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Branded, mute, and left to die on the battlefield, Clive has survived three years in the Imperial front lines when most bearers don't last three months. But when the infamous Lord Commander of Waloed, Cidolfus Telamon, takes him prisoner instead of executing him, Clive finds himself caught in a dangerous new game. Now Clive must navigate his precarious position while guarding his most valuable secret—his true identity. In a world where allegiances shift like sand and trust comes at a deadly price, sometimes the most dangerous thing to surrender isn't your sword, but your heart.
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17 Jan 2026
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Clive isn't Cid's type. Probably.
Or, five times Cid doesn't think Clive's what he's looking for and the one time he faces the facts
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- Part 1 of Still I Fall and Other Debris
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04 Jan 2026
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Wulianverse by IlluminatingSceadugenga
Fandom 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
20 Aug 2025
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I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us- don't tell!
They'd banish us, you know.
-Emily DickinsonA series exploring one potential outcome of Xie Lian discovering Wuming as a fractured ghost flame after he was banished for the second time.
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22 Nov 2025
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A Home Has a Family by ardenrabbit
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
17 Mar 2025
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"His Highness may call me anything he wishes."
Xie Lian doesn't have the imaginative energy to conjure up anything meaningful for this stranger, so he says, "In that case, you might as well be Wu Ming."
The ghost bows his head further. His shoulders sink slightly, less slumping and more settling into himself. It's like he likes the dehumanizing name.
He says, "'Wu Ming' is perfect."
Xie Lian's frown deepens. He tells him, "Pick a different one soon."
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After Xie Lian is tortured in his own temple, he wakes up in the care of a freshly-formed wrath ghost. "Wu Ming" follows him home and, with his carpentry experience, medical knowledge, street smarts, and fighting skills, makes himself indispensable to Xie Lian's family.
To protect Xie Lian from Bai Wuxiang, Wu Ming swears that he'll do whatever he must to get stronger, all the while becoming one more person that Xie Lian couldn't bear to lose.
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13 Oct 2025
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The bottle never shows up. Sora and Riku go on their own adventure. (KH2 canon divergence)
How one small change on that beach in the realm of darkness leads our heroes on a new journey together. Thrust into the midst of strange events and mysterious disappearances, they'll reunite with old friends, rekindle their friendship after being apart for over a year, wrestle with the darker sides of human nature, and maybe discover that their hearts are more closely intertwined than either of them realizes.
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17 Sep 2025
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Monoco’s station was just as it had always been, Gommage or no. The painted curves of it flowed and trailed, one long brush stroke after another. The snow stayed, and so did the grandis, the gentle petals of iron, the curve of playful trains.
Only Monoco had left. Only they had changed. And then they’d returned, and for what? To scavenge the chroma of corpses long gone to rest? To scrape the paint from a hundred abandoned creations?
Verso was tired.
“Yes,” he said, “I could have saved him.”
Or: Maelle brings Gustave back, and accidentally ties his soul to Verso. This changes things.
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- Part 8 of author's favorites
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04 Sep 2025
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Verso's smile widened, and Gustave knew with crystal clarity that the universe had a sick sense of humor. His Friday night blues had just become his Monday morning colleague.
"We've met," Verso said easily, still watching Gustave with those piercing eyes. "Haven't we, Gustave?"
The use of his full name was deliberate. Not a question, not a tease. A claim. It landed in Gustave’s gut like a stone, heavy and cold, followed by the slow bloom of heat at his throat where the bruises still ached.
He was so, so fucked.
Or: they say when you love a character so much you'd inevitably write them taking it up the ass
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03 Sep 2025
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Killing Me Slowly by captainimprobable
Fandoms: 薬屋のひとりごと | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | The Apothecary Diaries (Anime), 薬屋のひとりごと | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | The Apothecary Diaries (Manga), 薬屋のひとりごと - 日向夏 | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | The Apothecary Diaries - Hyuuga Natsu
06 Feb 2026
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Her headache is easing a bit, even without the Willow Bark, and she lifts her hands to rub her temples.
As she does so, a flash of red passes through her field of vision, which is curious, because she’s certain there is no red on any part of her wardrobe.
She lets go of her head and inspects her hands for any possible blood.
