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"Hey there, Ric. It's me, ya boy." by PayloadOfGeckos
Fandoms: Fallen Hero Series - Malin Rydén
18 Jan 2026
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"Raz called me." Too simple, too honest, and much, much too sure for someone who'd been hallucinating his dead friend regularly since watching him fall from a window. Not fall. Jump. He had watched Raz jump. He didn't stop it. No amount of therapy in the world would convince him that he couldn't have stopped it, maybe if he'd just—
"You're drunk."
It was an accusation, not even a question, and a part of Ricardo wished she was right.
Nearly four years after the Heartbreak Incident, Ricardo Ortega gets a phone call from the dead.
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The Heartbreak Cave Incident by PayloadOfGeckos
Fandoms: Fallen Hero Series - Malin Rydén
08 Jan 2026
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West Coast Mysteries and Murders: The Heartbreak Cave Incident
On February 14th, 2013 a mysterious caving disaster resulted in the tragic deaths of four photographers and one member of the rescue team. Seven years on, very little is known about the incident, and local rumors of the cave's nature warn off any would-be explorers. Together with survivor Ricardo Ortega, host of LDBC's Adventure Extremes, our team will be taking our search for answers to new depths.
(search and rescue horror au of the Heartbreak Incident and events afterwards— very Steelstep focused, Ricardo is just haunting the narrative)
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Just gunna post little writing bits here, stuff that comes from prompts or the like and not via my usual brainstorming methods. Feel free to send me/comment prompts or suggestions, tho obviously never a guarantee I'll do them (I'm a disaster, i cant promise shit)
Lengths will be variable, but they'll all be a lot more casual and haphazard than my usual writing, goal being written within a day/sitting. No editing, we die like fools.
Sidestep: Raz Becker
I'll add specific tws in the notes for each chapter.
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Ortega was so done for, betrayed by Raz' pride instead of his own. "It was a joke! You look nice!" Damned miracle that he resisted saying the word 'snazzy' again. But his careful word choice didn't stop Nazar from looking even more murderous, actually that was kind of impressive.
Themmy, to her credit, didn't laugh, though Ricardo saw the corners of her mouth twitch, just a little.
"Raz, will you come out if I kick him in the shins?"
"... Maybe."
(A fun night of clubbing gets out of hand in very normal ways— and it's definitely not Ricardo's fault.)
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Sentinel's wind was slowing the Nanosurge, but not enough. Clouds of the things were making their way through the streets, towards the evacuees. They were lit up in flashes like the worst thunderstorms Ricardo had ever seen growing up, where ash static made lightning more common than people said it used to be. This lightning was his though, trying to fry as many Nanovores as he could. Pyro boosts were doing the same. The levels in his batteries were dropping fast. Losing charge. But what else could any of them do? At least it could buy a little more time, let Anathema and Ashfall deploy the recoding emitters. Just had to hope those would work, no time for tests.
It wasn't enough.
The events of the nanosurge and the first days of the aftermath.
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Sidestep returns to Los Diablos.
Bookmarked by PayloadOfGeckos
12 Jan 2026
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In an AU where things don’t go to hell after meeting with Hollow Ground, Sidestep finds herself facing her biggest challenge yet: having to look Elena Ortega in the eye after breaking her daughter’s heart.
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03 Jan 2026
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Black box: A system where the input and output are observable, but the internal processes that connect them are not directly accessible or understood. Often used to describe the human mind in psychology.
Bookmarked by PayloadOfGeckos
16 Nov 2025
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A collection of drabbles, tumblr asks, flash prompts and other little things that were too short or specific to be a stand alone fic.
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15 Nov 2025
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What’s Your Name Again? by GreyGravy (TheronMahariel)
Fandoms: Fallen Hero Series - Malin Rydén
01 Sep 2023
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Ortega and Sidestep enjoying a beer, as Ortega considers kissing a man whose name he doesn’t know
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- Part 1 of Ryker
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14 Nov 2025