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What happens when the dust has settled and life returns to something like normal?
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18 Oct 2025
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The ending we deserve. Beautifully written
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An ex-cop with a family to repair meets an ex-corpo with demons and a death sentence. Two paths, diverging and converging. Two broken chords, ascending and descending, chasing each other through the hook into a strange and beautiful chorus. Their song could be an anthem or a tragic requiem, but we won’t know which it is until the final notes have played.
The grisly work at Edgewood is finished, but V and River aren’t done with each other just yet.
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A RiverV romance-noir, picking up after "The Hunt." Canon-adjacent with some significant divergence and original content/storylines.Series
- Part 2 of 91.9 Royal Blue
- Part 5 of 💽 cyberpunk fics
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Bookmarked by NClegend
20 Aug 2025
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Intricate beautiful writing. Interesting pairing of a flawed, troubled V and a stoic self-assured River.
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River isn't perfect, but in skew of the neon, he's as good as she's ever had. In her final days, V wonders just where their relationship means. A cop--a family man with a kindness unfitting his profession, and a half-dead merc. It shouldn't work, and maybe it doesn't, but V thinks it might be just what she needs.
[A short character study where I try to make River/V work, might not be for the true river/v fanatics out there.]
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18 Oct 2025
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CorpoV/River dynamic interpretation, very well put.
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He learns early on that there are different versions of her depending on the situation. Some are obvious. V with a drop of someone else’s blood smeared on her cheek. Valerie asleep in his bed, rolled up into a ball with her mouth slightly open. There’s a third he’s been noticing, someone he can’t name, more brash than V, less open than Valerie. Less comfortable than Valerie and more reckless than V. Rude, almost.
When she comes to his house and sits on the porch with her legs up on the table and a lit cigarette dangling from her lips, he knows that mysterious third is here but he doesn’t know what to call it.
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18 Oct 2025
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If you want a bit of fluff but mostly angst
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He uses his thumb and index finger to pinch her lips together into a pout. She knows he can feel her pulse on her lips, the pounding of her heart echoing through her body like she’s hollow.
“Blow,” he says.
The men in V’s life teach her how to blow smoke rings.
Bookmarked by NClegend
18 Oct 2025
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Who would have thought simple things like blowing smoke rings could be so tender and bittersweet.