Welcome to all things Tales of Feathers and Flora. Story information, reference material, fun extras―this is your hub for questions, answers, and random related nonsense.

What was supposed to be a simple fanfiction has taken on a life of its own, and I've had to create a reference document to keep all the details straight. This book will contain that information in what will hopefully be a reader-friendly format. For those who've enjoyed A Dove’s Taleand A Beast’s Tale, I offer you this to peruse. Enjoy my insanity!

Also… spoiler alert. I will attempt to label spoilers clearly, but read at your own risk.

Tales of Feathers and Flora

00: A World of Feathers and Flora

0: A Swan’s Tale

1: A Dove's Tale

2: A Beast's Tale

3: A Warped Tale

4: A Conqueror’s Tale

5: ​​​​​​​A Bouquet of Tales

These are fan-blind, standalone fanfictions, meaning no prior knowledge of the game or any of the other books is required to understand and enjoy the stories.

Content/Trigger Warnings

None of my stories contain profanity or explicit sexual content, but this book contains mature themes and content. I’ve compiled what I hope is a comprehensive list and am happy to answer questions about it. Heavy and potentially triggering content within this book includes depictions and/or mentions of:

- Abuse and Relationships:arranged marriage, child abuse, emotional abuse, infidelity, physical abuse, verbal abuse

- Alcohol and Drugs:alcohol consumption, drugging, prescription drug use

- Animal Death and Cruelty:animal death, butchering

- Blood, Injury, and Medical:blood & gore, chronic illness & pain, dead bodies, dismemberment, life-changing injury, loss of autonomy, medical treatment, physical illness & injuries, scars, terminal illness, weight loss

- Death and Loss:death, death of a loved one, grief & loss

- Hate, Discrimination, and Oppression:classism, homelessness, misogyny & sexism, poverty, refugee experiences, slavery, slut-shaming, workplace harassment, xenophobia

- Mental Health and Suicide:anxiety & panic attacks, attempted suicide & suicide, cutting & self-harm, depression, eating disorders, intrusive thoughts, nightmares, phobias, post-traumatic stress disorder, sleep disorders, suicidal ideation, trauma

- Pregnancy and Childbirth:breastfeeding, childbirth, involuntary pregnancy, miscarriage, pregnancy, teen pregnancy

- Sex and Sexual Violence(non-explicit):attempted rape & rape, ephebophilia & pedophilia, sexual assault, sexual harassment, sexual references, sexual predator, sex work, sex-worker shaming

- Violence and Crime:abduction, attempted murder & murder, blackmail, captivity & confinement, disappearance of a loved one, explosions, home invasion, hostage situation, incarceration & imprisonment, knives, murder, physical assault, poisoning, stalking, swords, torture, whipping

- War and Genocide:massacres, military deployment & service, military violence & war themes

Credits

Cover, banners, and section dividers created by me using Canva. All other images come from the game unless otherwise cited. Check out the original version of this book on Wattpad to see the rest of the graphics I've created, story covers created by others, and images from the game sprinkled throughout for reference.

And a little reminder…

❤️‍🔥Consent is HOT.❤️‍🔥

Cold, cruel, calculating. These are the words that best describe Chevalier Michel, the second prince of Rhodolite. A genius and a master swordsman, he has well and truly earned the monikers the Brutal Beast and the Bloody Tiger, and he's worked his whole life toward the singular goal of claiming the throne. He has no time or patience for anyone or anything that stands in his way, and he certainly never gives any thought to something so foolish as emotions.

Few question him. All fear him.

Except for his new maid.

Tales of Feathers and Flora

00: A World of Feathers and Flora

0: A Swan’s Tale

1: A Dove’s Tale

2: A Beast’s Tale

3: A Warped Tale

4: A Conqueror’s Tale

5: A Bouquet of Tales

This is a fan-blind, standalone fanfiction, meaning no prior knowledge of the game or any of the above books is required to understand and enjoy this story.

