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He catches sight of V in a window, glaring down accusingly at him. “Don’t look at me like that,” he tells her, but her expression doesn’t change, ‘cause he’s the one making it.
It hits him, then. This is it. He’s gonna wake up every day to that reproachful stare, spend every moment of the time he has left wrapped in a living reminder of his greatest failure; the promise he couldn’t keep.
Something cloying and sharp surges up inside him and he breaks her gaze, ducks into a grimy alcove behind a set of concrete stairs. Doubled over, braced against the wall, his head spins as breath catches in his lungs, choking; suffocating.
“Oh, V,” he gasps. “The hell am I supposed to do?”
There’s no answer, of course. Johnny’s alone.--
Johnny wakes up in V's body and struggles to come to terms. It certainly doesn't help that elements of her old life keep getting thrown at him, no matter how hard he tries to make a clean break.
A fic bridging the gap between the game's climax and the Temperance ending.
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- Part 3 of A Cool Metal Fire
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V takes a swallow of her tequila and can’t help but notice it’s Johnny’s preferred brand. For some reason that, of all things, really sets her off.
“If you spent the past fifty years in a coma,” she blurts out. “Regrettin’ to hell and back everything that went down ‘tween you and the person you cared about most, an’ then by some miracle, you actually get the chance to say what you wish you coulda said back then...”
She’s aware it’s gotta be the liquor talkin’ at this point, but fuck, ain’t no one else in the goddamn world she can vent to about this shit. “I mean, why the fuck would you pass that up?”
It registers, then, that Kerry’s starin’ at her strangely, mouth slightly agape. “Wha—what’d you say?” he stammers.
Just then Johnny snaps into being, interposing himself between her and Kerry. “Not another fuckin’ word, V.”--
A series of vignettes largely focusing on V and Johnny's relationship and its progression over time. Each chapter is a standalone short story, arranged roughly in chronological order. The events therein are original to this fic, but are placed within context of where they would fall in the canon.
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- Part 1 of A Cool Metal Fire
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Johnny reaches into V's pocket and fumbles out the pills floating around there. Pseudoendo-fuckin’-trizine. All of ‘em. She must’a mixed ‘em up, didn’t bother checking she had the right damn ones.
“V, you fuckin’ gonk,” he hisses, but it’s too late, she’s already gone, and he’s left there, alone, standin’ in front of cop choom’s fuckin’ trailer.
He turns ‘round real quick—maybe he can delta the fuck outta there ‘fore he’s spotted—but he hasn’t gone five steps when a hand clamps down on his shoulder.
“V! There ya are. C’mon in, Joss’s just gettin’ started on dinner.”
Fuck, Johnny thinks as River Ward, smiling down at the person he believes is V, steers him into the trailer. Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck.--
Wanting nothing less than to attend another family dinner with River and the Kutchers, Johnny convinces V to take the Omega Blockers so he can fade blissfully into the background. Except neither of them accounted for V popping the wrong pill, and before he knows it, Johnny is faced with his worst possible nightmare: having dinner with a cop.
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- Part 2 of A Cool Metal Fire
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Red Cliffs, Black Hearts: True Tales of the Far Continent by Meglos for meadmeinthemiddle
Fandoms: Dishonored (Video Games)
15 Jul 2025
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Close to thirty years ago, Lord Preston Moray, his wife Vera, and a handful of scholars and explorers charted a course to the Pandyssian Continent. But what transpired on those distant shores, exactly, remains a mystery to this day. Using veritable accounts taken from witnesses to the events therein, I aim to compile a volume that sheds light on their fateful journey... and of the dark truths and terrible secrets they uncovered.
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An aspiring author’s gathered research pertaining to the Pandyssian expedition of 1807, to be used in the writing of a book on the subject. The book, sadly, was never published, but the collected material remains.
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All the Devils Are Here by Meglos
Fandoms: Pirates of the Caribbean (Movies), Pirates of the Caribbean: The Price of Freedom - A. C. Crispin
30 Jun 2025
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“And what of you, Mr. Sparrow?” Beckett set his empty glass down. “What do you desire, at the end of all this?”
Sparrow downed his third—or perhaps fourth—drink. “Me? I’m a simple man. Ship’s deck beneath my feet, bottle of rum in me hand, pair of buxom wenches at my side—call me satisfied.”
Beckett leaned forward. “Is that so?”
The captain paused in the midst of pouring his next glass. “’Spose I could go for a few barrels of rum, maybe three or four wenches...”
“Why stop there, Jack? Why settle for a ship when you could have the whole fleet?”
Sparrow finally met his eyes. “I admit, I do like the sound of that.”--
When Cutler Beckett finds himself in need of a new captain, there is one promising candidate within his sights. But Jack Sparrow's ambition rivals only his own, and the two find their fates more closely intertwined than either could have possibly imagined...
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A collection of my Cyberpunk fics. All set roughly within the same continuity and keeping largely to the canon of the game, but can be read in any order.
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After the Fall by Meglos
Fandom: Dragon Age (Video Games), Dragon Age II, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age: Origins
21 Aug 2023
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This series details the aftermath of Hawke remaining in the Fade after the events of Dragon Age Inquisition, and the effects this has on those she left behind.
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