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It wasn't that Emma thought little of Councilor Morgan in those early days. Just that she didn't particularly think of her at all.
Or: A look at Morgan through Emma's eyes.
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The last time he’d been so saved, knuckles bloody and heart numb, the calling had been so moving that Jud followed it into Christ’s light.
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They stick their fingers between the bars of your birdcage, letting the shadow of their hand play in your glow. It casts red across the floor, as if seeking to replace a stain scrubbed away by firm hand and plenty of vinegar. Their fingers curl slowly, as if testing the control over their own joints, before fanning out one by one. Time passes in the beating of your heart and the careless fall of hair across their face.
“I wonder,” Kris finally speaks, something in their speech mumbled and raspy. Reclaiming a voice that had not been their own for days. “Am I your cage? Or are you mine?”
(Inspired by various comics of Kris talking to the player/soul)
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Was this his legacy? A young and powerful sorcerer, the potential of the universe sparkling at his fingertips, all the world open to him.
Spent the prime of his life getting heckled by fourteen-year-olds who only cared about learning how to cast fireball.
Is this what you're dying for? A handful of self-centered, idiotic, ungrateful brats?
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The Stars are Just Spotlights by JustSalPals
Fandoms: In Stars And Time (Video Game), START AGAIN: a prologue (Video Game)
23 Dec 2023
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Each step feels clumsy, sluggish, a second behind. Unscripted. Off-book. The water brushes up over your foot for a moment, sand sticking uncomfortably to what you think is probably your skin now. Do you have skin anymore? You miss your shoes. Would it be weird to wear shoes now? To find new clothes? You want to drape yourself in fabrics, smother every inch of that glowing light you can never seem to shut out until your body is finally dull and darkened and done.
You wonder what happened to all your old clothes. They probably burned up with your face. Your name. Your home.
There’s nowhere left for you, is there?
(Spoilers for optional epilogue content)
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You're the first one to notice.
(After the events of the game, red stayed in this world of black and white.)
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Stardust is the Ashes in our Wake by JustSalPals
Fandoms: In Stars And Time (Video Game), START AGAIN: a prologue (Video Game)
12 Dec 2023
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Lights up. Center stage.
[Everything hurts.]
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Of all the flowers you picked, I knew you would forget by JustSalPals
Fandoms: Our Flag Means Death (TV)
29 Oct 2023
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What a lot of people forget, his mother explained, was that fighting and loving went hand in hand. All the best fighters were lovers deep down, because it gave them something worth fighting for.
Emerald caught in the candlelight as it twirled, sparkling and glittering like something precious. The lingering moment before it clattered flat against the wood, the magic extinguished as if never there at all.
Keep fighting, Israel. Fight hard enough for both of us.
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Pirates didn’t get to be happy. Blackbeard didn’t get to be happy. Izzy would give all of himself in service to his captain, but at some point even he could recognize the futility of an impossible task. He would claw open his chest cavity at Blackbeard’s feet, pry open his splintered ribcage, dig calloused fingers through intestines and blood until the whole of himself was poured across the deck to be picked through at Ed’s leisure, and still it would never be enough.
He sacrificed enough of himself just to keep the bastard breathing. If he wanted to be happy, he could do it him-fucking-self. Some men just weren’t capable of inspiring that feeling.
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Orphic Souls Don't Meet by Accident by JustSalPals
Fandoms: Spider-Man: Spider-Verse (Sony Animated Movies)
07 Jul 2023
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Miles didn’t know what to think about Hobie, because in the end it always circled back to one question. What the hell were they?
Something raw and complicated, left without a name or label. Without ties. There was something there, something in long nights on high-rise buildings and moments spent kissing Hobie breathless on his creaky dorm mattress. Was he the only one who got to have Hobie like that? Why, after everything he’d done, was this something that scared him? Miles had done some outrageous things for his family, carved the Prowler into infamy among the shadiest of New York’s worst, but the idea of asking Hobie if they were exclusive scared him out of his goddamn mind.
The very idea made him feel like an idiot, but part of Miles feared that it just wouldn’t be cool of him to ask.
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The Opposite Side of Two Different Coins by JustSalPals
Fandoms: Spider-Man: Spider-Verse (Sony Animated Movies)
13 Jun 2023
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The platform creaked under Hobie’s weight as he shifted to reach further, conjuring images of thin metal giving way and dropping its occupant out into open air.
The idea never bothered him as much as it should’ve. He thought of the plummet, of air buffeting his skin, of his stomach flipping and adrenaline pumping. The fall wouldn’t hurt him. Not if he never landed. Tumbling back from his high-rise perch, arms spread wide as if in stage dive. The city would catch him. He knew the thought was irrational, nonsensical, but that didn’t matter to someone young and invincible. Hobie pictured a crowd of hands reaching up to meet him, to guide him home, drawing him down into the rumble and chatter and uncomfortable sweaty heat of humans pressed too close like tinned sardines.
No, the height was never what scared him. It was the distance.
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Months ago, in the halls of spider society, Hobie saw a version of himself who turned to a life of villainy. Now after everything that's happened, he just can't stop himself from circling someone else wielding the same title back on Earth-42.
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Your kiss like a noose by JustSalPals
Fandoms: キミガシネ | Kimi ga Shine | Your Turn To Die (Visual Novel)
24 Apr 2023
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“Keiji Shinogi, as Sacrifice you may choose one other to leave at your side. Name who will be spared.”
Feral violet eyes bore into Keiji’s face, but he didn’t look her way. He couldn’t. For all he hid the worst of himself, here and now she would find him transparent. That shrewd detective’s gaze she’d picked up from him. Knowing and pleading. So desperate to live. So sure, after everything they’d been through, she’d hear her own name as an ex-detective opened his mouth to speak.
