emotional devastation
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youre brave (even when youre not) by stjimmys
Fandoms: Graceland - Ambiguous Fandom, Graceland (TV)
17 Jun 2014
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Mike should be asleep by midnight, but something is usually keeping him up.
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- Part 5 of gen. graceland
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I May Be Burning But Cannot Scream by Copperonthetongue
Fandoms: Game of Thrones (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
18 May 2019
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As she watches Missandei’s body fall from the city wall Dany feels something crack inside her soul.
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Lan Zhan sleeps next to Wei Ying’s gravestone. Not Wei Ying. Because there is no body. Because Wei Ying isn’t there.
Because Wei Ying will never be there again.
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Wild Child, Hold Me Close by RainbowCatsPlease
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
10 Dec 2024
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The Calamity looms on the horizon. Zelda - future Queen of Hyrule and current Avatar of the Goddess Hylia - claims Hyrule's Hero as her own. Knight Link is Zelda's long before he dies for Hylia’s cause.
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- Part 1 of Triforce: Wisdom, Courage, Power
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Stranger Fiction - Episode 3 - This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Timelines by Ursula_Henderson
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
02 Mar 2025
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The past feels like a half-remembered song, its verses discordant yet familiar. Ursula Henderson’s arrival in 1986 Hawkins was violent, her mission clear: stop Vecna. But time travel proved messier than expected. She landed too late to save Chrissy and scrambled to adapt, gaining trust by sharing letters from the future. Dustin believed her immediately, while others, like Nancy and Eddie, remained hesitant. Through strategy, shared vulnerability, and music, she forged bonds that became the foundation of their survival.
As Vecna’s influence grew, Max became his primary target. Ursula fought to protect her, using music as a lifeline. But the real cracks weren’t in the timeline—they were in Ursula. Haunted by a future ruined by Vecna, she struggled to stay present. Her connection with Eddie deepened, an intoxicating mix of camaraderie and longing.
The Party is battered but determined. Survival isn’t enough anymore. They have to win. And Vecna? He’s watching. Waiting. Tightening his grip on the timeline.
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- Part 3 of Stranger Fiction
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The Ghost of You by fineliner_pen (Galactic_Mermaid07)
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
08 Mar 2025
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Midoriya Izuku is dead.
His body was never found. His name is etched into history as Japan’s Greatest Hero, but all Bakugo Katsuki knows is that he’s gone.
Except—he isn’t.
Because Bakugo can still feel him. In the embers of One for All. In dreams that feel too real. In the way Todoroki insists something is still watching them.
And when Bakugo dreams of Izuku whispering his name, tracing ghostly touches over his skin, it doesn’t feel like a dream at all.
But moving on is hard. Grief is harder. And loving someone who no longer exists? That’s the hardest of all.
Because Izuku is still here. Somewhere.
And none of them are ready to let him go. -
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Sirius Black wakes up at the Potters’ house expecting a normal morning—coffee, mild chaos, maybe an argument about toast. Instead, he’s met with wary glances and a newspaper headline that changes everything.Regulus, the brother he abandoned, the brother who abandoned him, is at St Mungo’s. His parents are in prison. The past Sirius has tried so hard to bury comes crashing down, and now he has a choice: keep pretending he doesn’t care… or face the truth before it’s too late.
No pressure, right?
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- Part 3 of Ashes and Shadows
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They used to be everything.
Now they’re polite. Distant. Still tethered by what they lost—and what they never said.
Told in fragments, this is a story about grief, memory, and the ache of almost.
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Never Goodbye, My Love by colonelapples127
Fandoms: 恋与深空 | Love and Deepspace (Video Game)
17 Apr 2025
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He was supposed to walk her down the aisle. But life had other plans. And she never said Goodbye, until she had to.
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After the Long Night, Daenerys holds Jorah's broken body in her arms and realises too late that he was the one thing she never said out loud: home. As the world celebrates survival, she begins to unravel in silence, haunted by a ghost only she can see, a throne built on ashes, and love never spoken. This is not a redemption story—it is a requiem for a queen undone by grief, fury, and the man who followed her into death without ever asking her to look back.
