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By the time Asra realizes he wants to commit to his lover he's already lost the chance. So he'll make a new chance himself...
Even if that means burning down everything around him.
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You live a wonderful life with your plants, your cat, your bird, and your goofball of a man. It was a long, silly, and stressful road, but you wouldn't change your life for the world.
The Red Plague has something to say about that.
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- Part 4 of They Were Neighbors
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Mad Libs meets Y/N fic with a slight sprinkling of Choose Your Own Adventure...in libretto form!
Make your fan apprentice the co-lead in a musical adaptation of The Arcana's pre-canon storyline. Choose your name, your pronouns, who you flirt with (if anyone). There are songs where you choose which lyrics to use (or write your own!) There are even places for you to input personality establishing dialog. With 100 song numbers and 68 scenes, there's plenty of material to work with to create the unhinged libretto you never knew you needed.
Please see the Gooogle Drive for canon-specific abridged variations (that you can plug your answers into without having to set up the answer fields yourself!) and/or to make yourself a fully editable copy to remix and transform to your liking...or if you just want to read the whole thing before I finish posting it to AO3.
(A note on tags: Since you choose whether this is Gen or shippy I'm not sure if I should tag the potential ships or not. Any votes?)
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- Part 1 of Build-A-Musical Project
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 12,500
- Chapters:
- 16/70
- Hits:
- 29
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Apprentice and Julian answer the palace's call for plague researchers and find themselves complicit in egregious ethical violations.
Choose Apprentice's name, gender, and whether or not they're excited or appalled by their new job!
A Valdemar-centric add-on to my Arcana Build-A-Musical project.
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- Part 2 of Build-A-Musical Project
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 1,272
- Chapters:
- 3/11
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- 11
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It's vile, but he just can't help himself.
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Julian tells a bedtime story to Lucio's child, detailing the height of the plague.
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- Part 15 of Valdemar and Reise
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 1,259
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 1
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- 17
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Julian Devorak is the new doctor in Vesuvia, he just so happens to fall in love with the Magician's apprentice, Luna. Little do they know, something bigger is going to happen to them, for better or for worse.
This story wouldn't have been made possible without the help of our partner! Kudos to them for writing Luna's chapters!
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When the Star Returns (a ‘The Arcana’ Fanfiction) by Orchids_Ink_and_Quill
Fandoms: The Arcana (Visual Novel)
08 Aug 2025
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This story moves between two timelines: the past, where the apprentice is learning magic with Asra, and slowly grows close to Muriel while Asra keeps his feelings to himself and runs off on his long trips…
And the present, where Asra and Muriel struggle with grief and what’s been left unsaid after the apprentices death and resurrection.MC/The apprentice is gender neutral, and unnamed 🔆
The story will start when Asra returns to Vesuvia with a heavy heart, having learned that the apprentice died while he was away.
After the apprentice is resurrected, both Muriel and Asra are faced with a new challenge… the apprentice has no memory of either of them. Between awkward introductions, small moments of connection, and learning to trust again, the three of them have to figure out how to move forward holding onto the slim hope that the apprentice will learn to love both of them again.
A canon-compliant mix of angst, fluff, slow-burn romance, and a happy ending.
The chapters in the ‘before’ timeline will not be in any specific order and will just follow old happy fluffy memories. Whereas the chapters in the ‘after’ will likely be in more chronological order.
⋆ ִֶָ ๋𓂃🎐 ⋆
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Working with Valdemar means long nights, sharp scalpels, and things that should’ve stayed buried.
Some of them don’t agree.
- Language:
- English
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- 2,963
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 13
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Yet another au for The Arcana Visual Novel, but this time, MJ (my apprentice) decides to escape Vesuvia, therefore not contracting the red plague, several weeks before she would have contracted the disease. Saving her family from the Count, avoiding rare monsters and learning to fight them, as well as healing from past trauma, MJ and her loved ones are in for quite the adventure.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 12,811
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- 3/?
