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They say she’s been a pirate since the very day she was born, brought up on her father’s thievery and lies. They say she is ruthless and cunning and cruel, that poison runs through her veins instead of blood. They say the sails of her ship turned black the night after her father hung from the gallows, stained with ash from the town she set aflame.
Those who speak of her rarely use her name, as if uttering it might call her like a siren’s wicked song. But her name need not be spoken for those to know of whom they refer to. The traitor to the throne, captain of the Silver Sword and daughter of one of the most infamous pirates to have ever sailed a ship, the dread pirate Franziska von Karma.
But this story does not begin with her.or, how the pirate captain Franziska von Karma and the spirit medium Maya Fey cross paths in a sapphic pirate romance about found family, magic and the sea
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creatures in heaven by kbots
Fandoms: 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga)
07 Jul 2026
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Yuuji swallows. He rubs the back of his neck like the embarrassment is finally catching up with him, and the bastard has the audacity to smile, then, all awkward laughs and averting eyes and Megumi might strangle him. He’ll have to do it himself; he knows the dogs wouldn’t listen if he asked them to go for his jugular, not the dogs or Nue or any shikigami he could summon because they’re all traitors that listen too close to his own goddamned fucking heart.
“I-“ Yuuji starts again, and clears his throat. Megumi feels his pulse hammering under his skin, his blood a live wire. “It’s just…I’ve never kissed anyone before, is all. And I know it’s kind of stupid but if I ever get the chance to before…well, you know. I want to be good at it in case it ever happens. So I thought…I thought you could show me how.”
in which itadori yuuji asks fushiguro megumi for a favor
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He knows his opinion on that stupid jacket isn’t why Apollo is staring at him. He knows. He thinks what everyone else does about Wocky - that he’s a violent, aggressive kid with no potential to do anything actually important in the world, ‘cause all he’s really good at is fighting and letting people down and disappointing his parents. And making muffins, he guesses. He’s not so bad at that.
in which wocky kitaki gets in a fight two years after going clean and realizes he can't let go of his past
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- Part 10 of the verawocky chronicles
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the haunted law student's guide to wagering with the dead by kbots
Fandoms: 逆転裁判 | Gyakuten Saiban | Ace Attorney
31 Oct 2025
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Apollo considers. Yeah, it’s a stupid idea. Like, really stupid - not because it’s dangerous or anything, but because a bet between friends is childish and dumb. But Wocky has a point in that it might be the nudge he needs. And it’s undeniable that Wocky needs less of a nudge and more of a shove off the cliff - the guy’s seriously been living with a girl he’s had a crush on for one hundred years and, as far as Apollo knows, hasn’t done a single thing about it. At least Apollo’s not that bad; he’s only been pining for two months.
He groans, loudly. “Ugh, okay, fine. Let’s do it.”
in which apollo justice is still a tired college student with a hot roommate, but now the ghost haunting him wants to place bets on who can ask out their crush first
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- Part 2 of the haunting of apollo justice
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Vera slips on her boots and picks her keys up from the bowl on the table. Her travel bag with art supplies is where she always leaves it - the hook right by the door. “I’m leaving now.”
“Sounds good, Ver. See you soon, love you.”
Vera freezes in the doorway, her hand halfway to her art bag. Wocky sucks in a sharp breath on the other side of the phone.
And then, there is a pause.
It’s a long, loud, stretched-out pause, the kind of pause where it feels like time has stopped entirely and Vera swears when she looks wide-eyed back at the clock behind her the minute hand has ceased ticking.
Wocky is dead silent. So quiet Vera checks to see if he’d hung up on her, but no, the call time is still steadily climbing upwards.
“…What did you just say?” Vera asks softly, worried she misheard.in which wocky kitaki accidentally tells vera misham he loves her, and has to face what that might mean
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- Part 9 of the verawocky chronicles
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“Hey, you know how band-aids were invented?” Reki asks, smoothing the bandage down and Langa wonders if he can feel how flushed and hot his face is, if he knows.
