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What could have happened if Regina had actually met Robin in the tavern during 3X03? Just like the the Enchanted Forest, the possibilities are endless.
CrossPosted from FF.net...(finally)
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- Part 1 of Outlaw Queen Tumblr Prompts
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Viktor is moving backwards through time, trying to go back to when everything was easy and Yuuri is moving forwards, trying to keep everyone happy, even if it means he's unhappy. They're going to get their happy ending, they just need to get to the right time and place.
Wherein Viktor and Yuuri meet in America, five years before they were meant to, right as Viktor begins his legend and right before Yuuri is anything.
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- Part 2 of All Roads
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And All Our Yesterdays by noonegoodquality for DragonHawthorn
Fandoms: The Flash (TV 2014)
13 Feb 2018
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Let’s say that in this universe Killer Frost isn’t evil. Let’s say that in this universe Caitlin isn’t scared of her own power.
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If Minato and Kushina hadn't died. . . then Naruto would probably have been a dick, let's be real.
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A seven-century-old Loki stumbles into the so-called land of monsters while practising seiðr. Unfortunately – or fortunately, maybe, probably – the child lands right on the lap of a certain monarch….
(A somewhat fluffy tale told through interconnected drabbles and dribbles, featuring single-gendered jötnar and lots of nuances plus clashes – mostly of the cultural and biological types.)
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A young, curious, intrepid scholar, Loki Odinson seeks to know more, more, and more, especially about the knowledge that is forbidden in Asgard. And there is no knowledge that is currently more forbidden than anything about Jötunheim and the red-eyed, blue-skinned, black-clawed giant monsters that inhabit it. So he asks round, including to the monsters themselves.
Well, he should have been introduced to the adage: “Be careful what you wish for. You might just get it.”
(Set a few days before Odin was supposed to declare Thor’s upcoming coronation.)
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- Part 5 of Caught Is Caught Is Cuddled
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Collection of prompts for Baavira AU Week 2019:
Day 1: Online
Day 2: Royalty
Day 3: Hollywood
Day 4: Coffee Shop
Day 5: Monster *Explicit*
Day 6: Mafia (Part of the The Sinners Walks These Streets series)
Day 7: What-If -
if there was a right way (honey, there is no right way) by noonegoodquality
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
30 Jan 2020
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Let's say Caleb was a bit more scared of magic.
Let's say Ioun noticed how much Beau loves learning.
Let's say Fjord's silver tongue is a little more magical.Au where the mighty nein are all different classes, but it doesn't change much, only their beginnings.
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- Part 1 of i'm almost me
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Thor is tired of hunting the same, easy game. Wanting a worthier challenge and believing that his power will suffice, he goes to Jötunheim to hunt frost giants. With him are his friends – the Warriors Three and Sif – and of course Loki his younger brother. When they arrive there, however….
Well, now, who are the hunters and who are the hunted? And when the game is caught, what then?
(Set about 300 years before the events of the first Thor film. All Marvel-verse, flavoured with my headcanon and a smattering of Norse lore.)
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- Part 19 of Caught Is Caught Is Cuddled
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In the middle of 1995, the life of one Harry James Potter officially ends. In the middle of 1996, the survival of the forgotten teenage Azkaban prisoner in cell number 13 is ultimately terminated. In the middle of 1997, the title of heir to the throne of an alien realm is officially taken by a tiny, semi-amnesiac child. – It all means change. It all means freedom. But for whom?
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Thor Seeks answers from Laufey. Well, Laufey seeks answers, too, although not necessarily from Thor.
(A very short, wildly AU “what if” snippet from Thor 1, based on Rey-verse headcanons.)
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- Part 22 of Caught Is Caught Is Cuddled
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Laufey notices something odd – or rather, someone odd – with the band of Asgardian young warriors that have just trespassed into their realm and have the temerity to demand things of them, and reacts accordingly.
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- Part 26 of Caught Is Caught Is Cuddled
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Adventure Gone Right by Virodeil
Fandoms: Thor (Movies), Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Norse Religion & Lore
26 Jan 2023
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If the twin were alive, they would be a kraði old now. If the twin were alive, they would be a pair of adventuresome, nosy, smart, lovely, lovable little horrors now. If the twin were alive, their parent would not have to seek solace elsewhere – well, perhaps not, but not because of grief of their absence and how it has come about.
