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It’s not any easier. It’s harder. It’s worse. Noctis feels for that magic again, to let it build and swirl and flow, he tries to breathe it in and swallow it down and be one with it. It’s in his veins, in his head, in his heart, he was born with it, and so it should come to him as naturally as breathing.
He tries to push it through Ignis, from his own fingertips and into the warm skin in his grasp, the way he had with Gladio. It hurts to even try, it steals his breath away. And nothing happens.
| Noctis pushes himself too hard when he finally gives Ignis and Gladio access to his magic.
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Warmth (Bastille)
After the attack on Insomnia, Noctis, Ignis, and Gladio are forced to live in hiding in a remote cottage in the woods. The Empire hunts for Noctis, determined to spill his blood like they did his dad’s, and some days he doesn’t know why everyone’s going to so much effort to keep it from them. Six months later, a lone MT stumbles into their clearing, clawing at its helmet …
Fluffy BroT4 domesticity and ultra-sweet Promptis, mixed with the Prompto whump and terrible angst that are par for the course with MT!Prompto.
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- Part 1 of Warmth | Homecoming
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They were Magitek units that obeyed their handler's orders no matter the cost. All the units had but one mission: kill the Prince of Insomnia.
At least, that was supposed to be the only mission.
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- Part 1 of Lifeline
- Part 1 of 100 Bad Days (Make 100 Good Stories)
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Prompto is just trying to keep it together. But when he's falling behind in school, feeling like he doesn't deserve Noctis, and his electricity gets cut off in his empty apartment? His cheerful, devil-may-care image is breaking.
And Ignis can see right through it.
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Sickfic classique for the winter. Prompto is at his usual business of living in a house with a broken furnace, and the chocobros are at their business of being rightfully horrified.
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After the nightmare of the first Liminal, Akira is physically, emotionally, and mentally drained. With a newfound understanding of the true danger he faces on his mission, he finds himself regretting his past decision to get Akechi involved, terrified of losing him again. Meanwhile, life goes on, the gossip surrounding Akira is still rampant, and his friend group is steadily growing, leaving Akira with no choice but to try to keep up, all while haunted by his Shade’s final, ominous words.
Determined to avoid Akechi for his own safety and desperate to do everything right this time, Akira struggles against a combination of new and old threats; however, Akechi isn’t the type to just stand aside, and when Akira gets in way over his head, they’ll have to learn to trust each other or face an abrupt and premature end to this entire story.
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- Part 3 of Liminality
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Ever After by Tricksterburd
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
13 Mar 2023
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No Prince could hold the Power of the Goddess. So what was a kingdom to do when Death looms, and a Prince is born instead?
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The Chain aren't sure what to make of this new Hyrule. For one thing, the sky is red. And there are a lot of ruins.
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Being pulled away from home without a chance to even get to know it sucks. So does having intense flashbacks to a life not yours, and being a pawn in a cosmic game of dick measuring? Wild could do without.
-------Fic later leads to more adult themes, heavy physical and mental angst and anxiety. But eventually a happy ending. Reader discretion is highly advised.
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- Part 1 of Rightful Courage
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No Paths Are Bound by Cataclysmic_Calamity
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
08 Sep 2022
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Xie Lian found something in himself that he thought was gone—worn away with every mistake he had made.
Faith.
His arms opened, and the child was hesitant—but eventually, he fell into them, his body trembling with silent sobs.
"I remember you," he whispered again, voice breaking as Hong-er clung to him.
I remember you.
I remember you.
I will always, for as long as I live, remember you.
(A re-telling of TGCF where Xie Lian has his cursed shackle placed in his eyes, blinding him. And yet, through all of his struggles; there is always someone watching over him.)
(MULTIPLE TRANSLATIONS AVAILABLE)
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- Part 1 of MXTX - Retellings
- Part 1 of No Paths Are Bound + Extras
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Threads of Love by OnlyMeAndMyBones
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
05 Feb 2025
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Thirteen years ago, Lan Zhan came to Germany to study classical music and found his first true friend.
Ten years ago he returned to Shanghai, heartbroken after a horrifying accident left Wei Ying with life-changing injuries and destroyed their friendship and budding romance.
Today, he comes back to Germany – to teach, not to study. But when he and Wei Ying meet again by sheer chance, he realizes he has much to learn after all.Series
- Part 1 of Threads of Love
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Chasing Phantoms by hypermoyashi
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
05 Feb 2023
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Xie Lian hadn't exactly thought that accepting a job at the Gusu Lan Detective Agency would wind up leading to... well, a lot. For starters, he had an encounter with a masked vigilante who seemed oddly familiar and a comatose teacher with a stalker, wound up wrapped up in a decades long case of people going missing that spiraled into something far more complicated, and his new boss is pining after someone who's been missing and presumed dead for thirteen years.
Well... just another month like any other, he supposed.
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Narrative of Strength by erosophic
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 天官赐福 | Heaven Official's Blessing (Cartoon), 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
06 Feb 2026
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At seven years old Wei Ying is sure of two things. One day he will die and see his parents again, and the only person in the entire world that can be trusted is himself. At least, he thinks he knows these things to be true. The facts start to get fuzzy between the dogs chasing him, to the men in white and red shielding him from both the dogs and the blistering cold rain.
The facts get even more fuzzy when Xie Lian, the man in white, offers him a once in a lifetime opportunity. The opportunity to be the disciple of a rogue cultivator, just like his mother.
At seven years old Wei Ying is sure he's in this life alone. As he grows, he learns that he is wrong.
