Screenshot of an AO3 summary. It reads: "Chapter 16. Summary: There is a final trial that Crick and Temenos must conquer before they can reach Kaldena. In the Wandering Wood, they must each confront their own phantoms, and discover inner strength they never knew they had."

🌄 AND YOU, FIRST LIGHT 🌄
✨ - Chapter 16 - ✨
#OctopathTraveler2 | #Crimenos #クリテメ 🐑🔍
#neewrites

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(spoilers for temenos's chapter 4, and tw for descriptions of gore & death)

Summary: Not much stands between Temenos and Kaldena now. As he and Crick grow ever closer to their destination, an evening’s rest brings back memories of the worst night of his life, and forces him to finally see things for what they are.

🌄 AND YOU, FIRST LIGHT 🌄
✨ - Chapter 15 - ✨
#OctopathTraveler2 | #Crimenos #クリテメ 🐑🔍
#neewrites

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Summary: The third thing he notices, as Temenos closes the heavy door behind them and sets the bar in place, is the giant stained glass window. Situated at the cathedral's centre, it overlooks the holy altar and the rows of pews stretching far back. He has looked upon it many times before, but never before has it seemed to look back. Even where he stands, far from it in the entrance hall, Crick feels the window and its intricate patterning watching him like an eye. His stomach turns nervously. "Are you sure about this?" "Quiet. You dare speak without permission in the house of Aelfric, sinner?" After their last little game, Crick has a new idea. Temenos, of course, indulges him.

⛪ The Only Heaven I'll Be Sent To ⛪
#OctopathTraveler2 | #Crimenos #クリテメ 🐑🔍
part 2 of Crimenos sexual RP adventures | 10.5k words | NSFW 🔞
PWP | established relationship | roleplay
#neewrites

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Chapter 14. Summary: With the sun risen and the Shadow banished – for now – it is time for Temenos and Crick to move on and finally hunt Kaldena down. But as Temenos glimpses a different side of Crick, new doubts come to plague him, and he wonders if the path he is on is made for two at all.

🌄 AND YOU, FIRST LIGHT 🌄
✨ { Chapter 14 } ✨ | 7k words

#OctopathTraveler2 | #Crimenos #クリテメ 🐑🔍
#neewrites

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Chapter 13. Summary: Temenos’s nightmares come to life when he finally finds the beast he was searching for. As the Scarlet Moon shines down from above, doubt, desire and duty all war within him, yet only one can be the victor.

🌄 AND YOU, FIRST LIGHT 🌄
✨{ Chapter 13 }✨ | 12k words

#OctopathTraveler2 | #Crimenos #クリテメ 🐑🔍
#neewrites

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Chapter 12: Summary: The Scarlet Moon has risen. Shadows terrorise the island. Temenos and Crick split up to help the separate villages, but a new danger soon brings them together again.

🌄 And You, First Light 🌄
- CHAPTER 12 ✨ | 7.5k words
#OctopathTravelerII | #Crimenos #クリテメ 🐑🔍
#neewrites

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Summary: Temenos has lost much in his life. His parents, though he never knew them to mourn them. Roi, his first friend and closest companion, who left one day and never returned. The pontiff, the man who raised and watched over him, and whose cruel death set Temenos on his current path. In Stormhail, he comes close to losing someone else, and his path begins to diverge. Eight become nine. The road darkens for all of them, but they must journey towards the dawn. Temenos must journey towards the truth. And a Godsblade will journey at his side.

🌄 And You, First Light 🌄
#OctopathTraveler2 | #Crimenos #クリテメ 🐑🔍
multi-chapter | ONGOING | rated T
canon divergence | spoilers | slow burn
#neewrites

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Summary: — observations by Temenos Mistral. Even on a peaceful autumn day in Flamechurch, there are still chores to be done. Crick rounds up the local children to help. Temenos watches, until he doesn't.

🍂 On autumn colours, and coming home, and cat names, and Crick Wellsley. 🍂
#OctopathTraveler2 | #Crimenos #クリテメ 🐑🔍
oneshot | 4k words | rated T
post-canon | fluff | no spoilers
#neewrites

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Summary: Crick and Agnea, discovering that they have a hobby in common, begin to spend a lot of time together. Suspicious, Temenos ropes Throné into helping him solve the mystery of what they’re up to. It doesn’t exactly go as planned.

📚 The Leaflands (and Brightlands) Lovers Club 📚
#OctopathTraveler2 | platonic Crick & Agnea & Throné, implied #Crimenos #クリテメ 🐑🔍
oneshot | 12k words | rated T
humour | no spoilers
#neewrites

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Summary: Crick, after witnessing Temenos interrogating a heretic, has an unfortunate - or perhaps fortunate - revelation. When he confides in Temenos about it, his lover is only too happy to help.

🪢 No Sweeter Innocence Than Our Gentle Sin 🪢
#OctopathTraveler2 | #Crimenos #クリテメ 🐑🔍
oneshot | 7k words | rated E 🔞
PWP | established relationship | roleplay
#neewrites

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Fatum Aut Fortuna, by QueenNeehola. Summary: After parting in Flamechurch, Temenos runs into Crick again in Canalbrine.

