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• the mortar holding your walls by RareBirdAlert

  Fandoms: Final Fantasy VI  

  • Mature
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  • F/M
  • Work in Progress

  13 Jun 2026

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  • Celes Chere/Locke Cole
  • Celes Chere
  • Locke Cole
  • Slow Burn
  • like the start of a very slow burn
  • Enemies to Friends to Lovers
  • eventually anyway -- right now it's more like enemies to reluctant allies
  • unreliable narrator because her point of view has been so skewed
  • let's examine the effects of trauma shall we

  Summary

  She was accused of treason and set to be executed, until an agent of the resistance freed her and convinced her to go with him to aid his cause against her former masters. Not like she has much choice, right?

  Celes struggles with her new reality, and tries to keep her rescuer as distant as possible, even as she's forced to cooperate with him, and even worse, rely on him.

  Series

  • Part 1 of Sword and Shield

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  10,260

  Chapters:

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  Comments:

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