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The Gravity Between Two Hearts by maratheturtle
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
14 Jan 2026
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Vi hears a voice with a distinctly Piltovian accent calling after her, “Excuse me!” She turns around to find the blue-haired woman facing her again. When Vi quirks one eyebrow up, the woman continues, stepping a few feet closer to Vi as she does so. “Are you- are you the Goblin?” she asks.
That makes Vi laugh, “Gods, I haven’t heard that name in a few hundred years. Who’s asking?”
The woman smiles, holds her hand out, and says, “I’m Caitlyn, Piltover Grim Reaper’s Department precinct 516. I have a question for you.”
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Vi died almost 900 years ago, with her own sword buried in her chest, put there at the command of her own sister. But then she was dragged back to life by forces that she hardly understands. She is granted immortality that can only be ended by one person, her bride.
Caitlyn is a dutiful grim reaper. Her job is to guide souls to the afterlife, but when a mysterious command invokes the immortal warrior called the Goblin, Caitlyn must delve into the secrets of a world that she previously thought she understood. And she just might fall in love along the way.
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Vi holds the book up, “Since you don’t like this one, you, uh, got any recommendations for books you like more?”
Her seat neighbor’s smile returns then, her eyes brightening. “Yes, I, uh,” she pauses and bites her lip, her smile still breaking through as her blush deepens. She looks down at the space between their seats as she begins to speak, “I’ll give them to you in exchange for your number.”
The eye contact returns then and Vi feels her face grow red and hot again, it’s probably getting close to the shade of her own hair, but she’s smiling nonetheless. “You got anything to write on?”
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Caitlyn and Vi are recent college grads living in New York City in the late nineties, they meet by chance and quickly become enamored with each other. But as their relationship develops, cracks begin to show: neither of them are out to their families and they're both struggling with their identities and their hope that they will get the future that they always dreamed of. When these cracks begin to force them apart, they must face the reality that they may never get everything they wanted. And the question of whether their love is worth the sacrifice.
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“Vi?” she blurts. Her heartbeat only thumps harder as the panic sets because how—why was Vi here right now? It was almost like she’d—
She rakes her fingers through her hair, hoping it looks like she wasn’t up to anything but a quiet night on the couch and then before she can think any harder about it, she’s unlocking the deadbolt and then the chain and pulling the door open.
Vi leans cooly against the door jam, one arm resting above her head and the other holding a large, greasy bag of takeout. “Heya, Cupcake,” Vi greets with a wide smile.
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Or, hormones are high (i.e. Caitlyn just might let Vi make her Juno).Bookmarked by maratheturtle
09 Jan 2026
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kiss you like the sun by explosionshark
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
09 Nov 2025
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"There's so many more than last year," Caitlyn says absently.
"More what?" Vi asks, still patiently, indulgently still under her touch.
"Freckles," Caitlyn says, and shifts her grip to the nape of Vi's neck, urging her down so Caitlyn can kiss her face, dragging her lips softly, reverently over the new constellations of them blooming across Vi's face. They're faint, light brown, a beautifully chaotic spread stretching across her cheeks, over the slightly crooked bridge of her nose, curling up under her eyes.
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Caitlyn is determined to show Vi how much she loves every part of her.
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18 Nov 2025
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Hard-boiled detective Caitlyn is ready to close up shop, when she finds herself pulled into one last mystery by Vi. The handsome stranger came back to town in search of her long lost younger sister, who happens to be Caitlyn's archnemesis. Meanwhile, starting first grade in Bridge Elementary, Caitlyn's daughter and Vi's adopted kid become best friends, forcing the two single moms closer while the case drives them apart.
A story about a blended family that probably should have stayed in the blender a little longer.
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10 Nov 2025
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blue seas where once was mulberry fields by goldlinings
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
19 Oct 2024
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“Say it again,” Vi all but begs. Her fingers dig into Caitlyn’s wrist and hip where she holds her close like she’ll float away in the ripples the wind makes in the grass, like the tide, like she isn’t Caitlyn’s anchor. Like she isn’t the only thing keeping Caitlyn afloat.
“Qīn’ài de. Oh, qīn’ài de. My dearest.”
Vi kisses her under the sunshine, the first time she’s felt it in years, and Caitlyn kisses back. Wind rustles through the trees, birds are singing, Caitlyn’s mom is dead, and she kisses Vi in the backyard she grew up in like she’s wanted to from the moment those bars between them slid open and Inmate 516 had a name again, a future again.
“Again,” Vi breathes. Their noses brush.
Caitlyn says it into her mouth as if Vi swallowing will keep it in her forever. “Qīn’ài de.”
(Or, it’s not just language. There's knowing and then there's understanding.)
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19 Oct 2025
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It has been weeks since the war on Piltover and Caitlyn is at her wits end. Yes, she is wounded, yes she is bedridden, and yes, maybe she did almost die. But she isn't the only one who is hurting, and she is so tired of Vi acting like it.
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A collection of one shots following Caitlyn and Vi after the war, and Caitlyn teaching Vi that she doesn't always have to be a caregiver, in fact, she could use some of that care herself.
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06 Oct 2025