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    Over the phone, it was easy to forget they weren’t one person. One could almost pretend Marc had an excitable British roommate. Layla didn’t pretend. But there was something very unsettling about standing in a room that had contained her husband one second ago, and suddenly contained someone wholly different.

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    This is a story about how Marc and Layla learn to fit Steven into their relationship, Steven learns what being in a relationship is all about, and definitely no one is hanging out with Khonshu on the sly.

    Main story is complete!

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    12 Aug 2025

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    No one ever said Shoto's life would get easier

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    28 Apr 2024

  3. Public Bookmark 55

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    ‘Dear brother,’ Shouto thinks, pausing. ‘I don’t remember you, but I think I miss the idea of you.’

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    With burns and bruises littering his body, a young Todoroki Shouto takes comfort in imagining a conversation between him and his dead older brother Touya.

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    09 Dec 2023

  4. Public Bookmark 79

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    “I told—” Five blinks rapidly, hands fisting over his sleeves. “I told The Handler that I don’t care about being happy, that I’m not looking to be happy, but it feels like it’s all I’ve been looking for. It’s never been about saving the world, it’s been about saving—” He cuts himself off abruptly, making an aborted gesture in Luther’s general direction without looking up.

    “You could be,” Luther says, soft and gentle. “Happy, I mean. If you want to be.”

    Five’s voice is small. “I want to be.”

     

    (Or: Five gets drunk, and he and Luther talk. Some things are said that would’ve been best left unsaid, and some things are said that should’ve been said long ago.)

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    29 Jun 2022

  5. Public Bookmark 34

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    Just as the Hargreeves are about to start over in the fixed timeline, Five sacrifices his memories for his family and suddenly he's actually the thirteen-year-old he appears to be. Now the siblings need to figure out custody, school, a traumatized teenager, a super-powered murderer on the loose, and remnants of Five's past that just won't piss off. Because, of course.

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    19 Jun 2021