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"Fine, since you've been such a good true soul, opening the way for me, I suppose I can give you back something that you've lost."
Balthazar's hand flicks ever so slightly, almost as if as an afterthought on his way toward the nighstong, but with it comes a hideous wave of necrotic energy- almost like a ressurection and a murder all at once.
Mors drops instantly to his knees, a strange and choked sound leaving him.
It happens almost in slow-motion.
Astarion's immortal eyes catch ever scrap of sinew, ever arch of unnatural flesh and bone, ripping and dying, being born anew and turned wretched all at once.
It is the death of something holy.
It is the birth of something divine.
The spines, covered haphazardly by grafted flesh on his shoulderblades make sense now-
once, they'd been roots.
Now, necrotic and blackened, mostly bone and finely feathered by shards and daggers, they are the echoes of wings long since removed.Or,
a retelling of The Dark Urge Redemption story, told primarily by outside viewpoints.
(Especially Astarion.)Bookmarked by living_shadow
01 Nov 2023
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(let me be clear) every version of the story ends with you being slaughtered by voxofthevoid for tenderblender
Fandoms: 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime & Manga)
09 Oct 2025
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Yuuji’s grandfather is burning when the strangest man he’s ever met asks him to choose his hell.
“Will it be you?” Yuuji asks. “The one to kill me.”
There’s a brief pause before the response. “Probably. I wouldn’t entrust Sukuna’s vessel to anyone else, certainly not at full power.”
Something twinges in Yuuji’s chest at the assumption there. A duller clench follows—not quite guilt.
“No,” he says, finally looking up. “I mean now.”
Even with the blindfold—worth a sharp flare of confusion each time he looks at Gojou—Yuuji can tell Gojou’s surprised. He can see it twist into a frown too, and it’s somehow a kinder expression than all his smiles have been.
“Definitely then,” Gojou tells him. “I’m already here anyway. Just so we’re clear—you’re choosing to die now?”
When told to choose his hell, Itadori Yuuji picks the easier one—a clean death, then and there. He couldn’t have known that it was never really a choice.
Or: Gojou Satoru kidnaps a teenager, supposedly for his own good.
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- 118,638
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06 Oct 2023
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Ever since Satoru slipped from his life wrapped in a cloak of midnight and silence, Suguru has done nothing but yearn.
At first he tried to soothe it by calling non stop - fearing he had, inadvertently, made a mistake so abominable as to deserve capital punishment. Naïvely, Suguru believed he could still apologize, try to do better - try to fix what had been mishandled. Yet after countless tones giving way to an automatized message in a robotic, monotonous voice, cruel in its carelessness - the flickering flame of his hope slowly died out.
'The number you are trying to reach is not available right now.'
It hasn’t been in over a month.
Or, alternatively, Suguru reaps the consequences of is own (in)actions.
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- Part 8 of Midnight rendezvous
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- English
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- 38,953
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- 3/4
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17 Sep 2023
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the heart of a lion is such a fragile thing/
gods, hearts, and humanityor, a more prosaic description: a collection of character studies, a (more or less) cohesive exploration of what it means to have a heart and to love.
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08 Feb 2023
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Aether (and Lumine) are world eaters - immortal, shapeshifting, godlike beings.
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08 Feb 2023
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A series dedicated to revisiting my love for science and engineering. A love for learning for learning’s sake.
title from here
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08 Feb 2023
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chimera:
1 : an imaginary monster compounded of incongruous parts.
2 : an individual, organ, or part consisting of tissues of diverse genetic constitution.
3 : a thing which is hoped for but is illusory or impossible to achieve.Kaeya has made peace with his countryman, but has yet to reconcile Albedo's nature with the reminders of his origins. The uneasy truce between present and past is challenged when Albedo returns from Dragonspine a changed person, haunted by a heretic power. To save him, Kaeya will pay any price - even if it means confronting his inheritance.
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- Part 2 of Verglas & Fireflies
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- 129,538
- Chapters:
- 51/51
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01 Oct 2021
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On the border between Mondstadt and Liyue, he meets Xiao for the first time.
“When one is alone and lonely, the body gladly lingers in the wind or the rain, or splashes into the cold river, or pushes through the ice-crusted snow.
Anything that touches.” –Mary Oliver, Leaves and blossoms along the way: A poemSeries
- Part 1 of Seeds of Stories, Brought By The Wind
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- English
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- 146,247
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- 30/45
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13 Sep 2021
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Life Of Vile Endearment (Xiaoven) by star (Celestialstar3)
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
30 Apr 2023
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A deal is made between a spy, Agent Alatus, namely Xiao, and a serial killer, V.D., otherwise known as Venti Dei.
