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Noctis, named for the stars, doesn't really see them until he leaves Insomnia for the first time.
(five times noct and ignis go stargazing, and one time they got a little bit distracted)
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In Metropolis, the heart of the city was hope.
It has strong hands, they whispered, and it did. It has a nice smile and a gentle voice, and it smiled and spoke. It cares so much, they said, and so it did, hope a molten metal wrapped around the expectations of thousands of people, breathing life into an unliving concept. Hope had blue eyes and a nice smile and never failed them, always reached them just in the nick of time. And as generations passed, the nebulous edges sharpened with definition—he was always listening, always watching. He helped them when they needed it, from a whispered answer in an exam room to a bullet caught inches away from its target, when they invoked him with the right amount of blind, desperate faith in the unknown—with hope.
In Metropolis, it was hope.
Gotham didn’t have hope. Gotham had something else.
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Prompto's life is going great for once- there's no war, no apocalypse, no prophecy. Just him, his three hot incredible boyfriends, and the happily ever after they sacrificed so much for.
Oh, and the diplomatic incident, and their first real test to see if their fragile new relationship can hold against the trials of being four of the most important people in the kingdom.
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- Part 2 of gonna win me some of your love
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The Idiot's Guide to Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse by element78
Fandoms: Final Fantasy XV
18 Dec 2023
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“A zombie attacked you?”
“We saw them in the movie and now they’re here,” Noctis says, and twists in the chair in order to press himself against Ignis. He’s usually such a bright, happy child, it hurts to see him so withdrawn. Understandable, under the circumstances, but still.
“The movie?”
“Lord Amicitia let us watch a zombie movie this afternoon,” Ignis reports.
“Ah.” Oh yes, Clarus’ first love- shitty old horror movies. He’s fond of cornering Cor when he’s stuck in the hospital and can’t escape and making him watch them with him, so Cor’s seen a zombie movie or two, or twenty. The ronin, with its almost-human body and terrifyingly human voice, would certainly seem like a zombie to a scared young boy who already has the undead on the mind.
(an attack on insomnia strands the young prince and his friends, and cor finds himself fighting to get the boys back to safety- and following the rules that will keep them alive)
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it's not having what you want (it's wanting what you've got) by element78
Fandoms: Final Fantasy XV
12 Dec 2023
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“Happy birthday I got you a flying car,” Prompto says, and slaps a key ring with what is most likely said flying car’s key on it onto the desk. Noctis stares at the key, then at Prompto.
“You what?”
“The Regalia, dude!” Prompto pulls a nearby chair out and swings it around before he sits so he’s straddling it backwards, a move he definitely learned from Gladio. “The Type-F Cindy whipped up for us? That.”
Okay, so he was being serious. “My birthday is in four months.”
Prompto gives him a flat look. “You’re complaining,” he says. “I get you a flying car, and you’re complaining.”
(a year after noctis doesn’t die for the dawn, the boys go on another road trip)
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- Part 1 of gonna win me some of your love
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The nameless fugitive that was once Bren Aldric Ermendrud falls asleep in a doorway in a tiny village- and wakes up in Professor Caleb Widogast's house.
(aka, pre-campaign caleb wakes up in his post-campaign life and completely fails to reckon with all that this new life entails.)
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The shape moves like an oil slick, all serpentine grace as it lightly pushes off from the building it's perched on, big wings tucking in close and body twisting like a cat’s to land on feet and wing-hands on the street below, facing Jason. For one moment they’re eye-to-electric-blue-eye- and then the wyvern pushes up and snaps its wings open again with a sound like a thunderclap. It leaps into the air, beating its wings once, twice, already above the rooftops and gaining altitude fast.
“Wait,” Jason croaks, then yells “wait,” but the wyvern is gone, wingbeats muffled by distance, blue flickers of static trailing through the air from its wingtips and tail. Jason stares up after it and aches to spread his own wings and follow it into the sky.
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Dick Grayson is his soulmate, and Dick Grayson is a liar.
