17 Works by LookBetweenTheLines
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The Dark Lost Inside You by LuckBetweenTheLines (LookBetweenTheLines)
Fandoms: Final Fantasy XIV
13 May 2022
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He laughed, a dark, hiccupping sound of the brief moment of hysteria he allowed himself. ‘Why did you wake me?’ he asked, rubbing his hands over his eyes. ‘Why would you wake me up to this?’
There is no advanced magical technology to rival that of the Allagan civilisation. There is no civilisation at all.
Two hundred years after he sealed himself away in the Crystal Tower, G'raha Tia awakes to a world ravaged by calamity. Though he had long thought he had said his final farewell to his dearest friend, his inspiration, his lover, he finds himself with one goal in mind. To save him. To bring back to Warrior of Light.
E rating for chapter 3
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- Part 5 of Fewer Complaints
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Please be aware that this fic is now on indefinite hiatus.
He wandered the length of his small private room, moving his few sundries from the chest at the foot of his bed and his drawers into a pack. He owned so few clothes that he could take all of them with him, alongside a few choice treasures pilfered from pockets or market stalls: a golden pocket chronometer taken from a distressingly rude elezen man, a bracelet of pearls snatched from the belongings of some unknown highborn lady in Costa del Sol, a sparkling ruby slipped from the pocket of a merchantman in Ul’dah. G’raha’s spirit vessel, empty now but precious still.
Z'kila Tia does not know what the Final Days will bring or how to face them. But with the support of the Scions of the Seventh Dawn—his friends and his lover—he knows he can manage it. Somehow.
E rating for chapter 6
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- Part 7 of Fewer Complaints
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The Perfect Starlight Gift? by LuckBetweenTheLines (LookBetweenTheLines)
Fandoms: Final Fantasy XIV
01 Dec 2021
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G'raha has been painstakingly wondering what kind of gift the Warrior of Light would want for the Starlight Celebration. In the end, one of his most... titilating... of ideas is more of an experience than a physical gift.
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- Part 6 of Fewer Complaints
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Play a Song for Me by LookBetweenTheLines, LuckBetweenTheLines (LookBetweenTheLines)
Fandoms: Final Fantasy XIV
26 Nov 2021
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Hey Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me,
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to...
A collection of unrelated drabbles and one-shots dedicated to the FFXIV Write 2021 challenge! I don't yet know what all the tags, warnings and ratings will be, so please keep an eye out for changes.
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28) Benthos - No Pairing (T)Series
- Part 10 of Complaints of a Hero
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Things Dreams are Made of by LuckBetweenTheLines (LookBetweenTheLines)
Fandoms: Final Fantasy XIV
21 Jul 2021
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Z’kila flatted his ears and leaned in close. ‘If you don’t want me, say now,’ he whispered.
The short eternity that was Aymeric’s hesitation in which he did not allow himself to touch flushed skin or rake his fingers through soft black waves nearly broke him. Then Aymeric swallowed. ‘Now? Here?’Years of pining tends to build up, and that build up needs to be released somehow.
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- Part 4 of Fewer Complaints
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Estinien gritted his teeth. ‘You aren’t funny.’
‘You don’t think so? A shame. I was thinking of retiring to become a comic.’
‘You’re already enough of a jester.’
Years after their excursion into the Churning Mists on the trail of the dreadwyrm Nidhogg with the aim of saving Ishgard from almost certain destruction, the Warrior of Light and the former Azure Dragoon cross paths once again. With a history like theirs, it's difficult to tell whether they like each other or not.
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- Part 9 of Complaints of a Hero
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His lover. He didn’t know, couldn’t know, how accurate that label might be in this moment but mayhap just for tonight he could allow himself to believe it. However temporary it may prove to be. Right now he needed this distraction.
In which an unorthodox meeting in the Twelveswood leads to a race for elusive aethersand. Meeting a living legend in the flesh sparks instant infatuation for G’raha Tia. Z’kila Tia, meanwhile, is simply grateful to meet someone interested in more than just what he can kill. Between the stoic Warrior of Light and an eccentric scholar of ancient Allag, an unlikely but inevitable friendship blooms, and added feelings leads to passionate moons spent in one another’s company.
E rating for chapters 5, 7, 9, 10, 12 & 13
CW for mentions of past self-harm are contained to chapter 10.
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- Part 1 of Fewer Complaints
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As a lone miqo'te surrounded by auri men on the Steppe, Z'kila has to face some old, unwelcome self doubts that raise their ugly heads. Some attention from the Khan of the Oronir, whether knowingly or not, helps.
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- Part 3 of Fewer Complaints
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It is truly incredible what the body can do when the brain does not know it's injured. Z'kila is usually fast enough to avoid grievous injury; the occasional instances where he isn't are usually accompanied by a lot of sulking. But sometimes injury doesn't register; especially in the midst of an urgent evacuation.
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- Part 7 of Complaints of a Hero
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There is a deep-rooted, bodily ache that comes with loss that can never be fully described in words. Nothing can ease such pain except time, but Aymeric is determined to try.
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- Part 4 of Complaints of a Hero
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Just when he thought it was over. Just when everything seemed to be under control. Who can Z'kila turn to when he's starting to question himself, his purpose, his title?
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- Part 8 of Complaints of a Hero
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Seven years after she saw him last, Z'raxi Kira stumbles across her estranged little brother at a Songbirds concert in Gridania of all places.
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- Part 6 of Complaints of a Hero
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It was rather by chance that Estinien was in Ishgard at the time the remaining trio of the Scions were discussing a way to prevent the oncoming Dravanian siege. But if it would get them close to his nemesis, it was a chance Estinien would seize. Even if it meant entire days in the company of a particular miqo'te.
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- Part 2 of Fewer Complaints
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Crises don't wait for the Warrior of Light. Aymeric can only hope that he can be spared the time for a quiet meal and some company.
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- Part 5 of Complaints of a Hero
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After the hard-won battle in the Howling Eye, the very last thing Z'kila wanted to do was hurry off to the next available crisis. So he sneaked away from his adolescent handler and their new engineer to find some better, more grateful company following his victory.
He did not expect a party.
But he went with it.
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- Part 2 of Complaints of a Hero
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Aymeric was perhaps a little ashamed at the way his heart fluttered with excitement when the knight opened the door to the intercessory for himself and Lucia.
This was the moment he laid eyes on the Warrior of Light in the flesh. The one they called the hero of Eorzea.
What would he be like?
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- Part 3 of Complaints of a Hero
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Z'kila Tia agreed to support the Immortal Flames in the attempt to prevent Ifrit's summoning. He did NOT agree to face the primal head-on with just three strangers.
He needed to have strong words with the Scions if he got out of this in one unscorched piece.
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- Part 1 of Complaints of a Hero