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“Why come you to the realm of the dead?” Death asks, and Phainon doesn’t know how to answer.
Because Aglaea sent him. Because an entire people rely on him for salvation. Because the Flame-Chase is failing in their duty to protect Amphoreus from the relentless progress of Castrum Kremnos’s war machine. None of those responses are good enough; Death will demand more of him—more truth, more vulnerability.
“We need the crown prince of Castrum Kremnos to turn the tide of the war,” he says.
To stop the advance of Eurypon's war machine on Okhema, Phainon descends into the underworld to bring the long-dead Mydeimos back to life.
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Tim's dreaming about Jason. Jason's dreaming about Tim. These facts are not unrelated.
Or, dreamsharing for dummies.
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“So what were you thinking? Fake financial distress? Fake injury?”
“Fake boyfriend,” Jason said.
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snipers solve 99% of all problems by silentwalrus
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types, Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
22 Feb 2025
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Ed had thought, after the whole Promised Day, homunculus, entire country harvested for alchemical batteries thing, the batshit quotient of his life would have settled down some. He really ought to have topped out the meter with that one. But no. The bullshit is just getting started.
“Are you fucking kidding me,” Ed demands. “The wizards?”
Podfic & Chinese translation available! See notes
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The Truth Will Out (and you will pay your dues) by asthmaticbee
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga, Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
28 Apr 2024
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The Truth is this: a Toll is always paid, Something is always gained, and Death is always the end.
Sometimes, people refuse to pay their dues.
But the Truth will out.
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When Edward Elric uses alchemy to save his own life in a collapsed mine shaft, Truth drags him before the Gate and makes him an offer he cannot refuse.
He still resents the fact Truth grouped him with thirteen years old wizards in a magic school, though.
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Kagome is on her way to an interview. What's a few surprises along the way?
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- Part 7 of Shipping Shenanigans
- Part 13 of Kagome's Flower Festival
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Sometimes matchmakers can come in the form of lost toddlers looking for a dance partner.
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- Part 60 of Sinful Singularities
- Part 5 of Kagome's Flower Festival
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You love Caleb very much. You're so, so happy he's here.
You're so, so furious.
Some days you think that this anger is the only thing that sustains you.
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You had been born with the gift of Foresight, your dreams filled with possibilities and glimpses into the future. Usually, that meant nothing bad at all, most of the time your dreams were quite pleasant in fact. A lot of those dreams were inconsequential to you as well, giving you glimpses into the lives of strangers and on occasion equally strange places.
A small handful of times, however, your dreams were actually useful for you and your home. You were glad to help where you could and you never dreamed about yourself. Only ever of other people.
Until, one night, you dreamed of fire and of a man surrounded by writhing snakes. He turned his searing, golden gaze straight at you and you died screaming.
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“Do you always stare at strange sharks, little fish?” Wriothesley asks, rolling his tail in a lazy undulation, propelling himself in an indolent arc around Neuvillette’s body.
Neuvillette’s heart pounds in his chest, a wild and strange beating that he has never felt before. His mouth is somehow dry for all the water that floods it, and he finds himself trembling even though he feels nothing of fear.
“You are not strange,” Neuvillette says, turning in a slow revolution to match Wriothesley. “I know something of you.”
“Do you?” Wriothesley asks, and Neuvillette is once more keenly aware of the fact that Wriothesley is a predator.
After Neuvillette saves his life, Wriothesley offers him shelter from a deadly storm.
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Strapping the goggles and mask on, he gave the all-clear and hopped into the water. It was practically frothing with bubbles, and if the situation were less serious he might have made a joke about Finding Nemo and a bubble volcano, but as it stood he could barely see a thing and his anxiety was sky high.
Studying mers for upwards of a decade had given him a healthy respect for how dangerous they were when humans threatened their territory, let alone when they were brooding with a grudge. He wanted what was best for Big Red, and he was absolutely certain that Red did not know that yet. He’d feel a lot better about all this if they could actually see the mer, but with how frothy the water was, Tim could barely see two feet in front of him.
He had a desperate, fleeting hope that he wasn't about to be murdered, but the shifting shadows around him weren't very promising.
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- Part 1 of Free Willy: The Mer Edition
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When life gives you feathers by unknownlifeform
Fandoms: Compilation of Final Fantasy VII
07 Jan 2024
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Cloud finds out a new and distressing consequence of being a god's lover. He's not too good at coping with it, but what's new about that
[Set after the end of Rectify. It probably makes no sense without having read that]
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- Part 11 of Rectify and other divine tales
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When Yingxing’s respiratory illness worsens, he takes his physician’s suggestion to move away from the air pollution of the cities. Finding an appropriate location on a remote mountain, Yingxing makes his new home there. One day, he meets a dragon.
Yingxing has been in his new home for a month when the incidents begin. […] He adds more security measures, locking the windows and double barring the doors, putting up wards, but it keeps happening. He’s beginning to genuinely freak out—how the hell is whoever or whatever it is still getting in? —and then one evening, he returns from the forge to find the edge of a small paw print on the disturbed blueprints on his home desk.
The little guy seems to have inadvertently stepped in Yingxing’s unwashed inkstone, tracking a small smudge of ink onto the papers like a guilty delinquent leaving behind their dirty fingerprints.
feat. Dragon!Dan Feng who can shift between his full size, mini dragon, and human forms.
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It's been three years since Nyx was sealed away and the Dark Hour ended, and three years since Shinjiro woke up from a coma. He's still not convinced he deserves the peaceful, normal life he's living, anymore than he's used to enduring one less hour through the night.
He can only suspect Kotone feels the same disconnect with their new reality.
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Sylus has been your closest friend for more years than you can count. You thought he’d never return your feelings — but a threat to your life changes things between you, forever.
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- Part 4 of We'll Never Have Sex
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After he had rejected your initial advances, you and Sylus had become the closest of friends. But your relationship still takes on a shape neither of you can quite define. Sylus regrets. You’re kept in the dark.
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- Part 1 of We'll Never Have Sex
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He shifted his gaze away quickly, as if that alone could rid him of the thought. As if it could erase the heat creeping into his chest, the dangerous weight of longing settling in his bones.
It was foolish.
He knew better.
You were a Lady, meant for greater things than him. Meant for a world of silken gowns and gilded halls, of noble alliances and carefully arranged futures. He was not written into that story. He was nothing more than a weapon at your side, a shadow that ensured you never came to harm.
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“I realize I’ve made a grave error,” Yoo Joonghyuk tells him. “I would appreciate it if you found it within yourself to forgive me.”
Kim Dokja’s fingers still on the page.
“Did your tutor teach you that?” He asks idly. “Five stars for the delivery. It certainly fell flat, as most formal apologies do.”
His detached attitude grates at Yoo Joonghyuk’s nerves. Yoo Joonghyuk is trying, alright—he’s not good at apologising because he’s never really had to apologise before, but he’s doing his goddamn best to tell Kim Dokja that he’s sorry for being an asshole even though being an asshole is his default setting—
“So you are aware that you’ve been an asshole,” Kim Dokja says, and Yoo Joonghyuk realises he’s just said that all out loud. “I’m glad you’re self-aware. The first step to fixing the problem is recognising you have a problem.”
“God,” Yoo Joonghyuk bites out. “Why are you being so difficult?”
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AITA for not appreciating my boyfriend’s “grand romantic gesture”?