17 Works by offtherailss
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"Why's everyone hysterical? Shiv... like? Then Kendall?" He mimics an overly concerned expression. "Gerri... have you and Kendall merged into the same fucking person? Became like... this... omnipresent entity whose sole purpose tonight is to be my fucking mommy?"
"You're bleeding". Gerri says, vaguely gesturing towards his face.
Roman's unwell after being hit by Logan; somehow he ends up in Gerri's hotel room.
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Logan was unpredictable and indecipherable. You'd think you had an upper hand and then it was a reverse slap free-for-all rain of fuck you. You thought you had it. Well, you left no more than a paper-cut.
This is sort of a character study of Roman Roy?
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With a hand over her arm - firmly, but gently - he led her out of the hall. She followed him angrily, walking past the inquisitive looks with the air of an empress.
Plutarch's old words echoed through Haymitch's brain. "What's stopping you?"
A lot of old words were echoing in Effie's, too. From men she never loved, from women who didn't understand love, from a sister she wanted to protect, from the face in the mirror she often despised.
WARNING: Sunrise on the Reaping spoilers.
This was inspired by the new light Sunrise on the Reaping has shed on Haymitch and Effie's relationship, but it's not entirely canon compliant.Series
- Part 3 of Unsaid
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What is going through your mind? by offtherailss
Fandoms: Hunger Games Series - All Media Types
07 May 2025
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After the rescue mission, 13's alarms were firing everyday. Haymitch was needed, everywhere, all the time, Plutarch was there too, and Beetee, and President Coin and those fucking unending meetings and security procedures and strategies and the plan and, over it all, alarms over alarms over alarms.
So he couldn't see her, not at all. He wondered what she thought of that.
But when he got to her room, he wondered if she thought of him at all.
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All the things we say we aren't by offtherailss
Fandoms: Hunger Games Series - All Media Types
02 May 2025
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In the mirror, both their faces reflected sternly back at them, posing the questions neither wished to answer. Dozens of refracted reflections inside countless mirrors infinitely reaching towards the nucleus of here, now and the future. The kernels of the Hunger Games, of class, repression, war, breakfast, propriety, distance and distance, long reaching through space.
She observed his hands, cold under the running water.
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- Part 2 of Unsaid
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"Staring at you is like prayer."
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"your eyes were filled with tears" by offtherailss
Fandoms: What We Do in the Shadows (TV)
12 Dec 2024
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In the fancy room, Guillermo was laying unconscious on the couch, legs up on top of a pillow and a glass of water by the table.
He looked peacefully asleep, were it not for the slight furrow of his brow which gave his whole countenance an expression of thoughtfulnes, of distress; and for his hands, half-stained with faint traces of blood.
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It took but the fleet of a moment, that infamous eye roll from Nandor, so briefly stolen but bearing a hint of contempt, for Guillermo to snap.
In a heat of a second he had the vampire pinned against the coffin at the center of the room, with a loud hit followed by a groan.
"Again... Guillermo!?"
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Most of their fights never amounted to any real danger, consisting of nothing more than half-cut hurtful insults that didn't have the courage to materialize into venom, either because that would make them untrue or because on the other end of the wheel was the other, real face of anger:
Love.
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After a company dinner, Guillermo drunkenly ends up at the Vampire Residence again, even though he doesn’t live there anymore.
Set months after Guillermo and Nandor’s confrontation.
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the weight and meaning of intentions by offtherailss
Fandoms: What We Do in the Shadows (TV)
07 Nov 2024
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If Guillermo and Nandor’s confrontation wasn’t cut so short and the conversation, somehow, somewhere, however you imagine it, led to the point from where this work picks up.
Canon compliant (or almost?).
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But even brilliance can break. She had become colder, detached, over the years. Yet she’d eventually always return from whatever dark hell the price she had to pay for impersonating an egotistical psycho had thrown her into.
Still, a change had been set in motion since the Tail’s latest revolt. No longer finding it enough to numb parts of herself to deal with it all, she seemed to be trying to forget them.
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She was pretending to read a magazine, but her eyes were unfocused, staring into nothing, lost in considerations. He moved his hand again. Almost finished his drink. A light from a small lamp in a table was flickering. How odd, for the Capitol. Unbecoming, really. Wasn’t everything supposed to be working perfectly, especially now?
She put down the magazine, turned her eyes to him.
“Haymitch, can I confess something to you?”
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- Part 1 of Unsaid
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If the apocalypse is a white, perfect wrapping paper stretched over the world, Snowpiercer is a steel razor, cutting through it, much too sharp to be anything but deadly if not handled with care.
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The feelings get in your head.
“You know,” She turned around in the bed, now facing him. He took a deep breath. “I’m turning into something that I never stood for. And that I still don’t.”
“Mel, you’re not turning into anything.”
Set right on the aftermath of the Year 3 rebellion, this is a dive into Melanie’s troubled psyche in the face of yet more choices she never thought she’d find herself making.
And an exploration of her relationship with Wilford and Bennett.
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The train hasn’t even completed its third Revolution when First Class is very unpleasantly reminded that they live in a world where bugs still exist.
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A party on Snowpiercer forces Melanie to reflect on the cruel class system she’s responsible for and sends her on a trip down memory lane to one of the worst, and also the best, memories from before the Freeze.
This sort of explores Melanie’s guilt complex, some of its nuances, as well as her relationship with Ben, Wilford and, ultimately, herself.
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Reality was a long scream. An infinite, undying scream. Stretching as far as conscience could go.
Or: an alternate version of what happened on episode 5 of season 4, and after.