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carry the bones of your home by Vail
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age: Origins
29 Jul 2018
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She was angry. She was furious, with herself, with her father, with everyone - they all insisted there was nothing to be done, accepted Adaia’s loss, told one another to move on. Mihra knew her mother’s fate was becoming the next warning tale for Alienage children.
'Don’t fight back, don’t go looking for trouble, or you’ll end up like Adaia Tabris.'
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[A prologue origin story for my city elf, placed pre-canon events.]
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- Part 1 of like dust, i'll rise
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what's a home (the first place you learn to run from) by Vail
Fandoms: Overwatch (Video Game)
18 Aug 2017
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“Two dragons!” the elders whisper among themselves in delight. It’s not unheard of, but it hasn’t been seen in generations.
“Surely,” one of them murmurs to another, “the dragons are recognizing the sole, true heir. They have offered their combined protection to Hanzo.”
Genji, who has spent all this time making himself small, trying to fit, feels cold in the deepest hollows of his bones, like a flood of ice down his back. When it comes down to it, his brother is his brother in name only. Genji is not a Shimada by blood, and blood, it seems, is all that will ever matter.
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Or, an Adopted!Genji AU. It changes less than you might think.
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let the stars guide you home by Vail
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Origins
15 Jun 2017
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Cullen has ‘I'm glad it was you’ on his forearm. It shows up a few months after his third birthday, in neat cursive, and it keeps him hopeful and strong through years of hard training.
Amell's words are ‘Hey mage, curfew is in five minutes, you better head back to the dorms.’ She knows she’s the younger of the pair since she was born with the words emblazoned on her back. The Chantry sister who helped her mother give birth read them and handed her over to the templars as an infant.
(AU where your soulmate's first words to you are written on your skin.)
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When she visits Diagon Alley, Hermione hates that the first thing the shop clerk in the apothecary tries to sell her is a potion to “tame her hair.” She likes her hair the way it is, curls and frizz, heavy around her shoulders. She thought the wizarding world would be different. (Black Hermione character study.)
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chaos is an infinite by Vail
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Inquisition
06 Oct 2015
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The problem - the only problem - is that Majalis Lavellan is not a mage.
It doesn't matter that she was born to lead - without magic, she cannot become Keeper.
(She doesn't let this stop her.)
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like dust, i'll rise by Vail
Fandom: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Origins
29 Jul 2018
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in the unsalvageable dregs, we agreed on one thing
at least: i was something
made of glass (you meaning
fragile and smudged with fingerprints
and i meaning shattered
and sharp and dangerous)
you’re a mess, honey -
you never know
you’ve broken something
until you’re
dripping red and lonely.
- elisabeth hewerThis is my self-indulgent series featuring Mihra Tabris, an elven rogue with a vengeful streak as long as the Imperial Highway and explicitly half-elven Alistair who has spent his life chasing the ghost of his Warden mother. Expect late-game asexual Tabris/Alistair as the main ship.
Series title from Maya Angelou's Still I Rise.
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I'm a Good Pretender by shipNslash
Fandom: Batman - All Media Types, The Batman (Movie 2022)
21 Sep 2023
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All I'm saying is being raised by a coach dad and a stage mom, watching them die, and then being taken in by a Very British butler and an autistic billionaire who dresses up like a bat to terrorize criminals would Do Things to a child's brain. Psychiatrists would pay to study Dick Grayson's psyche under a microscope.
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07 Jun 2025
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She’s under Neji's command, which apparently means she’s under the Hyuuga’s command. The Hyuuga’s role is on the frontlines, but Neji must be special for a kid from the branch family, because they mostly send him and Sakura out after the big battles are done, to pick off the wounded, and burn bodies.
Sakura kind of wishes she had someone to keep her from the big fights, too. Her job is with Neji, taking back kekkei genkai and retrieving important people’s bodies, but she has other assignments, too. She’s given a dull kunai and told to go through the battlefield, dodging blows and jutsus from friend and foe, slashing at whatever isn’t wearing a Konoha headband.
(the third shinobi war doesn't end, dragging on for years. konoha is running out of troops, and unimportant children in the academy with even a modicum of talent are snatched up to the warfront. sakura, unfortunately, is one of them. so is neji.)
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- Part 2 of sakura collection (aus and tidbits)
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29 Mar 2025
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there's no thing i'd keep from you by reveriedreaming
Fandoms: Call of Duty (Video Games)
04 Feb 2025
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You’ve been in love with your best friend for years, but you’ve been smart enough not to say anything about it. In a world where monsters the size of skyscrapers trample on every city within range, you know you’re too busy for something as trivial as love when you’re training to become the pilot of an equally massive man-made robot.
But when circumstances force you to step into the position as a Jaeger pilot far earlier than expected, you have to share a mind with Johnny, with everything from your memories to your emotions being shared through a mind link.
And that, you realise belatedly, means he’s going to find out. That you're in love with him.
Fuck.
FEBUWHUMP DAY 4: hivemind. pacific rim!au. no prior knowledge of pacifim rim needed!
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- Part 4 of foxtrot whiskey (febuwhump '25)
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05 Mar 2025
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Hector is sent back in time, in what he thinks is a straightforward quest to prevent his home village from being destroyed.
But the person responsible is someone he grew up alongside, and the second time around he has started noticing things about her that flew completely over his head initially. Maybe life in the village wasn't so idyllic for everyone. Maybe there's even more going on here than he realized.
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08 Dec 2024
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A word, a look, will be enough by feyburner
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics)
06 Jun 2024
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[Unknown] »
Hey. This is Jason.
I have a favor to ask. You can say no.« tim
uh
1. i’m aware of how favors work
2. what is it?« tim
?« tim
hey are you like. good- Language:
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21 Oct 2024