What it means to be human
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Clark Kent a normal boy living a normal world, wanting to have a girlfriend, get a job. Jane Shepard wants to fly. Neither of them get their wish. Luckily.
A story about growing up, and what happens to people as they grow more distant. Also reapers.
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Sam found Dean. But it's not Dean anymore.
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- Part 1 of Hello, Dean
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When Saitama is prescribed an anti-depressant, he asks Genos if he ever had to take medication. Genos admits he can't be treated with medications, and this statement provokes Saitama's memory of hurting Genos's feelings earlier that year, when Saitama obliviously treated him more like a robot and less like a human. Saitama is so overwhelmed with his guilt and the blatant truth that Genos was anything but a robot to him, that it leads to a surprisingly innocent and intimate conclusion between the two of them, that will change everything as they know it.
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Unchained by dongyrn
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), X-Men (Movieverse)
12 Jan 2017
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A girl with powers she is just beginning to comprehend is thrust unprepared into the world. Can she find the help she needs? Features primarily the Avengers timeline and characters with other MCU tie-ins, including Daredevil, Alias, and X-Men (yes, mutants, I went there) among others. Light OC Femslash, a BlackHill subplot, and some comic-based cameos.
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- Part 1 of MCU: Unchained
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Imaginary by armored_alchemist
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types, Fullmetal Alchemist (Anime 2003)
25 Dec 2017
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"It is a mental pain. Mortal agony the likes of which you cannot fathom - not because your troubles are meaningless, no, far from it - simply, because have not lost your humanity to taboo.
If anyone asks where I am... Until the day I get my body back, I'll be in my imaginary field of paper flowers, watching a violet sky fly over me."
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Human by EssayOfThoughts
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
05 May 2018
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They have scattered bundles of days together. Never more than a week, sometimes as little as two hours. Sometimes they just chat, other times they spend whole days around each other. Affection is easy - for Wanda affection has always been easy with those she trusts, it is just that for almost twenty years the only person she truly trusted was her brother. But she trusts Vision, knows she is safe around him, so he gets affection too, and he seems to return it in equal measure, no more or less than what she offers him.
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- Part 160 of MCU Maximoff Oneshots
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As I Do by EssayOfThoughts
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
19 May 2018
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Wanda, he knows, more than most, understands that logical reasons do not mean a logical outcome. That is, after all, why she lost her brother. Why she fought for Sergeant Barnes. Why she is, now, locked in the Raft, in a straitjacket, in a collar.
And, Vision knows, why they locked her in a straitjacket is logical: allowed to move she could level the prison and drown everyone but those she chose to lift to the skies. But, Vision knows, doing this they have not helped her, have not helped themselves. They have harmed her, harmed any likelihood of her fighting at their side ever again, and he … he thinks he hates it, that these two threads of logic should exist side by side and yet be incompatible in the minds of some.
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- Part 161 of MCU Maximoff Oneshots
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taehyung grabs the stack from where it had been laid to rest on the bed beside him, and holds it up in a brandish. “do you know what this is, yoongi-hyung?”
yoongi shakes his head.
“this,” he says with a majestic sort of sense of finality, thumping the thick wad of wrinkled, dog-eared papers like a professor of the ancient centuries, “is how we are going to save jeon jungkook’s life.”
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Tony hadn’t been a cruel man, but he had been a practical one.
Or: In his twilight years, concerned about how his slow-aging possibly-immortal husband will adjust to his death, Tony builds an AI version of himself that he updates nightly, intending for it to keep Steve company after he’s gone. When the inevitable comes to pass, Steve doesn’t know what to make of the AI or whether its presence lessens his grief or makes it significantly worse.
He’s leaning towards the latter.
For the Cap-IronMan Bingo 2020 Round 1 – Y4 photo square. Based on a prompt from Lights on Park Ave Round 7.
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Taehyung thinks it’s the quiet moments when he understands Jimin best.
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The Toerag, the Flower, and the Slimeball by orphan_account
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
29 Jun 2020
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They were friends, enemies, lovers. Nevertheless, their lives are inexplicably connected to each other, and there's really no denying it. Moments in the lives of one James Potter, one Lily Evans, and one Severus Snape.