Langa shakes his head.
“Some old dude made ‘em for his wife,” Reki continues “Guess she was super clumsy in the kitchen - like you - so she cut herself a bunch.”
“I’m not clumsy,” Langa says petulantly.
Reki levels him with a look, then. “Yeah? Then what’re we calling that time you tripped over the curb and ran face-first into a telephone pole? Interpretive dance?”
Langa frowns. He’d tripped over that curb because Reki was talking about a new idea for a deck, something about painting the surface and then cutting designs into the grip tape so you could see the colors shine through and Langa was focused on the way Reki’s scratched and bandaged hands were flitting about as he spoke, alive like the butterflies surging in Langa’s stomach and he hadn’t seen the curb until it was too late because his eyes were too full of Reki to notice anything else.
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Hiei watches him for a moment, studying the slow, methodical way Kurama works at the orange. “You pick at it like it’s going to bite you,” he says dryly, sounding thoroughly unimpressed. Kurama doesn’t have to look up to know what expression is on his face. “The big oaf might actually form his first thought before you finish peeling that orange.”
Kurama makes a face at the fruit in his hands. “I don’t enjoy getting the peel under my fingernails,” he says lightly.
in which the orange peel theory is put to the test
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When she surfaces, groggy and yawning, she’ll wander through the house in her Steel Samurai slippers until she finds Franziska (who is often trying her hardest to look as if she wasn’t doing paperwork over the weekend). She’ll kiss her and say good morning and Franziska will say good morning back even though it’s typically past what one might consider morning, but she can forgive the temporal inaccuracy if it means Maya will smile and laugh that soft, breathless laugh of hers against her mouth.
So, on Sunday mornings, Franziska wakes. She rises. She extracts herself from Maya’s grasp, brushing her messy bangs aside so she can press a kiss to her forehead, the two of them protected still from the world outside, wrapped in soft shadow and the light of dawn as stars wink out and pearlescent dew forms on the tips of bowing leaves.
(And if she lingers there for a moment, tracing Maya’s lashes where they rest against the upper curve of her cheekbone, if she stays to watch the way Maya scrunches her nose while she’s dreaming, well, that’s her business.)
in which franziska von karma and maya fey are in love
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wocky kitaki's proposal survival guide (second edition) by kbots
Fandoms: 逆転裁判 | Gyakuten Saiban | Ace Attorney
03 Dec 2024
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“Okay, so,” Wocky says, running a hand through his hair, “if you were gonna, y’know, hypothetical-like propose to a girl - your girl, specifically - and you’re mad in love with her and to be honest that kind of freaks you out ‘cause the last girl you ran with tried to kill you, well, not directly, but kind of directly ‘cause there was definitely intent to die there which makes you kinda jumpy over tryin’ it again round two style, like…how would you go about doin’ that?” He pauses. “Uh. I’m askin’ for a friend.”
Trucy Wright blinks at him. She’s holding a chocolate zucchini muffin. “Um. I just asked for a bag.”
in which wocky kitaki is absolutely not, under any circumstances whatsoever, thinking about proposing to his girlfriend. he's not, trucy, SHUT UP
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- Part 8 of the verawocky chronicles
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The seconds tick by. Tick. Tick. Tick. There is silence, and for one great relief of a moment, Apollo thinks he’s in the clear. But then, a sensation rises like dry ice on bare skin, washing over his whole body like he’s been plunged into arctic waters. It’s so cold it burns, radiating from his cheek where the ghost is currently prodding him in the face with one incorporeal finger. The ghost’s voice rings loud in his ear. “Oi, Justice, are you dead or what? Wake the fuck up.”
in which apollo justice is a very tired college student that does not have the energy to put up with the ghosts haunting his house
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- Part 1 of the haunting of apollo justice
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Something glints at him from the sand between his feet, then. It catches his eye and he squints into the water, trying to get a good look at it. Apollo digs into the sand for it, and his fingers brush across something hard. At first he thinks it’s a rock, worn smooth over time by the waves, or maybe a piece of sea glass? He and Trucy used to collect sea glass when they were younger; they had a small jar of glass pieces on the windowsill and it acted like a suncatcher, casting a mosaic of fractured light and colors across the living room floor. But when he pulls it out of the water, he blinks in surprise.
