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Will was six years old when Louis won the election for Euchronia's throne. Now, ten years later, he's part of the resistance's effort to take it back.
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- Part 4 of Growing Up Dreaming
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The guard had mentioned the name of the cafe, too. Laughed over it. He'd called it Leblanc, and Akira had grabbed at the name of the place that could have been his home, the place that represents the difference between having freedom and not, and keeps it tucked in close to him. For long nights in a dorm-cell with no windows, and for moments like this when he desperately wants to be anywhere else.
Akira Kurusu is arrested for assault. When his proposed probation falls through, he's locked up for the year instead.
And elsewhere in Tokyo, in a world that Akira knows nothing of at all, someone called Joker teaches a group of Phantom Thieves how to change a heart.
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After Louis wins Euchronia's throne, those who had fought for the Prince are left to pick up the pieces, and to rebel in any way they can. And Will's whole life since he was made--six years old, with nothing but a few fake memories to his name--has been that election.
Now he has to grow up.
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- Part 3 of Growing Up Dreaming
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A royal Prince gives up on his dreams after being cursed. Packs them away into a part of himself where he won't have to look at them, where their loss won't have to hurt. He pushes them away, buries them in darkness, and tries to protect himself from the pain of remembering them. He does not give them a chance to grow.
Many years later, a boy named Will is born of those dreams, and sent out into the world with nothing but a borrowed sword, a book, and a fairy for a friend.
He is six years old.
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- Part 1 of Growing Up Dreaming
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In the Days Before We were There by VampireBadger
Fandoms: 逆転裁判 | Gyakuten Saiban | Ace Attorney
03 Jan 2026
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After a long several seconds of silence, Trucy says, "Apollo?"
"Yeah?"
She bites her lip for a second, then says all in a rush, "We're ten years in the past, you just got hired to work at the same law office as my dad--only he's not my dad yet, he's not even a lawyer yet--and we're pretending to be siblings."
This sits in the space between them for a few seconds. Then Apollo lets out a long sigh and nods. "Yeah," he says. "That pretty much sums it up."
The day after Wrocky's trial, Apollo Justice wakes up stranded ten years in the past with Trucy Wright. Somehow, things only get more complicated from there.
Follows the events of Ace Attorney, Justice for All, and Trials and Tribulations.
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Crossing Dreams and Book Friends by doodlekitt, VampireBadger
Fandoms: Metaphor: ReFantazio (Video Game)
16 Nov 2025
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Will takes a shaky step back, staring at the young Prince with eyes wide. "Wha—" The word gets stuck in his throat, and he has to start over and try a second time. "What? Are you real?"
The Prince's face crinkles up in worry and confusion. "Um," he says. "Yeah?" He steps closer, his own movement faltering. "Are you okay?"
Will doesn't even know how to start answering that question. "Why are you little?" he asks.
The Prince's answer is, "Why are you?"
Akademeia exists within realities, between realities, and sometimes, if the conditions are right, as a connection to realities that would not otherwise meet. When Will, six years old and too curious for his own good, finds an unknown book there, it becomes just such a connection between his world and another.
Crossover between Will, the friend from my book by doodlekitt, and Forgotten Dreams by vampirebadger
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- Part 2 of Growing Up Dreaming
- Part 2 of Metaphor Book Club
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The Phantom Thieves have taken down a false god and an imperfect utopia of a reality together. They've lost their leader, and brought him back from the dead. He's not exactly human anymore, but he's alive, and everything feels as good as they can be.
Now, in what should be their chance to relax and enjoy themselves, they find themselves caught up in a whole new batch of trouble.
(What else is new?)
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- Part 8 of Forewarned is Forearmed
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Adrift: Euchronia by VampireBadger
Fandoms: Persona 5, Metaphor: ReFantazio (Video Game), The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
12 Oct 2025
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One cosmic moment sees seven individuals across three different worlds flung from everything they’ve ever known into situations they never could have imagined. Why they were chosen? No clue. How to get back? Who knows. What they should do now? Their best.
Nothing in Ren's life has made sense since the second he walked into Tokyo. In the past three days he's wandered into a Palace, awakened a Persona, and befriended a talking cat. And now, before he even has a chance to get used to that, he's isekaied into some kind of fantasy world, and accidentally stopping a King's assassination. Yeah. He has no idea what he's doing here.
A collaborative work that sees the heroes of Persona 5, Metaphor: ReFantazio, and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom transported into each other's worlds and thrust into the role of their main characters.
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- Part 1 of Adrift
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Phi returns to the future after she and Sigma fail to stop the outbreak of Radical-6, and decides that she isn't happy with the way things have turned out. And if going back to Dcom didn't do enough, why not try going farther? There were other nonary games, before Dcom. Maybe if she goes back to 2018 this time, to the first nonary game, that might be enough.
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Junpei's first attempt at SHIFTing doesn't exactly go as planned. Things are going fast, the facility is about to blow up, and Akane had spent more time explaining Back to the Future than how this actually works. That's probably how he ends up getting it so wrong, and accidentally launching himself back to 2018.
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Two psychic children arrive at the dawn of Cradle Pharmaceutical's experiments on the Gigantic. They're not siblings, but they decide to try their best anyway.
