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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. -
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! -
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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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 -
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Alvin gives a deep sigh, silently pushes over a flash drive and a superman-mug full of The Good Coffee, and stares into his chipped cup like it has some sort of answer to life. Dick, with great trepidation, plugs the drive in to his arm-computer and reads through the files. The man shambles around the kitchen for a minute, before finally pushing the coffee pot and a bagel towards Dick, sitting down on the far opposite end of the counter, and patiently waiting as he nibbles silently at his own bagel.
Concerning.
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I Want Us Both to Eat Well (I love you) by Inkaboodle for Neztune
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
01 Jun 2022
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"I- I didn't want to make a mess." Eri whispered. "Sorry for lying. Sorry. I'm good."
"You are." Himiko assured, dipping her head down to kiss the girl's tiny little horn. "Good job telling the truth. Okay, lets see.....a clean little meal for clean little Eri....." She kept looking through the fridge. The obvious answer was rice but, honestly, for everything Himiko was good at making, rice somehow wasn't on the list. In theory it was the easiest thing in the world, but in practice....well. Nobody's perfect.
Nothing with too strong of a smell, lest she wake up Dabi's grumpy bum, nothing too sugary because Eri should probably get back to bed once she ate....oh! They had a half empty jug of nearly expired soy milk, all the way in the back of the fridge. No one was likely to miss that.
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Determination and Spite roared the loudest, and she held onto them, doggedly hoping that she never had to face any other emotion if she kept these ones blazing, because she wasn't sure she could deal with that.
Instead of saying something along the lines of cute, innocent Sakara-chan, answering with a blushed babble about Sasuke-kun, she gave a smile that felt like it should be bloody and snarled-
"I'm going to punch God. I'm going to punch her right in her stupid face through a fucking mountain. I'm going to kill her."
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Sakura time travels to the moment of team introductions and. um. Does not have time to react with the subtlty expected from a Shinobi of her caliber.
Whatever. it's not like anyone is here from the future to call her on it, right?
....Right?Series
- Part 2 of the GIRLIES
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Sometimes I still can't sleep (the past rolls back I can see us still) by Inkaboodle
Fandoms: Naruto
28 Apr 2022
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"Where're you goin?" Kankuro whispers, and he's already wary of the answer. He probably didn't want to ask, but she didn't raise him as a scardy-cat.
"Not far, Otouto. Just upstairs." She shrugs nonchalantly, but her shoulders are tight. Her brothers would always be her weak spot and, regardless of what she let her father think, she had absolutely no intention of doing anything about it.
"But- The only rooms up there are Otou-san's, Yashamaru-oji's, and Gaara's!" He whisper yelled, crawling out of bed and over to her. "Or- Only Otou-san's and Gaara's. Why are you moving up there?"
"...I am to take over Yashamaru-oji's job of caretaker to Gaara-kun. The village needs me." She tells him, ignoring his gasp of horror, "Father needs me. And can I tell you a secret?" She whispers, right into his ear, because her brothers were her weakness and it was impossible to lie to them for long. Kankuro's the most trustworthy person she knew, anyway. He nods, slowly, and she whispers; "Gaara-kun needs me too."
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Temari time travels, lands the day after Yashamaru's death. It took her a decade and a half to be allowed to properly love her brothers the first time. She won't be waiting that long again.Series
- Part 1 of the GIRLIES
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Morally, ethically, spiritually, physically, positively, absolutely, undeniably, and reliably by Inkaboodle
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics)
10 Jan 2022
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"Is this the part when you can finally tell us whether or not you're League?" Dick asks mildly, the first of them to take a step forward. He seems surprised, obviously, and mildly concerned, but not the least bit threatened. His hand isn't even on his belt. Red was staring into the acrobat's soul, and Dick just took off his cowl and quirked an eyebrow.
"Well, no one's League anymore." Red, honest to God, giggled. "Talia's calling her faction 'Leviathan', and I'm calling my 'faction' 'bunch of idiots who won't take fuck off as an answer from anyone but Nyssa'. But..." Red tilted his head, falling silent as he thought.
"But?" Dick prompted, all too eager to keep Red's attention while the rest of them were still trying to catch up to the conversation. Babs put an arm around Damian, leading him to the medbay, and the kid didn't say a peep. Jason felt like he was in the fucking Twilight Zone.
"But I don't see a reason not to tell you, at this point."
