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1. This Is How It Feels to Take a Fall by Blackliningpen

   Fandoms: Deus Ex (Video Games), Deus Ex: Human Revolution  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Gen, M/M
   • Work in Progress

   09 Dec 2024

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Adam Jensen/Francis Pritchard
   • Francis Pritchard
   • Adam Jensen
   • Faridah Malik
   • David Sarif
   • Megan Reed
   • Sarif Ending
   • Panchea doesn’t fall
   • boys have to learn to live with their experiences
   • Tags will be updated as the fic is updated
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • eventual getting together
   • Assholes to Friends to Lovers
   • POV Alternating
   • Canon Divergence
   • Discussion of past relationships (Adam/Megan)
   • Implied/Referenced Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism
   • Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms
   • Disassociation
   • Past Abuse
   • Angst and Feels
   • Body Horror
   • Non-Sexual Intimacy
   • non-sexual bdsm
   • Fluff
   • Explicit Consent
   • Communication

   Summary

   Adam Jensen chooses, in the heart of Panchea, and he chooses Sarif. The majority of people will never know what actually caused the Aug Incident. Without the pressure of eminent disaster, Adam has to learn to live with everything he’s learned and done since being augmented.

   Francis Pritchard witnesses his augmented co workers tear each other apart. He witnesses and he waits for his mind to put itself back together, but it won’t heal on its own. Neither of them will.

   Title from Icarus by Bastille because I couldn’t help myself.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   60,505

   Chapters:

   20/?

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