CandidCuriosity
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Light breaking the horizon, bloody footsteps in the sand by CandidCuriosity
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
03 May 2021
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He swallows the blood pouring down the back of his throat. His nose thoroughly broken. Gagging at the metallic taste filling his mouth he tries not to throw up as it would most certainly make him pass out. If not because of his ribs, cracked and broken, because of the blood loss making his vision blurry and his thoughts slowing.
The man at the centre of Hitoshi’s vision moves towards him again, and the purple headed teen closes his eyes with the intention to blink, but they stay closed and in a moment too long he feels his resolve waiver and ebb out.
To be a hero was the only dream Shinsou Hitoshi ever had. To save kids on the street, to save the girls walking through the night, to prove to the world that he could. But that turns out to be a lot harder than he thought it would.
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Breaking the surface in a storm by CandidCuriosity
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
21 Sep 2020
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Dabi was lying on the floor on his back, watching the ceiling. Trying really hard to concentrate on the ugly old plaster that barely covered the ceiling panels. Was that mold? Shit.
In which Dabi bleeds and thinks, Magne is concerned and Spinner is not an alcoholic.
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A shadow moves to his right. A flash of red in the corner of his eye. by CandidCuriosity
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics), Under the Red Hood
19 Feb 2017
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The shadow was there out of habit, out of conscious and very real fear of failure. Habit because he knows that there is no one there. But he can never be certain.
The flash of red could be so many different things. A flash of red accompanied by yellow, and green, his past and ending. A flash of red, his sins, goals, and retribution?
But no, he knows what that flash of red means, because if he catches it long enough it will turn green.Jason is bleeding out on the dirty floor of his second to worst safe-house, in the third worst part of Gotham. He has to make a choice. Seek help or succumb to the darkness always moving closer in the corner of his eye.
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Blood, brothers, and broadswords by CandidCuriosity
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
31 Mar 2016
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Damian gets caught off guard by a new gang trying to make a name for themselves in Gotham by killing a Robin. Only they do it on the Red hood’s turf and whatever Jason’s relationship might be with his family, his not going to let a Robin die, not on his watch.
Or in which Damian cares, Jason bleeds, and is there a sword wielding cyborg? Yes there is.
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I’ve come back to do what needs to be done. by CandidCuriosity
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Red Hood: Lost Days
09 Mar 2016
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A package drenched in blood arrives at the front steps of Wayne manor a sunny Wednesday morning.
Containing not only a decapitated head and a video of the murder, but also a personalized letter addressed to Batman, Bruce Wayne.An alternative ending of Red Hood – the lost days, in which Jason really kills the joker the first time he has the chance to do it.
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- Part 1 of Become the beast
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Become the beast by CandidCuriosity
Fandom: Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Red Hood: Lost Days
09 Mar 2016
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Bad days by CandidCuriosity
Fandom: Batman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Under the Red Hood
28 Nov 2015
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The crux of the matter is that Kakashi’s old. By the time he finally gives up the hat, he’s nearly forty and growing older, and while he’s faced death too many times to still remember to fear it, he certainly thinks about it. He can’t help it. He blames the Nidaime — staring at Senju Tobirama’s reanimated face reminds Kakashi of everything that will die with him: his clan, their history, an entire generation. The realization leaves him unsettled, and as his body starts to ache more and more, he finds himself wishing for a world in which he isn’t so alone.
Or, Kakashi returns to the Hatake compound in an attempt to speak with his ancestors and promptly forgets that the Hiraishin is, above all else, an experimental time/space jutsu. By activating it, he finds himself in a world not quite like his own.
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- Part 3 of Hiraishin Chronicles
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01 Dec 2025
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Liminal Spaces by thepartyresponsible
Fandoms: Marvel, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
04 Jun 2019
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“Clint,” Steve says, and it’s that same no-bullshit, do-or-die, I really, really mean it voice he used to trot out in the last few innings of close games in high school. “Bucky’s not gonna fly. He’s not going to drive himself. He can’t— I need you to drive him here.”
“Oh, fuck you,” Clint says, and hangs up.
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29 Nov 2025
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the bridge that always burns behind us by fencesit for karanguni
Fandoms: Naruto (Anime & Manga)
18 Dec 2023
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They say the Sharingan makes the Uchiha. An old comrade at the end of the world gives this idiom a new meaning, and then Hatake Kakashi travels back in time to solve the wrongs of the past through the radical, untested method of not avoiding all of his problems.
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13 Oct 2025
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how river learned to stop worrying and love the moon by oriflamme
Fandoms: Books of the Raksura - Martha Wells
01 Oct 2019
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Chime is, apparently, useless. No one else seems to notice or care that their first consort wears almost the exact same jewelry to every formal event.
Really. It's been years.
So River takes matters into his own hands.
Bookmarked by CandidCuriosity
06 Oct 2025
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“Hey sensei,”
The voice is distant, small. Familiar?
“I hope resting really is what you need. I don’t know what to do now. The others want to stay, but I’m…”
His eyes crack open to a blurry mess of a world. Everything swims, and the pain in his head seems to have narrowed, shooting through his eye but deep and back and fuck it hurts to think. Overwhelming nausea follows.
That small voice dissolves into the quiet, choking hiccups of someone trying to hide their tears.
Her hair is bright, bubble gum pink. It hurts to look at. She looks real.
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His name is Hatake Kakashi. He is a jounin of Konahagakure no Sato. He doesn’t feel like that’s true. Something is very wrong with him.
He is thirty-five years old, a university student for the second time, hardly attached to his country, let alone his town, and he was a teenager when he last properly watched Naruto. Waking up as the traumatised goofy teacher guy must be some kind of joke.
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07 Sep 2025