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When Kotallo lost his arm, it was more than just a limb that he had lost. It was his prowess with a bow. It was his utility as a Marshal. His arm was gone, his life a ruin, and nothing would ever be the same.
It did not occur to him that this could be a good thing.
It did not occur to him that he could find new purpose in his life. It did not occur to him that an outlander with hair like blood and a spirit as fierce as blazefire would help him find that purpose.
With Aloy as his witness, Kotallo would find himself again, and nothing would ever be the same.
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In other words: a wish fulfillment fic where Aloy and Kotallo fall in love over the course of the game. Canon scenes and dialogue blended and padded out with introspection, cozy conversations, smut, and all the GAIA Gang bonding that we deserved. ❤Series
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20 Aug 2025
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She still remembers Rosts last lessons for her. Find something bigger than yourself. Turns out something bigger than herself had found her instead.
She still remembers her mothers lessons, well enough to guide her. Serve life, and she had. But life wasn’t done serving her.
———————-Elisabet lives, buried in snow. Aloy lives, buried in an old world relic.
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What would happen if Elisabet had met Aloy before Aloy knew who Elisabet truly was? And what would happen if Elisabet found her young clone, already shaped by her upbringing in a cruel yet kind new world?
This is going to have a lot of random details about things I find interesting. Mostly what food the tribes would serve, how their languages have evolved, and how Aloy is far less an outsider than she thinks (compared to Elisabet at least).
I’ve not played Forbidden west, won’t until it comes out on PC so any contradictory plot points will simply have to deal.
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15 Aug 2025
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I believe the world is burning to the ground (oh well, I guess we're gonna find out) by Slysupercorp
Fandoms: Horizon: Zero Dawn (Video Game), Horizon: Zero Dawn (Comics), Horizon: Forbidden West, Horizon: Burning Shores - Fandom
04 Jul 2023
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Another Elisabet lives AU through the events of Horizon Forbidden West and I add my humble cake to the buffet table. Excerpt:
It was stupid, childish, to fear one woman's reaction to her existence. After all, Aloy had faced down men three times her size, deadly hunter-killers, and extinction-crazed AI's--what was meeting the woman she was based on compared to all that? But still, the fear of rejection was there. Setting aside her childish desires to avoid her own pain, Aloy was forced to recognize that she needed Elisabet. It was hard to admit, but Aloy was failing in her mission to restore GAIA. Elisabet might be the only person in the world that would know where to begin.
In the end, it was this knowledge that leads Aloy to her decision. The world was more important than what Elisabet felt about a clone of herself.
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12 Aug 2025
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Hinokami by jasonthefricker
Fandoms: 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Manga), 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Anime)
14 Oct 2024
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The demon progenitor froze as he took in the figure in front of the small mountaintop home. Those earrings. That red blade. That stance. Fear gripped Muzan’s hearts as his mind ran wild with pure animalistic fear. There was no other explanation. Standing defiantly before him was a reincarnation of Yoriichi Tsugikuni.
Instead of a defenseless woman and her children, Muzan finds himself face to face with Tanjuro Kamado.
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AU where Tanjuro was born healthy. Unsurprisingly, things turn out a little differently.
Rated Mature for swearing and canon typical violence.
NOT DEAD I PROMISE, infrequent updates (because I suck lmao).
SPOILER WARNING (As much as an AU can spoil stuff. Best enjoyed by people who have read the manga to completion.)
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11 Aug 2025
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The Hogwarts Renewal Program by Leggo My Lego Harry Potter (Runic_Purple_Panda)
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, LEGO Harry Potter (Video Games)
14 Aug 2015
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Dumbledore always had faith in Snape, until Harry Potter pointed several things out to him. Dumbledore hatches a plan to see if Snape is as bad as rumors say.
*~*The prologue and first chapter of this story were previously posted on Fanfiction.net, but the story was left there uncompleted. Even if you read the chapters posted there, please reread the whole story. It has been revised, edited, and completed since then.*~*
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- Part 1 of Fanfiction.net: Revived and Revised
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16 Jul 2025
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how everything still turns to gold by rowenamacleod
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
25 Mar 2023
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“I never ask you for anything. Not- not to feel the way I felt, not to-” Tess starts, but Joel steps closer, interrupting her.
“Are you bit?”
“God damn it Joel, I’m trying to- will you just let me do this?” Tess’s eyebrows knit together in frustration, and Joel grabs her shoulders.
“I said are you bit, Tess?” Joel demands, and Tess glares at him, but shakes her head. “Then I’m not leaving you behind. So shut the fuck up and let me think.”
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30 Jun 2025
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Lay Your Weary Head Upon My Chest by MessyDepressy95
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
21 May 2025
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"When I say go, you go." He's panting, terrified and hurting like a son of a bitch from the chest strap of the seatbelt jerking tight, but he needs Tess to take one fucking command.
For once in her life, he needs her to listen to him.
"You slip through the wall, and you get Ellie the fuck out of here. I will find you after." Her lip curls into a snarl, fury and irritation chafing her expression. He knows that she's pissed, but they ain't smuggling partners on a run gone sideways right now.
They're parents.