It’s a scale. Teardrop shaped and perfectly smooth on either side, the edges just barely sharp. It’s the size of the pad of his thumb. He frowns at it.
What could be so big as to drop scales this size?
And then, the water surges.in which glassblower Apollo Justice has an unlikely encounter while on an errand for his boss
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The Boat Was Rocking by HopeStoryteller, kbots
Fandoms: 逆転裁判 | Gyakuten Saiban | Ace Attorney
06 May 2024
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In which Yanni Yogi's shot does not miss.
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purple scrunchie, yellow umbrella by kbots
Fandoms: 逆転裁判 | Gyakuten Saiban | Ace Attorney
15 Feb 2024
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The shadow of a sand tiger falls over them, and Wocky looks up with his big brown eyes as the shark passes leisurely overhead. He looks so pretty in the aquarium’s soft light, Vera thinks, as he stares up at those sharks swimming by, the sharks and the great massive fish and rays with their whiplike tails. Vera has the sudden urge to paint this scene, Wocky staring up at the sharks with his hands against the glass and his hair tied back in that purple scrunchie of his, the ripples in the water reflected on his face like they’re both submerged in water together. When he catches her looking, he smiles, and it’s that big crooked smile of his that Vera likes so much but it’s slightly sheepish too, his cheeks tinged pink and she feels her heart like a bird in her chest.
in which Wocky Kitaki and Vera Misham go on a date
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- Part 7 of the verawocky chronicles
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Wocky is silent for a moment. So silent, in fact, that Plum thought he left the room. “Yeah, s’pose so, I just…” he mutters, and there’s something in his voice that snags in Plum’s ears, a nervous little waver that causes her to lift her head from the books, pen stilling in her hand. “I just wanted your help. Specifically.”
Plum turns in her chair, then, to face her son standing there in the doorway stubbornly looking everywhere but at her, his hands shoved under his armpits and flour drowning the freckles at the bridge of his nose but not enough to hide the flush staining his cheeks.
Oh, Plum thinks, then. Because this isn’t about bread at all.in which wocky kitaki has something kind of important to tell his mother
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- Part 6 of the verawocky chronicles
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i'll take care of you (if you want me to) by kbots
Fandoms: 逆転裁判 | Gyakuten Saiban | Ace Attorney
11 Dec 2023
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He’s drowning in an oversized, pastel blue sweatshirt, the cuffs draping over his knuckles. He isn’t wearing any of his usual rings, and Vera finds it odd to see his hands looking so bare, as if their absence alone is a sign that he’s sick. He has on a pair of those terrible zebra print pajama pants, folded up at the ankles because they’re just a little too long for him, and a single sock. His hair is pulled back off his forehead with a sparkly pink headband, though one little auburn curl has escaped to bounce at his pale, sweaty skin. He squints up at Vera, confused; he has faint shadows under his bleary eyes, and when he speaks, his voice is rough and scratchy, like she roused him from sleep after all.
“Vera?” He asks, and he says her name slowly, brows knitted together. It’s understandable: she’s never been to his apartment before, and he probably wasn’t expecting to see her today at all.
So Vera wordlessly holds up the Tupperware of soup in lieu of explanation, and hopes that's enough.In which Wocky Kitaki is sick, and Vera Misham is roped in to bringing him soup by a certain conniving mother
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- Part 5 of the verawocky chronicles
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the crashing and burning of sebastian debeste by kbots
Fandoms: 逆転裁判 | Gyakuten Saiban | Ace Attorney
04 Dec 2023
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He’s not sure why he remembers that now, ten years later, an instance of cruelty so small in the face of what has been unearthed in this courtroom. But as the minutes ticked by and Mr. Edgeworth and his father attacked each other with harsh words on razored tongues, all Sebastian could think of was all these little instances. Tiny things like five letter words, false smiles and tears, things like fire and laughter and lies. So insignificant on their own, but fitting into a bigger puzzle that Sebastian had never acknowledged, never noticed, because he was foolish enough to believe that his father is a good person who loves him.
