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World of the Intergalactic Cosmos - File A-409 by esse_oybeans
Fandoms: Limbus Company (Video Game), 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
18 Sep 2025
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"N. T. F. B. S., Aventurine," Ryoshu said. Her sword was steady in her hand. "What do you know about Oswaldo Schneider?"
"Do I look like I would willingly pass on information about a fellow coworker to someone who looks like they want his head chopped off?" Aventurine tilted her head away from the sword, long brown hair falling to the side.
In this Mirror World, Ryoshu assumes the identity of a Galaxy Ranger. Rodion assumes the identity of a Stoneheart of the IPC.
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21 Sep 2025
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(out on the edge of town) by tomiawka
Fandoms: 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Anime), 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Manga)
13 Sep 2025
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In death, Koyuki had never felt more alive.
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16 Sep 2025
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[ This was what Koyuki reminded Hakuji of:
That summer they first met as children, the first time they ate dinner together, the soba cold and slick on their tongues. The first punch he threw, not in defense, but as a practice, as he was now, and forever will be, Keizo’s chosen student. Where Koyuki would stay shaded in the house, Hakuji would perch on the porch as he watched over her, and do you remember how nice it felt, Hakuji? The sun—do you remember how it kissed your skin, how it dried your wet clothes and made the garden shine golden and brought life onto the flowers? Do you remember how you carried me upon your back, in those early days when I was the weakest, just so I could have a taste of it, too?
Those books I read to you, of daring swordfights in far-off lands, of epic romances and true love and kisses that were strong enough to break any curse—do you remember how it goes, Hakuji? You used to act indifferent whenever I got to the happy ending, but do you honestly think that I couldn’t see how your cheeks reddened, how the blush spread to the tip of your ears? Even my father knew how much of a romantic you are, Hakuji—the kindest boy he’s ever met, he said. Did you know that, Hakuji? Did you know how fond he was of you, how happy he was to have you? Hakuji, did you know that his last words had been a prayer for you?
Hakuji. Do you remember the fireworks? Do you remember your last promises, Hakuji? Do you know that there is one that you still get to fulfil?
Hakuji
Hakuji, Hakuji.
My Hakuji.
Do you know that I would take the sickness and the pain tenfold if I got to have you again? ]
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The Soul of a One-Winged Butterfly by imkazzzz
Fandoms: 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Anime), 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Manga)
08 Nov 2023
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“What do you plan to do now, Insect Hashira?” Giyuu wondered.
“I’ll kill him.” Shinobu’s anger startled the Water Hashira. He had no idea how such a young girl could have so much fury. He hadn’t had that much rage after Tsutako died.
𐦍 𐦍 𐦍 𐦍
there’s a reason shinobu talks to giyuu more than the other hashira. there’s also a reason she never told him about her plan.
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15 Sep 2025
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[ “Why did she tell you ?” Giyuu asked back.
“No idea.” Sanemi murmured. “She said it was top secret, so very few people were supposed to know, but I’m pretty sure all the hashira knew. I sorta assumed you did too.
Giyuu tightened his lips. Shinobu had offhandedly told him she hated the scent of wisteria. He could always smell it around her, like a toxic gas. Kanae liked the smell of wisteria, and once Giyuu had met her again a couple weeks later, with Kanae’s haori, Kanae’s quirks, Kanae’s personality, Kanae’s smile, he thought the scent was the same deal.
Who would have guessed she had thirty-seven kilograms of poison running through her veins?
How many people had Shinobu told? Why was Giyuu left out? He could’ve stopped her, and her suicidal journey. She still had a chance to settle down or get married, live out a good life. Why had she become so obsessed with vengeance for her sister?
Oh. He could’ve stopped her.
None of the other hashira had. Shinobu had also been excellent at reading people, so she must’ve figured out earlier that none of them would stop her. But she knew that Giyuu would have tried. ]
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Augusta and Iuno leave behind the weight of prophecy and command to wander through a city unlike any they have ever known. Ragunna’s shimmering canals, flower-laden bridges, and sunlit piazzas offer them more than beauty - they offer the dangerous taste of peace.
Note: This story serves as the closing chapter of my series, 'The Hunt of Sanguis Plateaus'. You may want to read that first for the full journey - though it isn’t strictly necessary to enjoy this piece on its own.
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- Part 2 of Eclipse
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31 Aug 2025
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[ “I could live here,” Augusta repeated. The words came easier this time. “I could be only Augusta. No crown. No oaths made on the steps of a temple. Only… this.” She glanced down to where their knees touched. “Only us.”
