20 Works by salixys
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playtime in exile by carthaginian_berries (salixys) for Defero2k6
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018)
30 May 2026
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"What'cha got there?"
"None of your business, old man," Leo snips with an unexpected vitriol, turning the print-side of the photograph away from Leonardo.
As if he cares. Leonardo puts his hands up and nobly resists the urge to roll his eyes. "Whatever you say. Hey, pack your plunder so we can cut. I've had a long day, and unlike Mikey, I ain't gonna leave you here all by yourself to chaw up my station."
Long day is an understatement.
or: sheriff leonardo just wants answers for the mysterious pink infestation taking over the fields of his town. his tiny, city-brat ninja counterpart would rather retain an image of blissful ignorance.
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looked out through a glassless window by carthaginian_berries (salixys)
Fandoms: Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018)
22 Mar 2026
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Here's how Leo sees it.
There are levels to innocence, or whatever, different ways of categorizing it — attribute them to different stages of life, maybe. And being locked in a prison dimension with a squishy pink alien bastard who has a very big grudge against you, with all the means and all the time in the universe to exact vengeance on you, means that inevitably: through the medium of spilled guts and the existential horror of eternity, you're going to lose some of that innocence. Have it clawed out, inch by inch of bloodied scales, mile by mile of empty black space.
(It's whatever, okay? Leo knew what he was doing when he threw himself in there, really, he did, he just… never really thought he'd have to reckon with its consequences in a tangible reality.)
or: for leo, it's a jupiter jim movie marathon that unravels him entirely.
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bull believer by carthaginian_berries (salixys)
Fandoms: The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series)
07 Aug 2025
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Death happens in an instant; people die and so do souls, and he knows that all too well.
(Jax didn't get so lucky for death to be an option. Instead, he's left to harbor these memories of another life for the rest of his sanity — for the rest of his time on this digital plane. He hopes that their story ends here.)
"God," Ragatha spits, "you're insufferable, did you know that?"
Jax smirks and it settles like the final dredges of the sun over golden fields, like the corpse of a bull slathered in blood. "Of course I know that," he scoffs mockingly. "I try my best to be."
Abruptly, he swings the gun towards his head.
or: jax and ragatha, locked in a room with a loaded gun.
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when the dead moon rises again by carthaginian_berries (salixys) for peredhelrond
Fandoms: The Brotherband Chronicles - John Flanagan
28 Feb 2025
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Stefan unceremoniously shoves Edvin out of the way, twists the flaking copper doorknob, and mock-bows with a flourish as the sound of laughter bursts forth from the rippling warmth of drunken bodies. "Ladies first," he drawls to Lydia.
Lydia makes a face. "I… don't think you can be speaking."
"You know, she's got a point, Stef!" Jesper crows. "Allow me to hold the door for you, Your Honored Majestical Princess of Effeminacy."
Edvin groans. He should have foreseen the unproductivity of this group before agreeing to embark with them on this journey.
or: four herons walk into a bar and have a terrible time — though, not entirely without graces.
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hummingbird, get what you want! by carthaginian_berries (salixys)
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
26 Feb 2025
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“It's only been a brief while since our socialization commenced and yet already we have been made apodictically cognizant of your personality, redolent as it is of a turd getting steamed in a sewer,” Denki declares, unable to stop his mouth from overflowing with unflattering words that perfectly describe Bakugou Katsuki, resident pretty potty-mouthed asshole.
“Huh?! What the hell kinda vocabulary is that?” the pretty potty-mouthed asshole demands, launching to his feet and lurching over the chair seat. “I’ll fucking kill you!”
Denki doesn't think he’s ever seen a more satisfying sight in his miserable life.
And he just knows that this interaction is going to be the perfect perpetrator to a glorious friendship.
or: how kaminari managed to, by way of mutual insanity, piss off bakugou enough to land a date.
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not to decry the simple life by carthaginian_berries (salixys)
Fandoms: Avatar: Legend of Korra
14 Mar 2024
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It's raining when he comes back on a Friday night, raindrops pelting the small overhang in slates. The sky glistens like diamonds against black velvet, and Mako doesn't know why he smells wet cardboard and flooded dumpsters. The cat is present as always, face buried in her paws as she stretches in the barrier between the outside world and Mako's living place.
Mako sighs. His body hurts for reasons he's not sure of, feels small and aching and too skinny for his bones despite being more financially stable than he's been his entire life.
"Come on," he tells the cat, opening the gate and widening the door further than he normally does.
or: loss is familiar, but the space for grief isn't.
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greys turned vibrant by carthaginian_berries (salixys)
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
10 Jul 2022
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At thirteen, the Air Nomads are to free up their minds and learn to fly — to meander the rolling grasses of the Earth Kingdom, the icy tundra of the Water Tribes, the fiery volcanoes of the Fire Nation.
