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"I'm sorry."
This wasn't how it was supposed to go. Any of it. For either of them.
He was dying.
He was going to die.
"And it's all my fault."
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Kaeya's past comes back to destroy his new life and in the process forces him and Diluc to work out their issues.
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The Hero of Ferelden (Warden) by Brackenfrond
Fandoms: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Origins
18 Feb 2021
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Taken from one hell into another, Cassia Amell had barely survived the Circle and now has to survive the trials of being a Grey Warden. Easier said than done, considering the Blight on their doorstep, and the fact that almost everyone believes they have committed regicide.
For her first trip outside the Circle...it's...pretty bad.
Add in the fact that her best friend poisoned an arl, the Circle falling apart, the werewolves harrassing the Dalish and the current fight over the crown in Orzammar, gathering an army isn't going to be easy. And that's not including dealing with her past, the fears she would rather forget...
This is going to be so much harder than she thought.Series
- Part 1 of An Issue of Titles
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AKA: That Time I Fell Into The Critically Acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV That Has a Free Trial, and Includes the Entirety of A Realm Reborn AND the Award-Winning Heavensward Expansion Up to Level 60 with no Restrictions on Playtime-
/micon "resurrection"
/ac "swiftcast" [me]
/ac "resurrection" [t]
/p [t] why are you dead? Stop it!Meet Yeul. Yeul plays video games in her spare time. She likes being an endgame raid healer. And that's fine. What's not fine is when said video game turns out to be real life.
Yeul is pretty sure that knowing the raid mechanics is not going to get her very far in Eorzea. There's no macros to real life.
Here's to hoping that Hydaelyn didn't choose the wrong Warrior of Darkness.
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Even after the Rite of Parting, the people of Liyue have found themselves unable to come to terms with the death of Rex Lapis. Zhongli has one final duty to perform - to say his goodbyes to those who had loved him so dearly. Torn between dedication to Liyue and the burden of thousands of years of existence, he needs someone to teach him how to become human. You, as a member of the Qixing and Liyue's foremost cultural expert, might be just the one for the job.
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You're a runaway Techeun potential moonlighting as a waitress, and you didn't survive a childhood of the Wilds and an adulthood of Reef bounty hunters just to let some exo schmooze you into using coupons that expired twelve years ago. Cayde, however, has other plans.
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A friends-to-lovers fic with a bit of saving the City thrown in, in loving memory of our boy Cayde-6.
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Albedo had started to enjoy life. He enjoyed working for the Knights of Favonius, Klee was always the highlight of his day, and he had fallen in love for the first time. But all good things had come to an end. Discovering that Mondstadt's soil was dying, Albedo embarks on a journey to find the cure, leaving everything behind.
Sixty years later, he returns, finding that many things have changed, but some stubbornly clung to the past.
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At the very beginning, there was no border between the Human and Demon Realms. They simply blended together at lay lines across Earth.
It's at one of these lay lines that our story begins. With the birth of Mundus and Atrineas.
Humans would call them twins and perhaps they were in a sense, created at the same time as they were. In truth, they are much more than that. True Polar Opposites.
And so that is where we shall begin.
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- Part 1 of The Bloodline
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Here I Go, Pretending To be You by ICanFlyHigher
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
06 Feb 2025
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Zelda looked at her wrist closely for the first time. There was a ring of bruises around it, from the… the hand.
Even now, she was tempted to chalk the hand up to a panic-induced hallucination—but, no, now that she was out of the tree roots, heartbeat achy in her chest from gloom but still steady and calm, the marks on her wrists were clear. The hand, the same thing that had been pinning the mummy down, had grabbed her, hauled her up, up, up as she and Link fell, away from Link, away from her home, leaving her grasping at air as he fell below her and disappeared into a flash of green and gold. His gory fingers had brushed hers, so close but so far, almost but not enough, and then he was gone, and there had been nothing but the hand.She was alone. Completely and utterly, alone, high in the sky, with no way down.
Or, Link is missing, taken from Zelda after disappearing below Hyrule while face to face with a strange mummy, and Zelda will do anything to get him back. She just has to stop Hyrule from imploding while she does it.
(This is a sequel to Spider Meet Fly/Fly Meet Spider!)
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- Part 2 of Tear of the Kingdom Swap AU
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He wasn't sure what had come over him, what finally caused him to say it. Sig didn't seem to, either; he seemed uncertain, expression pinched for a second before he hesitantly reached for the other man's throat. Schezo grabbed his wrist and stopped him partway through.
"Not with that one."
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Schezo remembers a sensation he felt a lifetime ago and brings it into his present.
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- Part 3 of Sig/Schezo FwB
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Alhaitham didn't believe in soulmates until he met Kaveh. Yet now, he must race against the clock to save them from a tragic fate.
Kaveh knew his life would end too soon, so he never made room for love. So why is it trying to pry its way in at the end of his life?
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Eight encounters something familiar on her way up the tower.
