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i don't win em all, but i'd guess i take five outta six by Pariahgraph
Fandoms: I Was a Teenage Exocolonist (Video Game)
25 Jan 2026
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That, and the simple viscerality of tattooing and piercing is…grounding. The dreams never go away, and sometimes she needs to be reminded which life is hers and which belongs to some other Mia, living some other life.
There's a noise from outside, and Mia's pointy ears twitch. Two voices, lurking outside the door — one soft and husky, the other a low bass rumble. She recognises both.
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A birthday gift fic for a friend. It's just some OC fluff.
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they will build me no shrines and sing me no songs by Pariahgraph
Fandoms: I Was a Teenage Exocolonist (Video Game)
10 Jan 2026
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Neph gapes. "How did you…" she begins, and then it clicks.
A Gardener. Nephrite is looking at a Gardener.
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How are you remembered, long after you are gone? For Day 7 of Exo Week, "Myths and Legends"
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forget the bull in the china shop, there's a china doll in the bullpen by Pariahgraph
Fandoms: I Was a Teenage Exocolonist (Video Game)
09 Jan 2026
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The problem is that Resolve is…well, she's boring! She doesn't like sportsball, or running around, or roughhousing. She likes to sit quietly and play dolls, or read books — proper chapter books that are meant to be for older kids.
She's nice, at least, although she's not the same type of nice as Tammy. Tammy's sensitive, cries easily. Resolve…she can tell Resolve gets mad. She can see her fists clench and a muscle jump in her jaw and she thinks yes, you're just like me, come on and prove it.
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For the "Secret Admirer" prompt for Exo Week 2026. On the surface, sporty tomboy Anemone and gentle, feminine Resolve couldn't be more different. Or at least, Anemone thinks so. What could they possibly have in common?
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give me arms to pray with instead of ones that hold too tightly by Pariahgraph
Fandoms: I Was a Teenage Exocolonist (Video Game)
07 Jan 2026
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Sol kicks out a chair, and rummages in his desk drawer for a spare mug. "Can't believe Elysium's five already," he says, filling the mug with milky blep, "good idea bringing her here to get familiar with the schoolhouse."
Vace accepts the mug, absentmindedly folding his large hands around it. "I can't believe it either," he replies gruffly, "I can't believe she exists, and isn't—" he breaks off, making an abortive gesture.
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Vace takes his daughter to visit the colony's schoolhouse, ahead of her first day at school. For Exo Week 2026.
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they say there's good grief by Pariahgraph
Fandoms: I Was a Teenage Exocolonist (Video Game)
05 Jan 2026
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Sym hums. "No," he says, "I am still learning about many things. But for someone who lives as we Gardeners do, the idea of an individual being irretrievably gone is not one that comes naturally to us. I still don't fully understand…I think I won't until someone close to me dies. I will, perhaps, be the first of my kind to experience that grief."
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Viridescent faces adulthood. Tangent observes an anniversary. Solace finds a few unhealed wounds.
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- Part 8 of children's work
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Pariahgraph's Exo-OC short fics by Pariahgraph
Fandoms: I Was a Teenage Exocolonist (Video Game)
31 Dec 2025
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A collection of short fics about my OCs in this fandom. No update schedule no idea how many I'll write no prablem 👍
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burning, like a dying star by Pariahgraph for penguinPerson
Fandoms: MILGRAM (Music Videos)
11 Dec 2025
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Yes, she's certain. If she'd had someone like Yuno, this would never have happened. Yuno would have known better. They could all have gone to a cafe together, gone shopping, things normal friends do.
It's a nice dream, a lovely distraction. She has to tell herself there is a life after this place.
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Yuno tends to Mahiru in the lead up to trial 3.
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shame on me baby, i ain't gonna change by Pariahgraph
Fandoms: I Was a Teenage Exocolonist (Video Game)
29 Nov 2025
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Rex turns to look at her curiously. This sounds familiar, kind of like… “so, you don’t really want to date anyone, or?”
“I do,” Solstice says after a moment, “just…it feels like everyone else wants it more. You know?”
He opens his mouth to say no, I think I’m one of the people that wants it more and then shuts it, because he does know the feeling. He does know what it’s like for everyone to look at dating, and kissing, and a whole lot of fun stuff and attach way more weight and exclusivity and significance to it than he wants.
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Rex finds himself drawn towards strange and unselfconscious Solstice, despite seemingly insurpassable differences. He's not the only one.
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"I'm not," Solidarity says, "I would never. I just wish…I just want a different life, where you don't have to."
"I do have to," Anemone's eyes are steely, voice bleak as she dresses Solidarity's wounds, "that's the life we have."
But Solidarity dreams of Anemone in another life, laughing with silver in her hair, and she wants that life.
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Solidarity, haunted by the memories of other lives, has to grapple with what she's willing to do to save the love of her life. A retelling of the coup/governor plotline with a romanced Anemone.
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- Part 2 of firestarters
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Children's Work: B-sides by Pariahgraph
Fandoms: I Was a Teenage Exocolonist (Video Game)
23 Aug 2025
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A collection of one-shots set in the continuity of Children's Work. Mostly missing scenes or pre-canon speculation, some requests.
Track 1: Tirah attempts an intervention that does not go at all as planned.
Track 2: Sol confides in Sym about their romantic trials and tribulations.
Track 3: Cal learns something new about Sol.
Track 4: Antecedent, Miles, and the things we can't outrun. (now with beautiful art by PenguinPerson!)
Track 5: Five years after the end of the game, Nimbus has a very ordinary birthday.
Track 6: Cirrus, burning questions, and the family you choose.