"We don't get to leave, Joel. That was the fucking deal." And it still is. He's trying to get them all out alive.
That means she needs to run, and he needs to handle the fucking hunters opening fire in the direction of their family.
"I ain't leavin' and neither are you; this is just temporary." Hoping like hell he ain't lying to her, he tightens the strap of Ellie's sling and insures she's pressed tight against Tess.
He'll get back to them, and he'll mow down every fucker that tries to get in his way.
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Joel finds baby Ellie after Marlene fails to show up for Anna, he and Tess make the hard decision to raise her themselves.Series
- Part 1 of Teensy Baby Ellie
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30 Jun 2025
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the past coming back by mirananananan
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
03 Jun 2023
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“What’s so special about her?” Joel asks, finding his voice after his stare down with the little girl has ended. She has remained quiet through the whole exchange, breathing heavily and clutching to the backpack like it’s going to float away if she doesn’t.
“Doesn’t matter,” Marlene says. “You’re capable smugglers. I need her smuggled out. I don’t have any other options. You have to trust me that this is important.”
“We don’t smuggle kids,” Tess grits through her teeth.
“We’ll do it,” Joel interjects. If looks could kill, the one Tess is shooting him right now would have him dropping dead right where he stands. “As long as we get everything we need.”
or, an alternate universe where Joel & Tess meet Ellie eight years earlier under similar circumstances.
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29 Jun 2025
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kinder origins by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
13 Jun 2023
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His first reaction when the backpack he’s carrying starts fucking wiggling is irritation. It wouldn’t be the first time some juvenile fucker riding high on their own importance because FEDRA gives teenagers guns and calls it a day tried to pull a prank. He can only imagine what it is this time. A fucking raccoon? Bag of snakes?
He slings it down, irritated, and freezes when he hears an “Ow!”
An “Ow!” said in a very, very young voice.
“No,” he says at once, voice hard, like just saying it can make it not true. “Fucking-no.”
This isn’t happening, he thinks, as Tess stops to walk back to him. There’s no goddamn way there’s a fucking kid in-
The top of the backpack unsnaps and pops open.
And out emerges a tiny head with huge brown eyes and her hair in a little ponytail messy enough that he just knows she did it herself.
A little girl where there should have been drugs.
Jesus Christ.
(AU in which joel and tess meet ellie ten years ahead of schedule)
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- Part 1 of babyverse
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28 Jun 2025
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Future Proof by Capricordinary
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
19 Jun 2024
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Joel doesn’t remember anything beyond the outpost.
All he knows is that he was there, he lost consciousness and then he was all the way back in 2010. He woke up to his old, shitty apartment in Boston and the overwhelming feeling that he'd lost something.
Ellie. All those years leading up to and after finding her. Seemingly erased. Or yet to happen.
He doesn’t know how.
But he knows he has to find her.
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Joel is somehow transported into the past, well before any of the events of the Last of Us Season One take place. Armed with the knowledge of everything that happened the first time around, he makes it his mission to find four year old Ellie, reunite his family and find a safe place for them in the Wyoming wilderness. Once he establishes himself as Jackson's leader, he gets to work giving Ellie the childhood and the family she deserves.
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28 Jun 2025
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Of Love & Obligation by MissyMegs
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
28 May 2023
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“We do not owe any soul, except that which played the most vital role in our lives.” - Michael Bassey Johnson
At the end of the day, Joel doesn’t remember. He looks at the photo in Marlene’s hand and there’s a tug of recognition, a hook behind his naval that tells him, yes—he’s seen this woman before. But he doesn’t recall the feel of her weight beneath his, the curve of her hips, sinking himself into that warm body, so no—he can’t say for sure.
Fifteen years is a long time.
But then he sees the girl— Ellie, and he knows it’s true.
Where Marlene tracks Joel down to tell him he has a kid, then asks him to bring that kid across the country. How will Joel and Ellie cope when their roles are already clearly defined for them?
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27 Jun 2025
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Keep Going by stainedglasspanel
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
08 May 2023
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Joel sounds a thousand miles away. “Ellie? Are you listening? I said, don’t you *ever* do that again.”
Well, she thinks deliriously, that won’t be a problem after all.
“Ellie, what—?”
It feels like she has no control over her body anymore, like it’s someone else who is extending her arm, pulling back her sleeve, and exposing a ring of broken skin. She hears Joel stop breathing when he sees it too.
She's been bitten.
________AU where Ellie is already traveling across the country with Joel when she gets bitten.
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26 Jun 2025
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Before they can change the future, they have to read what would have happened.
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- Part 1 of Changing the Future
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16 Jun 2025
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She thinks it’s a joke at first when she finds out that Joel’s a patroller, too. She’s a veteran, so it was a simple thing for her to be assigned to the work as well, but the idea of gentle, loving Joel with a gun in hand, fighting and killing, is almost laughably absurd.
She doesn’t know how anyone could look at the man who spends hours on the porch with his daughter patiently teaching her guitar and think “yes, he’s good in a fight.” She doesn’t know how anyone could look at the man who regularly scoops up his fussy nephew and soothes him with an experienced parent’s deftness and think “yes, he’ll absolutely kill without hesitation.” She doesn’t know how anyone could look at the man who lets his teenager manhandle him to steal his food right off his plate because it makes her laugh and think “yes, he’s ruthless enough to take out a threat.”
