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The man in ragged clothes with a worn face and sad eyes had no name. He was no one. Nothing. It was safer that way. No one notices a man with no name, with dirt on his face and rubbed into his clothes beyond repair. A nameless person is just a passing shadow, and that’s all he wanted to be.
Until he was Caleb.
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05 Dec 2025
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Into the Storm by Anonymous
Fandoms: The Legend of Vox Machina (Cartoon), Critical Role (Web Series)
13 Apr 2022
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During their trip to the Ziggurat under Whitestone, Vax and Scanlan notice something weird about Percy’s reaction to the woman they freed from the castles dungeon.
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- Part 1 of Vox Machina Fics
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05 Dec 2025
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Doom comes to Hawkins, Indiana. Population est. 30,000.
It’s cold, that’s all, and the breeze is kicking up. That’s why Steve feels the chill go up his spine like someone dropped an ice-cube down his back.
“Why wouldn’t I be real, El?”
“The Aboleth got you.”
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30 Nov 2025
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“He isn’t dead, is he?” Veth asked quickly. “Is he?”
Jester rolled Caleb onto his back and put her ear to his chest. She listened for a moment, then shook her head. “No, no, he’s breathing. I think…I think he might be sleeping.”
Beau, who had been growing tenser and tenser as the conversation went on, relaxed slightly. “Is that all, then?” he asked. “Just…just sleeping?”
Fjord snapped his fingers. “That must’ve been a Sleep spell,” he said. “Sand is a component, if I remember right. Just slap him, he’ll wake up.”
Jester gave Caleb a flick on the forehead. He did not stir.
(or: a Dream spell gone awry sends the Mighty Nein to a place they never thought they'd go, to face memories long since buried...)
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15 Nov 2025
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They care, Steve repeats to himself. They care. People care about him. It’s not ideal, but it’s something. He can work with it. Nobody’s ever been voted Prom King after they had a breakdown in the parking lot during study hall.
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Robin hates boys. This guy’s voice sounds just as annoying as her crying does, though, so at least it isn’t just her being victimized by the bathroom tiles.
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Steve and Robin have always had something in common. It just took them a while to figure it out.
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15 Nov 2025
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"Look, there's...kind of a lot to explain. Can we come in?"
Steve should say no. The sane, normal, safe thing to do would be to say no.
"Yeah, okay," he says, instead. "Sure. Wipe your feet."
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or, the one where Nancy and Jonathan are vampires, and Steve still tries to fight a Demogorgon for them without quite knowing what's going on, with unintended consequences.Bookmarked by Depressed_Atlas
15 Nov 2025
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why can't we be ourselves like we were yesterday by MaryPSue
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Oct 2024
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In his defense, Steve does immediately realise that something’s wrong when he wakes up in Nancy’s pastel-purple bedroom.
He’s just a little foggy on the what.
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or, the one where Nancy, Steve, and Jonathan all swap bodies not long after the Battle of Starcourt, and somehow have to all get along for long enough to figure out how to fix it.Bookmarked by Depressed_Atlas
13 Nov 2025
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BODY SWAP THROUPLE AND ROBIN SCREENTIME THIS WAS SO CUUUTE
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In which Robert gets blown up and Malevola intervenes. She’ll never admit it, but she might (as a part-demon) have a soft spot about the metaphysical evidence that their new dispatcher is, in fact, a good person. And she’s not gonna watch him die in a fucking lab explosion. AKA: A few missing scenes and speculation on Malevola’s whole deal.
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- Part 5 of Dispatching, Depression, & Donuts
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09 Nov 2025
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Thanks to a deal struck between her and Hop, El may have the chance to spend the summer outside of the cabin with her friends. The deal? El needs to survive until the summer, with no stupid rule-breaking. And in an attempt to keep her entertained until then, she’ll also be getting two babysitters to keep her company in the cabin.
Nancy is familiar territory, but Steve is someone all but unknown to El. But he’s nice, and very interesting to observe, El can’t help but decide.
[Post-season 2, pre-season 3]
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- 7/7
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08 Nov 2025
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“Tacos?” Lucas parroted with utter disappointment over having missed such an occasion.
“Yep.” Dustin popped. “With freshly chopped steak and everything. Like he cut up a hunk of steak and then chopped it into itty pieces and seared them up.”
Lucas audibly swallowed before he sighed, “Ah, man…”
Max leaned forward and stuck her head over the center console between the two front seats and lolled her head in the driver’s direction. “Don’t be a Scrooge, Steve. It’s a major cliche.”
“I know that you’re new here, kid.” Steve started, as if he were about to begin one of his ‘I’m more experienced than you’ speeches. “But my whole life is a cliche.”
(Christmas has come to Hawkins bringing with it scheming tweens, Secret Santas, and a Scrooge-y Steve. But he’s not the only one who hasn’t been poured a cup of cheer.)
[Post-Season 2, pre-Season 3]
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07 Nov 2025
Bookmarker's Notes
this is so cuuuuute and well written (Max and Steve binding awwewewsaxa)
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“Not into the whole superhero thing, then?” Steve asks Nancy.
“Of course she isn’t,” Jonathan mutters. “Nancy cares about real journalism.”
Steve raises his eyebrows. “And Spider-Man isn’t?”
“A man in tights swinging from webs?” Jonathan deadpans. “Definitely not, no.”
In which: Jonathan is the unfortunate Daily Bugle intern tasked with taking pictures of New York's new favorite superhero, Steve struggles with the trials and tribulations of maintaining a secret identity, and Nancy is just trying to do some actual goddamn investigative journalism for once.
