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lovepotionnumber5 · 1 year
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inside out
[5k, supercorp-y, his dark materials meets supergirl, basically. or a daemon au. i had fun w this, might continue it! I guess rated t for luthor fam creepiness]
Supergirl is a woman apart.
She swoops regal and steadfast above the city she’s sworn to protect, her cape flapping with a quality that’s somehow just over the line of not-from-this-earth. Her gaze scans through crowds, buildings, the very sidewalk beneath National City’s feet. The heat of her eyes is too bright to be looked at directly, the force of her muscles so great that she seems perpetually gentle in all her interactions.
She is beautiful. Her hair glints golden in the sunlight, and she offers help with no expectation of thanks or reward. On days when the streets are quiet and calm, she cleans out the gutters of an older woman’s house, or plays a game of basketball with a lonely teenager in his step-dad’s driveway. She can change the weather with a breath, the surliest citizen’s day with a smile.
If she seems super-human, that’s because she is; she’s beyond humanity, but still close enough to touch. Always within reach, holding out a hand, asking if you need help.
And, of course, she doesn’t have a daemon.
//
Kieran settles fourteen days after they arrive at Luthor Manor, exactly one day before Lena’s fifth birthday. She wakes in an unfamiliar bed (and room, and house, and city, and country—) and she just knows. Something inside her that was malleable and questioning has turned to stone as she slept.
Kieran sits on the unused pillow on the other side of Lena’s new, too-big bed. She reaches out and slips a few fingers through his ink-black feathers, soft as silk.
“You’re very pretty,” she whispers, “as a raven.”
They’re all over Luthor Manor, the ravens, always driving the groundskeeper mad by lining up on the eaves. Lena’s spent two weeks watching them, listening to them caw to each other, sitting on her hands and trying not to cry as Greza prowls back and forth below them.
“I’m going to fly us away from here, Lena,” Kieran promises. “Up into the sky.”
Lena thinks of Eoghan’s rust colored plumage, the black and white tips of his wings, the way he had dissolved into dust in midair and drifted like snow down onto the lake her mother had disappeared into.
“Okay,” Lena agrees. She’s still whispering. “Fly us away, Kieran.”
When Tantox slithers down Lillian’s arm and flicks his tongue at them, Kieran digs his talons into Lena’s shoulder. Sometimes, on nights when the stars twinkle the brightest, he circles the Manor with powerful flaps of his wings. He’s always by Lena’s side when she finally drifts off to sleep.
Some nights, when Greza stalks them down the carpeted halls all afternoon, when she hears the quiet, occasional tap of Lex’s oxfords against the hardwood where he missteps in pursuit of his daemon, Lena finds her bedroom door locked from the outside. 
It’s only when she returns to the Manor for holidays as a teenager that the cage appears in her bedroom. It’s brass, large and beautiful, and the aesthetic curves of the metal match the new bars outside of her window. Lex’s smile is different, and he had greeted her car at the end of the driveway without Greza anywhere in sight. 
“We’ve tightened up security,” Lillian tells her, waving the hand that doesn’t have Tantox wrapped around it towards the foot of her bed, where one of the butlers places Lena’s trunk. “Let’s not make a fuss about it, hm?”
There’s an ugly wound, stark red against Tantox’s white scales, only visible in flashes when Lillian moves and her shirt sleeve rides up. Lena, thirteen and surly, with a daemon settled for nearly a decade, bites down hard on her tongue to keep from fighting back.
That night, Kieran cautiously hops onto the perch in the cage. 
“It’s only for a week,” Lena promises. “Then we’ll be back at school.”
“Keep me close,” Kieran pleads. “I haven’t seen Greza yet. I don’t know where she could be.”
Lena sits on the edge of her bed and crams her hands under her thighs. “Lex is here, so she can’t be far. Maybe she spent the day napping on the patio. There’s that sunspot she likes.”
Kieran fluffs his wings. He doesn’t have to say anything—Lena knows it’s a weak suggestion.
Only a decade later, fresh from testifying against her brother in a crowded courtroom, will Lena wonder if it was him who locked her bedroom door, or if the click-clack she heard against the hardwood outside had been her mother’s heels all along.
//
“Don’t look at people’s daemons,” Alex tells her. “Or ask about them. And never even think about touching them.”
“You touch Q,” Kara points out, still confused. She doesn’t know what Q is short for, because Alex gets mad whenever she asks. “And Eliza touches Wrenott.” 
Alex makes a kind of growl-scream noise of frustration. “That’s because Q is mine,” she seethes, “and I’m Q’s, and it’s the same for Mom and Wrenott.”
Q, who is currently a frog and peeking out of the breast pocket of Alex’s t-shirt, says something that Kara can’t hear.
She frowns. There’s a pod of dolphins around three miles off the coast that she can pick out just fine, but Alex’s daemon manages to sneak something past her newly sensitive ears from only a foot or so away. She tries to hear his heartbeat and finds that she can’t—just Alex’s and her own, and Jeremiah’s downstairs. 
