18 Works by ckaster
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"'I want you—' Fabian says, and for a half-second Riz is convinced he’s about to say ‘I want you to go to prom with me.’ It is so unlikely. But it could happen, okay.
"Of course, Riz isn’t that lucky; he didn’t take that feat. '—to help me find a date,' Fabian finishes. 'You know, do your private investigator stuff. You’re licensed and everything.'"Or: a series of crises on the way to gay.
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"'I just don’t see the point,' Fabian is saying, white-gloved hand cutting through the air. Basically Gorthalax’s pre-game plan had consisted of ‘just run right over them, they literally will not stop you, if even one of these kids has a positive Athletics modifier I will hang up my whistle,’ so while they are mostly huddled up, they’re largely skipping the pretense of a huddle and just kind of loosely gathered in groups waiting for kickoff. 'We’re going to win, they don’t have to be obnoxious about it.'"
Or: It's high school football season, and Gorgug loves his friends.
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- Part 4 of fantasy high outtakes
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"Adaine’s been staring at the bright red C on the scorecard from her Transmutation demonstration for so long that she can still see it every time she looks away from it, even though her eyes are blurry with tears that she’s barely holding back, holding the paper so tightly it’s starting to buckle under her fingers."
Or: Adaine gets a bad grade. Fabian walks in on her mini breakdown. This goes, frankly, better than expected.
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- Part 1 of fantasy high outtakes
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"Fabian’s perceptive powers aren’t exactly his strong suit—although what is his strong suit, really—but he still notices it when the end of the bed dips ever so slightly with the weight of someone small settling on it. Fabian flips over and stares at the ceiling. The skin under his eyepatch itches, and he resists the urge to rip it off and throw it across the room.
"'What do you want,' Fabian says, and when the words come out strangled, he grabs one of the pillows and smothers his face with it, fingers curling into the pillow cover. His father would call him a coward for hiding like this, for not owning up to his mistakes, but Fabian was already a coward, so. So it doesn’t matter."Or: my take on that "tiny bouncer" thing that totally got glossed over.
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- Part 5 of fantasy high outtakes
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"By the time Fabian has regained his bearings, flat on his back and staring up at the bright, cloudless blue sky, the Ball is sitting on his chest, the Sword of Shadows at Fabian’s neck.
"'Ha,' the Ball says, grinning, and the long bits of hair that hang in front of his ears are plastered with sweat across his freckled cheeks, his upturned nose. 'Ha. Gotcha.'"Or: Summer has come to Solace. Obviously, this means doing things like hanging out with your party member who is definitely not your best friend, and doing stuff like sparring, because Fabian needs the practice. Obviously.
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- Part 3 of fantasy high outtakes
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"Even from this distance Riz is perceptive enough to tell that Fabian’s quiet, too, not even generating the ambient spew of white noise bullshit he always seems to produce whenever nobody else is saying anything, and it seems like—
"It seems private. And Riz understands what it’s like to want something to be private, to feel like your skin is the only thing holding your bones together and to want nobody else to see how fucked up and broken you are on the inside, so."Or: a funeral, and all the things that come with it.
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- Part 2 of fantasy high outtakes
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Scott severely understated the problem that the rogue omega would turn out to be. But that's not even Theo's biggest problem right now--no, not even close. That honor would go to one Liam Dunbar, who was both harder to understand than anticipated and the object of a crazy werewolf's desires.
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Liam doesn't think much of it at first. Scott had told him it was just a dog, after all.
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- Part 1 of sneakers 'verse
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too few rounds in the ring and not enough settled scores by ckaster
Fandoms: Daredevil (TV), How to Train Your Dragon (Movies), Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan, The Amazing Spider-Man (Movies - Webb), Rise of the Guardians (2012), Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
16 Jan 2016
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In which New York City’s newest hero meets—and shelters—its youngest ones.
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- Part 10 of The Snark Verse
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How Hiccup Loses a Foot (But Gains a Friend) by ckaster
Fandoms: How to Train Your Dragon (Movies)
26 Sep 2015
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How Hiccup loses his foot in this 'verse, and how an awkward father-son relationship doesn't get any less awkward.
Also, how Toothless the Cat/Dragon is introduced.
