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Mad Keeps the Dark Out by fierce_brainwash
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pocket Monsters: Sword & Shield | Pokemon Sword & Shield Versions
23 Aug 2025
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It starts like a fairytale: late-night calls, stolen time, promises whispered in the dark. Raihan thinks he’s finally found the kind of love worth building a life around.
Until it isn’t.
Until the texts stop, the silences stretch, and “focused on his career” becomes code for leaving Raihan behind. The break doesn’t come clean — it shatters.What follows is messier: grief, notebooks full of unsent words, and nights where even food won’t stay down. Healing isn’t quick. It’s Piers dragging him outside when he can’t breathe, Marnie kicking down walls, kids in Spikemuth making him laugh when he thought he’d forgotten how. It’s headlines, slip-ups, new scars, and old wounds reopening.
But somewhere between the rubble and the spotlight, Raihan learns what it means to love without losing himself — and that sometimes the one who stays through the worst is the one worth fighting for.
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The story of how Raihan falls in love, breaks apart, and stitches himself back together — with Piers at his side.Bookmarked by briarsworn
12 Nov 2025
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“Please don’t slam the books.” A stern voice cuts through the stillness.
Phainon jumps in fright, clutching at his chest to will his heartbeat to slow as he turns to face the person who interrupted his brooding. As soon as he takes in what’s before him, he forgets how to think.
A man stands across from him, arms folded neatly across his chest, watching him behind a pair of simple black frames that suggest he’s already written Phainon off as a lost cause. He’s sharp and poised, biceps bulging even beneath his loose-fitting jumper, and the worn edges of the neckline leave a sliver of his clavicle on display that Phainon can’t seem to look away from.
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or, in another life, come and visit me at my library.
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30 Aug 2025
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Mydei almost snorts at the way Phainon’s jaw clenches, invisible to an untrained eye.
“Perhaps another time?” Phainon laughs easily, placing himself at Mydei’s side and smoothly extracting him from the woman’s grip. He places his hand on Mydei’s nape in a friendly manner, tugging lightly on his hair. “We have some important business to attend to right now. Sorry to take Mydei here away from you, I’m sure he was having the time of his life.”
or; 5 times Phainon is a jealous and possessive idiot over Mydei, and 1 time Mydei returns the favor
Translation into Russian (Русский) available: here
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- Part 1 of bound by the stars
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19 Aug 2025
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Deliverer: I think some introspection would do you well, Prince.
xPrince: I appreciate the concern, Deliverer, but I don't think pointing out the truth warrants such a thing.
Deliverer: I believe it does. You’re looking awfully pot shaped right now.
xPrince: ?
Deliverer: The idiom the pot calling the kettle black?
xPrince: Sorry the brain cells I have left from speaking with you were struggling to form a connection.
Deliverer: Accidental self burn?
xPrince: Focus on your leveling noob.
Deliverer: So you're resorting to name calling because you can't think of a good retort. Cute.
An AU where the heirs have a guild together in a game called Saga of Heroes.
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- Part 1 of caught in the static
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17 Aug 2025
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It's been nearly four years now, and Emil is fine. Emil is great, in fact. Maybe there are still some nights when he can't sleep--and half a year of his life that he can't allow himself to remember--but he's moved on from the past. He's happy with his life now. He's a success. He has a beautiful girlfriend who wants to marry him. How else could you describe such a life but happy? What else could he possibly be missing?
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- Part 1 of Coming Together
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11 Aug 2025
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In Spite of the circumstances by Sternenstaub
Fandoms: Dragon Age: The Veilguard (Video Game), Dragon Age - All Media Types
09 Nov 2024
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When Lucanis can no longer keep his body from falling asleep, Spite visits Rook.
When Lucanis wakes up, things are a lot better than he expected.
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12 Dec 2024
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‘While The Antivan Crows may have had the ability to cultivate assassins that are second to none, they also created emotionally constipated souls that equated any true emotion to weakness. Weakness that could lead to death in their line of work.’
Or, two Crows finally admit their feelings to one another. Also, I thought the romance lock on scene was a little lack luster and decided to rewrite it for myself. Enjoy!