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The war is almost over. One last life, and it might end for good.
So Harry Potter walks into the forest—alone, unarmed, and unseen—except by everyone. A whispered goodbye to the world, broadcast through the heart of Hogwarts.
They say heroes are remembered, but no one talks about what it means to watch one die.
Not Ron, fists clenched around promises never fulfilled.
Not Hermione, choking on the brilliance of a mind extinguished too early.
Not Ginny, who knew him as a boy before the world carved him into a symbol.
And not Draco, who realizes—too late—that the line between hatred and something else had blurred long ago.
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ClownPierce is building alone when Vitalasy shows up with an offer: give up eleven hearts, or Subz keeps killing Branzy- over and over again.
Clown doesn’t hesitate. (Maybe he should have)
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- Part 5 of prettypinkevisceration’s Lifesteal Fics
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Soap is gone. Ghost is still breathing. And somehow, that feels like the cruelest joke of all.
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Mystery Work
Part of forDiyemOnly
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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There is an orchid in the greenhouse that remembers her.
Not just her touch—but her words, her promises, her breath caught in late summer air.
It remembers everything.
Even the things she tried to forget.
When she comes back, grief-torn and trembling, the orchid opens for her again.
And this time, it will not let her go.Series
- Part 7 of The Blooming Archive
- Language:
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- Chapters:
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All My Music Bleeds for You by diangelosword
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types, The Heroes of Olympus - Rick Riordan, The Sun and The Star - Rick Riordan & Mark Oshiro
04 Aug 2025
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Jason Grace is the heart of the world’s most beloved rock band, but every song he writes is a love letter to someone who vanished without goodbye. For twelve years, he’s bled grief into music, chasing a ghost only he remembers—until a single video shatters everything he thought he knew. Now, faced with the boy he’s never stopped loving—alive, radiant, and in love with someone else—Jason must decide whether to finally let go… or keep writing songs that might never be heard.
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Merry Christmas (please don’t call) by Art5y_lo8 for Remuslupinslittlewhoreslut
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
24 Aug 2025
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This is a story about grief — the quiet, lingering kind that follows you through everyday moments and holiday lights. It’s about what’s left behind when love isn’t enough to keep someone here, and the pieces you carry in their absence. If you’ve ever loved someone who hurt quietly, this is for you.
Take care of yourselves while reading.
— L⚠️This fic references:
• suicide (past, referenced)
• suicidal ideation (narrative voice)
• mental health struggles
• depression
• grief and loss
• panic attacks
• references to therapy/medication
• survivor’s guilt
• emotionally heavy content
• holiday-related griefThis fic does not depict suicide on-page but deals heavily with its emotional aftermath. Please read with caution if any of these themes are distressing.
Edit: if yall have any particular fic fantasies you wanna see pls comment I need ideas 🙏
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Sephiroth cradles the lifeless Bianca in the snow as her blood stains the ground. It's a desperate, heartbreaking moment that even magic cannot undo.
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- Part 2 of Fragments of the Lifestream
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- English
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- 154
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- 1/1
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- 1
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When Lotara Bites Back by Grimrotica
Fandoms: Warhammer 40.000, Warhammer 40k (Novels) - Various Authors, Horus Heresy - Various Authors
02 Sep 2025
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The Conqueror groans. The throne pulses. The Butcher’s Nails scream. Lotara Sarrin returns to her command, and to the monster the Twelfth left behind. Khârn is not what he was. Neither is she. This is blood and madness, lust and loyalty. A communion of flesh, violence, and the last gasp of something like love.
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From Fire – Part VI: Tearline by jandrichov
Fandoms: Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Video Games)
28 Sep 2025
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Henry is gone.
At Pirkstein, Hans keeps the estate moving — but every hour stretches against the weight of absence. Pavel arrives, Havel is cast out, Hanush confronted.
And alone in the quiet, Hans finds himself reaching for faith, for memory, for Henry’s scent still in the clothes he left behind.
