Beyond the Roundels

A couple more belated rainbowfic crossposts, which bring me very nearly up to date:


Name: Something Fishy
Story: Starfall
Colors: Vert #19 (Rescue from a dragon)
Supplies and Styles: Thread
Word Count: 1871
Rating: G
Warnings: None.
Notes: Portcallan, 1313; Viyony Eseray, Nin Valerno, Leion Valerno. Follows on immediately from On the Trail and Trap for the Unwary.
Summary: Leion has been found.

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Name: Leftovers
Story: Starfall
Colors: Warm Heart #6 (Comfort)
Supplies and Styles: Novelty Bead (From 11 Years of Rainbowfic Space Month "sauce") + Thread
Word Count: 2604
Rating: PG
Warnings: None.
Notes: Portcallan, 1313; Viyony Eseray/Leion Valerno, Imenna Pollens. Follows on directly from Something Fishy
Summary: Leion attempts to thank Viyony.

Two more rainbowfic pieces, as I did let crossposting drop a way behind for a while:

Name: Hidden Lights
Story: Starfall
Colors: Beet Red #28 (Beg steal or borrow); Azul #30 (Token of strength or loyalty)
Supplies and Styles: Canvas + Pastels (also for no_true_pair prompt March 26th - Leion & Pello at the beach) + resin (also for allbingo May color fest square "true colors.") + Giftwrap + Triptych + Novelty Beads - https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/00/09/8b/00098b9d3a37c21ed8bd3ee00da58c7c.jpg (September Secrets 2020) + "Fire Opal" (Birthday prompts 2020) + Graffiti - for the May Parents challenge.
Word Count: 1918
Rating: PG
Warnings: Brief mention of possible death, risk of drowning, abandonment.
Notes: 1297-1306, Portcallan; Pello Ahblan, Joend Ahblan, Leion Valerno, Tana Veldiner, Tam Jadinor. (Introducing a new character who we're going to see more of in time. The end scene of this takes place immediately after the recent Atino and Leion sequence.)
Summary: Pello's fascination with starstone leads to an unexpected encounter on the beach at midnight.

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Name: On the Trail
Story: Starfall
Colors: Warm Heart #7 (Calm)
Supplies and Styles: Thread
Word Count: 2692
Rating: PG
Warnings: None.
Notes: Portcallan, 1313; Viyony Eseray, Nin Valerno.
Summary: Leion has vanished.

I haven't really been updating lately, I know, sorry, but in the meantime, bringing the rainbowfic crossposting up to date again:

Name: Whispers in the Mind
Story: Starfall
Colors: Warm Heart #13 (Shame); Colour of the Day - 23 Mar 2025 (surcease)
Supplies and Styles: Canvas
Word Count: 3860
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Sickness, Pain, Manipulation, Mental distress/confusion.
Notes: 1306, Portcallan; Leion Valerno, Atino Barra, Donn Chiulder, Tana Veldiner, Aima Beconil, Tessine Hyan. Continuing directly on from open the wild inside.
Summary: Leion remembers everything, and wishes he hadn't.

Another rainbowfic crosspost:

Name: open the wild inside
Story: Starfall
Colors: Beet Red #6 (Harder they fall); Warm Heart #11 (Torn)
Supplies and Styles: Sculpture + Canvas + Chiaroscuro + Giftwrap
Word Count: 3076
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Mind control, illness, manipulation.
Notes: 1306, Portcallan. Leion Valerno/Atino Barra, Donn Chiulder, Tana Veldiner, Aima, Tessine Hyan, Tam Jadinor. More of the backstory Leion won't talk about. Sculpture as this builds up on what happens before/after Bedazzled (a Colour of the Day piece, which I re-edited into this one.) Giftwrap because it's set around the Sea Festival.
Summary: Leion goes undercover to prove his stepfather wrong and nearly loses his mind.

Another couple of rainbowfic pieces from the last month:

Name: Hope is the Thing With Feathers
Story: Starfall
Colors: Dark Scarlet #9 (Threads of silk and gold); Vert #1 (Hope)
Supplies and Styles: Canvas + Graffiti (January Canvas & Frames Challenge) + Photography + Panorama + Giftwrap
Word Count: 421
Rating: G
Warnings: None.
Notes: c.000s-020s, probably somewhere in the Eister Ranges in Emoyra or High Eisterland. Hylia, and her legend. Includes some Old Calendar name lists and the current general Emoyran month names. (Hylia was mentioned very obliquely in the piece where Viyony tells Leion that most cities still have Birdmasters with Hylian messenger birds.) Giftwrap, because while not strictly a gift as such, two of my friends who have been kind enough to read these pieces love birds, so persiflage_1 and theseatheseatheopensea, I hope you'll like this bird-related snippet of legend!
Summary: The legend of Hylia and the calendar, taken from The History of Eisterland (written in the 5th C by Seso Bialdis; this version from the 13th C Emoyran translation, pub. 1286.)

