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maybe the real chain attack was the friends we made along the way by novalotypo
Fandoms: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Video Game)
12 May 2023
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A failed prototype was a disappointment, obviously. It was a bigger disappointment still considering that all the others stepped off the roof with noble dreams of taking to the sky and ended up as a lot of hassle for elementary physics on the ground. When someone hallucinates they can fly, people tend to look away; when someone dreams they can fly, the lawn chairs come out. It was the same mess in the end, with the added disadvantage that you’d handily and publicly crush every dream adjacent to yours. And, er, other dreamers, if you were really ambitious.
But the Enemypedia was being filled, one comically large enemy at a time. In convoluted and moronic ways, that stupid book was slowly but surely driving the machine forward. It had spawned a lot of questionable ambitions, all of which ended up in the scrap heap, but the book was being filled.
In which the NPCs of Colony 9 chance upon the Enemypedia, and in attempting to do their part to fix the world come to realize a whole lot of unfortunate things about it.
And the railgun. There's also a railgun.
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So here you are: two heroes who woke up on the other side of the day and realized that heroism is a human creation and that the world spins on. So hey, Pixy. If the world doesn’t love you, then who does? There’s a man following in your shadow, ready to mark down your final words and bury you with dignity you aren’t sure you deserve. So hey, Pixy. How do you deserve it? How do you die with dignity? How do you give him your final words?
I think I love you. Can I hold your hand?
Don’t mess it up, Pixy. You’re still heroes today.
He breathes out a slow, steady breath. It’s cold, he says. Let’s go back.
You swallow your heart. You breathe, too. “Yeah,” you say. “Let’s go.”
In which we are already living in the end of the world. In which the apocalypse has come and we are irrevocably alive. So what now. What then.
So hey: will you survive the future, for as long as you can bear?
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an accidental interruption and a final day by novalotypo
Fandoms: Persona 5, Persona Series
02 Feb 2022
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“It is not a sin to want to take control of your life.”
“No, but it is to do so by taking control of someone else’s. Is that what you’re getting at?”
Personas embody rebellion. They manifest from the fucking clashing of tectonic plates. An earth-shattering catastrophe localized around an individual who has had enough. You don’t have to be good. You don’t even have to be special. You just have to root yourself to the ground and claw your heart out, bleeding and breathing and hungry.
You want to break me? Then come and try.
The words die in Goro’s throat. “Who knows,” he says, turning away.
In which there are a million ways to live and die, and the stagehands are arguing with each other. The curtain's halfway down but the show's not over. A boy peddles offstage silence, trying to sell his story while the theater empties out.
Or: Goro Akechi makes do with what he has, what he is, and what he will be.
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“Oh, you’re lovely,” Akira breathes. “Don’t worry. I’ll give you as many second chances as you desire.”
Goro tries to create distance out of nothing. His back presses against the shaking bones of the carriage. Akira’s fingertips never leave his skin. “I—I didn’t ask for—whatever you have to give me.”
“No, but you did plead,” Akira says softly. “You want your life back. I can grant you that. I’m no arbiter of life and death, space and time, but regret is a potent thing.” A cold finger travels down Goro’s neck, coming to a rest between his collarbones. Akira’s smile is gentle but distant, an astronomer enraptured with the light of a galaxy long dead. “One more chance. Just one. And afterward, if you tell me just one more, it’ll be yours.”
Eighteen years and eight months, and Goro is still a fool.
In which there are a million ways to live and die, and Goro Akechi has a thousand second chances.
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small town, big flame by novalotypo
Fandoms: Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Anime & Manga), Yu-Gi-Oh! - All Media Types
19 Nov 2020
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Duel Monsters was one of those games: the kind you’d definitely heard of somewhere, whether it be on the news or in ads or in an article about horrible incidents involving lots of collateral damage.
If you were lucky, you’d have Yugi’s phone number on hand and could avoid troublesome explosions altogether. Not because he had a particularly good track record when it came to not destroying the city, but because he was friendly and if worst came to worst it was still easier to duck under a Black Burning than a Blue Stream of Destruction.
This was Johanna’s current dilemma. One could even call it a conundrum.
In which an exorcist, a chair-wielding accountant, and the King of Games walk into a haunted town.
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sonata for ozymandias and ten thousand monoliths by novalotypo
Fandom Persona 5, Persona Series
02 Feb 2022
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a gunshot, like poetry, gives shape to the world. there was no murder—just sunstroke. like a crime, it was majestically nonchallant.
did you bring sunscreen?
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midoriya izuku is not (not) a demon slayer by novalotypo
Fandom 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia, 鬼滅の刃 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Anime), 鬼滅の刃 | Kimetsu no Yaiba (Manga)
06 Nov 2019
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Midoriya Izuku is not, in fact, a demon slayer.
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for it is never forgotten by novalotypo
Fandom The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
24 May 2018
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"Hey, wait," says Gregor, the odd pieces of the morning clicking together slowly. He turns to Ryōshū. "What did you mean, 'obviously'?" She levels him a stare and takes another drag of her cigarette. "Did you kill Hong Lu?"
Gregor feels stupid the instant he says it. Of course she didn't do that. Even though Ishmael had put the idea in his head, she hadn't been serious. Gregor's overreacting and making connections that aren't there.
Ryōshū shrugs. "He asked."
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05 May 2026
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A less fortunate version of Heathcliff tries to make something of himself for Catherine.
The Full Stop Office seems like just the sort of place to start to make that life. A place that will take him if no one else will, and a boss that’s nothing if not the smiling sort. He’ll take what he can get until he’s the man Catherine needs, but-
Damn him, if his feelings don’t get in the way first.
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05 May 2026
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sternum a sternum by fourever_sk8r
Fandoms: Iron Lung (2026), Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
05 May 2026
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“Convict,” said the woman with the bone leg, her voice a dusky rattle. “You’ve been brought here to accompany a necromantic adept on a scientific expedition as his protector, in exchange for the pardon of your sentence.”
“You’ll kind of be like my cavalier,” said the gorgeous man jovially.
“He is not a cavalier,” corrected the woman. “Not even close.”aka: the locked tomb bloodymary au that (literally!) came to me in a dream. Simon is a former prisoner of the Ninth house prison tasked with protecting necromancer Ryland Grace and his best friend/fossil bone construct on a dangerous mission to a planet full of mysterious necromancy. fun stuff ensues.
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05 May 2026
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"Keep her busy!" Heathcliff shouts, steadying himself and hoisting his rifle up to a firing position.
"<No, don't shoot!>" shouts the clock-headed individual. Hong Lu risks looking away from the disoriented monster to throw a quick glance in Heathcliff's direction, and he finds his subordinate visibly hesitating—expression conflicted, fingers frozen in the process of reloading his rifle. Whatever power of compulsion is in play here, it's affecting them both.
But like hell is Hong Lu going to stand around and let that thing attack Heathcliff again.
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05 May 2026
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After everything is said and done, Hong Lu chews on pears, chews on Heathcliff's words, and chews on different ways to change.
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05 May 2026