You two deserve each other, you really do. Now, will you just leave me alone?”

Character relationships: Sophie Foster and Keefe Sencen (romantic), Keefe Sencen and Biana Vacker, Linh Song (platonic), Sophie Foster and Rayni Aria (platonic)

Description: Sophie and Keefe start fighting about how Keefe is always trying to make sure she is okay. Then Sophie snaps at him.

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Keefe’s pov-

I don’t remember how the fight started.

I just simply can’t but all I know is that Foster is shouting at me. She seems to hate me right now. When ever this happened before we were dating though things always cooled down.

I don’t think that will happen this time.

Her dark brown eyes are filled with furry as the words finally hit me. "I hate you, I can finally say that without ripping my own heart out. I can finally say it with every fibre of my being, every bone, every nerve and I never want to see you again."

I body feels rigid. The words repeating in my brain.

“Foster.” I say, knowing my eyes are glassy.

“Don’t fucking call me that.” She stares daggers at me. The guilt hitting me.

“I don’t even remember what I did!” I shout. Waving my arms around the place.

“Sure you don’t, lair.” Her voice is bitter, spitting words at me. “I hate you, Sencen.”

“So you get to call me by my last name?” I watch as she unclasps the necklace I gave her. “That really fucking hurts Sophie. I didn’t mean for that shit to happen. I’m sorry for what ever I did, but my mind won’t let me remember it. I am trying as hard as I can. Everything has become a blur to me.” I take a few steps back.

“You have a photograph memory, Sencen. This shows how much of a dick you are.” She grabs her water bottle, slowly unscrewing the cap. “Should’ve just stayed with the Neverseen.” I can barley hear the last part that she mumbles.

“I left for you! I did that all for you!”

“Don’t seem like it!” She chucks the water at me. The cold hitting me in the face as it drenches me. I quickly turn my heel as I run out the door. Leaving her behind.

Sophie’s pov-

I watch as he turns his heel. Quickly speeding out the door.

I pull out my imparter, it being my only last hope. “Dex Dizznne.” I say.

The ring runs through the house. I don’t actually hate Keefe. I just don’t know what got into me. I should be great full that he is trying to protect me.

I am the one being over dramatic.

My imparter tells me that he is unavailable. Time to move onto the next person. I know Keefe would be going to Fitz so he is out of the question. Marella is always good with this stuff.

“Marella Redek.” I wait as my imparter once again rings. Waiting forever.

Another friend unavailable.

“Linh Song!” I am shouting now.

She has instead hung up on me. Unusual.

“Tam Song!” I ball my other hand into a fist as I wait. Already taking a guess what will happen. But it is worth it.

He is once again unavailable.

“Oh my god, Biana Vacker!” I feel my nails pierce the skin on my palm. Might as well punish myself for this one.

She hangs up on me, must be with Linh or something.

“Okay fine, Jensi Babblos!” I stumble over to the couch as my imparter rings through.

Another one down on the list, only Maruca, Rayni and Wylie left. If not then I am screwed.

“Maruca fucking Chebota!” I start to attach the necklace to my imparter like a chain. I don’t care, at least show Keefe that I still care.

Two more shots left.

If this doesn’t work I am pouring sand down my throat.

“Rayni Aria.” I take a deep breath in.

Her face flickers onto the screen, finally! “Sophie, are you okay? It looks like you have been crying.” She points out.

“Can you just leap over to Havenfeild, I need some advice and your the only person that actually answered out of Dex, Marella, Linh, Tam, Maruca and even Jensi. I can’t hail Fitz or Keefe though.” Tears start to pour down my face. My other hand still in a fist.

“Okay, I will be on my way. Don’t worry I will punch Tammy boy along with Linh and co in the face afterwards.” Rayni replies determinedly.

“Thanks, but no need to go punching people.” I weakly smile as the imparter flickers off.

I unclench my fist to see blood poring down. The sticky substance on my hand. I wipe it on my black cape, hoping to hide it.

That’s when I start to hear footsteps coming up to my room. Rayni.

She opens the door. “Oh my god Sophie.” She rushes over to me. “Spill, I will give the paper towels to clean up the tea.”

“I-I got into a fight with Keefe. I think it was over how he was always trying to protect me.” I whisper.

