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  1. Public Bookmark 18

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    Apropos of nothing, Ren remembered the strange night he’d spent at the old community centre, when the glyphs on the walls had deciphered themselves before his eyes, and he’d felt otherworldly breath on the nape of his neck. “Er—have you mentioned your name—?”

    “Oh, what a heathen I am,” said the man. “It’s Martyn. With a Y, make sure you get that right.” As Ren watched, he popped another strawberry into his mouth and chewed, all grinning recalcitrance. “And you’re Ren, the new farmer. Of course I know. Everyone’s talking about you.”

    Ren's just moved to the Valley, and the farm he inherited is a mess. Fortunately, he's got a not-quite-human farmhand to help out.

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    27 Apr 2024

  2. Public Bookmark 9

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    “Look,” said Martyn. “I don’t want to explain myself, or talk to anybody, and if someone tries to take my picture I’ll kill them.”

    He glanced over his shoulder, into the fir-lined drive below the ski lodge. Ren said, “Okay.”

    “I just,” Martyn said, “need somewhere to sleep. Just for a few days.”

    “Okay,” said Ren again. He would have given Martyn the world, if only it were still his to give. “I can do that.”

    Ren hasn't gone anywhere. He hasn't been anywhere for a long time. He's learning that the only thing worse than being in a death game is not being in the death game—at least, until Martyn comes calling.

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    15 Sep 2023

  3. Public Bookmark 30

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    “It was just—shadows and whispers, at first," Martyn said. "I could walk right through them. But the more I listened, the stronger they grew.” He scrubbed a hand across his face. “It’s my fault, I reckon, a lot of it.”

    Ren pulled him closer, needing to feel something warm and real. “It’s not.”

    “I always knew it wasn’t really you. They’d get your voice wrong, or the way you walked or held your sword. But sometimes—”

    “Yeah?”

    “Sometimes I’d play along,” said Martyn, toneless and faraway. “Indulge them. It was better than not having you at all.”

    The winner of the last death game has gone missing. Ren goes looking for him. But there are other things searching for Martyn, too—things that look like Ren, that wear his face and speak with his voice, and it isn't always easy to tell them apart.

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    26 Jul 2023

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    Karkat meets Gamzee for the first time on the arena sands, where they're supposed to fight to the death for the amusement of their alien conquerors. That's not... exactly how it goes.

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    14 Mar 2023

  5. Public Bookmark 10

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    Everyone knew that vampires don't exist. Zombies and skeletons? You could see the evidence of them everywhere once the sun went down. Vampires? They were merely things of legend.

    Except here Martyn was, face to face with one: his own king, a damn vampire.

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    14 Jul 2022

  6. Public Bookmark 43

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    The first time Ren disappears, Martyn doesn't think much of it. They haven't been allied that long, they don't have any real enemies to speak of, and Ren is his own person. He can do whatever he wants, and it's none of Martyn's business.

    When Ren disappears the next few times, it's still none of Martyn's business. Goodness knows he's got his own personal things going on that he doesn't particularly want to share, even with people who are ostensibly his friends. There's no reason Ren would be any different.

    When Ren gives him the axe; when Ren orders him to take his head; when Ren becomes the Red King and Martyn becomes the Red King's Hand, though…

    Now, it's become Martyn's business.

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    12 Jul 2022

  7. Public Bookmark 61

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    There was a rock in the road and Martyn really, really wanted to kick it.

    Or: DIY making emotional attachments to people in the middle of apocalypses even if you really didn't mean to.

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    02 Jul 2022

  8. Public Bookmark 83

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    Ren and Martyn steal what small moments of comfort they can get.

    Several loosely-connected scenes from Dogwarts as Ren struggles with his feelings towards the Hand of the King.

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    10 May 2022

  9. Public Bookmark 72

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    Tentatively, he spreads his fingers out until his whole palm is pressed against the armor. The magic makes it heavier to hold but comes with a certain kind of spark. Something hard to replicate. He wonders if it somehow feels warm when Ren wears it and feels silly when he finds himself hoping it does.

    Something other than logic compels him to ask.

    “Let me arm you, er, put your armor on you… my king.” He stammers through the proposition.
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    Martyn comes up with the idea of helping Ren with his armor. A story told in the yes' and the no's of getting close enough to kill but instead offering more protection.

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    10 Dec 2021

  10. Public Bookmark 42

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    Five times the world ends, for five different people.

    (a character study on Etho, Cleo, Scar, Scott and Martyn in 3rd Life)

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    30 Jul 2021

  11. Public Bookmark 18

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    BDubs is tired. He's been working on his projects non-stop for weeks but nothing is getting done. Hopefully Ren can help him sort out his feelings.

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    30 Jul 2021

  12. Public Bookmark 11

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    each day, you'd rise with me.
    know that i would gladly be, the icarus to your certainty.
    (oh my sunlight, sunlight, sunlight.)
    strap the wing to me, death trap clad happily.

    (He likes to think that protecting Ren, despite the odds stacked against them, is more of an "I love you" than he can ever say.)

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    15 Jul 2021

  13. Public Bookmark 21

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    tell me where the good men go,
    before i wash away.
    walk me down the old brick road,
    so i can die where i met you.

    (Many have sacrificed for him. He didn't get to return the favor.)

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    16 Jun 2021

  14. Public Bookmark 44

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    Martyn has never trusted anyone as much as he trusts Ren. He would give everything to him, if only Ren asked. But Ren is kind, and does not ask. (Usually.)

    (3rd Life SMP, season 1.)

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    12 Jun 2021

  15. Public Bookmark 13

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    Mumbo and Grian are married and living their best lives. That’s it.

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    21 May 2021

  16. Public Bookmark 24

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    Recovery isn't a simple uphill battle: some days you're going to find yourself stuck in a low. For Mumbo, those days are ones he fears. But luckily he has friends to help guide him out of that hole.

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    28 Apr 2021

  17. Public Bookmark *

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    AU in which demons are from the Nether, humans are from the overworld, and angels hail from the End. Elytras don't exist; only angels can fly.

    But there are legends, tales of the very bravest of souls that have crossed the chasm between worlds, and come back with wings of their own, granted the power to be seen as an angel. Grian finds himself tempted, to find them for himself and no longer have to suffer the judgement of being a demon.
    What he doesn't know, though - there are no wings that do not already belong to another. And though he may have found what he was searching for, he may come to regret his decision when the angel whose wings he unintentionally stole turns out to be his new neighbor.

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    28 Apr 2020

  18. Public Bookmark 16

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    “Mumbo, you total spoon, they’ll kill you if they find you here!”

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    Grian's dead. He's gone. He's grey.
    But Mumbo can't leave him.
    They need each other.
    And even if it means defending themselves against the dangers that lurk in the deadquarters; grey, vicious, and menacing, or Grian's monochrome teammates, or the lingering magic of demise; twisting and corrupting...
    They'll find each other. They'll protect each other.
    And they'll be okay.

    Hopefully.

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    11 Jan 2020

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