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Laurent wakes screaming. He’s dying. He must be. It’s the only explanation he has for the utter agony, confusion and terror that he feels. His brain is splitting itself open, bits of it strewn across space and time. He’s twenty one, in Arles, finally crowned. He’s fourteen, at Chastillon, on his knees for his uncle. He’s twenty, in Ios, watching a blade sink into Damen’s side. He’s sixteen, all alone, dreaming of revenge.
Last night Laurent had thrust his arm at Damen, “attend me,” he had commanded, as if Damen weren’t a king in his own right. Last night, Uncle had sat on his bed, played chess with him. “I will always have time for you,” he had reassured Laurent, “even though Auguste has outgrown you.”
Laurent leans to the side and vomits, violently. His fingers shake as he pushes his hair back, slowly, the room spins into focus. His hair is shorter than he remembers, Damen likes it long. His hair is exactly the same, cut by his nursemaid once a month.
He is thirteen, at Marlas, and he knows everything.
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19 Oct 2024
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"Zeitnot (chess): German for time trouble. Zeitnot occurs when a player needs to play several moves in a very short period of time in order to reach the time control defined for the game."
When twenty-three-year-old Laurent wakes up on the morning of the Battle of Marlas in his adolescent body, he has to figure out how to keep Auguste and Damianos alive through the end of the day.
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19 Oct 2024
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The Cast Iron Prince's Romantic Way to Happiness by quick_cat_tl
Fandoms: Captive Prince - C. S. Pacat
28 Jul 2022
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By Auguste's recommendation, Laurent read The Darkened Prince of Akielos, a best-seller about a prince sold to an enemy nation as a slave and how he returned victorious to his birthplace. Laurent was immediately captivated!
But after being run over and waking up in the book's villain's body, Laurent knows he needs to change his fate! He doesn't want to die! Mr. Protagonist Damianos, have mercy on this cast iron bitch!- Language:
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18 Oct 2024
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"Damian!" The name rips out of Tim without much premeditation, and he's across the podium before the Commissioner can get more than halfway through a warning that he needs to get off the platform, they don't know what's going on or where the shooter is, it's clear Tim was the target—
Across the podium and on his knees beside his younger brother, who's on his back on the jet black carpet, small hands clamped over a large, bright crimson bloodstain that's starkly visible on his crisp, white dress shirt.
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17 Oct 2024
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In the face of your light by noverture
Fandoms: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Dragon Age - All Media Types
14 Jul 2022
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"Here lay the world in tatters and ruins, littered with the remains of once mighty armies and terrible cities. Brought to its knees by the Dread Wolf. The Dread Wolf who was all pride and no wisdom, all guilt and no atonement."
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Inquisitor Lavellan saved the world, lost the world, then saved it again - loved and lost, loved and lost. Cruel joke upon cruel joke piled atop each other under the disguise of destiny and fate, until the curtains fell on him and Solas with their blades piercing the other's heart. It was a disgustingly poetic end.
And because his luck was rotten, he wakes at the moment before it all began.
A second chance or a second doom? Lavellan wasn't sure which he preferred.
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"Uncover the past, little raven, the Wolf is not the liar here. Those who walk the shadows never leave."
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11 Oct 2024
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Where the Stars are F***ing Strange by Anoriath
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings (Movies)
17 Jul 2022
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Plucked like a fish out of water, you try to make the best out of a bad situation in Bree. Then, one day, this Hozier-looking dude showed up at The Pony.
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04 Oct 2024
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‘Lions, and tigers, and bears, oh my! And… snakes, and eels, and crocodiles, and—is that an actual dragon? Oh. Oh my.’
A collection of fairytale and monster AUsGN!Reader x Various
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- Part 1 of Monster Mayhem
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04 Oct 2024
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Woe to the Ramshackle Prefect, being caught up in the drama between the Disney Villains and their respective heroes.
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04 Oct 2024
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Signs Point to Yes by wakeupnew
Fandoms: Redactedverse - Redacted ASMR, Redactedverse - Redacted Audio
13 Nov 2022
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“It’s just a lot, sweetheart,” Milo says, more raggedly than he meant to. He’s tired. Maybe a little defeated. “I don’t wanna bring you down too.”
“Hm,” they say, in that ominous pitch that usually means they’re (1) a little pissed off and (2) about to nail Milo’s logic to the fuckin’ floor.
On a quiet Saturday a few weeks after the Elemental and Energetic Games, Milo wants to stay busy. Sweetheart wants to take a breather.
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30 Sep 2024
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liberation of the damned. by リリス - riris (arurun)
Fandoms: 魔入りました! 入間くん | Mairimashita! Iruma-kun | Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun (Manga), 魔入りました! 入間くん | Mairimashita! Iruma-kun | Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun (Anime)
03 May 2025
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Soyo's in hell, but it's warm down here, so he'll stay.
"We of the Vassago house are wolves," his Father tells him. "We are a pack, a family. And here the strong protect the weak, and no one is left behind."
(He'll get a little addicted to insanity along the way, but that's fine, right?)
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- Part 10 of in memory of the ones that live again.
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29 Sep 2024
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“Harry Potter.”
The cold burrowed into his flesh; the scent of cloying death and molding earth clogged his senses.
“The Boy Who Lived.”
A strange sense of unimaginable loss and disappointment rose inside of Harry. That brilliant, yet cruel boy could’ve been so much more if he’d not stepped down this bloodied path.