🔮 Fatum Aut Fortuna 🔮
#OctopathTraveler2 | #Crimenos #クリテメ 🐑🔍
oneshot | 2k words | rated G
canon compliant | pre-relationship
#neewrites

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New Tricks, by QueenNeehola. Summary: Cyrus begins, still wavering, “I have noticed, as we have traversed this region, that my magic seems to have very little effect on many of the creatures here. And, as I plan to travel to Quarrycrest in the future, I worry that I may not get very far on my own merit.” Understanding dawns in Therion’s mind like the sun across the red cliffs. He has always liked the sunrise; the sure, inevitability of it, occurring daily no matter what else is happening in the world. Cyrus is a little bit like that, he thinks suddenly. Inevitable. Or more like inescapable. And definitely less pleasant than the sunrise.

⚔️ New Tricks ⚔️
#OctopathTraveler | #Cytheri #サイテリ 📖🍎
oneshot | 5k words | rated T
canon compliant | pre-relationship
#neewrites

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A Golden Moment, an Octopath Traveler (Cyrus/Therion) fanfiction by QueenNeehola. Summary: 'Therion's face and hair and eyes all seem to shine brighter than simple moonlight should allow, glowing with celestial beauty where the pallid light should surely wash him out. His evergreen eyes flicker with minute movements, and when Cyrus stands behind him he sees what he’s looking at and understands the added luminosity coming in the window. It’s snowing.'

❄️ A Golden Moment ❄️
#OctopathTraveler | #Cytheri #サイテリ 📖🍎
oneshot | 1k words | rated T
post-canon | established relationship | fluff
#neewrites

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The Heart Grows Fonder - an Octopath Traveler (Cyrus/Therion) fanfiction by QueenNeehola. Summary: 'He doesn’t know what’s wrong with him. He feels restless and lethargic all at once, the urge to busy his hands and mind battling with the desire to do just the opposite and lie in a pathetic lump on the floor. He’s tired, but sleep doesn’t seem to want to come to him as easily anymore. The bed is always so cold, but he makes himself too hot tossing and turning and wrapped in Cyrus’s clothes. He’s sick, he decides, despite no fever or sniffles, and picks the least offensive-smelling of the medicines Alfyn had last delivered to them and downs it in one.' When Cyrus takes a short work trip away from home, Therion is left to hold down the fort. He relishes the chance for alone time, plans for so much productivity, but in reality he ends up struggling with something he has never really experienced before...

💜 The Heart Grows Fonder 💜
#OctopathTraveler | #Cytheri #サイテリ 📖🍎
oneshot | 4k words | rated T
post-canon | established relationship | fluff
#neewrites

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I saw a shooting star, and thought of you - an Octopath Traveler (Cyrus/Therion) fanfiction by QueenNeehola on AO3. Rated G. Summary: They lay side by side on a small, flat area of the academy roof, looking up at the stars, perfectly hidden from sight in a little pocket of shadow beneath the parapets. The Flatlands were cool this time of year, but the closed space provided them some relief from the night chill. Still, Cyrus had insisted on draping his cloak over Therion’s thin shoulders before they lay down, and Therion had let him, grasping the fabric around him greedily and rolling closer to Cyrus’s inviting body heat.

🌠 I saw a shooting star, and thought of you 🌠
#OctopathTraveler | #Cytheri #サイテリ 📖🍎
oneshot | 1k words | rated G
established relationship | fluff
#neewrites

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Before Sight, Before Speech, an Octopath Traveler (Cyrus/Therion) fic by QueenNeehola on AO3. Rated E. Summary: The silken fabric of the blindfold felt pleasant where it touched his skin, and that was the last thought Cyrus heard from him before Therion stifled his half of the soulbond and left his lover in silence.

👁️‍🗨️ Before Sight, Before Speech 💬
#OctopathTraveler | #Cytheri #サイテリ 📖🍎
oneshot | 12k words | rated E 🔞
PWP | part of a series
#neewrites

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What Happens in Sunshade, an Octopath Traveler (Cyrus/Therion) fic by QueenNeehola on AO3. Rated E. Summary: Therion tumbled back onto the mattress and pressed the cloak - it was a jacket, really, but Cyrus always had the damn thing pinned at his throat like a cape - to his face. The fancy trimmings rattled with the movement. He couldn’t even pretend he didn’t know what he was doing as he breathed in, long and deep. It smelled like figs and parchment and lingering sorcery. It smelled like Cyrus.

🌆 What Happens In Sunshade 🌆
#OctopathTraveler | #Cytheri #サイテリ 📖🍎
2 chapters | 6k words | rated E 🔞
canon compliant | PWP | part of a series
#neewrites

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The Second Principle of Magic, an Octopath Traveler (Cyrus/Therion) fanfiction by QueenNeehola on AO3. Summary: “I want to learn magic.” Cyrus rubbed his eyes, as if the fact that they were struggling to focus after such a long spell of reading had also somehow robbed him of his ability to hear correctly. “I-I beg your pardon?” Therion huffed, pulling his scarf down so that this time Cyrus could definitely read his lips as he repeated, “I said, I want to learn magic.” A pause. “More specifically, I want you to teach me.” Another pause. “…Please.”

✨ The Second Principle of Magic ✨
#OctopathTraveler | #Cytheri #サイテリ 📖🍎
8 chapters | 47k words | rated T
canon compliant | spoilers
#neewrites

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