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    No one ever said Shoto's life would get easier

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    28 Apr 2024

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    ‘Dear brother,’ Shouto thinks, pausing. ‘I don’t remember you, but I think I miss the idea of you.’

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    With burns and bruises littering his body, a young Todoroki Shouto takes comfort in imagining a conversation between him and his dead older brother Touya.

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    09 Dec 2023

  3. Public Bookmark 73

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    “I told—” Five blinks rapidly, hands fisting over his sleeves. “I told The Handler that I don’t care about being happy, that I’m not looking to be happy, but it feels like it’s all I’ve been looking for. It’s never been about saving the world, it’s been about saving—” He cuts himself off abruptly, making an aborted gesture in Luther’s general direction without looking up.

    “You could be,” Luther says, soft and gentle. “Happy, I mean. If you want to be.”

    Five’s voice is small. “I want to be.”

     

    (Or: Five gets drunk, and he and Luther talk. Some things are said that would’ve been best left unsaid, and some things are said that should’ve been said long ago.)

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    29 Jun 2022

  4. Public Bookmark 34

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    Just as the Hargreeves are about to start over in the fixed timeline, Five sacrifices his memories for his family and suddenly he's actually the thirteen-year-old he appears to be. Now the siblings need to figure out custody, school, a traumatized teenager, a super-powered murderer on the loose, and remnants of Five's past that just won't piss off. Because, of course.

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    19 Jun 2021

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    “Klaus, it’s time to come home,” Diego says. Klaus laughs again, bright and loud and decidedly unamused.

    “And where is that, exactly?” He asks, twirling the chord around his finger. “Last I checked, my home was destroyed in Jerusalem, around, oh, I don’t know, 5 B.C.?” He giggles. “5 Before Me.”

    He can practically hear Diego roll his eyes. “The manor,” he says, sounding like he’s talking through clenched teeth. “You had the visions, you know –”

    “Yes,” Klaus says, cutting him off sharply. “Yes, I saw that delightful young boy get riddled with bullets, and then saw him gasp back to life, so cliché, I thought, why not give him an interesting rebirth, like getting eaten by a shark, or run over by a lawn mower, or electrocuted or something –”

    “Klaus,” Diego bites out. “We have to get him. He’s one of us now.”

    Klaus sighs, sags forwards until his forehead is leaning against the wall. “Yeah, yeah,” he says. “I know. I’ll be there."

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    The Hargreeves are not the Umbrella Academy; they're the Old Guard, a group of immortals just trying to keep their family together.

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    01 May 2021