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One kidnapping is fine, two are classified as an ISSUE by MidnightLightHowlite for Holy_Mother_Of_Whumpers
Fandoms: EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums), Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, The Odyssey - Homer, The Iliad - Homer
17 Jun 2025
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Hector loved his siblings.
He barely liked any of them.
Wait, no, this was uncharitable. He liked his siblings a fair share. He even made a great effort to like and get along with Paris, his new brother who was charming and not much else.Helen's presence made sense. Paris had…. Won her (somehow) in a divine contest (why was their family the target of divine attention, why?), and now she was Hector’s oversees possible warfare problem to handle.
The man…. That was a surprise.
or: Paris kidnaps Helen and Odysseus decides to join. As a treat
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Woes of a war prize by MidnightLightHowlite for Holy_Mother_Of_Whumpers
Fandoms: EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums), Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
29 May 2025
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He used to think a lot. He used to be good at it, praised even. He used to have a goddess drip praise into his ear and mold his mind between her fingers till it spilled strategies.
Odysseus of Ithaca used to be respected for his thinking, up until his thinking didn’t work – or his thinking didn’t account for traitors – and Odysseus of Ithaca became the slave of the hallways, and, on good days, the man in Paris’ bedchamber.or:
The greeks lose the war. Some die, some live
few live
Odysseus is one of the few(inspired by "Left behind and forgotten" by Holy_Mother_Of_Whumpers)
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You must carry all the blame by MidnightLightHowlite
Fandoms: EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums)
08 Nov 2024
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He offered something to the King of Gods, and apparently, the offer had been generous enough to have him whisked away. The crew, the one last solitary ship, remained still on a windless sea, going no direction for the whole night. Odysseus was returned to them at the crack of dawn, neither beast, nor the man from Ithaca.
He’d only said one thing. “We are free of debt” with none of the triumph the accomplishment would require. The ship started to move, not a lot, but at least it was something different than the stillness of the night, and the crew allowed themselves to breathe.or
Ody finds a way to appease Zeus and the crew doesn't die.
Ody is Not Okay after it -
What we left outside the cabin by MidnightLightHowlite
Fandoms: Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan
26 May 2024
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He hadn’t allowed himself to miss his friends either. If they were even his friends. Armin tried to keep them out of his head for as long as he could, because whenever he went back over his fondest memories, they were somehow bitter and stained. Even the small moments of happiness were marred by him always running behind Eren and Mikasa.
It’s just that, when they were kids, they’d allowed him to catch up.or
Eren and Mikasa run away. The Rumbling doesn't happen.
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Ghost of a deep winter night by MidnightLightHowlite
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
19 Oct 2023
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There was a thing in the corner.
It was watching her. Haunting her.
There was a thing in her face and a thing in her head, and they were there to stay.
There is a person in her life, a person outside of it, and there is still time to do something about itor
Jinx is visited by the ghosts of Christmas. Zaun style, of course -
Let me show you the sky by MidnightLightHowlite
Fandoms: Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023), Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008)
03 Oct 2023
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Vash is happy.
He's been happy for so long, he likes being happy. He doesn't need more.
He likes more. He liked Meryl, he likes to hear her talk, to see her smile, he likes her.
Nai doesn't.or: Vash and Knives are cult leaders. Knives doesn't like Meryl putting thoughts of freedom into his brother's head.
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Ways to want things by MidnightLightHowlite
Fandoms: Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023), Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008)
06 Sep 2023
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Wolfwood is not used to wanting
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5 times when Meryl helped Wolfwood post July and one time he returned the favor -
How do you love someone into breathing? by MidnightLightHowlite
Fandoms: Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023), Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008)
26 Aug 2023
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Hanahaki is common with grief. Love with no place to go. Sounds poetic. Sounds pretty. It also looks pretty, the flowers are usually fresh and smell beautiful.
It doesn't feel pretty or beautiful. The thorns are scratching at her throat. She can feel them in her lungs as they're digging their way out. Meryl wants to stick her finger in her throat, grab and pull them, but when she tries she only finds the gag reflex.
For a while, it must be grief. Wolfwood said so. It's just Roberto, it's just July, it's something that's dead and can't affect her anymore. She needs to cry it out and feel better. She tells herself she work on herself and survive it - does she really even want to?
But there comes that first flower, that first gods damned flower and she knows.
Vash calls them geraniums -
I can promise you tomorrow, and not much more by MidnightLightHowlite
Fandoms: Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023), Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008)
18 Jul 2023
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That’s when he noticed her nails. Raw and bitten, fingers tense and off around the fork. There were small spasms going through them, and Wolfwood plucked the fork from her fingers and brought her knuckles to his lips. Her pads were calloused, and she didn’t shoot enough to warrant it. It must be the driving.
“How are you?”
“I’m fine” she said, and sounded just like Vash.or
the boys trying to protect Meryl has less than stellar effects on her mental health -
Memories of a passenger seat by MidnightLightHowlite
Fandoms: Trigun Stampede (Anime 2023), Trigun (Anime & Manga 1995-2008)
27 Apr 2023
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“I haven’t forgiven you” she dived back for a kiss, and Wolfwood didn’t have time to react this time either. “But my room is upstairs.”
“Little miss?”
