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He is trapped. Stuck in a cycle he has never been able to break. He wants to believe this is the last time, but he doesn't know for sure. I'll keep it simple. He is a citizen of an old city. He is an escapee. He is an exception. He is Clancy.
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The twenty one pilots lore (I'm trying my best) but it's also a clancybearer slow burn! :D
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It was hard for him to sleep. The excitement of his new life was still buzzing around in his head. All of the activity at camp during the days and the shouts and laughter and noise, it was just all so new to him. He didn’t miss Dema of course, but would be lying to himself if he said he didn’t miss the routine. This new life, this new home, it was just… different.
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tyler adjusts to his new life in trench. is he safe here like he always hoped, or will the dangers of Dema follow him to his grave?
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PEAKKKK FIC THIS WAS SO GOOD OH MY GOD I LOVE HOW EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING WAS WRITTEN THIS WAS AMAZING IM CRYINGGGG<3333
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Jason the Cheetah is my name and I say unto thee by odingtosleep
Fandoms: Twenty One Pilots, Trench - Twenty One Pilots (Album)
08 Jul 2025
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Josh propped himself up with his elbows and looked at him. He raising his brow in question at Clancy. Before Clancy could explain himself, the cheetah had pushed its head through the flap of the tent and was starting right at the two of them.
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A baby cheetah abruptly enters Clancy and Torchbearers lives and Clancy gets too attached to leave him behind.
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All Torchbearer wants is to give into his deepest desires and allow himself to welcome the affection Clancy has invited in, but he continues to deprive himself of that luxury to focus on protecting Clancy.
When Torchbearer finally accepts that both are possible, it may be too late.
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Five moments where Torchbearer and Clancy almost get everything they both want. Then one moment where they might.
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toward the morning sun by reverseblackholeofwords
Fandoms: Twenty One Pilots, Clancy - Twenty One Pilots (Album)
23 Nov 2024
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The citizens whisper his name like a prayer, and the more zealous swear oaths by it. They reach out to touch him, even just a brush of fingers across his coat, as he passes through the masses. Sometimes a touch is not enough, and they grab hold like they might pull him apart.
And from his place behind him, always behind now and never before, the Torchbearer sees the way that Clancy flinches away from each grasping hand. But he’s the miracle walking in their midst. He’s their saint with dirty hands and a heavy heart.
We must destroy them or we will become them, and if we become them we must do better.
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- Part 4 of sometimes we will fly away
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Ending is brutal but so good
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i cried
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this poor boy, he wore his heart out on his sleeve by the_bolter
Fandoms: Twenty One Pilots, Trench - Twenty One Pilots (Album)
09 Oct 2025
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He could see the toll that the events of the week had taken on himself, the cracked mirror in his tent beaming back an appearance of dark circles under his eyes and a growing buzzcut that Torch wasn’t sure he had the strength to keep shaving. It reminded him too much of Clancy.
Another mysterious bruise littered Torch’s skin. Dark purple and tender, a reminder of something that he couldn’t quite recall. It stretched across his shoulder, definitely too big of a mark for him to have gained without his knowledge.
or: legend has it that when two joined souls meet for the first time, they begin to experience each other's pain. Torch learns this after Clancy is recaptured and taken back to Dema
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- Part 7 of Cliquetober 2025
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I can’t shake the ending of City Walls. That’s why… the cycle begins anew.
Torch thought he had left the past behind—until he meets a new Clancy. The same face, the same name, a cruel echo of everything he once lost. But the harder he tries to protect the boy, the more the shadows of the old Clancy begin to resurface. Caught between corrupting marks, hidden truths, and impossible choices, Torch must decide: can this Clancy be saved, or is he doomed to the same fate?
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Not Your Real Face by Sonayesul
Fandoms: Clancy - Twenty One Pilots (Album), Bandom, Twenty One Pilots
29 Aug 2025
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After the Torchbearer is revealed to have been an illusion for the past six years, Clancy feels himself suddenly lost in a world where he's not entirely sure what's real or not, unable to trust his surrondings.
The Torchbearer is there, a grounding figure, but the source of all his problems at once. During which, the Banditos still look up to both of them to lead them through this rebellion.
Will they both make it out in the end?
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Just say the safe word when you've had enough by weekdaygladers
Fandoms: Twenty One Pilots, Clancy - Twenty One Pilots (Album), Scaled And Icy - Twenty One Pilots (Album), Trench - Twenty One Pilots (Album)
18 Sep 2025
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All of Dema was watching him. Not a single television set was off, even if it wasn’t actually being watched by anyone. The Bishops were watching him act like a fool in the security of their respective towers. Each of them smiled to themselves, knowing that their good will was underway.
