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"Merlin!" Arthur said, diplomat voice gone. Small mercies. Instead of yelling, though, so Merlin could at least yell back, he just calmed himself down and tried again. "Are you missing Gaius?"
The question made Merlin's heart pound, harder. It made an ugly laugh sit in his throat and even uglier truths try and claw their way up around it. "Something like that." He manages to say, instead of crying or laughing like a lunatic. Merlin had a right to know his father. Morgana had a right to know herself. Arthur-
"Well, what is it then?" Arthur pressed, again, and a pillow hits his face hard, because his prince was a prat.
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A story about the power of friendship, what we owe each other, and what it means to be a king. Takes place during 2.13, The Last Dragonlord. -
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"Hey, Dekorin." Ino flicked her, dragging her attention to the food that had been served. She hoped they had thanked the chef for her- she didn't want to be impolite. "Hey, chin up. We did it, right?"
Sakura took a deep breath and nodded, coming to a decision.
"Yeah." She grinned, giddiness returning and mixing with refocused determination. "We sure did. All of us."
She could fix this. She She had to.
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Or: Sakura Haruno, newly appointed apprentice of the Godaime, does some reflection and realizes that her 'inner self' is actually a terrible coping mechanism that she can't afford to indulge anymore, as her responsibilities increase. She tries to do the mature thing and leave that part of her behind.Tries being the operative word, of course.
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This Sunday, Rosie awoke to a knock on her door. She threw a quick coverup over her night clothes and felt her teeth sharpen as she approached the door. It was a rude start to her day, but at least she'd have someone for breakfast after dealing with the disturbance.
She opened the door, and plans for black pudding with her tea fizzled out, replaced by a spike of fear her surprise couldn't quite trump.
"Hello!" The tall man smiled, eyes glowing red. Rosie looked him in the eye because it was the polite thing to do, even though her nose tried to pull her gaze to the smell of a fresh kill. "Alastor! Pleasure to be meeting you Miss Rosie, quite a pleasure, I've heard only good things!" The Radio Demon introduced, taking her hand in his own blood covered one and giving it a firm shake.
"Just Rosie is fine, dear." She replied, trying to determine whether this was going to be her final conversation. She hadn't thought herself powerful enough to draw the attention of the no-longer-aspiring overlord, and in the months since his rise he's yet to seem to care for anything besides power, so she really didn't know what could bring him here.
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Kakashi and Obito do an oopsie woopsie fucky wucky to the timeline by Inkaboodle
Fandoms: Naruto (Anime & Manga)
08 May 2024
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It was the end of their world, of life as they knew it, but it wasn't the end of the universe. It wasn't the end of everything- until it was, and they accidentally ended time as they knew it.
Turns out, sometimes messing with the fabric of space-time is bad, actually.
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or: something goes wrong, time collapses, and Kakashi Hatake, age 7, has a very, VERY strange morning. -
The Life and Death (and Life Again, and Death Again, and Life Again) Of Poor Hud Merlin by Inkaboodle
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
31 Oct 2023
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Merlin and Arthur 'count down to your soulmate's death' au where There is something wrong with Arthur's soulmate. It isn't what his dad thinks is wrong. His dad thinks, with a surprisingly genuine sympathy and sadness, that Arthur was tied closer to his duty then most any other king, as he'd never be caught up in the frivolities of love; after all, his soulmate would die only thirteen years after his birth.
Arthur almost- almost- wishes that were true.
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"What- what happened?" A familiar voice demanded, struggling to sit up. Leon rushed to Prince Arthur's side.
"The threat has been dealt with." He said. He couldn't find a way to voice exactly how he had dealt with it.
"He's gone?" The prince asked, squinting at the sky skeptically.
"He is." Leon nodded, and tried to imagine the dragon's dreaded snout instead of Merlin's horrified face. "Camelot is safe."