He smiles, and he says everything’s fine, he’s fine. He goes on an interview and talks about bullshit things like being an older brother in a house full of kids, he goes to a Wayne Enterprises party and introduces Thomas Elliot as Bruce Wayne, he goes to shareholder meetings and pretends he doesn’t understand what’s going on. He’s not lying to Jason, but Jason feels it anyway, stinging like snowflakes on bare skin.
(the au in which people can inflict physical injuries on their soulmates by lying to them)
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take my soul, lead me there by element78 for stevieraebarnes
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
28 Aug 2021
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When necromancers start turning up murdered in Gotham, infamous City of the Dead, Bruce Wayne decides to bring in someone to protect his son, Jason. But there's more rot in his city than he knows, and the threat will strike closer to home than he anticipates.
Dick, clueless about necromancy, is just trying to get through it. But when he's forcibly recruited to babysit the uncooperative and unfairly attractive Jason, he finds himself neck-deep in a fight he knows nothing about, and has to win just to survive.
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“Get out or unlock the doors, your choice,” gun guy says, sounding about as emotionally exhausted as Jason feels right now. The gun is not wavering, though.
The thing is, it’s a new car, and it's been a long day. “I’m almost out of gas,” he says, leaning forward to try and see his new friend’s face.
Gun guy shifts a little. “After fourteen gallons?” he asks, and Jason looks past him and- shit, that’s right, they’re at a gas station. The guy had probably watched him fill up.
“I kill drug dealers for a living,” Jason adds, going for broke.
“Good thing I’m not one, then.”
Jason unlocks the doors.
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It isn’t until that night, when Jason is poking at stir fry in a pan that definitely isn’t a wok, that he pulls up the news again and figures it out.
Nightwing had been out in broad daylight, a rare spotting of a strictly nocturnal bird, busting up some minor drug ring. The blue-chevroned blur in the picture has dark hair that is slightly too long, a body that is too short and too lean, although it would take being very familiar with Nightwing to spot the difference. The article is almost pushed off the digital front page, though, buried under the reports of Red Hood’s daring rescue of Gotham’s darling Dick Grayson, who had spent all day kidnapped and definitely wasn’t swinging around rooftops at any point.
“Ah,” Jason says, and tends to his stir fry before it can burn.
(five times jason rescues dick and one time dick returns the favor)
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Respectable sailor Jason Todd has had something precious stolen from him, and now must cope with his own past haunting him as he hunts down the legendary pirate Richard Grayson.
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Jason and Dick, growing up, growing older, growing together.
(the story of two lives, told in those small moments that mean nothing and change everything)
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Deep in the forest, there is a mysterious old man, a cursed manor, a blue-eyed wolf following his every move, and a hauntingly familiar young man who knows something he is not sharing.
Jason, a hunter in the nearby village, is just trying to survive the winter. But he'll have to unravel the mystery of it all, including his own missing memories, if he wants to protect the people he cares about and save himself.
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Dick Grayson, magic practitioner, has finally stepped out of the shadow of the man who raised him and is content to live a quiet life out of the spotlight. Then a cursed hunter crashes into his world, and for better or worse, his quiet life is never going to be the same.
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In the year since Bruce Wayne's death and Dick Grayson's bargain with the dark being in the Shrine, he's mostly come to terms with his new role as Batman. But a slip of control leaves him shaken and scared that he is about to become Gotham's own worst enemy, and only the Red Hood can pull him back from the edge.
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- Part 2 of small restless gods
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Jason and Dick, black sheep of the family, return to Gotham to get something for the most important mission of their lives.
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Jason gets the phone call he never wanted to get and makes it home too late to stop something terrible from happening, and can only watch as Dick tries not to lose himself to the Bat.
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- Part 1 of small restless gods
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devil and the deep blue by element78 for Fancy_Dragonqueen
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
31 Aug 2019
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Jason Todd frees the creature caught in his ship's nets, and kicks off a strange courtship that spans sea and land.
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There's a monster in the deserts of the kingdom of Nanda Parbat, and Prince Jason- having just lost his claim to the throne- decides to go slay it in order to prove himself still worthy, accompanied only by one exasperated blue-eyed guardsman.
Yeah, this will end well.