Timeline: a Wings of Fire fanfiction (COMPLETED)

author's note

Before you start reading this, I just want to make a couple of things clear. First off, this story is an AU based off Legends: Darkstalker. An AU that turned into a whole series, and ended up becoming really close to my heart. Although it's based off characters in the book, and their personalities and basic stories remain the same, some lot has been changed.

That being said, I don't want to romanticize how toxic Darkstalker and Clearsight's relationship became in Legends. I find their relationship fascinating to write about, because it's so complicated, but that's in no way the same as thinking it doesn't have flaws. I fully support what Clearsight ended up having to do to Darkstalker in the canon story, and in no way mean to imply that their relationship was perfect, or that how Darkstalker treated Clearsight was okay. It's not, and if you're in a similar relationship to theirs at the end of Legends, I'd just like to say that what you're going through isn't okay, and you deserve so much better than how you're being treated, and deserve to get out of this. If you need to talk to anyone about what you're going through, I've linked Wattpad's international list of crisis lines below.

Maybe I wrote it just because in writing about Darkstalker and Clearsight (and, eventually, Eclipse, Way, Seer, Prince, and Shadowhunter, and more)... indirectly, it was a way of understanding my own life. My own family, friends, mental health issues, childhood--this story has honestly been inside me for so long that at this point, it feels like a part of me.

Maybe I wrote it because I was sad, and I needed an escape from everything that was happening around me.

Maybe I wrote it because I just wanted to write a story where the characters put themselves back together, even though it was hard. A story that's not perfect. A story where Clearsight has anxiety, and is still amazing despite it. A story where Darkstalker is quietly haunted by the trauma of his childhood. But also... a story where somehow he manages to work through it and become a better dragon than he is in the canon story.

Maybe I wrote it because Legends: Darkstalker, for the past couple years of my life, has been really important to me. It understood me, at a time when I didn't really feel understood or accepted by anybody. In a time when I didn't have friends to talk to, it was there for me.

Maybe I wrote it because I wanted to write a story where the world is just a little brighter, a little happier. A story that feels like hope to me.

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This story contains some heavy and potentially triggering topics. (A minor character dies by suicide, a major character is affected by grief, emotional abuse in Darkstalker's childhood.) Trigger warnings will be included where necessary. Please be safe while reading. 

Timeline is the first book of what is currently planned as a three-book fanfiction series. Book two and three, Waves of Ice and Someday, have yet to be released.