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Thief King lives. He has a lot to answer for, and not many answers.
"Redemption" is an ugly word, and a false one. As a term it implies a set beginning and end, that someone is keeping track, that one day you will have done enough and simply wake up, forgiven. This is a lie. There is no great list of your evils to be crossed off one by one, if there's even such a thing as evil. There is only living, and tomorrow.
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The Cold Contempt of International Law, or, Her Jurisdiction by Melodic
Fandoms: Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Anime & Manga)
25 Oct 2025
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Approximately 30 minutes after the finale of Dark Side of Dimensions, in the back parking lot of the stadium, arrives: Ishizu Ishtar, furious and out of breath. Behind her: the car she had just gotten out of, parked haphazardly; her security detail, six armed Egyptian men; Marik Ishtar, sitting cross-legged on the hood of the car, holding his phone up, filming; significantly more out of breath and obviously the most nervous, a squat Japanese man that Kaiba recognized as the Japanese ambassador to Egypt.
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Serene by Melodic
Fandoms: Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Anime & Manga), Yu-Gi-Oh! - All Media Types
29 Nov 2023
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Everyone, according to the great sorcerers of Egypt, has a Ka, a monster within their soul they cannot see. Every monster was somebody’s monster, from great slavering beasts to the tiniest pixie. Three thousand years ago, a pair of familiar siblings find one of their own.
Or: Whose Ka was Red Eyes, anyway?
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After Yami Bakura's defeat and the return of everyone's souls to their bodies, Ryou Bakura leaves a voicemail.
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Rebecca Hopkins gets a new job.
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A king who forbade his own funeral. Grief written on the palace walls. A beggar buried as a queen. A sealed ring and a stolen horse. The first tombkeeper, the second, and the third.
The pharaoh is dead, long live the pharaoh. Set and the remaining priests rebuild.
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Abigail Rasmodius and the Tower of Disappointing Father Figures by Melodic
Fandoms: Stardew Valley (Video Game)
10 Feb 2023
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In which a young woman with violet hair discovers she has inherited magical powers and sets about learning to use them; a magician finally comes across the apprentice he has long sought; Pierre and Caroline get a divorce, probably.
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Madoka Kaname resets the timeline.
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Atem has come out the ceremonial duel not with death but with a life of his own, and with that comes questions, problems, paperwork. He'll need a checklist of things, a birthday, an address, a hometown, a last name. A weighty decision, a name. They already went through so much trouble getting the first one.
About being in the right-wrong body at the wrong-right time and the chances we never expected to get; about how I was always me and you are no one else but you, and we'll never be like that again, but there are still things we can share with each other.
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"Why don't you ever write me any letters? I'm dead too, you know. I might even decide to write back."
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Yami Bakura's plan in Duelist Kingdom succeeds, and he takes Mokuba as a new host body. Mostly succeeds, anyway. Maybe with a few annoying, unexpected hiccups. Mokuba Kaiba makes a new friend.
Plotting the earth's destruction is hard. Plotting the earth's destruction while being forced to cater to the whims of a spoiled, obstinate fifth grader, while avoiding the attention of his overprotective, over-observant older brother, might be harder. Surely this kid can't be more trouble than Ryou Bakura was, right?
...Right?
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Eve and Villanelle will die together, sure. That was always where their monsters would take them.
But not like that.
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Yugi tests out the beta for Kaiba's new Duel Links project, and finds something he didn't expect.
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Yugi Muto is small, and sweet, and powerless, but there is someone else in his head.
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Three's A Crowd by Melodic
Fandoms: Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Anime & Manga), Yu-Gi-Oh! - All Media Types
31 Dec 2021
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The dinner table at the Kaiba Manor had exactly three occupants. Seto Kaiba, sitting tall at the head; Mokuba Kaiba, ignoring the vegetables on his plate; and Noah Kaiba, in holographic form, him and his dinner projected out of Duel Disk left in the center of the table.
Nobody asked for this outcome, and nobody's happy about it. They're going to have to tolerate it anyway, whatever kind of family they are.
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The final scene of Dark Side of Dimensions goes differently. Kaiba doesn't make it to another dimension, and to his shock stays firmly in ours, because someone on the ground pulls the plug. Mokuba isn't a little kid anymore, and he's not going to sit back and let his brother throw himself into the great unknown. But is saving Seto Kaiba from himself going to be that easy?
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Spikes by Melodic
Fandoms: Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Anime & Manga), Yu-Gi-Oh! - All Media Types
30 Nov 2021
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"It looks good, right?" Yugi asked, standing in front of his bedroom mirror, covered in leather and spikes and chains and eyeliner, combat boots and a collar.
It's great, partner. Very... The other him searched for a word. Bold. And black.
(In which we answer the question: Why is Yugi Muto always in uniform, no matter where he goes?)
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Happy Place by Melodic
Fandoms: Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Anime & Manga), Yu-Gi-Oh! - All Media Types
15 Nov 2021
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"Aren't you Seto Kaiba?" asked the boy, no more than eight, with a gap between his front teeth and a KaibaLand t-shirt. "Why're you in line? Won't they just let you on the ride?"
"Cutting is against the rules." he said, as if that explained everything.
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The Most Delightful Sort of Rot by Melodic
Fandoms: Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Anime & Manga), Yu-Gi-Oh! - All Media Types
01 Nov 2021
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"I was thinking," Bakura said, "Why don't I take the train downtown tomorrow? There's that nice cafe, by the water. And I could take the ring, and throw it off the side of the bridge, and you would sink to the bottom of the river and no one would ever hear from you again."
It laughed at him. It always thought he was so funny, when he threatened it.
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The King of Thieves gets the acknowledgement he deserves, even too late to change anything.