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1. The Shadow of the Maze by CerberaOdollam

   Fandoms: The Maze Runner Series - James Dashner, The Maze Runner (Movies)  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   02 Jul 2025

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Newt (Maze Runner)/Original Male Character(s)
   • Newt (Maze Runner)
   • Original Male Character(s)
   • Minho (Maze Runner)
   • Alby (Maze Runner)
   • Gally (Maze Runner)
   • Other Gladers (Ensemble Background Cast)
   • Psychological Horror
   • Dark Romance
   • Obsession as love
   • Possessive Behavior
   • Unhealthy Relationships
   • emotional dependency
   • trauma responses
   • PTSD
   • Anxiety
   • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
   • Dubious Morality
   • gaslighting (mild
   • implied) - Freeform
   • slow descent into madness
   • Quiet despair
   • knife as symbol
   • Power Imbalance
   • dangerous attachment
   • found object as hope
   • Silent Desperation
   • soft moments in a dark place
   • Shiro is a purple-eyed psychopath
   • Maze worldbuilding expansion
   • Existential Loneliness
   • protective in a twisted way
   • “if I hurt you I didn’t mean to” vibes
   • unreliable narrator (both of them)

   Summary

   Before any of them arrived, there was one. A shadow in the Maze — watching, surviving, killing. Shiro remembers fragments of a life before, but all that matters now is control, power, and the silence he keeps. When two Runners are trapped and saved by a monster cloaked in black, the Glade is thrown into chaos. And Newt? Newt is the first to look the shadow in the eye… and not look away.
   (Finished)

   Series

   • Part 1 of Maze Runner hurt-comfort

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   21,850

   Chapters:

   25/25

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