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Notes at the beginning of the song by Marayanna
Fandoms: Arslan Senki | Heroic Legend of Arslan
22 Dec 2018
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It's the night before the final battle and Arslan can see the future he wants for Pars very clearly. One lifetime is not enough to achieve it, but he's determined to point the country in the right direction.
And Daryun can only follow, breathless.
Originally written as part of "To serve and protect, to guide and love" but I decided it should be posted separately.
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14 Oct 2025
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There's devils to slay and dragons to ride by Marayanna
Fandoms: Arslan Senki | Heroic Legend of Arslan
27 May 2019
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Kishward, Daryun, Kubard and Saam were there, fighting with all they had, and they were all laughed off as nothing, weak mortals meddling in matters they did not understand. And the cold realization sent shivers down their spines, the realization that there were beings to which all of their bravery, all of their carefully crafted skills meant absolutely nothing.
On that night, in that corridor, four of the strongest men in the entire country stood against a single enemy and couldn’t land a single hit.
And on that night, in that corridor, there was also prince Arslan, fourteen year old boy, who somehow could.
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13 Oct 2025
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A flash of terribly familiar golden light filled the clearing, a deafening boom sent the knights flying backwards, and then, at last, a pair of blue eyes opened once more.
And they were met in return with the sight of shimmering gold eyes.
As it dawned on everyone what exactly had just happened, Arthur’s battle-proven instincts kicked in and overtook his petrified mind once more, playing out his body’s natural response to any worst-case scenario:
Grab Merlin and run.
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Alternatively: After a ritual goes disastrously wrong, Merlin's magic has been transferred to Arthur, who is still unaware that Merlin has magic in the first place. Believing himself to be a danger to everyone around him, Arthur sets out to live the rest of his life in self-imposed exile.
Suffice it to say, Merlin has some objections to Arthur's plans.- Language:
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15 Aug 2025
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The wind changed.
There was something unright about the black wolf. Golden-eyed, whip-thin. Too long of snout and limb. Among the trees, he might have been a shadow thrown by a wholly different creature–or, from the angle of the light, by Arthur himself.
Arthur had never seen him; Arthur knew him. It couldn't be, and wouldn't be beneath the sun. But it was Wolf Moon now, and Arthur's pack was somewhere in the woods, going on without him, while Arthur stood frozen as a deer, naked paws on the leaf litter, naked fur beneath the white moon, too exposed away from the safety of the brush–because he was a fool who charged in, because he was the apex predator in these woods, until he wasn't.
As prince of the Camelot wolf pack, Arthur has fought his entire life to be worthy of his title and his father's pride. When he meets a strange wolf with a too-familiar scent on the first full moon of the new year, he must decide what's really worth fighting for.
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09 Aug 2025
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Camelot has been without a Court Sorcerer throughout all the long years since Merlin, known to some as Emrys, known to all as Prince Consort, went missing on what should have been a routine pilgrimage to the Crystal Caves. Since that day, sorcerers throughout the land have poured into Camelot seeking his place at King Arthur's side, only to be turned away--until today.
If they can pass a test to prove themselves as worthy as the greatest sorcerer ever to live.
(An Odyssey AU)
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09 Aug 2025
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Gwen has loyally kept Merlin's secrets for all the years she's known him. But when he goes missing while hunting a wyvern and Arthur is frantic to find him--or at least for proof he still lives--Gwen faces a difficult choice.
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09 Aug 2025
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“It has its roots in a legend from the east, sire. I believe it’s called the red string of fate.”
“Fate?” Arthur said incredulously. “What, is he going to be the one to kill me?”
“Getting more likely by the minute,” Merlin supplied.
“Shut up, Merlin.”
Gaius held up a weary hand. “Legend has it that the string connects people to the person with whom they are most compatible.” There was a beat of silence.
“You have got to be kidding me.”
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08 Aug 2025
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04 Aug 2025
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When Morgana falls into an enchanted slumber, Arthur and Merlin journey to the Impenetrable Forest to seek a cure while Gwen holds vigil at her lady's side. Eventually, hidden truths are revealed—at the forest as well as in Camelot.
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04 Aug 2025
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Everyone insisted that Arthur needed time to process, to accept that Merlin was gone. The only problem was that Merlin wasn’t.
Arthur didn’t know how to explain it without sounding like Uther when he’d seen Ygraine in the well, like he was losing his mind and looking for ghosts. He didn’t know how to look at his court and make them understand that Merlin had once told him about nature, about the sacred connectedness of the earth, and asked Arthur if he felt it. He didn’t know how to say that he hadn’t felt it back then, but that he did now. He felt it all. He felt Merlin in it.
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Merlin saves Arthur's life at Camlann at the cost of his own. Merlin can't die, so it's not that simple.
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03 Aug 2025
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Game Over [Would you like to reload from your last checkpoint?] by tyrianzzz
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, The Batman (Movie 2022)
16 Mar 2023
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By some measure or means, all four (official) Robins are sent back in time for a chance to reclaim their future–-a chance that things might turn out better.
After losing Bruce in their future, a chance seems good enough.
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I focus heavily on the original 4 Robins and their relationships to each other and to Bruce, but I try to give a spotlight to all the batfamily relationships and members at one point. This is my DC magnum opus, the time travel fix-it fic to end all suffering. Time swap? no. Time displacement? Double no. They stay, ur honor, and they give a big ol' middle finger to the timeline while they're at it.
