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    The man hovering over him leaned back, releasing Grian completely. Cold night air rushed in to fill the void.

    “I guess it’s out in the open now,” the stranger hummed. “Shame. I wanted to avoid this.”

    With the additional glow occupying the space between them, Grian was finally able to catch features that were lost in the prior darkness. His curiosity outweighed all else, and he drank them in greedily. As soon as he saw who sat across from him, alarms blared in his mind.

    This man wasn’t a civilian, wasn’t even a hero.

    “Hello, Doctor,” the villain mused. “You were quite the help today.”

    - or -

    Grian is a vet. After a chance encounter in the dead of night, during which he accidentally saves a villain from the brink of death, he suddenly finds himself entangled in a world beyond anything he could've ever imagined.

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    01 Oct 2025

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    Two years before his tenth birthday, Ash comes up with the idea to make a forum where he can meet other kids who are or want to be Pokémon Trainers. With a little help from his Mom, they create Pokémon Forum: BattleNET! Bit by bit more kids around his age join the server and start forming friendships and sharing their ideas about being trainers. To various degrees of success.

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    08 Sep 2025

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    A chatfic exploring a universe where instead of going to meet Goh at Professor Cerise's lab, Ash instead is stuck managing Alola, getting advice off of the Champions, watching bonds being made, and learning how to become responsible, all in the media of messages. There's a lot happening, being Champion isn't easy, there's a lot to do - and a lot Ash wants to do.

    It's time to grow up, for Ash. Whether he will or not, that is the next question.

    ft; Dawn in Hisui, every character cameo you could ever dream of, social media chaos, fun, and the impact of travelling around multiple regions!

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    21 Aug 2025

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    Some things aren't so easily forgotten. There's always a chill down your back and a whisper in your ear, reminding you of what you've done and where you've been.

    (In which you pick up a passenger and take her to her destination. But your journey doesn't end there.)

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    10 Aug 2025

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    The Wild and the Apotheosis are two of the strongest vessels, they can break the construct. When the Shifting Mound is a bit late on retrieving her gift of a Tender Heart, the Nightmare grows to receive this strength, too.

    But all she knows is how to hurt…

    And so she does. She breaks the Long Quiet. Not mentally, or spiritually, or even just his will. She breaks him in a terrible, pragmatic way.

    Like the Sleeping Mound, they can hope to rebuild him from the Paranoid voice that survives. Together, the Paranoid and the Nightmare must bring Voices to the Long Quiet, and Vessels to the Shifting Mound.

    Hilarity ensues.

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    09 Aug 2025