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'Be out of the city of Camelot by sunrise, or so help me, you will burn.'
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When Merlin confesses the truth of his magic to Arthur, he finds himself exiled from Camelot. He intends never to return to Arthur's side, but destiny is not so easily defeated. Can he and Arthur heal the rift that has yawned between them, or will they both suffer the consequences of destiny's displeasure?
(AKA: Merlin and Arthur get shoved into the magical equivalent of a "getting along" shirt because they're idiots.)
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27 Oct 2024
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'He'll be safe,' he repeated, 'and I'll be gone.'
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He can't explain it. One day, Arthur's swinging a mace at the boy with the big ears and red neckerchief and the next, he's tackling a man twice his size for having the audacity to look at Merlin wrong.
Or, Arthur protects Merlin over and over, falling a little more in love each time.
“You’re the only person in the world that I think really sees me Merlin.” Arthur confesses. "Forgive me then, for wishing harm on the people who would hurt you for just being who you are.”
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22 Oct 2024
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In the end, despite the anger and the hurt and the terrible way it ended, throughout everything, I missed you like I’d miss half of me.
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Takes the place of S4E12: The Sword in the Stone.
When Morgana attacks Camelot, Merlin is forced to save Arthur with magic in front of everyone, but is captured and taken prisoner in Helios' castle. Morgana seeks to use him as a weapon and Helios seeks to own him as a slave. While Arthur finds a way to get Merlin back, he struggles through to sort his feelings regarding Agravaine's betrayal, Merlin's magic, and Merlin's devotion with a little help from his knights.
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- Part 1 of The Process of Healing
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- 22,043
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- 3/3
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20 Oct 2024
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"My loyalty is to King Arthur of Camelot, and so it will be until my dying breath.”
Morgana’s eyes narrow. “Even when it is his hand that swings the axe to your head?”
“Even then.”
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Absolution by SnarlingGherkin
Fandoms: X-Men - All Media Types, Wolverine and the X-Men (Cartoon)
16 Nov 2024
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Thousands of mutants suffered abuse at the hands of humans, and Kurt Wagner was no exception. What were the chances of Xavier finding him? Rescuing him? Slim, next to none.
It's no wonder he wasn't rescued, that for his appearance he found himself the greatest entertainment in every underground industry that dragged him into its clutches.
It was a great pity he survived.
It was a greater pity he was found.***
On discovering her son is alive Mystique realises she needs Xavier's help to rescue him. It really is a pity over ten years of abuse and subhuman treatment doesn't leave lighter scars.AU - an amalgamation of different pieces of canon/original ideas, the character designs I'm largely going off are Wolverine and the X-Men cartoon
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09 Oct 2024
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“This is the safest place for him, for the time being.”
“The safest place for him was that pit,” Logan deliberately tapped the ashes onto the carpet this time, offering Charles an apologetic grin that didn’t reach his eyes, “We’ve just thrown him into the worst fight of his life.”
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Litany of the Outcast by SkeletalConstellation
Fandoms: X-Men - All Media Types, X-Men (Comicverse)
08 Jul 2024
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A late night conversation about faith, vices, and what counts as good beer.
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07 Oct 2024
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A flash of fangs glinted behind indigo lips. The bed creaked under new weight, and Logan found himself again in Kurt’s shadow, that long tail swishing back and forth through the air behind him. Radiant misfit, angel amongst the damned, more than Logan ever deserved.
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Kurt Wagner's life, from the moment he was born, has been one long nightmare. The cruel ringmaster that whipped, drugged, and exploited him for his acrobatic talents was bad enough - but he couldn't have imagined the torture that would await him in the laboratory of Colonel William Stryker. Shattered by trauma, he thinks himself a monster, beyond all hope and unworthy of love. Ororo Munroe, the striking young woman he's known since 1983 - long before Stryker's instruments ripped his insides apart - seems to disagree. But what can a goddess possibly see in the eyes of a demon?
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06 Oct 2024
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Kurt snaked his tail out of the tub and used it to pick his rosary up off the countertop where he’d left it. “Am I enough the way I am?” he asked, as if the jasper beads and silver chain links could answer his question. “Do I have to hurt myself, even though I’ve never hurt anyone else?”
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In which Wolverine deals with the death of Jean Grey in his own fashion. Beer, memory, impermanence and desire.
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05 Oct 2024
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"You should not worry," Kurt said, glancing away and then glancing back again with that uncertain little smile still curling his lips. "Nothing - untoward - has happened. And I should take it as a kindness if you would not glare quite so ferociously, my friend."
Wolverine continued to glower.