This year, Aang spends his birthday with lightning dripping out his veins and dark hair growing over his arrows. Aang turns thirteen in the midst of a century-old war that is his duty to end, with a hollowed skull full of dead people and a tiredness aching in his heart that he can't feel.
The children on the big metal ship don't celebrate.
or: six birthdays for six too-old kids.
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swallow the summer sun by carthaginian_berries (salixys)
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
22 Apr 2022
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Momo is dressed in a soft pink button down and jean shorts cut mid-thigh, dark hair swept into a perfect high ponytail and capped with a dark green sunshade.
Kyouka is wearing her dad's high school band tanktop, sweaty armpits and newly purple-dyed hairtips sticking to the back of her neck, an ugly grey cap pulled over her bangs and white ankle socks turning brown in the relentless heatwaves of July. Kyouka suddenly feels very, very inadequate, and incompetent, and insecure. And definitely more sweaty than she already was.
Denki laughs at her. The jerk.
or: kyouka meets momo beneath the stretching summer sun, with four mallets in her hands and a heart beating at 208 bpm.
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- Part 1 of the sun sets late in the summertime
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high above the floodline by carthaginian_berries (salixys)
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
22 Feb 2022
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“Right, my bad, Emotionally Intelligent Device.”
“It’s I.E.D., not E.I.D., dumbass. Get on with it,” Katsuki snaps. “Why are you here?”
“… Can I turn off the lights?” asks Kaminari.
Katsuki blinks, a little surprised by the request, if not confused. “Do whatever the hell you want.”
or: when you’re young, sometimes all that you can truly do for a friend is listen.
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i fell for you the way you fell for life by carthaginian_berries (salixys)
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
28 Jan 2022
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Kaminari inhales, and breathes out gently as Shouto remains standing still, unable to move his limbs quite right. “Okay then. Where do you want to go, and who else is coming?”
“Me,” Shouto decides. “And you.”
Kaminari blinks. Blinks a few more times. “Are you sure?” he asks carefully, voice not too soft to feel like he’s cradling Shouto in blanket-swaddled words, because Shouto is not fragile and he doesn’t like being treated as such. “You don’t really want to be stuck in my exclusive company for extended periods of time.”
“Yes.”
or: todoroki shouto learning to love life, during a two-day roadtrip unofficially listed with the consideration of arson, trashy jokes, frozen guitars, sunsets, and kaminari denki.
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headcase (the color of boom) by salixys
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
10 Jan 2022
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People don’t really know this, and Denki doesn’t really make it a point to advertise it either, but he almost always feels absolutely, entirely, unequivocally insane.
Like, not in the sort of I think I’m going to snap and kill everyone in the room. Definitely not when he’s tucked in Sero’s hammock like a leaf-wrapped banana slug delicacy, staring at the ceiling and counting all the ways to turn the projected red sketches of the digital clock into all the various numbers and letters, but —
“I think,” Denki says eloquently, with the utmost sincerity, “that there might be something wrong with me.”
or: kaminari’s been going insane since the day he turned six, yet no one at yuuei ever seems to notice except himself.
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“Zuko,” Mai cuts in. “Zuko, Azula is going to die today.”
Silence.
And finally, Zuko does something: He laughs.
“Are you fucking kidding me?” he chokes out. “Of course she’s going to die on the same day as me. I just — can’t have a single damned thing to myself, can I?” What a sick, twisted joke of the universe. Zuko laughs and laughs and can’t get himself to stop laughing, until his chest hurts and he feels his ribs scraping ever so slightly against each other, and it’s so uncomfortable to be in his own skin.
Of course they’re going to die.
or: zuko and azula aren’t friends and never will be, because they both die at the end.
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“Where’s your brother?”
It’s the first sign of expression Iroh’s seen on her face — a flash skipping across impassive brown eyes, twined fingers twitching ever so slightly, before they go as still as the curtains in Lu Ten’s uncombed room.
“Did they not tell you? He’s dead,” Azula says.
or: azula is fourteen when she becomes an only child, leaving her in the unasked-for aftereffects of zuko’s calculated suicide.
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never heard a whisper of you by carthaginian_berries (salixys)
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
14 Jul 2021
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“Alright,” Sokka announces, rubbing his hands together. “First order of business: securing Aang.”
Katara whips her head around to stare at him in the dim lighting of the brig. “What!? Why would we do that?”
Sokka rolls his eyes. “In case he tries to kill us. Duh.”
“And how, exactly, are you sure that that’s on his schedule?” Zuko breaks in.
Sokka turns around to look the firebender in the eye. “Oh, I’m not,” he says amicably, with a nearly morbid cheeriness to his tone. “I’m just taking precautions. When you’ve been in enough fist fights with seal-otters in the past, you’ll know very well that you don’t-not tie up potentially dangerous creatures.”
or: the aftermath of aang's loss against ozai.