“But we need to figure something out,” Alex begrudgingly agrees. 
Q wiggles his way out of Alex’s pocket and transforms into a sparrow right before gravity takes him down. He flits around the room, Kara’s eyes tracking him despite Alex’s warning.
“Q has an idea,” her sister says. “Since he hasn’t settled yet, we can fake it. You like wearing long sleeves better, right?”
Kara shrugs, focusing her attention back on Alex’s severe expression. “The sunlight makes my skin tingle.”
“Right, well, if you wore—I don’t know, a hoodie? Yeah, with the hood pulled up—then Q could sit on your shoulder in English. I’ll be right next door in AP Calc, and you’re young enough to have an unsettled daemon, and everybody knows about me.” She nods jerkily. “Alright, let’s try it out. Just on the edge of your shoulder, over your shirt. Q?”
“Wait,” Kara says. 
Alex’s arms are crossed, her shoulders hunched in. Kara opens her mouth, then closes it, not sure what she should say. 
“This feels wrong,” is what she settles on. “Are you sure?”
“It was Q’s idea,” Alex says, now chewing on her bottom lip.
“But is it alright with you?” Kara asks.
Q zips right over Kara’s shoulder and shifts into a lemur right before he collides with Alex, wrapping himself around her shoulders, his striped tail curled protectively under her chin. Alex’s posture relaxes with one big exhale.
“We’ll figure something else out,” Kara decides. “I’m supposed to blend in, right? My daemon will just be…shy.” She thinks of Q. “He hides in my pocket.” 
The week before Kara finally starts school, she befriends a whip-quick, only slightly mangy cat in the backyard. Streaky follows her everywhere, and loves more than anything to sit on Kara’s shoulders or take a quick nap on top of her thighs. Some days, he comes to school with her, and she focuses on making sure he doesn’t try and brush up against anyone else instead of on the math equations she was doing before she was five revolutions old.
Years. On Earth, they call them years, and they wander around with their souls outside of their bodies.
Kal-El has a rescued African Gray Parrot he calls Jane. Jane never makes a sound, bird-caw or mimicked words, and stays perched on his shoulder whenever he’s his true self.
Whenever he’s Superman, he flies alone.
//
Lena builds Kieran a special perch with a vacuum seal base that can attach to any flat surface. She brings it with her to class, glares her best Lillian-glare at any classmates who open their mouths to complain. 
He’s big, if the looks that linger on him for longer than is polite indicate anything. Lena always bites back remarks like you’re probably thinking of crows—ravens are larger and quite a bit smarter, actually. It’s rude to talk about someone’s daemon, but that never seems to stop people from staring at hers. The one time she hadn’t watched what she said, it had been to the daughter of some business partner of Luthor Corp, and the amount of time they both spent cooped up in Luthor Manor because of it—
Well. Lena bites her tongue, and counts the minutes until class lets out, reading college level calculus textbooks under her desk. All of the athletic girls are on sports teams and are excused from P.E.—Lena never joins the other girls in trying to get out of participating, never feigns cramps or pretends she has a migraine. She never goes faster than a stroll on the track loop either, but she never sits out. Kieran soars over her head, a black smear against perfect blue, and Lena swears she can feel the stretch of his wings in her own shoulders.
“How does it feel to have settled?” Andrea asks one hot Wednesday, walking at Lena’s same glacial pace around the track. Her voice is toeing the line of timidness. About four paces behind them is her daemon, currently in the form of a sleek fox. 
“I’m not sure,” Lena answers. “It’s all I remember.”
She’s not sure it’s the truth. She thinks, maybe, there’s a memory of her sitting on the shore of a lake, dust in the wind, Kieran in the form of a golden retriever puppy and splashing in the water. But if she talks about that, then she’ll have to think about how even with fish and dolphins and whales and cephalopods at her disposal, Kieran had shifted to a spiky ball of a hedgehog and trembled in her lap. 
//
Q follows Alex into the cemetery the day of Jeremiah’s funeral in the form of a German Shepherd and never shifts into a different animal again.
Sometimes, Streaky curls up with him on the couch, tucks his dark little head under Q’s chin. For the first time, Kara wishes that she also had part of herself wandering about in the world. She settles for wrapping Alex in carefully gentle hugs, cries with her on the roof outside their bedroom window, and makes sure she never spends too long looking at Q’s adorable dog face. 
Sometimes, Wrenott will rub at Q’s cheeks with his little sea otter hands that Kara always tries really hard not to squeal over. Kara watches carefully at the way Alex’s shoulders droop, then stiffen back up again too quickly. Q always jerks away at the same moment. When Alex rushes out of the room, Eliza sighs so deeply Kara’s ears hurt. 
//
“They’re composed of Dust, Lena, I’ve been telling you—it’s like your head is always in the clouds with Kieran.”
Lena’s skin prickles like it does whenever Lex says her daemon’s name. “My head is on this game of chess,” she counters, moving her bishop to d5 and claiming his rook. “Unlike you.”
He huffs. With a movement that’s too forced to be casual, he moves his pawn out of the line of fire of her knight.