Terrible, but great. He pitied this creature.
“Come to die.”
Harry Potter faced the flash of green light with the bravery of a Gryffindor and the broken heart of a Hufflepuff.
When Death gives Harry a third option, one that can save everyone he ever cared about, he takes it unflinchingly. Even when that means doing the impossible: falling in love with the enemy, Tom Riddle.
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28 Sep 2024
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Imperium AU - David Shaw is stubborn. He’s heard that his entire life. Why should that stubbornness disappear in death?
David defies every law known to man and nature, and regains his hold on the shore of Brachium’s river. Quite literally clawing his way back to life.
However, he comes back… not quite whole.
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23 Sep 2024
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"The first time it happened, Harry was slumped on his desk running on four hours of sleep and a triple workload. He didn’t notice until he inhaled water. The entire room was already flooded by the time he’d lifted his head up from his ruined paperwork"
Every time Harry has a kip the room fills with water, Draco comes in to help, because of course
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20 Sep 2024
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"...in the event that I, Lily Evans Potter, and my husband, James Potter, become deceased," read Albus, "I do hereby name Severus Snape as sole legal custodian of my son, Harry James Potter, until such a time as he comes of age." He folded his glasses on the table.
"Fuck," said Severus, with feeling.
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17 Sep 2024
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Harry is hired as Barty Crouch Jr.'s personal assistant. As part of his training, he is told that Minister Riddle is never to be ignored or left waiting. But as months pass, Harry never hears from him anyway, so it doesn't seem to be an issue.
What Harry doesn't know is that the Minister has a long-standing arrangement with the Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement. An arrangement that involves less clothes and more... other things.
But Harry doesn't know any of that.
What Harry does know is that he's always supposed to do what the Minister says.
So when Minister Riddle owls asking for Barty, who is away on vacation, to come over with 'the usual', Harry tries very hard to deliver what the Minister wants in his mentor's stead.
Now, if only he knew what, exactly, 'the usual' was...
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- Part 25 of duplicity's One-Shots
- Part 14 of duplicity's Prompt Fills
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11 Sep 2024
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Of Kings, of Pawns, and of Men by mads999
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter - Fandom
30 Aug 2025
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When Harry succumbs to dementors in Little Whinging, the last thing he expects is to wake up and find Tom Riddle’s face staring back at him in the mirror.
It only goes downhill from there.
(In which Harry learns: if Voldemort had been like an atom bomb, Tom Riddle is the biblical forbidden fruit, succulent and fragrant and filled with an insidious rot that just may kill him.)
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11 Sep 2024
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A Rather Useless Inheritance by Blood_Stained_Fingers
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
21 Nov 2023
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Being a Parselmouth came with the inherent predisposition to understand snake behaviours and imitate them. It was relieving Harry wasn’t going to kill anyone with venom, nor petrify them with his gaze. But also, somewhat frustrating as it was all completely useless. None of the skills that came with being a Parselmouth would help Harry survive Voldemort.
It might, in fact, have the opposite effect. For all Riddle's fury that Harry was the cause of his elder self’s defeat, he was fascinated by the fact Harry was also a Parselmouth. He had grabbed Harry’s face, turning him side to side looking bemusedly enraptured by Harry’s threat display. “At your age, I was imitating much more vicious snakes than this, Harry.”
That may have been all well and good, but Harry didn’t feel very vicious. He felt very threatened and in over his head.
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08 Sep 2024
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raising your arms at the top of the world by a_alene
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
04 Feb 2024
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When every other man in the 501st is paired up except for Chip, he isn’t surprised.
When he gets back the official address form and his roommate is a number he doesn’t recognize, he isn’t surprised.
When he shows up at his brand-new apartment with all his worldly possessions shoved into a duffel pack to see a Marshal Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic standing in the middle of said apartment, he is, admittedly, a little surprised.
Actually, a lot surprised.
Marshal Commander Fox, Head of the Coruscant Guard, looks at him blankly. Chip lets his duffel bag fall to the floor.
“How did you get in here?” Marshal Commander Fox says.
Chip opens his mouth once or twice. “I, uh. I live here? Sir?”
Fox’s eyebrows shoot up into his forehead, but it’s his only outward expression of emotion. “Well, that can’t be right.”
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Chip, the youngest trooper out of the very last batch decanted on Kamino, finds himself rooming with Marshal Commander Fox, the oldest, grumpiest motherfucker on Coruscant. Featuring child labor laws, bad dye jobs, and takeout.
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05 Sep 2024
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Mo has long since come to terms with the fact no one in Konoha needs him. He doesn't mind, really. If no one here cares about him, surely there's someone somewhere else who will. He's got a plan to find them, that someone who'll make his life worth living, but plans in a Shinobi village rarely go smoothly. Now he's got two kids to worry about, a jinjuriki that won't leave him alone, and a genius who seems to think they're kindred spirits.
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Mo would rather run far, far away than deal with his own problems.
He sticks around to deal with theirs.A completely self-indulgent OC insert.
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04 Sep 2024
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Cast Shadow by Goushen
Fandoms: 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga), Naruto, 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime)
23 Dec 2023
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What was with this clan’s obsession with the Ten Shadows technique? Naoya didn’t really care that much– too damn troublesome.
(Shikamaru as Naoya. Snippets, because I can't write. Fabrication of some of Shika-ya’s Nara clan techniques)
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04 Sep 2024