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A Dark Knight rises within the Holy See, and a murderer stalks the streets of Ishgard. Be ready, damn you. Be ready.
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16 Jul 2021
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He had prepared himself for her anger, her betrayal, even her dismissal, a haziness about her that suggested she remembered him only vaguely, that while she had altered the very fabric of his existence by her mere presence, he had been as nothing to her, easily forgotten in favour of the next great adventure.
Instead, he saw nothing. She did not remember him at all, because they had never met.
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29 Apr 2021
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Everyone was counting on him. The dying people of the First who had looked to him for guidance, his long-gone friends of the Source post-Eighth Umbral Calamity who had sacrificed themselves to see him go back in time, his beloved friends of the Seventh who'd entrusted their hopes and dreams and lifelong work unto him praying for a future that they would not live to see. There were so many expectations on his back. And try as he might, the Crystal Exarch could not live up to any of them.
Time and time again he tried to summon the Warrior of Light to the First in order to bring salvation. Time and time again his plans were thwarted, whether by the Warrior failing to answer his summons at all or tragedy befalling them before he could bring his plans to fruition, leaving the Crystal Exarch with no options other than to live out the same repeating century on the First, praying his next attempts would succeed before the crystal price fully claimed his body and mind.
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20 Mar 2021
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The Warrior of Light answers the call to the First and among the light-ravaged land of Norvrandt finds something wholly unexpected: the time and the peace to remember what it is to be merely human rather than the Weapon of Light. The allies he kept at arm's length so long become family, and finally, here in this most doomed of lands, is some comfort from war and all it has taken from him.
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The Exarch will stop at nothing to save his inspiration, even from the darkness inside the Warrior of Light's own heart and mind.
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- Part 2 of In Perfect Love and Perfect Trust
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- 295,260
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- 37/?
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09 Mar 2021
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Zagreus stops in front of him, head tilted up to look at him. There’s a cut on his face, and without thinking Thanatos reaches out, runs his thumb over it to soothe it shut so at the least he does not bleed.
Zagreus is still looking at him, quiet.
“Zagreus?”
“You came,” Zagreus finally says. He smiles; it makes all the flames that curl around his laurels spark. There is such a soft and tender pleasure in his words. “After all this time.”
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07 Nov 2020
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“You sound like a mortal.” She said, with the faint glimmer of amusement in her eyes. Zagreus chortled too, but then fell silent. Nyx gave him a knowing look. “What is it, my child?”
“You said the curse is tied into my godhood, right? What if…” The words tasted unnatural in his mouth, a blasphemy before they could even take shape in the air. Zagreus coughed them out regardless. “What if I could shed my divinity? What if I became a mortal?”
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Or, despite being a god, Zagreus keeps running out of time. A "Zagreus Becomes Mortal" AU.- Language:
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- 39/?
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04 Nov 2020
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Aymeric and Estinien are in love. It would just be great, Lucia thinks, if they would tell each other some time before the Eighth Umbral Calamity.
What's lying in the bed is somehow not The Azure Dragoon, former possessed of Nidhogg, or even Aymeric's coarse-yet-loyal friend, but one of the most beautiful men she has ever laid eyes on.
To her everlasting shame, Lucia lets out a small laugh—a sound of pure shock.
Aymeric tuts. "Yes, quite. He looks terrible."
Terrible.
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23 Sep 2020
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Yours is a long road, my friend, and it stretches on to places beyond imagining.
➤ day 30; SPLINTER; by the light of this star (we are laid to rest).
Azem-centric, 5.3.
Wherever the Warrior of Darkness walks, fate shall surely follow.
(Drabble collection for #FFXIVWrite2020. Spoilers for everything up to Patch 5.3.)
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- 18,750
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- 31/31
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20 Sep 2020
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Dreamer, dream again
Put me into place
I’m out of my element
Waiting for the dayFalling for Guydelot happens slowly, and then all at once.
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10 Sep 2020
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It’s platonic, until it isn’t.
[There’s a part of you that wants to take the hand that still breathes, uncurl his fingers and place them around your own, prove to him that there’s heat in him yet. But you won’t, because G’raha is one of your dearest friends, and he has waited for you for years upon years and what you should do is give him the friendship and help he has wanted, needed; only that. You dare not presume to give him more.]
No Endwalker spoilers here!
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28 Aug 2020
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“None of us were prepared for the spectacle that awaited us when we first stepped into the tower [...] and there, at its center, we found him.”
G’raha Tia wakes to a world devastated by the Eighth Umbral Calamity. The engineers of the Ironworks have a plan to right the wrongs committed centuries earlier - but can G’raha work past his own fear, doubt, and sorrow? Can he claim what is his by bloodright and see this plan through to completion?
Can he save his Warrior of Light?
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20 Aug 2020
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Roleswap where Vanitas is the one raised with care and compassion in the Land of Departure, and Ventus... is not
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26 Jul 2020
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found this cute guy on the merry-go-round? by abeebumbling
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
17 Jun 2020
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Martin Blackwood hadn’t meant to stick to the merry-go-round job for so long. It was boring, very boring, the music whiny once you’ve listened to it a hundred times, so anything even mildly interesting stood out like a sore thumb. Jonathan Sims being on the verge of a mental breakdown turned out to be one of those things.
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17 May 2020
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Steven Universe wanted a change of scenery, and he got it.
A series of certain points in Steven's journey throughout all thirty-nine states.
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17 May 2020
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He fell into a deep bow, smiling the whole while. “I’m the ringmaster, of course.”
“Is that skin— Is it yours?” Old wood groaned as the Archivist shifted his weight. “Originally.”
“It is!” the ringmaster said as he swooped back upright. “Nikola decided I wore it well, so she let me keep it. Why do you ask?”
The Archivist gave him another once-over. “You just… you look familiar. Like someone I know.”
On relearning, reconnecting, and redefining.
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- Part 1 of Come What May
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- English
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- 157,201
- Chapters:
- 17/17
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- 8
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- 2,186
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04 Apr 2020
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The Trees Are Filled With Memories by TheTiniestFish
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
20 Apr 2020
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Sasha has been the Archivist for a decade now. She's fought all kinds of threats and won against the best of them.
But even with all the good sense in the world, she couldn't keep her people safe forever. And alone, there is only so much she can do.
So, at the end of everything, she uses Helen's last gift to travel back and fix things, or die trying.
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03 Apr 2020
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addendums by bibliocratic
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
30 Mar 2020
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case #0181130B - Assorted accounts of Messrs Fell and Crowley, various
Or: According to the files at the Archives, Fell and Crowley have been very busy over the years. Martin and Jon attempt to cope with their new normal.
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- Part 6 of Good Omens/The Magnus Archives
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30 Mar 2020
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As is often the case with enormously devastating events, it was over remarkably fast.
Connie and Lars wake up on the beach with no memory of what just happened, in a place that reminds them of home, but definitely isn't.
Set post (and pre) Steven Universe: The Movie.
Includes art!
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- Part 1 of Counting Down: Series
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- 12/12
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17 Mar 2020
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15 Mar 2020
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Jon opens a door and starts again.
And again.
And again.
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12 Mar 2020