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Josh Dun signs up to volunteer at the local animal shelter to fill the quiet parts of his life—he doesn't expect to meet Tyler Joseph, the guarded vet tech with a weird thing about leashes being coiled correctly, who glares at everyone like they owe him money.
Tyler didn't need anyone messing up his routine, especially not someone who names every dog after a snack food and talks to them like they're coworkers. But there Josh was, all soft smiles and chaotic kindness, a new hair color every week. He makes the shelter feel like something other than a place where things come to break.
Tyler keeps pushing him away, but Josh keeps showing up. And against his better judgement, Tyler slowly wishes he'd stay.
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Inside the Glass by Anonymous
Fandoms: Twenty One Pilots, Trench - Twenty One Pilots (Album), Scaled And Icy - Twenty One Pilots (Album)
26 Nov 2025
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He passes by the window, as he does every night, but a flash of colour makes him stop dead in his tracks. He whips his head to the side, looking out the glass.
A man, dressed in dark olive greens and yellow stripes, a yellow bandana pulled up over the lower half of his face, is standing on the ground outside and holding a flaming torch, looking directly up at him.-----------
Tyler is just trying to live his life as an exceptional citizen of Dema, but the Torchbearer won't leave him alone.
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The first thing to vanish was the noise. No more chatter from the radios, no more hum of latenight stations filling the emptiness of sleepless hours. Towers went dark one by one, until all that was left was the hollow hiss of static. In the silence that followed, monsters came. Towns crumbled, highways turned into graveyards of rust. Survivors learned to whisper instead of shout, to hide instead of search. Yet sometimes, when the night was quiet enough and the wind turned just right there was still a voice. A voice that told people where not to go, what roads still held danger, which shadows were alive. No one knew the man behind it. Only that when the world itself had gone silent, someone out there was still speaking. And for those who were lost, that was enough.
Meeting Torchbearer is the first time in months Clancy leaves his bunker willingly. Something about a strange broadcast telling him to follow the yellow cuts through the static of his cynicism. He wonders if someone else out there is carrying a torch for more than just themselves. Clancy doesn't know if this will be his redemption, or just another dead-end signal. But as long as his voice carries, he'll keep speaking.
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Every time Josh looked at him with something akin to reverence, it made Tyler want to throw up. Josh had so much faith in him. Yet all Tyler could think about sometimes was Josh’s laugh, his smile, his lips, his toned stomach and the curve of his waist, the way he—
If Josh knew the way Tyler really felt, he’d be so disgusted by him.
day 25: loss of faith
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- Part 17 of starrswillfade's joshlerween
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“Come here,” Josh gets to his feet jerkily, a puppet strung along on strings as he moves closer. "Sit still."
Josh obeys. Of course he does. He has no other choice. The collar affixed around his neck makes sure of that.
The stranger stares down at him with kind brown eyes, a gentle hand reaching forwards, brushing against Josh's fur. He straightens up to face the shopkeeper with a nod.
"I'll take him."
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Tyler is lonely and impulsively decides to wander into a magical animal shop to buy a cute dog to keep him company. Josh, a shifter stuck in his dog form and cursed by a Sorcerer to obey every command given to him, isn't as fond of the idea.
Somewhere along the way, they both find exactly what they were looking for.
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There’s misfortune, there’s condemnation, there’s unforgivable, and there’s him. Tyler knows he was born with a sickness that sucks the good out of everything he dares to touch, and if he was any good, he would show some self restraint, not want and want and want in a way that is so greedy.
Or: Tyler is born God's least favourite, lives his life waiting for his inevitable undoing. Then, he meets Josh.
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tyler's 15, lives in a small neighborhood with a small family and nothing in between.
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Tras la pérdida de su mejor amigo, el tiempo parecía hueco y el futuro emborronado. Vivía en un cuerpo que yacía muerto, penando la desnudez de su propia alma
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After the loss of his best friend, time seemed hollow and the future blurred. He lived in a body that lay dead, grieving the nakedness of his own soul.
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Tyler is uncomfy and tired
Maybe cuz he’s on shark week since he missed his T shots, he hasn’t had a period in like a year and he hates it.Josh his loving boyfriend wants to help and care for him, he ends up finding out things about himself as well as taking a turn in the meaning of Care. |-/
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He was twenty-two, for God’s sake. He was playing the sport he loved as a career; he should be grateful. There were teams of people dedicated to Tyler’s success and helping him put his best foot forward both on and off the ice, but still, he found himself miserable.