Iuno’s fingers sought Augusta’s hand and found it. Their palms pressed together; their fingers laced. The fit felt inevitable, the way a blade finds its scabbard. “A day may come when we choose that,” Iuno said. “I do not know that the gods would approve. But I have learned, at last, that my heart is not theirs to command.”
“And what if the city calls again?” Augusta asked. Not as a challenge; as a confession. “What if the Plateaus roar tomorrow? I do not know how to be anything but the one who goes. I don’t know how to walk away.”
Iuno turned their joined hands and kissed the place where Augusta’s thumb met her palm. The warrior flinched - not from pain, but from the avalanche of tenderness such a small act unstopped. “Then do what you have always done,” Iuno said, voice barely a breath. “Go. But go for the living, not for glory. And come back, not for the city first, but for me.” ]
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The first time Hashirama sees the Hiraishin in action, he hardly knows what it means, let alone what it is. Tobirama tries to explain, but all Hashirama knows is that his brother is there one moment and gone the next, more elusive than the smell of petrichor during Fire Country's summer season. Still, Hashirama is nothing but resilient like the trees he so easily bends to his will, and there is something important in the little kunai and its seal.
Or, a snapshot of Hashirama and Tobirama's relationship through the creation and founding of Konohagakure told by the Hiraishin.
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- Part 1 of Hiraishin Chronicles
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30 Aug 2025
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[ There is something in the river, Hashirama realizes. There is something in the river and it has hair the color of moonlight and the fingers of an artist if they were not so calloused and blood, so much blood, vibrant and scarlet and spreading through the water, and its face is half-hidden under the water but Hashirama — Hashirama knows the curve of its nose, the fan of its pale lashes, the start of its cheekbone, has memorized them ever since the wild Hatake woman had clawed at his shoulders as Father’s baby came too-fast and too-hard and too-big between her shaking legs, Hashirama’s hands reaching for it as it fell, the pulse of freshwater–new moon–hello settling into his bones at the touch, waking up the part of him that is sunlight–strong bark–life that had rested dormant for centuries in his body. Mother had tried to take it from Hashirama, had raved about bloodlines and bastards and bitches, but Hashirama loved it and the Hatake woman called it —
Hashirama is in the river before he even realizes it, already shoving his hands into the water to catch Father’s baby again, to pull him up and keep him close because those are Tobirama’s curls and Tobirama’s hands and Tobirama’s face and Tobirama’s blood. It is Tobirama, and Hashirama loves him. ]
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[ “Get out,” he says, and everything wooden in the house tilts, listening. “Don’t you come near him.”
“Hashirama, you must accept —”
“Out!” He roars the word and they flee — cowards, he can hear Tobirama mutter, can’t we get new ones, anija? — but he hates how much he sounds like Butsuma when he does. His daughter seems to agree. She wakes, screaming, in her nursery, and with clumsy hands, he tries to calm her. Mito appears in the doorway, and Hashirama holds their child out to her.
“I didn’t mean to,” he says.
“Hashirama,” Mito breathes, coming closer, and her hands are cool when they touch his face; her fingertips come away wet. “Oh, my husband.”
“I didn’t mean to hurt —”
She kisses him gently, deliberately, and simply Mito, and it breaks him. Hashirama cries loud enough to put his daughter to shame, ugly and heaving, and it feels like bark twisting away, like the crack of branches and the triumph of broken roots, and he cannot breathe. Mito slides her hand over his chest, petting him, and she tips her head into his jaw. His nose fills with her perfume, and he clutches at her hard enough to bruise, careful of the tender line of their daughter still stuck in his arm.
“They’re fine. They’ll both be fine,” she murmurs to him, over and over and over again until the words sink straight into his heart. “You aren’t your father, and she isn’t Kawarama. Tobirama isn’t Itama.”
“I was — I was so —”
His words catch in his throat.
“Scared?”
Hashirama closes his eyes, ashamed. Shinobi do not cry. Senju do not cry, and yet here he is, his war-grown body too big for his peace-made house. ]
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There is something to be said about blue sapphires. That particular shade of dark, rich blue only sapphires have—royal in the most visual sense of the word. A drop of the night sky draped on a silicone neck. Yuka stares at it.
It’s beautiful. It’s beautiful. It’s so beautiful Yuka wants it on her neck.
In which Yuka is in love. In which Yuka is considering to quit her job. In which Yuka is going insane. In which Yuka admires one or two diamond necklaces and, coincidentally, runs into a familiar face.
