Second Chance At Life Omnibus
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(Chosen For A) Second Chance At Life by whiskerknittles
Fandoms: BIGTOP BURGER (Web Series)
22 Mar 2026
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Cesare opens his eyes, unclenches his fists, and in the center of his chest where Caligari’s icy grip has held him for a thousand long, frozen years, he does not feel the cold. Instead, he feels a sharp, tightening pain, like a belt around his lungs—lungs?—shrinking, constricting his chest.
He sits up with a jolt, opens his mouth, and with an instinct that has been long dead in him, tries to take in a breath.
It’s harder than the humans make it look.
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Canon Divergence from (and spoilers up to) S3E3 (Episode 4 spoilers in the notes).Series
- Part 1 of Second Chance At Life Omnibus
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“I—Munkustrap, you should know that I, uh… I’ve never actually…”
Steve doesn’t want him to think that he doesn’t want to, because he thinks that actually, for the first time in his life, maybe he really, really does. But he also doesn’t want Munkustrap not to know, not to understand what this would be for him; that it’s an intimacy he’s never had before, never really given much thought to. That he really doesn’t know much about it, if he’ll be any good at it, or if he’ll really even like it, for that matter.
Munkustrap’s eyes seem to grow slightly darker, and he says in a voice heavy like lead, “Would you like to?”
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Alternate Title: Moments of Happiness
A handful of moments under the Bigtop with Steve and Munkustrap, long before they reunite on Earth. A branchoff (sort of a prequel) fic for Second Chance at Life, but can be read as standaloneSeries
- Part 2 of Second Chance At Life Omnibus