matched wits (Ella Ashmore/Tadius)
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and the starlight eased him by deepseadumpsterdiver
Fandoms: Cinderella's Castle - Team Starkid
10 Apr 2025
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He sat up, cautiously soothing his hands between the blades of grass. They were cold but curiously dry, the dew non-existent in whatever place he found himself in. Surely this was no mark of reality – only madness could explain his rather sudden excursion in the dead of sleep. No, despite how sharp his senses were, Tadius was happy to admit this to be either some hallucination or some sweet dream, soothing his work-addled brain into something deeper.
Tadius encounters the Fairy Queen of Sweet Dreams.
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- Part 1 of matched wits (Ella Ashmore/Tadius)
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and the fire soothed her by deepseadumpsterdiver
Fandoms: Cinderella's Castle - Team Starkid
08 Apr 2025
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Tadius was unused to giving emotional support, far more used to shutting down the Prince’s ‘anecdotes’ and ‘jokes’ with blunt honesty. Not that it had earned him any favours with the royal party, although it had certainly earned him a few snickers from the servants and the queen herself, once upon a time. But the thought of the queen asking him for advice beyond royal accords felt strange to him.
Well, there was nothing he was not willing to do for his queen. Anything else would be treason.
Ella's body burns with fire and starlight. Tadius cannot do much, but he can be there.
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- Part 2 of matched wits (Ella Ashmore/Tadius)
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and the sunlight held them by deepseadumpsterdiver
Fandoms: Cinderella's Castle - Team Starkid
15 Apr 2025
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Hop-A-Lot simply glanced out the window. “I received a rather hasty missive from your attendant last night, my lady. Rather than respond with a letter, which would have taken away precious moments from action, I decided to simply come here. My presence acts enough as my answer.”
And when Ella glanced out the window, she saw a rather familiar figure clad in his signature black with newer green accents, silently pushing remnants of marsh slime back into the river.
Ella and Tadius are both tired of work and meetings. Why not spend the day having a lovely picnic in the sun?
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- Part 3 of matched wits (Ella Ashmore/Tadius)
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and the moonlight intoxicated them by deepseadumpsterdiver for forgetmenotjimmy
Fandoms: Cinderella's Castle - Team Starkid
21 Apr 2025
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Ella had danced with her people, held reverently and celebrated simply for existing with the public as Tadius had dutifully watched from the side, giving rather glib remarks and teasing eyebrow raises as the ninth person had come up to whisk her off her feet. And yet, it was now he who did it, easily winding his arm around her waist to prevent his queen from toppling to the floor. “Careful, Ella. I will not be responsible for the queen’s royal skull being split upon her floors.”
“When will you take responsibility for me, I wonder?” Ella sighed dramatically, rolling her head onto his shoulder. “Whenever shall I be freed of the curse of free will?”
Tadius’s breath stopped as he began to speak, then sighed. “I am rather too drunk to think of a proper response to that.”
After the Bog's Hollow Annual Fete, Ella and Tadius drunkenly unwind in her majesty's bedchambers.
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- Part 4 of matched wits (Ella Ashmore/Tadius)
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and the rain promised them by deepseadumpsterdiver for Beary_Nice
Fandoms: Cinderella's Castle - Team Starkid
16 May 2025
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The Queen of the Old Kingdom raised her head. Her eyes were tired, sunken and bloodshot, her skin curiously colourless from exhaustion, as though the fire under her skin had been reduced to cinders. She was dressed in her simplest garb, a rather dull peasant dress with her hair wrapped up in her silken bonnet from the night before. She nodded at his entrance, her cheek twitching in a poor attempt at a smile. “Tadius. Apologies for commandeering your desk. You are dismissed for the day.”
Ella visits the Grizzwald household and needs to talk about it. It just takes a little time to do so.
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- Part 5 of matched wits (Ella Ashmore/Tadius)
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and the season cheered them by deepseadumpsterdiver
Fandoms: Cinderella's Castle - Team Starkid
29 Dec 2025
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Tadius stammered a few times in a way that made Ella’s heart soar with victory, before sighing with a rather sorry blush. “I apologise, Ella. I’m not intending to undermine you, it’s just… this is the first Goodfest without the usual script that the old king’s family attended to. For once, I am rather out of my depth, which is precisely where I’m not meant to be.”
Well, at least he could recognise it. Ella chuckled softly, taking her time to fuss with his own collar. A little caring, but also a little tasting of his own medicine.
It's the Nine Days of Goodfest and Winterwill, a very real winter celebration in Bog's Hollow. Ella and Tadius explore a new festivity, and get even closer along the way.
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- Part 6 of matched wits (Ella Ashmore/Tadius)