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FN-2187 forgets to hide and Kylo Ren realizes that he is Force sensitive. He claims the trooper as his student and begins training him in the Force. Destinies and destinies – but there is always a choice.
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- Part 1 of constructive interference
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Fallibility Enduring by jpnadia
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Trilogy | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
28 Feb 2021
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Pyrrha had moved in close and tipped Mercy’s chin up in a way that emphasized how helpless Mercy was without her necromancy. A wild, reckless desire to let Pyrrha take over beat in her chest like the wings of an ostrich trying to take flight. She yearned to shed the responsibility of trying to untangle the monster they had served for ten thousand years and be, once again, only one soul under someone else’s command.
Somehow, Mercymorn survives everything that happened in HARROW THE NINTH. Commander Wake finds her and brings her to Pyrrha, where they must both come to terms with being alive. By fucking about it.
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Second in line to the throne and a proven wartime general, Prince Kakashi is troubled by omens and a ruinous secret.
A mercenary and a thief, Obito is prickly, undisciplined and simmering with violence: an objectively terrible slave for the royal household. When he is given the chance to earn his freedom, Obito soon finds that sometimes there can be more power in servitude.
To survive the throes of a crumbling empire, they must first learn to negotiate their own dangerous bond.
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AKA the kinky historical melodrama where I indulge my love of ancient Egyptian lore and porn <3
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Strange bedfellows by the_ninth_house_glared
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
04 Dec 2022
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"Much later the princess came into my cell to talk to me and asked me what the hell I’d said to Camilla, her words."
Coronabeth and Camilla's ill-advised hookup in captivity.
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I still need your teeth around my organs by sinshine
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
09 Mar 2023
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Although she was a beloved Daughter and a talented necromancer, Gideon's greatest vice was that she dearly loved to fuck around and find out. Knowing this, perhaps it shouldn't have been as shocking when she lifted one of Nova's hands, flipped it over, and kissed her palm.
[4 times Gideon kisses Harrow, 1 time Harrow kisses Gideon]
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Armand sinks down to squat in the water, sets himself at level with Louis' dull eyes. Under the cradle of his fingers the blood is caked and brittle.
"If I may, Mr. Du Lac."
With a piece of soft cloth soaked in clear water the stranger's blood is wiped away. Brown to red the crust dissolves in the stream, swirls for a moment before it is carried away, inconsequential.
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- Part 4 of Lethe
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your shadow getting in the way by midwinterspring, van1lla_v1lla1n
Fandoms: Shadow and Bone (TV), The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
29 Sep 2023
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“I cannot allow you to touch her. If you want to touch her, want to kiss her, you may do it through me. Do you understand?”
When Aleksander brings Alina to the War Room after her demonstration, Mal is waiting. Aleksander has plans for the three of them.
[A Maldarklina threesome fic.]
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- Part 4 of Season of Kink 2023
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Honeypot missions are common, sometimes for intel, but they are also a neat way to make the village some extra cash when missions are slow coming. It’s the other kind of wet work, and Jiraiya did his share until he aged out. At eighteen, Kakashi is almost too old. Luckily he is pretty, and small for his age, a late bloomer in nothing else but this.
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A shinobi’s body is a weapon. Like any weapon, one must be taught how to wield it.
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Each new blessing from their god is cause for celebration, right up until it isn't.
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Blood And Wine And It's All Red by StarryWisps
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
09 Mar 2025
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Childe is visiting home when his enemy Kaeya follows him, injured from gods-know-what. They stay in a hotel together, having nothing better to do and nothing else they can handle except the fractured comfort of a man who would kill them if he had to.
Oh, and Diluc's coming. Not in the fun way.OR!
Kaeya sees the look in Childe’s eyes, the one that says he’s a weakness now, a liability.
Slowly, he turns back onto his stomach, and Childe knows why, nodding slowly.
“I won’t kill you,” Childe murmurs.
“Then I won’t say his name,” Kaeya fires back, shrugging, as if it doesn’t hurt that every lover he’s ever had has thought of getting rid of him before having him.
We did not come to play with the angst tag.
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- Part 15 of Chaeya Fics (Mostly Unconnected)
- Part 32 of Kaeluckae Fics (Unconnected)
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The middle ground between acceptance of the lost cause and an insistence on fighting for a better world anyway is blowing everything up and running away.
Direct continuation of my story Empire of Light from Gi-hun's POV, with a lot less art and philosophy talk and a lot more action. The title (and every chapter title) comes from another Magritte painting.
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- Part 2 of Empire of Light
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Dib had recently got his hands on a cutting-edge, top-secret piece of technology from his father's lab; it's a cloaking device known as the Phantom, which allows the user to become not just perfectly invisible, but also incorporeal. He had been stalking you for two months, and this device was about to take that to the next level. He promises himself that he's just doing it to observe you in your natural environment, and that he'll leave as soon as you do anything that would be inappropriate to watch. Too bad that he immensely overestimates his capacity for self-control.
(College AU with fem reader.)
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Jor has only ever known two things: to protect his sister and survive long enough to do it again tomorrow. Sold alongside young Agra at a high-status demon auction, Jor expects the worst, until they are purchased by Kalmiya, an angelic academic who claims she only wants a research subject.
But Kal isn’t what he expected. She offers them safety. Space. Kindness. And Jor doesn’t know how to live with any of it. As Agra begins to thrive in a world that finally allows her to be a child, Jor is left struggling to let go of the violence that shaped him. With Kal’s quiet support and the help of her sharp-tongued mother Mira, Jor begins a slow, painful journey toward healing, and toward imagining a future that isn't just about survival.
But freedom, trust, and love all come with their own costs. And for someone who was never taught how to want anything for himself… learning to hope might be the hardest battle of all.
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- Part 4 of The Purgatory
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At eighteen, Sasuke returns to the village—withdrawn, traumatized, and unwilling to talk about the past. Kakashi is assigned to watch over him. He doesn’t expect it to turn into anything more.
Within a week, Sasuke starts testing boundaries in physical ways, and Kakashi struggles with how to respond. Over time, their uneasy companionship shifts. What grows between them isn’t simple, but it is steady: trust, desire, and a kind of healing—for both of them. [COMPLETE]
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He escaped Unicron.
He cannot escape himself.
Convinced he cannot redeem himself, Megatron runs from his past, all while trying to help those he unintentionally led into a life of suffering.
But fate drags him back into the very palms he had run from—a Prime who refuses to let him die, a crew that would prefer him gone, and memories that refuse to let him rest.
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Minoria has already fought her battle. She endured. She won. She is the Grand High, ruler of Lolemiza, trusted, respected, and powerful. But now, she has taken on two new projects—two lives to guide.
Richard, the man who once tried to break her, is back—expecting to reclaim control. But Minoria is not a victim, and she is not letting him dictate the game. Bound by a betrothal that keeps her from opposing him directly, she plays the long game: hold, endure, and let Richard unravel himself. If she can shift him away from cruelty, show him a world beyond control, then maybe he will step away from the path of war before it’s too late.
At the same time, Hannah, a human schoolgirl, has been drawn into Lolemiza’s world. Eager, curious, but fragile in ways she doesn’t yet realize. Minoria has chosen her, but she will not coddle her. If Hannah is to survive, she must learn to think like a Lolemizaan - to see beyond the limits of her human perspective.