When the promise of peace leads to destruction, family and friends are caught in those fires, suffering from wounds that aren't always visible while working towards a goal that is beyond their own desires and maybe even beyond their reach. Behind that, though, is a history of bonds that will shape the course of the future.

"This is not your fault. Promise me you'll escape from this place. Please...go..." It is a phrase attached to a memory that isn't hers where all others have ceased to exist, haunting Robin every time she closes her eyes and as she fights side by side with the victim of her nightmare. Yet she cannot stop herself from growing closer to the hero that saved her from an empty field.

Starfleet Academy, often viewed by cadets as the place where their lives changed for the better. For some, however, the change isn't always welcomed or as meaningful. Take Jim Kirk, who enlisted on a dare, or Leonard McCoy, who enlisted because of a divorce, as prime examples. But for Alice, Starfleet is the first step towards normalcy, something that has been absent all her life.

Part of their pasts have been sealed away by those that created them. As one remembers, she strives to guide the other down a path that he was conditioned against. Can her song unlock a part of him that has been lost for decades, or will the cold of winter claim her life?

"I am the sorrow that weeps over loss and the happiness that cries out of joy. I am the daughter of those tears." Twists in fate carry a Dalish elf to the Inquisition where she becomes a hero that is needed, all in the name of saving those she can from chaos and destruction that weeps from the sky. Solas x Lavellan fic.

A healer's hands are always bloodiest. You cannot know the extent of a wound without becoming drenched. This healer saved a life and was rewarded with a title and an apprenticeship. Now she must fight battles that wage in and around herself, perhaps also providing aid to a lone wolf of a trickster. Loki/OC pairing, AU that will follow the cinematic universe once it gets there.

What's worse than being forced from your home by a darkspawn? Could it be having to move to a place that hates your kind? Mages. Apostates. Different titles, same stereotype, same fear, and Alexandria must hide who she is or be thrown into the Gallows. Carver does his best for her, she's his little sister after all, but a doubt edges on his mind when he sees Alex's raw power.

Commander Alice Shepard, survivor of Mindoir and Akuze, prefers solitude. It comes with being an N7. But after her shore leave is yanked away, she is assigned to the SSV Normandy where the reasons behind missions aren't thoroughly explained.

Luna is the lone blade in a family of mages. Her brother and sister were twins & valued more highly than she was for their "gift" of magic. Luna served at Ostagar and is now in Kirkwall with it's events unfolding around and because her of in Dragon Age 2