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The heir killed his father. The weapon put down the gun. They retired to a coastline and tried to be people.
It didn't last.
Now Hanbin is walking back into the empire he burned—and becoming the thing he killed to escape. Now Matthew is carrying a fury he can't afford to use and a body that remembers every terrible thing it was built to do. They are fighting ghosts. His father's. The program's. Each other's.
Face what you were made into. Decide if love conditioned into you counts.
But here is the thing about Sung Hanbin and Seok Matthew: the handler and his asset have never once failed when they moved together.
Echo Protocol 2: Restored is the sequel to Echo Protocol.
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- Part 2 of Echo Protocol Sungseok AU
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Matthew has never met a fortune he couldn't tell, a coin he couldn't pocket, or a mark he couldn't charm. The Emperor of Joseon is, statistically, just another mark. The cards, which say what Matthew decides and which have never once surprised him, have finally made their case.
What comes next might ruin more than just his disbelief in the cards. -
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☼ After disbandment, Matthew leaves Seoul and everything that was there. But something calls him back.
What if ZB1 really disbanded and Matthew became a girl dad? Ex-idol Matthew and solo idol Hanbin, monetized queerbaiting, the fear of the power Sungseok holds, and the K-pop industry are the main villains here. Heavy angst. They are both problematic.
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Letters written at 2am in a hotel room by itsaseamonster
Fandoms: ZEROBASEONE | ZB1 (Korea Band)
29 Jul 2026
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Hanbin loves writing letters. He has written several, in the past years, that Matthew cannot carry anywhere near his person, because the contents are damning.
Aka Hanbin writes an explicit letter to Matthew.
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Finally, Matthew and Hanbin can spend a weekend alone.
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The wrong answers can never be too wrong by itsaseamonster
Fandoms: ZEROBASEONE | ZB1 (Korea Band)
26 Jul 2026
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Hanbin goes to the study group because the head of the group is cute. And Matthew is trying his best, he truly is. None of them is brave enough to say anything. Fortunately, fate is on their side because if it was not, well, these losers would just pine forever I think.
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Anan magazine wanted Hanbin and Matthew together for their interview and photoshoot. They want each other together too.
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It was just one song, just one stupid gesture. Hanbin fell on one knee, held Matthew's hands, sang that line of that song, that means nothing. Right? Right.
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Matthew is criminally overworked, and Hanbin needs money. The research is very important, groundbreaking, epic and checks notes well paid.
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I am thirsty for the rain, that waters all of my melodies by itsaseamonster
Fandoms: ZEROBASEONE | ZB1 (Korea Band)
07 May 2026
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Hanbin seems to be ready to debut. Matthew feels like he will spend his life on Korean lessons. They meet and everything changes. It's not easy for hopeful trainees, but they have each other. Or do they? Expectations are high, the entertainment business is tough and pressure makes people act stupid.
>>> This isn’t a story where people found their way home after losing each other. This is a story where they chose their path and didn’t look back—where they fought hard for their dreams: dreams of the stage, and of the other.
- posted for the 1st anniversary of custom rings making
- angst with happy ending
- keep an eye on tags
- will get explicit later - is already very explicit
- canon compliant, Cube trainee and Boys Planet eras
- not really slow burn but somewhat slow burn -
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Ya'aburnee. You bury me. The wish to die before your beloved because living without them is unbearable.
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- Part 6 of Altaïr and Malik's Chronicles
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Altaïr is in Cyprus, Malik is in Jerusalem. It's been too long, so they invented sexting. Or the one in which Malik wrote an explicit letter as vengeance after Altaïr wrote an explicit letter. They are idiots, your honor.
Happy birthday, Altaïr, you beautiful beautiful Novice <3Series
- Part 3 of Altaïr and Malik's Chronicles
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Hanbin was never meant to fall in love with the boy whose life his father destroyed. And Matthew was never meant to become a weapon. In a kinder world, they'd—
But this is not a kind world.
Years later, Matthew is unrecognizable, dangerous, beautiful. A perfect tool shaped by the very system Hanbin's family commands. And now, tangled in a lie with blood on their hands, Hanbin will do anything to keep him alive.Series
- Part 1 of Echo Protocol Sungseok AU
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Al Mualim is dead. The Brotherhood has begun its first reforms, and Masyaf is learning new rhythms under the rule of its new, young Mentor.
