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The World Is Light, Embodied by Davnitt_Braes
Fandoms: The Mandalorian (TV), Star Wars - All Media Types
26 Jun 2023
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You have a good life. You move from planet to planet as you see fit, work wherever your skills come in handy, dodge your past whenever it threatens to haul you back and generally find contentment wherever you land.
Until a Mandalorian and his kid interrupt your vacation.
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30 May 2023
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She's a crafty thief who never expected to cross paths with an aloof Mandalorian and a strange child. He's a man trying to stay faithful to his principles and deal with the feisty swindler who irritatingly intrigues him. A chance encounter brings them together, and their fates inevitably entwine as they attempt to navigate the galaxy - and each other - together.
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26 May 2023
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Languishing in a dull and lonely existence on the forest moon of Endor after travelling there to help salvage Death Star wreckage, a nearly fatal encounter with a mysterious bounty hunter out in the forest heralds an opportunity to utilise long-forgotten skills and develop something more profound than you ever thought possible.
Second person POV, present tense. Set after season 2, diverges from Canon events before TBoBF and season 3. This is a novel-length, exceptionally slow burn with an original plot, worldbuilding, and fully developed characterisation. SWU concepts and lore are accurately researched.
*** FULLY RELEASED***
(As of 8 July 2024: minor updates made to chapters 1-15)I do NOT consent for this story to be copied/reposted on any other site NOR stolen, scraped or “reworked” by AI
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23 May 2023
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A Fresh Start by TheSarcasticKnight
Fandoms: The Mandalorian (TV), Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Book of Boba Fett (TV)
25 Aug 2023
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When you made plans for your future they never involved being hired by a Mandalorian to baby-sit his adorable, green gremlin of a child. However, after your life fell apart in the span of one disastrous night, you found it to be the only feasible option you had left. Nevarro was a far cry from Coruscant, but the thriving community turned out to be exactly what you needed. Every day you spend in Nevarro you fall more and more in love with your new life, but when your past rears its ugly head you find that perhaps peace wasn't meant for everyone.
[Din Djarin x Female!Reader]
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12 May 2023
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It was easy enough to flirt with the Mandalorian when the cantina counter lay between you, letting you slowly develop feelings for the mysterious, aloof bounty hunter you sensed had a softer side. That is until you’re thrust into close quarters, living together on the Razor Crest, where suddenly there’s nowhere to hide.
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10 May 2023
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02 May 2023
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Beskar & Kyber by toffeeandcream
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, The Mandalorian (TV)
21 May 2024
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Din misses the kid. A lot. Now that Grogu is gone, he’s lost any and all sense of direction and is back to his old bounty-hunting ways. He’s good at bounty-hunting. What he’s not good at is people. Which is why the least thing he’d expect from a routine high-profile hunt is coming back empty-handed, barely alive, and with a force-sensitive girl in tow.
She’s running away from an uncertain future. He’s running away from the throne. It turns out your destiny is a lot harder to avoid than they’d expect.
[Set post-S2. No S3 spoilers!]
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30 Apr 2023
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three hundred and sixty eight days—one standard year—that’s all he agrees to. then you’re gone.
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- 20/?
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28 Apr 2023
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You were disturbing. A psychological thriller sort of disturbing.
But a valuable hostage from Underworld’s most potent criminal organisation no less. He didn’t care who you were, and why you were so strangely important — but he knew it would lure his target out of the shadows nonetheless.
But as time goes by, he realises that there’s something so devastatingly messed up about you, and it’s impossible to ignore it.
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26 Apr 2023
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vencuyanir [ven-COO-yah-neer]: sustain, keep alive, preserve (Mando'a)
About to be taken away from Arvala-7, Elana only has two objectives: keeping Bean alive and getting away from the Mandalorian
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The Mandalorian's helmet then snapped around to her, and Elana flinched, still reeling from the strange display in front of her.
"You’re the caretaker?" he asked gruffly. Elana barely managed to nod, scared out of her wits.
The Mandalorian was quiet for a long time, his intimidating presence alone enough to make her hold her breath. Crouching in front of her, a long moment passed where she could almost feel his gaze scrutinising her. Then, he reached out and tugged her upwards with an unexpected gentleness from a bounty hunter.
She looked up at him, shaking in fear. The visor glared down menacingly. A low command came from beneath the helmet, causing shivers to run down her back.
"Pack your things."
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- Part 1 of Vencuyanir
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22 Apr 2023
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18 Apr 2023
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Rough Day by guardianangelcas
Fandoms: The Mandalorian (TV), Star Wars - All Media Types
12 Mar 2023
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Who knew that agreeing to babysit a bounty hunter’s weird, green little child would be so full of surprises.