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- Part 2 of in the well (a fleeting glimpse)
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a crack in the glass (eye) by carthaginian_berries (salixys) for Electrons
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
21 Jun 2021
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Okay, so maybe Sokka’s noticed that Zuko’s left eye doesn’t really move that much.
That’s fine. It’s fine, because it’s damaged, and probably injured terribly by some incredibly unlucky accident, and it doesn’t even have an eyelid, so like — Sokka can work with this. Maybe it just doesn’t have any functioning nerves anymore. Sometimes, eyes just don’t move; it’s all perfectly normal, a regular day, just like Zuko strolling into the Western Air Temple to volunteer himself as Aang’s firebending teacher/prisoner/Not A Friend.
Walking in on said firebending teacher/prisoner/Not A Friend polishing an entire entirely-detached eyeball? Not so fine.
or: zuko has a glass eye. toph is fully ready to exploit the fact.
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seven hundred thirty-eight minutes by carthaginian_berries (salixys) for Fairy527
Fandoms: Infinity Train (Cartoon)
22 May 2021
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At least it isn't three a.m. this time, Ryan reflects glumly, reaching over to pat Min-Gi on the back as a particularly vicious noise emerges from the bowels of his stomach.
"There, there," Ryan tries. "You're, um. You're doing great, buddy."
There's a long moment of silence.
"Why did you have to bring me to a bar?" Min-Gi finally groans, hands still locked on the toilet's (nasty) rim and undeniably, solidly drunk.
"In my defense, I didn't take into consideration the fact that you might be the lightest lightweight I've ever met," Ryan retorts pettily.
or: min-gi gets some alcohol in his system, and ryan gets some bad ideas in his head.
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leave this all behind (empty shores) by carthaginian_berries (salixys)
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
18 Apr 2021
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“I know you’re a hallucination,” Zuko finally manages, “but is there any chance you could help me. Ummm.”
What’s he even supposed to say? ‘Help me die properly?’ Even fake-Uncle looks all worried, and Zuko’s oxygenless heart can’t take it if he’s already been disappointment enough for all sixteen years of his life.
And then he realizes.
Somehow, the spirits decided they weren’t going to throw their worst gambit at him this time. No; somehow, the spirits decided they were going to send him into the past even after he’s already died.
“Nevermind,” he says faintly. “I think I’m going to throw up.”
or: the lionturtle imparted that should bending another’s energy fail, the soul will be corrupted. traveling backwards in time might offer an opportunity of sorts.
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- Part 1 of in the well (a fleeting glimpse)
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Zuko has a collection of wanted posters.
Their gradual accumulation hadn’t started out as an egotistical hobby, and it still isn’t one — it just serves as a reflection of his adventures, mainly in the fray of mild treason and generally-questionable-activities. And as a record of which covers were still available for good use, and which ones were actually to be arrested on the spot, and which ones were decidedly accomplished according to the lengthy warrant detailing which law he bent (smashed with a chair leg) which time.
He’s not a criminal.
or: zuko and his relationship with bending the law.
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wreathed in the smoke of smoldering japonica by carthaginian_berries (salixys)
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
27 Dec 2020
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The crew is broke.
They don’t have enough money, or enough supplies, or enough rum in the galley, and Zuko is their captain. Uncle says they’ll figure something out at the next port, and that he should not worry about it because he’s “fourteen” and “too young” to do so.
(He has never been too young for this. If he were too young, then he wouldn’t be scarred and scared and scouring the scorched globe for a century-old legend, and his father would be telling him to come home.)
At the next port, he slips into town with another face plastered upon his own and two silver swords hefted across his back, and seeks gold.
or: zuko learns and relearns, trespasses earth kingdom territory, commits contrary treason through paid murder, and gains friends.
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- Part 2 of ebony knives snaked in washed out flame
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blades of nerium, shrouded in shadows by carthaginian_berries (salixys) for TheTurtleduckPond
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
19 Dec 2020
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Zuko is seven when his mother first introduces him to the concoction of deadly poisons.
(The palace sits on an intricately woven, fragile foundation of backstabbing snake-eyed councilmen; disloyal, mistreated servants who turn at a thumb of silver; cold-hearted royals wreathed in red and gold flames.
Knowing how to slip nerium oleander into a nobleman’s stash of richly sweet sake, or learning the most effective mixtures of crushed herbs that ends in a boneless corpse at the rise of dawn won’t hurt the children raised by war.)
She demonstrates more than once.
or: ursa teaches him poisons, piandao teaches him swords, ozai teaches him silence, and azulon takes advantage.
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- Part 1 of ebony knives snaked in washed out flame