But the Mentor himself is not at peace—not calm, no matter how much he pretends to be.
The ghost of his old master haunts every corner of the fortress, heavier in some places than others, and Altaïr knows he cannot move forward until he finishes what he began.Not for the master he killed. Not even for himself.
For Malik. And for Kadar.Series
- Part 2 of Altaïr and Malik's Chronicles
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The Ache of Being Allowed by itsaseamonster
Fandoms: Assassin's Creed - All Media Types, Assassin's Creed
07 Dec 2025
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Three years after Solomon's Temple, Altaïr is Mentor and Malik is his right hand—in the Brotherhood and in the dark. When a delegation from Alamut arrives bearing old venom and a novice asks to leave the Creed, they're forced to reckon with what they've survived, what they've built, and the ache of being allowed to choose—to stay, to leave, or to love—in a world that took so much from them.
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- Part 4 of Altaïr and Malik's Chronicles
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In 2025, an unprecedented data and infrastructure failure—called simply the Break—fractured the modern world. Nations fell, power grids became rationed, and most digital archives and media vanished. Art, music, human history—all gone in hours.
Before, Hanbin was everywhere—a face on screens, the perfect smile of the pre-collapse era. By 2030, he’s one of the few still alive—nanotech modifications, regulated medication—to endure radiation and malnutrition.
He works now not as a nation's perfect It boy, but, in a form of self-imposed exile, in a House of Memories: a facility built to store what remained of human consciousness and culture.
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What Is Immortality If Not a Series Of Losses by itsaseamonster
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
05 Oct 2025
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Six hundred years. Seven meetings. Countless dreams. And in them, Hob forgets to pretend he doesn’t want more—because the only constant in his long, immortal life has always been his friend.
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- A fix-it Dreamling fic I started writing even before watching season 2.
- We follow Hob from the very beginning.
- Every chapter is character development *jazz hands*
- Centuries of pining, bad decisions, and unbuttoned shirts.
- Real plot starts happening in chapter 3!
- Hob has a lot of dreams! I wonder why! (from chapter 4)
- Extremely self-indulgent. Probably turns into a buddy comedy with will-they-won't-they energy. (They will.)
- Slow burn? Absolutely. Smut? Eventually. Emotional devastation? Without a doubt.
- A lot of hurt no comfort but it has a happy ending, I promise!
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When novices—literal children—start leaping off Masyaf's roofs in something they’ve dubbed “The Method of the Mentor,” Malik vows to give said youngest Mentor in history a piece of his mind. And he does. In return, he gets sleepless nights, a midnight visit, a crushed flower, far too much teasing, and the terrifying suspicion that maybe, just maybe, this chaos is their version of happiness.
And that he loves it.---
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- Part 5 of Altaïr and Malik's Chronicles
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His eyes lock onto Hob’s with intent so sharp it’s almost physical. His voice is calm, low, almost conversational, but his meaning lands like a touch on bare skin: “We should go to your flat instead.”
For a moment, Hob forgets how to breathe. There’s nothing casual about it, not with the ribbon still biting pale skin, not with the weight of Dream’s gaze pinning him down, not with the index finger digging into the plush red of his lip. The words carry heat, want, endless inevitability.
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Written for Day 1 of Sadman week 2025 - Hair Ribbon
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Through Malik's eyes.
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I wrote the first two chapters and part of the third in three days with a terrible fever and a headache. The same thing has been written many times, but look, I waited almost 16 years (I had to open the calculator app for this) to have the time, motivation and words to write it. Self-indulgent, you may call me.
And yes, I know that means I'm about 16 years late and that nobody probably reads AltMal anymore. But I finished Mirage and immediately went to download AC1 again and yeah. The OG stays with you it seems.
-- I rewrote the first chapter as I was not happy with it now that I don't have a fever anymore.
-- I am now sure this will be at least 6 chapters.
-- This fic will be at least 8 chapters, orz
-- Chapter 7 is now more than 20k words. I will not make this a 9 chapter fanfic. ... unless...
-- This fic will be 10 chapters and that is the final number my friends.
-- I may be working on an AU? By Talos this can't be happening-!Series
- Part 1 of Altaïr and Malik's Chronicles