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Vaporise by starto_rest
Fandoms: とんがり帽子のアトリエ | Tongari Boushi no Atelier | Witch Hat Atelier (Manga)
12 Apr 2026
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Coco arrives at Qifrey's atelier and finds out the many quirks and living habits of each resident.
Though they never compete with Qifrey when it comes to uniqueness.
Her master had a charm to him that was special to his person. Starting, of course, with his mind-blogging appearance. His other apprentices all wore meat and bones, tangible skin and warm words around them, but Qifrey was different, in which his watery…? body made him almost untouchable.
She firmly thought her master to be the only one with such a unique condition.
That is, until she meets Olruggio.
Or: the beginning of WHA, but Qifrey and Olruggio have an added... quirkiness to them. Coco tries her best to observe and understand.
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the shape of the mind by starto_rest
Fandoms: Anne Rice's Talamasca: The Secret Order (TV 2025)
16 Jan 2026
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Perhaps minutes have gone by while, or maybe it is only a few dozen seconds. The next thing Guy knows, he's been moved. He is seated at a table at the café just across from where he was previously crying.
At the same exact time, he goes impossibly rigid with fear and apprehension. He recalls the whispers of his caretaker (of his second mother) sternly telling him never to follow a stranger.
Is Guy getting...
"You are not," the man says. If I had wanted to, you would be long dead by now, trust me on that.
Or: Guy and Jasper meet long before the 752 and Talamasca.
When Guy is still a child and struggles with his telepathic powers, a school trip to London changes... well, nothing. But still, it's the thought that counts!
...Right?
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Dirtmouth had seen such a decline lately that going outside his house only meant for Elderbug to look at the vast nothingness ahead and think of everything that had slowly disappeared without a trace.
This routine suddenly changed in the most uncommon manner possible.
It happened in a flash, quite literally so.
Or: the story of Hollow Knight, through the eyes of Elderbug.
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La mort au creux de tes pensées by starto_rest
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
02 Nov 2025
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Lumière's harbour has always been beautiful, and it is also Gustave's favourite place to think.
Here he is now, with forks, spoons, pens, tools, scraps of papers, some handkerchief, a lone sock that had long lost its pair, one or two broken brushes, screws and bolts, pieces of metals, some empty tubes of creams and liquids, and even more in his bag at his feet.
"I never thought I'd see you, of all people, littering the place. Has the sea done something to upset you?" a voice calls out from behind him.
Gustave bolts around and spots Verso sitting on the edge of the harbour, looking down on Gustave.
Or: following their previous conversation, they continue to talk about things in the wake of Maelle's ending.
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- Part 2 of leurs larmes mourantes
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Lumière au creux de ta paume by starto_rest
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
29 Oct 2025
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There's a man on top of the newly rebuilt Eiffel Tower.
Lumière has never been this beautiful. Shining with ethereal lights, casting moving shadows that dance alongside the whish and whoosh of clothes while passerbyes continue their routine, unhurried and happy to live. La joie de vivre, indeed.
Gustave sighs and wishes he didn't have to do that, but for his own peace of mind…
For Maelle…
Or: my interpretation of Maelle's ending and specifically how Gustave and Verso would interact, had the engineer known about everything and more.
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- Part 1 of leurs larmes mourantes
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knotted hair does wonders to the heart by starto_rest
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
23 Sep 2025
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At first, it had been hilarious to see Nie Mingjue trudging inside the cafe with such furious steps Lan Xichen was surprised the table didn’t shake in tandem with the man’s stomps. It would certainly have looked terrifying if it hadn’t been for the huge man’s hair sparkling as if it had been dipped into glitter, then lacquered into an elaborate high ponytail that majestically swayed left and right with every small movement.
“Nie Huaisang kept bothering me," he said with an eyeroll, "Saying that appearances and impressions matter. He literally smacked me with his fans until I agreed to go to a hairstylist by the name of Sweet Hair Lotus!”
Or: Lan Xichen goes to the new hairstylist in town. He comes out a changed man.
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though you are impulsive, stubborn and reckless… by starto_rest
Fandoms: 哪吒 | Nezha (Movies 2019 2025)
08 Aug 2025
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Ao Bing smiled and began to quickly walk towards the store when he passed by a group of girls. They were now looking dreamily at where Nezha was standing and muttered amongst themselves.
“I never expected Nezha to be this handsome…” quietly sighed one, and the others gushed in response.
“Right! Who knew he would turn so dashing!” exclaimed another.
“His eyes are so fierce, did you hear how he defeated an immortal of all things!”
“So amazing and tall and…”
“And have you seen his hair? It floats so beautifully in the air like water flowing towards the sky…”
Ao Bing could not help but frown.
Or: After the events of Nezha 2, Nezha and Ao Bing are finally allowed to leave the mansion and they go to a local market in town. Ao Bing hears some... unpleasant words, and decides to rectify this.
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From the beginning of his life as soon as he had been able to understand what an ‘orphanage’ was and the meaning behind this word, he had begun to want. To desire for something he did not own. He yearned and envied in such a way his clear blue eyes would darken until they resembled the bottom of a dirty, abandoned little pond, rather than something akin to the usual spiel of his eyes being as ‘beautiful as the sky from which he had fallen’.
Or: Romeo has always wished for more than he could ever own.
And yet, maybe at the end of it all, he might finally get a glimpse of a wish he had made so, so long ago...Series
- Part 4 of wish upon a golden fruit
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Now, all that man did was to throw Carlo into a stranger’s house and abandon him with just a suitcase and two empty, human-shaped holes at his sides.
