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If It Weren't for Second Chances, We'd All Be Alone by mentallyinlothlorien
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
31 Mar 2023
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Maria is trying really hard to understand her new brother-in-law, despite his less-than-stellar reputation.
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- Part 5 of he sure as hell is her dad
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01 Apr 2023
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sanguine by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
20 Mar 2023
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He knows from the moment he sees Joel helping the girl down from the horse she’s on that something’s up. There’s an ease to the movement that says he almost certainly helped her up on the horse as well, and the way she moves with absolute trust that he won’t let her fall says there’s a bond there that’s had time to develop.
The girl sticks close to Joel’s side, eyes wary, as he guides her back over.
“This is Ellie,” Joel says before turning to her. “This is my brother, T-”
“Tommy, yeah. I heard. Not all of us have shit ears, grandpa.”
He blinks at the comment, but Joel doesn’t seem offended, even as he rolls his eyes.
This is his second hint.
(Ellie and Joel from Tommy's POV, ft. some jelly Ellie, Ellie whump, and family bonding)
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29 Mar 2023
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work study by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
11 Mar 2023
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In his many years of taking on jobs for too-little pay, there’s one assignment he’s never worked. The other workers call it the “preschool brigade,” the FEDRA-school kids sent out into the field for what they call “work experience” to get them used to the real world. Really, it’s a behavioral tool, he knows, an example of “better act right or you’ll end up like these poor fuckers when you’re grown.”
He's deliberately never worked on one, uninterested in being put in charge of a kid doing a dangerous job they shouldn’t be. The kids that get sent on the preschool brigade are the ones FEDRA doesn’t necessarily care about getting back, after all, and there are things even adults shouldn’t be doing, not as untrained as most of them are.
And then comes the day one of the FEDRA guards assigned to his work detail that leads over a sullen-looking girl, who kicks rocks the entire way.
(an AU in which ellie and joel first meet on job assignments)
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29 Mar 2023
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“Oh,” Ellie says when they hear a shuffling in the hall, and from the sound of it he knows she’s had an idea.
Before he can ask, before he can do a single thing, she yanks his arm through the fence, shoves his sleeve back, and sinks her teeth deep into the skin just above his elbow.
He curses and reflexively jerks back, but her grip on his arm is strong, and she just sinks her teeth deeper before she lets go. He pulls his arm back and is looking at her, wondering if she’s lost her damn mind from the stress of this horror show, when the door opens and three men, including David, walk through.
The sight of blood on her mouth makes the men pause.
But only for a second.
(post episode 8 with a little twist that joel is with ellie in the cages)
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27 Mar 2023
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somewhere in the desert there's a forest by wmthackeray
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
25 Dec 2022
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"What, did the world end on his birthday, or something?" Tommy says nothing. Her jaw drops. "No fucking way. Really?"
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Joel takes Ellie to a museum for her birthday. She decides to figure out how to celebrate his. She just has to figure out when it is, first.
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27 Mar 2023
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I come home crying and you hold me tight and grab the keys by alternatemind
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV)
21 Mar 2023
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They’d been living in Jackson for three months when Joel hesitantly pitched the idea to her.
For the past three months, they’d been recovering from their journey to the Fireflies. After medical procedures, arguments, and many near-death experiences, they’d decided to settle down in Jackson and have a normal life, the kind of life Ellie hadn’t gotten a chance to have yet. A life where she could easily be a kid without having to worry about the infected or defending herself or keeping watch at night or saving the world.
This led to his idea—school tended to be considered “normal.” Why not have her take it?
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Joel and Ellie try and settle into Jackson, but they have a couple of problems when it comes to attending school
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25 Mar 2023
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and if you find me, will you know me? (sometimes when he looks at me, I know he needs you, you're all that he sees) by dewonthevine
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
20 Mar 2023
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"She pushed the door as quietly as possible, but her foot got stuck in something and she stumbled forward, making way more noise than she had intended to.
So, of course, as one does, Ellie cursed. “Fuck fuck fuck.”
It didn’t matter if she was whispering cause soon enough, she realised the light of the kitchen was switched on, which could only mean one thing.
Fuck me.
She closed her eyes while struggling to close the door, and managed what must’ve been a very crooked smile with a ridiculous wave to Joel, sitting on the chair by the kitchen counter, a cup of coffee in front of him. “… Hi !”
And boy, had it been a while since Joel had seen a drunk teenager coming home; but he knew one when he saw one."
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Ellie comes back home drunk, and overshares a little.
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23 Mar 2023
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It doesn’t take long for him to notice a problem in their settling in, however: Ellie doesn’t socialize with the other kids. At all.
She sticks right by him whenever she gets the chance. She looks at the kids the same way someone would look at zoo animals, but she never tries to approach. When one of them gets bold enough to actually try to talk to her, she doesn’t move from her place right at his side. The kid will try to talk for a few minutes, but it’s a rare teenager who wants to talk to another teenager right in front of an adult, and they slip away soon enough.
Ellie always watches them go with something like wary interest in her eyes, but she never tries to go after them, only pressing tighter to his side.
(Ellie struggles a bit with making friends when they're back in Jackson) (Joel tries and fails not to worry about it)
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22 Mar 2023
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last night i blacked out in my car (and i woke up in my childhood bed) by thelanguageoflovers
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
14 Mar 2023
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She’s sick, she realizes dumbly. Everything is sore, she thinks she’s going to throw up again, and the room is spinning. “Don’ hurt me,” she begs, reaching for her bag as she inches backward. Curling up in the corner, she holds it to her chest like it’s going to protect her from certain death.