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centuries since paradise by parsnipit
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
08 Jun 2023
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Xie Lian has spent long enough around sirens to have some grasp of their communication, and some of it is even a little similar to mer noises. This sound, for example, is like the one podmates use to call for each other—curious, beckoning. He suspects it means much the same thing for sirens. Has this siren lost someone, maybe?
Hopefully it will find its lost someone soon, so Xie Lian can go back to sleep.
Then, because nothing good can ever happen to Xie Lian, the siren peeks beneath the overhang. It hangs its head over the jut of stone, its hair billowing like a crown of ink and the yellow sclera of its eye bright against the black. That singular eye catches on his, its pupil dilating, and Xie Lian stiffens.
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After capturing a rogue scholar near the Avidiya Forest, Cyno and his captive run into a Zone of Withering. As Cyno defends them, the scholar seizes his chance to escape, and manages to wound Cyno with a poisonous powder. Unbeknownst to its effects, Cyno presses on with his mission, to recapture the criminal and escort him back to the Akademiya for his judgement. It’s not long before the poison takes root, however, forcing the General Mahamatra to relive his worst fears. Can Cyno survive his own sins and still bring the rogue scholar to justice?
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Fingernails the Colour of Rust by isnt_it_pretty
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
11 Dec 2023
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It began with fatigue, with shaking hands and malaise that haunted his every step. Annoying, but not unmanageable-- Cyno was raised in the desert, after all. He'd been through worse.
So he fit a couple more hours of sleep into his already overfilled schedule and waited for the symptoms of whatever minor ailment he contracted to abate.
They didn't.
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AU where Cyno has Eleazar
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Why have one champion when you can have them both? A bet between gods that decides humanity's fate. Yaldy knows that the outcome is certain, now with both tricksters under his grasp. Yet Humanity's sponsor is confident. The ‘god’ of the velvet room does not sway. It’s incomprehensible.
Everything is going according to plan.
Isn’t it?
Akechi is certain that these upstart Phantom thieves' rumors are of far greater consequence. He realizes this when the castle that once loomed over Shujin Academy was gone post-Kamoshida’s confession. Gone yet replaced, by something larger. Darker. He is certain it holds the final piece he needs for his plans. All he has to do is recruit one lonely boy over to his side.
One misunderstanding later and Ren finds himself isolated at school. Burdened by the rumors of his own past-and-present actions. He takes the hand of someone unexpected.
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Akechi and Ren team up against the PT’s and Shido.
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[Act 1: The Colosseum of Treachery Arc: Chapters 1-23] - Complete
[Act 2: Detriments to Society Arc: Chapters 24 - 44] - Complete
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Lately, there's been something suspicious about the Feiyun Commerce Guild, but Xingqiu can't bring himself to investigate. He's so exhausted from managing the silk trade that he struggles to do anything else. Meanwhile, the others refuse to stand idly by, and they uncover a much greater, sinister scheme.
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Some Coincidentally Spawned Gaggle of a Family (And Then We Chose to Keep It) by BeyondTheClouds777
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
23 Oct 2021
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Life is rough. Family is rough. Hardship zeroes in on five stragglers in particular—Xiao, Kaeya, Aether, Childe, and Zhongli, a group of individuals who looked at each other one day and said, “Hey, we all need somewhere to live and none of us have money. That’s, like, a whole two things we have in common. Let’s get an apartment together.”
So they did. Five of life’s travelers, each with their own unique set of baggage. It goes well. They get along just fine. And, hey—sometimes family is you and your four circumstantial roommates, and sometimes that’s enough.
Then, when Xiao’s health begins to spiral (because life is nothing if not unsatisfied), it doesn’t take a village: it takes a family of five and of choice. They’ll laugh through the best, plough through the worst, and they will make it.
They will.
(They must.)
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5+1 times Sojiro was Akira's dad and the one time they both knew it by Gillbirdy
Fandoms: Persona 5, Persona Series
24 Aug 2020
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When Sojiro had agreed to house a teenager with an assault charge, he’d expected to have to take on a strict disciplinarian role. He’d prepared himself for a delinquent, someone argumentative and violent.
Akira Kurusu is definitely not what Sojiro expects. The kid’s a lanky twig, with oversized glasses and a mop of messy curls. A child who seems to shrink away whenever Sojiro so much as breaths in his direction.
But what Sojiro doesn't expect the most, is for the delinquent teenager to slowly but surely become his own.
5+1 fluffy Dadjiro fic, with lots of hurt/comfort
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Goro will do anything to take care of his adoptive family. The Isshikis took him in when no one else would, and, even in the wake of Wakaba's death, such bonds could not be broken. They could, however, be stretched... By Goro's sister requesting help from the vigilante group known as the Phantom Thieves.
All that Goro thought he'd known is pulled out from under him and there's one young man with a Cheshire grin ready to pick him up out of the sand. Out of the many questions Goro has, he wonders: Is Kurusu here to steal his sister's heart? Or his own?
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20 Oct 2022
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Albedo blinks back tears he cannot shed. He still doesn't understand. "Did I fail?”
"Oh, my dear Albedo…” Master softly murmurs. “That is not what I meant. You didn't fail because my ultimate assignment is not one you can fail.”
Her hands, the very same hands that once shaped him from a formless clump of coagulated chalk, cradle his face.
"Live, my little chalk prince," Master pleads. "That's all I ever wanted from you.”
Albedo finally looks up at an impossibly sad face.
"Live."
The corruption finally comes for Albedo. But instead of bringing about the homunculus' end, Albedo's friends and family join him on a desperate mission that involves the slumbering dragon Durin, Fatui Harbingers, and a revelation his heart may not be ready to accept.
[A fic about the lengths Albedo will go to protect Mondstadt and the lengths everyone else will go to protect him.]
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- Part 1 of What Lurks Below
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28 Jul 2022