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even if it kills me (i think i loved you) by inked_stars
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
15 Dec 2024
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"He helped craft the Rite of Ascension."
"What became of him?"
"Peace."
"Peace here or peace beyond?"
"Wherever gods go when they are undone."
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a study of the woman who became the matron of ravens, the rite of ascension, and the twisted threads of fate.
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After deciding to sue the department, Buck finds out he has a daughter that he didn't know about. Getting her in his care, he needs to learn how to be the dad she deserves while fighting to get his job back, mending relationships, and navigating the realization that his best friend might mean more to him than what he's been thinking this whole time.
Basically it's girl dad Buck with slowburn Buddie
(Ps I mainly chose lawsuit era so that the kids could be closer in age 🤷🏻 if you don't like lawsuit era fics I swear that it's not super relevant past a certain point in the fic. It's very buddie heavy and cute and silly for the most part)
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11 Oct 2025
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“Has he always been like this?” Chimney’s voice is exasperated, strained as he’s forced to bend forward under the weight of Buck leaning on his back like a bicycle kickstand. It’s clear that he’s forcing Chim to support the bulk of his weight, grinning merrily. Bobby watches from the stove with a look of fatherly amusement as Hen sits at the bar with a mug of coffee, attempting to ignore them.
“Yes,” Eddie says instantaneously, shooting for annoyed but landing somewhere far closer to fond. He remembers the overly-confident way that Buck had carried himself, how he’d been stupid and headstrong, how Eddie had tried valiantly to hate him for weeks until he just couldn’t do it anymore. “Pretty much since the day I met him.”
“And you had a gun in your hand and somehow still didn’t kill him?”
“Every day was a struggle.”
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Eddie settles into his life with the 118 after finally reuniting with Buck and it's a hell of a lot easier having an old army buddy there with him.
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- Part 2 of We Were Amateurs at War
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08 Oct 2025
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Adriana doesn’t tell their parents that she’s going to LA. She doesn’t tell Eddie, either—or ask, for that matter.
She does ask Chris, and he thinks it’s a good idea—says as much, on the phone, and doesn’t say much else.
“Buck will probably be hovering,” is what Chris does volunteer.
It still surprises her when the man who opens the door is not Eddie. It’s—Captain America, is the thing that actually comes to mind—a man close to a foot taller than she is, if not more than that, with blond curls and broad shoulders, and he’s got a question in his very blue eyes that’s probably less friendly than the one he actually asks her.
“Uh,” he says. “Can I help you?”
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Or: Adriana arrives in LA. Maddie has been here the whole time.
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07 Oct 2025
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Hen stares at Buck for a long moment, then turns on her heel to walk upstairs. “Chim! Did you know that Peanut is a human child and not a small animal?”
“Buck’s Peanut?” Chim calls back, leaning over the railing. “No? Is she not a dog?”
“No!” Buck replies. “She’s a preschooler!”OR: At 22, Buck got one of his hookups pregnant and decided to keep the baby himself rather than let her be put up for adoption. At 26, he joined the 118. You know the rest, right?
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- Part 1 of we can never know (WWOT + splinter AUs)
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06 Oct 2025
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If Buck could build a time machine, there are three things in his life that he would change.
The first, and most glaringly obvious, is that he would have marched up to Chase Mackey and slapped the business card out of his hand. He then would scream at past-Buck and tell him what an idiotic move pursuing the lawsuit would be.
If that wasn't satisfying enough, he would go even further back to the truck bombing and position himself in such a way that when the truck went over it didn't just land on his leg. It would be kinder, he thinks, to have it all just be over. To save the 118 the extended guilt of his desperation to hang on to his imagined place in the family.
If he was the most honest with himself though, there was only one true answer for what he would do with his time machine. He would go back to before he was conceived and save the world the trouble of bringing Evan Buckley into it.
Unfortunately he hadn't figured out time travel just yet, and is instead stuck with the usual man-behind duties that comes with being the 118's biggest nuisance.
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after the lawsuit buck struggles with loneliness, and starts volunteering at an old people's home.
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- Part 1 of buck and his army of pensioners
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04 Oct 2025