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“Lucifer,” Alastor said firmly. “Sometimes the only choices you have are bad ones. That doesn't mean you don’t still have to make one.”
Lucifer pursed his lips, scrunching up his face before he pulled himself up onto his knees. Alastor, ever the gentleman, offered him a hand to get back up. “Trying to do the right thing sucks.”
“I wouldn’t know,” sniffed Alastor.
In which Lucifer tries to deal with heaven, hell and hormones. No one said having kids was easy.
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- Part 11 of the very flowers of music
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“Depends on who asks me,” Alastor replied. “And whether they can be discreet with the results.”
“What if I asked?” At least Lucifer didn’t ask if he was discreet enough, that was laughable.
“I think,” Alastor put one hand over Lucifer’s coat, barely touching his stomach in case he was not in the mood to be touched there. “We have some excellent evidence right here of my continual indulgence of you.”
It's time for a heavenly field trip. No one is ready or happy about it.
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- Part 12 of the very flowers of music
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“You and Jo having a very tense chat – for the record, we have amazing pastries in hell, they’re so good, they’re sinful – that’s not a great sign when you’re supposed to be talking about soul redemption.”
“There’s no such thing!” What was her name again? Something like Sarge, Private, it actually did straight up sound like a move from the Adam playbook to call an exorcist Private.
“Of course not,” Lucifer said. Was that actual gasps? Okay, this was a little bit fun, it had been a while since he’d managed to get in front of an audience and get this much of a reaction. “It has to be a trick, right? Or a malfunction? Because if it is possible for a damned soul to ascend to heaven, then you’re going to have to come to terms with the fact you needlessly slaughtered a fuck ton of people who could have been saved and let me tell you from experience, that does not sit well.”
Family is four letter word.
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- Part 13 of the very flowers of music
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When Bianca follows a sketchy link promising a free magical Monster Rancher 2 CD that will teleport her to the world of the game, she doesn't believe it. She just has nothing left to lose in trying.
Imagine her surprise when it works.
Turns out, escaping reality to another reality still leaves you in a reality, and she's stuck sharing it with the Wracky who scared her away from her original file.
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“Have you ever held a little baby?” Alastor’s mom – Adie, don’t reduce people down to their role, Charlie, you hate it when people do it with you – regarded her with some obvious scepticism on the subject.
“I’ve been practicing with a doll!” Charlie explained, beginning to list off the things she’d tried to learn how to do over the last few months as what she hoped would be Designated Baby Sister Sitter. “I can do a pretty good swaddle, I can change diapers without any pin stabbing and sure the doll turned out to be cursed and my arms went to jelly for an afternoon but I learned a lot!”
A brief interlude of sisterly bonding.
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- Part 16 of the very flowers of music
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Contrast of Fate by LiveLaughLolth (CrucioAndCoffee)
Fandoms: Star Wars Legends: The Old Republic (Video Game), Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
05 Feb 2025
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What is a young jedi padawan to do when they come across an ancient lightsaber with an obnoxious ghost attached to it? In Sera's case, her curiosity and pity get the better of her as her new mental companion schemes in the background. Their parallels and paths' divergences blurring the lines between the two. Before long a crisis ensues, the galaxy falls to war, and once again one very tired Sith Lord tries to save it from itself with the help of Sera.
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Jinx Lanes and The Sands of Time by jannanightfury
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), League of Legends, Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types
20 Apr 2025
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As a baby, the goddess Nemesis cursed Jinx Lanes with bad luck. Now 18 years old, Jinx has learned to live with it. Her biggest concern now was whether to apply to New Rome University and what that would mean for her. For now, she was ready to enjoy her last summer at Camp Half Blood, but there may be some challenges that come her way.
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for the blue bird is with me by red_dragon_rising
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), League of Legends
26 Jun 2025
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Five years have passed since Jinx fled on an airship headed far away from the Twin Cities. Away from her sister, away from the boy who saved her life, away from the ghosts of her past. Five years on the run, from enemies old and new, all of which she believes she has finally shed for a new beginning, wandering through the quiet corners of Runeterra.
Until a golden-haired teenager drops into her lap, bleeding out and possessing forbidden magical powers.
Wait, isn’t that the runaway noble wanted for killing the King?
Once more, Jinx finds herself thrust into the middle of a brewing war. Forced to protect a girl with a country-sized knack for trouble—a girl who reminds her a little too much of her past self, Powder.
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A post-canon "bounty hunter and renegade princess" character study.
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- Part 4 of studies in the arcane
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Kylo Ren has been sent to Coruscant to further Supreme Leader Snoke's goals, but with time to kill as the rest of his unit is tied up in their mission, Hux gives the unhelpful suggestion to "Busy yourself with a club girl".
So with nothing else better to do but meditate his frustration away, he stomps toward the highest lauded mercantile club on that level. He went in expecting the worst that glittering Coruscant's seedy underbelly had to offer, and left the planet with an uncomfortable crush.