12 Bookmarked Items in DerKing fics I like

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  1. 80

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    What if the signs weren't enough to snap Avery out of the trance?

    What if the first time D3rlord3 and Avery met was when he was pulling him out of the lake?

    What if Reality was less of a strict plot and more of a loose guideline that the King (and Derek) use as a jump rope?

    What if even the King could forget things, and he'd forgotten something big?

    You can find all of that here and more!

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    Picking off EXACTLY where we left off, Avery begins his journey while loosely obeying the rules of this strange book. Only issue is... well... Avery doesn't know his lefts and rights... and no, doing the L thing with your hands doesn't help. So instead of actually listening to the book, he leaves it up to chance!

    (note: this was started before the release of DAWTDE)

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  3. 11

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    " I can fit two people under my skin. " - Jukebox The Ghost

    Instead of deleting the King in Yellow and dying with him, D3rlord3 accidentally merges with his mind. The King in Yellow now coexists in D3rlord3's mind and sometimes takes control over his body as they both try to win at getting Avery's attention.

    D3rlord3's in it for love but the King in Yellow takes that to his advantage in trying to regain power over his original vessel. His intentions get lost somewhere along the way…

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    After witnessing something unbelievable and terrifying deep in the mines, D3rlord can't stop thinking of the ominous King that haunts his dream. Against all sense, he decides to return to the crossroads to sate his burning curiosity.

    The King in Yellow satiates that and more.

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  5. 8

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    Destiny leads people through strange paths. Avery struggles with mourning someone who isn’t dead. That someone just woke up from a months-long coma in a hospital that despite his supposed infinite knowledge he has never heard of. And… something else is in that hospital room with him.

    (or, Derek wakes up months after a botched merging with the King in Yellow, and Avery, as usual, searches for him)

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  7. 33

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    Derek wakes up dead and dissected in a mortuary. A living corpse without any organs or any sort of explanation for why he's still alive. Haunted by the King in Yellow, the DMS, and thoughts of Avery's well-being, he stitches himself up and goes to get to the bottom of the situation with the unwanted passenger in his mind tagging along for the ride.

    Avery keeps having recurring nightmares about something he's completely forgotten. All he wants to do is get answers without losing himself to the call of the water, promising him understanding if he would just sink into their depths and never wake up again. He doesn't understand why he's so paranoid about being seen but he has a few inklings on the connection between the gaps in his memory and the surveillance he's under. He intends to find out exactly what.

    All Hastur wants is keep the both of them in Carcosa, as they should've been in the first place, had it not been for someone's interference in its affairs. It wants to know who was at fault. It wants to do whatever it can to retaliate for stealing what it was rightfully owed.

    (tldr: Derek's a zombie, Avery doesn't remember, and Hastur already won.)

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  8. 22

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    PART 2 NOW UP!!: https://archiveofourown.org/works/86766466

    Derek wakes up but.. he shouldn't have. He should be dead, an eternal prison for the King. But something's happened, whether a curse or a miracle, He's alive. and so is the King. At first he thinks that this is the end of it, just the rest of his life with an annoying voice and a headache.

    Until he finds out just how deep this all goes, and how connected Avery truly is to all this.

    Now with the begrudging help of the god in his head, he has to find a way to stop this mad cult, all while trying to find a way to save himself.

    or something like that. (I was never good with summaries)

     

    Title from "Curses" by The Crane Wives!!

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    Get everything done. Finish everything. The King sounded like He was barely holding Himself back. From the crops to the fences. Every. Single. Thing. I shall await your return to My domain.

    Just as Derek thought things would be quiet from now on, he heard one final whisper—a promise.

    I expect your full undivided attention for the entire week.

    You will satisfy Me.

    Yeah. This was probably going to be the final straw that drives him insane.

    Avery would probably make a joke about how he was going to be ‘drained dry’ by the end of it. Derek tried not to shudder at the thought, in both horror and excitement.

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    Or: in which D3rlord3 decides to help a certain God stuck in his head deal with a heat cycle.

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  10. 6

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    Derek lost. The King has taken Avery as his vessel, the world has ended, Derek should be dead.

    But he's not.

    Every King needs a Knight, right? And since Derek was oh so eager to intervene in godly affairs... well it's only fitting.

    (Bad end AU: What would a world ruled by the King even look like? Can Derek think his way out of this? What does the King have planned for Derek...)

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    in which d3rlord3 and the king in yellow dance around their obsession for each other

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