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- Part 1 of The Snark Verse
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yes, I know that is thirty four pizzas total, thank you by ckaster
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), The Avengers - Ambiguous Fandom, Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan, How to Train Your Dragon (Movies), Rise of the Guardians (2012), The Amazing Spider-Man (Movies - Webb)
17 Jul 2015
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At Avengers Tower, mealtimes are considered sacred.
It only stands to reason that the team orders a positively unholy amount of pizza.
-or- Yeah, this was probably a bad idea.
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- Part 9 of The Snark Verse
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in the name of (our goddess) science by ckaster
Fandoms: How to Train Your Dragon (Movies), The Amazing Spider-Man (Movies - Webb), The Avengers - Ambiguous Fandom
10 Jul 2015
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In which there is chanting, a blowtorch, and an explosion, but not necessarily in that order.
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- Part 8 of The Snark Verse
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Of Bad Decisions and Actual Shopping Trips by ckaster
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan, How to Train Your Dragon (Movies), Rise of the Guardians (2012), The Amazing Spider-Man (Movies - Webb)
09 Jun 2015
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They didn’t mean to almost get kicked out of the mall.
In their defense, Steve had shooed them out of the tower. “You boys smell like horse manure in the sun,” he said, wrinkling his nose. “You can’t walk around in your mission gear, either. Go to the mall and get some new stuff please.”
Percy had looked down at his tattered Camp Half-Blood shirt and made puppy-dog eyes. “Why must you be such a cruel and harsh person, Steve?”
Steve had looked at him. “I’m Tony Stark’s boyfriend, I have to be. Go. Take the Prius.”-or- Percy and the rest of the boys go to a nearby outlet mall and do some silly things.
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- Part 7 of The Snark Verse
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glue and glitter (but not glitter glue) by ckaster
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), How to Train Your Dragon (Movies), Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan, The Amazing Spider-Man (Movies - Webb), Rise of the Guardians (2012)
07 Jun 2015
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Percy grinned. “Okay. First we thin the glue out a little with the water – grab me a milk carton, will you? Yeah, thanks – and then we put glitter in it and shake it all up. Then we seal it.”
Hiccup looked at him, horrified. “You’re suggesting we replace all of our milk with glitter and Elmer’s glue?”
“Yes, that is exactly what I was suggesting.”
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- Part 6 of The Snark Verse
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The Backstory of a Kid Who Is (Technically) an Empath by ckaster
Fandoms: How to Train Your Dragon (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
07 Jun 2015
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This is Berk.
It’s your typical costal Washington town – constantly grey, with perpetual drizzle on the side, and a healthy dose of miserable cold.
Here, we’ve got a beautiful view of the sunset, an unparalleled medieval fair in the spring, and so many superheroes it’s hard to keep track of them all.-or- Hiccup is a mutant, his mom is a mutant, his dad was a mutant, his cat is a mutant, everybody he knew was a mutant, and Drago Bludvist has a vendetta (he's a mutant too).
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- Part 2 of The Snark Verse
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cold winters in july by ckaster
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Rise of the Guardians (2012), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
05 Jun 2015
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Jack tries to save Bucky when he falls from the train.
It doesn't go quite as planned.
-or- when Hydra scientists capture one James Buchanan Barnes, there's a reason they call him the Winter Soldier.
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- Part 5 of The Snark Verse
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Of Nightmares and Orange Juice by ckaster
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan
04 Jun 2015
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Percy isn’t as unaffected by the PTSD as much as he wants other people to think.
Because leaders are supposed to be strong; how can the others stay strong if their leader isn’t? How can he be strong for everyone else when he’s shattering on the inside?
-or- Percy needs a hug, and Tony's willing to give one.
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- Part 4 of The Snark Verse
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Get In, Loser (We're Going Shopping) by ckaster
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan, How to Train Your Dragon (Movies), Rise of the Guardians (2012), The Amazing Spider-Man (Movies - Webb)
03 Jun 2015
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The letter read:
In order to prove your identity, you will say “Get in, loser, we’re going shopping.”
Percy sighed. Of course a secret government agency would use Mean Girls quotes to prove people’s identities.
(Okay, he’ll admit he didn’t see that one coming.)
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- Part 3 of The Snark Verse