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tide lanterns by dragonthinks for Twosidedwritersblock
Fandoms: Persona 3, Persona Series
18 Dec 2025
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Yukari settles into her thirties with bone-deep exhaustion. Fuuka is there to help.
In which Fuuka and Yukari go on a trip together and find their way through the dark, not necessarily in that order.
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Mitsuru has been doing this for too long. Yukari has been on the periphery of the world she loves for too long.
Critically injured on a Shadow Ops mission, Mitsuru's recovery proves to be slow and deeply painful, with no promises of her ever reaching her previous levels of ability. Yukari rushes to join her through an impulse she can't explain, and the two of them are shipped off to an old Kirijo vacation home in Otaru, Hokkaido, where Mitsuru expects herself to recover gracefully and quickly-- just like everything else she's meant to do.
In which therapy sessions prove to be terrifying beasts in need of slaying, the Kirijo Corporation's crimes are remembered with repressive indifference, tea is brewed, a threshold is crossed, and expectations are reforged.
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Shinjiro is, despite the person he's grown into, invited on a camping trip.
He's spent years running away-- up to Hokkaido, even-- to no clear end. He leaves most calls, and all of his letters, unanswered. Someone might be running after him.
In which there is a hike, some attempted thievery with an unlikely culprit, and camaraderie found right where Shinjiro should have been expecting it.
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Goro Akechi is no longer alone. He's inadvertently burrowed into Ann's life like a parasite, quietly staining the apartment with his presence- or so he thinks. The passing months have given them both time for reflection, and even as two world-shattering calamities are slowly left behind by the tide, old anxieties still burn.
A lingering ache, a chance discovery, and an awakening come together to create someone new.
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The aftermath of the bite is at once more and less painful than Yukari imagined it would be. Even as her wound heals, her mind continues to whirl about, suffused in equal measures of fear, resentment, desire, and hope.
In which Yukari comes to a number of realizations, buries several more realizations beyond those, and wonders about the art of reciprocation.
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A direct continuation of the previous fic in the series; this one won't make much sense without reading that one first.
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In 2011, Takuto Maruki awakens to Azathoth in a fit of desperation. Months later, on the eve of completing his PhD, he awakens to being a father, adopting two wayward children and resolving to nurture their powers as best he can.
What follows is a strange not-quite-family rising from the ashes they have left behind. Goro Akechi fights a war within himself: the Personas scratching at the cage of his soul, made more numerous by the people at his side. Futaba Isshiki struggles to rip through the memory that echoes within her and discover the truth about her mother's death and her own burgeoning abilities. And through it all, the good doctor does his work, actualizing Tokyo into happiness one soul at a time.
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A longfic in three acts. Covers ~2011-2017, with POV chapters alternating between Maruki, Goro, and Futaba.
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Mitsuru visits Chidori in the hospital bearing a message. The message bears a tragedy. The tragedy bears nothing.
In which Chidori considers a dream, Mitsuru's sinews fail to bind her together, and SEES atrophies.
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Mitsuru has always considered her curse something she's meant to bear utterly alone. What little support she has falls through on a fateful July night, and Mitsuru resolves to spurn any opportunity of help she's given.
But blood abandons the body so easily-- if it's given the opportunity of a wound.
In which Mitsuru grapples with a hunger deeper and more multifaceted than any desire she has ever known.
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In the evening after Mitsuru has learned of Aigis-- has seen her for the first time-- she still can't wrap her mind around what Aigis is, what Aigis could be, and what Aigis wants to be.
A story about dehumanization of others and oneself.
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Yusuke knows very few things about Goro. He strives to learn just a few more.
In which marks are made, a beginner's attempt is critiqued, and a night is gathered up in paper and eyes.
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There is a shadow falling over Oresrush like rain on parched skin.
It moves silently over the dust and shakes out its pelt over the red-rust crags. It noses at the doors and bows its head against the lanterns. It listens, and it cries the town's sorrow into the sky.
The darkness falling over Oresrush is kind-- better it, than the bleaching light of day.
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Primarily pre-canon, but deals with some elements of Partitio's chapter 1 flashback.
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Akira Kurusu, age 27, is busy: he works three jobs, all of which he loves, and comes home to his partner every day.
Tides are changing. Dreams are converging. The world is burning down, and Akira Kurusu is trying to look away.
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broadcast from a tile floor by dragonthinks, redhotkick
Fandoms: Persona 5, Persona Series
03 Sep 2024
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Futaba's roots need a touch-up. Ryuji might as well help-- and get some answers to lingering questions in the process.
Part of the Ryuji Big Bonk 2024, and featuring art from https://kittanzero.carrd.co/ !!
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Sojiro has any number of things to consider right now: his shop, his daughter moving away, the renovations for his son's room, and the fact that both of his kids (and a solid chunk of their friends) were once demigod-wielding vigilantes.
Somehow, despite everything, things have a habit of coming together for him.
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Written for the Full Bloom zine! Other pieces linked in the opening note.
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One day's journey out from Cropdale, down a deer-track through the woods, there lies a grove upon a hill. Two figures have entered the grove and begin their dance.
The moon smiles down on them. This smile will not last.
In which Agnea remembers something odd, Hikari wishes he could cut out his tongue, and a bird cries out against the dark.
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smeared night, smudged dawn by dragonthinks for tunacup
Fandoms: Octopath Traveler II (Video Game)
25 Dec 2023
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Shackled to his brother's rule and unwilling to leave the life of violence that's been built up for him, Hikari coasts through the city, following the path he hates the most.
Something is about to change. The sun is about to rise.
In which there is an unfortunate discovery, several home runs in quick succession, and a river coursing on and on.
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On some level, Akira knows that despite being a nationally-wanted freak with mind-bending demon-powers, he’s still a stupid teenager with an underdeveloped prefrontal cortex swimming in hormones. On some level, Akira knows that he can be– and is, more realistically– both of those things. It doesn’t stop him from rationalizing his way through his decision-making process, though.
So when he slinks out into the streets, tracing his way through the dark, some part of Akira knows that he’s being a fucking idiot right now.
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In which there is a terrible habit, the possibility of worse habits looming in the distance, and some unwanted help.
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“You play the piano?” The general cadence of the group has shifted towards movement, and Hikari follows. Ochette distantly calls ‘forward, march!’. “I’d love to hear you play sometime.”
“Aw, really? I only play li’l showtunes. Nothing special.”
“Any performance, when played with the heart, is something truly special.” Hikari keeps his eyes on the swirling sands, trying to pick out where the horizon might be. When Partitio still doesn’t say anything, Hikari glances over to see him with his hat tugged down over his eyes.
Before either of them can speak, Partitio stumbles and slips, skidding into a tumble down the dunes. When the dust clears, Hikari has a perfect view of him face-down in the sand.
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In which there is an unfair sparring match, a cheap mystery novel, some memorized piano tunes, and a vast and terrible uncertainty-- that may not be so terrible after all.
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it is not my problem (i am not your dog) by dragonthinks
Fandoms: Octopath Traveler II (Video Game)
24 Aug 2023
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I'm not your fucking friend-- trying to be though. Trying to feel it, trying to be it...
In which there is a terrible shared coping mechanism, a travesty of a chess game, and an emotional epiphany grazed only with the fingertips.
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sit at my table by dragonthinks for badomens444
Fandoms: Octopath Traveler II (Video Game)
23 Aug 2023
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I don't know much of love, but I know this: when you are hungry and wanting, I hope you will be sitting at my table.
Partitio begins his day.