DespiteWhatShouldBeOtherwise
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Seeking a Friend for the End of the World by DespiteWhatShouldBeOtherwise
Fandoms: Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023)
16 Nov 2025
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The world ends in the city of JuLai, and Meryl and Wolfwood are left to deal with the aftermath...
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The Moon O're the Combers by DespiteWhatShouldBeOtherwise
Fandoms: Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan
11 Aug 2025
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When Jean Kirstein gets shipped to a small town in the Pacific Northwest, he's resolved to keep on the straight and narrow and avoid getting involved in any trouble, danger, or difficult situations whatsoever. None whatsoever...
So of course, all it takes is a few friendly faces, a few not-so-friendly faces, and a missing seal pelt to blow that plan completely out of the water...
Basically, "what if Twilight but with Selkies instead of Vampires?"
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In Retrospect... by DespiteWhatShouldBeOtherwise
Fandoms: ロード・エルメロイⅡ世の事件簿 - 三田誠 | Lord El-Melloi II Case Files - Sanda Makoto, Fate/stay night & Related Fandoms
10 Jul 2025
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In retrospect, there was never any hope for a normal reunion.
It was a desire that was never meant to be granted, a dream as impossible as what lay beyond the horizon. He would spend the rest of his life striving to be worthy of his King's trust, to live following his example and that would be enough. Yet, when a simple case of a murdered heiress turns out to be anything but, someone takes it upon themselves to grant Waver's wish.
Even if they had to kill him...
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Curseborne by DespiteWhatShouldBeOtherwise
Fandoms: ロード・エルメロイⅡ世の事件簿 - 三田誠 | Lord El-Melloi II Case Files - Sanda Makoto
07 Jul 2025
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"It is written into the very nature of Curses that they either be broken or paid in full."
Upon the day of the El-Melloi Heir's birth, a Curse is laid, driven by an old, almost forgotten feud.
Years later, someone finally sees fit to do something about actually breaking it.
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Blackout Curtains by DespiteWhatShouldBeOtherwise
Fandoms: Compilation of Final Fantasy VII
19 Mar 2025
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“Thank you, by the way.” The stranger pauses, glancing up at Reeve in mild confusion.
“What for?”
“For not eating my cat while I was out.”
On a rainy night, against his better judgement, Reeve Tuesti meets a rather peculiar, injured stranger. It's difficult to miss the man's pale, cold skin, red eyes, even more difficult to miss his fangs.
So naturally, he takes the stranger home to rest and recover.
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Project Report Summary by DespiteWhatShouldBeOtherwise
Fandom: NieR Gestalt | NieR Replicant | NieR (Video Games), 血界戦線 | Kekkai Sensen | Blood Blockade Battlefront
03 Mar 2025
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Words of Antiquity by DespiteWhatShouldBeOtherwise
Fandom: Drag-On Dragoon | Drakengard (Video Games), Gungrave (Video Games)
03 Mar 2025
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Records of the Alien/Human War; Year 10,115 AD by DespiteWhatShouldBeOtherwise
Fandom: NieR: Automata (Video Game), Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008), Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023)
03 Mar 2025
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Feel Brand New by jessbea
Fandoms: Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008), Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023)
11 Mar 2025
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"So you're going to resurrect me? But—"
She sensed the question before he could say it aloud.
Why? He saved us.
(Savedtheworldsavedus savedhumanitysavedeveryone)
He knew who they meant. Wolfwood would always know who he was. "Saved everyone but me," he tried to joke. The angel just leveled him with her gaze, firm and holy and blinding and kind.
He tried, he tried, couldn't do it alone, always does everything alone. We helped. He could only plant the seed, we grew it.
He saved us, we save you, you will save him.
"I—I don't know how," Wolfwood said desperately. He couldn't reject a holy mission, but what if he failed?
He misses you, she said again, like that was the only answer he should need.Aka, I've always thought Wolfwood needed to die for plot reasons, but he and Vash deserve a second chance.
Even if they're going to be stubborn about it.Bookmarked by DespiteWhatShouldBeOtherwise
24 Oct 2025
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Marco Bodt's Renaissance by Freckles_and_Flowers
Fandoms: Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan
30 Jun 2025
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‼️ Putting this story on hold while I work through my Master's degree. While I might be able to post occasionally between classes, there will be no guaranteed chapters until I complete my degree in late 2026. ‼️
Marco Bodt knew one thing for sure - he was dead. He had been crushed between the jaws of a Titan, and after that, he spent what felt like forever in a hell he couldn’t escape. But one day, against all odds, Marco opened his eyes.
Back in the world of the living, Marco doesn’t know how or why he’s here, but something inside him has changed. He’s got a new power, a Titan power no one has ever seen before. As war rages on and his old friends face old enemies, Marco’s fight isn’t over.
Now, he’ll have to figure out what this second chance really means, before it’s taken from him for good. In a world where death is everywhere, Marco’s power may be the key to bringing hope... or the cause of his ultimate downfall.
Bookmarked by DespiteWhatShouldBeOtherwise
19 Aug 2025
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Kissing Sleeping Dragons by Cryrael
Fandoms: Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023), Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008)
23 Jun 2025
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Ever since a big white dragon ambushed the royal castle and kidnapped the crown prince, the kingdom of Gunsmoke been left unruled for the last 80 years. Though, rumour has it that crown prince Vash is still alive, placed under a horrible curse and trapped in his tower by the foul beast.
Wolfwood's mission is simple in theory: as a knight of the legendary Holy Order of the Eyes of Michael, it falls to him to rescue the missing prince and safely escort him back to the court of King Legato, who seeks to marry the prince and join their two kingdoms in a political marriage.
Vash's mission? Find true love to break the curse that has held him trapped in his human form for the last 150 years. If he needs to temporarily escape his brother's overprotective watch for a few weeks and follow the hot knight that has broken into his tower, who's there to judge? Now, if only he could find out what the hell happened to their kingdom over the last decades to leave it crumbled and people's minds poisoned with lies about the nature of magical creatures, that would be just great.
Written for the Vashwood Big Bang 2023 and re-edited June 2025!
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05 Jul 2025
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The Subtle Grace of Gravity by FriendsandSpecialPets
Fandoms: バチカン奇跡調査官 | Vatican Kiseki Chousakan | Vatican Miracle Examiner (Anime)
06 Jan 2019
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Roberto makes an inconvenient declaration. It changes nothing, and it changes everything.
Bookmarked by DespiteWhatShouldBeOtherwise
18 Jun 2025
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panpsychism by Lu_do
Fandoms: Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023), Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008)
05 Dec 2023
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“Are you afraid of me?”
The angel gave him one of the warmest smiles he ever witnessed and said, “Not at all.”
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In which a recently unemployed twenty-seven-year-old gets a strange roommate
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Bookmarked by DespiteWhatShouldBeOtherwise
18 Jan 2025