Chapter 6! a small collection of sylvain one-liners, mostly kept silent, and ignatz being ignatz (and thank the goddess for that)

link: archiveofourown.org/works/739964...
excerpt (one of my favorites, ive def shared a wip version too):

it's truly incredible how fast i can go from feeling like a respectable scholar to a young busty blonde simply by walking from the conference to the post-conference happy hour

i think alcohol culture in professional settings is tied to rape culture in professional settings and im not sorry for saying so

i dont think it should be at the center of any social event or expectation but like im not gonna control what people do. But in professional settings jesus christ

Chapter 5 -- cruelly i am calling this applicable to the "Touch" prompt. in which Ignatz yearns, and Sylvain is a fear-biter.

link: archiveofourown.org/works/739964...
excerpt:

EXACTLY thats even more precisely right

theyre like an angel and devil on sylvains shoulders and sylvain likes them so much he makes questionable decisions so as to make them show up and yell at him.

ive decided that if im gonna cry it's gonna be because im finishing the fic where all my feelings live dammit but one day...one day ill be brave and cry over tall men that dream of peace

wait lmao i see now that you shared this exact sentiment

it's the closest thing to a 2nd favorite syl ship i have. it hits for all the same reasons as my otp. it is reliably more melancholic.