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Name: Not An Asset
Story: Starfall
Colors: Warm Heart #23 (insolent); Vert #2 (Promise); Beet Red #3 (Can't beat 'em)
Supplies and Styles: Canvas + Graffiti (January Canvas & Frames Challenge) + Thread
Word Count: 1627
Rating: PG
Warnings: Swearing.
Notes: 1306, Portcallan; Leion Valerno, Tam Jadinor, Kettah Jadinor. (This is set 7 years before the main Portcallan sequence - Leion is 20 & Kettah 13 or 14, and this is the start of the backstory Leion's refusing to talk to Viyony about.)
Summary: Leion's stepfather has a request to make of him. Leion isn't impressed. Again.

Another rainbowfic piece!

Name: Questions & Answers
Story: Starfall
Colors: Azul #29 (pledge); Vert #15 (Code of honor); Beet red #5 (Made to be broken)
Supplies and Styles: Canvas + Seed Beads + Graffiti (for the current January Canvas/Frame challenge) + Novelty Beads (from April 2024 Food Challenge http://media.tumblr.com/c2596a1ec4e793b7c2ac0c6cdb39b505/tumblr_inline_mn9uq1j8AY1qz4rgp.gif)
Word Count: 1968
Rating: PG
Warnings: None.
Notes: 1312 North Eastern District; Marran Delver, Telo Torwell, Karr Delver, Sharrander Colwell, and some unfortunate Town Justice who has to deal with this.

I did manage some rainbowfic pieces last month, which I'll post here together, as they follow directly on from each other.

Name: Making Connections
Story: Starfall
Colors: Light Black #7 (race); Beet Red #12 (Watched pot)
Supplies and Styles:
Word Count: 2584
Rating: PG
Warnings: None.
Notes: 1313, Portcallan; Viyony Eseray, Leion Valerno, Jousine Aubrieto.
Summary: Old ghosts are lurking everywhere in this city...


Name: it's beginning to get to me
Story: Starfall
Colors: Beet Red #17 (Cut some slack); Vert #24 (Which At The Bottom Of The Box Remained)
Supplies and Styles: Pastels (title from Snow Patrol - It's Beginning To Get To Me for lyricaltitles bingo square "Song from the 2000s") + Novelty Beads ("near miss" from Sept Secrets 2023 + https://31.media.tumblr.com/750d60c5edb1a7f927c27b21b54685f4/tumblr_inline_ninheuIrpZ1rg1b0q.gif - from Feb 2021 TV Tropes Challenge)
Word Count: 1340
Rating: PG
Warnings:
Notes: Portcallan, 1313; Leion Valerno/Viyony Eseray. Takes place immediately after Making Connections.
Summary: Leion thinks they're being followed.

Another rainbowfic piece from a little while back.

Name: standing in the red, red rain
Story: Starfall
Colors: Light Black #3 (Trail); Dark Scarlet #11 (A man of my company)
Supplies and Styles: Chiaroscuro + canvas + seedbeads + Graffiti - October Challenge (Fictober Prompt #12 "did you hear that?") + Resin (also for lyricaltitles square "lyric with 'red' 'green' or 'blue.'" - Red Rain by The White Stripes) + Life Drawing
Word Count: 1835
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Death/dead bodies, brief mentions of animal harm.
Notes: Pre-Starfall era (prob. c.160 years pre-Starfall), in what is now the borders of East and West Korphil and the Northlands. (Starfall is said to have happened in three main landings across time (via the Paths): Meni and Atta are from the second fall, heading towards a place inhabited by people from the first fall.)
Summary: Meni follows a trail to a dead end.

Another rainbowfic crosspost, a little sooner than usual, but these two and yesterday's were originally posted very close together as part of a linked sequence also written for no_true_pair, and none of them are terribly long. I just wanted to post something and I'm not great again, so have this, and now I will very hopefully attempt editing more fic instead, but we'll see.

