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When had this ugly shame gotten such a hold on him? When had it grown so great that he couldn’t even speak the memory of those he’d loved and lost?
The words finally tore free of him. “I had a son once.”
“Oh.” Charles’ response seemed underwhelming, but the awful truth of it must have hit him a second later, as he all but collapsed against Arthur’s side. “Oh, Arthur.”
In the wake of Jack's rescue from Angelo Bronte and return to Shady Belle, Arthur finds himself unable to celebrate with the rest of the gang. Seeing John come so close to losing his son has inevitably brought up the guilt and grief of his own lost son. He steps away to deal with it alone, but runs into Charles on patrol. It isn't long before the awful truth of it comes spilling out of him.
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With Sam away at school and Dad gone radio silent, Dean has only the Impala to keep him company these days. He is content to spend his time with her on the open road, but when he hits a deer and spins out on the interstate in a heavy storm, he's never felt more alone. As if answering an unspoken prayer, a stranger in a trench coat who's being hunted by a monstrous shadow comes to help him lay the deer and his homesickness to rest.
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Takes place directly after 11x03 The Bad Seed
Castiel hurt Dean very badly, and when Dean refused to be healed out of some misplaced guilt, it brings about feelings that Cas has carried from the moment they met in Hell. For years now, he has watched Dean, the Righteous Man, care for everyone else at his own expense. Even fighting off the lingering effect's of Rowena's attack dog spell, he has the grace he needs to take away Dean's pain, and he won't accept anything less.
In other words, Cas and Dean have a real, actual Talk about Feelings and Purpose, and a little grace goes a long way.
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Savior Complex by mobilicordis (verdant_dreams)
Fandoms: Detroit: Become Human (Video Game)
03 Feb 2023
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~COMPLETE~
What defines a human? Free will? Empathy for one's fellow man? When those options are removed, what divides human beings and the machines they create?
It's September 2039, and Connor is slowly but surely finding his place in the world. Gavin is trying just as hard to maintain his.
Connor has integrated into the DPD, into Hank’s home, and into life as a detective.
Gavin would rather forget that Connor and Hank exist altogether than watch his former mentor play house with a robot.
When a distressed suspect nearly kills Hank in the field, Connor and Gavin are assigned as partners in his absence. In order to unravel a pattern of disturbing murder-suicides in Detroit and beyond, they must learn to see past each others faults and find equal ground. The further down the rabbit hole they go, the further the lines that divide human and android will begin to dissolve.
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- Part 2 of Savior Complex
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“Test negative. You chose your investigation over the life of another android. You feel no empathy.”
In the immediate aftermath of “Meet Kamski,” Elijah must come to terms with the outcome of the failed Kamski Test. His Chloe is gone, and Elijah himself handed her killer the weapon.
All he has left is the memory of how she saved him. Perhaps he can do the same for her.
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Savior Complex by mobilicordis (verdant_dreams)
Fandom Detroit: Become Human (Video Game)
02 Feb 2023
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Fictober 2018 by verdant_dreams
Fandom Detroit: Become Human (Video Game), Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Kingsman (Movies)
06 Oct 2018
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One day, one fic... this is gonna get interesting
This is my attempt at doing one fic per day for Fictober. I can't tell you how any fandoms will end up being here, this is just as random for me as it is for you. Enjoy!
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It’s—God, everything is so—Dean’s supposed to be this all-knowing guy. This gifted savior come to fix all that got screwed over before. But the longer he’s allowed to make choices and the longer he squeezes himself into this body that doesn’t fit him anymore, the more he feels like he’s just not cut out for it.
He's not smart enough for this. Not creative or artistic enough—if the past were made out of clay, vulnerable to whatever shape Dean’s hands are capable of making, then he thinks the past might take the shape of a gun. He imagines the timeline crumpling in his hands to the metaphorical barrel end of it, a dark tunnel waiting for the inevitable explosion to go off by his calloused fingers.
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Or: During the rapture, in a moment of hopelessness, Jack sends Dean back to 2015 on a mission: Kill God. Only, he gets the day wrong and Dean pops up in 2008, freshly out of hell with too much baggage and not a clue how to stop Chuck. He also struggles with accountability (or lack thereof). But what else is new.
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25 Mar 2026
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DCBB 2015. The sea; it swallows me. It comes up to my knees and it swallows me. The boys owe Jody a few dozen favours, and so when her niece goes missing near an old fishing village on the coast of Maine, Dean, Sam, and a newly human Castiel agree to take the case on. They settle into an old abandoned lighthouse-keepers' cottage, and slowly the tide comes in. (post-s8)
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24 Nov 2025
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The briefing was simple: ‘Stand guard over the Michael Sword until the battle is ready to commence. Await further instructions.’
Castiel doesn’t mind working security duty; he was briefed shortly after the initial salvation of the Sword from the pit, and again before taking up his position. He knows what to do. However, it’s easy to forget that the green room isn’t real. Time moves differently there, the space ever-changing to make a prison of mountains, cathedrals, salt flats, orchards, and whatever Castiel was led to believe about Heaven’s greatest weapon—Dean Winchester is something entirely unexpected.
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09 Nov 2025
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between the essence / and the descent by tothewillofthepeople
Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005)
24 Oct 2024
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He misplaced his angel. He didn’t hold on hard enough. He got Cas back only to lose him immediately.
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Cas comes back on a Thursday.
And then keeps coming back on Thursdays. He doesn’t seem to have much choice in the matter, actually. For the rest of the week, he’s stuck in the Empty, and Dean is left trying to figure out how to save him, how to talk to him—and how to get him out for good.
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- Part 1 of for thine is
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12 Oct 2025
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A year ago, the world didn't end. Now it's summer and the cicadas are buzzing, and something is changing. Something is going to give.
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10 Oct 2025