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2025-10-11
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2025-10-18
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Family Bonds

Summary:

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Twelve years after Operation Strix concludes, a now eighteen year old Anya Forger picks up the pieces of her shattered life years ago and joins the SSS to track down the two people who abandoned her after their missions.

Twelve years after Operation Strix concludes, Twilight receives orders to infiltrate Garden and find and detain the infamous Thorn Princess.

Twelve years after Operation Strix concludes, Yor Briar receives orders to assassinate a certain master spy Twilight.

Now, throw in a forbidden love, worried father figures, the SSS, three best friends trying to kill each other, scandals, heists, lies, fake jobs, fake lovers, and BERLINT IN LOVE!, and you have everything that once made them a family (and might make them one again).

Chapter 1: Summary

Notes:

(See the end of the chapter for notes.)

Chapter Text

TWILIGHT:
ROLE: Spy
A spy and master of disguise serving the nation of Westalis
MISSION: Find and infiltrate Garden, and take their most skilled (and notoriously smart) assassin, the Thorn Princess, into custody.

YOR BRIAR:
ROLE: Assassin
A city hall clerk who also lives a secret life as a contract killer. Her code name is “Thorn Princess”.
MISSION: Locate the master spy Twilight and assassinate him.

ANYA BRIAR (Code Name: Ashe):
AGE: 19
ROLE: (Trainee) State Security Service Officer, Girlfriend
COVER: 13th Year Imperial Scholar at Eden Academy.
A telepath whose abilities were created in an experiment conducted by a certain organization. She can read minds.
MISSION: Detain the infamous spy Twilight (who she knows is Loid) and dangerous assassin the Thorn Princess (who she knows is Yor) both suspected of conspiring to overthrow the newly conjoined governments of Westalis and Ostania. Obtain a (fake) boyfriend along the way to shed any suspicion, even if it means dating your ex-boyfriend from High School.

BOND FORGER:
ROLE: Guard Dog
Anya’s guard dog. As a former military test subject, he can see the future.
MISSION: Accompany and safeguard Anya on her mission to locate Twilight and the Thorn Princess, offering useful preconceptions along the way.

YURI BRIAR (Code Name: Briar):
ROLE: State Security Service Sergeant
Yor’s younger brother, a secret police commander, Anya’s adoptive father
MISSION: Trying (and failing) to make sure Anya doesn’t do anything dumb after joining the State Security Service.

DAMIAN DESMOND (Code Name: Bel):
ROLE: (Trainee) Assassin, Boyfriend
COVER: 13th Year Imperial Scholar at Eden Academy.
Second son of Donovan Desmond. Training to replace the Thorn Princess after her retirement.
(Unofficial) MISSION: Track down and kill the SSS agent who is hot on his mentor's (the Thorn Princesses) trail, without letting the Thorn Princess know, of course (He doesn’t know it’s Anya). Obtain a (fake) girlfriend along the way to shed any suspicion, even if it means dating your ex-girlfriend from High School.

BECKY BLACKBELL (Code Name: Midnight):
ROLE: (Trainee) Spy
COVER: 13th Year Imperial Scholar at Eden Academy.
Anya’s friend
(Unofficial) MISSION: Track down and kill the SSS agent who is hot on her mentor’s (Twilight’s) trail, without letting Twilight know, of course (She doesn’t know it’s Anya). And get her, Anya, and Damian on BERLINT IN LOVE!

Notes:

This was just an intro, there’ll be seven chapters posted this/next week! (Intro Chapters)

Btw, if anyone’s interested, while I was planning this story, I consistently was listening to “Elizabeth Taylor” from TLOASG, so if you ever do listen to that song replace the “Elizabeth Taylor” with “Anya Forger” and think of it as her speaking and if you really think about the lyrics, you might have some idea as to at least the vibe of this story (but it’s def gonna be much sadder than the song)

By think about the lyrics I mean like “you’re only as hot as your last hit baby” could be taken in the sense of hit meaning Kill, at least for this story, or like just because it says “view of Portofino” doesn’t mean that some random place called Portofino is in the story now :) (this is just for fun if anyone is interested lmao)