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Maxwell knew he shouldn’t take his focus off his own target, but his eyes instinctively sought Torse across the battlefield. They landed on him just in time to see a sword thrust perfectly through the iron ribs of his chest plate and heard the tip strike metal, the light leaving Torse in an instant as he fell inanimate with a loud clatter.
(or: Caught in an ambush, Maxwell sees Torse go down and fucking loses it)
[a direct continuation of Engraved, this time with Plot™]
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- Part 2 of Delicately Dangerous
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06 Oct 2025
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He is a Gotch after all and Gotches are never rowdy, never violent, never imperfect.
And so, Maxwell Gotch is used to existing on the outside.
It is the same with the crew of the Zephyr, with old friends who adopted Olethra as ‘the kid' immediately, as the perfect little member of their crew. But Maxwell wasn't rowdy enough. Far too rowdy for his family, but not enough for the Wind Riders.
But that was fine.
Maxwell has been content with his lonely existence for twenty-nine years, why should that change now?In which Maxwell Gotch finds a family and falls in love.
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03 Oct 2025
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Maxwell felt…strange.
Not bad, necessarily. As far as he could tell, he wasn’t in any pain. But he didn’t feel particularly good, either.
Mostly he just felt a whole lot of…nothing.
That in itself wasn’t strange. Maxwell would be remiss to call himself an emotional man. He was a passionate one, however, and typically this time after a fight would be spent mentally going over each second of battle, relishing in the spiderwebs of pain that still stretched over his cracked knuckles.
But now? Now he wasn’t even positive that the hands he was looking at belonged to him.
It was all just very…strange.
Or: Maxwell (doesn't) deal with his newfound bloodlust. Van helps.
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29 Sep 2025
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During one of his fits of bloodlust, Maxwell falls from the Zephyr's rigging and gives himself a nasty concussion. When he comes to, some truths come to light that he otherwise wouldn't have revealed...
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29 Sep 2025
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Van Chapman was pretty sure she had the Gotch kid figured out--stick up his arse, fancy clothes, and an air of superiority that was distinctly out of place on an airship.
And then he flew past her as he launched himself off the ship.
And then, after punching two pilots out of the sky, jumped back as if nothing had happened, as if he wasn’t covered in blood, and as if his gloves weren't bitten off to reveal heavily scarred knuckles.
Van Chapman prided herself on not being easily shaken, and she wasn’t. It was just—surprising.
She didn’t really know this kid at all.
Or: Snapshots of Van and Maxwell bonding, punching, and healing. Mostly punching.
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29 Sep 2025