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• Leave A Light On For Me by Quicksilver_Rain

  Fandoms: Rolling With Difficulty (Web Series)  

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  26 Mar 2025

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  • Dani & VR-LA | Veerle (Rolling With Difficulty)
  • Dani & Roy (Rolling With Difficulty)
  • Roy & VR-LA | Veerle (Rolling With Difficulty)
  • Dani (Rolling With Difficulty)
  • VR-LA | Veerle (Rolling With Difficulty)
  • Roy (Rolling With Difficulty)
  • The slightest of TWs for:
  • Implied/Referenced Underage Drinking
  • but in a "taking a sippy of an elder sibling's drink" kind of way
  • Found Family
  • Meeting the Family
  • actually
  • this is less like "meeting the family"
  • and more like
  • “being only semi-politely kidnapped by your bezzie mate who drags you to their family reunion and then (metaphorically) fucks off elsewhere
  • leaving you to fend for yourself in the chaos of a sea of virtual strangers
  • who are doing a fabulous job of illustrating why your aforementioned bezzie mate is Like That (tm)”
  • and then you have a mild panic attack about it or whatever
  • the family are the aforementioned OCs
  • who shall henceforth be referred to collectively as "The Heapsters" in all following documentation
  • Roy is the only one amongst them who has anything even remotely resembling tact
  • unfortunately none of it has managed to rub off on any of the other Heapsters
  • mention of VR-LA's previous crew
  • and the resulting emotional distress that causes
  • The Heapsters aren't Malicious
  • They're just barely socialized
  • also: Roy has all the tact (see above)
  • and possibly the braincells now that I'm thinking about it
  • also x2 Dani may or may not have something approaching a soft side under the right circumstances
  • don't you dare suggest such a thing out loud if you wanna keep your eardrums in tact tho
  • Me: Hey Willow. Is this angst? Willow (zero hesitation): Yes
  • so you heard it here first:
  • Angst
  • and dare I say:
  • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
  • the comfort DOES in fact happen
  • it's just that we gotta sit with the angst/hurt and marinate in it for a little bit
  • Also x3: Here are a couple Actually Important tags
  • POV VR-LA | Veerle (Rolling With Difficulty)
  • Smoking
  • Drinking
  • Anxiety
  • Mild Overstimulation
  • Oto Mention (derogatory)
  • I'll probably add more if/when I think of them
  • Ao3 I am Begging You to Leave my Tags in the Correct Order

  Summary

  "—and I'm not gonna just leave you and the ship behind while I fuck off to Brass for The Holiday."
  The Holiday in question being some week-long City of Brass festival that Dani keeps referring to with Implied Capitals, but the significance of which is fully lost on Veerla; mostly because Dani absolutely refuses to elaborate, and even when she does her explanations provide approximately zero information or context for Veerla to work with whatsoever.

  "Right," Veerla agrees.

  Or:

  Veerla gets to meet Dani's family and it's fine until it isn't.

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  English

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