(It turns out they're not the only ones)
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Adrift: Hyrule by VampireBadger
Fandoms: Metaphor: ReFantazio (Video Game), Persona 5, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
28 Sep 2025
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One cosmic moment sees seven individuals across three different worlds flung from everything they’ve ever known into situations they never could have imagined. Why they were chosen? No clue. How to get back? Who knows. What they should do now? Their best.
Will is just getting used to the new magic of Archetyps on his mission to save the Prince, when he suddenly finds himself in the unknown Kingdom of Hyrule, with a ghost called Rauru telling him that the Prince is trapped in the past, and in need of his help.
A collaborative work that sees the heroes of Persona 5, Metaphor: ReFantazio, and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom transported into each other's worlds and thrust into the role of their main characters.
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- Part 2 of Adrift
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Takuto Maruki has known for a long time that he's different. Special. Every night at midnight, when the rest of the world seems to stop, a voice whispers to him, and teaches him, showing him how to change the world.
And then, in college, he hears stories of the Kirijo Group, who know about that extra hour. Soon enough he's been drawn into the mysteries of Gekkoukan High, and S.E.E.S., and the Dark Hour.
Soon, he's doing more good than he ever could have dreamed of.
ON POSSIBLY PERMANENT HIATUS (and may be deleted soon)
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Among the criminal underworld of 21st century Paris, no prize is as sought after as Aline Dessendre's painting, the Monolith. Each year, she destroys the painting, and makes a new one. Each year, the number on the painted Monolith gets lower. Each year, the challenge and prestige of being the first group of thieves to successfully steal the painting increases.
The year the painting reads 33, one particular group of disaster thieves decides to take a crack at the painting.
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A painting is one moment, frozen in time. And outside the world of that canvas, people can grow, they can change, and they can heal.
Years after the original canvas is destroyed, the Dessendre family decides to repaint Lumiere. On the cusp of a new world, Maelle and Verso have a conversation.
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So Will grits his teeth, and tells himself keep going keep going keep going, until they make it all the way back to the chamber where his best and oldest friend has been lying, asleep and waiting, for them to find a way to help him.
And just seeing him there, whole and healthy and unburdened from the thorns that have marked him for so long, makes Will's legs go weak at the knees and he feels almost weak with the sheer relief. They've done it. (It's over) He's done. (He can rest)
The last thing he sees, before his legs give out completely and the ground rushes up to meet him, is the Prince's eyes blinking slowly open.
When the Prince wakes from the long, dark sleep of his curse, he meets a familiar stranger.
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In the aftermath of the fire that destroys the eldan village, a boy who will one day be a Prince meets his father, the King.
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SPOILERS FOR LATE SEPTEMBER
When she is twelve years old, Rella Cygnus is given a terrible task--the assassination of the king. The curse she casts doesn't quite kill him, but it lingers and lasts and wears him down. In the aftermath, as the King is confined to bedrest and increasingly isolated from court, the Prince is left to navigate the politics of a court that sees him as an inconvenient hurdle to be overcome.
The Prince is six years old, with a hunger for books, a habit for getting into places he shouldn't, and an increasingly odd collection of friends.
It seems like a pretty fair fight.
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MAJOR SPOILERS THROUGH THE END OF METAPHOR IN SUMMARY AND STORY
In the moments after Will tears his heart out to stop Louis's curse, as he's bleeding out, alone and dying, More gives him an offer: reject the world he's always known in favor of the world of his book, his perfect utopia. Live there, or return to reality, and die.
Will chooses to die.
Unfortunately for both of them, that perfect, utopian reality exists, in Maruki's Tokyo of 2017. And once the offer is made, it's not that easy to avoid being sucked into his world.
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Only Thorns Before I Bloom by VampireBadger for genderneutralnoun
Fandoms: Metaphor: ReFantazio (Video Game)
07 Mar 2025
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When the Princess of Euchronia is cursed, she slips into a long, deep dream--of adventure, of courage, of a hero like the ones in her stories. Only, girls don't get to go on adventures. Especially not Princesses. Princesses are told to sit still, to be seen and not heard, to smile and to never, ever hold a sword.
And so the name of her dream is Wilhelmina, who goes by Will, who dresses as a boy, and doesn't let anybody tell her what she can't do. She's everything the Princess wants to be. She's a hero.
(Will thinks she'd like to just stop hiding herself, actually)
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(...and other such conclusions)
In 2016, the Phantom Thieves came together in Tokyo, and forged the kind of bonds that last a lifetime. Bonds that survive fights with false gods, false realities, death and return. These are bonds that survive growing up. Bonds that survive the march of time, months and years and decades. Bonds that survive becoming adults, and all the mundane day to day realities of time.
Twenty five years later, the Phantom Thieves are still the Phantom Thieves, no matter how what else happens in their lives. But with new threats on the horizon, a kind of conclusion is making its way toward the Phantom Thieves.
...a passing of the torch, to the next generation.
The end of a story, and the start of something new.
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- Part 10 of Forewarned is Forearmed
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Snapshots of life between Akira's time in the Velvet Room, and his kids'.
Will not make much sense without reading the rest of this series.
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- Part 9 of Forewarned is Forearmed