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• The Strength to Shatter by ObsidianPegasus

  Fandoms: Skyward - Brandon Sanderson  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • F/M
  • Complete Work

  15 Jun 2025

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Spensa Nightshade | Spin/Jorgen Weight | Jerkface
  • Spensa Nightshade | Spin
  • Jorgen Weight | Jerkface
  • Kimmalyn | Quirk
  • Nedd Strong | Nedder
  • Freyja | FM
  • Rodge McCaffrey | Rigmarole
  • Arturo Mendez | Amphisbaena
  • Doomslug (Skyward)
  • M-Bot (Skyward)
  • Spensa’s Mother
  • 5+1 Things
  • POV First Person
  • Angst
  • Post-Canon
  • Post-War
  • Canon Compliant
  • Character Study
  • Repressed Emotions
  • Post-War Grief
  • Bittersweet
  • Found Family Feels
  • Evensong aftermath
  • Peace is loud too
  • spoilers for Defiant
  • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
  • Crying Is Not A Weakness
  • Spensa Nightshade has feelings and she doesn’t know what to do with them
  • 6 Times
  • War Aftermath
  • Healing from Trauma
  • identity crisis
  • trying to be okay
  • The Weight of Leadership
  • what now?
  • Grief for Her Father
  • Pilot With No War to Fight
  • Supportive Jorgen
  • Doomslug Is a Comfort Creature
  • Emotional Whiplash But Soft
  • The Author Regrets Nothing
  • The author is probably: stressed; depressed; emotionally repressed and doesn’t want to talk about it
  • They’re So Young But So Tired
  • Vignettes
  • What Is Wrong With ME
  • Spinface
  • Burns
  • Flying
  • Casualties
  • they shall suffer grievous pains laid upon them by the dread hands of ObsidianPegasus whose wrath knoweth no bound
  • Happiness? What the fuck is that?
  • Emotionally Repressed
  • Author is just a girl trying to manage shit please have sympathy on her
  • Alta Base
  • Nostalgia
  • Identity Issues
  • Self-Doubt
  • Emotional Roller Coaster
  • emotional whiplash
  • Whump
  • Angst and Feels
  • Angst and Hurt/Comfort
  • Angst and Romance
  • Fluff and Angst
  • Tears
  • Survivor Guilt
  • Tired Jorgen Weight
  • Idiots in Love
  • they’re in love your honor
  • Suicidal Thoughts
  • References to Depression
  • emotional breakdown
  • Panic Attacks
  • Spensa Nightshade has PTSD

  Summary

  Five times Spensa Nightshade almost cried.
  And one time she did.

  (The Epilogue is out now.)

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  21,700

  Chapters:

  7/7

  Comments:

  82

  Kudos:

  14

  Bookmarks:

  4

  Hits:

  174