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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)
02 Jul 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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Beyond the Path of Reason by halfwaydown
Fandoms: Trench - Twenty One Pilots (Album), Twenty One Pilots
30 Jun 2025
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The Bishops established a near-perfect system in Dema. Routine, monotony, and structure, it all works to numb the citizens, while Vialism breeds devotion and desire for Glory through means of self-destruction. It’s almost perfect, but a few still slip through the cracks.
One citizen sees Vialism as a means to an end. A way to escape the slot she’s been put in, to find some semblance of comfort in her short life. Another sees it as a burden — a duty placed on his shoulders by a higher power he barely understands. But one thing they agree on is that the Concrete City isn’t their home, but their prison. And someone on the outside is trying to light the way for escape.
(A novelization of the story of Trench)
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- Part 1 of Only Skeleton Bones Remain
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десята завіса by ripv4nwinkle
Fandoms: Twenty One Pilots, Trench - Twenty One Pilots (Album), Clancy - Twenty One Pilots (Album), Scaled And Icy - Twenty One Pilots (Album)
30 Jun 2025
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Entry 001: I don’t think this is salvation anymore. I think it’s a cage. And I think I’m going to run.
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"A few tears slip down his cheeks as he wraps his arms tighter around Torch, "What have you done? Oh, angel, what have you done?" "
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Clancy finds Torch
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"tyler had been living in dema for 14 years when his name was read from the list.
the circular cement city had never been a home for tyler. since he was a child, he had made two attempts to see what was beyond the walls. but every attempt ended the same way and he ended up back where he started."- Language:
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- 892
- Chapters:
- 1/33
- Kudos:
- 1
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The last thing Clancy expects after throwing himself off a Dema vessel is to actually survive it. Yet he finds himself alive and looked after by the confusingly familiar captain of the pirates known as the Banditos. Sometimes it takes almost dying to learn how to live again.
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a clancybearer pirate au
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In the middle of a war zone, where every heartbeat might be the last, Clancy finds unexpected solace in the one person who knows exactly how to press his buttons—Torchbearer. What starts as a teasing moment of voyeurism turns into something more raw and intimate: the two men explore the absurdity of finding comfort—and maybe love—amid chaos.
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- Part 4 of Joshler +18 Fics
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tyler is adjusting to life in trench, and reconnecting with his old best friend sparks something deeper than either of them expected.
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Preybirds (A Watcher's Song) by Lexical_Error
Fandoms: Twenty One Pilots, Twenty One Pilots - Twenty One Pilots (Album), Clancy - Twenty One Pilots (Album)
26 Jun 2025
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It's a routine, a system, a cycle.
Growing up in the walls of the city of Dema means your life is structured. Complete your chores, attend lessons, follow the schedules. Live in the light of the gloried gone before you and join them when it is your time. Obey the words of the Bishops and practice Vialism in every action you take.
"For the glory of the gone"
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All Tyler is good for is capturing escapees and returning them to dema.
At least, that is what he thinks, until he meets the Torchbearer.
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The Torchbearer had spent years protecting and guiding Clancy through every obstacle. Things had been looking up for them, with the information the Torchbearer was going to gather at the Annual Assembly of the Glorified he might finally be able to help Clancy. However that all changes when the sirens within the ship start going off alerting the boys to the wreckage that is to come.
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During the Saturday submarine crash, Josh loses his connection to Clancy. He is presumed dead until suddenly Josh can feel his friend's presence once more. However upon arriving at Voldsøy Clancy doesn't look the same.
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Who Feeds On Pain by Anonymous
Fandoms: Twenty One Pilots, Trench - Twenty One Pilots (Album), Clancy - Twenty One Pilots (Album)
20 Jun 2025
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“You want to help?”
He should say no. He came out here to get some fresh air, came here to escape the dangers of being captured. He is not about to lose it all helping some dipshit vigilante.
Torch says yes.-----------
After seeking shelter from the Bishops of Dema in its smaller, 'child city' called Trench, smuggler and escapee Torch thought life might wind down for a bit. Then he meets the city's local freakshow, Clancy, and it all goes flying out the window.