“We can keep it as sex.” if it’s purely physical, she didn’t have to think, to ponder, to get hurt. She could handle just sex. They probably both can, especially when they’re just using each other to fill the JuLai sized void left inside. She could do just sex, she could do something hot and emotionless and bury the rest inside the same casket she’d buried Vash, Roberto and all the feelings that feel too big to handle with no one to prod from the passenger seat. “We can keep this simple and not care. We can just use each other.” She’s giving him all the outs he could possibly want, he just needed to take it. He just needed to kiss her and not speak, he just needed to be gone in the morning so he didn’t see her regret it.Or: neither wolfwood nor Meryl deal extremely well with surviving Julai. But they did, and they have to live with it. And each other
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Grieve the living by MidnightLightHowlite
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
15 Aug 2022
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Jinx was going to fix it. She could, for once in her life, she could, she could make it better. Little man made the watch and Jinx took it and it was going to be okay.
Jinx went to fix things. H
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Every Scar a Luxury by MidnightLightHowlite
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
19 Jun 2022
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Singed doesn’t sedate him this time. There’s no need.
Jinx is unconscious for most of it. Well, dead, more accurately, but Silco doesn’t think it that way. The first time Singed put him under so he didn’t have to watch. He knew he wouldn’t be able to bear his child’s suffering.
He couldn’t bear it for a decade and he’d left her to rot, so this time he watches. He watches and he holds her cold, rigid hand while the doctor works, looks into her face so he doesn’t have to watch the doctor cut her open like a fish and meddling with her insides till something starts to tick.
It’s her heart. Pulse in frigid hand, no grip to follow.or: Silco made a choice. Now everyone has to live with it
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If we're to go by first meetings... by MidnightLightHowlite
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
30 May 2022
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Ekko expected many crazy things to happen at the afterparty.
an over dedicated cosplayer wasn't one of them
or, day three of TB week, true damage au
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The toll it takes to make it by MidnightLightHowlite
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
28 May 2022
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Ekko is tired. In Zaun, no one takes survival for granted, and maybe it's this that kills him in the end. Not the fight, but the lack of change, of things being solved, the constant amount of suffering and no amount of payoff.
Ekko is tired, and this choice feels less like so and more like a consequenceOr: Timebomb week day 2 - Corruption
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Chicken fries fiend by MidnightLightHowlite
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
27 May 2022
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Powder doesn't like Caitlyn. Powder doesn't like many things, but Ekko isn't one to comment on it. He's getting fries and a milkshake, and Powder's chicken nuggets when she's not careful. He can't ask for more
or: baby timebomb tries to runi Caitvi's first date, stumble into their own in the process
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Shall your grief not be in vain by MidnightLightHowlite
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
29 Apr 2022
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It’s a big day for Zaun. The day Piltover acknowledged them as independent, the day contracts were signed by people with knives under their nails and not enough care to fake a smile. That day would get put into the annals of history as a great one, a grand one, where names would be written to be remembered and small people nothing but a footnote in the wake of propaganda.
It was a great day, a grand day, one fit for celebration everyone was too bloody to care about.
It was the day a father held the corpse of his daughter, and a fighter the corpse of her sister. A day of mourning draped in drinks and joy, a day of blood and glory.or Jinx dies and Vi and SIlco must deal with it
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Lives we break, promises we never get to make by MidnightLightHowlite
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
21 Mar 2022
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The tragedy is that we all have favourites. A parent might claim to love all their children equally, and they never consider a day that belief will be challenged, but it is. And it's true and tragic to have to choose.
Vander was forced with that choice, same way he was forced all those years back to choose one city over one brother, today he chose three kids over one.
That is, once again, a choice he'll never forgive himself.or
Vander survives the monkey bomb
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Soulmate graveyard by MidnightLightHowlite
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
19 Feb 2022
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Powder only has one by the time she goes on the bridge to Vi’s three. She has two by the time they leave it.
or the platonic soulmate retelling of the show, angst included :)
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Soft scented soaps by MidnightLightHowlite
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
13 Feb 2022
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Sevika didn’t exactly know how Jinx managed to fall into the river. The woman was honestly more impressed by the girl surviving the fall, and had been silently judging him for his worry. This was Zaun, the river water was one of the least likely things to actively kill you. Not harmless, but there were worse things. “Brats swim there in summer, she’ll be fine!” She’d said. Had it been anyone else, Silco would have agreed, but Jinx hadn’t exactly been chosen at random, so it would only be her luck to get an infection.
His whole face is burning and he can’t wipe it away. His skin feels like it’s melting, poison stinging through his bones, but his eye is the worst offender, one hot iron orb in the center of his skull. He wants to pull it out, to dig his fingers where his eyelid used to sit and scrape off the muscle till the pain is no longer there.
“Does anything hurt? Sting?” He asked, and she sniffed but shook her head. “Jinx, I’m not mad.”
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What's broken can still mend by MidnightLightHowlite
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
04 Jan 2022
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He hates her as much as she loves him, for nothing good ever happened to people who loved her back. But he cares, and that's different because people who hate you but also care will not forget, because they will forget a kindness but not a curse. People remember curses, remember misfortune if only to avoid it, and she's enough of a sin to be unforgivable.
He cares with his arms. His mouth licks and bites, for he, too, wants to be remembered. His fingers bruise flowers she likes to trace, he bruises the hate and the kindness she so craves. But his arms love, with warmth and security, with the knowledge that falling leaves a place to land. His arms hold her like she's something precious.