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or; Ra's is dead, Tim is tired, the bats are confused, and Steph is LIVIDSeries
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Mrs.Mctwitter, the babysitter (I think she's a little bit crazy) by Inkaboodle
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics), Batgirl (Comics)
30 Dec 2021
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"Batman told me not to take food from strangers." He repeated loyally, not even looking at the plate as his stomach growled. Stephanie snorted.
"Batman isn't here, birdy." She teased, then bit her lip. Ok, so maybe she does sound a bit like a rouge. She can hear it, now that Tim pointed it out.
"He will be." Dick claimed, not even a crumb of doubt in his voice. "Batman is going to find me because I trust him, like he trusts me not to break the rules."
Tim snorted, this time. "You're Robin. If you aren't breaking Batman's rules and keeping him on his toes, what are you doing?"
Dick's face twitched, in the way that meant he was rolling his eyes, and he exaggerated the gesture by rolling his head with it. "Those are for his stupid rules that don't make sense. Like trying to bench me for no reason, or telling me not to microwave cereal."
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or; Steph and Tim get stranded in the past, and Steph comes across a lost and delirious little bird. Literally what else is there to do but kidnap him.Series
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Wandering hands for a wandering mind for a wandering heart by Inkaboodle
Fandoms: Naruto
28 Dec 2021
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"Sorry?" he echoed, eyebrows furrowing as confusion won the fight for facial expression. "For what? You didn't, like, hurt me or nothin." He pointed out, voice surprisingly flat.
She gave him a weird look, honestly probably not all that far off from the one he was giving her. "You flinched." She pointed out.
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or; Naruto gets headpats and Sakura is so ADHD it almost hurts. -
Not All Cures Can Heal All People by Inkaboodle
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
13 Sep 2021
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"Ideally, I want some unforeseen medical complication to tragically befall you, so you aren't my problem anymore." He admitted easily, because the hope had crossed his mind more then once. Shigaraki's eyes snapped open in shock, but the light made him hiss and squeeze them closed again before tears leaked. Izuku managed not to laugh as he continued. "More realistically, though, I'll settle for getting you healed up."
"Why?" Shigaraki all but whined. Izuku snorted.
"Because as long as you're injured, you're a patient, and thus under my care. But after that, you're just a bastard I can pawn off on actual heroes who get paid to deal with stuff like this." He explained, tone slow and condescending, because it was obvious.
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or; someone finds Shigaraki in a gutter, sees his shoes, and turns him into the mostly-illegal quirkless clinic. Now, shortly after their friendly run in at the mall, he's offically Izuku's problem, and exactly no one is happy about it. -
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As Hitoshi grew older, it became increasingly humorous, in an ironic way, that he was the one people thought was going to turn out a villain.
Y'know, considering that Midoriya Izuku, the golden child of UA, was an actual literal demon.
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To Be Given Quite A Fright by Inkaboodle
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010), Robin (Comics)
07 May 2021
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"He's a threat to your safety. And to the family's safety, and possibly all of Gotham. He can't be given a free pass, or someone will get hurt."
"I'm not saying give him a free pass!" Tim says, though a twitch in his expression implies that he may have been saying just that. "But families love each other, and love is unconditional."
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Or; tim has a plan. It's...not a bad plan. But it would be a better one if it didn't involve Tim risking his life for no reason.Series
- Part 10 of With family like this, who needs [REDACTED]
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"The spot of revenge was purely circumstantial, promise. And it wasn't even very much revenge! Cleaning your wounds is important. There was sludge in it. Gotham sludge." Robin scolded.
He wasn't exactly wrong, but there was a line between cleaning wounds and pouring alcohol onto them while giggling like a psychopath, and from what he remembered Robin had gleefully danced over it- and then, for some unfathomable reason, back again. Because, at the end of the day, his injury was well wrapped, and apparently cleaned, and it was the best he felt after a gunshot wound in....a while.
A long while.
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"Hey easter-egg. Where'd you get your fancy new quirk?" He drawled, raising an eyebrow under Father. Sensei would never give Izuku a quirk like that, and something itched at the back of his head, something he should know.
"Found it." He shrugged, glaring defiantly, because little brother's suck, an actual rage burning in his eyes. He looked angrier then that time Tomura decayed a box of All-Might merch. Damn, this was weird. Interacting with Izuku like this was weird. He'd known it would have to happen eventually- they all did, really- but not this soon. "Where'd you get your fancy new brainrot? What possessed you to try to kill All Might in front of a bunch of kids?"
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or; The USJ happens, family is complicated, no one is happy, and this really isn't angsty lmao they're just a bit of a hot mess.