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“It was a training accident, just something stupid. I don’t know, they were fooling around, and then Ignis—” Gladio leaves the rest unsaid, and it raises more questions than it really answered, but there’s one question that rushes up and out of Prompto’s mouth faster than the rest, that feels like the lynchpin to finally understanding Noct and Ignis.
“Was Noct there?”
“Kid,” Gladio says, his leg jostling and his face gone grim again, “he was the only one there.”
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It takes about four months for Prompto and Ignis to really become friends; it’s another three months before Prompto starts to actually get him.
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He imagines it sometimes: the queen flipping through a portfolio, looking at the headshots of children from across Lucis; reading the carefully compiled family histories and political ties; picking out her own favorites from the candidate pool, lifting their names to the top. He imagines that she smiled when she saw his dossier, when she saw that they’d been born in the same region. He imagines that, if she’d lived, the queen would have taken an interest in him; she might have written letters to him, might have given him an allowance; she might have said, This one. I want this one for my son.
The queen died, though, so Ignis will never know what she thought of him—or if she thought of him at all.
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An Ignis-centric pre-game fic, in which Ignis is one of several children who are candidates for the position of advisor to the prince; it's basically Ignis and Noctis's childhood, and how Ignis was raised to be a tool for Noctis.
As always, there's a lot of hurt and not much comfort. Also politics, class and power issues, child neglect and codependence, etc. And ghosts! And dead parents! And abandoned children! And more Ignis Whump than you can shake a stick at!
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“They found Scientia?” she asks. “He’s alive?”
“Somehow,” Ravus says grimly. He doesn’t offer much more than fragments—that the Crystal is found, that Scientia is lingering on, that Noctis has asked for her.
“I’ll go,” she says. “Of course I’ll go.”
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Lunafreya and Ignis heal post-Episode Ignis V2.
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“Right,” Noct says as the alarm on her phone chimes. She looks down at the bowl in front of her, and three pairs of eyes look back up at her. One of them—she’s not sure which—blinks, first the right eye, then the left. To see it up close, the way the entire eye retracts down into the skull, makes Noct’s stomach give a squeamish roll.
“Right,” Noct says again, since her friends—her frogs—aren’t saying anything. “I guess, uh, it’s not wearing off?”
One of the frogs slides back into the water with a splash, and the other two begin to squirm, clambering over each other and over the sunken and probably sulking frog at the bottom of the bowl. Their feet—paws? feet? must be feet—are gripping the sides of the bowl, their long toes curling over the rim, the round, sticky pads at the ends of their toes clinging and pulling away from the bowl with sucking sounds.
“Shit,” she whispers, because it’s hitting home in an entirely new way, like the tiny pad at the end of each toe is another suckerpunch to her gut, “we are so fucked.”
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In which a status effect goes awry, the others become frogs, and Noct has to find a way to fix her friends.
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Ignis closes the webpage, then pushes the laptop away. “The king,” she says apologetically, “agreed that you should be told.”
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Various short fics about fem!Noct's unhappy relationship with the paparazzi and an overly-voyeuristic public.
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- Part 5 of Listen to the Never
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Sunny? Sanji racked his brain, searching desperately for something to connect with that name. Slowly, through the haze, he caught glimpses of grass, a homey kitchen and tangerine trees. He could picture sails and a grinning flag with a straw hat. Could hear the trill of a violin, bubbling laughter and swords being sharpened and polished. Could smell sweet perfume, meat and ocean. A ship. Sunny.
“Home…” he whispered.
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When Sanji contracts a dangerous illness, memories of past trauma are brought closer to the surface than he ever wished for. Thankfully, his crew has no plans of letting him weather the storm alone.
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- Part 1 of Let the morning chase my ghosts away
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After the events on Thriller Bark, the Straw Hats reach Sabaody only to be crushed and captured for sale at the auction house. Injured and outclassed, the remaining members of two crews form an alliance in a race to save their friends.
It's a rescue. It's a Straw Hat/Heart Pirate team up. It's an absolute train wreck.
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Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name by Anonymous
Fandoms: One Piece (Anime & Manga)
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“It can’t be Sanji,” says the one called Usopp. He sounds shocked.
What an odd thing to say.
The black-hair man cocks his head like a bird. “If you’re Sanji, what’s that thing on your head?”
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Sanji gets de-aged.
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Noct calls Ignis when he gets his first rut.
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02 Mar 2026
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There are some great quick-and-dirty guides to HTML on A03. This is not one of them - it is a comprehensive guide
It's now 2025, a decade later. A03 supports some new HTML and and we're all walking around reading fic on supercomputers that fit in a jean pocket. It was time update this and take a crack at finishing it. (Links and Images are in, the new Audio and Video tags are not.)
The previous three chapters have been divided into smaller concepts. Each tag continues to have - at a minimum - a link to the w3schools page about it (so you can learn more), a code example, and the result of the code example. Most tags have their attributes, things like [src] or [title], listed and examples of how using the attributes modify the tags.
There's a chapter on Bad Ideas, including how some of the archive's default CSS is available to you to format your work (users can't turn that off by hiding a workskin!)
Oh. And I added a bunny army. You could learn how to add one too.
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