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Beyond the Path of Reason by halfwaydown
Fandoms: Trench - Twenty One Pilots (Album), Twenty One Pilots
01 Feb 2026
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The Bishops established a near-perfect system in Dema. Routine, monotony, and structure, it all works to numb the citizens, while Vialism breeds devotion and desire for Glory through means of self-destruction. It’s almost perfect, but a few still slip through the cracks.
One citizen sees Vialism as a means to an end. A way to escape the slot she’s been put in, to find some semblance of comfort in her short life. Another sees it as a burden — a duty placed on his shoulders by a higher power he barely understands. But one thing they agree on is that the Concrete City isn’t their home, but their prison. And someone on the outside is trying to light the way for escape.
(A novelization of the story of Trench)
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- Part 1 of Only Skeleton Bones Remain
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When I Watch the World Burn by halfwaydown
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon)
03 Aug 2025
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Kamino has fallen, and though the Galaxy has moved on, the Bad Batch hasn't. Try as they might, there's an unrest growing in the new Empire, one they can't ignore forever. But if they’re going to help Rex in saving their Brothers, the Batch will need all the help they can get, though they might not like where they find it. But desperate times call for uneasy alliances.
Meanwhile, Crosshair starts to doubt his loyalty to the Empire when he's assigned to a new, secret program called Inquisitorius.
Series
- Part 2 of A Song of Beskar and Kyber
Recent series
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A Song of Beskar and Kyber by halfwaydown
Fandom Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon), Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
03 Aug 2025
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A series of Clone Wars centered around my favorite copy and paste boy, Echo.
- Words:
- 225,330
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- 1
- Bookmarks:
- 8
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Only Skeleton Bones Remain by halfwaydown
Fandom Trench - Twenty One Pilots (Album), Twenty One Pilots
01 Feb 2026
- Words:
- 145,235
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- Bookmarks:
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Did we ever make it? by bannanakin
Fandoms: Twenty One Pilots, BLURRYFACE - Twenty One Pilots (Album), Trench - Twenty One Pilots (Album)
05 Dec 2025
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Dema is home, Dema is safe, Dema is... wrong?
He is trapped, spiraling, and desperate
She is loyal, compliant, and faithful
And he is trying to get them out - all of them
(A novelization of Trench)
Bookmarked by halfwaydown
05 Dec 2025
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On the Run and Go by Gamma1243
Fandoms: Twenty One Pilots, Trench - Twenty One Pilots (Album), Scaled And Icy - Twenty One Pilots (Album)
03 Feb 2026
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Clancy is running, and he's not looking back.
After a horrific "appointment" in Vetomo's tower that leaves blood on his hands and a hole in his soul, Clancy is finally pushed to flee Dema. Again.
Hunted by Nico and the Bishops, his only hope is a rumored escape route, an abandoned maintenance bridge under the bell tower. But as his trauma-racked mind unravels, Clancy quickly discovers that falling into the darkness is only the first step of an impossible journey out of the city.
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Set between Trench (after Levitate) and SAI -
red right hand by reverseblackholeofwords
Fandoms: Twenty One Pilots, Clancy - Twenty One Pilots (Album), BLURRYFACE - Twenty One Pilots (Album)
25 Dec 2025
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In the shadow of the chapel, Keons' choir boys conduct their Father's business. It isn't cruelty that drives them to drag their brother to the bell tower, to stand him up in the open window at its zenith, where the wind licks across exposed necks once they have removed their high gray collars. It is love, always love, that drives them to acts of such unfettered violence.
Their Father bids them: be gentle, as I am gentle.
Bookmarked by halfwaydown
06 Sep 2025
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Inside the Glass by Anonymous
Fandoms: Twenty One Pilots, Trench - Twenty One Pilots (Album), Scaled And Icy - Twenty One Pilots (Album)
28 Jan 2026
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He passes by the window, as he does every night, but a flash of colour makes him stop dead in his tracks. He whips his head to the side, looking out the glass.
A man, dressed in dark olive greens and yellow stripes, a yellow bandana pulled up over the lower half of his face, is standing on the ground outside and holding a flaming torch, looking directly up at him.-–—–-
Tyler is just trying to live his life as an exceptional citizen of Dema, but the Torchbearer won't leave him alone.
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- English
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- 265,910
- Chapters:
- 78/78
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- 877
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Bookmarked by halfwaydown
18 Nov 2024
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so beautiful, the space between by reverseblackholeofwords
Fandoms: Twenty One Pilots, Clancy - Twenty One Pilots (Album), Trench - Twenty One Pilots (Album), Scaled And Icy - Twenty One Pilots (Album)
25 Apr 2025
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This is the World, and he is its faithful Citizen. He knows the Layout as it unwinds in his mind, an endless procession of hallways and loosely fitted-together rooms, the many statues and niches, the courtyards open to the gray sky, and the grim dark depths that plunge like a dagger into the heart of the earth below. And this Knowledge transforms him.
Structure is beauty. Structure is perfection. Structure is salvation. And the Structure of this place is Clancy’s guiding purpose. Because many have tried before, to know the Tower in its entirety, and now Clancy alone counts their bones. In all the World, there have been twenty-five before him. But none of them were able to complete the task given to them before they perished.
Clancy is exceptional.
Bookmarked by halfwaydown
16 Mar 2025
Bookmarker's Notes
Let’s have Dema but make it Annihilation meets House of Leaves.