“Don’t shoot her,” a voice says. “We need her brain intact for the surgery.”
Intact.
Ellie gags on a wave of disgust and fear as the door crashes open with a sound that reverberates in her skull.
“Get the fuck away from her!”
OR: Anesthesia takes a hell of a toll on Ellie.
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20 Mar 2023
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the doctor put her hands over my liver (she told me my resentment’s getting smaller) by thelanguageoflovers
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
17 Mar 2023
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This is a childhood home, she realizes as she wanders around. There are little markings on her bedroom doorframe, each with a date and another number. After a long moment of staring at them, she realizes that they’re height markings. In this universe, in this house, Joel’s been watching her grow up.
A stuffed fox sits on her bed, discolored and misshapen with years of being held. There’s a basket of clean laundry in the corner, and she knows without even thinking about it that Joel is the one who folded it. Her bedspread is littered with neat little holes, like she took a pair of safety scissors to it when he wasn’t looking. Birthday cards from Joel and Tommy and some names she doesn’t recognize are tucked into the frame of her mirror. There’s a guitar in the corner, and she imagines that Joel must have taught her to play.
How strange it is, Ellie thinks, to be surrounded by so much evidence of love she never felt.
OR: Ellie gets shot and has a very bad time of it.
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20 Mar 2023
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outlast the rain by ScarlettSwordMoon
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Nightwing (Comics)
09 Apr 2022
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During a routine patrol, Dick’s glove malfunctions and he almost falls to his death. Bruce redesigns them. Problem solved, right? Only Dick is refusing to take the new pair. AKA Trauma is irrational, but love endures all.
Day 4: Dick Grayson’s Eldest Daughter Syndrome & “Catch me.”
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01 Feb 2023
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shipling rivalries by ScarlettSwordMoon
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman: Wayne Family Adventures (Webcomic)
29 Jul 2022
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It’s a long flight from Gotham to Siberia. Dick’s siblings, to Bruce’s horror, use the time to start debating Dick’s love life.
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30 Jan 2023
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Vampire King of Gotham Bruce Wayne takes in little human Dick Grayson as a publicity stunt, after arranging the murder of his parents. But Dick Grayson is impressive, for a human, and Bruce decides to take him under his wing more thoroughly.
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30 Jan 2023
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Bludhaven Police Department by Lady_of_Lorule
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics), Robin (Comics), Titans (Comics), Teen Titans (Comics)
23 Jan 2023
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Sgt. Amy Rohrbach learns that her partner, rookie cop Dick Grayson, is not what he seems. Or how Amy finds out that Dick Grayson is the heir to the entire Wayne fortune, the vigilante Nightwing, the leader of the Titans, and meets some of the Batfam and the Titans along the way.
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- Part 1 of In the Know
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28 Jan 2023
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Shepard owes to a lot of people, both from her past and from her present. And she is very aware of it.
Pictures from a past when she was all but Shepard, long before she was even given that opportunity.
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- Part 1 of Reda Shepard
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14 Dec 2022
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She proved she was tough the first time he met her, 16 years old and standing the wreckage of her home. The next time her saw her only confirmed it. Each time they came together she raised the bar on toughness up to and including saving the whole damn galaxy.
He’s proud of that kid, so proud.
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- Part 2 of Mass Effect: The Thanix Canon
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10 Nov 2022
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Shepard. The greatest hero ever born. Shepard has many origins: a colonist, a spacer, Earthborn. Shepard could be a man or a woman. But did you know that the Shepard on Mindoir was born as a twin? What if both had survived the raid? How would the Reapers have dealt with TWO great heroes instead of one?
An AU where twins, John and Jane Shepard, face the Reaper threat together. Spanning the course of all three games, DLCs, and a few comics.
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27 Oct 2022
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Give Our Lives to Normandy by F-117 Nighthawk (F117_Nighthawk)
Fandoms: Mass Effect Trilogy
14 Jun 2021
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“Nobody knows why we got these,” Kezk shrugs when Aubine asks about the words painted over her armored hump, “Some people say they’re reminders of people that affected the course of our lives. Some people say they’re soulmates or some other bullshit like that.”
“What do you say?”
Kezk laughs and slaps her tiny shoulder. “I say that if you ever want to charge like a krogan, you’ve got to get a handle on those biotics first.”Aubine Shepard has more words on her than anyone probably should. She has dozens of 'thank yous,' several sets of words from those she's fought and come out the only one standing, and a set of sapphire on her arm she uncovers when she needs to. She's a war hero, one of the most famous Alliance operatives at this point, so she supposes it's a little expected.
The Reaper is not.
(Or: a soulmate mark subversion that follows Shepard through the trilogy, looking at the consequences of the trope. Like words from a Reaper.)- Language:
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23 Oct 2022
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David Anderson never had children, but every Father’s Day Shepard got him a gift. The first time she’d done it, she was seventeen and hanging around in a desert somewhere; she’d found a real old mug with some old sci-fi spaceship captain on it, and sent it along. Neither of them mentioned the date. He drank out of it every morning until the Reapers landed on Earth.
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- Part 22 of Sea of Stars
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17 Oct 2022
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Three years, three galactic crises, three lives—two for her, one for him. The road to saving the galaxy takes them to the strangest places, but when the chips are down, they know how to find their way home.
Kaidan, Shepard, and how true love always comes back around.
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- Part 1 of Just a Moment in the Light
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13 Oct 2022