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golden crown, bloody sword

Author: applepuffsiver

Time Period: Medieval

Rating: Explicit

Status: In Progress

Words: 18,955

Chapters: 3/12

Collection: Polin Week 2025

Summary: She made a little humming noise. “I am afraid, Sir Knight, that this is one danger you cannot wave your sword at. There is no escaping my marriage.”

“Oh. That. Marriage is no danger.”

She gave him a look of such sharpness that he felt himself wither. “You are a man. You do not have the first idea of the dangers marriage entails for women.” Her chin trembled though she held it aloft. “And you are a Knight Protector — you are not permitted to marry until after I am wed.”

He opened his mouth to retort — but closed it quickly. She was, he supposed, right. In fact he could not imagine someone less suited to offer counsel on the subject than himself.

“What is it that you fear?” he asked.

She took a deep breath. “Cruelty. Neglect. Loneliness. A life spent in solitude and uselessness, my mind slowly disintegrating through lack of exertion. There is so much world out here, Colin, and I shall only ever see one tiny patch of it. I fear dying after a life only half-lived. I have dreams and ambitions and they shall never, ever be realised. So while I am able, I mean to live.”

OR: the Adventures of Princess Penelope and Sir Colin, her Knight Protector!

In Every Universe

Author: Penny_Feathers_Bright

Time Period: Multiple Time Periods

Rating: Mature

Status: In Progress

Words: 3,838

Chapters: 1/9

Collection: Polin Week 2025

Summary: “Are we in love in every universe, Pen?”

Colin Bridgerton has always been a starry-eyed dreamer, and Penelope Bridgerton has always been the practical one. So when Colin asks her if they are in love in every universe, Penelope is skeptical. After all, having Colin's love feels like a miracle. How could any other Colin love any other Penelope, even if the multiverse is real?

When Penelope wakes up with another Colin in her bed, it's time for her to confront her insecurities, and to find out whether her Colin is right--if they really are in love in every universe.

OR

We've got another Modern Colin/Regency Colin body swap, y'all!

like when we were children

Author: applepuffsilver, missparker

Time Period: 1900's

Rating: Explicit

Status: In Progress

Words: 19,593

Chapters: 3/8

Collection: Polin Week 2025

Summary: “Mr Bridgerton? Colin?”

He almost did not recognise her. She looked very different — pretty red curls bobbed fashionably; cheeks and lips stained with a little rouge; a day dress in a lovely mauve colour that made her eyes seem bluer, somehow — but it was her scent that threw him off. Now that he thought about it, he could not quite recall what Penelope Featherington actually smelled like (he had not seen her in years, after all). She was so often at Bridgerton House that all he could summon was the same lilac smell that his mother and his siblings bore, but of course there must be other notes he was forgetting.

Still, he was fairly certain she had never smelled like this: vetiver and geranium, sharp and green and floral.

Not a bad smell by any means — just not Penelope’s. Even though he could not recall her scent, he knew certainly this was not it. She must be wearing perfume. It befuddled him so much that he realised he had been staring at her silently for a lot longer than was polite, especially for an old family friend he had not seen in ages.

OR: in 1920s paris, perfumer colin meets an old friend