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The oblivious vs. the obvious by Moahoa
Fandoms: X-Men (Movieverse), X-Men - All Media Types, X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies), X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), X-Men (Comicverse)
26 Jun 2017
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In which everyone except Kurt Wagner slowly figures out that Peter has a crush on him, including Peter himself.
Now featuring: robots, meddling teenagers, explosions, sibling rivalry and awful rolemodelsSeries
- Part 1 of Nightsilver
Bookmarked by ShrimpDecim
04 Oct 2024
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Just because you look like the devil, doesn’t mean you have to do his work.
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Attachment Therapy by CNWrites
Fandoms: Marvel, X-Men - All Media Types, X-Men (Comicverse)
17 Apr 2024
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Wolverine was an unsociable person. Kurt knew this. What he didn't know was how he was supposed to deal with his unsociable nature when they couldn't step more than a foot apart.
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In which Kurt and Logan get separated from the rest of the X-Men during a sentinel fight and end up handcuffed together in the middle of the woods. In order to get back in one piece they're going to have to learn something about each other... and maybe a bit about themselves in the process.- Language:
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- 9/9
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30 Sep 2024
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Logan frowned. Kurt Wagner had always been the most open of any of the X-Men…what was he hiding beneath that signature smile?
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Weapon by Name by CNWrites
Fandoms: X-Men - All Media Types, X-Men (Movieverse), X-Men (Original Timeline Movies)
03 Sep 2025
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"He's just like-"
“Like you were, when you first came here?” Xavier’s gaze was far too piercing. It sliced Logan to the bone, and he could feel his skin prickle where phantom blades cut through it.
“Exactly,” Logan growled, refusing to let Xavier see just how much that bothered him. “That’s why the kid’s dangerous.”
“That’s why he needs help,” Xavier pressed gently, as if he was chiding Logan for his hostility. “And that is why you are the best equipped to help him.”
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In which Logan accidentally volunteers to help babysit the latest addition to the Xavier Institute, a strange new student that was quite literally left on their doorstep. However, this student isn't quite a "student" at all; it is a weapon left without a handler. Unfortunately, the new mutant now thinks Logan is his handler. Even more unfortunately, Logan knows more about this situation than he would like to.AKA an AU that embellishes on the fact that Kurt was being used as a weapon by Stryker at the beginning of X2, turning the situation into a recovery scenario that ends up helping both Kurt and Logan overcome their Weapon X conditioning.
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- Part 1 of Weapon by Name
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- English
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26 Sep 2024
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Logan was watching him carefully. “Do you think you deserve to be hurt?”
“Yes,” Kurt said without hesitance. The answer felt right. It felt wrong. It hurt, and Kurt couldn’t tell if it hurt too much or if it didn’t hurt enough.
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The Tramp and the Vagabond by SkeletalConstellation
Fandoms: X-Men - All Media Types, X-Men (Comicverse)
21 Mar 2025
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Sometime in the latter half of the 80's, two strangers miss an appointment with fate. One is thousands of miles away from home. The other is as close to home as he'll ever get. Neither ends up in a particularly unusual boarding school in Upstate New York.
Somehow, they still manage to cross paths, courtesy of a small bar in Southern Ontario and a beat-up old van. Fate's funny that way.
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21 Sep 2024
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Logan scoffed. “Ain’t a better legend than a dead man walkin’,” he smirked, “‘cept maybe one about the devil walkin’ by his side.”
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More than Genetics by Llwyden ferch Gyfrinach (Llwyden)
Fandoms: X-Men (Movies), X-Men (Movieverse)
11 Nov 2013
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AU after the first X-Men movie. While traveling through Canada on Xavier's tip, Logan comes across a strange mutant caged in a freak show. He can get him out, but actually saving him will be a longer process, and may take an entire family of mutants. And they all might just insist on saving Logan along the way, too.
Features bigotry, multiple scenes of "spot the comics guest star", lots of road trips, and gratuitous amounts of Canada.
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20 Sep 2024
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“They believe what the others say,” the broken voice whispered into his jawline. “That I am not human, that I deserve to be caged, that I am a creature less than nothing. I see it in all their eyes, even those who try to be kind, till I stop looking. If I look, I start to believe it myself.”
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15 Sep 2024
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Hermes, psychopomp, laughs then. It is that strangled, grating sound that Charon remembers from before their era of silence. Beautiful, perhaps, to the untrained ear. Ugly to those who know the desperation and deceit of the dying and dead.
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Playing to the Tempo of Your Beating Heart by TakiBunBun
Fandoms: 鬼滅の刃 | Kimetsu no Yaiba (Manga), 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Anime)
29 Nov 2020
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Zenitsu was a violinist with an ear for music that no one could match, yet something always held him back.