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or: there's so many fics where it's like 'oh, Leon finds out when Merlin tells the dragon to go away so he's like 'Merlin can't be THAT scary because he stopped the dragon from attacking!', like.....No bitch. MERLIN. Can tell the dragon what to do! That's terrifying! And why didn't he do that earlier? And where did the dragon come from? -
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"I'm pretty sure it's another initiation attempt. He tried to convince me to participate in....some sort of 'prank' against the queen?" Mordred shrugged, still confused by the conversation. "I'm just concerned. If someone fell for that, they could seriously upset Morgana!"
Leon starred at him blankly for a moment. A long, slightly awkward moment. He slowly tilted his head. Mordred felt a shiver run down his back.
"If only things were so easy." Leon finally sighed, "If only the king could be so lucky."
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or; there is a secret civil war in camelot that Mordred is only just now learning about, and his doesn't get why no one else seems to see the problem with it. -
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"It's funny." Said the manservant, long after he should've lost anything resembling coherence. "I can't say I trust you, obviously. I don't even wish I did, or I could. But I'm following you regardless. It's strange, isn't it? It's strange. Why would I do this? I want to help you, want to go out of my way to help you- I let you lead me out of Camelot just to see where we would go! Now, why ever would I go and do a foolish thing like that?"
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OR: A A witch, not knowing how to reach freedom, asked a manservant to help in her endeavor. -
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"Gringolet, then." Merlin pushed, smirking. If Lancelot trusted him, if he hadn't already turned Merlin into the king, then they would be fine. Now he just needed to stay. "She helped. Would you have your brave and noble steed knighted, too?"
"That isn't the same, and you know it!" Lancelot blushed, running an annoyed hand through his hair. "You- you aren't a horse."
Merlin couldn't help but snicker. "Really? Arthur always says I'm an ass. That's kind of the same thing."
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or; why didn't we just keep lancelot. I would like to keep lancelot please -
How and When To Gossip With A Toddler by Inkaboodle
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
22 Apr 2023
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Hero work was a lot like babysitting, is the point, so she could do both no big deal. And she was trying really hard to believe that, as she watched the baby- baby? How old is a baby? IS she a baby?- her class had collectively adopted blink open her big red eyes and look around the eerily normal room they'd been stashed in.
"Wh....where am I?" Eri sniffed, eyes already watering. "I- Where's- Where's Deku? D-Dek-!" The girl yelled. Mina jolted forward and put a hand over the girl's mouth.
"Nonono, don't- don't do that."
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or- Kidnapping fic for Mina & Eri. It's very cute and I love them dearly -
A Secret You And Me House by Inkaboodle
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batgirl (Comics), Batman (Comics), Red Robin (Comics)
13 Apr 2023
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Call Tim biased, but he was of the firm view that locking a child alone in a room was almost an objectively evil act. Made worse when done to an already abused child, and further when the room was maybe twice the size of a closet. If he heard of anyone doing it to his sister, he just might actually kill them.
And yet, with several months to prep, that was still the best option he and Steph had found for a newly kidnapped Cassandra.
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or; Cassandra gets to live a life without any blood on her hands, even if she has to microdose on solitary confinement first. Tim and Steph get a kid of their own, even if that does immediately make the bat situation more complicated. It's more then worth it, for both of them. Family always is.
(Also David Cain is NOT happy, and baby Harper Row still has one of the worst nights of her life)Series
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Suddenly You're Free to Fly (Discontinued) by Inkaboodle
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
20 Mar 2023
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"I'm not going to be a villain." He snapped, an instinctual response by now as he tried to regulate his breathing and steamrolled over the prick's introduction. For the first time since entered Yuuei, he was alone.
He was alone, and he was scared.
"And I've told you," Deku sighed, but he wasn't getting angry. He had a small, sad, disarming smile that somehow only made it harder to stay calm. "You already are."
