backpacks’s whumptober 2024 | rarepair propoganda hours
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where you are bound to be by TumblingBackpacks
Fandoms: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - Suzanne Collins, Hunger Games Series - All Media Types
01 Oct 2024
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Sejanus Plinth knows one thing about search parties, and it was this: If the missing individual is not found after a week, they are more than likely dead.
In which there are Peacekeepers on the lookout for Marcus, and Sejanus tries to find him first.
Whumptober 2024
No. 1: Search PartySeries
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all you can choose is whose by TumblingBackpacks
Fandoms: EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums)
02 Oct 2024
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Eurylochus wonders: Would Polites love him still?
And that is all it takes to decide.
“I will not,” he tells the God-King.
In which Eurylochus is the king of Ithaca, Odysseus is his second-in-command, and an infant is spared.
Whumptober 2024
No. 2: Role ReversalSeries
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It is an impossible task, and Draco knows it.
He’s hidden in an alcove, just beyond the greenhouses, clasping his hands together as if he could force them to stop trembling with sheer will. Draco knew that the Dark Lord expected him to fail. Everyone could see it. But he could not afford to. Not when—
“—er,” says Longbottom. He stares at Draco. Draco stares back. “You look like a mess,” he adds, after a pause.
In which Draco needs a place to hide away, and Neville finds him.
Whumptober 2024
No. 3: Set Up For FailureSeries
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Dolores is a mannequin. Dolores is a reflection of himself. Dolores is a friend. Dolores is the only other person he has in the ruins of what used to be the world.
Dolores is exactly as real as Five needs her to be.
In which Five meets Dolores, one month into the apocalypse.
Whumptober 2024
No. 4: HallucinationsSeries
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Five takes a step back, then another, then another, staggering over shaky legs and wide eyes as the moon above glows a molten red and breaks, hurtling towards the Earth in a devastation that the Umbrella Academy cannot hope to save.
In which Five time travels to the day of apocalypse while it is happening.
Whumptober 2024
No. 5 [alt]: ShiveringSeries
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Five lifts a hand to his chest, thinking to ground himself, steady his breath—but when he pulls his hand away, his fingers come away red. He hadn’t unwound the gunshot wounds, he realizes. He sweeps the room, grateful to find that at least his siblings don’t seem to be actively dying but—god, they’re still at it. Still arguing with the Sparrow Academy. None of them have even noticed he’s bleeding out in front of them.
In which Five is under too much pain and stress to realize he’s even more injured than he thought.
Whumptober 2024
No. 6: Not Realizing They’re InjuredSeries
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to those that cannot be forgotten by TumblingBackpacks
Fandoms: The Umbrella Academy (TV)
07 Oct 2024
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Klaus has seen Five kill before, seen him dispatch enemies with cold efficiency, but the thought that maybe, just maybe, his brother’s hands are stained with Dave’s blood is so sickening that he wants to get on his knees and beg to be told that it isn’t true.
In which Klaus recognizes one of Five’s targets well.
Whumptober 2024
No. 7 [alt]: Secrets RevealedSeries
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Eurylochus knows that sleep will undo him. It will drag him into a mirage of the life he and Polites once shared, tricking his mind with the warmth of something that can never be again.
In which Polites is dead, and Eurylochus cannot sleep.
Whumptober 2024
No. 8: Sleep DeprivationSeries
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Five gets Reginald’s attention in loud ways. Ben gets Reginald’s attention in quiet ways. It isn’t enough to keep their siblings together.
In which Five leaves, Ben dies, and a family fractures.
Whumptober 2024
No. 9: “frame me up on the wall, just to keep me out of trouble.”Series
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Ben doesn’t remember what his plans for today were going to be, but he is very sure that those plans did not involve confronting a group of strangers in his house, getting kidnapped by the child in their entourage, then babysitting said child when he fell unconscious on Ben’s lap.
In which Five has a concussion from the fight against the Commission and doesn’t realize that Sparrow Ben is not his Ben.
Whumptober 2024
No. 10: Blow To The HeadSeries
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an absence of something is still a presence by TumblingBackpacks
Fandoms: The Umbrella Academy (TV)
11 Oct 2024
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“I heard a rumor that you came home,” says Allison. Nothing happens. Rumors don’t work without a target, and Five’s bedroom is empty save for her. She is disappointed all the same.
In which Allison tries to Rumor Five into coming home.
Whumptober 2024
No. 11 [alt]: Finding Old MessagesSeries
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i’m a good pretender (so i’m just like you) by TumblingBackpacks
Fandoms: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - Suzanne Collins, Hunger Games Series - All Media Types
16 Oct 2024
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Coriolanus knows something of hers. Persephone knows something of his.
Not a word of it is spoken aloud.
In which Persephone discovers Coriolanus’s financial situation, and all the things that are left unspoken.
Whumptober 2024
No. 12: StarvationSeries
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split in half like your heart (so eager to be hid) by TumblingBackpacks
Fandoms: The Umbrella Academy (TV)
10 Sep 2025
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Number Two knows his strength is the only thing Dad cares about.
Even at six-years-old, with a newly bestowed name, Marcus knows this well.
In which Marcus and Sloane share a moment after his personal training.
Whumptober 2024
No. 29: FatigueSeries