The monologues that Lex delivers over games of chess become less tethered to reality each time. Lena usually tries to focus on the chessboard between them, but Lex doesn’t always let her. 
“Dust is impermanent by nature. Shifting daemons when we’re young, sure, but not just that. Look at Superman.” He spins his Luthor heirloom signet ring around his pinky finger, his eyes suddenly very far away. “No daemon.”
“That we know of,” Lena points out, moving her own pawn to try and trap his queen. 
Lex rolls his eyes. “Okay, that we know of. But we can’t ignore the implications.” He takes her pawn with his bishop, falling right into her trap. 
“Implications?” She asks a little too innocently. 
Lex is too focused on his lecture to hear it, parroting her pawn movement with one of his own. “We’re not the only species out there, Lee-loo. There’s an expanding universe of potential, and we’re the only ones who have daemons.” He says it like it’s the winning argument of a national debate competition. 
Lena moves her own queen, lightning quick, forcing eye contact and tilting her head in confusion. Kieran hides his face by the nape of her neck, chortling softly. “So?” She asks. 
“So?” Lex echoes incredulously. “Are you even listening?” He moves his knight to f3. “We’ve been operating under the assumption that daemons are necessary to intelligent life for thousands of years. Clearly, that’s not true. It changes everything, Lena.”
Lena strikes. Her pawn takes his queen with one smooth movement, her fingers curling around ink-black crown on the piece’s head. “Check,” she says. “Checkmate in four.”
Lex opens his mouth, then closes it. He scowls at the board. With a huff, he knocks his king over. 
Lena grins at him. 
“Don’t be smug,” he says. “It’s why you don’t have any friends at school.”
Kieran tugs at a group of hairs at the base of her neck. “Lex,” Lena says, her smile fading. “Where’s Greza?” 
“None of your business.” He gets up and adjusts the sleeves of his sports jacket. “Mother says we’re having dinner as a family tonight. Don’t be late.”
That night, Kieran hops to his perch in the cage without Lena having to utter a coaxing word. 
//
Alex sits with her on the roof in silence. Q rests his face on the windowsill behind them, his dark eyes focused on the stars above just like Kara’s are. 
Alex looks at her sister instead of the cosmos. Her fingers tap at her knees as she struggles to find the right words. She wishes that Q could sit on the roof with her, that his paws—now permanently paws—didn’t slip against the shingles. 
“He was a good cat,” Alex finally says, more than a little awkwardly, patting Kara on the shoulder. Streaky wasn’t Kara’s daemon, but Alex knows just how much her sister had come to lean on his presence. 
Kara only nods in response. Her throat aches—she isn’t sure she’s able to speak. 
“Have you thought about…”
“Yeah. Not many mute African Gray Parrots out there.”
“True.” 
Kara leans her head against Alex’s shoulder, the pressure of it so light that Alex can barely feel her weight at all. 
“What about a snake?” Alex asks. “A little one.”
“I like snakes.”
“You like every animal. And every animal likes you,” Alex adds, only a little bitterly. It’s like her sister’s a Disney princess. “You could carry one around your arm, wear long sleeves on days the snake isn’t into it.”
“I could carry him around in a little fanny pack with a hand warmer,” Kara suggests, sounding perkier than she has in days. 
Alex doesn’t bother hiding her smile. “Yeah,” she agrees. “You could carry him around in a fanny pack with a hand warmer.”
//
It’s only when Lena’s school comes into view at the end of the impossibly long, manicured driveway that Kieran’s stubborn eye contact compels her to speak. 
“Mother,” Lena begins quietly. 
“Speak up, Lena,” Lillian says, not taking her eyes off of the medical journal in her lap. She’s spent the whole drive like that, just like every drive to and from school. Lena doesn’t know why she bothers to come. 
Lena’s hands twist her in her lap. Kieran’s head nudges under them and they relax. 
“Something’s wrong with Lex,” she forces herself to say. Then, quieter again, “with Greza.”
Mr. Bates, her mother’s driver, pulls up to the drop off point. The inside of the car stays quiet while he gets out and retrieves Lena’s luggage from the trunk.
“I’ll see you in the spring,” her mother says. She’s looking at her medical journal. “Bring that B+ in Physical Education up to an A.”
“I don’t even know why you bother coming,” Lena spits out, suddenly furious. “It’s not like everyone else’s mom drops them off at the start of term.”
“Don’t be ridiculous,” Lillian says airily. “When else am I going to get two hours of quiet to myself?” 
Lena opens the door with the goal of slamming it behind her, but Kieran has a different idea. He stays in Lena’s seat, then hops the tiniest bit closer. 
Tantox slithers out to meet him, tongue flickering as he goes. When Kieran tilts his head, Tantox blinks his albino-red eyes in response. 
It only lasts a second; Kieran is flying out ahead of her in the next breath. Lillian is frozen, her hands still against the pages in her lap.
“And make some friends,” she says before Lena can shut the door. “Dr. Perth says you could be stunting your own growth.”