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23 Jul 2025
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Battinson and the JL ft. His Eventual Identity Reveal by Athi816
Fandoms: The Batman (Movie 2022), Batman - All Media Types, DCU, DCU (Comics), Justice League - All Media Types
25 Jul 2024
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Bruce Wayne is not the founder type. He wouldn’t voluntarily join a book club, much less join a league of super-powered vigilantes whom he does not know personally. Hence, why he refuses to entertain this “Justice League.”
It starts with a friendly visit.
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22 Jul 2025
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“You-” Ygraine said, stepping up to point a finger in Uther’s face. “You are a liar and a murderer. The fact you think someone as sweet and caring as Vivienne is destined to marry you is a tragedy in itself, but if you expect me to hand over my brother’s rightful claim to Camelot’s throne-”
“My claim to Camelot’s throne,” Uther threw back, face growing more red as Arthur looked between his parents in utter bewilderment. Merlin didn’t blame him. He had envisioned Uther and Ygraine’s love story to be more… well, less based in war and battles.
Ygraine’s eyes narrowed as she grabbed a goblet of wine and threw it in Uther’s face. A few of the guards shifted, but Uther only raised a hand to pause them, spitting out the wine with furious eyes.
“You,” Ygraine said coldly. “Are unworthy to sit upon a stool, let alone a throne.”
From a few feet away, Balinor scoffed as he sipped from his own goblet. “I kind of like having her as a hostage, Uther. She livens up the place.”
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In a desperate attempt to save Arthur at Camlann, Merlin tries to reverse time. It works perhaps a tad too well.
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21 Jul 2025
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A whore is not someone you attempt to woo or charm. A whore is not someone you should strive to impress. A whore is someone whose opinion matters very little. Someone you rent for a bit of fun and release. You just put money on the table and they get to say yes or no – and for the record, they seldom say no. So a whore is no one to pine for. Which is just as well, because Arthur isn’t pining for anyone.
And certainly not anyone who’ll disappear off with any random knight for the right amount.
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18 Jul 2025
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Loading and Aspect Ratio by JUBE514
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Superman - All Media Types, DC Extended Universe, DCU
07 Nov 2021
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So, it didn’t start out like this.
Alfred would scoff at the statement, about how Bruce was trying to justify the whole situation to himself. It had started out as a simple design, black everything with black outlines and black hood. It got a little more intense as the world went on, got wind of his ghost on the streets, and became scared of The Bat . So Bruce got a little more creative with it, Alfred and him had a good laugh over the name, the scare, and Alfred had a vicious streak of humor that he had passed onto his ward-
So now the suit had a visible bat-theme, an insignia to drape in the shadows and to paint across the streets of Gotham.
It only took a year into the whole charade of heroism for Bruce to overhear a conversation between some goons- some low level thug hired by the Riddler this week- about nothing at all pertaining to what the hell the Riddler was doing in the sewers but instead:
“ The Batman can fly, you know, I’ve seen his wings.”
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A world where nobody has wings, but people think they do, and that changes everything.
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17 Jul 2025
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Exit Light, Enter Night by CaptainDoofus
Fandoms: Superman (Movie 2025), The Batman (Movie 2022)
16 Jul 2025
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"Bruce is thus far undecided in the global metahuman debate. All he can be sure of at this point is that 'the Justice Gang' is a sickeningly awful name."
Then he meets Superman, and finds himself suddenly swayed.
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- Part 1 of Corensupes & Battinson
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16 Jul 2025
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to the point of invention by Asplenium, QuietLittleVoices
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), DCU, Superman - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types, Superman (Movie 2025), The Batman (Movie 2022)
09 Jul 2025
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Bruce realizes just a moment too late.
Something is very wrong.
Somewhere above him a machine hums to life, and then all of a sudden the room fills with a bright golden light. Bruce’s eyes adjust, and the full horror of what is happening hits him. The discs overhead aren’t filtering the light, they’re concentrating it, aiming it directly to where Clark is lying on the exam chair. Bruce’s stomach drops as Clark screams, writhing on the chair as the automatons pin him down.
Like a bug being cooked under a magnifying glass.
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16 Jul 2025
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When Arthur and his knights are led into a trap and captured on Dyfed’s territory, Gwen is prompted to invoke the right of single combat. But, when Dyfed’s chosen champion is revealed to be a powerful sorceress, Merlin must take on the guise of Emrys to fight for Camelot. In doing so, the young warlock will discover just how much he is willing to sacrifice for his friends, and for the future he believes Arthur Pendragon is destined to create.
“It had never been the dragon’s prophecy he believed in so fiercely– it was Arthur. If Arthur died here, it would be like losing a part of himself. He would forever be incomplete. Severed. Merlin would remain frozen in time.”
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19 May 2025
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When Merlin accidentally activates a spell of good fortune, he and Arthur find themselves unable to stop tripping and falling over each other, but how on earth does that correspond to "good fortune?"
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04 May 2025
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It was the grief that hit Arthur first.
For if someone as loyal, as good as Merlin used magic, then how could it be what he had condemned it for his whole life?
How long had he purposefully remained blind?Bookmarked by griffonskies
30 Apr 2025