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- Part 3 of Lines We Learn to Draw
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How do you cope with finding out you're just a crude, incomplete copy of someone else? With finding out that everything about you, right down to your humanity, is fake?
Badly. Very badly.
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Yusei finds some body parts on the beach at two in the morning, which makes this outing pretty much the antithesis of a relaxing nighttime walk. Ushio and Mikage, with the medical examiner's office, find a head.
"Fish usually eat the eyeballs first," Ushio said.
"The eyes and the penis," Mikage added blandly.
"That's- that's not even relevant right now. I mean- whatever. The eyes go first and well- here, they're intact."
Other body parts wash up. It's kind of fucking weird, actually.
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After a particularly hard week Taehyung wishes upon a star. The next morning a man appears in his bathroom claiming he's Polaris. He also claims he can fix all of Taehyung’s problems. Which would be helpful if a star knew what it meant to be human.
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Vision wants to be more human for Wanda. It doesn't go as planned but Wanda is there to set him right.
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River Runs Dry by sillybean (Anthem_of_Liones)
Fandoms: Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, Compilation of Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VII
23 Aug 2023
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“Alright. Do you remember how you got here, Strife?”
The man scans his person, his face, and then makes full eye contact with him for the first time. Suddenly, Tseng feels like he’s staring down something more than just an injured man in a hospital bed. Strife’s eyes are the most vivid shade of blue he’s ever seen, the mako in them enhancing the natural color rather than smothering it and bringing attention to the slight ring of bright green around his pupils. They pin him into his seat, strip him down and unearth every piece of himself he tries to bury and make him feel small, weak, unworthy. And, just like that, Strife looks away, back down at his hands. Tseng is winded, feeling like he’s just run a marathon and fought off a horde of monsters, but he collects himself quickly - he’s a Turk, damn it - and forces his body to relax back into his chair.
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Cloud doesn't know how or why he traveled through time, but he's sure as fuck gonna take advantage of it. Now, if only certain people would leave him the hell alone and let him save them, he'd be a lot happier about the whole thing.
[will finish eventually]
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- Part 1 of Time Travel Fix-it is a Genre
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What does it mean to be human? What makes one human? Was it the ability to speak? To create, to think…
What is it?
Was he human anymore or did he shed that particular title the first time he switched bodies? Or was it when he let Barnabas die?Series
- Part 4 of Break my heart Lonelyeyes week 2021
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It was hard to appreciate the world around him like he used to. He still loved flowers and staring at crystal blue skies, but he knew they were temporary like everything else in his life. But no matter how many times he told himself to not get attached to people, he found that it was impossible not to. He might physically be immortal but he had been mortal once. A flesh and blood human that loved easy and knew that he could love whoever he wanted without the fear of outliving them. To love and be loved was the human experience. And despite whatever form he was in, he was still and always would be human on the inside.
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- Part 1 of The Human Condition
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Raffi and Seven try to navigate the aftermath of losing Elnor, while also being tasked with saving the universe. Again.
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Albedo is contemplating life in Dragonspine, when he sees someone curious and investigates.
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He has hands built to cradle the barrel of a bazooka. Fingers trained to hurt, to flip the safety off and reload the bullets. Wolfgang has ears tuned to hear the ting of a metal bullet casing kissing the asphalt as it falls. He has the scars to prove his lack of thinking, and a near-constant adrenaline rush to testify with it. Wolfgang is violent. He is not a good person, and he is not a thinking one.
But, over the last couple of months, Wolfgang has been thinking. Thinks about his humanity, or lack thereof. Thinking about what it means, in the end, to be human.
Human. That was never a label before, was it?
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My Greatest Creation Is You by SuperHeroTiger
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
31 May 2021
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There's a line in Peter's code that dates further back than any other, a script without a purpose, but no less valuable than the rest of his complex algorithm.
"My greatest creation is you."
-Written by: Tony Stark {Creator}Peter holds that line of coding above the rest, because he knows, right down to his core, that it's true.
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A series of one-shots detailing the life of Peter, the android and son of mechanical genius Tony Stark.
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