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EDIT 03/23; I dropped the two chapters I had half written and then the last chapter is my notes/plans I had for the rest. Hope everyone liked it for what it is! -
One Small Favour by Inkaboodle
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics), Robin (Comics), Robin: Son of Batman (Comics), Young Justice (Comics), Batman (Comics)
03 Feb 2023
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"How can you just....promise something like that? So easily, with so much surety? How are you okay with it?" Damian demanded, tightening his fists as another wave of hurt washed over him.
"Because I have to. Because I have to be. Because.....It's what you want, right? If Ra's possesses you, and uses your body like that, against your family....If he forced Dick and Cass and Bruce and Jason to fight someone wearing your face....Wouldn't you rather that body be dead?" Timothy explained, voice soft.
Damian would, is the worst thing. Timothy was right.
He would.
"I could never ask that of you." He deflected, looking away.
"Because you're a better person then me. A kinder one." Timothy chuckled darkly. "That's exactly my point."
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or- two brothers just a little too old to hate each other have a very hard conversation.Series
- Part 4 of Janet Drakes Guide To Success
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Sometimes The Only Way To Cope With Trauma Is Getting Pushed Off A Roof by Inkaboodle
Fandoms: Addams Family - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types
31 Oct 2022
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He trotted to a stop in front him, and Pugsley grabbed the swollen hand immediately, dragging him through the house and up to the attic. Tiny Timothy followed along pliantly up until Pugsley opened the window, and he tried to squirm away.
Surprised by the sudden fight Pugsley stumbled, half-falling out of the open window as Tiny Timothy squirms out of his arms. He windmills his arms a bit, not wanting to walk all the way back up, but ultimately falls out of the window, wind screaming surprisingly loud in his ears. Half-thought revenge plots spill out of his head along with bits of his skull, and his last thought is that he'd have to have Wednesday bleach his scalp later. Getting dirt in your bones itched terribly.
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Or- there is something wrong with Timothy, and his big cousins have never left well enough alone in their lives.Series
- Part 11 of With family like this, who needs [REDACTED]
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find a way to smile that doesn't crack the desert on your skin by Inkaboodle
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Robin (Comics)
24 Oct 2022
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She'd give anything to hear Martha and Thomas make such simple complaints again, but. It was a lifetime ago, was her point. Quite literally. She may share the same name, but she was not the same person she was 13 years ago. That Leslie died with her closest friends. Every day since was a battle, every year a war, and 13 years was everything. Was the difference between before and after.
There was a young woman at her counter. The girl couldn't be much older then Bruce, but she had the same horrific heaviness in her eyes. The weight of carrying your own corpse around; the distinct divide between a before and an after. She introduced herself as Minnie, but call me Mick and had quite the story to tell.
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or- time travelers gotta make money some how, and with age comes wisdom.Series
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ten fingers, with 100% less underage drinking and 200% more teenage shennanigans by Inkaboodle
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
18 Oct 2022
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"Even if I wanted to talk about it, legally I cannot. I do not doubt your integrity as heroes, but I am just not at liberty to discuss the event. I hope you understand." Iida sighs heavily, deadly serious.
Mina can't help it. She chuckles, and Denki giggles, and soon half the class is laughing.
"Y-Y'know, class prez," Hanta snickers, shaking his head and taking a deep breath, "I know it doesn't always seem like it, but I promise you could just not answer one of Mina's weirdly invasive questions. You didn't have to fabricate a government cover up to get out of answering."
"I mean, didn't he though?" Eijiro proposed, mostly teasing. "How else would you get out of Mina's gossip ring? It's not all that manly, but I'm honestly peeved I didn't think of it sooner."
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Or- the kids play Never Have I Ever -
Safety in Numbers, Comfort in Others by Inkaboodle
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, The Umbrella Academy (TV)
18 Sep 2022
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"Master Dick." An old British butler greeted, looking around the man to stare at the seven of them. "Am I right to assume these are Master Wayne's latest charges?