Name: is it love or are you just fooling around?
Story: Starfall
Colors: Light Black #20 (heal)
Supplies and Styles: Resin (also for no_true_pair prompt "September Twenty-One - Leion & Viyony "What did you say?") + Pastels (for lyricaltitles square "lyric with love or hate" - Kool Savas - Is It Love?) + Silhouette
Word Count: 995
Rating: G
Warnings: None.
Notes: 1313, Kalna, nr. Portcallan; Leion Valerno, Viyony Eseray. Continues on from the last. Also very rough, to meet the no_true_pair deadline.
Summary: The morning after.

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Name: Unanswerable
Story: Starfall
Colors: Beet Red #8 (What can't be cured); Light Black #14 (Return)
Supplies and Styles: Pastels (also for no_true_pair prompt "September Twenty-Five: Viyony & Reohr - old emotions")
Word Count: 883
Rating: G
Warnings: None.
Notes: 1313, Kalna, nr. Portcallan; Viyony Eseray, Karpeldis Reohrsyn. Follows on immediately from the previous two piece.
Summary: Viyony has words with her father.

I think I've been forgetting to crosspost rainbowfic things again, so here are a couple, neither of which is immediately linked to anything else:

Name: people like us, we don't need that much
Story: Starfall
Colors: Beet Red #14 (Strike while the iron is hot); Vert #16 (As the lord/lady asks)
Supplies and Styles: Canvas + resin (also for lyricaltitles bingo square "line from the chorus"; from James Blunt "Bonfire Heart")
Word Count: 1474
Rating: G
Warnings: None.
Notes: 1331, Old Ralston; Marran Delver/Mya Willo. (A bit of backstory I've been meaning to slot in somewhere for a while.)
Summary: Mya Willo has an appointment with the Governor.

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Name: both sides of the old fence
Story: Starfall
Colors: Light Black #27 (Break); Beet Red #22 (Bent out of shape)
Supplies and Styles: Canvas + resin (also for lyricaltitles square "Angry Song" - Don't Bother Me & no_true_pair prompt "September Nine - Leion & Kadia - "what's that noise?") + Triptych + Charcoal
Word Count: 1623
Rating: PG
Warnings: Growing enmity.
Notes: Portcallan 1290, 1292, 1306, 1313; Leion Valerno, Kadia Barra, Tam Jadinor, Eolla Barra & a couple of put-upon school teachers.
Summary: A brief history of Leion and Kadia.

(Both were also done for lyricaltitles and one of them for no_true_pair.)

I haven't made a rainbowfic catch up post in a while, so here's another:

Name: Dance With Me
Story: Starfall
Colors: Light Black #30 (stop); Vert #30 (Stronger together than we are apart)
Supplies and Styles: Giftwrap + Novelty Beads (via April Food Challenge: this image)
Word Count: 1946
Rating: PG
Warnings: None.
Notes: Portcallan, 1313; Viyony Eseray, Leion Valerno, Kadia Barra, Ivina Gerro, Tessine Hyan. Takes place a short while after Full Circle.
Summary: Enough is enough.

Another rainbowfic entry from a little while ago:

Name: Public Faces in Private Places
Story: Starfall
Colors: Light Black #17 (Lose)
Supplies and Styles: Canvas
Word Count: 1305
Rating: PG
Warnings: None.
Notes: 1329, North Eastern District; Marran Delver, Sharrander Colwell.
Summary: Marran faces a painful choice.

One short piece, and one little non-fic project I've been working on for a while, for rainbowfic:

Name: Street Theatre
Story: Starfall
Colors: Beet Red #2 (Easier said than done)
Supplies and Styles:
Word Count: 445
Rating: G
Warnings: None.
Notes: Portcallan, 1313; Viyony Eseray, Ivina Gerro, Leion Valerno. (The theatre incident mentioned in Full Circle.)
Summary: Playing fake enemies can get complicated.

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Name: Know Me By Name
Story: Starfall
Colors: Vert #29 (But as for me, I will always have love/hope); Azul #27 (Mythic lovers)
Supplies and Styles: Mixed Media + Illustration + Silhouette
Word Count:
Rating: PG
Warnings: None, save my possibly questionable music choices.
Notes: Includes cover graphics (x 750-x750 images), lyric quotes, link to YT playlist of 11 tracks. My notes about choices are very limited as some of my reasons for selecting songs would be pretty spoilery at this point. I wanted to create a mood playlist, possibly a little teaser-ish for those who've been reading who want to speculate, so I trust that won't matter in this case. All videos playable in the UK at the time of linking. Let me know if anything doesn't work for you.
Summary: A YouTube playlist for Viyony Eseray & Leion Valerno.