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    That was the final drop, Sirius has heard it said when describing monumental events in one’s life. Does it apply here? It was, after all, a drop that took everything he thought he knew, everything he saw as self-evident and fed it to a hurricane of chaos and doubt. A little drop of red, blooming bellow Reg’s collarbone, on the eve of his glorious escape from House Black. And so—Everything changes.

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    Two Black children adventuring around the world.

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    29 Jun 2023

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    "We don’t drown. We float. That’s how Muggles used to tell, isn’t it?"

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    When Regulus is five, he nearly drowns in the sea off Blackpool.

    When Regulus is eleven, his brother befriends a ghost.

    It’s not until Regulus is eighteen and ready to die that the Black family’s darkest secret finally unravels. It might, perhaps, change everything.

    (A coming-of-age story with mind magic, star charting, pink petit-fours, two diaries, and a ghost.)

    [Edit: SPOILERS in the comments.]

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    19 Jun 2023

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    In 1967, Regulus Black loses a game of hide-and-seek.

    In 1979, he is dragged, alive, from the underground lake.

    In 1980, he turns reluctant spy for the Order.

    These events are not connected.

    But there’s a strange thread weaving through Regulus’s life, a splitting seam in the tapestry of his memories, a bogeyman that shadows his steps, and he can’t quite shake the feeling that he's missed something essential...

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    16 Jun 2023

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    Shouto had been expecting it to be Uraraka.

    He’d prepared himself for it—the moment he became friends with Midoriya, aflame in a stadium all those years ago, he’d accepted that he was second best, and that he was never going to be anything more than that. It wasn’t like it was hard for him to accept, or like he blamed Midoriya—Uraraka was bright. She was friendly, and warm, and kind—she would help him unconditionally, she always smiled, and she was, all in all, a good match for him. These were all things that Shouto did not have, and he knew that. He’d come to terms with it.

    He’d been prepared to always be second-best.

    But this—this was not Uraraka.


    Or, Shouto learns about the unpredictability of love through heartbreak, laughter, and a little bit of time.

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    04 Oct 2022

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    Aizawa starts walking towards the exit, obviously expecting Shouto to follow him, but Shouto's feet are frozen in place. His eyes flicker from the distorted reflection of himself in the ice to where All Might is giving him a long look, eyes kinder than anything Todoroki has ever been deserving of, and he feels sick.

    “Todoroki-kun,” Midoriya says gently, squeezing his arm in what Shouto presumes is meant to be a reassuring gesture. “It’s going to be okay.”

    He doesn’t think Midoriya is in any place to tell him what okay is, all things considered, but he chooses to keep quiet on the matter.

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    16 Aug 2021