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The first thing Kenta felt was Pete’s breath on the back of his neck.
Slow. Steady.
As if the world weren’t in ruins.__
Kim bolted upright—chest ablaze, blood roaring in his ears. His footsteps echoed down the hall like a threat about to detonate.
He stopped at Kenta’s door.
Hand on the doorknob.
Heart like a clenched fist inside his chest.
He wanted to burst in. To shove Pete away. To demand back what had once been his. To say he was sorry. That he’d been scared. That he loved him. -
to be with you in paradise by Margarita5677
Fandoms: Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023), Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008)
27 Jul 2025
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He gazes at the apple tree.
In the Book of Genesis, God had made the Garden of Eden. A paradise for Adam and Eve. A Heaven that wasn’t quite just Heaven, but spiritually blissful all the same—but the fruit that they ate had been forbidden, and God had punished them to live painfully human lives.
Vash always thought the story was a little strange—why did God put the fruit there if they weren’t supposed to eat it in the first place?
“It was a test, dummy,” Nai said.
“But… a test on what? They didn’t know any better.”
“They had free will. It was a test to see if they’d listen, obviously,” his brother turned away to continue reading.
Vash had gone quiet for a moment.
“Was it such a bad thing, though?” he hadn’t meant to say it outloud—but it came out anyway.
“Huh?”
“The… The knowledge of good and bad?”
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Vash reflects on his relationships with Knives, Rem, and humanity, after everything is said and done.
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Against The Cold, Together by RewanDemontay
Fandoms: Guardians of Ga'Hoole - Kathryn Lasky, Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010)
27 Jul 2025
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In one violent and bloody night upon the war's twilight hour, Barran lost everything. Her mate, her friends, her reputation, her queenship–a lifetime of service and sacrifice rendered meaningless by a single reprehensible choice. However, she is not unique in her grim prospects: Nyra, her loathsome nemesis, squandered it all just as she did. They are locked away, to never again fly, with only their smoldering, mutual hatred left to their names. Together, they will learn what it means to live when one has nothing and no one to live for.
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Zack's Bad Day by goatzone
Fandoms: Compilation of Final Fantasy VII, Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII
27 Jul 2025
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In this story: Cloud's hair is suddenly a lot longer, and he dies ten minutes later.
(The best part is the world doesn't even end! Figure that!)
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The Gainsborough Guide to Counter-Terrorism by goatzone
Fandoms: Compilation of Final Fantasy VII, Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII, Before Crisis: Final Fantasy VII, Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy XIV
27 Jul 2025
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A lucky apocalypse, strange developments in neuroscience, and an elaborate series of pet names all take an almost-backseat in the face of the bombing — and subsequent invasion, then further bombing — of Shinra Tower. Zack No-Middle-Name Fair, Faux-Director of Public Safety (including SOLDIER), does shockingly little fighting. Instead, he gets into petty arguments with his co-workers and fiancé; he shrugs off being punched in the back of the head.
The even-shinier and relatively-more-conventional sequel to the already-shiny Zack's Bad Day. Very annoying to parse! If you're only interested in the XIV, you might want to skip this, 'cause it only shows up at the end after everything's over. Only, it might be fun anyway. Only one way to find out!
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To Grow A Flower (One Must Remember to Water It) by nyxslullaby
Fandoms: Naruto (Anime & Manga)
27 Jul 2025
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Haruno Sakura was not stupid.
She was incredibly intelligent, sometimes self-serving, and definitely not blind.
So why did it take her finally being around Uchiha Sasuke to realize that he's an egotistical bully who only cares about himself?This revelation unlocks a hunger in Sakura that she never expected, and she grows in ways she never expected.
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Collection of poems, updates when I need to write out my thoughts
And also a path I lay for self-improvement, to be more open, more vulnerable
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- Part 1 of Pieces of me, left open on display
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What Survives the War Between Mirrors by the_untamed_poet25
Fandoms: Death Note (Anime & Manga)
27 Jul 2025
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“You want to be good,” L says, voice low. “But only if it means being right.”
Light says nothing.
“You want to be loved,” L continues, “but only if it means being obeyed.”
Light grips the sink so tightly his knuckles go white.
“You want to be God,” L murmurs, stepping closer, “but only if no one knows you’re terrified of dying.”
Light turns.
His voice is cracked glass. “You don’t know me.”
L places a hand over Light’s chest. Right over his heart. Right over the evidence.
“I do,” he says.
Or, they both mistook hatred for something else entirely—and that was the problem.
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- Part 14 of Checkmate
- Part 8 of Lawlight Mind Games & Intellectual Foreplay
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synonym for _____ by telegonus for leejaheon
Fandoms: 괴담에 떨어져도 출근을 해야 하는구나 - 백덕수 | Even If I Fall Into a Ghost Story I Still Have to Go to Work - Baek Deoksoo
27 Jul 2025
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“Would he…like it? What do you think?” Choi shifts his balance from one foot to the other.
“I think he would, sunbae.” Jaekwan smiles. “I think it would make him happy.”
A step by step manual on how to build a home.
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indifference by i_loved_you
Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Spider-Man (Movies - Raimi), Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies)
27 Jul 2025
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There was a certain… Indifference that Peter Parker carried with him. Every moment of his life–every heartbreak, kiss, death, celebration–washed over Peter without garnering much of a reaction. There was an emptiness in his sad eyes. An indifference.
