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That’s the whole point: what they’ve been doing, it was always pretend, and it was always temporary. Skwisgaar was a stand-in for women Toki was going to actually meet someday. Now he’s touching the real thing.
Dethklok’s taking the world by storm, Toki’s a hit with the ladies, and Skwisgaar is totally normal about it. But when it looks like their practice sessions are ending, a god who’s never needed anyone might have to finally admit some things to his bandmate and himself.
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- Part 3 of Practice Sessions
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He replays the scant seconds that he did something Skwisgaar hated, laid hands on him in ways he didn’t want while Skwisgaar seemed helpless to stop it — and then guilt overwhelms him, and all that’s left is knowing that he’s let the devil swallow his soul.
Toki confesses his darkest fantasies, and Skwisgaar takes a leap of faith and lets him try them — for the sake, obviously, of their creative process.
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- Part 2 of Practice Sessions
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He can’t have another bandmate with a reputation for not getting groupies. And he can’t have a guitarist who wastes all his time with a girlfriend. If preventing that takes drastic measures… well…
Skwisgaar realizes Dethklok’s new rhythm guitarist is waiting for a first kiss that feels special. It’s best for everyone if he steps in. But when Toki comes back for practice, it’s Skwisgaar that’s caught off-guard.
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- Part 1 of Practice Sessions
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Nathan’s destroyed their album, and Skwisgaar’s having a crisis of confidence over the idea he recorded something less than perfect. Toki has a hands-on demonstration of why perfection isn’t everything.
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His lead singer is staring at the contract, expression despondent, shoulders slumped. Please don’t sign, Skwisgaar thinks so loud he almost hears it. But what alternative has he got?
Nobody saves Dethklok from the label’s meddling. On the night they’re forced to sign their band away, Skwisgaar tries to keep it together for his fellow guitarist and his frontman. He’s not sure if it helps.
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Magnus has accepted his fate as a washed-up ex-rocker. (It’s not so bad, as long as the bandmate he kidnapped is suffering worse.) Skwisgaar has accepted he’ll never leave Magnus’ basement. Toki, lone guitarist of mediocre metal band Dethklok, has accepted he'll probably be fired. Then, Skwisgaar gets out -- but with his hands damaged and his confidence shattered, the band's future is less certain than it's ever been.
Febuwhump 2026, mostly Skwiswhump and hurt/comfort.
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I’ve always hated you — that’s what Toki told Skwisgaar the first time the metal-masked assassin tried to kill them. Now they’re prisoners of the assassin and a vengeful ex-bandmate. If they don’t learn to support each other, they’ll… well, they’ll probably die either way, Skwisgaar thinks. But maybe they can do it as a two-guitar band.
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An occult scholar expects a raging beast when he meets the Devil in captivity. Or perhaps a suave gentleman, unaffected by it all. He did not expect the Devil to be hurt.
Short fic for the Whump Gift Swap Event.
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What Adrien does, the sleazy startup that keeps us both in business calls virtual companion facilitation: putting a voice and body to an AI character users want to see come alive for a night. He hates it. And I hate seeing him hurt.
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Uranium Angel by Tlon
Fandoms: Year Zero (Alternate Reality Game), Nine Inch Nails (Band), Original Work
15 Dec 2024
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Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you. But you’re not married just yet. What you do with an Art Is Resistance prisoner is nobody’s business but your own.
Or, in a dystopian theocracy, a captive outlaw musician asks for your help. You both decide nothing comes for free.
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Finding Cazador is a little harder than expected. To get past the locked door in his mansion, you and Astarion must infiltrate a party held by a notorious Baldur's Gate libertine - who dredges up painful memories from Astarion's past. How you deal with them is up to you.
A role-playing visual novel made for the 2024 Baldur's Gate 3 Big Bang.
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Astarion doesn’t need a reflection to know himself – two hundred years of servitude has shown him exactly what he’s good for. Odd that his new partner seems to disagree.
Or, five times Astarion regretted being seen over the past centuries, and one time he didn’t.
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The man was looking at him – not at his mask or at his motley, but his hands. Alone in the crowd, the stranger was watching him play.
Long before meeting at the hamlet, Baldwin comforts Sarmenti in the tyrant’s court.
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Three years after the horrors of Aegis VII, Isaac Clarke and Liz Cross have lost everything, including each other. Cross is hiding from church and state in the underbelly of the Titan Sprawl. Isaac isn’t sure where he’s been, just that it left him with scars he doesn’t want to think about and a dead woman in his head. And only another nightmare can bring them back together.
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- Part 2 of A Perfect Vacuum
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Wherever this madness came from, it broke him. He did his job and now he is disposable – best if he dies here, alone and useless and in pain.
If he habitually did what’s best, though, Isaac wouldn’t be here in the first place.
Elizabeth Cross lives. As the dust settles after Aegis VII, she and Isaac are all each other’s got left.
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- Part 1 of A Perfect Vacuum
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Viktor fell back against the pillow. Jayce lingered on the bed, unable to forget the memories it conjured.
“Well,” Viktor said. “I take it you aren’t happily married, at least.”
Federal marshal Jayce Talis had hung up his badge and picked up a cattle whip, until he left his ranch for one more job: put the infamous thief known as the Herald on the 7:50 toward Tucson to face justice. If only old affections would stop getting in the way.
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Even if their partnership survives Viktor confessing a feeling Jayce doesn’t have, things would change. Better they stay like this — enough affection to keep Viktor from going elsewhere, never nearly as much as he wants, all taken in a way Jayce doesn’t intend.
Guilt. Desire. Et cetera.
Left alone on New Year’s Eve, Viktor takes a trip back to the undercity. But going home again is much harder than leaving — and it hurts so much worse. At least he might finally admit some feelings to his partner at the end of it.
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Viktor thinks investor meetings are a waste of time. Jayce works out a deal to convince him otherwise.
(Jayce ties Viktor up in the lab and edges him between talking to hextech backers. That’s it. That’s the deal.)
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Lonely private eye Jayce Talis was just another lost soul in the City of Angels. Then a glamorous antiques dealer arrived in Los Angeles hunting a treasure somebody was willing to kill for. Jayce’s best lead is a picture of a tattooed girl with braids, and his new partner is the man who took it: a photographer with one foot in the underworld and a face to die for.
A 1930s hardboiled/noir AU.
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It's dangerous enough being a Zaunite in Piltover on the brink of war. It's just Viktor's bad luck to have helped invent the thing that pushed it there. Now he's fighting to stop his work from being weaponized again, sharing his body with a power he's afraid of, and grieving the death he's already caused.
Jayce does, fortunately, understand.