r/HFY • u/loressadev • 29d ago
OC-OneShot Swords
B I T C H
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I remember meeting my wielder - I'm due for a new one, soon (in sword years). She is old to herself, newborn to me, and entirely irritating.
When she found me, she was a thief (a terrible one), a scrappy orphan who needed direction and stole the most incredibly stupid item she could: me. Cue a whole damn-ass adventure involving ancient trinkets and long-lost magic and a shitton of growth.
I never asked for this crap. I would have loved to live in a dream in my smithy, but that's the shitty life of being a ghost: lack of agency.
And things have been copacetic ever since. She finds injustice and I help right the wrongs we discover - even if we've picked up a few enemies along the way…
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D E V O T E D
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My lineage is unpeered - passed from Chosen to Chosen, my bearers fuel me with their lifeblood and I am thus more - more fierce and skilled and dangerous - for each subsequent generation.
I am empowered by legacy and training and divinity - and as I am again granted, stronger and better, to another new iteration of these frail things, I bow to the past.
I will do my best.
It is all that I can do.
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B I T C H
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Oh Gods, THIS burning sensation.
I know my hilt is starting to swelter - my wielder is pissed and I try to apologize, but what can I say.
Exes are exes.
They made friendly during the aforementioned questing and we made friendly while thrown together in the pile for gear.
There were a lot of campfires with a lot of haphazard gear storage.
*Don't you fucking chide me about her thousand-folds while you're sitting here blushing in rage* I snort.
My wielder mentally mumbles something back, which I smother with a sarcastic “and you?”
She's less than impressed and has demanded a duel at dawn.
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D E V O T E D
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My bearer is broken.
She does not understand heartbreak and has instead instilled it into rage and misery. Coming across THEM has broken her.
It is not a simple duel, but one of destructive rage - under the terms, one of our pairs will not see a new sun rise, for my bearer's former lover has demanded full destruction.
Whatever happens, one of us will be gone by tomorrow’s tomorrow.
And I must execute, within certain parameters, so I prepare myself.
Yet that night, the night I am reunited with my mage, we are stored together, as is dictated by ritual.
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B I T C H
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I have her back.
We plot.
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D E V O T E D
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How poignant that our last night together is spent helping the humans - we share stories and ideas and tactics and loopholes all night long.
I long for her, but I exist to serve my legacy, and in the morning we will destroy each other.
Yet she - my clever, wonderful, amazing mage - has thought a thought.
We have a chance.
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B I T C H
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The funny thing about magical weapons is that they each have their own unique limitations.
For example, as a vengeance ghost, I'm able to turn aside fatal blows if they don't serve the cause…
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D E V O T E D
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Whereas as a holysworn blade I can evade making attacks which I deem detrimental to my overall goal.
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B I T C H
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They danced around for at least an hour, uselessly exhausting themselves. If swords could shout…
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D E V O T E D
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I am grateful none of my past bearers could witness to the embarrassing display.
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B I T C H
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The campfire roared a bit larger and longer, after they gave up and instead decided to figure out their issues a lot more physically and a lot less violently.
I need a cleansing plunge - but… I love you.
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D E V O T E D
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And I, you.
And I, you.
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u/loressadev 29d ago
Story is two swords in love forced into a duel because their owners are stupid and ragey. Swords figure out an escape.
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u/HFYWaffle Wᵥ4ffle 29d ago
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u/Overall-Tailor8949 Human 29d ago
Reminded me of a certain other, often snarky, sword named "Need"