TruthfulTheDuck
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Whose Voice Unrolls Paper by TruthfulTheDuck
Fandoms: Dragon Age II, Dragon Age (Video Games)
10 Sep 2025
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“He could kiss Hawke once. Just this once. He wouldn’t have to think about it anymore—the whole question of it would be answered. The proverbial cat: killed, revived, and slinking away after, satisfied.
It almost seemed tidy, put that way. It almost seemed rational.
Varric didn’t feel rational.
He felt like he was standing at the edge of a cliff.”
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Varric has a one-night stand with his best pal Hawke right before embarking on an expedition to the Deep Roads together to make their fortunes. But it’ll be fine! Varric isn’t going to make it weird.
(Varric makes it weird.)
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This fic can be read standalone, or as an AU of 'A Poem and a Mistake'Series
- Part 1 of Brosca-Hawke-Adaar World State
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A Poem and a Mistake by TruthfulTheDuck
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age II, Dragon Age (Video Games)
30 Oct 2024
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"The people of the Inquisition pressed in further. Hawke glanced at Varric, and Varric saw—in the subtle movements of his eyes, brow, and mouth—that Hawke could read his desperate terror.
And Hawke—
The finest man Varric had ever known— The best friend Varric had ever had— The person Varric loved most in the world— The absolute bastard—
Hawke winked at him."
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The Champion of Kirkwall arrives at Skyhold, and Varric can't let him leave again. Not without telling him how he feels.
Featuring a sly Iron Bull, a suspicious Vivienne, a star-struck Seeker of Truth, the first time Varric and Cole meet, and other cameos.
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- Part 2 of Brosca-Hawke-Adaar World State
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**Currently abandoned.**
A story of three strands:
In the three years since his most audacious act, Asra keeps a journal. In it, he records everything the apprentice ever told him about their past, in the desperate hope that they'll one day be well enough to read it.
When the ache is too much to bear, Asra travels alone. It's only when he's put enough physical distance between him and his apprentice that he lets himself remember what he's lost, to feel the depth of his longing.
And Muriel? Muriel never learned how to deny Asra anything in his power to give, no matter how much it costs him. Whenever Asra needs him, Muriel's there. Whenever Asra leaves the city, Muriel enters and, slowly, gets to know someone he's spent the last six years resenting.
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Wide-Eyed Awake, and Watchful by TruthfulTheDuck
Fandoms: Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery (Video Game)
22 Jun 2022
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**Currently abandoned.**
'Merula couldn’t say how long they sat there, looking at each other. All she knew was that she felt the world narrowing, narrowing down, until the only thing that existed in the whole of the world was a pair of dark eyes that seemed to open and give way under her own—'
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When Bill invited Merula to spend her entire Christmas break with his family at the behest of his parents, he failed to mention that her biggest rival would be joining them for Christmas and Boxing Day. It was only two days--they've had to train together for months, already--what could possibly happen?
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Brosca-Hawke-Adaar World State by TruthfulTheDuck
Fandom Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age II, Dragon Age: Inquisition
10 Sep 2025
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A collection of fics in the same world state, arranged in a loose chronological order from DAO onward.
Daru Brosca, the Hero of Ferelden. Ovide Hawke, the Champion of Kirkwall. Gem Adaar, the Inquisitor. Rook, a former Agent of Fen'Harel who defects to bring him down.
Some other origins have parts to play:
Mahariel, lost in the eluvian. Aeducan and Tabris, doomed in Denerim. Cadash, handler of red lyrium. Trevelyan, Tranquil soldier. Lavellan, grieving spy.
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(Events post-Trespasser will be canon divergent, largely taken from and inspired by the amazing art-book The Art of Dragon Age: the Veilguard, plus a few things from Veilguard.)
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Henry wears yellow when he comes to see her.
Bookmarked by TruthfulTheDuck
14 Mar 2026
Bookmarker's Notes
Richly layered with complex feelings, adore it
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To Love a Lord (Unfortunately) by Nerdybirdnerd for cashew_all
Fandoms: Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Video Games)
24 Dec 2025
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You are Henry of Skalitz, and your lord is perhaps the most infuriating man you've ever met.
So how is it that you could ever love him?
AKA: Sexual roleplay between Hans and Henry that helps Hans figure out something that's been bothering him for a long time now.
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Bookmarked by TruthfulTheDuck
12 Mar 2026
Bookmarker's Notes
Jfc this is some incredibly beautiful prose
"Joy is found in this, swelling in your chest as every drumming beat threatens to bring you to your end. It's indescribable. It's incandescent. If you'd taken the sun into your hands and squeezed and squeezed until the molten gold dripped sticky-sweet between your fingers, it's warmth could never compare to this: to wanting—and being wanted just the same."
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When the young man walks into the storefront, Bashka grinds the stubborn impulse to pity him under his heel. In with the dirt and the blood. He looks filthy— and hungry— chin sprouting with whiskers that look like they itch, and two purses under his eyes from lack of sleep. A brace of coneys hangs from his belt, flopping bonelessly with every minute movement.
"Do you trade meat for coin?" he asks, bold. Brash. The scrap with the bailiff's son has evidently taught him nothing.
"Not from the lord's woods," Bashka scoffs. "That would be poaching."
"Then fortunately I'm no poacher."
Butcher Bashka has a simple life: kill meat, and sell it. Unfortunately, a simple life doesn't afford much these days, and an under-the-table deal with Troskowitz's newest troublemaker becomes a way to make ends meet.
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- Part 2 of dearer than worldly honour
Bookmarked by TruthfulTheDuck
01 Mar 2026
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Proper Businesslord Business by LulaMillay for darkheartedrose
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
01 Dec 2025
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Popper strikes it rich and is ready to live the good life.
Popper struts in the front door of Mamzell’s like a proper businesslord in his fancy businesslord coat. He’s a big tall dragonborn now, reds and fireies, and he’s gonna smooch and licks and smoosh up to the fancy beautiful drow twins.
Popper puffs up and yells. “I is BIG BUSINESSLORD, and I requires SERVICING!”
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- Part 5 of Lula's Crack / Humor Oneoffs
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Bookmarked by TruthfulTheDuck
02 Dec 2025
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This is the best thing I've ever read. So fucking funny, I need a dozen more Popper fics, stat!
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Homeland by jenny_of_oldstones
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game)
19 Jan 2026
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An account of Rook's life as a slave in the Tevinter Imperium.
Bookmarked by TruthfulTheDuck
20 Jan 2026
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Non canon Rook, gladiator. Well written and unflinching