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Arthur’s heart flutters unevenly, arrhythmic. Vague sparking signals cannot make it past the broken connection of his severed spine. There is warmth in his core, still, but it is fading rapidly in the frigid air. The Dark World compels him to live, yes—but it does nothing more.
And like that, enveloped wholly in his blood and sinew once again, it occurs to him:
Maybe he can do something about this.
If he wants his friend back, he needs to do something about this.
He stretches his awareness outward once again, and begins to knit.
After dying at Kayne's hands, John and Arthur find themselves in the Dark World. Possessed of two separate bodies, though... perhaps not quite as separate, or as whole, as they were hoping.
Nothing's ever easy, is it?
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Now with a body of his own, John finds himself dwelling on certain thoughts that he once avoided. In particular: the nature of the act of consuming. The mortal need for sustenance. Some of the things they’ve had to do to survive… and his own, newly-made corporeal form, that has gone so perfectly untouched by them all.
In the end, he comes to one very simple conclusion. He wants visible proof of everything he's survived, and he wants to give something back to his friend. There's one easy way for him to have both.
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carpets in the basement of heaven by sink_eden (swiftishere)
Fandoms: Malevolent (Podcast)
24 Jan 2025
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All those years ago, freshly orphaned and adrift with nothing but a voice in his head for company, Arthur couldn't have imagined surviving another decade—much less finding himself with a child to look after, and some semblance of a stable life to do it in. But here he is. He and John have made their peace, are closer than he would've thought possible. They've found something adjacent to stable work. And they have her—their perfect girl, their universe. Their Faroe.
It's closer to happiness than he ever thought he'd get. It's good.
He just needs to figure out how to keep it.
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Alia studies the man that is not Prince Warin, and the things that share his flesh.
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Reunited in the Dark World, but finding themselves with two separate bodies, John and Arthur realize that neither of them are enjoying the distance.
And, well. John’s body is physical, but it’s malleable enough that they can still make it work. It’s not going to be an elegant rejoining, per se—but anything’s worth it if they can be together again.
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Moonlight filters through the curtained window, painting the room in shades of blue. It's a calm, quiet night. They’re safe, Arthur isn’t mortally wounded, there’s working tap water, there’s even a comfortable enough bed. John should be relaxed, right now, as much as he ever can relax. And he would be. It’s just…
It’s just, his fucking arm.
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Understanding the Unseen: Analysis of the Collected Works of J. Doe
An attempt to posthumously understand the enigmatic New York painter through the lens of his art, from the bizarre yet ominous abstracts to the softly lit views of his home city.
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Leave Me, Leave Me (just say that you need me) by sink_eden (swiftishere)
Fandoms: Malevolent (Podcast)
04 Oct 2024
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It seems tautological, almost, some unavoidable law of the universe invoked by the sharing of this body.
Arthur will always suffer. John will always be there to pick up the pieces afterward.
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All That Divides and Distinguishes by sink_eden (swiftishere)
Fandoms: Malevolent (Podcast), Elden Ring (Video Game)
30 Aug 2024
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The Frenzied Flame takes root in the mind of a despairing, lost Tarnished on his arrival to the Lands Between. Makes its home in his eyes, burns away his memories, and welcomes him to the pyre of simple, blissful chaos.
...Correction: It attempts to do that. The bastard himself seems to have other ideas. Before long, it finds its embers near smothered and severed from its unified whole, stranded in a mind that stubbornly refuses to do anything the easy or simple way.
(Did Malenia ever try stealing a little piece off the God of Rot and forcing it to narrate everything for her in place of her eyes? No? Maybe she should've thought about doing that.)
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(Because I could not stop for Death— He kindly stopped for me—
The Carriage held but just Ourselves— And Immortality.
We slowly drove—He knew no haste, And I had put away
My labor and my leisure too, For His Civility.)Death and Arthur Lester have a rather tense relationship. They flirt constantly, send each other so many gifts—and yet, they never seem to end up going home together at the end of the night.
Or: after dealing with the Butcher on the train, Arthur has a friendly conversation with another passenger, and somehow, for once, nothing bad happens.
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the ghost of somebody at his side by sink_eden (swiftishere)
Fandoms: Malevolent (Podcast)
31 Jul 2024
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Lying there in the dark, with nothing between them, John voices a question that's been haunting him, and makes one very simple request.
