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A brutal counteroffensive on the Day of Black Sun alters the trajectories of Zuko and Katara's fates, changing their lives forever.
This work delves deeply into the world of Avatar, staying true to much of the source inspiration while taking liberties so as to age it up and break down so many of those amazing themes and questions brought up in the show. Specific focus on trauma, guilt, and PTSD; on the moral gray area that war creates and the inevitability of having to do the hard thing over the right thing. Early chapters set the framework, but later chapters are some of my best writing.
Sprawling, long-form character study (mainly 3rd person, with 1st person flashbacks).
Rated M (read tags). Ignore AO3—work first published in August 2022.
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- Part 1 of When Water Burns
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After surviving his race’s genocide, Bardock leads a desperate rebellion against Frieza in a world without Goku. Navigating a reality where death is permanent, he must forge uneasy alliances and break his limits to rewrite a dying race's legacy.
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Marcus Tilman followed the red line because someone wanted him to. Nick Valentine followed it because someone else was watching them do it. The Railroad doesn’t recruit with riddles. It recruits by deciding whether you should be alive by the end of the day. But in the end, everything is about the choices you make…including who you keep choosing over and over again.
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He stood there, inconspicuous, confident, his hood pulled low over his face, hiding his eyes. His posture didn't suggest he felt uncomfortable or out of place. With one leg relaxed against the dirty, grayish-brown wall of the building and his hands buried deep in his pockets, he exuded a casual ease.
He's a dealer—the only one who deals in almost pure drugs. His codename: the Archangel.
When Evan first meets him, neither of them suspects that this is the beginning of something special. Something seems to connect Evan and the mysterious archangel, who hates nothing more than drugs and tries everything to keep Evan away from them.
Drawn to the archangel's freezing stability like a moth to a flame, Evan becomes the one unpredictable variable the young dealer can't control. In a gritty world dictated by addiction, violence, and shadows, they might just be each other's only salvation-if they don't destroy each other first -
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Talia Quinn didn’t come to Greystone looking for a place to stay.
She came for work. For distance. For something that didn’t ask too many questions.
In a world shaped by designation and expectation, she’s learned to keep her head down—another Omega navigating a system that rarely makes space for women like her.
Greystone doesn’t care much for any of that.
The docks don’t ask questions. The pub keeps its doors open. And the people—rough-edged and working-class—mind their own business.
That should’ve been enough.
But Greystone has a way of getting under your skin.
A meal you didn’t expect. A conversation that lingers. The steady presence of three men who don’t quite fit together—and somehow do.
Silas is quiet strength.
Fintan is warmth you can’t ignore.
And Callan… Callan is a storm she knows better than to stand too close to.She tells herself she won’t get involved.
Tells herself she won’t stay.But some debts don’t stay buried.
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Jarlbaith Thorne has achieved a lot in his tenure as a Mercenary and Adventurer as he approaches his fourth decade. His deeds in serving the Kingdom of Viidoa have earned him the special noble title of "Champion".
But that's not enough to legitimize his love.
Jarlbaith fell in love with a young man half his age, the only Prince to the Kingdom. In the strict society of Traditional Patriarchal norms, he can only justify the impossible by achieving the impossible- by slaying the Sorceress of Fear.
Without magical talents of his own, Jarlbaith must track down his old adventuring troupe and prepare for a conflict with the mystical Sorceress of Fear. He'll find the woman to be deserving of the name, and so much more. The forces brought to bear will try to utterly transform him, but will he have the strength to return to his beloved Prince Aderoth?
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Two centuries of radiation. A thousand miles of desert. One impossible cure. Cooper Howard wants his old face back. Lucy MacLean wants her family back. Hank MacLean wants to escape the havoc he’s caused. In a journey fueled by desperation and a "dead man's name," a cynical Ghoul and a hardening Vault-dweller must decide what they are willing to sacrifice to become human again.
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Pulling Favors by elenaaaa7
Fandoms: Grand Theft Auto V, Grand Theft Auto Series (Video Games)
15 Apr 2026
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When the heat rises and choices turn ugly, old favors refuse to stay buried.
Emily Cranley, the daughter of a rising political candidate, becomes leverage when her father’s ambitions attract the wrong kind of attention.
And where danger goes, Trevor Philips isn’t far behind.
The real question isn’t whether he succeeds…
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When Butt-Head’s mom shows up out of nowhere, it drags up a mess he’d rather pretend doesn’t exist. Beavis ends up caught in the middle, trying to help without totally freaking him out, and the two of them stumble through a slow, awkward mix of hurt, comfort, and trying to actually talk for once.
Note: Characters are aged up to 18–19 and this story isn’t accurate to the original show. Butt-head’s father is still (somewhat) present and his mother left when he was young.
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My Second Life: Sadie Adler by SilentFromAbove
Fandoms: Red Dead Redemption (Video Games)
14 Apr 2026
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The “What If” story of Sadie Adler & Arthur Morgan, following an altered storyline of the game RDR2
~ My second life promised blood. His promised redemption. We kept both promises in the end. ~
“If Colm wasn’t alive,” Arthur finally said, voice gone distant, “what would you want?”
“Breakfast." I smiled because it hurt less than telling the truth.
“After breakfast?"
“Clean hands that still know what to do,” I said, and the second smile surprised me more than the first. “A horse that likes me more than not. A little time where the only thing that needs killin’ is silence. No one callin’ me Miss anything.”
He nodded like he’d been handed a map that didn’t promise roads. “I could stand that."
“And you? If Dutch’s ‘one last score’ didn’t end with all of us in holes or heatstroke?”