What she finds is far, far worse.
A single, fragile piece of thread is looped around her left ring finger. The thread is about a foot long, and she stares at it in horror as it flutters in the breeze from the window.
This has to be a joke.
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Maomao wakes up after her kidnapping to find that she's been sold of to the Palace as a servant girl.That she can handle.
What she can't handle is the much, MUCH worse issue of the little red string she finds around her finger.
(JinMao Soulmate AU!)
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24 Aug 2025
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nobody's son, nobody's daughter by memoryandmoonstone
Fandoms: 薬屋のひとりごと - 日向夏 | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | The Apothecary Diaries - Hyuuga Natsu, 薬屋のひとりごと | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | The Apothecary Diaries (Manga), 薬屋のひとりごと | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto | The Apothecary Diaries (Anime)
24 Nov 2025
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There's an odd girl at the back of the throng.
To the casual eye, she looks completely average. She wears the same soft cream and dull yellow uniform of the other girls around her. She is small and slight, and her cheeks are dotted with freckles. Among the other palace girls surrounding her, she blends in perfectly. She could be any girl from any far-flung village of Li.
But her eyes—they are what catch his attention. They are what draw him in.
Or: Snapshots of Jinshi and Maomao, throughout the years--of their scars, their mistakes, and a little red string that endures through it all. An exploration of love, fate, and the choices we make, told in twenty-six parts.
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19 Aug 2025
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Crow stiffens in shock. “You mean to tell me that you’ve known about another person with this power and did not think to mention it until now?”
The Phantom Thieves have just teamed up with the Detective Prince and things go smoothly in Sae's Palace until they reach the arena. With no way to fight the Shadows without risking their lives, they must turn to an old acquaintance in order to win the rigged game.
But maybe this other Persona user is more than they seem to be.
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- Part 2 of I Spy
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- 112,978
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- 33/?
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09 Jun 2025
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Undoing, he thought to himself, dizzy with adrenaline. He wanted Viktor to know what it was like to be left in pieces.
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or: Jayce learns to hunt.
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20 Dec 2024
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In the reflection of the puddle is the boy that’s too young to be a topside cashier he briefly interacted with at the parts shop, now following Jayce from above. The kid didn't want be noticed, evident when he hurriedly scrambles back on the roof, out of view of the puddle’s reflection.
Jayce makes a loud show of marching to the building the kid is on, and sets his box full of illegal parts down with a clatter. “Did I not give you enough to eat already, kiddo?”
Or: Jayce notices when Ekko is tailing him back to his apartment in episode one. This changes everything.
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15 Dec 2024
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“You remember my name, but little else.” It’s spoken as a statement for Jayce to confirm, not a question. “Nothing of how we met.”
Jayce edges closer to the barrier.
“No, not - Not technically.” He considers for a moment, and only a moment, what he should reveal. But if the parts of him that remember are insisting he put his faith in Victor, there must be good reason for it.
“I didn’t - don’t, remember you, but I know you. I can feel it.”
“How can you-”
“And I trust you, Viktor. Something tells me I’m allowed to do that.”
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Jayce wakes up in the Undercity beaten, imprisoned, missing his tie…And his memories. His kidnappers are demanding the formula for Hextech - A powerful energy source Jayce has never even heard of. He knows only one thing for certain, and that’s who he can trust. Even if it’s the man that kidnapped him.
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13 Dec 2024
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the line is covered in jellyfish by staroverlord
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), League of Legends
28 Dec 2025
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When Viktor finally asks why Jayce stayed behind inside the Anomaly with him, Jayce stares at him as though he’s supremely disappointed by the question— as if Viktor has betrayed his own brilliance by asking something so irredeemably stupid. “How could I not? We’re partners.”
Partners, Jayce calls them. Not for the first time, Viktor wonders: Partners in what?
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Or: Jayce and Viktor survive the Hexcore, a blizzard, their own bodies, sharing a bed and all the things they’re too afraid to say. Slowly, they put themselves back together— piece by stubborn piece.