She doesn’t know how anyone could look at Joel Miller and think he’d be a good patroller, and day by day, she worries about it more and more.
(a newcomer to jackson meets joel and thinks he's FAR too soft to be a patroller) (ft. outside pov of joel being a somft girldad) (and somft, period)
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12 Jun 2025
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skin deep by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
25 Feb 2023
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His first warning that something is very wrong is how quiet the house is.
“I’m home,” he calls, sitting down on their entryway bench with a groan and working his boots off. “Ellie?” He calls when he doesn’t get a response. Her boots are haphazardly discarded by the door as usual, so he knows she’s home, but she only rarely doesn’t come barreling down the stairs the moment the door opens, making his heart skip a beat each time with fear that she’s about to take a header in her excitement.
Even after the call, however, no Ellie appears.
(a fic covering Ellie giving herself a chemical burn to cover her bitemark)
(Joel would like if his kid would run plans past him for once)
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12 Jun 2025
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work study by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
11 Mar 2023
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In his many years of taking on jobs for too-little pay, there’s one assignment he’s never worked. The other workers call it the “preschool brigade,” the FEDRA-school kids sent out into the field for what they call “work experience” to get them used to the real world. Really, it’s a behavioral tool, he knows, an example of “better act right or you’ll end up like these poor fuckers when you’re grown.”
He's deliberately never worked on one, uninterested in being put in charge of a kid doing a dangerous job they shouldn’t be. The kids that get sent on the preschool brigade are the ones FEDRA doesn’t necessarily care about getting back, after all, and there are things even adults shouldn’t be doing, not as untrained as most of them are.
And then comes the day one of the FEDRA guards assigned to his work detail that leads over a sullen-looking girl, who kicks rocks the entire way.
(an AU in which ellie and joel first meet on job assignments)
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12 Jun 2025
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A woman is a changeling by treadlightlymydarling
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
23 Jul 2023
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Tess never intended to become a mother.
Some of the women she comes across in the QZ still call themselves that, mother, the first descriptor they’ll use for themselves, even though their children have been dead three or four times longer than they were ever alive.
The word they use for her is dangerous.
But now it comes down this, the woman who never wanted a kid and the man who has never gotten over losing one. A kid who has never known what it is to have a parent.
The woman who can’t even find the courage to ask Joel to love her, a man who can’t even refer to Tess as anything other than a business partner. A kid who doesn’t even understand what love is.
They’re an emotionally stunted trio who only have each other and it feels like a recipe for disaster.
(Tess lives).
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10 Jun 2025
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baby steps back by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
05 Apr 2023
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He chafes, a bit, in the compound.
He and Bill have their own reckoning after they arrive, a bit of feeling each other out. Frank and Tess are fast friends, and he and Bill have a grudging respect, but he knows he’s at a disadvantage here, with the favor he’s asking. It’s a very different thing, asking to trade versus asking to stay, but he knows that the compound is the safest possible place.
It scratches at him, needing a favor to keep Ellie safe, being unable to provide it on his own.
But that’s another thing about parenting he hadn’t quite remembered: you’ll do crazy things for your kid.
(little snippet of joel's pov from time in the compound in my half-step verse)
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- Part 2 of a half-step to the left
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a half-step to the left by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
26 May 2023
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It’s not that Ellie means to stalk the couple she catches lurking in the shadows at 1 in the morning after sneaking out of her dorm because sitting in the room alone was making it hard to breathe, but fellow curfew-breakers can hardly expect privacy. All’s fair in love and rule-breaking or whatever their English teacher said in one of the rare classes when they were learning something not related to FEDRA policy.
And there’s something in the way the man holds his hand out to help pull the woman up over a crumbled brick wall that she just can’t look away from.
There’s a gentleness there despite his size and obvious strength that makes her breath catch for just a second. It’s too far for her to hear what they’re saying, but the woman says something with a little half-smile and presses her hand to the man’s shoulder, and the casual affection of the gesture fills her with a nameless want.
So, trailing them at a distance it is.
(AU in which Ellie follows Joel and Tess around and meets them with no Fireflies involved)
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- Part 1 of a half-step to the left
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10 Jun 2025
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sanguine by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
20 Mar 2023
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He knows from the moment he sees Joel helping the girl down from the horse she’s on that something’s up. There’s an ease to the movement that says he almost certainly helped her up on the horse as well, and the way she moves with absolute trust that he won’t let her fall says there’s a bond there that’s had time to develop.
The girl sticks close to Joel’s side, eyes wary, as he guides her back over.
“This is Ellie,” Joel says before turning to her. “This is my brother, T-”
“Tommy, yeah. I heard. Not all of us have shit ears, grandpa.”
He blinks at the comment, but Joel doesn’t seem offended, even as he rolls his eyes.
This is his second hint.
(Ellie and Joel from Tommy's POV, ft. some jelly Ellie, Ellie whump, and family bonding)
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10 Jun 2025