Cities 'Verse
In a world where Cities are personified. Watching history, loving humans and fearing the fire, they've stood with humans through the centuries, but horrific wars, plagues and human cruelty have left their marks.
Paris isn't the only one burning.
(Open, Moderated)
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Berlin Divided - A Dedication to Paris Burning by forgiveninasong
Fandoms: Les Misérables - All Media Types, Les Miserables, Paris Burning (thecitysmith)
08 Apr 2013
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"A City is not responsible for its humans' actions." - A companion piece, written for thecitysmith and everyone who is reading along with the wonderful "Paris Burning" series on makinghugospin.
Berlin is embodied in a human. Berlin goes through the suffering of being split by a concrete Wall, and is helpless as the rest of the Cities of Europe abandon him when he needs them the most.
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Leipzig Hopes by clayrlibrarian for Colferseverett, forgiveninasong
Fandoms: Les Misérables - All Media Types, Les Misérables (2012)
28 Apr 2013
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This fic is set in the wonderful Paris Burning-verse as a companion to forgiveninasong's Berlin Divided.
Even those that don't have a wall running through them were hit hard by the War. Their walls crumble and their buildings fall apart as the air becomes thick with unfiltered fumes and all Leipzig can do is place her trust in the very same people who are moving her further and further from better days.
Features guest appearances from Berlin, other German Cities, Paris and a reincarnated Enjolras doing what he does best.
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Gondolin, the Hidden by Wynja2007 for telemachus
Fandoms: Paris Burning (thecitysmith), The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
14 May 2019
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Under the right circumstances, Cities are born, the living, breathing, feeling personifications of the buildings and streets that bear their names. Life for a City can be complicated and painful and very, very long...
For Gondolin, firstborn City of Middle-Earth, it was also... confusing.
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Siblings Remember by crediniaeth
Fandoms: Les Misérables - All Media Types, Les Misérables (2012), Paris Burning (thecitysmith)
19 Jun 2013
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All of the American Cities are young. Washington DC has all the insight of a precocious teenager to the Old Cities of Europe.
But that doesn't stop the Pacific Cities from expanding.
Growing.
Learning.
Vancouver, Seattle, and Portland, the Pacific Northwest Cities, hear the drums, but their drums' timbre beats with the sound of stretched animal skin.
(A head canon for three Cities within the Paris Burning universe)
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A collection of ficlets written as tribute to Paris Burning.
Chapter 6: The Fens smiling (His Dark Materials fusion)