12 Works by sleuthy
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The platform is stable now, Vi knows. Before, it had begun to peel from the central column; there had been more weight to cause the dangerous shift.
Now, it’s just her.
In the aftermath of the Battle of the Arcane, Vi grieves as she struggles with belonging in Zaun after what people now call the Greying. Caitlyn has to grapple with the weight of her mistakes in order to forge a path forward. Ekko has been clinging to the past as he finds himself torn between his righteous anger and forgiving his oldest friend. Sevika wishes to make Zaun a better place to live in, but her past alliances cause her to believe she's better suited as a grunt than as a leader.
The four of them find themselves begrudgingly entangled as they attempt to change Piltover and Zaun for the better.
(or, a post-canon fic that explores how the remainder of the cast would try to fix the systems at play throughout arcane.)
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- Part 2 of sanctuary
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Then, she approaches the punching bag. It’s seen some damage but it’s nothing like the sand bags she’d wail on as a kid or the dingy thing she’d scrounged up in her pitfighter days. It’s in House Kiramman’s colors, blue and gold, with the family crest printed on the shiny leather.
Vi touches the surface in astonishment.
She’s never seen boxing equipment so…neat. So well-kept.
“There you are,” Cait’s voice pipes from the hallway, surprised and still groggy. Her hair is still a mess, and she’s wearing her robe over her slip. “I’ve been looking for you.”
“Whose was this?” Vi blurts. “I – I didn’t know this was here.”
“Oh,” Caitlyn says, “it was my mother’s.”
Vi finds a room in Kiramman manor that she's never seen before.
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while i'm up here (higher than god) by sleuthy
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
11 Feb 2025
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It can’t be the way it was, Vi thinks bitterly. The way she thought it could be. What could have been if she’d kissed her then, in her bed, when they both knew there was something between them? If she’d answered her pleas under the rain and returned with her? If they’d stayed a little longer in that tunnel where they first kissed, lingered in one another’s warmth for a moment, and realized there was too much to lose over a foolhardy cause? The thought burns in her mind – a future with Caitlyn, imagined a million times in a million different ways, now impossible.
The footsteps slow, and suddenly, she feels Caitlyn there, close by.
Here she is, to tell Vi what she needs to hear, what she knows is true. How daft she is for putting her hope in anything, anyone, after all that’s happened; for thinking she could change anything or have anything; for thinking she’s worth even the smallest crumb. It was Caitlyn who taught her that change is possible and that she might actually be worth something, but now, now –
“You really think I needed all the guards at the Hexgates?”
Warmth.
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or, an extension of the sex scene through vi's eyes.
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- Part 1 of sanctuary
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new perspective by sleuthy
Fandoms: 機動戦士ガンダム 水星の魔女 | Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury (Anime)
31 Oct 2024
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“Why don’t you go talk to her?” Aliyah trills, leaning in with her face cupped in both hands. The thought makes Suletta’s face pale and her stomach flip.
“You know why,” Martin says cautiously. “She’s Miorine Rembran, and we’re, uh…”
“Losers,” Nuno supplies around a mouthful of mac n’ cheese.
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Suletta Samaya has been home-schooled and sheltered all her life by her mother and older sister, and just wants a chance to be a regular teenager in a proper high school. Her chances drop astronomically when Miorine Rembran crashes into her life on her first day.
(or, a teen romcom au)
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Finally, Ellie opens her eyes and lifts her head from her father’s fur, steely-eyed. His face is scarred, a new one carved across the side of his head, and where his left leg would be past knee, there’s a vacancy, a week old now but still fresh.
But even still he aims his concern at her.
She faces Tommy, stern.
“I’ll do it.”
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After being barred from fighting in a war between her clan and the neighboring clan, one that puts Joel out of commission, Ellie pursues an honor she thinks she's lost by agreeing to an seemingly prophesized arranged marriage to end the war. Fully expecting the warrior they promise to her to be a man she could never love, she braces herself for a life of dissatisfaction.
However, the person who shows up at the altar isn't who anyone expects.
