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Ice may have earned his callsign for his technique in the air, but Maverick has to imagine half the students think Ice got it from his ability to dole out brutal freeze-burning remarks.
Well. Leave it to the Iceman to find a way to make his callsign define him through and through.
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From the moment they met, Mav knew Kazansky had a mouth on him. It isn't until they're both instructors at TOPGUN, though, that Mav learns just how brutal Ice can be.
One thing's for sure: Maverick's never bored, teaching alongside Iceman. He's just not sure he's going to survive the job unscathed, himself.
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“If I say don't ask, what’s the first thing you think of?” Ice says.
Maverick blinks at him. “I think of course I’m going to fucking ask! Look at you, you’re a mess!”
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Iceman, of all people, gets into a bar fight. As if the night wasn't already long enough, it's Maverick who comes to help him get home.
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Anatomy of a Legend by crestfaller
Fandoms: Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)
12 May 2025
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How does one destroy a legend?
Well, Ed figures, the same way one gets created: layer by layer, piece by piece.
Xenk may not agree that he's a legend, but someone's putting a lot of effort in unraveling him like one. While Ed can't believe he's the one best in position to try to do something about it, someone's got to help. Xenk is stubborn enough that Ed knows if he lets Xenk out of his damn sight, he's going to try to handle this all on his own.
And Xenk handling it on his own had Ed finding him collapsed in a back-alley gutter, stripped of his armor, and bleeding to death.
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Three days ago, Merlin was standing in the center of a ring of lawmen, all their rifles aiming at him, staring at Governor Uther with wide eyes and trying to think of a way to turn back the clock. Never did figure out that trick. With no other option, he stood in silence as Uther read him his rights, which in Camelot he had none. Magic users were to be expunged from the earth either by death or divine absolution. Uther had wanted death, Arthur had talked him down to absolution.
Ever since, Merlin’s been running from absolution, too.
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With lawmen tracking him across Camelot and warrants for his arrest posted up in every town within Camelot's borders, Merlin expects a long and lonely road ahead of him as a fugitive.
Then he meets Gwaine.
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... and other lessons from the pyre.
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It's a long road to recovery after Merlin's rescued from the pyre. If Merlin would let him, Gwaine would walk that path with him every step of the way.
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modern minally by crestfaller
Fandom The Maze Runner (Movies), The Maze Runner - All Media Types, The Maze Runner Series - All Media Types, The Maze Runner Series - James Dashner
11 May 2023
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Conflicts of Interest Verse by crestfaller
Fandom The Maze Runner (Movies), The Maze Runner Series - All Media Types, The Maze Runner Series - James Dashner
11 Oct 2022
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currently shelved by crestfaller
Fandom DC's Legends of Tomorrow (TV), The Flash (TV 2014), The Maze Runner (Movies), The Maze Runner Series - All Media Types, The Maze Runner Series - James Dashner
07 Jul 2023
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these are fics that, while I have a very hard time of ever saying die, are just currently on an indefinite hiatus.
Shiva: it's just taking me a really long time to get through the block here. I am actually actively working on it, it's just so slow going, and I'd rather not post anymore until it's finished. Thus, since I have literally no idea when it will be updated again, it's on indefinite hiatus.
To Build a Home: I actually have updated this one recently, but because I update this kind of "at my leisure", I am including it into this collection.
Stranger Than Your Sympathy: at this time I have no plans on updating this story because there's something fundamental I'd like to rework or I need to get over.
Intersect: I actually have chipped away at this a little bit, but again, I do not want to publish anymore until the fic is finished. This is kind of at the back of the drawer and when I feel so inspired I write a little bit into it, so at this time, indefinite hiatus.
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if only everything was fine by crestfaller
Fandom DC's Legends of Tomorrow (TV), The Flash (TV 2014)
23 Dec 2020
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Stitches by nightmarechild
Fandoms: Fire Emblem: Soen no Kiseki/Akatsuki no Megami | Fire Emblem Path of Radiance/Radiant Dawn, Fire Emblem Series
08 Nov 2025
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Longing for purpose, village physician Rhys follows a dashing red-haired knight to a world of intrigue and adventure.
But a mercenary company is no place to hide. Secrets catch the light, and Rhys's growing curiosity about the group's thorny and reticent bowman may risk more than just his life.
AU-ish: 90% canon-compliant with one major divergence. A wartime romance about honesty, goodness, and what it means to be understood.
Bookmarked by crestfaller
19 Jun 2023
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Fastidious and fiercely independent Shinon repeatedly getting awestruck by this swallow soft-hearted but ever curious healer and going from distant orbit to essentially being Rhys’s own personal moon is something so satisfying to read.
I cannot recommend this fic enough. I reread it all the time. I intend to comment on every chapter. This author has to have a personal novel they’re writing and if so I will buy it because their writing is that good.
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When Merlin is drawn away from the safety of the city, Gwaine takes it upon himself to keep his best friend safe. But there’s more at work here than meets the eye, and the odds can’t always be in his favor.
Then again, when has that ever stopped Gwaine from trying?
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Xenk should not look as good as he did when the little light in the room finally illuminated his form, eyes dragging over Edgin’s body, his face, the metal spikes currently pinning him to the cell walls.
“It looks worse than it is.”
or a tumblr anon gets me writing this pairing a year after the movie (◡‿◡✿)
Bookmarked by crestfaller
11 Feb 2025
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longing needs the leaving (loving needs the bleeding) by newtedison
Fandoms: Chronicles of Narnia (Movies), Chronicles of Narnia - All Media Types
01 Apr 2024
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“You’re gone,” Caspian growls. “You’re never coming back.”
“But I could!” Peter insists. “I could come back. The island can make it happen.”
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A reflection on Caspian's life and relationship with Peter, alternating between the events of Prince Caspian and The Dawn Treader.
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The first night Marty gets Rust home and put to bed he whimpers like an old hound dog in his sleep, making these ripped-raw noises that well and gurgle up past his lips like fresh blood from the hole in his gut all over again. Doesn’t know he’s doing it, course not, but Marty lays there next to him in the dark—the man’s only got one bed, ain’t no shame in that—and has to wonder about the Vietnam-grade shit Rust’s got playing in living technicolor in his head.
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Bookmarked by crestfaller
14 Jan 2025