empires superpowers au
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Jimmy isn’t exactly a hero.
He’s never been properly been a hero, never been like Major, or Gem, or any of the more localized heroes in Empire City. He’s not a villain, though—he’s nothing like Xornoth, Major’s nemesis. Jimmy’s more of … he’s more of an antihero, something in between.
Nobody particularly likes him, but he's a dangerous enemy, so they just sort of. Leave him alone. That is, until Xornoth, the foremost villain in the country, kidnaps him.
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or, the trope where the villain turns up on the hero’s doorstep injured saying, “i had nowhere else to go...” and collapses.Series
- Part 1 of empires superpowers au
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Major is staring at Jimmy, the only person not running and screaming. He needs to get past the worm, after all. He plans on waiting until it passes him on its hunt for the crowd, then he’s going to continue on his way home. But Major is staring at him, eyes hard and frowning, and Jimmy’s confused until he self-consciously rolls up his sleeves.
He’s wearing Major’s jacket.
Uh-oh.
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a small intermission piece for my empires superpowers au!Series
- Part 2 of empires superpowers au
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panic scampered through their veins by TheYesterdayShow
Fandoms: Empires SMP, Video Blogging RPF
12 Apr 2022
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This isn’t his room. This isn’t his apartment. This isn’t that boxcar in the junkyard he sometimes stays in because his apartment’s power has gone out or something.
This is a grey concrete room, a heavy-looking door with a rectangle window inset the only way out.
He’s back. Jimmy's been kidnapped. Again.
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sequel to my fic 'tenacious trajectory'!Series
- Part 3 of empires superpowers au
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poisoned rats in a pot of grain by TheYesterdayShow
Fandoms: Empires SMP, Video Blogging RPF
19 Jul 2022
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Xornoth is excited, Jimmy can tell. He can tell in the way they rub his strands of hair between their fingertips, the way their foot taps. “That is where my little bird comes in,” they announce, and something sinks in Jimmy’s stomach that is decidedly not the blood dripping down his throat. “Surely you’ve both noticed the excess of disasters in the city as of late?"
"And soon, he will be brought into the light.” Xornoth’s hand leaves Jimmy as they lean forward, resting their arms on the table. “Soon, the world will know the devastating effects of Xornoth and their Canary. With my control of my pet, I will rule.”
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the next installment in my empires superpowers au!!
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- Part 4 of empires superpowers au
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He’s repressed his powers since the first time they appeared—when he’d woken up to get ready for his first day of eighth grade to find his blanket covered in a sheet of ice. After that, he’d done everything he could to get rid of them—and when getting rid of them proved impossible, he’d just decided that nobody would ever know they existed.
Being powered is unnatural. Not as God intended. Of the Devil. God wouldn’t give one person such an advantage over everyone else. They’re supposed to be on equal footing. Powered individuals shouldn’t exist, shouldn’t want to exist.
And Scott’s never wanted to exist less.
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Scott's backstory in my empires superpowers au :)Series
- Part 5 of empires superpowers au
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hello all! this work will have two things:
-little extras, anecdotes, and deleted scenes from the main work
-one shots <1000 words.
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- Part 6 of empires superpowers au
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That’s Major.
The knock on his door at this time of night had been entirely unexpected, so Jimmy had looked out the blurry peephole to see—and there’s no mistaking that blue hair, even if he is—
Is he covered in blood?
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or, an au where Scott shows up on Jimmy's doorstep at the beginning, instead of the other way around.Series
- Part 7 of empires superpowers au
- Part 4 of empires superpowers au one-shots :)
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The hose clicks off and Jimmy’s left there in the center of the floor, the drain beside him gurgling a bit. He can barely summon the energy to lift his twitching head, to prepare for Helmer to grab his collar and drag him out of here.
Helmer’s just staring at him, though, his heavy-lidded eyes unblinking as he slowly sets down the hose. Jimmy doesn’t like that. He doesn’t like it at all.
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the unwritten scene from chapter five of 'poisoned rats in a pot of grain', as told by Jimmy to Scott.Series
- Part 8 of empires superpowers au
- Part 18 of empires superpowers au one-shots :)
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Jimmy had been running his hand on one of those pillows with the reversible sequins during the conversation, and he can imagine that petting a cat would be more comforting.
The more he thinks about it, the more he wants a cat. A young cat, maybe, a little baby of a cat for him to raise and train himself.
He’s scared, though. He’s very scared.
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a short story set in my empires superpowers au!Series
- Part 9 of empires superpowers au
- Part 16 of empires superpowers au one-shots :)
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There’s a sci-fi display, a romance display, and a display all about grilling cookbooks, which seems rather niche but there’s a good thirty cookbooks filling the stand. He never knew there could be so many books. He browses them absently, and as he reaches to read the back of one of the sci-fi books that has an interesting cover, he freezes.
A book on the romance display catches his eye.
He recognizes that cover.