They had revised every single aspect of this show, down to the most minute detail, to make sure Clancy couldn’t step out of line. It couldn’t happen again. Another insubordination and he’d secure a ticket to a fate worse than he could ever imagine. Nico would make sure of it. After all, he was but a revered shepherd trying to guide a lost sheep back home.
Meanwhile, Clancy, cold and wet from the snow, prayed for a god, any god, to smite him down.
Or Clancy is a pop star in Dema, and Torchbearer tries to rescue him.
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- Part 2 of With love as my witness
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You Don’t Need to Run by 0nyx_143
Fandoms: Twenty One Pilots, Trench - Twenty One Pilots (Album)
19 Nov 2025
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The Banditos knew that the bishops did some inhumane experiments, but Josh never expected they’d ever do something like this.
Aka vulture Tyler :3 I love birds
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Even in freedom, he wouldn’t be able to escape them.
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t4t clancybearer fic
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When Torchbearer drags a bewildered newcomer across the borders of Trench, the echoes of old rebellions stir again. Clancy’s name is only the beginning; the city remembers every failure and every flicker of hope. In the labyrinth of smog and signal fires, alliances shift, secrets smolder, and the cycle threatens to repeat, unless the new Clancy can break it.
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Cliquetober 2025 by the_bolter
Fandom: BLURRYFACE - Twenty One Pilots (Album), Breach - Twenty One Pilots (Album), Clancy - Twenty One Pilots (Album), Scaled And Icy - Twenty One Pilots (Album), Trench - Twenty One Pilots (Album), Twenty One Pilots
31 Oct 2025
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yeah-ephi’s 2025 cliquetober series based on the prompts by @artbytheclique on insta <3
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sometimes we will fly away by reverseblackholeofwords
Fandom: BLURRYFACE - Twenty One Pilots (Album), Clancy - Twenty One Pilots (Album), Scaled And Icy - Twenty One Pilots (Album), Trench - Twenty One Pilots (Album), Twenty One Pilots
10 Apr 2025
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my shallow heart's the only thing that's beating by the_bolter
Fandoms: Twenty One Pilots, Breach - Twenty One Pilots (Album)
07 Oct 2025
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Clancy’s dreams had tormented him for years.
Violent, painful dreams that sometimes merged into memories, twisted recollections of his captures and imprisonment, cold hands that wrapped around his throat and choked the breath out of Clancy until he woke up gasping.
or: a distorted voice taunts Clancy in his dreams, and Torch picks up the pieces afterwards.
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- Part 5 of Cliquetober 2025
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Clancy has been freed from Dema a few mounths ago. But even if he feels more free and safe than he's even felt before, he can't help but feel threaten all the time. The Torchbearer is worried about how Clancy is a bit paranoïd all the time, speaking about his Bishop like he could strike him at anytime, but, eventually, the threat becomes real. The camp is found by Nico, and the Banditos spread to run from him. Separated from Torch, Clancy and the two teens he was protecting disapear.
Torch struggles to keep up with his best friend's absence, Clancy fights for his life under Nico's control, and the Bandito camp tries its best to stay alive after everything is destroyed.
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Clancy is torn between becoming a Bishop or staying by Torchbearer's side. Does he give everything away for ultimate power? Or does he stay true to his guiding light?
An alternate ending of the City Walls music video.
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Clancy feels lost when he finds out he was being seized for six years while in Dema to write for their propaganda.
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- Part 2 of Clancybearer oneshots
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Takes place after navigating and before paladin strait. Clancy finally returns back to the bandito camp after 6 long and gruesome years away, being tortured by the bishops and the harsh reality of Vøldsøy. Was he going to be the same again?
Trigger warnings for: Suicide attempt, self-harm, talks of starvation and throwing up purposely, talks of statutory rape, vialism and religious tramua, panic attacks and PTSD.
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The red fabric whipped around in the air, draping itself around Clancy's shoulders. The subtle black suffocation creeping up his face, until it split his head in two.
Torchbearer stood and watched, as all the progress and the fight he fought with Clancy crumbled down. They defeated Nico and the Bishops, but at what cost?
Clancy offered the blood red robe to him. Recognition escaped Clancy's eyes. He could not see the yellow that Torchbearer dawned anymore.
Torchbearer had to do something. He had to find Clancy again, but this wasn't Clancy. No, this Clancy was gone.
So he does all that he knows how to do. Disappears into the air, as if he was never there.
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Clancy becomes a bishop, and Torchbearer uses his projection traveling powers to find him again, and ends up somewhere outside of Trench, somewhere in the past.
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