"Dick nodded. "The Umbrella Academy, they were called. Can you believe?" He laughed, walking the seven of them into a wide opening hall, a closet concealed to their immediate left until he presses something on the wall and it opens. He takes off his shoes and sweater, and gestures for them to follow suit.
"An odd name." The butler nods, though Klaus would swear he saw the man twitch.
"Exactly! Makes you wonder if that Reginald guy was batty." He said with a strange teasing tone.
Klaus definitely saw the butler twitch, that time. Just as two more ghosts walked through a wall and froze, giving them all very strange looks.
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or: Good news: the bats look into the Umbrella Academy, and Bruce wins custody, mostly because he has more money to throw around then Hargreeves. Bad news: He forgets not to leave the child soldiers in charge of the smaller child soldiers, and mildly-angsty equally-fun shenanigans ensue. -
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Aniue fussed, trying to pull her hands from her face to inspect her. All he really succeed in doing was getting snot to mix with a patch of blood on his sleeve, as she yanked away from him and kept wiping at her eyes. Shinobi don't cry, dammit, she used to be good at this.
To be fair, she also used to be good at walking, but at least she was getting better at that. It felt like even after months of being stuck here her brain wasn't growing at all. How long did it take useless baby bodies to grow into something semi-functional? She wasn't really paying attention when she was a baby the first time. Kakashi had graduated at 5, so less then that? Was he a fair measuring stick for a regular babies development? Was Kakashi even ever a baby?
The confusion made her cry harder, and then she got more frustrated at how much she was crying, which also made her cry more. By the Sage, was there anything that didn't make her cry?
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or; Nohara Rin dies in one war, and is rewarded for her service by being reborn in an exponentially worse one with equally higher stakes & zero downtime & a body at war with a far too old consciousness and is being. Very Normal about it all. of course. -
Spider Lilies by Inkaboodle
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
09 Sep 2022
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"Wow." Hitoshi breathed, eyeing the little cacti plants that lined the top of the railing. Midoirya giggled.
"That's my first line of defense against invaders!" He informed Hitoshi, and he wished he could tell if the freckled boy was kidding or not. "Silver Arrow, Angel wings, Emerald wave, another Silver Arrow, a few Bunny Ears..." Midoriya trailed off, pointing to each of the dozen or so cacti and naming it. Hitoshi nodded along politely, taking a deep breathe.
The various plants gave the balcony an almost calm vibe, especially with how strongly it smelled of lavender now. There was some large, leafy plant close enough to almost brush Hitoshi as it bobbed with the small breeze, and a shelf on the dorm wall where Midoriya had a few Chia pets and some small pots that he couldn't identify. Hitoshi could certainly see the appeal.
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- Part 5 of ShinDeku Feb <3
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Kidnapping as in Sakura found a Kid Napping on her couch and decided to Keep Him by Inkaboodle
Fandoms: Naruto
05 Sep 2022
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She bit her lip. "I....we've got some of the instant cook stuff. But I don't know how to make actual ramen." She admitted. Honestly, she didn't know how to make much more then rice without burning it. She tended to get distracted, or worse- bored, halfway through and not keeping as close an eye as she should to food.
"That's fine! I like all sorts of ramen! Though I don't like waiting for the water to boil." He whined. She quickly got out two ramen cups and the kettle, filling the later with water and flipping it on. It was one of those fancy kettles that heated itsself with wires except of a fire on the stove; a gift from her Kaa-san's Nii-san.
"It's boring." She nodded, totally getting his point. He cheered in agreement, so she continued, "You have to wait for it to get so hot, and then wait for it to cool down again?"
"Right! Does the water wanna be warm or not? It's gotta make up it's mind!" Naruto said. Sakura laughed, and he laughed along.
Weirdos. Weirdos bonding over weirdo stuff. Inner accused. The kettle's done.
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or; literally just read the title it's EXACTLY what's on the tin lol