12 Works by creatingrecklessly
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“I’d love to join you for the Bat-patented rooftop brooding session, but you kind of have to work with me here, on account of my legs.”
The anger rises again, filling Steph’s throat until she's choking on it. “How can you be so casual about it? How are you not furious about what was taken from you?” (Tim loved flying across the rooftops as Robin. He loved exploring every corner of this rotten, vibrant, stubborn city.)
(For all the villains who have taunted about breaking a little bird's wings, only two have succeeded. One died slowly by Spoiler’s hand a few months ago. The other still sits in Arkham laughing.)
Reverse Robins. Both Tim Drake, Robin, and Stephanie Brown, Batgirl, were tortured to death. Both came back to life. They're coping with it in different ways.
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Compilation.FeedLog SecUnit_and_Students by creatingrecklessly
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
13 Oct 2025
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Having a SecUnit aboard your teaching vessel is both more and less of an adjustment for students than might be expected.
Assorted feed messages to and about the SecUnit on Pan-System University ship Perihelion.Private feed message
SecUnit: What show were you watching during class?
Jou: i wasn’t watching anything i was taking notes
SecUnit: video_drone16_WatchingMediaInClass
Jou: i’m so sorry!! please don’t tell my professor
SecUnit: Send me the media.
Jou: NebulaOfSecretsS1-6.compressed
SecUnit: Thank you. I will not report you to your professor this time.
Jou: thank you so much!!! also let me know what you think of the show! -
Like fists unraveling, like glass unshattering by creatingrecklessly
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
04 Mar 2025
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A year ago, Hood had stood over him with a weapon and carved into his skin and broken his bones. Now Jason was doing the same, without the excuse of the Pit poisoning his mind. Just Tim’s brother, shattering the trust they’d begun to build.
“I don’t want to do this,” Jason whispered. “Please, believe me, I don’t want to.”
“I know.”
Jason drew the knife downward.
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Red Hood's second-in-command gives him an ultimatum: torture and kill a captured Robin, or an innocent civilian. Robin is disturbingly self-sacrificial.
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blood-sweat and bone by creatingrecklessly
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
10 Feb 2025
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Trapped in Harrow's mind, Gideon can still feel everything that happens to her. A short meditation on how much necromancy hurts.
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I never realized before this— that pinched face you make all the time? I thought it was just annoyance, you looking at me like I was something disgusting you stepped in. It was pain. You make that face because you’re in pain all the time. -
The blood on your hands (is something you can't lose) by creatingrecklessly
Fandoms: EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums)
29 Dec 2024
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When one suitor pleaded for mercy, when he asked for open arms, Odysseus thought of Polites.
Polites would have spared the man, of course. Polites would have found a way to avoid bloodshed.
Polites would not have survived Odysseus's journey home, even if he hadn't been killed in the cyclops's cave.
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"I talked with your son,” Athena said. “He reminds me of you when we first met."
She realized once she’d said it who the boy really reminded her of— Polites.
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Odysseus, Telemachus, and Athena all grapple with the amount of blood Odysseus has spilled. Telemachus has never known him, and Odysseus is no longer the man Athena knew. -
Can you make it back to Ithaca? [No] [Yes, but it's no longer you] by creatingrecklessly
Fandoms: EPIC - Jorge Rivera-Herrans (Albums)
10 Dec 2024
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Are you a good man?
- I do my best. The bad things I've done are only to protect those I care for.
- There is no such thing as a good man in war.
- The gods have forced my hand. If only that absolved me from the guilt I feel.
- I may be a monster. But if that is what it takes to get me home...
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I made a uQuiz in the style of a choose-your-own-adventure story. You're Odysseus, trying to get home to your wife and son in Ithaca with your crew of 600 men. Each choice gives you points towards "Ruthlessness" or "Open Arms."
https://uquiz.com/uCBD8t
I recommend taking the quiz before reading this fic! This is the "behind the scenes" of which choices go with which outcome. -
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For AI-less Whumptober day 4: painful transformation, non-consensual body modifications, “you’re a monster”
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When Nimona first noticed the itch of haven’t-transformed-in-a-while, she had other things to worry about. The scientists were trying to extract another tube of blood from her, and she hated the feeling of a needle beneath her skin. [...]
“It hurts to not shift,” she told the psychiatrist, who had become less and less patient.
“Perhaps it is your body reverting to its untainted state. Think of how a fever rises to burn out the infection.”
“It’s not an infection, though! It’s part of me. It’s who I am,” she pleaded.
“If that is the case, who you are is a monster.” -
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Refined (noun): 1) courteous, graceful, cultured. 2) precise, exact. 3) purified, perfected.
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Mai’s life, from being drawn into the orbit of Princess Azula and Prince Zuko to betraying one to save the other.
From schoolyard chatter to an Ember Island beach party where she realizes she has a crush on Ty Lee.
From becoming a weapon to learning how to be a teenage girl again. -
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Written for Febuwhump Day 8: "make it stop"
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Raine’s body spasmed and the Collector’s hold over them finally broke. Their body reverted back to flesh. A moment of relief— but Belos was still there, the green sludge still inside them, leaking from their eyes as Raine squeezed them shut. “Let— me— go!”
Though the voice was Raine’s own, their body punctuated each word by flinging them around. They slammed against a wall and something cracked. Raine screamed. They were thrown to the ground and flung out their arms just in time to land on their hands and knees. Make it stop make it stop— they were still a puppet— why won’t it stop? Green sludge dripped from their mouth. They wanted to cough it all out but their ribs ached with even the motion of their heaving breaths. They wanted to cry but only sludge would come from their eyes.
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Raine's possession by the Collector and Belos, with a focus on the horror and pain. -
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Willow gets caught in a boiling rainstorm, and Hunter comes to rescue her. Art included!
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So Desperate Grown by creatingrecklessly, Snowfilly1
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
19 Nov 2023
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“Another step. Crowley muffles the end of the blade, lets it touch Aziraphale's chest. Looks down into shadowed eyes and the end of his world. His hands tremble. It hits skin, draws blood from Aziraphale's wrist that drips down and spreads in the snow.
'It's alright, Crowley. I forgive you.’”
Or, Hell force Crowley to deal with Aziraphale once and for all.
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The Director's final laser blast didn't leave Ambrosius unscathed. But he doesn't want to worry Ballister about it. Months later, Ambrosius pushes himself past his limits. Surprisingly, Nimona is there to help him.
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Bal had gone through so much pain, and it was Ambrosius's fault. If Ambrosius felt even a fraction of the agony he had caused, it was a fitting punishment. The burn in his muscles, each spike of pain that shot through the scar like the electricity from the Director's lance, was penance.