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- Part 2 of a form of flattery
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27 Aug 2025
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Reminiscence, And That Which Follows by miseriecordia
Fandoms: Limbus Company (Video Game)
22 Feb 2025
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Eyes glancing towards the top of the file, she is greeted with her name first and foremost: Don Quixote. What else could it possibly be? But therein lies her first concern.
Don Quixote looks at her documents and looks back at her memories.
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16 Aug 2025
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Wouldst thou love me (if I were but a paltry worm?) by Polythropos
Fandoms: Limbus Company (Video Game)
19 Aug 2023
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“Ishmael,” Don interrupts and turns to stare at Ishmael pleadingly. What comes out of her mouth is something beyond the domains of logic and reason, even for her. “If an enchanter cast upon myself a curse so foul, and I happen to be transmogrified into the form of a common worm, wouldst thou passions for me remain or would they shatter against the bleakness of this sordid reality?”
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- Part 3 of the knight and the sailor
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16 Aug 2025
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[ “You’re not a worm, though.”
“Verily, but perchance in some E.G.O. I am!” ]
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After cutting down the Qliphoth, our two favorite twins witness the spectacular fallout of the event from much closer than either of them would like. What goes up must come down, after all.
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- Part 1 of DMC Family Feels
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10 Aug 2025
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[ Vergil slides his right hand into Dante's left, twining their fingers together. "Right here, little brother. I won't leave you again." He shifts, pressing their joined hands to his forehead. He squeezes his eyes shut as tears slide down his cheeks. "Forgive me, Dante."
Almost forty years wandering between hell and earth and he's never felt more like a child. ]
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Dante's not sure what he has to offer the girl who has everything, but if she ever needs him, he'll be right there to answer the call.
Evidently, Patty needs him a lot.
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07 Aug 2025
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[ One of the staff comes drifting over, an eyebrow cocked; “Are they really that drunk already?”
Trish shakes her head; “The kid wanted to have some time in the water before the sun went down. Her dad over there can never say no to her, you know how it is.”
They smile and point to Lady; “Is that mom?”
Trish grins; “Nah, we’re her cool gay aunts. Dad’s got her for the weekend, we happened to be in town, she’s gonna be eighteen before you know it– We’re making the most of our time.”
Trish watches them as the sun sets, and pays with her own credit card instead of Dante’s this time. ]
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Eighteen-year-old Phainon joins the Kremnoan Detachment. Mydei stumbles his way into a courtship with him.
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23 Jul 2025
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[ “Yeah,” says Leonnius, raising his eyebrows. “When do you prove your strength?”
Phainon thinks on this for a second. Then he says, “There’s strength in caring for someone, isn’t there? It’s a different kind of strength. The strength to be vulnerable with someone, and trust that they won’t hurt you.”
Peucesta stares at him, bewildered. Slowly, he reaches for his lyre. Next to him, Ptolemy is scribbling furiously on a scrap of paper, like he’s just heard the most brilliant thesis in the world.
“…Is it that odd?” Phainon says. “That there’s more than one kind of strength in the world?”
“Yes,” says Mydei plainly.
Phainon ponders this for a moment. His mouth furrows into a strange half-frown. ]
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time’s up (we all fade to black) by Azure_Ace
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
15 Jun 2025
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Mydei has never been to this place before, and yet…
He still knows where he is.
“Lord Mydei? Is that you?”
His gaze turns toward the voice, and there she is, standing among the flowers, hands clasped in front of her. There’s no more room for doubt, even if he still had some remaining. “Castorice?”
She smiles, a sadness lingering on her face. “I’m sorry.”
/Or: For a moment at the End of the World, Mydei and Castorice meet again at the end of the west wind.
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13 Jul 2025
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"There's still time before class. Didn't you get into trouble again for eating in class this morning, Mydei?" Hyacine asks.
Mydei's cheeks are stuffed like a hamster, chewing as he glares at the girls halfheartedly. There's a bit of cream at the corner of his mouth, and Phainon fights the urge to lean forward and lick it away.
"It was just candy," Mydei finally replies, a pout forming on his plump lips. "I'm getting detention today for it."
Phainon groans, shaking his head in disappointment. "You get into trouble for the dumbest stuff. Would it kill you to not have something in your mouth for a second?"
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09 Jul 2025
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(we never were) so plain and simple by northlou
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
06 Jul 2025
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“I killed you,” Phainon repeats, emotions still not there fully, but it's okay.
“And I married you,” Mydei answers.
It gets so dramatically silent that another end of the world seems like a good idea.
or: when everything is said and done (people alive, stories finished, promises held), Mydei needs to bring someone else home. The problem is, this someone is incredibly stubborn.
