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    He watched Mrs. Byers meet the young girl's eyes over her son's shoulders and he was suddenly hit with a crystal clear image in his mind.

    Hopper. Standing with his back to the gate. Smiling softly, resigned. But filled with so much love.

    Joyce. Watching, stretched impossibly thin. Understanding with a sense of grief, too terrible to name.

    She turns the keys.

    "Steve?" Jonathan is half out of the ambulance, using all of his weakened strength to keep Steve upright. "What's wrong?"

    "Hopper. It's Hopper. He's gone." Steve doesn't know how he knows it, but he does.

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    After the Battle of Starcourt, Steve struggles with the damages that the Russians left behind. In dealing with the aftermath, with the help of Robin and the Party, he uncovers a larger conspiracy at hand than just re-opening the Gate.

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    20 Aug 2021

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    Essek discovers that Jester either texts in all capitals, or completely ignores them. There’s no inbetween. He also discovers that there are 238 notifications in the Mighty Nein group chat that he had recently been added to in much pomp and circumstance that he still didn’t really understand. A final discovery is that the celebration of birthdays is a sacred tradition for the Mighty Nein and one he is going to be pulled in on regardless of his opinion on the fact.

    An exploration of tradition, culture, what is worth sacrificing in finding yourself and family.

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    26 Apr 2021

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    Essek ventures into the dark depths of the mysterious Aeor with his friends, the Mighty Nein, but when a battle comes to a head and Essek makes a choice it throws his life into chaos and he struggles to right it. Everything is the same and different, his knowledge and actions are questioned and tested and Essek comes to some very startling realisations along the way.

    A multi-chaptered fic answering all of the Essek Week 2021 prompts, join Essek on a journey unlike anything he has experienced as he attempts to make good on a rare opportunity afforded no one else.

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    18 Apr 2021

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    It’s been two months since the storm, and Childe hasn’t seen Zhongli not even once, not since that fateful meeting with the Signora where the truth is finally unveiled.

    And what a fun little kick to the gut that is, the realization that not only had he been played by all sides, but he's also being tossed aside like trash now that his use had run its course.

    It’s not that Childe doesn’t get it. He’s a Harbinger. He knows first-hand what it means to do his duty, to put the mission first and his personal feelings far, far away, preferably locked up in a box, where it wouldn’t interfere with his job. He knows what it’s like working with vipers, to scheme and plot and lie in wait for the opportune moment to stab his opponent in the back.

    But this time, this time Childe can’t help but feel a little (a lot) gutted.

    Stupid. He’s gotten himself stupidly attached.

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    A story about Childe trying to move on after the events of 1.1 Update, but some of his actions have consequences, and those consequences have followed him back to Snezhnaya.

    NOTE: THIS FIC WAS DRAFTED BEFORE 1.1 UPDATE CAME OUT. MIND THE CANON-DIVERGENT TAG FOR THIS REASON.

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    24 Nov 2020

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    “Are you okay?” she asked, barely out of breath.

    Yukine took a second to think about her question.

    “What the fuck was that.”

    The girl wheezed. She let go of his wrist and patted her clothes, as if she was looking for something.

    “That was an ayakashi,” she explained. A moment later, she handed him a card. “It’s very mad at me at the moment, I’m trying to kill it.”

     

    (OR: Yukine is a highschooler, Hiyori is a goddess and Yato is her shinki. They all navigate their friendship and the challenges that come up their way.)

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    16 Sep 2020