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    Reaping Eve is a holiday in District 4, where no one enters the arena except by choice. The families of young children celebrate their safety; the Elites who will volunteer have been training for this moment all their lives. But on Reaping Eve of the 65th Hunger Games, there's an accident. On Reaping Day, there's a dare. Equal parts cocky and compassionate, fourteen-year-old Finnick volunteers against Mags' instructions. Somehow that's all it takes for the system to start breaking down, especially for the most prominent Elite family in Four: the Crestas. Watching from home as a newly minted celebrity demolishes the competition isn't what they'd planned on.

    Or: It's all well and good to live in a Career district and know someone will always volunteer. But someone has to be the person who's been told from birth that his highest calling is to be a human sacrifice.

    Shout out to CryptidGrimnoir137 as my sounding board, including prompting the original idea.

    Marked complete because the original ending is complete. Alternate ending updates occasionally.

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    19 Jan 2026

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    Wei Ying grins. "I mean…. Future 'me' can kind of just reach back to a point where past 'me' made a bad mistake and kind of…. Whack me upside the head?"

    That actually startles a laugh out of his little brother. "You're gonna whack your brains out someday," he predicts.

    Wei Ying sniffs, pointedly folding the talisman and tucking it back into his sleeve. "Excuse you! This is only in case of emergencies! Anyway, all of my ideas are great so I'll probably never have to-- hey!"

    Jiang Cheng watches Wei Ying glare accusingly at him, the way he always does when Jiang Cheng smacks him for making a bad joke. Joke's on Wei Ying, though, Jiang Cheng hasn't moved an inch.

    "Maybe future 'you' already knows you're a dumbass," he says, with no little amusement.

    "I--" Wei Ying tries to hide it, but that's definitely another flinch. Somewhat subdued, he brings a hand to rub beside his ear. "…Maybe."

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    03 Jan 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 68

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    Wei Wuxian dies during the siege of the Burial Mounds thinking, at the very least, he’s earned some peace.
    He’s wrong. His soul doesn’t scatter to the void. No, it’s caught, pinned, and informed – very politely – that this is what happens when you break the rules of the living and the dead in the same lifetime.

    “You stepped beyond mortal bounds,” he’s told. “You created an abomination that should never have existed...”

    And Heaven, apparently, has time to hold a grudge.

    So, as punishment: he doesn’t get to rest. Not in this afterlife. His soul becomes bound to resentment itself, condemned to rise again wherever the cry for vengeance is strong enough to drag him back. Whoever they are, whatever they’re suffering, whatever they can’t finish – that’s his problem now.

    Strangers’ faces. Strangers’ lives. Strangers’ revenge plots.

    He wakes in the middle of all of them, expected to put things right with whatever strength the body has left. And of course he does, because it’s not like saying “no” has ever worked out for him.

    Resentment calls.
    Wei Wuxian answers.

    And it doesn’t take long for the living to realize the Yiling Patriarch never actually stayed dead.

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    03 Jan 2026

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    It almost feels like, if Dean went to sleep right now, he could get it back. Like he would slip right back into the dream, and it would pick up where it left off. But Dean doesn’t even want to, now that he can see that world for what it is: a cheap hallucination, poking at all his weaknesses, going right for the soft underbelly Dean never shows.

    All that work. All that work Dean had done over the past few weeks, trying to numb himself and act like he’d forgotten about it. And now it feels like the Empty took Cas all of five minutes ago, all over again.

    Or,

    A post-15x19, forty one year-old Dean gets a taste of what twenty seven year-old Dean went through in 2x20, “What Is and What Should Never Be,” and sees how the shape of his own happiness has changed. Then life goes on, same as it ever was—except for the dreams he starts having at all hours of the day, and a familiar voice on the phone that's starting to sound a little too real.

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    03 Nov 2025

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    A man wakes up in a ruined wasteland, without memories, without a name, without knowing the strange guy who claims to once have been an angel, or that he once had a little brother. All he knows is that the world is dying, everyone is lying to him, and that somehow, somewhere, something went terribly wrong. Because someone said Yes when they should have said No, and someone else paid the price.

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    03 Nov 2025