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“You’re a dumbass,” Liam mutters. His voice is tight, like it’s coiled up in his throat, like he’s threading it through his teeth. “You’re such a dumbass! Why’d you do that?”
Theo slumps back against the couch, blinking sweat out of his eyes. It stings. “He was aiming for you.”
“Yeah, no shit, because I was the one standing in the open like an idiot.” Liam sounds like he’s trying to stay angry but it keeps slipping out of his grip. Too much worry leaking into his tone, like an oil spill. “God. You’re the worst.”
“I’m bleeding out and you’re still giving me shit,” Theo musters, trying to smile. “At least I’m consistent.”
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OR, How to Pick Up the Pieces 101. Theo is not a fast learner.
(Inspired by Handle With Care!)
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But Lover, You’re the One to Blame by trueromancce
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
14 Oct 2025
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Zuko took a breath, then started talking. If he wobbled on his feet, Sokka might have imagined it, because the other boy immediately uprighted himself and continued on like nothing happened. “First: I’m fine.” Debatable. “Second: Long story. I’m being… targeted. I was supposed to head to this place off the coast of the Kyoshi island, but then my. Ship exploded.” He paused here, as if still processing it, before uneasily answering again. “Third… uh, what was the question again?”
Sokka, immaturely, was about to interrogate the boy again, but he didn’t get the chance: Prince Zuko started hacking and coughing, and then, in one sudden, dramatic display, collapsed.
OR, the war & the things that followed. Not all of them are pretty
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He tries not to look back when he leaves, but he does anyway. Catches Liam’s face on the porch, stupidly fond smile curving his mouth. Liam’s got this way of making Theo change his mind. Maybe it’ll pay off, he doesn’t know. For now it’s looking back, tomorrow it’ll be going down with the ship.
Seasick in a good way.
Or, the one where they're both leaving.
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- Part 2 of they both die at the end
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“You think you can fall back asleep?” Liam clears his throat. His irises are all grey-blue in this light, dim and frosty. Kinda looks like the sea on a bleak spring day, the crash of the waves against a manufactured beach. Like that.
“Not really. I didn’t fall asleep in the first place.” Theo looks down.
“Yeah,” breathes Liam, “same.” The clock ticks.
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The morning sun is pale and bleak and smarting. He’s not surprised, but for some reason, he’s disappointed.
The extra toothbrush he’d put out next to the sink is missing. Liam makes breakfast for two, but no one comes around for it, so he puts it in the fridge just in case.
It’s still there by dinner. Liam throws it away.
OR, how do you deal with it all?
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- Part 1 of they both die at the end
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In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun—
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Zuko was supposed to die that night, at his father's hands and at the behest of his grandfather.
Ursa was supposed to vanish that night, and take nothing with her but her name.
Things didn't exactly go to plan.
OR: spirited away from the fire nation by their mother and abandoned to a life of poverty and running, zuko and azula learn to manage. right until the avatar and his friends drop way too cheerfully into their life, and the war returns to them in earnest. a story of hope, hardship and learning to believe in humanity again. zuko wants absolutely nothing to do with it, thank you.
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21 Oct 2025
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Dick Grayson is a performer. Jason Todd-Wayne was clever, quick, and strikingly small (though, if you listen to those who whisper in the shadows, the third has not been true for some time now). For Cassandra Wayne, people are as easy to read as an opened book. Barbara Gordon is one of the most talented hackers in the world. Timothy Drake has sticky fingers and something to prove.
In another world, perhaps this would lift them to the greatest of heights. Perhaps they would be monuments, role models, heroes from on high.
This is not that world.
In this world, rather than smash their foes into smithereens, they choose a more careful approach. Easing burdens. Taking weight.
One could say that they provide... leverage.
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Or: Sometimes, all you need is a little help from the birds.
Sometimes, that help is a little less legal than every other cape would like for it to be.
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29 Jul 2025
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The Wound Begins to Bleed by bowditch
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Red Robin (Comics)
07 Jan 2018
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Now that Tim’s moved back to the manor, he just wants a few afternoons a week without Damian around.
Funny how getting that was the catalyst for him becoming a better big brother.
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12 Jul 2025
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Three Roommates, Two Idiots and One Matchmaker in Hell by TheOceanIsMyInkwell
Fandoms: Teen Wolf (TV)
29 Oct 2024
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Years after the war with Monroe, Liam and Theo find themselves rooming together for their new adventure in college. Theo may travel light, but he inexplicably carries an unshakable baggage...one certain Alec Gonzalez that follows them wherever they go. Frankly, Alec thinks these two imbeciles should be grateful for his presence, or else they'd never get around to confessing their true feelings to each other.
Or: 4 times Liam lovingly manhandled Theo and 1 time Theo did it back, ft. Alec’s supremely unimpressed eyebrows.
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- Part 4 of From the Outside
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05 Jul 2025
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old ghosts gather in liminal spaces by Attempted Eloquence (ringsiderage)
Fandoms: Teen Wolf (TV)
10 Jun 2021
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Liam asks, “What are you doing here, anyway?”
“Same thing you are,” Theo says. Avoiding, searching, not-thinking, maybe.
His answer seems to appease Liam. Or maybe he’d just rather not elaborate on the circumstances that made him seek shelter in a bus stop with a boy that he only spends time with when danger is making a home for itself in the corners of their lives.
(Theo thinks everyone might be a little out of place, trapped.)
Bookmarked by trueromancce
02 Jul 2025