Everything had worked out. So why wasn't he happy?
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Three years later, Tyler finds himself almost two thousand miles away from Josh. When an injury ruins everything he knows and flips his life upside down, he struggles to keep a sense of identity. It takes a group of unexpected individuals to help him rediscover his purpose.SEQUEL
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- Part 2 of Hockey Universe
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Shrink You Down To Nothing (Call It Center Mass) by forgtmymorality
Fandoms: Twenty One Pilots
18 Nov 2025
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"Do you feel like this right now?" Josh was serious, very serious. He gently grabbed my wrist, his fingers easily closing around it.
I froze, just for a second, before I laughed it off.
"No, of course not. I'm good, I'm fine."
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Tyler has known Josh for as long as he can remember, and everything between them has been like a fairytale come true. However during the summer of 2009 Tyler starts isolating himself, losing touch with the important things. When they go back to college after the summer, everything seems to be better with Tyler, at least as far as Josh is aware. Nothing is less true, as Tyler starts losing himself in constant math and a brain that keeps telling him lies. He slips further and further away, while trying desperately to hold on to the things and people he loves. How long can he fight the battle, before he loses once and for all?
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Tyler Joseph took the solitary job of lighthouse keeper to escape the noise of the world and the static inside his own head. His silent sanctuary is shattered when a violent storm shipwrecks a handsome sailor on his beach. Forced to care for the injured, vibrant stranger, Tyler finds the walls he built so carefully beginning to crumble, threatened not by the storm outside, but by the unexpected warmth of a connection he thought he never wanted.
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Tyler has always suffered with something wrong with his heart. No doctor seems to know or care enough to help.
The second his heart feels weird he panics. Josh is there to help. If Tyler doesn't push him away.He has a bad day, Josh comes home from work to find Tyler panicking.
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“You are the product of a billion unlikely things coming together, and I am so glad I get to exist in a universe with you. So many factors came to create this very moment. And whether or not it’s planned, whether or not there’s a meaning, we are here. Against all odds, we are here.”
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At the end of the world, Josh Dun, a recruited astrophysicist, meets Tyler Joseph, a troubled nobody with nothing but his daddy’s money. In a fight to survive, the two form an unlikely bond amid the chaos surrounding them in the hopes of a normal life.
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Thought I Would Dance With You by therunandchlo
Fandoms: Twenty One Pilots, Footloose (2011)
12 Nov 2025
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from Los Angeles, California, twenty-year-old drummer and college student Joshua Dun rolls into the sleepy midwestern town of Columbus, Ohio. Expecting loud tailgate parties and country music in every corner, he's happy for a change from the city life. What he doesn't expect, is silence–the kind that hums through every empty street, every unplayed guitar, every bar that shuts its doors before sundown.
Years ago, a tragic accident led the town’s council and beloved priest Father Chris Joseph to ban loud music, parties, and unthinkably–dancing altogether. For Columbus, it became law. For the young, it became a cage, and Josh is having none of it. Never one to play by the rules, Josh stirs things up fast. His drumming, tattoos, and big-city slang, accent and energy clash with Columbus’s hushed traditions, and he doesn't think the town had anything for him...
until he meets the town reverend’s troubled, haunted, and seemingly attractive oldest son, Tyler Joseph.
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Finally out of Dema, yet Tylers still struggling.
Josh wants to help him but Tyler hates being helped.
His tics get worse after a busy day, Josh is always there to fall back on.*Would you move closer if i grew quieter? Maybe this is you Maybe you dont fix and you like it like this*
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Eyes warm, steady, not pushy, just... present. Tyler hadn't realized how rare that was, to be looked at like nothing about you was wrong. He swallowed thickly. Tyler hated that part of him wanted to go back. Wanted to see the man again. Wanted.. something. He didn't know what.
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Tyler, a college basketball player, visits Australia for the first time and meets a certain lifeguard who decides to live rent free in his mind.
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“Are you staring at me while I sleep?”
He snapped out of it when he heard that voice.
His face flushed as he met Tyler’s half-awake eyes, and realized he was still touching his wrist.
He let go slowly, smiling awkwardly.“Just thinking.”
Tyler looked down at his own wrist, confused, still feeling the soft touch lingering there.
“Thinking about what?”
Josh stayed quiet for a moment.
He knew how sensitive this was, how Tyler hated the idea of having made him go through that pain.
But there was no point in hiding.“I was thinking about how happy I am that you’re here with me.
How far we’ve come.
And how glad I am that you’re alive.”