Lena glares, then slams the car door shut. 
//
“Is your boss’s daemon still freaking you out?” Alex asks at sister night, stroking Streaky Jr.’s head where he’s curled up in her lap.
“Yes,” Kara sulks. “What’s his problem with my handsome baby sweetie-pie? It’s so insulting. So what if he’s a little shy? He doesn’t have to prowl around us. Stupid panther types.”
“Maybe he’s got some sort of weird daemon radar. It’s Cat Grant. I’d believe it.” She looks over at Q. “What’s the report on Streaks, huh?”
“He’s a snake,” Q says, completely deadpan.
Kara rolls her eyes. “You’re not funny,” she says.
Q puts his head on his paws and looks up at her. Kara points at him. “Enough of that.” She turns to her sister and gestures for her snake. “And enough for you, come on.”
“No,” Alex protests, her pout almost matching her daemon’s. “You just gave him to me, you come on.”
“It’s been seventeen minutes,” Kara says. “Your measly human body temperature isn’t high enough to handle him for more than twenty, it’s not safe.”
Alex hands Streaky Jr. over with a huff. He curls around Kara’s arm immediately, naturally seeking out the extra warmth in her skin.”You’re such a snake hog.”
“Get your own fake daemon.”
“I would, except I know he’d like you better, you weird animal magnet.”
Kara reaches for the little spray bottle she keeps on the coffee table and gives Streaky Jr. a few spritzes. “Stay jealous.” 
//
“If you could tell the court what you saw upon entering Luthor Corp sub basement 3 lab on July 23rd, please, Ms. Luthor.”
Lena leans in a little, to make sure the microphone will pick up everything she says. “I saw my brother and his daemon inside the DIC.” She winces, then clarifies, “the Dust Isolation Chamber.”
“Dust Isolation Chamber,” the prosecutor repeats. “Can you explain what that is to the court, please?”
“One of my brother’s inventions.” Lena’s fingers twitch towards the outsides of her thighs, but she resists the urge to sit on them. “It sends certain wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum through a confined space with the hope of further studying Dust as a scientific phenomenon. It…wasn’t made for people to be inside of it. Or daemons.”
The prosecutor nods. He has perpetually narrowed eyes and an opossum daemon, neither of which really give Lena any sort of ease answering his questions, even though they had prepped for days beforehand. “What form did the defendant’s daemon take, Ms. Luthor?”
“A leopard,” Lena croaks. 
The prosecutor turns in a circle, pageantry for the jury and the courtroom, since it’s quite clear that there’s no leopard sitting by Lex. “I don’t see a leopard.”
Lex’s lawyer—Colton, from their family’s usual legal team—stands. “Objection. Argumentative, your honor.”
The judge nods. “Sustained,” she says. To the prosecutor: “ask your question.”
“What happened to your brother’s daemon on July 23rd, Ms. Luthor?”
“He—” Lena clears her throat. Kieran, who has been calmly perched on the side of the witness stand through her testimony, puffs up his feathers a little. “He attempted to sever himself from her. It didn’t really—I’m not sure what his goal was, exactly, but he didn’t manage to do it all the way. If he had, he’d be catatonic.”
Lex, dressed in one of his finest suits and a sharp purple tie, smiles at her from across the room like they’re only playing a game of chess.
“Was this out of character for your brother?”
“No,” Lena admits. “He’s been training himself to be apart from his daemon for years now.”
“Did the time he began that—‘training,’ you said?—did that happen to coincide with the appearance of Superman.”
The smile on Lex’s face disappears. 
Lena swallows hard. “Yes,” she says.
//
“If you could talk,” Kara says to Streaky Jr.’s little face, “would you give me as much sass as Q gives Alex? I don’t think you would.”
Streaky Jr. keeps lapping at the water bowl in his terrarium. 
“Would you even be a snake?” She rests her chin on her hands, close enough to the glass that her breath fogs it up a little. “Alex says my daemon would be a bald eagle. Or a naked mole rat.” She wrinkles her nose. “It depends on how recently I’ve ignored her advice in the field.”
Streaky Jr. blinks slowly at her. His body curls together a little more.
“But I don’t think you’d be a bird. Maybe you’d be a h’raka. Or a rondor. A zuurt, even.”
Streaky Jr. leaves his water dish behind, retreating into his cave in the corner.
“Yeah,” Kara whispers. “Probably not.”
//
“Stop picking at it,” Lena says absent-mindedly, mostly focusing on the email she’s writing about that quarter’s budget reports. 
“It itches,” Kieran complains. It’s his first molt since they came to National City, and it seems to be taking all summer. It always leaves them both irritable. 
“I’ll take a look later,” she promises, “but not while we’re at work.”
The intercom on her office phone buzzes. Kieran falls quiet; Lena reaches out and hits the button.
“I have Dr. Ketterman up from R&D, Miss Luthor,” Jess says.
Kieran flies from his perch on top of the bookcase to come land on her shoulder. He settles there, nuzzles his head down by the nape of her neck, as though that makes the big black bulk of him out of sight.