Or, an au where Steve is Spider-Man.
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03 Nov 2025
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It was really just his luck that a hulking monster lumbered out of the woods and directly onto his driveway. Just his luck that he threw enough parties when his parents were gone that the neighbors had long tuned out any noise that came from his yard. Just a nice cherry on top of the fucking cake that, even if anyone did hear him screaming when claws tangled in his jacket and pulled, Steve honestly wasn’t sure they’d have cared enough to bother anyway.
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Months before El ripped open the gate at Hawkins Lab, the Demogorgon started ripping tears of its own. Months before it found Will Byers, it found Steve Harrington.
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- Part 1 of Nowhere to look but inside
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Steve Harrington's Deaths (And The Times He Maybe Saved The World). by badpancake
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
28 Aug 2022
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“I had another one.”
It stops the playful atmosphere instantly.
Not everyone tells him when they have a Memento. Lucas had kept to himself, and Will had refused to tell Steve about his dream. Some of them just tell him, softly, I remembered number one-seventy-three, or I had a Memento, last night. Sometimes it’s easier to just mention that it happened, acknowledge it and move on.
And Robin, for the most part, had done this. She hadn’t mentioned the details, because she’s sure that Steve is tired of hearing them, doesn’t want to hear his death from another person’s eyes, another person who is left with his body for a day before the loop dissolves into nothingness.
AKA: In the aftermath of it all, when Steve is learning what happiness means for him, people start to remember his deaths.
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- 12/12
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03 Nov 2025
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The three of them stand there in a line on the Byers’ front porch, watching the lights blink away in an eerie silence. Nobody seems to breathe.
Then, from her right, Nancy hears a dull thunk. It makes both her and Jonathan jump, but it’s just the bat falling from Steve’s shoulder, the nails lodging in the banister of the Byers front porch.
“Jesus Christ,” Steve says, and she can see the rapid rise and fall of his chest as his breathing gets uneven. “Jesus Christ.”
Nancy, between the Byers house and the hospital waiting room. Missing scene, set during season 1, episode 8.
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02 Nov 2025
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The world is ending, which means for the time being, Will is living at the Wheeler’s house with Mike and El. Which means his life is once again a third-wheeling roller rink nightmare, and he’s basically invisible to Mike.
Until Jonathan gives him $20 to go to an art sale, and he meets Tobias, a guy just as into art as he is.
It’s not long before him and Tobias start dating.
And then suddenly, Mike’s paying attention to him after all.
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Will gets a boyfriend. Mike doesn’t like it.
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- Part 1 of Tobias Universe
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- English
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- 26/26
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27 Oct 2025
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Our subject isn't cool, but he fakes it anyway by iubilaeum
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
03 Sep 2025
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“What do you mean what happened?”
“I just…” Jonathan’s eyes flicked up past Steve at the sound of the backdoor creaking open. “Mom.”
Steve turned to see Mrs. Byers’ in the doorway with a glass of water and a bottle of something. Probably the painkillers she’d promised. She gave him a matching look of concern and confusion, although she was quicker to conceal it.
He started to feel hot and embarrassed with the reaction he was getting. It hadn’t been meant to slow anything down, let alone draw everyone’s eyes to his bare chest. He leaned down to grab his soaking wet shirt off the back steps, although it was really just an excuse to look down and away from everyone’s gazes.
Mrs. Byers’ put out a hand as if to tap him on the shoulder and then drew it back like she was worried about hurting him.
“Steve, honey, you can borrow one of Jonathan’s shirts."
Based on the prompt: "I love the idea of a whumpee having a wardrobe malfunction that leads to a past injury/torture reveal." by @writingpheonix on tumblr!
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24 Oct 2025
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“I think we should pretend to date,” Robin says.
“What?” Steve sputters.
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24 Oct 2025
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The Suggestion Box Prompt by KingAnubis
Fandoms: The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series)
12 Oct 2025
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Long ago, in a moment of loneliness, Ragatha had written a pathetic adventure suggestion. Now Caine has stumbled upon it, if his unusual interaction with an NPC is any indication. Ragatha must intercept her own mistake before the other humans come to hate her for it.
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21 Oct 2025
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"Will," Henry sighs, "I helped destroy the neural lattice of an entire dimension. I’m not solving for X."
"Wow. So you can annihilate timelines, but Algebra II’s where you draw the line?"
"Frankly, it’s beneath me."
"Yeah? You say that, but I bet you don’t even know what a logarithm is."
Henry’s quiet for a beat. And then—
"…What is a logarithm?"Will laughs under his breath before he can stop it. The kid next to him gives him a weird look. Will pretends to cough and returns to staring at the graph paper like it personally offended him.
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20 Oct 2025
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“You know I’m not judging you,” Tenna huffed. “It’s fine if you want to dye your hair! I was just curious.” Spamton’s forced smile slowly withered down into a small frown. He grabbed a loose strand of hair between his thumb and forefinger, spinning it in his grip. Tenna crossed his arms expectantly as he watched Spamton mull over how he wanted to respond. He really didn’t see what the big deal was.
“Fine, yeah, I dye it,” Spamton admitted finally. He gestured at his hair with his free hand. “Gotta have a signature style.”
“Oh,” Tenna said. “Oh, yes, of course!” He laughed to himself. “I’m all for it! It does rather suit your brand!”OR: Tenna discovers that Spamton dyes his hair and it quickly snowballs into something bigger than he was expecting.
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- Part 3 of Cube's Trans Spamton Musings
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27 Sep 2025