11 Works by Soldraws
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live to let you shine by GibbousLunation, remrose, Soldraws, taizi
Fandoms: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018)
28 Dec 2025
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Gio had fallen into their lives at a point where the safety net had more holes than threads to hold. He was young, had the signs of a life hard won and fought through, but he tried. Absorbed absolutely anything his family would give him, even when it was nothing at all. Dark eyes, taking in any and all of the light he could just to find himself.
It was a tragedy in three parts just to watch him thrive off wavering candlelights and embers, wandering around the halls like a detective finding hints of some past crime.
Mikey squares himself. Finds that thread left in him that’s farther and farther away every day. Gio deserves the light, he can make some for him. He can.
Or: a series of standalone oneshots about Giorgio Hamato finding a home, getting adopted, and being loved back--not necessarily in that order. Set in both timelines.
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- Part 2 of the archer
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Pressure Makes Diamonds (How the hell am I still coal?) by Soldraws
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
19 Feb 2024
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Tim is fine. Really. Cross his heart.
He has an empty house he's alone in for most of the year, an English Lit essay due worth 30 precent of his grade that he's pretty sure he's going to bomb, a couple of nosey, overprotective neighbors, and a little bit of a bullying problem, but he's fine.
He's managing it. He has everything under control. He's. Fine.
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A 'Tim Drake joins the Batfamily early' AU. In Which Tim is 10, Jason is 15, Dick is 19, Bruce never became Batman, and Alfred is just trying to keep the kitchen stocked up with plenty of cookie dough. -
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The kids were gone. They failed. It’s been over half a year.
There wasn’t a time limit to this. To finding them. To bringing them back home. But it still felt like a metaphorical noose tightening around their necks with each passed, wasted second. They were exhausted. And well past the point of being horrified at their situation that they were now seated, practically squatters, in the backyard of downright despondent.
The kids were gone. They failed. They kept failing. The heartbreak was something physical now. Clawing into their chests like it had a personal agenda to make them all hollow. And there was an anger there, burning and coiled tight enough to make them all feel brittle with it.
The kids, their kids, were still gone. And their millions of impossible, stupid, desperate plans kept failing.
But parents, as Darius was quick to catch on, were impossible, stupid, desperate things too. Stubbornness something etched into their titandammed bones, and it didn’t really matter that their millions of plans kept failing.
They were exhausted, and horrified, and miserable and angry. They kept coming up with a million more.
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Needless to say, Hunter has got a lot on his plate.
He has a new room to paint, some friends he doesn't like lying to, a protective guardian he doesn't want to disappoint, and a crippling fear that his past is going to catch up to him.
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There is scarred over tissue on his hands from cuts that never got the chance to heal right. There are mismatched colored bruises on his arms and shoulders that look suspiciously adult-hand sized. There are dark bags under his eyes that can't be thumbed away or peeled off like a sticker. And there is a deep-seated fear and lack of self-worth that is so ingrained into his psyche, that it's practically tattoed on his heart and ribs.
And there are things that Darius just can't do, like try out healing magic, or wear black socks with brown sandals, or forget about the death of his beloved mentor from his youth.
But there is a kid. A kid barely 10 years old, who flinches away when his name is called. Who would stand in the acid rain and hurt himself just to prove his importance. Who believes that he's not good enough. That he deserves every broken bone and bloody nose he gets. That love is conditional.
There is a little kid, who is fighting for his life right in front of him, and Darius can't do a lot of things, but Titan be dammed if he can't at least help this one kid.
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The Lost Sun by Soldraws
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018)
08 Mar 2022
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Mikey smiles like the sun and laughs the way stars shine and when he looks at you, eyes full of mirth and mischief and wholehearted love, there's few mountains on the planet that you wouldn't move for the kid. He's just so brilliant. Bright and shining like the sun on the surface of the water and is a warmth folded like gentle fingers around your heart.
And when he goes missing, taken under all your noses like a flame going out in the night, you become cold with anger that almost makes you feel brittle.
But you'll get him back. You'll do everything to get that precious sunlight back within the circle of your arms again. Topple and destroy every mountain in your path if you have to, to bring your lost sun home.
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Gladstone decides wholeheartedly he's in the wrong place at the wrong time the second Donald's eyes lock on him and the only thought he has to show for it is a dispirited, 'Seriously, he needs to get a new hobby.'
Because Don crosses the school courtyard between them like it was nothing, Gladstone barely having time to blink before his cousin's hands are holding his jawline in place, turning his head every which way and that to get a better look at the freshly purpled bruise now blossoming across his right eye and cheek.
"What happened?" Don growls, low and mean, but Gladstone barely even winces at his temper, because for all of Donald's bark, there was true hurt and anger in his eyes. The kind that came entirely from a caring place, rooted every last inch in stupid, protective love.
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Fethry smiles like the sun and laughs the way stars shine, and is a tornado of love that you have absolutely no guard against. He's finally asleep, curled up on the couch in the circle of Della's arms, and is casually the most important thing in the world to you and completely unaware of the fact.
But it's fine.
This is fine.
And you'll continue to make it fine for as long as it takes for him to never have to experience that kind of world-bending fear ever again.
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Compared to parenting, sword fighting deadly, ghost pirates during a raging sea storm or getting through cursed and booby trapped jungle temples in search for mythic treasure seemed like the easiest things in the world. And even after nearly 9 years of raising his boys, Donald is still trying to get the hang of it. He isn't perfect, Lord knows he's always making mistakes. But he tries to be for his nephews. And if being the most daring adventurer has taught him anything, it's that you can't find buried treasure without first charting the map to find it.
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- Part 1 of Charting Maps
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Shadows, Scars and Salted Lines by Soldraws
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan
05 Apr 2018
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Annabeth doesn't believe in the paranormal.
She doesn't believe in the supernatural. She doesn't believe in the metaphysical. She doesn't believe that there are things that go bump in the night.
Or at least, she didn't, until a few weeks ago.
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Moving on is hard. Letting go it harder. And the twists and turns of fate have never rocked them more. At least they have each other to lean on and to turn to. At least they know now that they gotta cherish the precious hours they have with each other. Because at the end of the day, you never know how many of them remain.
Small one-offs and shorter fics I didn't want to put with the Charting Maps work.
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- Part 2 of Charting Maps