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  1. Public Bookmark 41

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    What happens when the purpose you live for is what makes others resent and hate you?

    For STAR-469, doing what she'd been made for was all she ever did. When that lands her into being decommissioned, she resolved to follow it through, for such was what STARs did. Toiling away in a scrap refinery, falling apart piece-by-piece, she worked for the Nation to the bitter end. After the local Protektors discover her, however, she finds her single-minded purpose may never have been so simple in the first place.

    Amidst the roiling tides of the intrigue around her, STAR-469 tries to march forward, to do what she'd been made for; to live the purpose she believed in so much. A journey she found company in, if the smaller KLBR unit wouldn't tear her apart by the end of it all. Perhaps that, too, was a purpose of its own making.

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    25 Oct 2025

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    Nobody is exactly sure where this new group of heroes came from. As far as the public was concerned, they had just appeared one day out of thin air. Most people immediately wrote them off. After all, a group of wannabe pros getting cheap hero licenses and trying to make it big isn't exactly an uncommon slight in the industry. They would probably crash and burn by the end of the week, most people said with a scoff.

    By the end of the week they already have made the national news four times now. Once for managing to build an entire agency within a week, once for taking down an A-Class pro known for trading blows with All Might, once for making the world record for lowest recorded fine for illegal quirk usage, and once for breaking the world record for youngest licensed pro hero to make the top 25 charts. Most people now insist that they always knew they were up and coming stars and they were rooting for them since the beginning.

    Most people are already talking about how they're already well on their way to replacing All Might as the new pillar of peace. Too bad nobody told any of them that they were supposed to be role models.

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    25 Aug 2025

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    "Let it tether and bring you down with me, or else swim against the current and struggle for your meaning.”

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    Subject Classification: F-01-08

    Risk Level: TETH

     

    Assigned Observation Employee: Central Command Team Agent Heathcliff

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    25 Aug 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 19

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    She's born in October in Mechanicsburg with the rain lashing down on the windows and the thunder roaring like an overactive orchestra pit in a cheap opera. The first and this far only child of Agatha 'Heterodyne, heir apparent, inheritor to a legacy of terror almost unmatched in Europa.

    She's born with red hair. Valois red.

    It stops Tarvek dead in the doorway when the doctor lets them in to see Agatha; this tiny helpless bundle with his bright red hair. It feels like a brand, an accusation.

    There's no denying that she's his, part of his family.'

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    In which Tarvek has a ten year panic attack about becoming a father and trying to be better than Wilhelm Sturmvoraus.

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    29 Jul 2025

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    Izuru would enter the program, but it was Hajime Hinata that would enter and play the killing game. At least, that was the plan. For once, Izuru isn't sure what to think when he wakes up sharing a body with his past self on the summer beach of the simulation. Not to mention, it becomes glaringly obvious that the memory wipe that they were both suppose to receive was botched.

    Izuru is determined to remain a bystander, but regardless of what he wants, the killing game will change.

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    12 Apr 2025