“Send him in,” Lena tells Jess.
//
What Lena first sees when Kara Danvers sits down for their interview is her smile, her eyes, the kind curiosity that bursts both. 
The second thing she sees is the small red head of a snake peeking out from her collar before disappearing again. Only a few moments later, that same head appears at the cuff of her sleeve, slithering right into the open fanny pack around her waist. Lena is so befuddled that the tension that had bunched up her muscles at the sight of him begins to dissipate. 
“He’s shy,” Kara says when she catches Lena staring, her face pink. “Um, he likes to—I keep a hand warmer wrapped in cloth in there? He prefers it to, um, having to—”
“Kara,” Lena interrupts gently, the tension in her shoulders entirely gone. “I get it.”
Kieran is sitting out on the balcony, doing his best to fit in with a group of pigeons instead of standing somewhere Kara could look directly at him. Lena can’t exactly start throwing stones from within her very glass house. 
Probably sensing the way Lena is thinking about him, Kieran flies in from the balcony, through the window that Lena keeps open for him. It’s a lot easier than it was in Metropolis, when Lena had to bundle up in her office all throughout the winter. 
“He’s beautiful,” Kara breathes out. She blinks rapidly once she does, her face going pink again, this time even worse than before. “Oh, gosh. I’m so sorry. I didn’t mean to—”
“So is he,” Lena says, her eyes flicking to Kara’s fanny pack, now nearly overflowing with red scales.
“He’s a corn snake,” Kara says a little too quickly. “Um. Did you know that while the general collective noun for snakes is den, some snake species have their own? Like, it’s a generation of vipers. Or a rhumba of rattlesnakes.”
“Is that so?” Lena asks, too befuddled to say anything else.
“Is it ravens that have the collective noun of murder?” Kara asks. “Or is that crows?”
“Crows,” Lena says, more confident with a question she knows the answer to. “It’s an unkindness of ravens, technically.” She shrugs. “Most people just use flock.”
“That’s not right,” Kara says in that gentle way she has, the one that makes Lena feel like her chest is one touch away from shattering. “Your daemon isn’t unkind.”
Lena’s lip quirks into something similar to a smile. “That’s because we’re alone,” she says. 
Kara opens her mouth like she wants to say something else that will be psychologically damaging to Lena’s afternoon. Lena jumps in before she gets the chance.
“So, where would you like to begin? L-Corp’s rebrand?”
Kara deflates slightly, but nods. She reaches for her notepad, flicks to an open page, and looks up with those big blue eyes her glasses don’t do a good job of hiding. “Yeah, that’s—that’s a great place to start. When did you decide on a full rebrand along with the relocation?”
//
Kieran loops languidly around the sky above her balcony, a blur of ink against the royal blue of the early evening. Supergirl stands next to her, watching him. It makes Lena feel far too exposed, but given the way Supergirl’s made a habit of saving her life from the very start of their relationship, she tries not to be too offended. After all, dealing with daemon manners when you don’t have a daemon can’t be easy.
“You look like you’ve hardly ever seen one before,” Lena finally observes.
Supergirl shoots her a tiny smile. “Maybe he’s just particularly striking.” Her fingers tap against the railing. “When my parents sent me here, they told me of your daemons,” she adds. “They didn’t have much time, but…my mother, she called them your nahv-shesur.” 
“And what does that translate to?” Lena asked, curious how anyone who did not know the touch of their own daemon could try to define it.
Supergirl’s head tilts to the side as she considers that. “Made up of your soul,” she finally says, “but on Krypton we had two ways of saying that. My mother used the conceptual version instead of the spacial one. I still don’t know if she knew daemons were tangible.”
Lena shudders at the thought, and Kieran swoops down in response, perching himself on her shoulder.
“Not tangible,” Supergirl rushes to correct herself. “Of course, I don’t mean—well, you know what I mean, don’t you? They’re real.” She rubs a frustrated hand across her forehead. “I never manage to say it right when I talk about them. Even after all this time, they’re still foreign to me.”
Kieran nips at the top of Lena’s ear. He’s always quiet when there’s company, but they developed their own silent language well before Lena’s tenth birthday. Reassure her, he’s saying. Now. What’s taking so long? 
“Daemons aren’t foreign to you,” Lena finds herself saying.
Supergirl blinks. “What?”
“Just because you can’t see your daemon, doesn’t mean they’re not there,” Lena says. “Did you have Dust on Krypton?”
With a movement so fast Lena’s eyes can’t catch it, Supergirl looks away, leaving Lena only able to see the curve of her jaw and cheek. When she speaks, her voice is rough. “Yes,” she says. “Khir.” 
“Your khir,” Lena says, hopefully with an only slightly terrible accent, “could you see it?”
“Under the right circumstances.” 
There’s a creaking noise, and when Lena looks down to try and locate it, she sees Supergirl’s hands move from the railing to reveal imprints of her grip. 
