Fic Update Thread: 56th edition

[Mamorien]

Threads of Destiny (the other OEX meat) 419-Taming Winter 8.

The very first steps were cloying and slow. It felt like walking face first into a pool of mud. The darkness of the stairwell did not just cling, it dragged and it pulled and it suffocated, threatening to choke and flood her lungs. It was cold in a way that transcended anything physical, a want so dense it had congealed into something near solid.

But it was not directed at them. It was not a hunger for light and warmth, seeking to devour the spark of their lives. It was a yearning for something much further away than that, and so, although it was difficult, Ling Qi was able to put one foot in front of the other and advance. She could feel Hanyi doing the same, her shoulders hunched, and through her, she could get a sense of Bao Qian's qi.

His art was of gold. Gold was something near worthless to cultivators, save for its neutrality and inability to hold qi. Neither the cloying cold nor the sobbing underlying it could reach him, she thought. He was closed off to it, inviolate and numb under the mantle of his art. It was not a technique she would have expected from someone so gregarious.

But then, he was almost always smiling a professional’s smile rather than his own.

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/21188/...g-winter-8

Young Justice: Multiverse Chapter 12: Young Justice Part IV: Barry, Jay, and Max go to Alaska.

See the end of the chapter for notes.

I hope the words and actions match up in this chapter. Barry not telling Young Justice is not a plot convenience. I truly don't think Barry would have told them. Time and time again, Barry Allen has proven that he is not above keeping secrets if he believes that it's the best for everyone. Barry still sees the Team as children because they are Wally's friends, and Wally's technically still a kid in his mind (since he vanished four years ago). Jay is going to agree because he's got that big sense of duty thing going on. He knows about the Choas Lord just like Barry does, and the phantom zone and the speedforce are two different things. It's one thing for a Speedster to get mixed up with the speedforce, but the last thing they want is non-speedsters getting mixed up in it because there's a very good chance they won't make it. So they are keeping secrets with the best intentions, but we'll see how long it lasts.
In the comics speedsters get stuck in the SpeedForce a lot, so it's no big deal, but they don't understand that yet. They also don't know about the multiverse yet, so they have no way of knowing what the speedforce connects them with. That's why they know so little about what happened to Wally.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/478660.../156876487