“Just go speak to him, I am sure he will forgive you. He loves you for goodness sake.” Rayni waves her arms around as if I am an idiot. Can’t disagree though.

“But I told him I hate him, plus I told him that he should’ve stayed with the Neverseen.”

“Okay, damn.” Rayni takes my hands in hers. “Speaking to him upfront will always help.”

She continues to go on giving me relationship advice. I am starting to question if I should’ve hailed Wylie first.

Keefe’s pov-

I knock on the door of Everglen. I need to speak to someone. Specifically Biana.

“Hello, Keefe!” Della opens the door. “Are you okay?” She notices my puffy eyes from crying.

“I need to speak to Biana.”

“Alright, she is up in her bedroom with Linh though.”

“That doesn’t matter.” I brush past her as I find my way to the stairs of the mansion.

I want her back, I really do. I just want to be able to love Sophie without anything or anyone getting in the way.

I rush down the hall wiping my eyes. Hoping to make them less puffy. I know it probably isn’t working but oh well.

Biana will under stand.

I repeat those words in my head as I make my way to her door. I knock or the door, twice.

“Hello?” She opens it. “Oh, Keefe. Come in.” She pulls me in as I sit down on her bed.

“What happened?” Linh turns towards me. Her imparter going off at the moment. She cheeks it. “It’s Sophie, should I answer?”

“W-we kind of had a fight.” I tuck my knees into my chest.

“Okay, I won’t answer.” Linh presses decline as Biana sits down on the other side of me.

“What happened?” Biana asks. She grabs my hand as Linh grabs the other. I hold onto their warm touches.

“It was the classic I just wanted her to be alright. But this time it escalated massively.” I mumble as Biana’s imparter starts to ring.

“Sophie, it seems that she is also in distress.” Biana looks up at us as she declines on her. I feel so bad. Hopefully Tam or Marella will be able to help her.

Maybe even Fitz.

“Keep going.” It is Linh this time. Her eyes soft behind her black and silver hair.

“She shouted that she hates me. Also mumbled that she wished I stayed in the Neverseen.” I look down at my feet.

“Oh my god, I know her emotions can sometimes run high but this is unexpected.” Biana mutters beside me.

“I could only feel anger at the time, maybe a little guilt as I was turning my heel.” I drop my head down as I rest it on Linh’s shoulder.

“Just deep breaths.” Linh speaks to me, putting her head on top of mine. “1.” I breath in.

“2.” I breath out as Biana say says it.

We keep going like that up to 100.

“Now, you should speak to her.” Linh says.

“I hear foot steps.” Biana points out as we all look towards the door.

Two pairs. “There are two people.” I mutter.

“Yeah.” Linh agrees as a knock comes to the door. Biana stands up to open it.

It revels Sophie and Rayni.

“Sophie, why are you here?” I stop myself for a second as they step in. I notice her glassy eyes. “You hate me.”

“I don’t hate you.” She mutters, looking down. The rest of the girls looking at each other awkwardly.

“We will go.” Biana says as she grabs Linh to walk out the room.

That only leave me, Sophie and Rayni. At least she found someone.

“Do too.” I whisper.

“Keefe, look at me.” She crouches down in front of me, grabbing my hands.

All I can feel is a spiking guilt. She actually doesn’t hate me.

“No.” I shake my head.

Instead Sophie grabs my face with one hand. Bringing it up to her’s.

The soft press of her lips against mine. I kiss her back as I squeeze my eyes shut. Hoping to live in this moment forever.

She really did take back everything. So do I.

She leans back, my lips now feeling cold.

“I love you.” Foster raises my chin with her hand.

“I love you too.” I rest my head on her shoulder. Faking into her warm embrace.

I missed this feeling.

“I will leave.” Rayni points to the door.

“Thanks, Rayni.” Foster calls to her, not looking up.

“You two deserve each other. You really do. Now, will you just leave me alone.” She walks out the door. Directing her last sentence to Foster.

“Love you.” I whisper again.

She giggles, the best sound ever. A smile creeping up on her cute face. Her blonde hair falling perfectly down her shoulders.

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Ps. Loved how I made Rayni and Sophie’s sister like relationship!

#kotlc #keeper of the lost cities #kotlc memes #kotlc fanfic #keefe sencen #sophie foster #sokeefe #sokeefe fic

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