“Sorry,” she says. “We could see Khir under certain light spectrums. Especially in low orbit, when Rao’s Light came through the atmosphere and—sorry, I’m getting carried away.” She laughs a wet little sound and then clears her throat. When she faces Lena again, her eyes are rimmed with red. 
“Did you ever see it?” Lena asks.
Supergirl’s eyelids slip closed. “It was the last thing I saw,” she whispers. “Khir rising up to meet Rao in the atmosphere. While Krypton still had an atmosphere.”
Kieran’s claws maul Lena’s shoulder until she reaches out and puts a hand on top of Supergirl’s. 
“There’s Dust everywhere,” Lena tells her, then repeats: “Just because you can’t see your daemon, doesn’t mean they aren’t there.”
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bloodofvaleryia · 2 years
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when creating me, the gods decided to make me a maladaptive daydreamer but failed to give me any writing abilities and just said 'suffer'
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tactax-art · 2 years
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Post resurrection his deamon wasn't the same anymore, between the muteness and near-animal behaviour Jason doesn't even know it's name.
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shuichiakainx · 4 months
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I'm so proud of her, Milly will be a wonderful Supergirl💕
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zeroducks-2 · 3 months
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The kid was just too damned slippery. Slade feinted left and struck right, hooked his leg, and at long fucking last brought him down to the dirty rooftop. He dropped his full weight across the kid's hips to keep him there and punched him in the face hard enough to snap his head back.
Beneath his domino mask, Nightwing snarled, blood on his teeth. He tried to bring one of his electrified escrima sticks up, but Slade snapped the side of his hand into the kid's wrist first, knocking it away.
He raised his fist again, then stopped mid-strike as he noticed what was happening off to the side. "Daemon," Slade said, and again, "Daemon." And, finally, "Musty!"
"You know I hate it when you call me that," Xiao Mei said, her little stoat body stretched out on her back beneath Nightwing's own daemon, like a reverse of their human counterparts.
"It's your own fault for making me call you," Slade told her testily.
The codename, a holdover from his early days as Deathstroke, didn't matter as much anymore with his identity more or less public under a thin veneer of plausible deniability. Still, it was the principle of the thing.
Xiao Mei turned her head and shot him a baleful look, but didn't otherwise move. She remained belly-up, Nightwing's bird daemon continuing to groom her with gentle nips of its beak. In the weird, floaty apparatus it wore, it was hard to tell exactly what type of bird it was, which was the idea. Dick Grayson held his own secret identity close to his chest and couldn't very well run around with the melanistic barn owl usually found perched on the shoulder of his civilian self.
Beneath Slade, Nightwing frowned. "X-Wing," he groaned, which was very much not the owl's real name. "What are you doing?"
"Cleaning," Raji said shortly. "Her fur was all out of place." "Ok, I can see that, but usually when I'm fighting, you, y'know..." Nightwing trailed off, gestured vaguely. "You, uh, also fight?" Raji fluffed her feathers. "You can do as you like," she said. "I, however, am catching up with my friend."
The 'friend' stretched out further and made a happy sound. Slade would have to have a talk with her later. He looked to her, to the owl, and finally back at the vigilante still trapped under his body.
"X-Wing?" Slade repeated. "Like Star Wars?"
Nightwing's head turned towards him. "You know Star Wars?"
"I watched Star Wars before you were born, kid," Slade told him, affronted.
A shrug against the roof, and Nightwing conceded, "Point." He wriggled a little. "Are we still fighting?"
"No," Slade stood, offering a hand up. "I think the moment's been lost."
found this in my inbox ♥ love it. I planned to write a small continuation and never got around to do it, but it deserved to be put out there cause it's so good.
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hc-geralt-23 · 1 year
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Masterlist
I don't write smut. I will write for what ever person or character you would like just let me know who and give me a brief scenario and i will try my best to write it.
Feel Free to request. For any of the following and if you want one for anyone not posted let me know.
My main Fandom are Sam And Colby, Matt Smith, House of The Dragon, Henry Cavill, The Walking Dead, The last of us, Game Of Thrones, The Hobbit, Lord of the rings, The Vampire Diaries, Vikings, marvel, DC, Twilight, The Witcher, and The Last Kingdom.
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House of the Dragon
Daemon Targeryan
A Kingdom of Our Own
Daemon Targeryan Love Story
Love Across The Houses
UPDATED VERSION Love Across The Houses
Dragon Riders: A Tale Of Forbidden Love
A Tale of Elven Love and Dragon's Flame
"Solace in an Embrace"
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The Last Of Us
Joel Miller
Redemption's Embrace: A Last of Us Tale
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4
 Eclipsed Hearts: A Tale of Redemption and Resilience. Second ending
Broken Promises
Chasing The Light
Love Amidst Harsh Truths
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The Vampire Diaries
Damon Salvatore
Damon Salvatore and Elena's Older Sister
The Messy Love Triangle of Stefan, Sarah, and Damon
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Vikings
Ubbe Lothbrok
The Soulmate Dilemma
Bjorn Ironside
The Soulmate Dilemma
Ivar The Boneless
The Betrayal Of Ivar The Boneless
Love and Power colliding
Ragnarsons
Brother in Blood
Halfdan The Black
A Prince's Sacrifice for His Princess
King Harald Finehair
The Viking King and the Shieldmaiden: A Tale of Love, Courage, and Perseverance.
