Why Stay?
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Why Stay? by Thaumasachlys
Fandoms: 葬送のフリーレン | Sousou no Frieren | Frieren: Beyond Journey's End - All Media Types, 葬送のフリーレン | Sousou no Frieren | Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (Anime), 葬送のフリーレン | Sousou no Frieren | Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (Manga)
14 Jul 2026
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Thrust into the Frieren universe in the middle of the wilderness with a newborn demon who already walks and stalks prey, Clara Taylor’s new life is a nightmare.
Project manager, failed Olympic archer, anime fan, divorced mom... none of her credentials had prepared Clara to wake up inside a Greater Demon's body mid-labor. But she's dealt with more difficult things than a horned baby with predator instincts and zero concept of affection.
Clara has raised a child before, and she isn't about to let a little thing like demonic biology stop her from being a good mother.
The real question isn't whether she can raise him, it's what happens when a demon is loved from the very first day.
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- Part 1 of Why Stay?
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I Do Not Stay by Thaumasachlys
Fandoms: 葬送のフリーレン | Sousou no Frieren | Frieren: Beyond Journey's End - All Media Types
21 Jun 2026
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This is a series of short side stories for the main fic 'Why Stay?' answering the question: "What happens to these characters in the canon Frieren timeline, where the Goddess never intervened and Clara never arrived?"
The main fic is, at its core, an argument that one person staying can change everything. Consider these chapters the control group for Auffie's experiment. Same characters, minus one exhausted divorcée from Tennessee who woke up in the wrong body and decided to keep somebody else's baby.
They are not happy stories.
This will not make sense without reading the main fic.
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- Part 2 of Why Stay?