But they are not here, and Laufey Bergelmir-childe seeks to forget this – forget themself – for a little while for the thousandth time, now. So they embark on a journey to escape it all for a while, and find a new mission – a new reason to live – instead.
Ýmirheim just has to cope with a few million cloned human children added to the royal household. Just that, really.
(Rey-verse. Major OCs. Alien POV. First fic regarding clones. You are forewarned….)
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& I said to the star “consume me” by noonegoodquality
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
15 Jul 2021
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The contact is breath taking. Touching it feels like touching a weak point in reality, like he could push through and shatter time and space. Except it isn’t weak, it’s stronger than anything else. A kaleidoscope of possibilities and impossibilities wash over him, visions or memories.
"What can you do?" Essek asks as he stares into the void.
"What can I do?" The void asks back.What if Essek wasn't a wizard? What if the Luxon saw Essek's thirst for knowledge and took a liking to him?
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- Part 2 of i'm almost me
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All it takes to change the future is one action, one decision.
The vanguard is sent to Mondstadt to kill a rampaging dragon. Originally his plans include undermining the capability of the KOF and stealing the Holy Lyre, but when he learns the Abyss Order is involved he instead offers his assistance. After all, the enemy of your enemy is your friend.
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Some time before Din ever receives the fateful bounty assignment on a child, he already meets an unusual child.
Very unusual.
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- Part 1 of Moments of Light and Dark
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Rebuilding Trust by LoveGems1
Fandoms: Power Rangers, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Power Rangers Dino Thunder, Power Rangers Zeo, Power Rangers Lost Galaxy
15 Jun 2022
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What if after Tommy helped create Mesogog, the Power Rangers excluded him and the Dino Thunder from the Power Rangers? Can the Power Rangers win Tommy's trust back? What will Jason, Trini, and Leo do to protect the Dino Thunder?
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Deponia shook as the highboat met the surface.
Goal couldn’t bare to watch it burn, burying her face into Rufus’ neck as she prayed for the survival of her Father (and Cletus as well).
And somewhere not that far away-
One little soldier prayed for the survival of another.
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- Part 1 of Forgus (Yes that's the ship name)
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While Eve and Klein go off looking for Rex, Troz and June go off to find the thief and find her in an all-too-familiar situation.
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Wildest Dreams by spaceOdementia
Fandoms: Final Fantasy VII Remake (Video Game 2020), Final Fantasy VII (Video Game 1997), Compilation of Final Fantasy VII
21 Aug 2022
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In all the worlds and all the lives they could have lived, Tifa knows with absolute certainty that there must be more lives together. One life can’t be enough. Tifa dreams about how she and Cloud could have loved one another. She dreams of wild things: medieval romance, pirating schemes, the end of a war, another kind of reunion, and as she wakes she can only wonder if any of it is real. Could she be dreaming of times past, or is it all just a fantastical imagining?
A What-If AU, including 4 different worlds in which Tifa and Cloud could have met, reconnected, missed opportunities, and loved one another, had circumstances been different.
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it's like one of us woke up by kaydeefalls
Fandoms: X-Men: First Class (2011) - Fandom, X-Men - All Media Types
26 Jul 2012
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"You came here for me," Charles said, meeting Shaw's gaze levelly. "So let's not waste any more time."
Canon!AU in which Charles and Erik do find Shaw in Russia.
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The Choice by BlaineyDevon
Fandoms: The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller, The Iliad - Homer, Greek and Roman Mythology
10 Nov 2015
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"I am selfish in so many ways, Patroclus. Let me be selfish in this. Let me take you home and love you until we are old and grey."
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“He has no match in battle,” Apollo said seriously, black eyes burning through Patroclus with their knowledge of deeper things than Patroclus could ever know. “So I shall give him a match.”
