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    Shampoo, he thinks. Conditioner.

    The kind of hair that’s nice to touch, he hears Sam say again, and reaches for one of the bottles.

    It’s different than soap. Smells nice, like fruit and flowers. The shampoo lathers up soft as clouds, washes away easy. Conditioner’s worse; he can’t tell when it’s fucking rinsed out, his hair feels weird. But he grabs the plastic comb - yes, thank you, Wilson, he does know what a goddamn comb is, he’s not a barbarian - and it slides through without catching, like all the knots are just gone. There could be benefits, he’s willing to admit.

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    10 Aug 2025

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    This is the Accidental Warlord and His Pack series, reorganized in an order that makes a little more sense. It's not precisely chronological, since some of the backstories are set well before With a Conquering Air, but it should flow nicely.

    If you're interested in talking about this series, please come join the Discord server!

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    29 Nov 2024

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    So, magic is a thing.

    Everyone has magic. Everyone uses magic, consciously or not, every single day of their lives. It’s not a new, amazing thing, and in fact it’s the topic of most rom-coms in the entire world. Most of a person’s magic is always there, thrumming just below the surface of their skin, seeping out of their fingertips even if it’s invisible. It’s more of a feeling.

    So if Mike could stop walking around smelling like cinnamon, that'd be great, thanks.

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    Set ambiguously around S1/S2, follows main plot events with some alterations.

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    19 May 2024

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    Toni’s gums ache for a split second, fresh blood flooding her mouth before she swallows it.

    And in that next second that curl of darkness inside of her sits up and decides that this, that Howard’s continued cruelty and abuse, will no longer be allowed.

    Toni licks the blood from her now too sharp teeth before she plants her hands on the floor in front of her and pushes herself back up onto her feet.

    This time when Howard lashes out at her Toni ducks low to avoid the blow.

    Crouched on the hall floor, sharp nails digging into the dark wood beneath her, Toni hisses, takes a moment to calculate, and then she leaps.

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    17 May 2024

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    So Jarvis is the one who pulls her up onto her feet, presses a tool into one hand and a book into the other and tells her to create. Tells her that if the numbers and the shapes and images in her mind hurt so bad then she should build them, should give them form so that they can finally leave her alone.

    Jarvis is the one who finally teaches her how to breathe.

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    Toni Stark grows up with the tale of Icarus swirling in the back of her mind. Instead of taking it as a precautionary tale about hubris and overreaching she decides it's more about the limitations of wax.

    Years later when she builds herself wings of her own she makes sure to build them out of better material.

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    17 May 2024