“C’mon Sou. You’re not gonna want to see this.”
Four players entered. Two players left. Sacrifices made to keep moving.
Keiji was such a piece of shit.
Or: Two men grow closer as they wait to die.
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Three Years and Two Days by JustSalPals
Fandoms: The Bright Sessions (Podcast), The AM Archives (Podcast), The College Tapes (Podcast)
01 Nov 2021
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Oliver probably should’ve put himself up in a hotel, save them both the trouble, but… Eh. It was stupid.
It was the look in Mark’s eyes when they walked away from Yale that night. A fussy sort of worry that grated on Oliver’s nerves, uncomfortable in a way that didn’t sit right around his shoulders. The natural way he’d just assumed Oliver would be staying with him after all that. As if that would be good for either of them.
(As if Oliver hadn’t spent the last month stuffing his foot so far into his mouth that his tonsils became intimately familiar with his ankle.)
Or: Ruminating on Oliver angst for a few thousand words
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A quiet afternoon in the Chimeron common room leads to conversation Evan has been wanting to have for a while. In a time of safety, everyone is allowed to figure out who their truest self really is.
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Clumsy Not Clever by JustSalPals
Fandoms: キミガシネ | Kimi ga Shine | Your Turn To Die (Visual Novel)
16 Sep 2020
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It had been a conscious choice on Reko’s part, to purge her wardrobe of blue. It gave her some sense of control, to show herself just how capable she was of cutting off her big brother. She didn’t need him, she didn’t want him, and the last thing she wanted was for little girls to look up at the stage and associate her with a murderer. Alice was blue, but now Reko was red.
In this post-death game world, she wonders if that younger Reko had just been chasing after Alice in a different way. Discard the blue of his hair. The colors he wore for the outside world, tricking her into trust and love with his years of unwavering support. Drown herself in reds instead, trying to understand the blood that would always stain her brother’s hands. What did it matter now? Her hands were just as bloody as his.
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- Part 3 of I'll Let You Down
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Already Broke (but break me anyway) by JustSalPals
Fandoms: キミガシネ | Kimi ga Shine | Your Turn To Die (Visual Novel)
08 Jul 2020
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One of Keiji’s hands had made its way to tangle in teal hair, tugging just hard enough to angle his head cooperatively to the side. Not twisting so hard that he couldn’t hold back a scream, not yanking the strands until tears pooled in Shin’s eyes and shaking pleas dripped from his lips like water. A light tug, the dull pain sending sparks pleasantly down Shin’s spine with a gasp for air. Just like Keiji knew he liked. Keiji, who would never do anything to hurt him.
It seemed like such an undeniable fact of life, that Keiji would never hurt him. The sky was blue, water was wet, and there was no safer place in the world than with a certain ex-detective pinning him to the wall.
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Poison my Feelings by JustSalPals
Fandoms: キミガシネ | Kimi ga Shine | Your Turn To Die (Visual Novel)
22 Apr 2020
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God, Shin was a mess. He constantly made bad decisions when sober, but somehow he’d thought it was a good idea to let himself get shitfaced? Was he so desperate for affection that he would fling himself at the first guy to reluctantly tolerate his presence? Stupid question, given Shin’s track record. That was exactly what he always did, a dotted scarf still shoved to the back of his closet as proof. (He’d wanted to get rid of it, he honestly tried, but Hiyori was never the type of guy you could easily pry out of your skull.)
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- Part 2 of I'll Let You Down
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Shane had more important things to worry about than some idiot newcomers. Things like: how best could he plan his walk from JojaMart to the Stardrop Saloon so as to not run into anyone? How many beers could he get away with before Gus started to look wary about sending him home alone? These were the important questions in his life right now. It had taken far too long for the existing townsfolk to get the picture and leave him alone, and now two more fresh faces were going to ruin that hard work. Just two more people who didn’t get it. Two people who had the ability and force of will to change their whole lives around, just on some fucking whim. Not everyone had that luxury, alright?
Or: A pair of siblings move into the old abandoned farm, but only one seems like a people person. Mostly focused on Shane/Male Player, with minor Abigail/Female Player in the background.
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Everybody Lets You Down (I'll Do the Same) by JustSalPals
Fandoms: キミガシネ | Kimi ga Shine | Your Turn To Die (Visual Novel)
30 Jan 2020
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Zero point zero percent chance. Impossibility. You don’t like variables? Don’t want to leave something so important up to chance? Fine, the world told him back. No chance, no sliver of hope, nothing but a wretched knowledge of certainty suffocating him from the inside out. A numbers guy, aren’t you? Doesn’t that make you happy? No pesky unforeseen circumstance, no way shift the dial, just the constant overwhelming truth that loomed over his head. Shin Tsukimi could struggle all he’d like, but a jury of strangers would vote for his death. Every. Single. Time.
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- Part 1 of I'll Let You Down
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Soon enough Cece would have to leave what little life she’d packed into that apartment, lest she just invite more territorial assholes to track her down. But now wasn’t the time to think about that. Now she leaned back into the worn cushions of her couch, blood dried under her nails and two strangers dead in the next room over. Shaking fingers flipped open the heavy cover of the book, desperate to let herself fall into someone else’s words for the night. In the morning she’d force herself back to reality, face the fact that she’d transformed herself from an asshole to a murderer. Right now, she was falling. Falling endlessly into the pit of her own mind, screaming and clawing at the idea that she’d have to suffer through one more awful day of living.
Vanya Hargreeves was the one to catch her.
Or: Harold is replaced with the lesbian serial killer girlfriend Vanya deserves.