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The Sea That's Painted Black by isnt_it_pretty
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
10 Jul 2023
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Cyrus is desperate to save his son, and Nahida is fond of children.
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Trust in Respite by isnt_it_pretty
Fandoms: Mistborn - Brandon Sanderson, Cosmere - Brandon Sanderson
26 Jun 2023
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Vin overhears the team talking about Kelsier and is worried. She decides to check on him.
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When Ren thinks of his mother, he thinks of laughter and science. Periodic tables, diagrams of human brains, eating ice cream in the rain. He thinks of bedtime stories and late-night movies and sturdy arms around his shoulders. Family trips with Futaba in the back seat next to him, playing Pokemon on her DS as their mother sings along to the radio, the motion of the car lulling him to sleep.
He hopes that's what Futaba thinks of, too.
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AU where Ren is the son of Wakaba Isshiki.Note: very slow updates due to health issues and other works, but not discontinued.
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Dust by isnt_it_pretty
Fandoms: Stormlight Archive - Brandon Sanderson, Cosmere - Brandon Sanderson
23 May 2023
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Stormlight can't cure everything-- Kaladin knows that well.
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Or, Kaladin has chronic pain.
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The Sound of Gentle Stillness by isnt_it_pretty
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
19 Apr 2023
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There are nights when the stress of the world on Cyno's shoulders gets a little too heavy, but at least Tighnari is always there to take some of the weight.
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Blood, broken bottles, and shattered crates. Footprints scuffed the ground, arrows lay broken or forgotten, some lodged into trees. A sword with a red-stained hilt left abandoned and indents in the dirt where bodies must have lain, but no bodies themselves, no Cyno.
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Or, 19-year-old Cyno is tortured.
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The Akademiya's files, the labs, the experiments. He'd thought they were over, destroyed, wiped from Teyvat when Cyrus refused to continue the project-- when he took Cyno from the brightly lit labs and sterile white rooms. To discover that had been a lie-
For Alhaitham to be the one to find the files-
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Alhaitham accidently finds something nobody should and Cyno dissociates on his bathroom floor for two days as a result.
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A body can only bend so much until it breaks. Cyno is long since passed that point.
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Taj Radkani wants to die; Cyno isn't about to let that happen.
(Taj, Cyno, The Court of Desolation, and the aftermath.)
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The wind blew around him, unknowing or uncaring that he could feel its bite. It choked down his throat to tear at his lungs until nothing was left but blood. It was suffocating, oppressive, this heavy weight that he couldn't voice.
It felt like grief-- like the wind itself was a mirror, desperate and anguished like the agony rippling through him.
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(Part of a series but can be read as a stand alone)
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- Part 3 of Into Darkness and Howling
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It is not Bosacius trapped at the bottom of The Chasm, and it is not a lingering memory they find there.
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(A role reversal AU for our favourite yaksha (a little happier than canon))
*note: discontinued
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- Part 1 of Into Darkness and Howling
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Xiao was long used to the misery of hospital stays, but at least this time he wasn't the only teenager in the pediatric ward.
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Cinnabar and Salt by isnt_it_pretty for Anonemoni
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
22 Oct 2022
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Kaeya was a sickly child, and some illnesses were worse than others.
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Cyno’s name was nothing but a ghost story among Rtawahist scholars, his genius all but forgotten beyond the label of “mad scholar.”
Tighnari never forgot.
.Tighnari spent four years travelling between Gandharva Ville and Aaru Village. He made peace with his loss, happy to have even what little of Cyno remained. Nahida wouldn’t let that stand.
(AU where Cyno was never General Mahamatra.)
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By heaven’s might and the gods of the five regions, Yaksha and mortal together take this contraption in hand...
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AU where Xiao is the one in the Chasm
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- Part 2 of Into Darkness and Howling
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How two beings nearly diametrically opposed became friends.
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Or, how Xiao received his Vision
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15-year-old Akira Kurusu runs away from home. Seven months later, Sojiro Sakura finds 16-year-old Ren No-Last-Name sleeping outside Leblanc.
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Lullaby by isnt_it_pretty
Fandoms: The Legend of Drizzt Series - R. A. Salvatore, Forgotten Realms
16 Dec 2021
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The fall of House Oblodra, and the survival of its eldest son.
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Things have never been better for Jarlaxle. He has Zaknafein back, Bregan D'aerthe’s hold on Luskan has been solidified, he has a plan to enter the Lord's Alliance. Everything is going well-- and then Zak gets sick.
Post Relentless, not canon to Starlight Enclave. Mild spoilers for the Tomb of Annihilation campaign.
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Before, Rizzen had always called on a soldier of the house to help him-- it was nothing strenuous or complicated, he just found it useful to have another set of hands during complicated spells.
This time, he had a different idea.
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- Part 2 of All We Know is Sink or Swim