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The Walking Dead
Daryl Dixon
The Clumsy Love
No Questions Asked
Redemption's Trail Part 1 Part 2
Tormented Hearts Part 1 Part 2
Negan Smith
Tormented Hearts Part 1 Part 2
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Sam And Colby
Colby Brock
Guardians of the Enchanted Grove
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Twilight
Jasper Hale
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The Hobbit
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Marvel
DC
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The Witcher
Geralt of rivia
Destined Bonds: The Dragon and The Witcher
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 Epilogue
The Dragon and the Witcher: A Tale of Love and Destiny
Updated The Dragon And The Witcher: A Tale of Love and Destiny
The Last Kingdom
Again i don't write smut. I will write for what ever person or character you would like just let me know who and give me a brief scenario and i will try my best to write it.
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girly-blogging · 2 years
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here are my favorite daemon/rhaenyra fanfics:
i can always update this post since there’re a lot of new stories being written everyday and the shipp just became popular so it’s not like i’ve read a lot of stuff
i can make other lists since there are a lot of good stories i’ve read from other fandons specially marvel, dc and harry potter fics
Don’t Blame Me, Love Made Me Crazy
Summary:
The Realm answers to Rhaenyra and Rhaenyra answers to Daemon
An Early Allies!AU
rating: mature
chapters: 10/30
I love this one because rhaenyra is always gaslighting, gatekeeping and girlbossing.
Of Dragons and Eggs
Summary:
Caraxes knew his human better than he knew anyone else and when it came to the matter of his silver haired rider finding a mate, naturally he knew which lady his human had his heart set on. So why was it that his human didn't seem to acknowledge the truth that was as clear as day?
Prompt: Daemyra from the dragons' point of view.
rating: gen
chapters: 1/1
a bit of crack and fluff is always good for the heart.
pontential
Summary:
“Do you normally snog your friends?”
“Do you normally snog your nieces?”
One strange night throws Rhaenyra’s relationship with her ersatz uncle off-kilter. A modern AU.
rating: explicit
chapters: 6/6
I’m not much of a modern au reader but i really like this one
Dust on a Sunbeam
Summary:
“We are the fire and the blood— it has never been our way to go quietly when there is passion burning through our veins. You have chosen each other, and tied my hands while doing so.”
Rhaenrya and Daemon have cemented their relationship in a way that even the crown cannot undo. A HOTD AU.
rating: explicit
chapters: 7/?
this is really cute
Glory and Gore
Summary:
Set at the beginning of Episode 3, the situation in the Step Stones is dire and yet Viserys refuses to send aid to Daemon's forces. When Rhaenyra hears how her father is more determined to teach Daemon a lesson then ensure that he comes home safe to her, she flies off to join her uncle's war effort.
On those bloodied beaches, Rhaenyra proves herself to be a strong, capable leader worthy of the Iron Throne, cementing her inheritance. However, she also finds herself increasingly drawn into her uncle's orbit, sparking the beginnings of something that could be her salvation, or her downfall.
rating: explicit
chapters: 4/?
rhaenyra is such a girlboss i love this story
Reborn in Fire
Summary:
After dying in dragon fire by the maw of her brothers dragon, Rhaenyra wakes up the day of her mothers death. Armed with foreknowledge of all the catastrophes to come, can she redirect the course of fate to one where she gets all she wants?
rating: not rated
chapters: 11/?
i love this one so much can barely wait for the next chapters
Make me your wife
Summary:
Since she was small, the princess has been wont to ask him the same question - whether as a childish demand, a youthful jest, a plea for protection or a romantic notion – but those words take on a different shine when spoken at her own wedding celebrations to another man.
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Or, the five times Rhaenyra asks Daemon to be her husband, and the one time he asks her to be his wife.
rating: mature
chapters: 1/1
i love 5+1 fics so much
the home we built (for them)
Summary:
Daemon is trying to get Rhaenyra’s boys to like him as they blend their families
rating: teen and up
chapters: 1/1
domestic daemyra and their kids? count me in!!
Lentor
Summary:
"The babe is still much smaller than they should be, Princess," he says. "And your last birth was not an easy one."
"I do not have to be reminded of that," she remarks sharply. "I was the one pushing him out.”
Daemon smirks.
“The Maester means well, wife.” His hand runs down her arm, soothing. “We shall have to be extra careful with your health this time.”
Or: scenes from a marriage and the family it built. Contains book spoilers, although I don't know if the show will follow every plot point.
rating: explicit
chapters: 1/1
this is a bit sad but i loved it
Something So Good, So Pure
Laenor Velaryon passed out drunk on his wedding night, but that’s not to say Rhaenyra Targaryen spent her wedding night alone. Nine months after being married, she gives birth to a daughter with silvery blonde hair and lilac eyes, forever changing the history of House Targaryen.
rating: mature
chapters: 14/?
this is definitely one of my favorite fics, the author really understands the asoiaf universe and i just love seeing all targaryens being a family
got any recommendations? send me!!
