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Five has so many questions to ask God, he’s not really sure where to begin.
He expected their death to be a nothingness, the absence of self after being unpicked from the fabric of time and space. His mind finally quieting after years of thrashing and fighting like a fish caught in a net. Discovering whether going quietly into that gentle night was not a surrender but a dissolving. In the Greek myths their father used to make them memorise, sometimes people turned into stars. He’s often wondered what kind of constellation he would be. Five little white hot coals burning in the sky, Quintus pueri. Boy, the fifth.
Klaus is God's favourite, so of course all eight of them end up in the afterlife once the Cleanse resets the world.
Cast adrift in heaven, Five is finally allowed to grieve, to contemplate the weight of the lifetimes he has lived and the things he has done. They have saved the world – but at what cost? Wandering through different versions of heaven, he plays chess and fights with God, reconciles with his family, and attempts to build a home for himself.
(An imagining of a possible future post-S4, mostly gen).
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a matter of probability, odds, and chance by oxfordmafiosos
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
07 Apr 2024
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‘Good luck,’ she called out to him.
‘I make my own luck,’ he replied.
In a world of light, some always work in the shadows. 007, or Aventurine, has been in those shadows most of his life, honed into a sharp killing machine for the IPC as their secret agent. Working alongside fellow secret agent Topaz and quartermaster Ratio, they hunt the IPC's enemies and foil their machinations, carefully deploying the Stonehearts' will. It's a status quo that they are happy to maintain – all for the Amber Lord.
But the unexpected death of a target challenges everything they ever knew about their organisation and the world they live in. On the horizon, another power has been gathering, one that threatens the world at large. Aventurine, Ratio, and Topaz must discover this enemy before it's too late, and decide who their allies are, as well as where their true allegiances lie.
James Bond AU. Aventurine/Ratio/Topaz OT3 – this is a slow burn romance, but this IS a romance, even though there's a lot going on with the plot.
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seeking that which we will not find by oxfordmafiosos
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
22 Feb 2021
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I know not how it was—but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit. I say insufferable; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasurable, because poetic, sentiment, with which the mind usually receives even the sternest natural images of the desolate or terrible.
– Edgar Allan Poe, 'The Fall of the House of Usher'In which Lumine saves a village, heals a betrayal, and maybe falls in love—not just once, but twice.
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dreaming about you in the dreaming spires by huxiyi, oxfordmafiosos
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
11 Jan 2021
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Most people go into Oxford wanting a first, a Blue, or a spouse.
Others are just here to network, become a Union hack, and then get some cushy consulting grad scheme out of it.
But Wei Wuxian, third-year Historian at Merton, only has one goal: to fuck someone from every single college.
He’s got every college on the list except one –– Merton, his own. The problem? No one at Merton will touch him with a ten-foot pole. The solution? Maybe his insufferable tute partner, Lan Wangji, can be persuaded to pretend to have slept with him…
Hijinks ensue, and yearning. Lots of yearning.