“Quiet… a river with fish that ain’t clever. A place where a man can come inside without lookin’ over one shoulder and then the other. No parades. No letters.” He didn’t look at me when he said that, and I didn’t make him.
“You there, if you want,” he added, so bare it almost weren't words.
“I ain’t pretty company, Arthur."
“I ain’t either. We’ll make an ugly peace.”
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"75,000. To a human, it is the strength of a god. To a Saiyan, it is the height of an ant."
Haunted by the widening gap between himself and his friends, Yamcha is a man trapped in his own shadow. When a freak accident during a Capsule Corp test drags him into the lawless, blood-soaked Demon Realm, the "joke" of the Z-Fighters is stripped of everything—no Dragon Balls, no Senzu beans, and no backup.
To survive the slaughter, the martial artist must die so the Outlaw can be reborn. This isn't a hero's journey. It’s a hunt.
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- Part 1 of Dragon Ball Z: The wolf
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a length of red thread by Alassia
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
14 Apr 2026
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Abandoned by his creator and cursed by Bhaal, Laurence is an aimless construct of alchemical spite—a danger to everyone, and a liability to himself. To Astarion, he is a weapon that occasionally points the right way and a cold reminder that for monsters like them, there is no such thing as a safe place. Just blood, dust, and a desperate attempt to hold it all together in the dark.
Or: Astarion mends his partner's self-inflicted wounds.
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- Part 5 of Spark of life
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After an mistake on stage costs her everything, a former prima ballerina is discarded and left for dead in an alley. She survives, but Night City is ravenous.
Five years later, Jade Labonté is a high-end doll at Licks, with clients of every kind. Her job is simple: be what they want. The dollchip ensures encounters are private and secure, and forgotten the moment it ends.
But Jade isn’t forgetting.
Fragments begin to surface. She catches snatches of conversations, flashes of intimate moments. The persona meant to switch on only during sessions now lingers, bleeding into her voice and her thoughts.
The chip isn’t meant to run all the time. And it was never supposed to fail.
As the cracks begin to show, it’s clear someone’s tampered with her behavioral chip. And when the man responsible realizes she’s aware of it, staying alive becomes a performance she can’t afford to get wrong.
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Many years after Eleven passed, Mike can't give her up and decides to try and find her. When he is sent clues as to where she is, he follows them to what he hopes is his dream come true, but when they reunite, it's not as easy as picking up where they left off, though they're determined to try.
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Ilya Rozanov walks Shane Hollander like a dog (and one time Shane walks himself) by leaveandletluv
Fandoms: Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
13 Apr 2026
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Summary: It is often said that certified lover-boy Ilya Rozanov is kept on a tight leash by his stoic husband. It slowly comes to light on the internet that they’re both down too bad to function.
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Or: Five times Shane Hollander snaps to attention & one time he rolls over himself.
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It's 1890s London, and the various doctors and medical institutions need bodies for their research. That's where James "Bucky" Barnes and five other graverobbers come in, ready to do whatever it takes to feed their families and save their homes.
It's 1890s London, and Irish convict Steve Rogers suspects that he'll rot in his prison cell forever. That all changes when he meets a strange, but kind-hearted boy named Bucky, and they plan to break the twisted system that surrounds the medical system for good.
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In the summer before his sixth year, Sirius Black ran away from home, and he kept running. There wasn't anywhere in England that was safe. Voldemort controlled the Ministry. The Aurors were Death Eaters in disguise. If they found him, they would kill him. Eventually, he found himself on a pier in California, and the fear in his chest started to ease.
Remus Lupin wasn't allowed to go to Hogwarts. He wasn't allowed to hold a wand. In fact, he wasn't even allowed to leave the cellar until a burst of accidental magic broke the door open. Dark Creatures and Muggleborns were hunted, usually killed, and sometimes enslaved. He and Lily had found each other on the streets and eventually started working for the old man who ran the Order - the only resistance group trying to bring down Voldemort and his Death Eaters. Remus is a soldier. He goes out, he gets the job done, and he waits for the next set of orders.
And for the last two months, he's been on the sidelines because of an injury.
His next mission, one he can do even with his injury? Retrieve Sirius Black.
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Creever, after attaining the Death Note, travels through the dark tunnels underneath the Lexington Avenue train station, pining and itching for a hit of heroin.
The path he walks leads him to someone that reminds him all too much of his mentor and father-figure...Series
- Part 2 of God of the New York (Fanfic)
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"A food chain exists for a reason. One animal feeds on the one weaker than itself... gnawing at its bones, enjoying its meal, and attaining a sense of pride and dopamine for surviving another day. Mother nature blesses them.
But those blessing are taken away"
Creever, a homeless man going crazy due to his drug abuse, knows this truth all too well. He starves everyday, numbing his past through dope.
One day, he finds a mysterious black book... One that will turn him into a God.
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- Part 1 of God of the New York (Fanfic)
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Outlaw by girlnocturne
Fandoms: ATEEZ (Band), Bouncy (K-Hot Chilli Peppers) - ATEEZ (Music Video)
12 Apr 2026
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Red Water is quiet in the mornings, too quiet for a town built on whiskey, violence, and secrets. Valeria Vargas knows how to survive it: keep her head down, work the saloon, protect what little life she and Sofia have carved out of the dust. But when the most infamous outlaw in Texas walks through the swinging doors, survival stops being enough. Song Mingi, The Wolf, doesn’t come to Red Crossing for pleasure. He comes for blood and unpaid debts. And by the end of the night, Valeria and Sofia will learn that some men don’t just pass through towns like Red Water. They take what they want and leave nothing behind. And everything will change when Valeria meets Choi San, The Mountain, another outlaw.