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22 Nov 2024
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Two times Lucanis wakes in Peregrine's arms, and one time Peregrine wakes in his.
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14 Nov 2024
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Neve couldn’t believe she hadn’t seen it before.
Lucanis had been watching him. Neve had fretted about the danger of Rook’s risk-taking behavior, but there had never been any danger in the first place, because Lucanis had been ready to catch him the whole time.
Lucanis was smiling at him - or as close to a smile as he could get.
Lucanis was fond of him.
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Or: 5 times someone figured out Lucanis’s feelings for Rook, plus 1 time when Rook did.
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13 Nov 2024
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Pre-questline start. Asphodelos is missing some of its warders. Hesperos adjusts.
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29 Jul 2023
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After his transformation, Hesperos finds himself craving Lahabrea's blood. Not wishing to disturb him directly, he sends his familiar to sneak a taste of him.
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26 Jun 2023
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Hell will have to wait
It's not yet the time for me to go
Despite all my deeds, hell will have to wait--
It's not yet time to goThemis anticipates all eventualities in the final confrontation with Hesperos. Fortunately a friend of his has a prototype of an invocation that lets him summon Lahabrea to his side before the hemitheos can end his life, changing the course of their trajectories.
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15 Mar 2022
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“Oh, I’m sure there’s much and more suffering to be found in a life,” Hythlodaeus says casually. “But at least this time it wouldn’t last as long.”
Emet-Selch gives him a baleful look. “You’re not doing a very good job of selling it,” he says.
(In the aetherial sea, two misplaced souls talk about what's next.)
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30 Jan 2022
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“Well back then you were… quite warm to those of the fairer sex, I worried for her.” Urianger said. Thancred grinned, “It wasn’t just the fairer sex my friend, though you were too caught up in Moen to notice any flirting from me I bet.” Urianger scoffed “Flirting from you? I hardly think you would."
If only Urianger knew how Thancred's view of the bookkeeper went from a boy he wanted to protect to a crush, to someone he yearned for that he could never have.
Prequel to "Tumble Down Again" but can be read on it's own. Rating may go up in future chapters.
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- Part 1 of Dadbringers
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04 Nov 2021
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A collection of ficlets with no chronological order apart from the first being the origin.
Kind of a really wholesome au idea of my Wol being found by Thancred as a baby as he would of been during 1.0 and the difference it'd make in his life and wholesome moments.
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20 Sep 2021
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A home away from home, and then some.
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12 Sep 2021
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Know that all I do, I do for thee.
Loose thy lips and speak thy mind. Thou shalt feel all the better for it.
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25 May 2021
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To think that we could stay the same by Depths
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pocket Monsters: Sword & Shield | Pokemon Sword & Shield Versions
18 Feb 2020
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Leon has a lot of new free time on his hands, now that he's lost his Champion title and Rose being in jail.
A lot of new free time to recognize that, maybe, just maybe, he should pay a little more attention to why his chest hurts when he looks at Raihan.
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22 Feb 2020
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Best Laid Plans by SadinaSaphrite, tearsontherocks
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters: Sword & Shield | Pokemon Sword & Shield Versions
13 Mar 2020
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“Y’just need to ask him out, mate.”
“No. It wouldn’t work. Neither of us have any time and it would be a distraction from our jobs and the press would turn it into a big scandal…”
Piers stuck another cigarette between his lips.
“Never took you for a coward, Raihan.”
It's time for the Galar Gym Challenge and Raihan has a gym to run, but Raihan is determined to tell Leon how he feels. Nothing, not the press, not the Chairman, not even an apocalyptic pokemon is going to get in his way. However, the best laid plans of meowth and men often go awry...
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- Part 1 of Best Laid Plans of Meowth and Men
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18 Feb 2020
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dream in my soul, and i won't let it go by notavodkashot
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters: Sword & Shield | Pokemon Sword & Shield Versions
10 Feb 2020
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It takes Raihan a year and change to finally work up the courage to tell Leon how he feels.
...okay, maybe it's more like a decade than a year, but who's keeping count?
(Piers. Piers is keeping count, someone please release him from this hell.)
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12 Feb 2020