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Caitlyn reaches out a hand, runs a fingertip lightly against the metal of the armor. “I suppose you don’t have to wear it if you think it will… slow you down,” she says. She stares at the armor. Swallows thickly. “But it’ll help if… I don’t want you to wish you had it if-“
Her voice dies in a rasp. She swallows, tries to dislodge the lump in her throat. Doesn’t work.
Vi’s hand lands gently on her wrist, giving a squeeze. She looks up, and Vi offers a fragile smile.
She hefts the armor a smidge higher. Soft as morning sunlight, she whispers, “Gonna help me out, cupcake?”
Or, Caitlyn and Vi gear up for battle. They're a little scared.
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Late night shenanigans calls for morning hugs and comfort food.
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Kara has a bad night, but waking up to Lena in her kitchen makes it all better.
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- Part 1 of Snapshots
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Potstickers make everything better, right?
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They both have shitty days and everyone gets the hug they deserve.
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'But that's not your sister's heartbeat. You know what her heart sounds like when she's alive, and now you know what it sounds like when she dies.
You thought the sound of Krypton dying was the most haunting thing you would ever hear.
You were wrong.'Or
I watched the 2x19 promo way back when and I had feelings that just had to get out. (No one dies. Promise.)
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After the events of "Homecoming," and a couple weeks of pushing Kara away, Alex listens to a voicemail that shakes her to her core. Her words cut much deeper than she knew.
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rain in the shape of everything by anchors
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
10 Feb 2025
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“It still doesn’t feel real,” Caitlyn said as they walked. “That the worst is over, that we’re standing on the other side.”
A flock of starlings swept free of the cliffs, and they paused to watch them go. Caitlyn adjusted the shawl again, the same wind that kicked the surface of the water into peaks blowing the hair back from her face. Vi’s breath lodged against her ribs, like a hand over her heart.
“Maybe there is no other side,” Vi said. “Maybe it’s all one thing.”
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Caitlyn's got a house in the country, and Vi's got time.
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09 Mar 2025
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The Dirt and the Road by perniciousgranma
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
27 Dec 2024
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On the road, VI can’t stop looking at Caitlyn. Her thoughts are a roaring mix of affection, guilt, curiosity, hunger. When was the last time she felt like this? Has she ever?
What is confounding Vi the most is that Caitlyn still hasn’t asked for anything, nothing concrete. Nothing, anyway, that could give Vi any guidance on how to proceed.
What does one do, when they desire someone without any other kind of strings attached? Without the need to hide away, be quick not to get caught, be rough to not be seen as weak? Is she simply allowed to take and be taken? What if it breaks her? What if it breaks both of them?***
Caitlyn is out of options- the only chance she has of avenging her mother is by partnering with Vi, the sister of her mother's killer, convicted in her place ten years prior. Together, they set out through the country on a desperate search, with the Chembarons on their tail.
Caitlyn is struggling with her grief and her guilt, Vi has to learn how to live. The road will either save them, or swallow them whole.
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02 Jan 2025
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the electric charge of a change in the weather by anchors
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
23 Oct 2024
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A beat thuds from the stereo, so heavy it rattles the coins in the well of the passenger door. The crease deepens in Vi’s cheek until the smile breaks through, and when they’re back on the highway with the wind thundering through the open windows, sun on her skin and her hair cutting across her vision so that Vi comes to her in flashes of white teeth and black glasses, in arms shifting to the sixth gear, her voice full and loose as she sings, Caitlyn stops herself from closing her eyes around the moment because she can already see herself years from now running her thumb over this one like a worn photo from a wallet and she doesn’t want to be there yet, in the future where all of this is behind her — she wants to be here, now and in it, in the possibility that it could go on forever. Like asphalt, like sun.
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Oklahoma, 1996. Vi's a storm chaser, and Caitlyn's just along for the ride.
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22 Nov 2024
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the last flower by Mal_content
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
28 Sep 2023
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This is the story of how I died.
Don't worry, it's actually a very fun story, and the truth is it's not even mine. This is the story of necromancy - the rise and fall of an empire - and most importantly, of a girl. The greatest necromancer of her time, Harrowhark Nonagesimus. It's a long story (and a good one) and it starts, of all things, with the last flower of the kingdom.
[The long-awaited Locked Tomb Tangled AU - where last necromancer Harrow has the weight of a generation on her shoulders, and rogue thief Gideon Nav has the secrets of the empire on hers.]Bookmarked by kenzcraw
29 Oct 2024
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In The Wake of Shattered Stars by prettyaveragewhiteshark
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
17 Jan 2023
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Vi doesn’t mind the waiting. She knows all about waiting. The thing about automatons is that they’ll wait for as long as you want them to – hours, months, years. They won’t get tired, they won’t pass out because their knees lock, they won’t shut down or rust. Not until you tell them to, at least. Not unless they can’t help it.
She doesn’t mind the exams either, even if the engineers are more rough with her than necessary when conducting them. It’s uncomfortable; the pressure inside her ears always makes her feel like something is going to rupture right before it eases, but even that is less invasive than the shit she remembers. When she remembers it, anyway. If she remembers it.
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In the wake of a hundred year war, an automaton named Vi wakes from deep-state hibernation to find herself on an unfamiliar spacecraft. Humanity's last hope lies within the workings of her brain, but when her memories get disrupted, it's a race against time and her own consciousness to figure out the secrets that lie locked in her past, secrets that have the potential to save them all.
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