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    The guard stared at him for a moment, blue eyes blown wide behind his mask.

    It was then the Pythia looked down at the hand outstretched between them. The prosthetic was made of intricately carved metal, covered in vines and flowers twisting together with the shimmer of enchantments reflecting in the purple glow.

    And although the guard’s sleeve was covering his wrist, he knew that in the place where metal met flesh, there was a pair of dark angel wings tattooed on his skin.

    He was right. This wasn’t a real guard.

    This was a Deathling.

    or, Wilbur is an oracle known as the Pythia, chosen to receive dreams of the future from the goddess Clara. One day, he receives a dream warning him that during a ball Emperor Schlatt is hosting, the Deathlings—terrorists who worship the goddess of Death—will launch an attack. When his warning goes ignored, he knows there's going to be consequences.

    He doesn't expect one of those consequences to include him getting kidnapped by a teenager.

    aka, a cyberpunk fantasy fusion au with lots of religious trauma

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    “What do you want?” The intense eye contact Scar was getting was starting to get uncomfortably long.
    “I came to study the architecture of the temple” He felt compelled to answer honestly.
    “You didn’t come for me?” the man’s suspicion dropped slightly and a bit of genuine confusion slipped past the man's guarded demeanor.
    “No?” The more the blonde spoke the more confused Scar got “why? do you need rescuing, rapunzel?” he waggled his eyebrows and laughed awkwardly to hide his puzzlement
    “What?” the suspicion fell completely and left the man looking dumbfounded.
    There was a beat of silence, the four wings folded back behind him before the man spoke again. This time he sounded almost relieved if not doubtful
    “you have no idea who I am, do you?” when Scar shook his head in confusion

    Or Scar breaks into an old temple, not knowing it was still inhabited by the god it was made for.

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    Spiders are both overlooked and feared. They spin their webs, catch their kills and move on. Some hunt, finding their prey and stalking until the kill.

    Tommy’s not a Huntsman Spider anymore, though. He made sure of that when the skies bled black with smoke and the horizon was stained with orange and red.

    From a class of twenty-eight to a class of one.

     

    Or, Tommy has escaped the Red Room, only to stumble into the lives of a family of Villains, who want him to join their ranks, a corrupt businessman and his makeshift family and a bunch of Heroes, who swear they want to help him.

     

    Now with a Sequel: Come in from the Cold, Huntsman.

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    Red Chaos was the name the world had bestowed upon him, and Dream had laughed as he dragged Tommy down against his chest in a rough sprawl back against the couch, squeezing him tight after their first official mission together.

    Tommy had done good and Dream had been proud.

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    Siren shifts, a look Tommy can’t be bothered to understand flashing briefly before his shoulders roll into a shrug.

    “You saved my life.”

    I know, Tommy thinks, lips drawing back in an ugly grimace. It ruined mine.

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    The morning paper lies discarded on the couch beside him with black bold headlines:

    RED CHAOS: HERO OR VILLAIN?

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    JRWI oneshots including Riptide, Prime defenders, Apotheosis, Blood in the Bayou, and The Suckening (GO LISTEN TO JRWI)

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