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speaching · 3 months
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Just a eudaemon and his dragon
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Why do we like bad boys or morally grey characters much more than “handsome good and nice guy”?
Me :
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We all struggle with fear (not particularly has to do with monsters or demons), the fear of being imperfect, the fear of being judged, the fear of insecurity, those fears are not usually a part of villain’s personality. That’s why we like the morally gray characters, not because “oh he’s so rich and handsome”
It’s because “it’s so unusual to see someone who’s not intimidated by common fears”
it’s because “oh he knows he’s bad but doesn’t give two fucks about it” “I wanna be like that”
it’s not all about attraction or wanting to fuçk them, it’s about seeing ourselves wanting to become like them. To be Liberated from fear.
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Leonardo Lane and J'onn, during their time as Manhunter agents for Leviathan
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gulnarsultan · 1 year
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por favor, escreva uma parte 2 do seu último post sobre tim drake ser filho do leitor e daemon targaryen. Cenário onde o leitor e o daemon pedem para falar com Bruce e agradecê-lo por cuidar de seu filho.
E então os dois governantes podem ter um momento para se relacionar com Tim e o leitor diz "Você tem a mesma inteligência que seu irmão mais velho Aemond.", e Tim pergunta "Onde ele está?" e Daemon responde "Ele foi levar sua esposa para ver o pai dela, mas ele deve estar voltando", e então o castelo balança com a força do rugido de Vhaegar e o leitor leva os outros para o jardim e eles encontram os outros filhos do leitor e seus netos.
Queen and Daemon have a total of five children. Tim (other name Rhaegal) and Aemond, Alysanne, Daeron, Shaena. In a few days Tim gets to know all of his brothers. He has yet to meet his only twin brother, Aemond. Aemond and his wife are reserved for guests. Tim is excited to meet his twin brother. Finally, when Aemond and his wife return, the whole family greets them. The Queen hugs her son.
"Aemond. Your brother is back."
Aemond wipes his mother's tears. Aemond and Tim face off. Two brothers hug each other. Everyone is happily watching the two brothers meet after years.
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witchthewriter · 1 year
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𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬, 𝐋𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 & 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐬
I’m opening commissions for:
Stories (which can include character profiles, and moodboards)
Personal letters written by your chosen character, can be romantic or platonic
Character Profiles (this can be separately or in relation to your story)
Playlists (either on their own or in relation to your story)
If you’re interested, send me a message and we can get into the details!
Fandoms, including but not limited to:
A Court of Thorns and Roses
Throne of Glass
Disney
Game of Thrones
Grishaverse
Harry Potter
House of the Dragon
The Hunger Games
Lord of the Rings
Marvel
The Maze Runner
Merlin
Pirates of the Caribbean
Sons of Anarchy
Stranger Things
Teen Wolf
Twilight
The Umbrella Academy
The Walking Dead
Vikings
The 100
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Rate the batkids on how's most likely to secretly be an eldritch/demon/ancient god?
I had to think bout this one for a good minute. 😅 (Kinda wanted to rate on how well they can hide it. But went against it. I'm also REALLY high and bored. So send more, please! I also am probably goin to make a few DC stories based off of these asks if anyone's interested in that.)
Dick: 10/10 (Have you SEEN Incubus!Dick? He's DEFINITELY one.)
Jason: 100/10 (He's God himself. Source: Bro, Trust Me.)
Tim: 7/10 (He'll make you believe that. Is he one? Who knows. *Suspicious noise*)
Damian: 9.5/10 (Daemon Spawn. ‘Nuff said.)
Stephanie: 8.5/10 (The ancient God of waffles and syrup. Duh, that's a real thing.)
Cassandra: 9/10 (She's an ancient forgotten God that got stuck with barely any story time and mention 😭)
Harper: 100/10 (She's ACTUALLY God herself. Source: I was there, believe me.)
Barbara: 10/10
Tiffany: 7/10 (She's actually the Trickster God, duh.)
Luke: 8.5/10 (A stubborn Daemon who will do whatever he wants to get to his goals.)
Duke: 6.5/10 (He's some type of creature that just wants a break.)
Terry: 10/10 (Also Daemon boy. Don't be fooled)
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tactax-art · 1 year
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winter-soldier-101 · 8 months
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Hello everyone I’m taking some requests for my birthday tomorrow.
I am writing for any house of the dragon and game of thrones and marvel and dc characters.
Give me the person and a little idea of what you want to happen.
If smut please let me know.
Will be between 100-500 words maybe two or three parts of some.
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zeroducks-2 · 1 year
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I churned this out real fast after getting the brainworm idea from @bid-art's DC Daemon AU ♥♥♥ (GO CHECK IT OUT RN!)
This is Slade and his little stoat daemon Xiao Mei. She's fierce and dangerous! And she hides in the pockets of the Deathstroke suit!
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