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We Moved Into a Real House (a Wild Field Behind it) by smokesatellite
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
11 Apr 2025
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Slowly, she turned to look at him. “They’re engaged.”
“Huh,” Ekko muttered. “Didn’t take Vi as the married type.”
“Me neither." Her voice was a mere lull. “But people…they change. They go.”
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Jinx and Ekko are childhood best friends and roommates who share a complicated history — Jinx struggles with fear of abandonment while Ekko clings to a savior complex he can't always fulfil.
Isha is a foster kid in need of a home.
Together, the three of them find ways of redefining family.
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- Part 1 of A Real House
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31 Jul 2025
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Every night, I’m dancing with your ghost by nunish
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), League of Legends
18 Aug 2025
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Life can be really strange sometimes.
One day you have everything, then nothing. You rebuild yourself from the void, gather the broken and the lost to your side and rise against this enemy who once shared your laughter, your trust, your heart.
Until that Jinx stands before you and death, unguarded, unmasked. And you too. You see her as she once was, as she still is because she never ceased to be.
Somehow, crazy as it seems, you touch it again ; happiness, love, wholeness and hope. You rediscover that childish smile, that spark in your eyes, that sense of home that exists only when her skin is against yours. And you lose it all, again.
Not all perhaps—only her—yet, it feels as though you’ve lost everything. Life takes back what it had given to you, without mercy, with all its brutality, reminding you that happiness was never meant to last.
Funny, isn’t it ? How time keeps moving forward while your own worlds stopped on that very day.But what’s funnier still—is that life never truly ends where you think it does.
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This is 70% timeskip sweet flashback from 209 and 30% post-war about Ekko & Firelights- Language:
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- 5/?
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30 Jul 2025
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Following the death of her family in an accident she caused, Jinx is alone, for the first time in her life. The loneliness was always the worst part- missing her sister even as she resents her abandonment, longing for Ekko even as she becomes something he hates, and the one person left to look out for her seems to be pushing her further into the darkness.
After years of descending further into her life as Jinx and the loneliness that comes with it, after a night with her childhood best friend turned enemy, she finds that she'll never be alone again.
A Three-Part Series focused on Jinx's coming of age during the timeskip, with the canon diverging with the birth of Isha. <3
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24 Jul 2025
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Tea (I Am Stronger Than You Give Me Credit For) by MagicSchoolbusDropout08
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
27 Oct 2025
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Silco's... not a good parent. As much as he loves his daughter, he has a few flaws when it comes to her. But he can explain it all away, from slipping drugs into her tea to keep her his perfect little girl to keeping her safe away from the world. He can even explain giving her to the Enforcers in exchange for Zaun - after all, they've given their word that Jinx is not to be harmed.
Ekko, meanwhile, went to the bridge upon overhearing the Enforcers' plans to capture Jinx on their radios - she's too far gone, and as the last person who knew Powder as well as the leader of the Firelights, it's his job to put her down.
But after rescuing her instead upon realizing Jinx is still at least a little Powder, when he learns that 'Jinx' the persona isn't real but instead a defense mechanism, upon learning about the drugs in her system and the pain and fear inflicted on her, he insists she can be saved.
And thus begins the rest of her life.
(Featuring childhood-friends-to-enemies-to-friends-to-lovers Timebomb, a complicated relationship between Jinx and Silco, genius Firelight bioengineer Jinx/Powder, and Jinx proving she's stronger and better than anyone gives her credit for.)
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- English
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- 112,274
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- 21/?
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23 Jul 2025
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A little less grey, and a lot more blue. by Anonymous
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
20 Oct 2025
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And what does Ekko do when he feels haunted by her ghost?
His solace.
The one that keeps her with him even when she’s not actually there.
His fingers twitch in defiance. Just a few inches away, he gets her. Gets every version of her he’s ever known, and every way he’s ever seen her. Every captivating smile, every teasing glance, every rebellious middle finger she’s thrown his way.
He shouldn’t, he really shouldn’t.
But god help, he reaches for it anyway– almost against his will.
He opens his sketchbook– the one he’s kept of her for many years– going through the countless new drawings he’s added since she’s arrived. He doesn’t have to wait until he runs into her in the lanes for him to get a glimpse of her. And so, with every thing she does that he can’t get out of his head, he draws it, capturing the moment in the only way he knows how to.
Even ink isn’t permanent enough in comparison to the big ‘Jinx’ engraved in him.
(from ch. 8)
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Jinx causes a mess in Piltover months after her 'death', and Ekko takes her into his base to avoid her facing consequences; even if she hates it.
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- Part 1 of find your own boy saviour
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- 282,439
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- 85/?
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Bookmarked by zenttrou
10 Jun 2025