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the best is yet to be by thinkpink
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia, His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
23 Jul 2019
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All Might's daemon was a subject of many internet messaging boards and day time talk shows. Everyone wanted to know what animal she was and why All Might took such care to keep her secret.
Everyone except Aizawa, who definitely did not care. Not one bit. Not at all.
His own daemon was polite enough not to call him out on his bullshit.
In public, at least.
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06 Dec 2024
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“Let me just—” Thanatos takes a breath. One of his hands, the armored one, grips the handle of his sword. The sound of the armor against the metal of the sword cuts through his words, as though to emphasize them. “Let me just work through this, and perhaps you may help me fill in the blanks. But you’re an Olympic god, you dwell in utter ease in Zeus’s domain, drinking ambrosia all day and doing little else. And one day you realize you can die. And so it becomes a game to you. Meanwhile, I am dragged from my important work to take your soul to the Underworld, which I cannot do because you cannot stay dead, disrupting my duties for the day, and now you want me to drink ambrosia with you. Do I have this right so far?”
Zagreus, a perpetually bored Olympic god, finds some entertainment in dying again and again when he learns that the mysterious Thanatos is always summoned to collect his uncollectable soul.
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- Part 10 of aspect
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22 Nov 2024
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Five perspectives on Thanatos and Zagreus as they fall, and in the aftermath.
“He's not leaving,” Thanatos bites back. “There's nowhere to go.”
Ah, the words of a god. To Achilles’ once-mortal eyes, there are cracks and open windows and doors with just the right key and escape routes aplenty from the House. “So you'd think. I guess wherever he goes, you'll be seeing him either way.”
Thanatos turns to him and it's as if this had never occurred to him. “What do you mean?”
“Didn't you tell him? It's a hard world out there. I’m sure he'll find out, and I don't know anything that can bleed that doesn't wash up here eventually.”
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16 Nov 2024
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quiet by rowanisawriter
Fandoms: Hades (Video Game 2018), Hades (Supergiant Games Video Games)
08 May 2024
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Zagreus pushes him onto his back on the grass, killing more of it. Behind him, his feet melt more snow. The sounds of blades of grass snapping and snow melting and their bodies shifting fills the air and through it, Zagreus whispers, “I don’t like when you’re quiet for so long.”
Thanatos’s hair falls from his forehead. On his back, he looks smaller, less formidable, more like the image of him Zagreus holds in his mind and in his heart. “I told you once before not to take my silence the wrong way… and yet you still try to misinterpret me. Your mind is like a maze. Your thoughts run into each other.”
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- Part 4 of aspect
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12 Nov 2024
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“Thanks, Than,” he said. “Really.”
“It doesn’t seem like there’s all that much I can do,” Thanatos admitted, looking sidelong at him instead of at the sea. “You really are bound there. Strongly. It doesn’t seem right, somehow.”
“What do you mean?”
“You burn so bright. You’re full of life. It seems like this place should embrace you.”
“I thought you said you didn’t like it here.”
“I said it has its benefits.”
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Finally, the reality starts to set in. Zagreus is never getting out.Bookmarked by ataraxetta
11 Nov 2024