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   Our Lines in the Sand by GaleSentinal

   Fandoms: Shadow and Bone (TV), The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • F/M, M/M
   • Work in Progress

   18 Apr 2022

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • The Darkling | Aleksander Morozova/Alina Starkov
   • Alina Starkov
   • The Darkling | Aleksander Morozova
   • Mal Oretsev
   • Ivan (The Grisha Trilogy)
   • Genya Safin
   • General Kirigan (Shadow and Bone)
   • Fedyor Kaminsky
   • David Kostyk
   • Nikolai Lantsov
   • Zoya Nazyalensky
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Moral Ambiguity
   • Morally grey characters-but of a lighter shade
   • Politics
   • Like lots of Politics
   • Philosophical Exploration
   • Alina and Mal need an arc that isn't codependency
   • Mal has the personality of a saltine cracker and a character arc as interesting as one
   • I'm going to fix that
   • The Darkling is his own warning
   • Worldbuilding
   • The Darkling is an immortal mastermind and I'm going to make him act like it
   • He hates the paperwork that comes with it though
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • Heterosexual Nonsense
   • author has not read the books
   • author will not be reading the books
   • Cherry Picking Of Canon
   • Aleksander Morozova is a theater kid who grew up with trauma and no theater
   • He's making up for lost time now that he's no longer running for his life
   • Unbetaed we die like Mal should have to that Fjerdan Machine Gun
   • The worldbuilding was making me salty so I set out to make salt crusted fish
   • The fish is herring
   • Fake/Pretend Relationship
   • That one was a surprise to me
   • It's not really fake
   • They're Just Stupid Your Honor
   • Accidental Soap Operas
   • Unrepentant Horsegirl Aleksander Morozova
   • Surprisingly Fluffy
   • My actual OTP is the Darkling/Happiness
   • Slowest Slowburn relationship in the grishaverse at 400 years and counting
   • Alina slowly figuring out this agency thing

   Summary

   In which being an orphan, a soldier, and a cartographer is more integral to Alina’s identity and she pays attention to the world around her. Meanwhile spending some 400 years in power confers certain advantages to the Darkling, but also certain blind spots. In this fight to secure a better tomorrow, both will be confronted with the same question: What are they willing to sacrifice in order to win?

   A reworking of the series from the ground up, where the politics are more realistic, grisha abilities are more than just magic artillery, people aren't inexplicably stupid, the religion and history are more present, everyone has an agenda, everyone has their secrets, and imperfect people love, struggle, laugh, fight and strive for a world that they can live with.

   Series

   • Part 1 of Our Lines in the Sand Verse

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