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break these clocks, forget about time by littlemissmegsy
Fandoms: The Arcana (Visual Novel)
11 Jun 2025
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Menaiah's life is changed forever when she stumbles into the magician Asra's stall during her first Masquerade. Whether it's for better or worse, she can't help but enjoy his company more than she's ever enjoyed anyone else's.
The story of how the apprentice met Asra and how their relationship progressed pre plague, how Asra acted after he lost her, and how he helped her back to herself after bringing her back to life. Menaiah is my own apprentice character and this is how I imagine it went. It may be canon-divergent at some points so apologies for that.
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It was rough when Asra went away. Of course, it wasn't like Cyrus could have really done anything about it, though. Choices are choices, made by people who believe in them. Just like how Cyrus chose to become the apprentice to a doctor in South End, in his attempts to do his part. What had quickly become known as the Red Plague was something horrible, and if one grain can tip the scale, maybe, he thought, one hand can procure the cure.
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- Part 3 of Arcana, Julian Ending
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 1,758
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 5
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- 41
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It's hard to get back to normal after saving the world. New mysteries keep Sybil up at night, and she decides it's time to find some more answers, whether the others think it's safe or not.
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- Part 2 of Arcana, Julian Ending
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A bunch of drabbles/ short fan-fics I wrote along with an art challenge to practice writing.
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see all drawings/entries in tumblr:
https://zs-art. /tagged/tarotober-2019/chronoand as mentioned in the Day 1 post: I drew, wrote, AND followed TWO prompt lists (quadruple challenge)
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The Memories He Lost | Tides of Memories (Julian post-route) - Part 28 by LunaStarhawk
Fandoms: The Arcana (Visual Novel)
15 Apr 2025
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Aboard their ship, their gate, where their magic is strongest, Altheia and Julian are finally able to perform the ritual that will break the Forget Me spell that Altheia cast before her death, and return Julian's memories of their past - even before her time as his apprentice.
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But there, glimmers of the memories, flashes of her, of a smile, of a word, I love you, a dizzying dance, burning passion, laughter and tears and torment, and all that they had endured and lived together, side by side, always.
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- Part 28 of Tides of Memories
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The Arcana are involved in another prophecy, and it's only the actions of an outsider that will save them.
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Asra stops every 50 paces or so to inspect shells embedded in the sand. The ones he likes, he holds in front of Faust’s snout for her inspection. The ones she likes, he tucks into a side pocket of his satchel. Most are fragments of the whole shell, their sibling pieces scattered into the endless sea, much like Asra’s unsavory memories of his time on Ash Beach. Most, he chooses to discard, forget.
He lags behind to run his fingertips along one of the old pine pillars supporting the boardwalk. There is an image carved into the wood here. It appears to be a long tube with a triangle at the end, but the carver’s intention was to depict a snake. Asra’s left hand remembers.
“Do you resent this place?” asks Julian, neutrally. He shifts his weight from foot to foot.
Asra trails his fingers down, catching them on a few blunt splinters of wood before he shoves his hands in his pockets. A silence hangs in the air, cut through only by the peaceful rolling of the waves.
“...I feel nothing at all.”
In which Julian’s heart gets broken, and Asra’s splits in two.
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When you still have Red Plague symptoms by brainrot (iliveforyouilongforyouvesuvia)
Fandoms: The Arcana (Visual Novel)
10 Jan 2025
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- Part 115 of The Arcana Headcanons
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"De profundis clamavi ad te - Out of the depths have I called to thee"
The Plague ravages Vesuvia, and two desperate scientists are pushed to the brink. When Dr Julian Devorak and his apprentice, the alchemist Dr Alexander MacRionnag, have a disagreement, Alexander deigns to take matter and magic into his own hands.
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The day Asra discovers what happened to his apprentice while he was running away from the plague, told from his perspective.