And it turns out that here in this courtroom Sebastian Debeste has been proven an idiot, once again.in which Sebastian Debeste cannot prove his father guilty of the things he has done.
written for Mea Culpa: An Ace Attorney Bad Ending Zine
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after the show when the stage goes dark by kbots
Fandoms: 逆転裁判 | Gyakuten Saiban | Ace Attorney
04 Dec 2023
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You stalled. Of course you stalled. The idea of sitting down and sorting through your brother’s life, packing what remains of him into boxes to be tucked away in your attic like forgotten holiday decorations is not one that appeals to you. But you don’t have a choice, do you, because it’s his house and his things and he’s still your brother; that hasn’t changed. You have to do this, even if it’s unpleasant.
But you’re no stranger to unpleasant things, are you, Klavier?in which Klavier Gavin goes through his brother's things after it's all over.
written for Where I Can Follow: An Ace Attorney Siblings Zine
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“No. You listen to me, Sebastian Debeste,” Kay says, poking her finger at his chest. “We aren’t thinking like that. And you know why just as well as I do. Today is your day, and you worked hard for it. You followed your own path. You busted your ass studying to retake the bar. You put all the work in, all on your own. This whole thing,” she says, gesturing to him, “is all you, you got that? You practically memorized Mr. Edgeworth’s law books. You made all those notecards and binders to study with. You even researched all those old cases specifically so you could specialize in child abuse rather than be a general lawyer. That was you, Seb. Not anyone else. You did that.”
Sebastian bites at his lower lip, shoving his hands into his armpits. He’s not going to cry. He’s not. He’s not. He told himself that he wasn’t going to cry today, but then Kay puts her hand on his arm and looks into his eyes and says in that rare, serious tone of voice of hers that always makes her words sound so sincere: “You deserve this, Sebastian,” and he bursts into tears.in which Sebastian Debeste is sworn in as a prosecutor, for real this time
for AA Siblings Week 23: Family Album
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- Part 7 of kbots' AA Siblings Week 2023
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Kay hesitates. The tidal wave of her regrets flood up and batter at the dam of her teeth, everything she wants to say dancing there on the very tip of her tongue. But it’s all too hard to get out, to force free, these small words too complex and heavy to put into the lengthy space between them. Her pride like a dragon, difficult to tame and reluctant to admit that she crossed a line.
“Do you want a cup of tea?” Kay says instead, because she’s never been good at saying I’m sorry, not even when she was young.
Sebastian looks down at his hands resting on the kitchen table, his pinky tracing the grain of old wood. He looks back up at her, and when he speaks his voice is careful and quiet. “Okay.”in which Kay Faraday and Sebastian Debeste had a fight, and go through the complicated process of making up over tea
for AA Siblings Week 23: Regrets
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- Part 6 of kbots' AA Siblings Week 2023
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“Well, we can share,” Sebastian says, peering at the flavors. “Half for you, half for me.”
“Yeah? You’d be down to split a PopTart?”
“Only if you share your Starbursts.”
Kay frowns. “…How did you..?”
Sebastian shrugs, a little smile flitting across his lips. “You always have Starbursts when we fly,” he says, the tiniest hint of smugness in his voice. “So…we can get the brown sugar PopTarts if you let me have the pink Starbursts for the return flight home.”in which Kay Faraday and Sebastian Debeste obtain snacks at the airport before the long flight back to Europe
for AA Siblings Week 2023: Shared Meals (except it's snacks)
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- Part 5 of kbots' AA Siblings Week 2023