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    My writing one-shots and warmups that were never finished for some reason or other. All stories in this series are up for adoption or adaptation!

    RULES!
    1) All adopted/adapted stories must be credited. You may copy/paste first chapters, but make sure you use the 'inspired by' box when posting.

    2) All works must stay on Ao3. No Goodreads, no fanfiction.net, no wattpad, etc. Fics found posted off the archive will be reported

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    Douma frowned, understanding nothing but his mothers weeping. Had he failed to listen? Did he do something wrong?
    He was so young at the time, barely comprehending the men and women that came each day to spill their worries. What was so important about these names on his wrist?
    It had been his father that came back with a thick wrapping and a knife. The edge of the metal gleamed underneath the artificial light, glinting in a silent promise he was too young to understand.
    “Keep this on.” His father had demanded, wrapping his wrist tight enough to make him wince. The names slowly disappeared from view, pretty designs hidden underneath blank cloth. “You can never show anyone these markings, understand?! These names are meaningless.”
    Douma blinked, confused.
    What was his father talking about? But he wasn’t allowed to ask that, he was only here to help people. His own worries and curiosity didn’t matter.
    “Okay, Founder. I understand.”

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    15 Sep 2025

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    “Oh,” he exhales. “You’re not in love with me anymore.”

    Hua Cheng seems to come to perfect stillness, somehow, improbably more so than he was before.

    “I never was.”

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    A year after Jun Wu is defeated, Xie Lian sees the light of three thousand lanterns in the sky, and his heart rejoices. Hua Cheng is back! Only instead of running into Xie Lian's arms, he breaks up with him. Xie Lian is devastated, but that is only the beginning...

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    12 Aug 2025

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    It has been millennia since Xie Lian’s second banishment.

    Millennia since Hua Cheng—the scourge of Heaven, the Crimson Rain Sought Flower, the Supreme Ghost King—slaughtered 33 gods and turned his demonic gaze on the banished Flower Crowned Martial God.

    Xie Lian has eluded the Ghost King at every turn. For centuries. Hiding is all he knows. He’s gotten very good at hiding.

     

    Podfic available, performed by the dazzling and divine EchoandtheVaskians *ugly cries*

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    10 Aug 2025

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    Following Verosika's Hallows Eve party Stolas has to face some uncomfortable truths about his actions.

    But what if he could do things differently? What if he had the chance to learn to be better? That's exactly the question he tries to answer the way he solves all of his problems: with magic.

    Now he has the chance to do it all over again, starting from the morning after Blitzø took his grimoire. Will he make the same mistakes or will he learn from them?

    Or: Stolas uses his second chance to work for I.M.P. rather than making the full moon arrangement and Blitzø catches feelings for his new office manager.

    Note: if you're looking for an anti-Stolas story, this isn't it. This is a tale about taking responsibility and making the most of the chances we are given to do better <3

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    25 Jun 2025

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    Horror strikes him down where he stands, then. He sways, stumbles to put his back to the living room wall. Harry is woozy in disbelief, watching the two words slashed into his chest in livid red just like the scar on his forehead. ‘AVADA KEDAVRA.’

    He knows those words, the first he can remember, his earliest memory. It feels like he hasn’t breathed in minutes. When he comes back to the moment, he finds that perhaps he hasn’t. Harry gasps for air like a fish does for water, and doesn’t find it. His back has slid down the wall somehow and his hands grip his head, hair clenched in fists.

    Then he realizes he’s actually panting, a ringing in his ears, blocking out whatever it is people are saying to him. Hermione crouches in front of him where he can’t possibly miss her, palms settling gently on his knees.

    “Harry,” she’s saying. “Harry, it’s going to be alright.”

    How?

    How can it ever possibly be alright again?

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    In a world where the first words you ever speak to your soulmate appear once both soulmates have turned seventeen, Harry receives a bit of bad news.

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    In which Harry fashions himself into a war bride.

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    07 Apr 2025