Then the most beautiful heartbeat he ever heard walked into his life and now he's left to hold on tight to keep up that song that made his own heart beat like a blaring boom inside his chest. Who knows, maybe along the way the same song could free him in ways he'd never imagined.
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12 Sep 2024
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He found Tanjirou's heartbeat immediately and focused on that one song like a lifeline.
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How Thunder Follows by kozz
Fandoms: 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Anime), 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Manga)
03 Jun 2023
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Zenitsu knows how to follow someone into oblivion, because he has been practicing for it all of his life.
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08 Sep 2024
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How he swallows sympathy like honey, nourishes it into a fixation, and deludes himself into a codependent fantasy because no one actually needs him.
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Katabasis by AnnaLytic, LooseLeaf
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
20 Sep 2025
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Katabasis (ka·tab·a·sis): A going down or back; a journey into the underworld
The curated cogs of Hero Society can operate only on two conditions: villains will wreak havoc on the innocent, and heroes will bring those villains to justice. What might happen, then, when four outliers defy their world of black and white to repay the blood they owe?
An illustrated, canon-divergent vigilante AU rotating POV between Aizawa, Lady Nagant, Hawks, and Dabi. Written by AnnaLytic and illustrated by LooseLeaf.
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- 149,484
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- 12/50
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21 Aug 2024
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Hawks lifts his eyes once more to the boy beside him. For all the labels Hawks had given him—a villain, a yakuza henchman, a criminal, a wayward teenager—he sees only a dead man walking. With a quirk so self-destructive, his desire for revenge is stronger than his will to live. Hawks assumed there was freedom in endeavor. Is it just another cage?
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Destitute Hermes is in dire need of some cash. Fast.
Charon lives a life of perpetual bachelorhood and needs some arm candy for a family party.
Its just one nice night, thats all it is. Nothing more. Right?
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08 Aug 2024
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But Hermes had held the flower close. He had laughed and it sounded painful. He smiled and told Charon to stop. Stop with their bargain.
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“Look, it’s the periwinkle you have potted. Did you know way over across the Atlantic there is a whole language for the flowers? This here is like a cheers to a new friendship… ‘Cause maybe we could be friends?”
He gave a weak smile to Charon, whose gaze had gone unreadable.
Two seconds of silent staring was all Hermes could take before he lost his nerve.
“Or, you know, forget that. My family is always saying I don’t do well with social graces. Every time I speak it’s all ‘blunt object, no point’ according to Hera. She’s my step-ma or something like that. You know it’s not really clear what we’re supposed to be to each other so-”
His rambling was stopped by Charon taking the periwinkle from his fingers and carefully threading it behind Hermes’ ear the way Hermes had just done for him. The man’s fingers delicately secured the blooms and his fingers moved through Hermes’ hair before he patted the top of his head like he was gentling a worked up animal.
Hermes can't read. Charon can't speak. They bridge the gap through the flowers.
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05 Aug 2024
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“I’m glad I found you,” Hermes said, focusing on the red painted streaks his fingers left on Charon’s cheek.
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nothing in this world was made for me by phanatics
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
22 Aug 2024
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Some people exchange letters. Others exchange favours.
Dabi and Hawks exchange wounds; a knife scratch for a black eye, a bullet hole for a broken arm.
Dabi started it, admittedly. That’s on her.
Hawks won’t let her finish it.
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31 Jul 2024
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“No,” Dabi says, quieter. More pensive. “I never really left.”
The hallway shadows pull Hawks away. She’s slipping from the brightness, slipping from the clinical, observational honesty dished out over the black-stained bathroom sink.
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Raptor Specialist by gringalet
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
11 Jul 2024
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Touya Himura (previously Todoroki) had thrown out his aspiration of becoming a hero, along with the remnants of a truly atrocious relationship with his father, years ago. He now worked as a raptor specialist at one of Tokyo's bird rescues, as well as an on-call de-escalator for animal heteromorphs affected by quirk amplifiers.
When he gets one such call on behalf of none other than No. 2 Hero Hawks, he turns up to a job that's easier than he expected in some ways, and much more difficult in others: the birdbrain seems to have decided that he wants to spend all his time glued to Touya's side, which means that Touya is on bird-sitting duty for the next couple of days until the quirk wears off.Series
- Part 1 of Raptor Specialist
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- English
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- 7/7
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29 Jul 2024
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Most people needed to decompress if a job was violent or tense, Touya needed to decompress when it went too well. When it reminded him how socially inept he still was. He would have never been able to have a conversation with Hawks the No. 2 hero without botching it. Hawks the bird? Clicked immediately.