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- Part 1 of the thin semantic line
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- 150,638
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- 11/13
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11 Dec 2024
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Nothing by halves by Cohali
Fandoms: Final Fantasy VII Remake (Video Game 2020), Compilation of Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, Final Fantasy VII (Video Game 1997), Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VII
09 Aug 2024
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Gaia can't be saved, Jenova's poison too far reaching and Sephiroth tied too closely to her Chosen One. Unable to break that bond, she chooses to steer into it. She completes their bond fully and sends Cloud back in time. This time, if one is killed, the other is halved. Cloud can work with that.
Sephiroth gains knowledge of this bond in vague dreams. A blonde warrior who is a sight to behold, but whose death would mean his own. If he is real, he must protect him at all costs.
Too bad nobody told Cloud what Sephiroth wants.
Or; that one time-travel fic where Cloud is just trying to save Gaia whilst avoiding Sephiroth until last. Sephiroth is just trying to find and protect the blonde warrior whose life is inexplicably tied to his own.
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- 47/50
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22 Jul 2024
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Halsin is heartbroken to realize that Gale feels worthless. He resolves to fix it by being the friend Gale deserves.
He does not expect that he'll fall for Gale in the process.
But there's another matter vying for his attention as well: the shadow curse.
How can he balance his old duty with his new one?Smut in Chapter 11
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23 May 2024
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Good Men and Monsters by Linnetagain
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), Dracula - Bram Stoker (Novel 1897)
07 May 2024
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“The world seems full of good men – even if there are monsters in it.” - Bram Stoker, Dracula
Usually, the long climb up the barren hillside means he sees any of his visitors coming long before they reach him. He knows all their faces too, by now; even the villagers who do not attend his services. This man is new.
He is well-dressed. Exceptionally well-dressed. Gale has seen neither cloth nor embroidery so fine since he arrived here. His stark white hair is precisely styled, the curls barely moving in the not inconsiderable wind.
He turns as Gale approaches. His hearing must be astonishing.
Gale almost does a double take. Though the fashion, when he was a boy, was to be pale, he has never seen a man as pale as this. His skin is like porcelain, like so many women would have killed to have been born with. There's something almost uncanny about it, in actuality. On the wind-blown clifftop, it makes him seem like a ghost. A beautiful ghost, undoubtedly. But a ghost, all the same.
“Good morning, and blessings be upon you,” Gale calls. The man’s placid expression twists, for a moment, into something like pain.- Language:
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29 Apr 2024
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Fell in Love with the Fire Long Ago by JonahsOdyssey
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
02 May 2024
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The only thing Gale knows about Baldur's Gate is that his closest friend packed up and left for it thirteen years ago and never returned. On a quest to find a dead man's enchanted heirloom for his goddess, Gale instead finds that very same friend six feet underground, with sharp teeth and cherry red eyes.
A wild thing, skittish and starving, with bared fangs and bloody claws; Astarion hardly recognises his wizard standing above him with a shovel and a slack jaw, gazing down at him like he just struck gold.
Alternatively: a childhood friends to lovers AU where Astarion becomes one of the "main 7" spawns much later on-- closer to the ritual-- and Gale is one lucky duck.
*Title from That Would I by Hozier
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14 Apr 2024
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To Gale, flipping through his sketchbook is like strolling down a well-trodden path through the luscious woods of his mind, basking in the warm light of his favorite people, places and comforts. It's one of the reasons he keeps the book near his chest, literally and metaphorically close to his heart.
And thus, having Astarion peruse his art is terrifying, indeed.
“Gods, you draw everyone so happy." There is, for once, no bite in it. It's almost gentle.
“I…” Gale fidgets with the pencil still in his hand. “I draw what makes myself happy.”
Astarion runs his finger along the outer edge of the drawing of himself and Scratch strangely reverently.
“Sentimental,” Astarion chides, harmlessly. “How very you.”
In which Gale catalogues the entire journey since the crash of the Nautoloid in a sketchbook he hasn't drawn in since his exile and Astarion has enough confidence in his art for the both of them.
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06 Apr 2024
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No new ways to mourn by skadii
Fandoms: Compilation of Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
09 Aug 2025
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They told him not to go up the mountain.
A hermit and an uninvited guest. A winter in an isolated cabin.
Or: a grave robber and his bonesetter.- Language:
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24 Mar 2024