Track 7: Nimbus accidentally gives Anterograde some advice that definitely won't come back to bite him.
Track 8: Fluorescent and Symbiosis look forward.
Bonus track 1: Miles on love, sacrifice, and allowing yourself to be used.
Bonus track 2: GET HIS ASS, GRADY!
Track 9: Twenty years after the end of the war, Anemone finds life still has some surprises in store.Series
- Part 6 of children's work
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rather be six feet under than be lonely by Pariahgraph
Fandoms: I Was a Teenage Exocolonist (Video Game)
21 Jul 2025
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Anemone looks at him, gaze frank and appraising, and he cannot shake the feeling that he’s caught in a plasrifle sight. “I think…”
She trails off, frowning, clearly trying to put her thoughts in order. He used to know what she thought, could play on it, and it’s strange looking at her and having no clue what she’s thinking.
How much can one person change, in three years? Vace knows the answer already. He knows how far he’s slipped.
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The world around him has changed, yet Vace finds himself hanging in suspension, struggling to move on.
(now with an illustration in chapter 2 by wilting-fl0wer!)
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- Part 7 of children's work
- Part 3 of mineshaft
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In Safe Hands by Pariahgraph for FoxgloveClover
Fandoms: I Was a Teenage Exocolonist (Video Game)
11 Jul 2025
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Rex gets to know the colony's intense and serious architect, Soleil, a little better.
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Skip Diving For Fun And Profit by Pariahgraph
Fandoms: Drink Your Villain Juice - izzily
29 Apr 2025
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The mask formerly known as Morgan liked to think xe was a resourceful person, which is why xe was currently climbing into a skip.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 607
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 3
- Hits:
- 23
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but tonight, think we might be getting warmer by Pariahgraph
Fandoms: I Was a Teenage Exocolonist (Video Game)
19 Jan 2025
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Anemone has had a girlfriend for less than a week, and she’s pretty sure she’s already stuffed it up.
Sol’s only with the Garrison on reserve, and at the moment the Garrison is eating all of her time. Drills, practice with her plasrifle, and her usual hours of physical training. The minute she gets any leisure time, she wants to pass out, and that means not spending time with Sol.
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Anemone navigates the start of something new.
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- Part 1 of firestarters
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we stand upright, build fires at night by Pariahgraph
Fandoms: I Was a Teenage Exocolonist (Video Game)
17 Jan 2025
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Sol sniffs. “I miss my Dad every fucking day,” they mumble, fresh tears welling in the corners of their eyes, “every day, especially now, I see or hear something and wish I could tell him?”
“Honestly, yeah,” Cal admits, “maybe not in the same way, but…yeah. He was my hero.”
“I just,” Sol’s voice twists, grief and resentment, “I miss my Mom too. We used to be so close.”
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Twenty-five years apart, separated by time and death, Recalcitrance and Geranium reckon with what it means to be a husband and a father.
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- Part 5 of children's work
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swimmin' in a snifter, pretty as a picture by Pariahgraph
Fandoms: I Was a Teenage Exocolonist (Video Game)
23 Dec 2024
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She watches several soldiers get themselves stupid drunk, then clears her throat and says gently, “May I play?”
Several soldiers give her derisive once-overs. One of them has the decency to look worried. Ida smiles, guilelessly.
“It’s your funeral,” one of them says, and kicks out a chair.
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A month after the Heliopause lands, Ideation makes a new friend. This is just some silly OC nonsense, merry crisis
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four chambers, just a standard issue by Pariahgraph
Fandoms: I Was a Teenage Exocolonist (Video Game)
20 Dec 2024
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Anemone frowns, watching trees and cliffs pass them by. “That must have been hard, to re-learn something you used to be really good at.”
Sol shrugs, smiling. “Yeah, kind of? But I got to come back to it, and fall in love again."
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Anemone grapples with forgiveness, feeling purposeless, and finding her way back to joy. (illustration in chapter 1 by PenguinPerson!)
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- Part 4 of children's work
- Part 2 of mineshaft
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i ain't lonely, i'm long lost by Pariahgraph
Fandoms: I Was a Teenage Exocolonist (Video Game)
13 Dec 2024
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When Solana signs up to join the Expeditions crews, he knows full well that she’s been sneaking out for years. Of course, he doesn’t say anything, because that would mean disclosing that he’s been sneaking out too, and that’s none of their business.
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Dys, despite being unable to experience it himself, learns a little bit about fear.
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you're built to balance on two feet by Pariahgraph
Fandoms: I Was a Teenage Exocolonist (Video Game)
04 Nov 2024
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It’s hard, sweaty work, but it’s good. He’s part of something bigger, something he dreamed of all those years aboard the Heliopause while people told him to grow up and do something useful.
Rex did grow up, and he did do something useful, just not the way they intended.
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Rex realises his world is changing, and him with it.
(now with lovely illustration by PenguinPerson!)
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- Part 3 of children's work
- Part 1 of mineshaft
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if we're just play fighting, how come that blade's shining by Pariahgraph
Fandoms: I Was a Teenage Exocolonist (Video Game)
13 Oct 2024
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Cal shoves his hands in his pockets. “That sounds. Less scary,” he admits, “people write about being in love in holonovels and stuff and I think it sounds sort of terrifying.”
Geranium’s eyes crinkle. “I could never really get into romances. They always seem to stop before the good bit, because it’s not as fun to read about showing up and doing the work.”
In the back of his head, Cal hears Solace say "ninety per cent showing up."
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Recalcitrance struggles with coming of age, moving on, and reaching for more. A prequel to "all some children do is work", although it stands on its own.
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- Part 2 of children's work