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Pyre Phoenix by the_zork (swiftishere)
Fandoms: Pokemon Legends: Arceus (Video Game), Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types
02 Jun 2024
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Akari dies during the day of the red sky, fighting her way, alone and without guidance, up to a storm of divine wrath, determined to prove herself worthy for people who should be worth so little to her, determined to save the people who refuse to save her, the warden of the cliffs finds her body, black hair slick like oil in a pool of blood, crumpled at the bottom ofYoung Akari is fine. It would be absurd to imply otherwise. Look at her, she’s standing right there, isn’t she? Perfectly healthy and safe. Her eyes were always that shade of almost-luminescent lavender ice, yes. Just like Ingo’s. Quirk of rift travel, perhaps. Everything is fine. Absolutely everything is fine. Shouldn’t we be worrying more about the sky? And speaking of Warden Ingo, what’s keeping him, anyhow?
An apocalypse, and a relit candle, and eight hours that Akari can’t remember.
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- Part 9 of Pokemon AU Bin
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Ounce of Prevention by the_zork (swiftishere)
Fandoms: Pokemon Legends: Arceus (Video Game), Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types
24 Dec 2023
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If one suspects strangers of causing the apocalypse, one generally should not allow them to continue to roam free. They should ideally be restrained until their innocence (or guilt) can be proven. Even if one of them is a child and openly sobbing at the thought of her only family hating her. Even if the other one's absence is probably going to be noticed by a very large, very dangerous Pokémon.
Elsewhere, the rift spits out a man in white. He's not her Warden, but Sneasler will take all the help she can get in finding him.
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Symbiosis and the Spark of Life by the_zork (swiftishere)
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pokemon Legends: Arceus (Video Game), Pocket Monsters: Black & White | Pokemon Black and White Versions
17 Jun 2023
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Ordinarily, selling off the treasured possessions of one’s family is frowned upon. Especially if said family have yet to actually die. Ingo sold his brother’s soul to a Chandelure when he was ten years old, though, and it has yet to be a point of contention. Maybe because he threw his own into the bargain, too.
But a lack of argument doesn't necessarily mean a lack of consequences—which he discovers rather quickly in Hisui, having forgotten the terms of the deal he made in the first place.
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- Part 8 of Pokemon AU Bin
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It's Not Personal by the_zork (swiftishere)
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pokemon Legends: Arceus (Video Game)
12 Jun 2023
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Sinensis Cyllene, captain of the
SecuritySurvey Corps, is no fool. She's perfectly rational. She doesn't get attached to ridiculous people who push into her life and have little to no tangible value to offer her.Three separate occasions where she stuck her neck out for three such people might beg to differ.
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- Part 5 of Jubilife Slice-of-Life
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Little Gifts by the_zork (swiftishere)
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pokemon Legends: Arceus (Video Game)
05 May 2023
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Akari remembers how to make friendship bracelets.
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- Part 4 of Jubilife Slice-of-Life
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if i ask for too much by the_zork (swiftishere)
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pokemon Legends: Arceus (Video Game), Pocket Monsters: Black & White | Pokemon Black and White Versions
05 May 2023
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Surely he would adjust eventually. Surely. Whatever piece of him remembered would eventually work out that it wasn’t coming back, and give up on waiting for it.
It couldn’t keep getting worse forever, after all. Could it?
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Sinnoh is Silent by the_zork (swiftishere)
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pokemon Legends: Arceus (Video Game)
23 Apr 2023
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The Temple of Sinnoh welcomes a new guest—but nobody's around to welcome her. The Warden of the Cliffs finds a lost traveler, and, as is his duty, vows to see her safely to her destination.
The only problem is, she's not actually sure what her destination is.
Looks like he's in for the long haul. That's fine. He certainly doesn't mind company.
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Nonbelievers by mysteryswift (swiftishere), the_zork (swiftishere)
Fandoms: Mystery Skulls Animated, Pokemon Legends: Arceus (Video Game)
14 Apr 2023
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Almost simultaneously, the front half of the train dislodges from the first and completes its nosedive to the bottom of the ravine, and the back half explodes.
This, the train decides, has made its point.
Two people climb out of the train wreck in unfortunately opposite places. Lewis encounters Ingo's doppelganger, and Ingo encounters a young man who somehow manages to top his own penchant for saying inscrutable nonsense with a straight face.
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- Part 6 of Pokemon AU Bin
- Part 18 of MSA AU Bin
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don't let yourself go hungry now by the_zork (swiftishere)
Fandoms: Pokemon Legends: Arceus (Video Game)
08 Jan 2023
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From stranger to family, in one simple act of mane-cleaning.
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- Part 5 of Pokemon AU Bin