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    One small change has endless consequences. Around the world, people defy their destinies. As their stories change, spirit tales start coming to life, and the world around them shifts.

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    11 Nov 2025

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    Crown Prince Zuko discovers his bending when he is five and his sister is three, and she’s the first person he tells, juggling a flame while she admires its beauty. When he shows the rest of his family, his mother’s chopsticks clatter to the table, and when Zuko looks to his father, his eyes are wide with shock.

    His grandfather speaks first, the head of the table, and approval runs thick through his tone: “Well, look at that. A true prodigy, wouldn’t you agree, Ozai?”

    “Indeed,” he hums.

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    (Princess Azula won’t summon her first flame—a guttering, timid thing—until she’s seven.)

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    Or, in a world where Zuko is the prodigy and Azula is the one banished, destiny shifts accordingly.

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    28 Oct 2025

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    “I took Ba Sing Se, not Uncle, and certainly not you; I got us this far. You’re stealing what’s rightfully mine. If anyone should get to see this, it’s me, and you should be grateful I’m here because you couldn’t end the war on your own!”

    The words are tremulous with emotion, rushing and almost painful for how they scrape past her teeth, and still, even she knows they sound petulant—a child’s concern. But she is loud, and more than that, she’s right. All Azula has ever wanted is the respect of standing at her father’s side and—pitifully—the love inherent to the honor. She can’t lose it when she’s this close.

    But then Azula’s father steps towards her, and his fist is wreathed in fire, the temperature of his flame so hot it’s blue—her blue—where it’s closest to his skin.

    Azula hardly has time to process what’s going to happen before his palm meets her cheek in a slap.

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    The day before Sozin’s Comet returns, Azula finds that Zuko is not the only child her father is willing to strike, and Azula’s destiny changes.

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    27 Oct 2025

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    Twenty-five years ago, Tony Stark disappeared from his family home a month after the tragic deaths of his parents, Howard and Maria Stark, leaving a billion-dollar tech conglomerate without an heir and the world wondering what happened.

    Twenty-three years ago, HYDRA gained another super soldier.

    Ten years ago, Peter Parker’s parents died in what is ruled as a home invasion gone wrong but he knows was murder, plain and simple, because he spoke to the killer.

    And in the present, Project Insight fails, and the Iron Soldier pays the price.

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    26 Oct 2025

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    Taylor Hebert had a bad day, and came out of it changed.

    Some parahumans can control bugs. Some can build advanced technology. Some can do unspeakable things to space and time.

    Taylor can make magic rings, wondrous metals, mysterious weapons, and may not be a parahuman--or, indeed, human--at all.

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    04 Oct 2025