Your beauty never ever scared me

It‘s almost a game - a gamble - which had started the moment she had reached out to him. Now it was time to determine the stakes. Who had more to lose? Who had nothing to lose at all? He prided himself on the fact that he wasn´t bound to anything.

”Jumpscare“ was the name that belonged to a man, who didn’t ask questions if the price was right. It was a name whispered in the shadows, because it was said that it summoned a dead man. Even the ones thinking that this was ridiculous knew better than to underestimate him. And the ones that did? Well.

Everything changed when a new player entered the game, daring to drag his past with her.

Kate Laswell came with a proposition and the opportunity to return from the dead.

But did he even want to come back?

Read on AO3: Firebird

Chapter Teasers:

Firebird Artwork:

Other COD fanart:

The 'smitten kitten' (thanks Calliope!) of The Spiderwick Chronicles

Would you trust a mercenary?

And where is Price?

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Sound from an edit on tiktok by eprentisscm

I forgot that I didn't post it here yet. Oh well.

I finally got myself to start writing the next chapter of Firebird. That writersblock was strong.

Hopefully I'll finish soon.

This contains spoilers of the finale of Loki Season 2!

Yeah, so I saw the new CoD MW3 ending, and I'll just say

I'll drag canon into the backyard and shoot it like Shepherd shot Ghost in 2009.

Good thing I am writing a fanfiction that sees canon as guidline and not law :)

"𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘦𝘵. 𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘥, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘯 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘶𝘯𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴. 𝘍𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘷𝘦, 𝘢 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥." (Chapter 7)

When you cut all ties to your past life, but one person digs you up.

What was first just a dream has become a frightening reality for those who may oppose us.

Originally, I only wanted to draw Captain Enoch - well, it escalated.

Firebird - Teaser for Chapter 7: The desperate need to be known

”Would the Captain stop him? Jumpscare feared that he had revealed too much to him, but he hadn‘t been able to stop. There had been that urge, that deeply rooted human need to be known for the person you were. Because Jumpscare was no person. Jumpscare was a rage fuelled weapon living in the shadows until called, a being that hid its anger and lust for revenge behind easy grins (although unseen) and throwaway comments, tinted with enough humour no one would think much about it.“

You can read it on Ao3!

Title: Firebird

Author: TheDreamingRacoon

Author's Update:

Hello readers.

This is for everyone who reads Firebird - I apologise for the long, although unplanned, hiatus. First university with its exams happened, and then life did.

(Instead of writing the next chapter, I had to write a speech for a funeral)

Anyway, the good news is that I finally started chapter 7 (still unnamed) and hopefully can update it somewhat soon.

I will say this later when I update Firebird on Ao3 as well, but ... thank you for your patience, comments and kudos. I highly appreciate those.

Have a nice day/evening,

Crow

𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒅𝒐𝒆𝒔 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒅𝒐𝒎 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒏, 𝑮𝒂𝒍𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒆𝒑?

Finally! I've finished the artwork for the end of Chapter 3: This it is and nothing more of my fanfiction "Firebird" on AO3!

I should be working on the next chapter soon after this unplanned hiatus.

How many puns can I fit into headlines?

Two Vogue Covers I've designed for Miguel O'hara and my SpiderOC Zero.

Can also be found on Instagram under the same name.

Miguel dancing? Miguel dancing. (But with angst).

Also on Instagram

A short, silly comic of how Ghost sent Jumpscare to the afterlife (+sketches of younger and current Jumpscare)

"𝘐𝘵 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴. 𝘑𝘶𝘮𝘱𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴𝘯'𝘵 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦."

"𝘐 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘮. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘐 𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘯'𝘵."

(Firebird, Chapter 6)

The quality became quite bad due to the troubles I had saving the video and I might repost it, once I get it to work like I want it to, but for now I am quite proud of this. It's my first edit of this kind.

The drawing was inspired by the audio I used (which I first saw/heard on tiktok).

In the top right corner you can see my first design of Laswell‘s canon wife, whom I gave the name Rosaline.

Inspired by this edit