OnceThereWasAPondering
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The player character of Need for Speed: Heat had to come from somewhere, maybe this was their beginning.
Showing up in Palm City without even a car to race in? She just rolls into town and then takes over the scene like she was fated to be there.
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Aang's energybending fails, and the war is lost. But before the gaang can blink, they wake up in the past, on the day that Katara and Sokka found the Avatar.
The war's a lot easier to win when your biggest enemies are on your side from the beginning.
Ft. the gaang's antics, loads of dramatic irony, and literally the entire Fire Nation being confused as to why, when, and how the banished prince got happy emotions and friends...
The first 5 chapters were written in 2020, and the (minor!) rewrite and all subsequent updates started 2025-06-01. If you want to see the work as it was before the rewrite began, the original work can be found using this link to the Wayback Machine!!
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- Part 1 of "A Second Chance"-verse
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Bookmarked by OnceThereWasAPondering
21 Oct 2025
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Well, that was sure fast! Amazing what you can get done when you dont have to level grind and spend time on side quests. Sokka puts together a plan to speedrun gathering their group members and then they charge the castle; straight forward and simple, but it works.
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When Juno and Minerva told him he was going to die if he activated the device to save the world, he believed them. They had no reason to lie and Minerva’s expression made it clear that she had been worried. Whether she had been worried about him or about the future of the world if Juno got out, Desmond didn’t know.
But he couldn’t help but think that Minerva had a hand in all these.
That the reason why he woke up in the city of Jerusalem during the 12th century was because of something she did.
Still…
He would have appreciated it if she didn’t also return him to his 16-year-old body.
Now, having no idea what to do, Desmond decided to let history play out the way it did before and made his way to Alamut to be inducted into the Brotherhood without being part of Masyaf.
This way he could monitor everything without being in the middle of it.Unfortunately, he forgot one important thing.
Everything he knows of this time period was based on Altaïr’s memories.
And, thanks to how different Abstergo’s Animus was from Rebecca’s, Altaïr’s memories had always been incomplete.
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- Part 1 of Eagle of Alamut
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Bookmarked by OnceThereWasAPondering
20 Oct 2025
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Wowowowowow, this story is a colossal undertaking of historical references and world building. Desmond may introduce a few (tons) anachronistic sayings and ideas to Altair's time, but its for the good of the people, honestly. The real person Fanfiction that ends up happening is just an embarrassing... bonus? This story has politics, murder, romance, and lots of discourse on what it means to enact free will. Desmond gets through this new shot at life by being badass, kind, and willing to make jokes. Lots of OCs and side characters get brought into the mess he makes of the timeline.
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Time Is Never Found Again... Or Is It? by blahblahblah1703
Fandoms: Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games (Movies)
04 Oct 2023
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And when she opens her eyes again, she found she isn't tucked up against the greenhouse glass walls. No. She was in District Twelve, with her little sister tucked into her side.
Katniss, after talking to Snow in his rose garden, finds herself somehow back in her childhood home. She has seven months until she enters the arena for the 74th annual Hunger Games, along with the love of her life, who when she last saw him, was still struggling not to kill her, just perfect.
A time-travel fix it fic that would not leave my brain. We are in for a wild ride with this one.
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- Part 1 of Time is a Created Thing
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17 Oct 2025
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Equal parts traumatized, politically aware, and totally in love, Katniss and Peeta find themselves with a chance to do everything differently. This fic runs from months before their reaping to just after their first hunger games, with plans in place for their next as well. Not everything Goes to plan, but they are sickening sweet and supportive of eachother. Gale gets bro-zoned right off the bat, and we get some more school days out of the story. It is written in first person from Katniss' perspective so we dont see all the parts going on, but it is well written in order to fill in the blanks.
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Waking up in your 10 year old body is… jarring to say the least.
Presented with an opportunity he can’t waste, Tim fixes everything, but at a cost no one remembers. They’ve forgotten it all.
They’ve forgotten him.
He convinces himself it's better this way...because it is.
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Damian doesn't have the patience for high society, but if he has to conform, he might as well learn from the best.
A continuation of Brothers Fight (Read Part 1 for context)
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- Part 2 of Better Off
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Bookmarked by OnceThereWasAPondering
09 Oct 2025
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Tim is a good bro and Damian is trying to be a good boy. There is some references to Tim being severely depressed, and suicidal in the first time line, but he got help and coping mechanisms, and eventually does have a support network to fall on. He is also a badass both in action and blackmail.
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After the events on Bandomeer, Qui-Gon reiterates that he cannot train Obi-Wan, but he tells Obi-Wan he deserves to be a Jedi. Obi-Wan follows Qui-Gon back to the Temple, becomes the padawan of Councilor Mace Windu, and dedicates himself to being a padawan worthy of a master who sits on the Council and invented his own lightaber form. Along the way, he bonds with his lineage sister, Depa Billaba, gets into mischief with his best friend Quinlan, and meets the Mand'alor, Jaster Mereel.
Obi-Wan Kenobi, unwanted child and then unwanted initiate finds himself a family that spans cultures and the galaxy. And when darkness rises up to threaten it, he defends his family with all the lessons and tricks the Force has taught him.
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Bookmarked by OnceThereWasAPondering
08 Oct 2025
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This fic is all about Obi-wan's friendships spreading across the Galaxy until they inevitably lead to the downfall of the Sith. That little business is well wrapped up by the time he reaches his second decade, so we don't get to see little Ani in this one, but we do get an in depth look of the temple on Jedha! I am beyond happy with the characterizations of Baze and Chirrut, Bail, Jaster and Jango, and even Qui-gon Jinn.