A Beast’s Tale

Act 1: His Maid

Act 2: The Intermission

Act 3: His Princess

Act 4: His Queen

Content/Trigger Warnings

None of my stories contain profanity or explicit sexual content, but this book contains mature themes and content. I’ve compiled what I hope is a comprehensive list and am happy to answer questions about it. Heavy and potentially triggering content within this book includes depictions and/or mentions of:

Credits

Based on the otome game Ikémen Prince: Beauty and Her Beastby Cybird. Character images are screenshots of cards I’ve earned in the game. Graphics created by me using Canva Pro unless cited otherwise.

And a little reminder…

❤️‍🔥Consent is HOT.❤️‍🔥

​​​​​​​Iris is an orphan leading what she considers a normal life. As the oldest in Father John's care, she works hard to help bring in the money needed to feed and clothe the younger children, and she does it without complaint. Everybody in town knows and loves her. Someday, she'll get married and start her own family,  and she’s okay with that. She wants normal. Normal is safe and good.

But a war looming over her country threatens the safety and normalcy she desires.

Char and his brother Rath are dragons and certified troublemakers. They're a pain in their commanding officer's side and a favorite at parties, especially among the girls. But when Char’s familiarity with humans earns him a routine scouting mission, he finds more trouble than he could have ever anticipated in the form of a simple orphan girl.

Then magic invades that simple orphan girl’s life, and everything they all know is turned upside down.

Iris is suddenly the center of a war between dragons and humans, and the only person she can turn to for help is Char, a stranger she isn’t even sure she can trust. Char is too impulsive to stay out of the tangled web of magic tightening around Iris, even if that means lying to his brother and risking his life to keep her out of the hands of a psychotic mage.

Nowhere is safe. Nothing is normal. Nobody is trustworthy.

And the power to end the war and save them all may lie in the hands of a girl shackled with magic she doesn't understand and can't control.

A Song and a Storm

1: The Hidden Crystal

2: The Secret Door

Content/Trigger Warnings

None of my stories contain profanity or explicit sexual content, but this book contains mature themes and content. I’ve compiled what I hope is a comprehensive list and am happy to answer questions about it. Heavy and potentially triggering content within this book includes depictions and/or mentions of:

- Abuse and Relationships:abandonment, emotional abuse, magical abuse, orphan, physical abuse, psychological abuse, sexual abuse

- Alcohol and Drugs:alcohol consumption, drugging

- Animal Death and Cruelty:magical creature abuse, cruelty, death, experimentation, & testing, hunting

-Blood, Injury, and Medical:decapitation, human experimentation, mild blood & gore, physical injuries

-Death and Loss:death, death of a loved one, grief & loss depiction

-Hate, Discrimination, and Oppression:classism, homelessness, misogyny & sexism, poverty, prejudice, racism, workplace harassment, xenophobia

-Mental Health and Suicide:anxiety & panic attacks, confrontation of abuser, depression, dissociation & dissociative episodes, intrusive thoughts, nightmares, post-traumatic stress disorder, trauma

- Natural Disasters:blizzard, drought

- Pregnancy and Childbirth:involuntary pregnancy, teen pregnancy

-Sex and Sexual Violence (non-explicit):dubious consent scenarios, rape, sexual assault, harassment, & references, sex work

-Violence and Crime:asphyxia, strangulation, & suffocation, blackmail, building collapse, captivity & confinement, explosions, fire, imprisonment & incarceration, magical violence, murder, physical assault, stalking, sword violence, torture

-War and Genocide:massacres, military deployment, service, & violence, war themes

Credits

Graphics created by me using Canva Pro.

And a little reminder...

❤️‍🔥​​​​​​​Consent is HOT.❤️‍🔥

Lily is a snow witch with powerful magic and a quick temper. Not the best combination. But she keeps to herself, and the few people she lets get close know she has a good heart, and that’s enough for her. She doesn’t need any drama in her life.

Too bad she got me as an author.

