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Interlude by riversides
Fandoms: His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials (TV)
31 Dec 2022
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"She turns her face from him, blinking away the tears, and fixes her eyes briefly in the sky. It is only then that she realises it’s dark, the moonlight invading the room like a vicious opponent.
'We should have married,' she says quietly, her words drifting in the air before she looks at him again, 'And brought her up ourselves.'"
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A scene from season 3 episode 7, fixed.
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Image of a Black Hole by riversides
Fandoms: His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials (TV)
16 Nov 2022
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"She was a black hole, in all senses. A marvel many would like to study (...) but they were all bound to fail. Nothing could escape her gravity. All those who dared to come close enough to her were doomed to be eternally locked up under her influence, unable to return to whatever life they had before crossing paths with her."
Set in 'Authority's End.' Asriel's final thoughts on Marisa.
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Breath of Life by riversides
Fandoms: His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials (TV)
15 May 2022
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"He had always thought that if one of them were to die, it would be by the other’s hands; an unspoken pact between two enemies, a long lasting war waiting for its finale. They teased each other about it in the past, but they both knew it might as well become true. It was only a matter of who would pull the trigger first — and it was always her, in his head."
Set before Northern Lights, a time when Asriel believed Marisa was dead.
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Supralunar by riversides
Fandoms: His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials (TV)
08 Jan 2022
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"He moved back silently, refusing to answer. But he did not need to. They both knew the answer, a simple, one-worded explanation: gravity. There was no escape velocity that could be enough to free them from each other. The laws of physics had determined that they would always orbit each other, stuck in a recurrent trajectory, reaching the apoapsis and the periapsis countless times since their first encounter, but never managing to break away."
(Set in the chapter 'Midnight' in TAS, one of the countless possible Masriel's missing scenes)
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I'm Called Mother by riversides
Fandoms: His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials (TV)
07 Sep 2021
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"She felt as if her own body wasn't hers anymore; regardless of what the consequences would be to itself, its main focus now was to feed and grow another body. And there was nothing she could do to stop it. No willpower would hold it back. Her body betrayed her."
At the edge of the abyss, Marisa reflects on motherhood.
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Bittersweet by LavenderJam
Fandoms: His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials (TV)
12 Dec 2020
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She forced herself to set her shoulders back and jut her chin forward. “I want you to leave.”
He laughed cruelly. “I don’t care what you want.”
She closed her eyes and drew in a slow breath, then stalked towards the sink to rinse the sodden satin, pretending as if he wasn’t there. She felt as raw as an exposed nerve, and ignorance seemed the safest response to his petulance.
(Mere weeks after the trial, Marisa and Asriel bump into each other at the Royal Arctic Institute.)
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Perfect Storm by LavenderJam
Fandoms: His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials (TV), The Book of Dust - Philip Pullman
27 Dec 2020
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“She?” her mother said, and Marisa nodded. If she hadn’t known better, she might have thought that Maman’s eyes had softened. “You had a daughter.”
“Yes.” Marisa frowned. “You didn’t know?”
The lizard let out a hiss. “How could I have known? The papers only referred to her as your…” Maman shivered. “…love child, and you did not answer a single one of my letters, nor have you had the decency to come home to Geneva and explain yourself.”
(Madame Delamare confronts Marisa in the wake of the scandal.)
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Unholy Ghosts by LavenderJam
Fandoms: His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials (TV)
19 Feb 2021
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The two people appeared from behind the small building, scarves wrapped around their faces to ward off the cold, and Lyra beamed at them, keen to make a good impression on her new colleagues. She was about to take a step towards the pair when their dæmons appeared behind them, and Lyra’s mouth could do nothing but fall open, her heart starting to rattle in her chest as her gaze swept over a snow leopard and a golden monkey.
She blinked a few times, her breaths becoming harsh rasps, but each close of her eyes only served to bring them closer to her, until she could see each black spot that dotted the snow leopard’s silver coat. “No,” she breathed, and Pan was as frozen in shock as she was. “No, no, no. It can’t be – it can’t – ”
(Five years after the end of The Amber Spyglass, Lyra receives a mysterious summons to the North.)
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Raising Hell by LavenderJam
Fandoms: His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials (TV), The Book of Dust - Philip Pullman
08 Aug 2021
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She frowned. “Mother always tells me that I’m not ladylike at all.”
“And what do I always tell you?”
“That being ladylike is for vapid women who lack ambition,” she parroted.
“Exactly,” Father said. Lyra grinned, and Pantalaimon became a coral snake on her shoulder, his belly an electric blue and his head a fiery orange, like the tip of a match. “And while your mother may pretend well,” Father continued, the corner of his lip quirking up, “don’t forget that she’s no lady either.” He turned back to his book. “Now run along.”
(The world in which Marisa and Asriel choose each other in the wake of the murder, take Lyra, and run.)
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Frostbite by LavenderJam
Fandoms: His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials (TV)
01 Nov 2021
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“And does your uncle Lord Asriel have any plans for you?” said the other lady, who was a Scholar at the other women’s college.
“Yes,” said Lyra. “I expect so. Not school, though. He’s going to take me to the North next time he goes.”
“I remember him telling me,” said Mrs Coulter.
Lyra blinked. The two female Scholars sat up very slightly, though their dæmons, either well-behaved or torpid, did no more than flick their eyes at each other.
“I met him at the Royal Arctic Institute,” Mrs Coulter went on. “As a matter of fact, it’s partly because of that meeting that I’m here today.” – Northern Lights, Philip Pullman(The missing scene that led to this interaction in Northern Lights.)