A chapter of loss, resolve, and the fragile ways love holds on when one half is missing.Series
- Part 6 of From Fire
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- English
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- 5,019
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 9
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you taught me the courage of stars before you left by popsunner
Fandoms: Young Justice (Comics)
12 Nov 2020
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“He loved you, you know,” She says wistfully, meeting his eyes.
Tim looks away. “I loved him too.”
“Love.”
“What?”
“Love,” she repeats. “Not loved. He might be gone, but we don’t love him any less."
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- Part 1 of Love, Not Loved
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sister (say cheese) by words-writ-in-starlight (WordsWritInStarlight)
Fandoms: Animorphs - Katherine A. Applegate
23 Nov 2019
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I have this dream where my sister is taking my picture and I keep saying ‘don’t get on the plane’ and she says ‘say cheese.’
Rachel is dead and Jordan is famous, and nothing is okay.
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- Part 13 of a softer animorphs
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Tom survives Rachel's assassination attempt; the yeerk in his head does not. Now he's left dealing with the aftermath of his infestation in a world that is still reeling from the revelations of the yeerk-human war, although all he really cares about is looking out for what's left of his shattered family.
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- Part 1 of Eleutherophobia
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how light carries on endlessly, even after death by popsunner
Fandoms: Young Justice (Comics)
16 Nov 2020
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“He loved us, you know?” Cassie pauses, lifting her hands and then dropping them again, “I mean, we loved him, of course we did, but Bart...“
“Something about being all he had, right?”
“Yeah, something like that.”
In the distance, thunder rumbles.
It doesn’t rain.
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- Part 2 of Love, Not Loved
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with shortness of breath, you explained the infinite by popsunner
Fandoms: Young Justice (Comics)
23 Nov 2020
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“I don’t think I ever wanted to be a hero.”
“I never wanted to be a tragedy,” Cassie replies hoarsely.
“What happened?”
“Well, Tim Drake was already a tragedy, and Cassie Sandsmark was already a hero, and when love is added to the mix, we didn’t have much choice, did we?”
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- Part 3 of Love, Not Loved
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how rare and beautiful it is to even exist by popsunner
Fandoms: Young Justice (Comics), Batman - All Media Types
29 Nov 2020
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“Love.”
“What?”
“Don’t you still love him?” She asks them softly, looking up again. She lifts the arm that isn’t in Cissie’s hold and taps her chest, just above her heart. “Because I do. I love all of them so much it feels like I die every morning. When I wake up and I remember that I’m never going to see Bart smile or hear Kon laugh or listen to Tim go on and on about a case ever again. I keep dying, over and over again and every day I open my eyes and I think I love them even more.”
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- Part 4 of Love, Not Loved
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YOU : “You’re gonna die if you stay.”
Perception : His first reply was going to be, I know, I have eyes, but he swallows it back.
Encyclopedia : This would have been the opening of a well rehearsed bout of banter with your past self that he knows will find no purchase with you now. It’s an old inside joke you’ve forgotten along with everything else.
Jean Vicquemare : “Maybe, well, it sure would help if you hauled your ass back on your feet and walked out of the burning building, but if you’re too lazy for it then yes, I guess we both die.”
A shit eating grin.
Electrochemistry : The other half of your insanity.
Drama : Gallows humour, sire. It’s all you two have left.
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This one's for the superfans. I *highly* recommend you have experienced at least two full playthroughs of Disco Elysium before reading this fic; the more you know Martinaise, the more you'll see. Also, I swear this story has literary merit and isn't just weird grossout BS, but this *is* Disco Elysium we're talking about, the story *is* called "Puke", and that dove is deader than Scotty the skua. Pop on your Eight-Eyed Teratorn Tie and buckle up.
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After a fire Cunoesse has nowhere to go. Jean is the worst possible person to take her, except for everyone else.
OR: a love story, told extremely out of order.
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Four bodies on the ground, bleeding through the covers. A glare of orange. A plume of smoke.
HINDSIGHT — You're too late. You're always too fucking late.