Was he so unworthy of being a son that his own father had led him, by the hand, to the Monad Charity House and left him there?
Ha, The “Monad Charity House"... Carlo did not need “charity”. He wanted his father, his family, his mother back.
Instead he was going to a fucking orphanage.
Or: Carlo, when he was sent to the Monad Charity House, and his first meeting with his best friend.
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- Part 3 of wish upon a golden fruit
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They were the Black Rabbit Brotherhood. She may have not come up with the name, but she was the one who crafted their clothes and identity.
So when their new designed target showed in Malum District, the first thing she saw were strands of silver hairs tucked behind a familiar bunny mask. Then her eyes dragged down and to her horror, she realised that those black clothes of his were actually her own! Her masterfully crafted jabbot was horrendously crooked and stuck in between a hastily put vest. The belts she had taken so much time tying in such a perfect way were now haphazardly thrown around his waist. He did not even use both her gloves! Where was the second glove? He better not have lost it!
And wait...
Or: The Youngest of the Black Rabbit Brotherhood meets quite a strange puppet wearing their own damn clothes... Stop! That's a thief!!
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- Part 2 of wish upon a golden fruit
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‘It reminded me of you,’ Nice would cheekily say with a wide-tooth smile, a bit tense at the edge in his embarrassment, his cheeks flushed.
‘Dumbass, I’m just beside you,’ Wreck would reply while rolling his eyes.
Nice would always laugh a bit awkwardly. He simply looked endearing, cute, and in his own way utterly beautiful.
Or: There used to be a time when Wreck was able to recognise Nice. Ah, how beautiful those times were, he supposed.
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Soap looked at the expanse of Ghost's marred skin. His eyes roamed on each scar and lines that were so close to each other it looked as if his skin had been weaved by threads of flesh rather than being a bank canvas.
But all Ghost could think of was the single small rounded scar on the side of Soap’s head.
Or: Set in a world where you bear the mark of your death on your skin.
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- Part 2 of if you had life eternal
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Those soulmarks were both a blessing and a curse.
When Soap had found yet another red line crossing his clavicle and dangerously near his carotid, he… Well. He completely lost his shit, for lack of better words.
The argument they had, after Soap had forcefully dragged Ghost to the medbay, had been horrendous for both of them.
Soap had yelled at Ghost to get his head out of his arse. Had screamed, yelled and yelled and yelled his worries at Ghost, exhibiting his glowing throat at the other while Ghost silently tensed like a hot wire about to explode.
And explode he did.
Or: Soap and Ghost are soulmates. Each time one gets hurt, the other gets a mirrored version of the wound on their skin. It all boils down to a mission gone wrong...
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- Part 1 of if you had life eternal
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Sometimes, Mydei thought, the only way to stop him would be to sew his mouth shut. And even then, his body would regenerate. He would continue to fight and shout at Phainon until he was silenced once again.
Then the cycle would go again, and again, and again.
Or: Mydei sometimes switches to Kremnoan language without realising it. And while Phainon cannot understand a single of his words, he does not do anything to stop Mydei from speaking either.
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Time passes slowly. The grass continues to grow. It never fades nor does it disappear, it only continues to advance towards the center plane. When it reaches the husk, it begins to climb the misshapen vessel, eating it away.
The cloaked figure only picks the largest leaves and stems between his pointer finger and thumb and gently pulls them off the husk. It leaves a purplish glow to the deformed vessel.
It continues to grow.
And he continues to pick the grass off the empty husk.
Or: There at the top of the world lies a hollow white husk covered in green. White and broken, it kneels against a weapon long gone. Beside it stands a man, filled with shame and guilty of something he wishes to change, even if it meant tampering with reality itself.
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- Part 3 of love in your side
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"I thought I’d never taste something like this ever again…” he said with trembling wet words, making their way to her ear and splitting her heart into two bloody halves.
There was a whisper, then more silence. But this one seemed almost… affectionate.
A sequel to amidst the crowd. It is recommended to read it first to know what is happening.
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- Part 2 of love in your side
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“You should have taken your cane, I told you it would hurt for some time,” the hooded man muttered as he looked up at his companion.
“Blasted thing, I've seen enough canes for two entire lifetimes already,” the other one grumbled back.
Or: Piltover after its fall and rebuilding. A year later, an escapee meets two very strange figures, as they all try to find their way home.
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- Part 1 of love in your side
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If whittling has never been something too important for him, it still served Jayce a great deal as a way to train his precision while working on intricate works.
Throughout the years he has managed to make quite a few small pieces here and there, some of which he has carved out of his heart.
Or: 5 times Jayce created something out of a piece of wood for various reasons, and one time...
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“The people of ancient Krat knew how to bottle a wish upon a star. They claimed special powers after distilling the wish into a Cube made from a meteorite.”
Geppetto's puppet wondered sometimes what could be considered a "wish".
Did it resemble hope? Want? Or... Maybe something else?
Then, it pondered.
What wish could a star make? What form would it ultimately take?
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- Part 1 of wish upon a golden fruit
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conceal yourself till nothing is left to remember by by starto_rest
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
18 Apr 2024
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The first time Veritas Ratio met the renowned Aventurine of the IPC’s Ten Stonehearts, he could not help the deep scowl that graced his features. It carved his expression in one of great discomfort.
Whatever the IPC wanted from the Intelligentsia Guild, the fact that they had tasked this peacock of a man to meet with Ratio meant that it was something urgent and important.
However, right now, Ratio could only say that he had never smelled something this horrendous coming from one single man.
Or: Ratio tries to come up with an answer to the question 'why does Aventurine smell so bad to him?'