In an alternate telling, Patroclus is a farmboy drafted into the side of Troy and barely managing to survive from battle to battle, and Achilles is the best of the Greeks. After interference by the God Apollo, Patroclus becomes the Trojans' best hope and Achilles' greatest labor. Canon Divergent AU *COMPLETE*
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The diligence and bond between the students of Hope’s Peak Academy was far stronger than the mastermind could have ever imagined. The killing game should have gone exactly as planned…but time passed quicker than expected. With no murders occurring, the mastermind began to get desperate…especially since the game began over 5 years ago!
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No Fare by PrettyArbitrary for Luthe
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
02 Nov 2012
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John doesn't stop for Stamford. Instead, he takes Jefferson Hope's cab home.
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Killing Batman is all but impossible as he is now. Killing Batman before he becomes Batman, while slightly easier, still seems doomed to failure. You can't stop Batman by causing more tragedy.
. . . But maybe by stopping a tragedy, you can stop Batman from being conceived in the first place.
That's the theory anyway.
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Coulson's Eleven by copperbadge
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe
02 Nov 2013
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After Vanko destroyed the Stark Expo, SHIELD instituted a Superhuman Detention program, designed to capture and hold dangerous people -- dangerous people like Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, and others who made themselves noticeable. The superhumans SHIELD has imprisoned -- and some SHIELD agents themselves -- have other ideas about what constitutes 'dangerous'...
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Blind by truc
Fandoms: Justice League - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types, Superman - All Media Types, Injustice: Gods Among Us, DCU
13 Jan 2019
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As like the game and comics, Catwoman turns on Batman's rebellion in order to get his life spared by the Regime. Kal El promises her Batman would not die. Unlike the game and comics, (that timeline's) Batman get imprisoned by his former best friend before anyone from another world can get summoned.
This is the opportunity for the seed of humanity left in both Kal El and Batman to flourish... or wither.
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It's a Birth Defect, Honest by widdlewed
Fandoms: 名探偵コナン | Detective Conan | Case Closed, Magic Kaito
20 Mar 2019
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A certain thief on a hunt for a certain Gem stumbles across a child whose eyes glow red under the moonlight.
Suddenly Kaito is unsure if he's been in search of a jewel at all, and not a large detective who's been shrunk into a tiny one. After all, how can someone claim glowing red eyes is a 'birth defect'and expect everyone to just accept it?
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Minimum Height Requirement by Drag0nst0rm
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
06 Dec 2017
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Somewhere in the multiverse, there's a universe where letting his children dress up in capes and follow him into vigilantism seems like a good idea.
Bruce is determined that it isn't going to be this one . . . Despite his children's repeated attempts to convince him otherwise.
(Or: "When you're eighteen, you can do what you want. Until then, no capes.")
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- Part 1 of Childish Things
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He thinks he might be Hinata. He's Hinata, isn't he? But he has fourteen other sets of memories trapped in his mind.
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Fukuzawa finds Odasaku difficult to accept into the Agency.
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- Part 1 of Sweet Beans For Two
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Yosano wants to heal, but all she's ever known is hurt.
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Standing firm and unaided, John touches his sister's mobile in his pocket. He looks up at the windows of 221b Baker Street and thinks, Oh, what the hell.
He climbs into the cab.
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Charles and Erik are facing each other in the ruins of the White House. Charles makes a different choice. The story takes a different turn.
He won’t let anyone put their kind in danger again, destroy their future. No one. Not ever.
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Everything Else Is A Substitute For Your Love by Aria
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
26 Jun 2019
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"You can't have been a demon," Aziraphale said. "No one used to be a demon. Why would you say that?"
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Amnesia by Valerie_Vancollie
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars: Rebellion Era - All Media Types, Star Wars Episode V: Empire Strikes Back
06 Dec 2017
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On a mission gone wrong, Luke gets amnesia and Vader finds him.
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What if Aziraphale and Crowley didn't meet until right before the End of the World? The Guardian of the Eastern Gate and the Serpent have kept their distance for thousands of years, only to finally discover, right before the battle, that neither of them is what the other expected.
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When Jessica meets Kilgrave, his powers don’t work on her. She could have walked away. If only she’d walked away…
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- Part 1 of What Jessica Did
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A moment in time. A chance meeting. Fate turned upside down.