The deal was simple. As long as Xiao cooperates with Venti and finds the person that he's after, Xiao may finish his mission by taking Venti's life at the end of the deal.
It's very simple.
So what kind of wrong turns does this "very simple deal" take?
And when will they ever accept that their feelings for each other is more than a form of reluctant comradery and partnership?
A Xiaoven fanfic.
The second book of the L.O.V.E. (Genshin Impact) series.
Do note that Genshin Impact and its characters do not belong to me, and all credits goes to their owner, Mihoyo.
(In order to read this fic - as it is a sequel - please read the first book, "Love Of Violence in Embers"!)
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- Part 2 of L.O.V.E (Genshin Impact)
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- English
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- 83,349
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- 16/?
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06 Sep 2021
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the king's gambit by cxscas
Fandoms: 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime)
05 Jul 2021
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After realizing the power he holds over the most dangerous man in Tokyo, Fushiguro Megumi uses it to his advantage. But this newfound power and confidence come with new obstacles.
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- Part 2 of a dangerous game
- Language:
- English
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- 230,743
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- 20/20
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22 Jun 2021
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02 Jun 2021
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”The fuck are you doing here?”
I snap my head back up, and blink.
Uhh.
”Welcome to LOTUS. How can I help you—”
”Shut up, brat. Aren’t you a little too young to be here?”
Yeah, I already hate him.
Enter Yuuji, a run down brothel, a sickly grandpa, an eight-year-old Megumi, an 'almost whore' Nobara, a dumb Sukuna, and a cold Satoru Gojo. What more? Wai- what did you say? There's a case downtown? Sucks. But why the hell are there cops here all of a sudden?! Huh? They're investigating? Oh man.
**If you just want to get fucked with angst, this is for you.
~COMPLETE~
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- English
- Words:
- 158,060
- Chapters:
- 36/36
- Comments:
- 405
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31 May 2021
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14 May 2021
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When the demon’s lips first touched his young lord’s flesh and black tipped fingers slid along that young cheek, cool and smooth as marble, the demon mourned how dull his existence would become in the next moment. Yes, he would be sated, he would thrive on this soul for centuries, perhaps a millennia or more.
But...
Ciel Phantomhive’s existence would become mere footnote in the history of the world.
What a luminous little scribble he had been!
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- 51,387
- Chapters:
- 10/10
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10 Aug 2020
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Whether Ciel wanted to or not, he would always be Sebastian's little tiger.
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30 Jul 2020
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The Crystal Exarch is finally forced to take a break, and finds none other than the Warrior of Darkness waiting for him outside the Umbilicus with gifts of food and an order to take some time for himself. He decides on a stroll around the Crystarium Markets - how much trouble could they get into there, really?
My first foray into fluff, here to cheer you up on rainy or sad Exarch filled days :)
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10 Jun 2020
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“None of us were prepared for the spectacle that awaited us when we first stepped into the tower [...] and there, at its center, we found him.”
G’raha Tia wakes to a world devastated by the Eighth Umbral Calamity. The engineers of the Ironworks have a plan to right the wrongs committed centuries earlier - but can G’raha work past his own fear, doubt, and sorrow? Can he claim what is his by bloodright and see this plan through to completion?
Can he save his Warrior of Light?
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- English
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- 298,215
- Chapters:
- 84/84
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26 May 2020
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When was the last time that anyone thought of their wants? What happens when they realize them after it was almost too late?
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A different approach to when the Warrior of Darkness and Crystal Exarch return to the Crystarium after the battle with the Ascian. Emotions run high from several days of healing and only having themselves to sort them out.
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- Part 1 of Seeker to my Soul
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26 Apr 2020
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R'yhuven thinks his relationship with G'raha is going perfectly, but one obstacle still stands in their way: The Lives and Loves of the Warrior of Light - a set of biographies turned explicit romance novels about the Warrior of Light written after his death during the Eighth Umbral Calamity. Being the actual love of R'yhuven's life G'raha offers to write a final chapter for the series...and asks that one of R'yhuven's reflections help him.
The "help" will definitely not be the kind G'raha or R'yhuven is expecting.
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- Part 4 of Tomorrow and Tomorrow
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07 Apr 2020
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After the events of Shadowbringers, G'raha Tia is excited to rekindle the friendship you and him once had together, though fate seems to have other plans for him. When your prolonged presence around him sets off a heat well over a century past-due, he'll have to put those plans off until after his body is done with the feelings of yearning and lust that consume him.
When you learn of the man's problem however, you're far from wanting him to deal with it alone--so will this foreseen challenge break the fragments of your old friendship...
...or will it reforge them into something more?
- Language:
- English
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- 11,184
- Chapters:
- 3/4
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18 Mar 2020