StarlessVenus



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    Death is not the worst thing that can happen to a man.

    To break him, you must first shatter his body—again and again and again. Then, you take his mind, his will, his name. You strip him down to something unrecognisable, reshape him into something he was never meant to be. Survival is its own kind of cruelty, and some wounds don’t heal. Some don’t even scar.

    Because war doesn’t just take—it remakes. It chews men up and spits them out as something else: hollowed out, stitched haphazardly, and left to stumble forward. No side is ever truly victorious, not when the battlefield becomes a graveyard, and the survivors are left carrying its ghosts. No matter who wins, the cost is always the same: death. the weight of what can never be undone.

    All wars end the same.

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    This is the story of Bucky Barnes, Steve Rogers, and the Howling Commandos. The war they fought. The men they lost. The scars they carried. The love that blossoms, even in the darkest of places, far behind enemy lines.

    Before the ice. Before the Winter Soldier.

    Before it all got worse .

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    26 Jun 2025

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    And something exhausted and brittle in Tim just snaps. “Full disclosure: I don’t care what you think.” A thrill of fear shoots down his spine as he spits those words, but he pushes it down and steps forward, glaring. His heartbeat thunders in his ears. “Look, I’m here to make a deal and I am willing to pay. I want - ”

    Between one blink and the next, a searingly hot palm presses against his chest. The demon is suddenly much, much closer. Her stare bores into him as she says, in perfect tandem with his own voice, “ - Jason Todd back from the dead."

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    Or, alternatively: Tim makes a deal.

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    03 Mar 2025

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    Four versions of Nightwing find themselves trapped in a dimension where they don't belong. For some reason, they think Jason is the only one who can help them get back home. Jason has enough trouble tolerating his OWN Dick Grayson, but now has to collaborate with versions of his brother from worlds very unlike his own. Unfortunately, the one common thread across multiverses happens to be Dick Grayson's uncanny natural talent to annoy his brother.

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    17 Aug 2024

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    All Dick wants is to run away. All Jason wants is to keep his big brother alive. What follows is a tale of bribery, popcorn, broken clocks, espionage, betrayal, and a midnight swim.

    (In which life isn’t fair, the past isn’t what it seems, and nothing - least of all the future - is set in stone.)

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    01 Jul 2024

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    As he stared at Jay, Tim couldn't help but picture a better life. Some better scenario where none of these tapes were ever uncovered. Maybe even a scenario where they never existed. Maybe under some other circumstances, he and Jay could've found each other after college...

    He couldn't be too wishful. If this was how it was gonna be, then so be it.

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    18 Jun 2024