It wasn’t that Peter Parker didn’t or couldn’t love, or that he couldn’t feel. He could. He did! He felt everything. There was a barrier: a waterfall that lay between Peter Parker and Peter Parker’s feelings. Peter Parker sat behind the waterfall, let the stream of his emotions wash over the rocks in front of him. He saw them. He acknowledged them. He didn’t dare dive in. -
Where Art Thou, Shoko? by Mangooof
Fandoms: 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime)
27 Jul 2025
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[ NOTE: This is a reboot of my earlier fic under the same title. I've changed quite a bit—reworking the timeline, tone, and themes. So, I'm reposting it from the beginning. The revision is the same story, but isn't at the same time. ]
~ ~ ~Time-travel fix-it stories are supposed to stay in the web novels Shoko reads at 3 a.m. and not become her reality. Then she wakes up in her teenage body, staring at a face that hasn’t yet learned what loss looks like. As if the six years she spent in a world without Gojo (and seven without Geto), making peace with performing autopsies on the people she loved, didn’t exist.
But if this really is a second chance, then Shoko is going to save her idiotic best friends, spare everyone their confusing situationship, challenge the status quo, and try to hold herself together long enough to stay sane—more or less in that order.
Or at least try something...anything, really.
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- Part 2 of If Not Us, then Who?
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Voldemort,
Read this and make of it what you will. Maybe it'll change things. Maybe it'll be worth something, in the end.
How much is information about the Boy Who Lived worth nowadays anyway?
How about information about your soulmate?
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Veils and Vibratos by Ophelia_Rosefield
Fandoms: Original Work, Through the Sky-Blue Cracks (TTSBC)
27 Jul 2025
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{In which songs are sung, friends are met, trust is tested, and maybe, just maybe, a chance encounter can bring about something new.}
(Inspired by the series Through the Sky-Blue Cracks by Amethystfairy1 on Ao3)
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The village was established some while ago, and now, in the times of turmoil, Konoha’s safety depends on an alliance with Uzushio, the only aide they can have against Kyubi's rampage.
Hashirama decides to send his best to deliver the message in fear of interception that could put both nations' survival at stake. Tobirama and Madara have to take on the burden of bringing the news and establishing the path into a clearer future.
However, there is a hindrance on the way, and Tobirama can't smell it until it is far too late.In which way will it end for the village, and in which way for him specifically, one can only guess.
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By the Candle's Flickering Flame by avalost
Fandoms: Warhammer 40.000: Rogue Trader (Video Game)
27 Jul 2025
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Only a naive fool would believe that the Interrogator's unwelcome presence on Ekaterina Stubbs' voidship was due to a mutual interest in rooting out cult activity - or, even more laughably, an attempt to protect her, should the cult try to murder her like they murdered her predecessor. Far more likely that the Inquisition wanted to keep an eye on her, to see if she reached out to any of her old connections.
But if that was the case, why did Heinrix van Calox not make any formal accusations? Why did he willingly follow her into danger?
When he said her name, why did he say it with such strange softness?
(Tags will be updated with each new chapter, but the rating and archive warnings will not change.)
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His hands were cold.
Clive’s hands were never cold. He burned with the fire of the Phoenix, with Ifrit’s hell-flames, with passion and conviction and care. He was always warm - his eyes, his laugh, the richness of his voice.
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Jason Todd is dead, and the figure of Robin collects dust with each ticking of the clock. With Batman descending into a grief stricken state and Nightwing staying in Bludhäven, Gotham now deals with darkness in a shape it hadn’t before. Voyager, then, takes the mantle as Gotham’s warm protector during day and night — until met with the sudden appearance of a boy no older than thirteen and a strange offer from his deceased best friend’s father.
A world where Hunter Mei is not a selfish person, and agrees to become the new Robin after Jason’s death. Of course, this causes a butterfly effect.
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- Part 2 of ☆ DC OCs Adventures
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You are nothing.
You are everything.
You are worthless.
You are supreme.
You are contradictions. Dichotomies. Perfect folds of not-quite absurdities. You are war without reason. Sleep without waking.
You have survived.
(But are you truly alive?)
AKA: I wanted to try my hand at writing second person. This is the result. God help us all.
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Sight Beyond Optics by OtomeGirl4Ever
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers Generation One, Transformers (Bay Movies), The Transformers (IDW Generation One)
27 Jul 2025
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During a patrol through the wreckage of Cybertron's forgotten outskirts, the Autobots discover an ancient, blind mech living quietly among the ruins. Though he lacks optics, he sees more clearly than any of them—perceiving auras, the true essence of sparks and intentions. The war-weary mech is content to keep his insights to himself, until one fateful encounter changes everything.
When the Decepticons attack, the blind bot is protected by his new Autobot allies—but among the enemies, he sees a beacon that shouldn't exist:Starscream. The Seeker offers a silent smile and a gesture for secrecy—and the old mech is shaken.
Because Starscream’s aura does not match his name, nor his reputation.
And now, the one who sees all must decide what to do with a truth no one would believe.
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A collection of minifics originally written on the Three Sentence Ficathon. Mostly Kei & Sho or Kei/Sho, but with a range of others from time to time.