Her next-door neighbor, Pipaluk, is a mad scientist. A good one. His wife, Emma, makes sure of that. She’s basically a saint, putting up with his random explosions while raising their two children and mothering Lily every chance she gets. But Santa’s elves are known for their quick wit and adaptability, after all, and she’s no different.

Then there’s Lily’s meddling family. They’re in the North Pole, and she’s not, and that’s how she likes it. Unfortunately, her cousin Crystal still calls to pester her, and her aunt Gemma still meddles in her life. They may or may not trigger Lily’s blizzard-inducing rage from time to time, resulting in out-of-season snowstorms, snowbound towns, and confused meteorologists worldwide.

Good thing Lily has a fairy godmother. Wendy is always around to clean up Lily’s messes without her goddaughter ever knowing. It’s a full-time job, especially since giving Lily what she needs instead of what she wants is even harder than erasing the snow witch’s existence from her human neighbors’ minds every time it snows.

NASA can’t figure out the strange weather phenomena. Boris needs an enchantress for his newest book. Santa needs Boris’ new book pronto before Mrs. Claus throws a fit.

Yeah, Lily definitely got the wrong author if she wants a drama-free life.

Elements of Chaos

1: Of Ice and Snow

2: Of Fire and Smoke

What to Expect

This book began as a writing experiment when I joined The Fabulous Spec-Fic Smack Downby @LayethTheSmackDown on Wattpad, which required me to write Speculative Fiction flash fiction, short stories, drabbles, and poetry based on prompts. That was a huge stretch for me, but I enjoyed it so much that I continued following the prompts after I was eliminated. And I’m keeping it going as long as I can by joining other prompt-based contests.

I decided from the beginning to use the same characters and world throughout the book, so while I write each chapter as a standalone short story, there is continuity between chapters, and an underlying storyline is emerging. My goal is to keep that going. It’s an odd balance I’m trying to strike here, especially since I typically write novels, not short stories.

Since this is a prompt-based book, it has quite a few quirks. The first is perspective. Lily, the protagonist in chapter one, is the entire book’s protagonist. However, she is not the central character in each chapter. I write her chapters in the first person and all other chapters in the third person.

The second quirk is chapter length. Many prompts provide word count restrictions; some do not. Currently, the shortest chapter is 100 words long, and the longest is 10,000 words long. I’ve split the longer chapters up into multiple parts of 1,500-2,500 words each.

The third quirk is genre. Speculative Fiction is typically a blend of Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror, often with alternate universes and timelines, but really, anything goes. The original contest was a Speculative Fiction contest, and I am a scaredy cat, so this is mostly a blend of Fantasy and Science Fiction thus far. I’m sure that will change, because I go where the prompts take me. But with Speculative Fiction, it’s fine if I take a jaunt into Chicklit land for a chapter or two, so it’s all good.

And that brings us to the fourth quirk: me. I don’t plan this. I can’t plan it. The prompts can change everything. I’ve learned to leave certain details vague on purpose, because that gives me wiggle room to pivot if the next prompt takes things in a different direction. When I get a new prompt, I read it, let it simmer in the back of my mind for a week or so, reread and revisit again when I feel like it, and I get some basic idea of how I at least want to start the next chapter and maybe what I want to happen.

Then I sit down to write. And anything can happen.

I write most of these chapters in one sitting, and I often surprise myself. This has become my writing sandbox. It’s where I go to play and let loose every wild idea that comes into my mind, and I love it. I hope you enjoy it, too.

Prompt Info

At the bottom of each chapter, I list the date of creation, word count, prompt information, and a link to the original prompt, if I have it. I sometimes come back to tweak things here or there, and I have a list of editing/feedback suggestions from others that I intend to work through eventually. When that happens, I may leave a note about it, but I’m not changing the date and word count. That’s the original stamp, and I want to keep it there for my records.

Word count varies with the application used. All the word counts here come from Google Docs.

