rhythm of war Fanfic - A Choose Your Own Adventure style Shakadolin

[cosmere_play he/him, she/her. Go nuts]

The Call to Adventure! (see what I did there)

39,000 words, Teen/Mature/Explicit (see below for more details)

Shakadolin, romance, friendship, sexual situations, polyamory negotiations, choose your own adventure style, asexual Kaladin, aroace Kaladin, bisexual Kaladin, questioning Kaladin, demisexual Kaladin

Shallan and Adolin have been sort of kind of engaged for the last few years, and Kaladin has been an increasingly closer friend. But Shallan and Adolin have been talking about their relationship, and now Shallan has a proposal of her own for Kaladin…

This is a choose your own adventure for Kaladin! What kind of relationship does he want to have with them, and how will he make that happen? The story guides through three questions and has eight happy endings ranging from platonic friendship to explicit sex. It takes place in a Canada modern AU setting and it references characters, themes, and quotes from Stormlight, all the way through to RoW.

You will be amply warned for the rating of each chapter before you click! Teen chapters have discussions of sex and relationships in broad terms that one might find in a teen drama. Mature has discussions with more blatant sexual themes, complex emotions, and/or internalized acephobia/biphobia. Explicit has detailed descriptions of people having sex. There will be more details given at the top of chapters to help you out.

Teen-rated excerpt below:

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He caught her looking, and she glanced away as if she’d been caught.

“Alright, what’s going on?” he demanded.

“I’m going to win is what’s going on,” Shallan said. “J1.”

“Well, that’s my submarine,” Kaladin sighed, then looked up. “Shallan, do you have bad news? Can you just tell me?”

Shallan took another sip of her drink, then tapped her fingers on the table. “Okay. Well? Um, so here’s the thing. Adolin and I have been talking.”

A cold knife sliced through Kaladin’s guts. “storm, are you guys breaking up?” he asked, watching her eyes closely.

Shallan laughed nervously, then bit her lip. “No, no, nothing like that! We’re actually doing better than ever. So you know how Dalinar and Navani have been bugging us to get married? Well, we talked, and it turns out neither of us really wants that. In fact, we don’t want to have a monogamous relationship anymore. We don’t want our lives to follow this script that relationships have to look a certain way or go in a certain order, like being trapped on an escalator that can only go in one direction and you’re just carried along. People aren’t that simple. Sometimes we want to go sideways. Or fly.” She looked up at Kaladin and worried her lip between her teeth.

Huh. Well, he hadn’t been expecting that. He leaned back and raised an eyebrow, thinking through the implications.

Shallan blushed, then spoke really quickly. “I, uh…I wanted to know if you might want a different kind of relationship with me? You know, if you knew it was an option, because I’m not ‘taken’ anymore?” She looked at him expectantly. Hopefully.

Kaladin stared, holding his breath. He thought back to his past relationships. They’d definitely followed a script, and Kaladin had felt pressured at times. If he’d felt free to do things the way he really wanted? Things might have been different. Then again, he wasn’t exactly good at knowing what he wanted. He looked at Shallan, frowning in thought.

What do I want with Shallan? What do I really want? he asked himself.

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