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You did a number on me, but honestly, baby, who's counting? by weekdaygladers
Fandoms: Twenty One Pilots, Clancy - Twenty One Pilots (Album), Trench - Twenty One Pilots (Album)
19 Jun 2025
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After escaping Dema last year, Clancy has never felt more free. He decided to confess his feelings for his best friend, Torchbearer. Clancy took a deep breath of it, and rushed all in.
Or, Clancy and Torchbearer confess to each other and "fun" hijinks ensue.
Based on Taylor's Swift song: So It Goes...
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- Part 8 of apple juice and peach
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this is a story about 2 teenagers that are in love, in the city of dema. they both may have lots in common, but not when it comes to what they think of their ‘precious’ city. what will they do when their different beliefs separate the two?
i was a bit inspired by a dystopian novel, called “unwind”. its pretty good. my first time actually trying to write a decent fic only because i want to see more jyler fics and nobody makes them so i gotta do it myself. i love ty + jenna
i know tyler doesnt really exist in the lore but lets ignore that haha!
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- English
- Words:
- 435
- Chapters:
- 1/?
- Hits:
- 9
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Put My Cares to Rest by Seaglassandstars
Fandoms: Twenty One Pilots, Trench - Twenty One Pilots (Album), Scaled And Icy - Twenty One Pilots (Album)
19 Jun 2025
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Tyler has been slipping between dimensions for a long time. In one dimension, he’s Tyler Joseph, one half of the award-winning band Twenty One Pilots. In the other, he’s Clancy, a citizen of Dema. He’s used to the double life, and he's accepted a boring existence in Dema and a lonely existence in the real world. That is, until he meets Torchbearer, a man with his best friend’s face and none of his memories, who changes everything he thought about what life on Trench could be. Meanwhile, Tyler has been growing distant from Josh as his secret becomes harder and harder to manage, and all Josh wants is for his friend to let him back in.
With a war for control of Dema on the horizon, Tyler must find his way back to his best friend if he wants to survive—in either dimension. -
I saw him, torch in hand but I’ll take the grave instead. by ash0rsomething
Fandoms: Twenty One Pilots
18 Jun 2025
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Basically the lore of twenty one pilots but in my own way
This is my very first fanfic so I'm still getting used to all of this.
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- 1/?
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Tyler’s feet sank into the mossy forest floor as he blinked against the gray light slipping through the canopy. His limbs ached with a weariness he couldn’t place, like he’d run a marathon through someone else’s dream. The red jumpsuit clung to him, stiff and unfamiliar, its shoulders marked with strips of dull tape that felt more like warnings than repairs. He didn’t remember putting it on. He didn’t remember much of anything.
Meanwhile, behind a curtain somewhere he couldn’t see, Clancy stood just beyond the throb of a pulsing crowd. The air backstage was heavy with sweat, static, and that electric hush right before a name is screamed into lights. His chest rose and fell too fast, fingers twitching against a borrowed microphone. He had no idea how he got here. He had no idea who he was expected to be. But they were chanting, calling for someone. For him?
What could go wrong?
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In the tranquil setting of Dema, a town where faith is the fabric of the community, Tyler and Josh are two young men navigating the complexities of their identities. Tyler, a dedicated member of the church choir, discovers he is an alpha, a rare role that brings with it a powerful responsibility to uphold the sacred bond between alphas and omegas. Josh, his childhood companion, embraces his identity as an omega, a status that holds both reverence and scrutiny within the town's religious framework.
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- Part 1 of Joshler +18 Fics
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i’m two (be gone) by pinkshatteredkneecaps
Fandoms: Twenty One Pilots, Trench - Twenty One Pilots (Album), Scaled And Icy - Twenty One Pilots (Album)
14 Jun 2025
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it has been three years, seven months, and thirteen days since tyler was taken; ripped away, in the cloak of night. and it has been two years, eleven months, and four days, since good day dema, first aired.