18 Works by cthene
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After Ragnarok, Loki and Thor pick up the pieces of their fallen kingdom and face the consequences of Odin’s many deceits. As Thor ascends to a throne drenched in Jötun blood, the truth of Loki’s nature can no longer be denied. Yet tangled is the Norn’s design; When Jötun and Æsir embrace as brothers, to build anew on Midgard’s soil, is this the dawning of a new age for the Nine? The glorious purpose for which Loki was spared— or more of the conqueror’s lies?
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How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found by cthene
Fandoms: Better Call Saul (TV), Breaking Bad
27 Dec 2025
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While God laughs, Kim and Jimmy plan. -
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“We stay on the move while we can move, and we rest only when we need to rest,” limns Scully in the cadences of Genesis.
Mulder bows his head in wordless agreement and hikes the nylon backpack straps over his shoulders. He hasn’t used his voice all morning, and he’s afraid to test it. He can still feel the brain matter under his fingernails.
She is the only thing left that makes sense.
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On the day of Dolores's wedding, all Bruno wants is to stay out of trouble and avoid incurring Pepa's wrath. His magical sentient cloak has other ideas.
History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes.
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- Part 3 of The Sandman
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They say he knows your every move before you do. They say no one escapes his flashing blade.
When Arturo glimpses the dark wizard amidst the fog of battle, he can only close his eyes and pray.
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- Part 2 of The Sandman
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He dismounts from the step ladder, his index finger in a copy of Œdipus Rex.
“As you know, I am a student of the theater,” he says. “And as Sophocles would tell you, you cannot change your fate.”
Mirabel accepts the slim volume, looking unconvinced. This is the part where she asks him if he ever thinks about gouging his own eyes out. She squints at a lithograph of the doomed king on the title page, his empty sockets weeping blood.
“What if Sophocles was wrong?”
Bruno Madrigal explores his Gift.
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- Part 1 of The Sandman
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With Dethklok scattered to the ends of the Earth, Skwisgaar and Toki must navigate a post-apocalyptic landscape of horrors, strange beauty, and madness, with only fragmentary memories and a few mysterious words to guide them:
Stay together. Stick to the plan. Keep moving north.Series
- Part 2 of A Band in Hope
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“Ja, sos,” he snorts derisively, hair pouring forward as he hunches over, steadying himself on the arm of the sofa. “I guess mainlining deh primordials cosmicks lifesforce of deh univorse ams turnings me into euhhhh…” He glares at a speck of dried blood on the floor, too exhausted and embarrassed to make eye contact with anyone. “Bigs crybaby dildos whats ams feelinks sorrys for everybodies."
Skwisgaar’s latent demigod nature emerges suddenly and dramatically, granting him miraculous healing and life-giving powers which he is neither physically nor emotionally equipped to handle. Hilarity ensues.
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- Part 1 of A Band in Hope
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“How longs?” Toki asks.
Skwisgaar grips the steering wheel so hard the leather creaks. “I don’t knows,” he says. The sun is setting through the car window behind him, limning his pale hair with a halo of peachy light. “Since Florida. Since pretties much deh beginnings.”
Toki enlists the services of a local witch to cast a love spell on Skwisgaar, only to be disappointed when Skwisgaar’s attitude towards him doesn’t seem to change much at all.
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The Apotheosis of Fox Hux by cthene
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015)
19 Jun 2017
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Overseeing the First Order colonization of an uncharted wilderness planet, General Hux has a fateful encounter with a mystical, ancient power that leaves him irreversibly changed.
Or: The one where Armitage Hux (34, scary) is transformed into a beautiful, enchanted fox-person, much to his chagrin and Kylo Ren’s delight.
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A Plague on Both Houses by cthene
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015)
28 Jan 2017
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Weary of war and filled with cautious hope, Leia encounters her estranged son in a neutral, diplomatic setting. Meanwhile, Kylo struggles to find his purpose in a time of chaos and uncertainty, and plots a middle path between the Darkness and the Light.
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- Part 2 of Know Thyself
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Matches to Paper Dolls by cthene
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015)
19 Jul 2016
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On a mission from Supreme Leader Snoke to recover a lost Jedi artifact from the Smuggler's Moon of Nar Shaddaa, Kylo Ren and General Hux are accidentally drugged. In addition to spice, it seems, the Hutt crime lord Grakkus was also a purveyor of powerful black market aphrodisiacs. With no choice but to copulate immediately, Hux must talk a terrified virgin Ren through the whole unpleasant, humiliating process. Upon returning to the Finalizer, Hux is ready to pretend nothing happened. Ren, however, deeply affected by Hux's kindness to him throughout the ordeal, can't put the experience behind him so easily.
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The Guilty Bystander by cthene
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015)
11 Jul 2016
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“You like this story, don't you Ren? It's awfully romantic. Let's pretend it's true. Let's pretend we conspired together to overthrow him.”
Hux gets in over his head.
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- Part 1 of Know Thyself
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Transmission by cthene
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015)
23 Jun 2016
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Ren makes a noise which Hux recognizes as a gasp, though fortunately his vocoder interprets it as static.
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Return to the Point of No Return by cthene
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars Original Trilogy
30 May 2016
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He turns around, his tunic soaked with blood, and holds the gorgon's head up by its wispy hair.
"Anakin, please-"
"Don't beg me, Master,” says the last of the Sith, tenderly reaching to cup Obi Wan's hot cheek with a gore-stained hand. “Command me.”
The ever-popular time travel fix-it fic... with a bit of a twist.
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The Spirit is Weak, but the Flesh is Willing by cthene
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
18 Jul 2015
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Maybe the Sith gods are having a laugh at his expense. He did ask them, after all, to make him Skywalker's master...
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Times, Measures by cthene
Fandoms: Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types
04 Jul 2015
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What if, to stop Palpatine and win back Anakin, Obi Wan had made the boy a counter-offer? What if there was another ancient, forbidden power which might save Padmé and the Galaxy?
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The Last Temptation of Anakin Skywalker by cthene
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
15 Jun 2015
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Obi Wan gives, and Anakin takes.