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a one-shot in my empires superpowers au :)Series
- Part 10 of empires superpowers au
- Part 11 of empires superpowers au one-shots :)
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Something Scott doesn’t exactly love is just how stiff Jimmy is all the time.
Not personality-wise, or emotionally, but physically. When they watch movies all cuddled up together, Jimmy stares at the screen without seeming to need to shift his seating position, even as Scott readjusts about a billion times. They read together and Jimmy doesn’t move an inch from where he’s curled up on the couch. They lie in bed and Scott tries to sleep, but Jimmy is absolutely motionless in his arms.
It’s just frankly weird, and too many times Scott’s poked Jimmy to make sure he’s still alive only for Jimmy to turn those big puppy-dog eyes on him, terribly wounded by a little prod. Scott always rolls his eyes and cuddles Jimmy a bit closer. That is, until today.
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story from my empires superpowers auSeries
- Part 11 of empires superpowers au
- Part 17 of empires superpowers au one-shots :)
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“Jimmy,” he says, and Jimmy flinches at the deliberate use of his name. “You’re not there anymore. Do you know who I am?”
Jimmy shakes his head, not sure what’s happening here. Is this a trap? The man’s face falls further and Jimmy whimpers. He doesn’t want him to be angry when he hurts him, it’s always so much worse.
“My name is Scott. I’m your boyfriend.”
His—what? But—
“We’re in our home that we bought together,” the man—Scott?—continues. “We live together here. Do you know that?”
Again, Jimmy shakes his head. This is—he’s in Xornoth’s manor, he has to be. There’s no way to escape. He can’t get out. He’ll never get out.
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a short story for my empires superpowers auSeries
- Part 12 of empires superpowers au
- Part 15 of empires superpowers au one-shots :)
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“Beg for it,” Xornoth tells him, and all Jimmy's hope flies out the window.
He’s not going to beg. He hasn’t sunk that low. He’s not going to die of starvation, so he’s fine with what he’s got. He gives a little shake of his head, turns his eyes to the floor.
After hours of kneeling on the floor alone, he finally dares to move, shifting his legs so that he can stretch out a little bit.
Xornoth doesn’t return.
Xornoth doesn’t return for a long time.
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part of empires superpowers au. dark, but typical for the au.Series
- Part 13 of empires superpowers au
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Jimmy shouldn’t look at the mirror for too long.
He knows this. He knows that he has bad mirror days, and that mirrors are always risky anyways, but this morning he gets out of the shower and just stares at himself.
He’s horrendous.
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- Part 14 of empires superpowers au
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It’s not a fancy restaurant, by any means. It’s a diner in a cheap part of town, a place that Scott had said has the best fries and milkshakes and had gotten very excited when Jimmy had said he’d never really been out to eat before. Jimmy’s fairly sure that Scott’s made a list of places to eat, to go along with all the sights Jimmy’s never seen and the foods Jimmy’s never tried.
There’s a decent crowd of people here, too, which is why Jimmy’s more put-out than anything else when he feels a hand run through his hair.
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- Part 15 of empires superpowers au
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"Oh, little bird," Xornoth coos, and Jimmy stares blankly at their feet.
He'd messed up. They had given him a command—they'd wanted him to hurt the bystanders to send them away— and he hadn't obeyed, leaving Pearl to escape.
He doesn't know what the punishment will be. He hopes he has the strength today to accept it.
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It feels stupid now, though. Stupid to bring up that day, or that time in general. Still, Jimmy wants to try to answer, so Scott makes himself finish the question.
"What did—well, you were fighting Lizzie, there at the end of the overall fight, just before—um, she said something to you. Can I know what she said?"
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- Part 17 of empires superpowers au
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The closer they get, the more anxious Scott becomes. His hands grip tighter on the steering wheel, he checks his mirrors more often, he glances over at Jimmy every couple of seconds.
This is fine. This is normal, even. He knows what he's doing. He's done far more terrifying things than this. He's nearly died several times, he's graduated college, he's been a superhero for years.
He can face his birth parents.
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- Part 18 of empires superpowers au
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Usually when Jimmy enters the house, he calls for the cats and coos at them both, before planting a kiss on Scott’s cheek on his way to get down the box of Dreamies.
Today, the door shuts without any fanfare. The cats come running anyway, of course, and Scott opens up the tab for the glassblowing major before he registers that Jimmy hasn’t said anything yet.
He looks up. Jimmy is sitting on the floor, holding Norman close to his chest. His shoulders are shaking.
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- Part 19 of empires superpowers au
- Part 22 of empires superpowers au one-shots :)
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Great. He just has to deal with this situation alone, then. Scott's never been that badly injured since Jimmy's been dating him—sure, there was the broken arm incident, but Scott had still won that fight. He's never been so badly injured that he had to flee.
What if he doesn't remember how to get home? It's not like he's lived here his whole life, it's entirely possible that he gets lost on the way back.
From the office comes the sound of a window sliding open.
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- Part 20 of empires superpowers au
- Part 19 of empires superpowers au one-shots :)