(or, Ellie and Dina in an medieval-esque, but not really, arranged marriage, and Ellie making a mess of things.)
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crazy little thing called love by miscsleuth (sleuthy)
Fandoms: Trolls (DreamWorks Movies)
11 Dec 2023
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If she’s being honest--like really honest--with herself, it’d all started with Poppy. She was the one who had the guts to stand up for everyone, taken what she’d learned, and unite the Trolls successfully. She’d prevailed where Barb had fallen, and rightfully so.
She’d been so quick to prove Barb wrong in her comparison of the two of them and that’s probably what Barb likes most about her.
Though...there’s certainly a lot to like about Poppy.
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Barb returns at last from a two-year long conquest to right her wrongs against Trollkind to attend the first ever Unification Festival in Pop Village. When she does, she can't seem to shake her growing feelings toward the Queen of Pop.
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warm night, can't sleep (too hurt, too weak) by hellbent (sleuthy)
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games)
18 Nov 2023
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On Monday morning, the first thing Dina does when she wakes up is check her phone.
There are two long texts from Jesse’s mom from last night, giving her review of the book she’d gifted her for her last birthday; one from Jesse from an hour ago, asking about her hours on Thursday; a missed call from Mel at some ungodly hour, probably to drunkenly gab about her deadbeat boyfriend; but still nothing from any unknown number.
Nothing from Ellie.
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Ellie doesn't text.
(or, Dina pines. Hard.)
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“You know…” says the woman lightly, swirling her drink, “usually when someone buys you a drink, the typical response is ‘thank you.’” She keeps her eyes off of Ellie, a half-smile brewing on perfect lips. A tease. Bait.
“Oh,” Ellie says intelligently, before clearing their throat, “Right, uh. Th-Thank you.” And then, “S-Sorry.”
“I’ll forgive you, but just this once.” The woman turns to them then, smiling fully and brightly. Ellie smiles back, practically against their own will. “I saw you from across the bar. You looked like you could use some company.”
“Am I that obvious?” Ellie asks sheepishly.
“Only a little,” the woman says with a little shrug and wrinkle in her nose that suggests to Ellie that’s not quite true.
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After a long and exhausting work week, Ellie gets dragged to the dyke bar by Cat, and goes home with a girl that buys her drink.
(or, Ellie and Dina (attempt to) have a one-night stand.)
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LOVESICK by miscsleuth (sleuthy)
Fandoms: The Lion King (1994), The Lion Guard (Cartoon)
20 Aug 2022
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In the period after the war between the Outlands and the Pridelands, Vitani and Kiara strike up a friendship that leads to more than what either bargained for.
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or: a multi-chapter fic about vitani and kiara pining for one another and navigating their relationship and all the complications that come with it from there on (with accompanying fanart!)
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Ellie could play the gracious host rather well, they both found. This, along with her attire, had done something to Dina that enticed her hand to land on Ellie’s knee and travel further and further up as the night progressed.
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This has done the trick before -- the whole get-up and show of skin. Dina just by herself drives Ellie crazy. Hell, she could wear the most disgusting coveralls and smell like horse shit and Ellie would still be all over her. But when she poises herself like something straight out of a pin-up -- showcases herself like a trophy, as if Ellie hadn’t already whole the damn prize -- it sends her into such a hungry, ravenous state that Dina can’t help but try to bring it out of her again -- and again -- and again.
Needless to say, Ellie was speechless.
But not only that; she was furious.
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"Ellie knows, instantly, that she doesn’t belong in Jackson anymore.
She thinks of Tommy and the betrayal and vitriol in his voice. She thinks of Dina, turned away from her and sobbing softly. She thinks of JJ, weeping, afraid and confused by her episodes.
She thinks of Jesse, limp on the floor.
She thinks of Joel.
Her heart aches for what used to be her life. She misses Dina. She misses JJ. She misses laughing. She misses being enveloped in warmth. She misses belonging.
She shouldn’t turn back."
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Ellie returns to Jackson and slowly begins to carve a path to recovery, to humanity, to her family again.