**Deviates from canon during the final arc of s1 of the Mandalorian, characterizations based on early s1 Mando
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04 Apr 2023
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First it was her parents. Then Riley, and then Tess. Sam and Henry came next. At fourteen, all Ellie knew was loss. She should be used to it by now- expect it, even. What she didn't expect was to become so fond and attached to the grumpy, emotionally-unavailable smuggler that's spent the last three months protecting her at all cost. Despite her initial doubts, they were in this together now. Or at least they were, until Ellie finds out Joel's plan all along had been to ditch her the very first chance he got.
Or: Ellie overhears Joel's conversation about leaving her & rather than agreeing to go with Tommy, she takes off to find the Fireflies on her own. But David and his group have other plans for her. Basically episode 6 & Ellie dealing with the aftermath of episode 8 (with some changes & angst).
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01 Apr 2023
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Where you last placed your heart by itainthardtrying
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
01 May 2024
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Now that Ellie’s alone, she just sits on her bed and looks at her book. She can’t call it reading anymore – by now she has read the thing front to back so many times that she could quote some paragraphs word for word.
That’s why it’s weird that it took her so long to notice the message written on the front page.
There, nestled just below the title, there’s one line of writing addressed to her. It doesn’t mention any names, but it is for her. It can’t be otherwise.
It’s not Tommy’s handwriting, nor Maria's, nor Riley's.But it’s somebody’s. Somebody who knew she’d like to read about Moon landing, spaceships, and astronauts. Somebody who cared enough to take this book, fix the hardcover with some scotch tape, and give it to her. Somebody who wrote those words on the front page knowing that they would make her smile.
Somebody who loved her.
It’s late spring 2024 when Ellie wakes up in Jackson. She has a backpack full of books, a burn on her arm, and no memory of how she went from Boston QZ to Wyoming.
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01 Apr 2023
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be still my foolish heart (don't ruin this on me) by captainredspade (CodenameArtemis)
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
18 Aug 2025
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“Her name is Ellie,” she says, eyes still on the sweet, slumbering child. “Take care of her. Don’t fuck this up, Joel.”
He doesn’t respond, just watches until Marlene is gone and moves to lock the door once more, knowing it’s probably about to be a long night with very little sleep.
Glancing down at the baby – Ellie – Joel releases a slow breath. “Looks like it’s just you and me, kid.”
Fucking hell, he’s got his work cut out for him.
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(Joel raises Ellie. Some things change while others stay the same. A journey from Boston to Wyoming.)
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26 Mar 2023
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22 Mar 2023
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Being the key to saving humanity is much less glamorous than someone might expect. There’s a lot more bleeding and puking and sweating than she thinks is fair, strictly speaking, and she makes the fun discovery that she loses her shit in an MRI machine when it reminds her of being trapped in a cage, and she has a panic attack so bad Joel almost breaks the machine getting her out.
(She gets sedated before MRIs after that, so she wakes up nauseous and grumpy, but beggars can’t be choosers, and MRI flight risks can’t be vocal about their side effects.)
“Say the word,” Joel always says, when he’s rubbing her back or holding her hair out of the way or letting her clutch his hand while they do a spinal tap, “and we’re out of here.”
“We’re so close,” she always tells him. “They’ll figure it out soon.”
And she believes it, mostly.
Primarily because she has to, if she’s going to keep going.
(the fireflies don't try to kill her, but ellie still has a Very Bad Time in the hospital)
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15 Mar 2023
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Turn And Face The Strange by necrofancy
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
12 Mar 2023
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There’s few things Sadie hates more than scouting assignments, especially when dangerously close to a QZ. But if her group of rebel survivors has any chance of making it through the winter, it’s now or never. As luck would have it, a brutal snowstorm blows in, leaving her trapped in a warehouse with swarms of infected just outside its metal walls. On top of that, she soon finds out she’s not the only one confined to the premises and desperate for supplies. When forced cohabitation also means forced collaboration if they want to survive, Sadie has to keep a level head, even if her new ally proves to be some know-it-all Texan with a chip on his shoulder.
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12 Mar 2023
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Something Groovy by city_slicker_andy
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
15 Apr 2023
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He looked up at her, and an uncharacteristic softness settled over his features. He took a deep breath through his nose and scanned the face of the young woman in front of him. "What the hell do the Fireflies want with you?"
The earnestness startled her momentarily, and she lifted the cigarette to her lips to calm her nerves back down.
"I wouldn't worry about it, man," she finally responded. She broke his gaze and returned to the coffee table to drop her cigarette butt into the empty peach can. She laid back down on the couch and massaged her temples.
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The events of TLOU if Ellie had aged out of military school before Marlene found out about her immunity. Joel and Tess are hired to smuggle a 19 year old Ellie out of Boston, after she's already been hiding her immunity for five years.
TL;DR: TLOU1 but with a TLOU2 aged Ellie, because I'm in love with the potential for that dynamic.
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11 Mar 2023
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