Content/Trigger Warnings

None of my stories contain profanity or explicit sexual content, but this series contains some heavy and potentially triggering themes and content. I’ve compiled what I hope is a comprehensive list and am happy to answer questions about it. Included within this book are depictions and/or mentions of:

Credits

@AprilJester on Wattpad, for talking me into joining the original contest. @BookLover3062 on Wattpad, for stealing my title and making me come up with a new one. All graphics except prompt images created by me using Canva Pro unless cited otherwise.

And a little reminder…

​​​​​​​Consent is HOT.

​​​​​​​All Ivetta wants is a steady paycheck and consistent hours. Her mother’s health is failing fast, and she has to earn enough money to keep paying the mounting doctor's bills. Getting a job as a palace maid seems like the answer she needs, even if she has a long commute.

Prince Chevalier, the Second Prince of Rhodolite, has a reputation for being a cruel, heartless monster. If it weren’t for her circumstances, Ivetta would have quit after the first day.

She never expects him to come to her rescue when disaster strikes.

Suddenly, he’s the only person with whom she truly feels safe, allowing the roots of an unlikely and impossible romance to take hold. Threats force them closer together, and the mysteries of the past come to bear. A glimmer of hope for a brighter future blossoms in the darkness.

Maybe, on the other side of pain and heartbreak, is the fairytale ending Ivetta never dreamed was possible.

Tales of Feathers and Flora

00: A World of Feathers and Flora

0: A Swan’s Tale

1: A Dove’s Tale

2: A Beast's Tale

3: A Warped Tale

4: A Conqueror’s Tale

5: A Bouquet of Tales

This is a fan-blind, standalone fanfiction, meaning no prior knowledge of the game or any of the above books is required to understand and enjoy this story.

Estimated Reading Times

Act 1: The Maid(14 hours, 44 minutes)

Act 2: The Intermission(4 hours, 53 minutes)

Act 3: The Princess(11 hours, 57 minutes)

Act 4: The Queen(7 hours, 29 minutes)

Content/Trigger Warnings

None of my stories contain profanity or explicit sexual content, but this book contains mature themes and content. I’ve compiled what I hope is a comprehensive list and am happy to answer questions about it. Heavy and potentially triggering content within this book includes depictions and/or mentions of:

- Abuse and Relationships:arranged marriage, child abuse, emotional abuse, infidelity, physical abuse, verbal abuse

- Alcohol and Drugs:alcohol consumption, drugging, prescription drug use

- Animal Death and Cruelty:animal death, butchering

- Blood, Injury, and Medical:blood & gore, chronic illness & pain, dead bodies, dismemberment, life-changing injury, loss of autonomy, medical treatment, physical illness & injuries, scars, terminal illness, weight loss

- Death and Loss:death, death of a loved one, grief & loss

- Hate, Discrimination, and Oppression:classism, homelessness, misogyny & sexism, poverty, refugee experiences, slavery, slut-shaming, workplace harassment, xenophobia

- Mental Health and Suicide:anxiety & panic attacks, attempted suicide & suicide, cutting & self-harm, depression, eating disorders, intrusive thoughts, nightmares, phobias, post-traumatic stress disorder, sleep disorders, suicidal ideation, trauma

- Pregnancy and Childbirth:breastfeeding, childbirth, involuntary pregnancy, miscarriage, pregnancy, teen pregnancy

- Sex and Sexual Violence(non-explicit):attempted rape & rape, ephebophilia & pedophilia, sexual assault, sexual harassment, sexual references, sexual predator, sex work, sex-worker shaming

- Violence and Crime:abduction, attempted murder & murder, blackmail, captivity & confinement, disappearance of a loved one, explosions, home invasion, hostage situation, incarceration & imprisonment, knives, murder, physical assault, poisoning, stalking, swords, torture, whipping

- War and Genocide:massacres, military deployment & service, military violence & war themes

Credits

Based on the otome game Ikémen Prince: Beauty and Her Beast. Character images are screenshots of what I’ve earned in the game. Graphics created by me using Canva Pro unless cited otherwise.

And a little reminder…

❤️‍🔥Consent is HOT.❤️‍🔥

Thoughts of a cat lover and aspiring author.