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07 Jul 2025
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The Sin of Faith by OnceABlueMoon for Justm3h
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
04 Jul 2025
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“I told you. I am him, so there’s no need for concern. He’s still here. Somewhere inside of me. We always become one upon death.” He sounds like Anaxagoras, raving about devouring gods along with Coreflames. About becoming gods themselves.
Phainon looks away. “You must think me a monster, now.”
Mydei, hand still on Phainon’s cheek, curls his fingers around his jaw and turns Phainon’s face back to him. “Never. I just don’t understand. So explain, Deliverer. Where did all of this come from?”
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04 Jul 2025
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[ …Phainon’s raving sure doesn’t seem like raving anymore. Mydei looks at him again, analyzing him with this new information in mind, but all he can see is Phainon: hurt by ages Mydei has not lived and does not know, holding himself stiffly as if bracing for a blow he is so sure will come.
What a fool, as always. If there is anyone, anyone at all, who would understand the necessity of death to reach a goal sometimes, even at the cost of precious life, it would be Mydeimos. Mydeimos, the Undying. Mydeimos, ruler of a people forever slaughtering and being slaughtered for their creed. Mydei, who even if he hadn’t understood, would still have believed the Deliverer would always mean well, even with a thousand lifetimes between them. He has more faith in him than that.
People change, it’s true. Despair twists and defaces, but despair is a circumstance, not a characteristic.
He pulls Phainon towards him, and hears his breath hitch as he ever so gently puts their foreheads together, eyes closed. “HKS. Do you think it’s that easy to get rid of me? You’ll have to do better.”
And Phainon laughs wetly, a little disbelievingly, but he melts against Mydei as he hasn’t done for days now, and clutches at his arms like he never wants to let go again.
And he thinks of Phainon saying, I wanted to remember what it was like, to remember what it was like to be loved, and his heart breaks. ]
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Raze the Lands (Build Empires) by OnceABlueMoon
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
02 Jul 2025
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“You once bled out yourself to give clay figures life… How desperate for company must you be, to do that?” Cipher whispers, voice hoarse and nearly gone. Khaslana flinches back, drenched in her golden blood.
She opens her eyes. “Well, Sky-Father?”
He wants to scream. He wants to rage, but not necessarily at her, though she knows what she is doing to him and that ought to make him angry enough. She’s taking her claws and inserting them into his chest, poking at that wound that will never heal.
“I am alone,” he says.
She raises an eyebrow. “Are you?”
Even if you live a thousand lifetimes with the same people over and over again, sometimes they can still surprise you.
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04 Jul 2025
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[ It cannot end here. It cannot.
He is past salvation, but that beautiful dream of his companions? That, that is not. He’ll make sure of it.
He reaches deep, deep inside of him, for a last cache of power, for anything to hold on to, and — something reaches back. One spark at first. A phantom in the shadow, softly waiting. It’s Castorice, he thinks, the one who hurled her Coreflame at his head. But she’s here, now, her power reaching out to him through time and space, and one by one, tiny firefly-like lights join her.
Anaxagoras, Mydei, Hyacine, Tribios, Aglaea, Cipher. Even a few Hysilens and Cerydra’s.
He is alone. Yet here he is, calling upon all of them to lift him higher. And there they are, all of them, buried within him, shining sparks of fire, millions of them creating a flame larger than he has ever been.
He laughs even as he rises again, at how foolish he has been. Alone? Alone?!
Khaslana has never been alone in his life.
When he falls again, this time after wounding Nanook, he knows they will catch him. ]
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miles to go before sleep by saunatonttu
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
29 Jun 2025
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In a ruined world, the hero alone walks on.
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29 Jun 2025
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“And who would you be if you weren’t thinking too hard about the future?” Phainon says, face melting into a fond grin.
Mydei matches it. “A foolish Deliverer, of course.”
Or: Snapshots of the duties of a Deliverer, and of the life of a boy called Phainon.
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23 Jun 2025
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Mydei’s right here, right beside Phainon, like he always is, haughty and annoying and stupid and- he's alive.
Alive- so why can't Phainon stop having vivid nightmares of spilled golden blood, a wound to the back incapable of healing-
Of Mydei laying lifeless on the council grounds?
(Or, Phainon starts having horrifyingly visceral nightmares of a past unfamiliar to him, and slowly begins to piece together that there is something more nefarious lurking behind both the Flame Reaver and Amphoreus than the Chrysos Heirs originally imagined.)
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- Part 1 of if there's a chance in the next life
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23 Jun 2025